The women's madison at the 2011 Dutch National Track Championships in Apeldoorn took place at Omnisport Apeldoorn on December 30, 2011. 7 teams participated in the contest. Ellen van Dijk and Kirsten Wild won the gold medal,

Kelly Markus Kelly Markus (born 7 February 1993) is a Dutch road and track racing cyclist, who most recently rode for UCI Women's Continental Team . She won the bronze medal as a junior in the points race on the track at the 2011 European Track Championshi ...

and

Amy Pieters Amy Pieters (born 1 June 1991) is a Dutch professional road and track cyclist, who is contracted to ride for UCI Women's WorldTeam . She was a member of the Dutch team that finished sixth at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the team pursuit (togeth ...

took silver and Vera Koedooder and Winanda Spoor won the bronze.

Competition format

Because of the number of teams, there were no qualification rounds for this discipline. Consequently, the event was run direct to the final. The competition consisted on 100 laps, making a total of 25 km.

Race

The competition started at 20:40. Ellen van Dijk and Kirsten Wild, the favourites of the race, won all the intermediate sprints. After a few round of the madison

attacked, but was pulled back by

Van Dijk Van Dijk () is a Dutch toponymic surname meaning "from (the) dike". With 56,441 people, it was the fifth most common name in the Netherlands in 2007. Abroad, people with this surname usually abandoned the ij digraph, resulting in names like Van Dy ...

. The medalists teams lapped the other teams with at least 2 laps. Near the end of the race

and Wild raced clear of the others.

Results

DNF = did not finish.
Results from nkbaanwielrennen.nl.

References

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