RIVAL SPRINTERS SET NEW RECORD

MacLean Tournant

published 21 January 2007

CRAIG MacLean and Arnaud Tournant set a new record in the event?s trademark kilometre Madison time trial at Revolution 16 at Manchester Velodrome last night.

Stopping the clock on 55.164 seconds, the two rival sprinters knocked over two seconds off Ed Clancy and Mark Cavendish?s old figure of 57.457 seconds set at Revolution 6 in 2004.

Clearly it was a fast night on the Manchester boards as Dutch sprinters Teun Mulder and Tim Veldt were the first to better the record with 55.633. Despite not making the cleanest of handslings, MacLean and Tournant then upped the ante with their effort, leaving final starters Cavendish and Clancy with their work cut out. Although the young pair did improve their old mark with a time of 56.646, it wasn?t good enough to hold onto the record.

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Snowdon Sports is a long-established independent sports news agency, which supplies editorial to a range of media outlets - such as Cycling Weekly - as well as sports governing bodies. Snowdon Sports often covers results at Cycling Time Trials events in the UK and has long been a source of information and imagery to Cycling Weekly.

RIVAL SPRINTERS SET NEW RECORD

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