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Canadian Tara Whitten went one better in 2010 to secure the fist Canadian Gold Medal at a World Championship since 1993. Whitten was tied with Lizzy Armitstead (GBR) going into the 500TT and knew she had to make a good start and go faster than Armitstead, she went 1.1 seconds faster.

200m flying start

Yvonne Hugenaar (Netherlands) came out best in the opening event of the women’s omnium, going quickest in the 200 metre time trial. The 2009 bronze medallist averaged over 63 km/h to clock a time of 11.376 for the flying 200m TT. She was over three tenths faster than last year’s silver medallist Tara Whitten (Canada) and Leire Olaberria Dorronsoro (Spain). Vilija Sereikaite (Lituania), Yumari Gonzalez Valdivieso (Cuba) and Liz Armitstead (Great Britain) took places four through six, while the US hope Sarah Hammer was next. Defending champion Josephine Tomic was back in tenth.

Scratch race: Defending champion Tomic crashes, then later withdraws from competition

Charlotte Becker slipped away early on and took a lap in the women’s scratch race, thus ensuring a relatively straightforward win for herself. The German nipped away soon after a crash on lap three brought down 2009 champion Josephine Tomic. The Australian’s rear wheel slipped on the steepest part of the banking and she slid downwards, taking out Yumari Gonzalez Valdivieso (Cuba) in the process.
Both riders restarted and went on to finish the race. However Tomic would later decide not to continue in the next round of the Omnium, thus relinquishing her title.
Becker succeeded in taking a lap, then tucked into the centre of the group. The pace became very slow and gradually built up as the finish approached. Hammer kicked clear with three laps remaining, staking everything on being able to hold off the bunch. Gonzalez Valdivieso was chasing hard and brought the others up to Hammer on the final lap; for a moment it looked like the individual pursuit winner would be able to hold on, but she was pipped at the line by Evgeniya Romanyuta (Russia).
The two looked like they'd taken second and third, but both were subsequently relegated. Hammer flicked upwards towards some riders when they were close to her back wheel, while Romanyuta rode on the blue band during the sprint.
The final standings of the scratch round were adjusted to reflect this; Becker was best, then Liz Armitstead (Great Britain), Xiao Juan Diao and Renata Dabrowska.

Individual Pursuit 2km

Sarah Hammer  (USA) continued her dominance in the event winning with ease. Vilija Sereikaite (LTU) was second fasted with Whitten third. 

Points Race

Tatsiana Sharakova (Belarus) won the points race a clear 6 points ahead of Hammer and Armitstead. 

In the final event the 500m TT Yvonne Hijgenaar  (NED) went quickest, with Whitten gaining 3 ahead of Armitstead's 9th place. 

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