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Howard Claims World Title in Poland

Geelong Cycling Club’s Leigh Howard has claimed the Senior World Omnium Championship Title.

The Omnium event is known as the pentathlon of track cycling and is made up of the following disciplines:

200m flying start time trial 5km scratch race
3km individual pursuit
15km points race
1km time trial

Leigh was top of the leader board after the second round with a strong performance in the scratch race; however he slipped back down the leader board to fourth after the pursuit.

A close battle then continued between Leigh, Canada’s Zachary Bell and a late charging Tim Veldt from the Netherlands saw the result come down to the last event of the night the 1km TT.

Veldt took the win, however Leigh took second and that was enough to win the title.

Final Standings

1 Leigh Howard (Australia)                           19 pts
2 Zachary Bell (Canada)                              21
3 Tim Veldt (Netherlands)                            24

200m TT

1 Hayden Godfrey (New Zealand)                 0.10.502 (68.558 km/h)
2 Tim Veldt (Netherlands)                          0.10.534
3 Zachary Bell (Canada)                             0.10.756
4 Leigh Howard (Australia)                       0.10.915

7.5km Scratch Race

1 Robert Bartko (Germany)
2 Leigh Howard (Australia)
3 Volodymyr Diudia (Ukraine)

3km Individual Pursuit

1 Volodymyr Diudia (Ukraine)                         3.17.055 (54.807 km/h)
2 Taylor Phinney (United States Of America)    3.17.387
3 Artur Ershov (Russian Federation)                3.19.501
8 Leigh Howard (Australia)                            3.22.025

15km Points Race

1 Tim Veldt (Netherlands)                      8 pts
2 Leigh Howard (Australia)                     8
3 Volodymyr Diudia (Ukraine)                   7
4 Zachary Bell (Canada)                        7

Kilometre TT

1 Tim Veldt (Netherlands)                             1.03.089 (57.062 km/h)
2 Taylor Phinney (United States Of America)    1.03.458
3 Leigh Howard (Australia)                             1.03.533