Best track sprinter

6002

Speaking of Bayley, what has happened to him of late?

Maybe he has found the dreaded girlie friend.

Ricardo29

he'll be alright dont worry.

there hasnt been any real competition of late thats all....club comps and warm up nationals and the like just dont cut it for him.
he was badly injured a year ago, which took 6months to recover.
and had the obligatory post olympic hangover...which is fair. there hasnt really been anything worth fighting for so been a quiet time.
he'll bolt the comm.games in, not that thats huge, but he'll be back u watch.

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craig maclean, jamie staff, chris hoy, jason queally, vicky pendleton, ross edgar, matt crampton

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Ricardo29

"he'll bolt the comm.games in, not that thats huge, but he'll be back u watch"

as predicted, one Ryan Bayley has set the track alight again.
a bigggg time performer, and there is clearly no one in his league, commonwealth or otherwise.

world champ keirin
comm.games champ sprint
bronze world champ sprint(training run prior to olympics)
olympic champ sprint
olympic champ keirin
comm games champ sprint
comm games champ keirin.

THAT'S a record.

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ones for the future:

ross edgar - gold silver and bronze at commonwealths
matt crampton - silver at commonwealths

and of course vicki pendleton!

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Lasalles

Gimme Gimme Gimme
Id still back Neiwand or Hill any day of the week.

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Lee Povey

Why would you back Hill or Neiwand ?

They won one world sprint champ each and for most of the rest of the time were not even medalists.

I think Bayley's record is the best of any sprinter currently riding and the best of any Auzzie that I can remember.

Oh and I am a big Neiwand fan which is why I included him in the original list, I just offering an unbiased view.

Lee

Aub

I had the good fortune to see the great Jeff Sherrens ride. He won 7 world professional sprint champion titles.

Bit before the 80s. but stiil must be in the running as one of the greats.

6002

I think that he was mntioned earlier in this thread.

But as you see, most of the riders mentioned are from the modern era.

rooman

Stephen Pate

not on the list, should have been, one of the most powerful track sprinters at sea level

world record 200 10.459 (seal level)
world record 500 27.451 (sea level)
world record kilo 1.04.147 at (sea level)

much better rider than Neiwand, and tactically one of the smartest toughest opponents to ride against...

not too clever off track...like a large group of elite sports people, and thus did not endear to sports administrators who had their "favourites"...

Still reckon he was one of Australia's top 5 all time sprinters and certainly a world top 10 all time.

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temper27

I think Theo Bos has the best record of any rider today. He has no Olympic Golds due to huge nerves, poor scheduling, and bad tactical choices, that cost him winning multiple golds in Athens that he should have won; however he has 4 World titles now, and is the only one in history to win atleast 1 in each of the 3 individual events. Bayley has 2 Olympic Golds but only 1 World title I believe.
Theo has great records at World Cups and Europeans and is only getting better.

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records from us,uk,aus and world can be found here:

http://www.velodrome.org.uk/trackrecords.html




fred magne deserves some credit for the way he turned the fortunes of the french team around aswell as being a retired super-sprinter so i gave him my vote

a number of the uk's track leagues are home to some of the uk's super sprinters from the past - steve cronshaw, lee povey, rik notley, dave legro and many many more

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oldskoolkool

Wasn't there another EastGerman around in the late 80's early 90's called Bill Huck who beat Micheal Hubner for the world title in the early 90's sometime???
I remember seeing Hubner at an invitational track ride at Herne Hill around that time and he was huge!