2009 UCI Track Cycling World Championships – Women's individual pursuit

Rainbow jersey

The Women's Individual Pursuit was one of the 9 women's events at the 2009 UCI Track Cycling World Championships, held in Pruszków, Poland on 25 March 2009.

21 Cyclists from 19 countries participated in the contest. After the qualification, the fastest 2 riders advanced to the Final and the 3rd and 4th best riders raced for the bronze medal.^[1]

The qualification took place on 25 March and the Finals later the same day.^[2]

World record

World Record
WR	3:24.537	Sarah Ulmer (NZL)	Athens	22 August 2004

Qualifying

Rank	Name	1000m	2000m	Time	Speed (km/h)	Q
			1000-2000	2000-3000
1	Wendy Houvenaghel (GBR)	1:11.502 (2)	2:19.492 (1)	3:29.491	51.553	QF
			1:07.990 (2)	1:09.999 (1)
2	Alison Shanks (NZL)	1:12.659 (3)	2:20.300 (2)	3:31.063	51.169	QF
			1:07.641 (1)	1:10.763 (2)
3	Vilija Serekaite (LTU)	1:10.619 (1)	2:20.955 (3)	3:33.935	50.482	QB
			1:10.336 (4)	1:12.980 (4)
4	Joanna Rowsell (GBR)	1:13.013 (5)	2:23.025 (4)	3:35.028	50.226	QB
			1:10.012 (3)	1:12.003 (3)
5	Josephine Tomic (AUS)	1:12.684 (4)	2:23.340 (5)	3:37.780	49.591
			1:10.656 (6)	1:14.440 (7)
6	Ellen van Dijk (NED)	1:13.028 (6)	2:23.763 (6)	3:38.373	49.456
			1:10.735 (7)	1:14.610 (9)
7	Tara Whitten (CAN)	1:14.215 (10)	2:25.064 (7)	3:38.962	49.323
			1:10.849 (9)	1:13.898 (6)
8	Svitlana Halyuk (UKR)	1:14.523 (11)	2:25.367 (8)	3:40.413	48.998
			1:10.844 (8)	1:15.046 (12)
9	Leire Olaberria (ESP)	1:17.112 (20)	2:27.750 (12)	3:41.176	48.829
			1:10.638 (5)	1:13.426 (5)
10	Verena Joos (GER)	1:14.759 (12)	2:27.680 (11)	3:42.611	48.515
			1:12.921 (14)	1:14.931 (11)
11	Charlotte Becker (GER)	1:15.441 (16)	2:28.042 (14)	3:42.821	48.469
			1:12.601 (12)	1:14.779 (10)
12	María Luisa Calle (COL)	1:15.824 (19)	2:27.486 (10)	3:42.930	48.445
			1:11.662 (10)	1:15.444 (13)
13	Jolien D'Hoore (BEL)	1:15.058 (13)	2:29.397 (17)	3:43.859	48.244
			1:14.339 (15)	1:14.462 (8)
14	Lada Kozlíková (CZE)	1:13.358 (7)	2:25.834 (9)	3:43.880	48.240
			1:12.476 (11)	1:18.046 (16)
15	Aušrinė Trebaitė (LTU)	1:13.587 (8)	2:28.114 (15)	3:45.160	47.965
			1:14.527 (16)	1:17.046 (14)
16	Dalila Rodríguez (CUB)	1:15.137 (14)	2:27.798 (13)	3:45.956	47.796
			1:12.661 (13)	1:18.158 (17)
17	Olga Slyusareva (RUS)	1:15.229 (15)	2:29.799 (18)	3:47.161	47.543
			1:14.570 (17)	1:17.362 (15)
18	Tatsiana Sharakova (BLR)	1:13.937 (9)	2:28.868 (16)	3:47.636	47.444
			1:14.931 (18)	1:18.768 (18)
19	Edyta Jasińska (POL)	1:15.573 (17)	2:32.542 (19)	3:53.744	46.204
			1:16.969 (19)	1:21.202 (20)
20	Gema Pascual (ESP)	1:15.722 (18)	2:33.528 (20)	3:56.365	45.692
			1:17.806 (20)	1:22.837 (21)
21	Chanpeng Nontasin (THA)	1:21.929 (21)	2:41.039 (21)	4:01.997	44.628
			1:19.110 (21)	1:20.958 (19)

Finals

Rank	Name	1000m	2000m	Time	Speed (km/h)
			1000-2000	2000-3000
Gold Medal Race
	Alison Shanks (NZL)	1:12.977 (2)	2:20.885 (1)	3:29.807	51.475
			1:07.908 (1)	1:08.922 (1)
	Wendy Houvenaghel (GBR)	1:12.412 (1)	2:21.672 (2)	3:32.174	50.901
			1:09.260 (2)	1:10.502 (2)
Bronze Medal Race
	Vilija Sereikaitė (LTU)	1:11.772 (1)	2:21.537 (1)	3:33.583	50.565
			1:09.765 (1)	1:12.046 (2)
4	Joanna Rowsell (GBR)	1:13.770 (2)	2:25.057 (2)	3:35.209	50.183
			1:11.287 (2)	1:10.152 (1)

References

1. "UCI 2009 Track World Championships Women's Individual Pursuit Qualification Official Results" (PDF). Tissot.
2. "UCI 2009 Track World Championships Programme" (PDF). UCI.