# 2012 UCI Track Cycling World Championships

The 2012 UCI Track Cycling World Championships was the World Championships for track cycling in 2012. They took place in Melbourne, Australia from 4 to 8 April 2012. The championships took place in the Hisense Arena 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 World Records were broken during the championship. Kristina Vogel and Miriam Welte started the hunt with a new record in the qualifying of the Team sprint, just to break the record once again during the final. Ed Clancy, Peter Kennaugh, Steven Burke and Geraint Thomas 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.
| Date | Time | Round |
| 4 April 2012 | 15:00 | Men's Team pursuit qualifying |
| 4 April 2012 | 19:00 | Women's Team sprint qualifying |
| 4 April 2012 | 19:00 | Men's Team pursuit final |
| 4 April 2012 | 19:00 | Men's Team sprint qualifying |
| 4 April 2012 | 19:00 | Women's Team sprint final |
| 4 April 2012 | 19:00 | Men's Scratch final |
| 4 April 2012 | 19:00 | Men's Team sprint final |
| 5 April 2012 | 13:30 | Women's sprint qualifying |
| 5 April 2012 | 13:30 | Women's sprint 1/16, 1/8 Final |
| 5 April 2012 | 13:30 | Women's Team pursuit qualifying |
| 5 April 2012 | 13:30 | Men's Omnium, Flying lap |
| 5 April 2012 | 19:00 | Women's Sprint quarterfinals |
| 5 April 2012 | 19:00 | Women's Team pursuit final |
| 5 April 2012 | 19:00 | Men's Omnium, Points race |
| 5 April 2012 | 19:00 | Men's 1 km time trial |
| 5 April 2012 | 19:00 | Women's Points race final |
| 5 April 2012 | 19:00 | Men's Omnium, Elimination |
| 6 April 2012 | 13:30 | Men's sprint qualifying |
| 6 April 2012 | 13:30 | Men's sprint 1/16, 1/8 Final |
| 6 April 2012 | 13:30 | Men's Omnium, Individual pursuit |
| 6 April 2012 | 13:30 | Women's Omnium, Flying lap |
| 6 April 2012 | 19:00 | Women's Sprint semifinals |
| 6 April 2012 | 19:00 | Men's Sprint quarterfinals |
| 6 April 2012 | 19:00 | Women's Scratch final |
| 6 April 2012 | 19:00 | Men's Omnium, Scratch |
| 6 April 2012 | 19:00 | Women's Sprint final |
| 6 April 2012 | 19:00 | Women's Omnium, Points race |
| 6 April 2012 | 19:00 | Men's Omnium, 1 km time trial |
| 6 April 2012 | 19:00 | Women's Omnium, Elimination |
| Date | Time | Round |
| 7 April 2012 | 13:00 | Men's Individual pursuit qualifying |
| 7 April 2012 | 13:00 | Women's Keirin, Round 1 |
| 7 April 2012 | 13:00 | Women's Omnium, Individual pursuit |
| 7 April 2012 | 19:00 | Men's Sprint semifinals |
| 7 April 2012 | 19:00 | Women's Omnium, Scratch |
| 7 April 2012 | 19:00 | Women's Keirin, Round 2 |
| 7 April 2012 | 19:00 | Women's Omnium, 500m time trial |
| 7 April 2012 | 19:00 | Women's Keirin, Final |
| 7 April 2012 | 19:00 | Men's Individual pursuit final |
| 7 April 2012 | 19:00 | Men's Sprint final |
| 7 April 2012 | 19:00 | Men's Point race final |
| 8 April 2012 | 14:30 | Men's Keirin, Round 1 |
| 8 April 2012 | 14:30 | Women's Individual pursuit qualifying |
| 8 April 2012 | 19:00 | Women's Individual pursuit final |
| 8 April 2012 | 19:00 | Men's Keirin, Round 2 |
| 8 April 2012 | 19:00 | Women's 500m time trial final |
| 8 April 2012 | 19:00 | Men's Keirin, Final |
| 8 April 2012 | 19:00 | Men's Madison final |

## Medal summary

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| Men's Events |||||||
| Sprint details | Grégory Baugé France | | Jason Kenny Great Britain | | Chris Hoy Great Britain | |
| 1 km time trial details | Stefan Nimke Germany | 1:00.082 WR | Michaël D'Almeida France | 1:00.509 | Simon van Velthooven New Zealand | 1:00.543 |
| Individual pursuit details | Michael Hepburn Australia | 4:15.839 | Jack Bobridge Australia | 4:16.313 | Westley Gough New Zealand | 4:16.945 |
| Team pursuit details | Great Britain Ed Clancy Steven Burke Peter Kennaugh Geraint Thomas Andrew Tennant* | 3:53.295 WR | Australia Glenn O'Shea Jack Bobridge Rohan Dennis Michael Hepburn | 3:53.401 | New Zealand Aaron Gate Sam Bewley Westley Gough Marc Ryan | 3:57.592 |
| Team sprint details | Australia Shane Perkins Scott Sunderland Matthew Glaetzer | 43.266 | France Grégory Baugé Kévin Sireau Michaël D'Almeida | 43.267 | New Zealand Ethan Mitchell Sam Webster Edward Dawkins | 43.812 |
| Keirin details | Chris Hoy Great Britain | | Maximilian Levy Germany | | Jason Kenny Great Britain | |
| Scratch details | Ben Swift Great Britain | | Nolan Hoffman South Africa | | Wim Stroetinga Netherlands | |
| Points race details | Cameron Meyer Australia | 33 | Ben Swift Great Britain | 32 | Kenny De Ketele Belgium | 30 |
| Madison details | Belgium Kenny De Ketele Gijs Van Hoecke | 24 | Great Britain Ben Swift Geraint Thomas | 18 | Australia Leigh Howard Cameron Meyer | 11 |
| Omnium details | Glenn O'Shea Australia | | Zachary Bell Canada | | Lasse Norman Hansen Denmark | |
| Women's Events |||||||
| Sprint details | Victoria Pendleton Great Britain | | Simona Krupeckaitė Lithuania | | Anna Meares Australia | |
| 500 m time trial details | Anna Meares Australia | 33.010 WR | Miriam Welte Germany | 33.626 | Jessica Varnish Great Britain | 33.999 |
| Individual pursuit details | Alison Shanks New Zealand | 3:30.199 | Wendy Houvenaghel Great Britain | 3:32.340 | Ashlee Ankudinoff Australia | 3:33.593 |
| Team pursuit details | Great Britain Dani King Laura Trott Joanna Rowsell | 3:15.720 WR | Australia Annette Edmondson Melissa Hoskins Josephine Tomic | 3:16.943 | Canada Tara Whitten Jasmin Glaesser Gillian Carleton | 3:19.529 |
| Team sprint details | Germany Kristina Vogel Miriam Welte | 32.549 WR | Australia Kaarle McCulloch Anna Meares | 32.597 | China Gong Jinjie Guo Shuang | 32.870 |
| Keirin details | Anna Meares Australia | | Ekaterina Gnidenko Russia | | Kristina Vogel Germany | |
| Scratch details | Katarzyna Pawłowska Poland | | Melissa Hoskins Australia | | Kelly Druyts Belgium | |
| Points race details | Anastasia Chulkova Russia | 31 | Jasmin Glaesser Canada | 28 | Caroline Ryan Ireland | 24 |
| Omnium details | Laura Trott Great Britain | | Annette Edmondson Australia | | Sarah Hammer United States | |
* Shaded events are non-Olympic
* Cyclists marked (*) raced in qualification round only

## Medal table

After 19 events.
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | Australia (AUS) | 6 | 6 | 3 | 15 |
| 2 | Great Britain (GBR) | 6 | 4 | 3 | 13 |
| 3 | Germany (GER) | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
| 4 | France (FRA) | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 5 | Russia (RUS) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 6 | New Zealand (NZL) | 1 | 0 | 4 | 5 |
| 7 | Belgium (BEL) | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 8 | Poland (POL) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 9 | Canada (CAN) | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 10 | Lithuania (LTU) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 10 | South Africa (RSA) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 12 | China (CHN) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 12 | Denmark (DEN) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 12 | Ireland (IRL) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 12 | Netherlands (NED) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 12 | United States (USA) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (16 entries) | Totals (16 entries) | 19 | 19 | 19 | 57 |