The 2012

UCI Track Cycling World Championships The UCI Track Cycling World Championships are the set of world championship events for the various disciplines and distances in track cycling. They are regulated by the Union Cycliste Internationale. Before 1900, they were administered by the UCI ...

was the World Championships for

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in 2012. They took place in

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, Australia from 4 to 8 April 2012. The championships took place in the

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which previously hosted the world championships in 2004 and from 2008 to 2010 a round of the World Cup as well as the track cycling at the 2006 Commonwealth Games. The championships were also the final ranking event for the purposes of Olympic qualification. Ten of the nineteen World Championship disciplines are replicated at the 2012 Summer Olympics. The championships were dominated by the rivalry between Australia and Great Britain, who shared 12 of the 19 gold medals available between them, including in eight of the ten Olympic events. Australia won the greatest total number of medals (15). while the British team led in Olympic events. Of the other nations, only Germany won more than one gold medal. Several

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were broken during the championship.

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and Miriam Welte started the hunt with a new record in the qualifying of the

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, just to break the record once again during the final. Ed Clancy, Peter Kennaugh, Steven Burke and

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followed up with a new record during the Team pursuit final. At the Women's Team pursuit competition, Dani King, Laura Trott and Joanna Rowsell set a new record. During the last day of the competition, Anna Meares set the last new world record in the 500 m time trial race on her way to the gold medal.

Schedule

The competition days will be split in Afternoon and Evening Sessions.

Medal summary

*Shaded events are non-Olympic *Cyclists marked (*) raced in qualification round only

Medal table

''After 19 events.Medal Standings
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References

External links

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Schedule

Medal summary

Medal table

See also

References

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