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Omnium - Josie Tomic (Australia) at 19, proves she is the most consistent.

Race Writeup

Josie Tomic (AUS) at only 19 years of age became the first Woman to be awarded the World Omnium Championship jersey today in Poland.

Tomic, fresh from the success of the Bronze medal in the Team Pursuit, proved to be the most consistent over the five events. Tara Whitten (Canada) had to settle for Silver and Yvonne Hijgenaar (NED) the Bronze,

Given this is the first time at World Track Championships it was difficult to tell who would end up being the World Champion. Tomic, who had won the Australian Championships in this event was placed well in all of the events, She finished 6th in the Sprint, 8th in the Scratch, 4th in the Pursuit, 1st in the Points race and 7th in the 500m TT ahead of Tara Whitten (Canada) and Yvonne Hijgenaar (NED), who is the current reigning European Omnium Champion.

Tomic lined up in the points race knowing she needed to perform well there to have any chance of making the podium and she rode it brilliantly winning the second and last of the four sprints to move her onto 19 points and tied in the lead with Canadian Tara Whitten going into the final 500m time trial to decide the winner. Sitting in second place was the Ukraine's Lesya Kalitovska on 20 points and not far behind time trial specialist Yvonne Hijgenaar of the Netherlands on 25 points..

Preview

This is the first time the Omnium event features at a World Track Championship level for the women. It has been featured during the World cup classic in 2008/2009 very successfully. The event comprises of five events, testing the competitors across both sprinting and endurance disciplines.

The Omnium can be considered the event which determines the best all-round track cyclist as the disciplines feature both sprint events and endurance events. The ultimate sprinter or the rider with the best condition is unlikely to win the Omnium. The one that has the ability to combine and be competitive in both styles of disciplines is the rider who is most likely to win the event. Normally the Omnium suits endurance riders with higher top speed or stronger sprints, or sprinters who can do longer distance track events.

The event consists of the following disciplines:

A 200m flying start time trial
A 5km scratch race
A 2km individual pursuit with the riders seeded on how they finished in the scratch race.
A 10km points race with a minimum of four intermediate and the fifth sprint.
A 500m time trial (In the omnium, the riders ride off in pairs, pursuit-style).

Points are recorded in reverse order. The rider who finishes first in an event receives one point, the second rider will get two points and so on. The rider with the fewest points after all events is the omnium overall winner. When two riders are tied on points the recorded time of the time trials will make the difference between the riders. A rider needs to have ridden and completed every event in the Omnium. When a rider fails to enter or finish one of the disciplines he or she is recorded as "Did not finish".

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Post Race Comments

Josie Tomic (AUS) the reigning Australian omnium champion, began her gold medal campaign with a personal best time in the flying 200m time trial, the first of the five races that make up the omnium. That put her in sixth place in the 16 rider field. But her rides in the scratch race (eighth) and the pursuit (fourth) were not what she had hoped for and at the end of the afternoon session she was sitting ten points off the lead in fifth place overall and not feeling confident. "It's been a very tough day, a long day and I'm glad to see the end of it really," said Tomic after receiving the rainbow jersey of World Champion. "I went back to the hotel (in the break after the first three events) and refocussed and then when I came back I was really on a mission and I'm happy I pulled it off."

Tomic added, "The 500 is definitely not one of my best events but I was actually more concerned about Yvonne because she only had to beat me by five (actually seven) places or more to actually win," said Tomic who was in the last heat to race. "So when I saw all the other girls putting up really good times I started to get a little nervous but I had a really good start and managed to pull it off."

She was right to be concerned about Hijgenaar who won the 500m round with a time of 35.242sec but Tomic's time of 36.750 put her seventh and gave her a total of 26 points one points clear of the final tally of both Whitten and Hijgenaar who both finished with 27 points. Whitten was awarded the silver medal and Hijgenaar the bronze.

Tomic's final race came after her team mates Cameron Meyer, 21, and Leigh Howard, 19, had pulled off a desperate last ditch attack in the 200 lap (50km) Madison to storm to the silver medal position on the podium. "The boys defintely inspired me," said Tomic. "It looked like they were in trouble in the race and then they took a lap. Cameron always inspires me whenever I see him race so I was definitely motivated and I wanted to go one better."

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Results

200m Sprint
Position	Name		Country	Time	Km/Hr
1	Yvonne	HIJGENAAR	NED	11.400	63.157
2	Anna	BLYTH	GBR	11.552	62.326
3	Elisa	FRISONI	ITA	11.622	61.951
4	Vilija	SEREIKAITE	LTU	11.800	61.016
5	Tara	WHITTEN	CAN	11.882	60.595
6	Josie	TOMIC	AUS	11.942	60.291
7	Lada	KOZLIKOVA	CZE	11.981	60.095
8	Renata	DABROWSKA	POL	12.015	59.925
9	Lesya	KALITOVSKA	UKR	12.139	59.312
10	Olga	SLYUSAREVA	RUS	12.210	58.948
11	Xiao Juan	DIAO	HKG	12.344	58.327
12	Gema	PASCUAL TORRECILLA	ESP	12.376	58.177
13	Dalila	RODRIGUEZ HERNANDEZ	CUB	12.381	58.153
14	Charlotte	BECKER	GER	12.390	58.111
15	Kaytee	BOYD	NZL	12.769	56.386
16	Andrea	BOTERO COY	COL	12.828	56.127

5km Scratch
Position	Name		Country
1	Tara	WHITTEN	CAN
2	Lesya	KALITOVSKA	UKR
3	Renata	DABROWSKA	POL
4	Gema	PASCUAL TORRECILLA	ESP
5	Dalila	RODRIGUEZ HERNANDEZ	CUB
6	Elisa	FRISONI	ITA
7	Yvonne	HIJGENAAR	NED
8	Josie	TOMIC	AUS
9	Andrea	BOTERO COY	COL
10	Charlotte	BECKER	GER
11	Xiao Juan	DIAO	HKG
11	Kaytee	BOYD	NZL
12	Olga	SLYUSAREVA	RUS
13	Vilija	SEREIKAITE	LTU
15	Lada	KOZLIKOVA	CZE
16	Anna	BLYTH	GBR


Pursuit 2km
Position	Name		Country	Time	Km/Hr
1	Vilija	SEREIKAITE	LTU	02:20.682	51.179
2	Tara	WHITTEN	CAN	02:23.950	50.017
3	Lesya	KALITOVSKA	UKR	02:24.000	49.967
4	Josie	TOMIC	AUS	02:26.000	49.368
5	Lada	KOZLIKOVA	CZE	02:26.000	49.302
6	Charlotte	BECKER	GER	02:27.078	48.953
7	Kaytee	BOYD	NZL	02:27.000	48.885
8	Dalila	RODRIGUEZ HERNANDEZ	CUB	02:27.450	48.830
9	Yvonne	HIJGENAAR	NED	02:27.757	48.728
10	Anna	BLYTH	GBR	02:27.918	48.675
11	Olga	SLYUSAREVA	RUS	02:29.295	48.226
12	Andrea	BOTERO COY	COL	02:30.419	47.866
13	Elisa	FRISONI	ITA	02:30.815	47.740
14	Gema	PASCUAL TORRECILLA	ESP	02:31.658	47.475
15	Renata	DABROWSKA	POL	02:32.060	47.349
16	Xiao Juan	DIAO	HKG	02:44.123	43.869

Points 10km
	Race Time	13:25.936			44.668	Km/h
Position	Name		Country	1	2	3	4	Order	Points
1	Josephine	TOMIC	AUS		5		5	1	10
2	Dalila	RODRIGUEZ HERNANDEZ	CUB		2	3	1	4	6
3	Elisa	FRISONI	ITA	5		1		7	6
4	Charlotte	BECKER	GER			5		15	5
5	Xiao Juan	DIAO	HKG		1		3	2	4
6	Lesya	KALITOVSKA	UKR	2		2		14	4
7	Gema	PASCUAL TORRECILLA	ESP		3			9	3
8	Renata	DABROWSKA	POL	3				10	3
9	Yvonne	HIJGENAAR	NED				2	3	2
10	Olga	SLYUSAREVA	RUS	1				12	1
11	Tara	WHITTEN	CAN					5	0
12	Vilija	SEREIKAITE	LTU					6	0
13	Lada	KOZLIKOVA	CZE					8	0
14	Anna	BLYTH	GBR					11	0
15	Andrea	BOTERO COY	COL					13	0
	Kaytee	BOYD	NZL						DNF


500m TT
Position	Name		Country	Time	Km/Hr
1	Yvonne	HIJGENAAR	NED	35.242	51.075
2	Anna	BLYTH	GBR	35.377	50.880
3	Elisa	FRISONI	ITA	35.458	50.764
4	Vilija	SEREIKAITE	LTU	35.660	50.476
5	Lada	KOZLIKOVA	CZE	35.981	50.026
6	Renata	DABROWSKA	POL	36.326	49.551
7	Josie	TOMIC	AUS	36.650	49.113
8	Tara	WHITTEN	CAN	37.451	48.062
9	Lesya	KALITOVSKA	UKR	37.483	48.021
10	Charlotte	BECKER	GER	37.524	47.969
11	Dalila	RODRIGUEZ HERNANDEZ	CUB	37.696	47.750
12	Kaytee	BOYD	NZL	37.907	47.484
13	Olga	SLYUSAREVA	RUS	37.992	47.378
14	Xiao Juan	DIAO	HKG	38.896	46.277
15	Gema	PASCUAL TORRECILLA	ESP	38.924	46.243
16	Andrea	BOTERO COY	COL	39.126	46.005

Position	Name		Country	200m Sprint	Scratch	Pursuit	Points	500m TT	Points
GOLD	Josephine	TOMIC	AUS	6	8	4	1	7	26
SILVER	Tara	WHITTEN	CAN	5	1	2	11	8	27
BRONZE	Yvonne	HIJGENAAR	NED	1	7	9	9	1	27
4	Elisa	FRISONI	ITA	3	6	13	3	3	28
5	Lesya	KALITOVSKA	UKR	9	2	3	6	9	29
6	Vilija	SEREIKAITE	LTU	4	13	1	12	4	34
7	Dalila	RODRIGUEZ HERNANDEZ	CUB	13	5	8	2	11	39
8	Renata	DABROWSKA	POL	8	3	15	8	6	40
9	Lada	KOZLIKOVA	CZE	7	14	5	13	5	44
10	Anna	BLYTH	GBR	2	16	10	14	2	44
11	Charlotte	BECKER	GER	14	10	6	4	10	44
12	Gema	PASCUAL TORRECILLA	ESP	12	4	14	7	15	52
13	Olga	SLYUSAREVA	RUS	10	12	11	10	13	56
14	Kaytee	BOYD	NZL	15	11	7	16	12	61
15	Xiao Juan	DIAO	HKG	11	15	16	5	14	61
16	Andrea	BOTERO COY	COL	16	9	12	15	16	68

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