Cycling Track – Women's tandem sprint B at the 2018 Commonwealth Games | ||||
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Venue | Anna Meares Velodrome | |||
Dates | 5 April 2018 | |||
Competitors | 3 from 3 nations | |||
Medalists | ||||
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Cycling at the 2018 Commonwealth Games | ||
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Road cycling | ||
Road race | men | women |
Time trial | men | women |
Track cycling | ||
Individual pursuit | men | women |
Team pursuit | men | women |
Sprint | men | women |
Team sprint | men | women |
Points race | men | women |
Keirin | men | women |
Scratch race | men | women |
Time trial | men | women |
Mountain biking | ||
Cross-country | men | women |
Para-track | ||
Sprint | men | women |
Time trial | men | women |
The Women's tandem sprint B at the 2018 Commonwealth Games , was part of the cycling programme, which took place on 5 April 2018. This event was for blind and visually impaired cyclists riding with a sighted pilot.
As only three nations entered the event, per Commonwealth Games regulations, no silver or bronze medal was available.
Prior to this competition, the existing world and Games records were as follows:
World record [lower-alpha 1] | Jessica Gallagher (AUS) | 11.045 | Montichiari, Italy | 20 March 2016 |
Games record | Sophie Thornhill (ENG) | 11.277 | Glasgow, Scotland | 24 July 2014 |
The schedule is as follows: [2]
All times are Australian Eastern Standard Time (UTC+10)
Date | Time | Round |
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Thursday 5 April 2018 | 14:32 | Qualifying |
19:02 | Final |
The two fastest tandems advance to the gold medal final. [3]
Rank | Nation | Riders | Time | Behind | Average speed (km/h) | Notes |
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1 | England | Sophie Thornhill Helen Scott (pilot) | 10.609 | — | 67.867 | WR |
2 | Australia | Jessica Gallagher Madison Janssen (pilot) | 10.954 | +0.345 | 65.729 | |
3 | Scotland | Aileen McGlynn Louise Haston (pilot) | 11.157 | +0.548 | 64.533 |
Rank | Nation | Riders | Race 1 | Race 2 | Decider (i.r.) |
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England | Sophie Thornhill Helen Scott (pilot) | X | X | ||
2 | Australia | Jessica Gallagher Madison Janssen (pilot) | +0.167 | +0.207 |
Aileen McGlynn is a Scottish paralympic tandem champion cyclist, tandem piloted until 2009 by Ellen Hunter but most regularly piloted by Helen Scott.
Kieran John Modra was an Australian Paralympic swimmer and tandem cyclist. He won five gold and five bronze medals at eight Paralympic Games from 1988 to 2016, along with two silver medals at the 2014 Glasgow Commonwealth Games.
Jessica Gallagher is an Australian Paralympic alpine skier, track and field athlete, tandem cyclist and rower. She was Australia's second female Winter Paralympian, and the first Australian woman to win a medal at the Winter Paralympics at the 2010 Vancouver Games. She competed at the 2014 Winter Paralympics in Sochi, where she won a bronze medal in the women's giant slalom visually impaired.
Stephanie Morton, is a retired Australian track cyclist. She has won national and international cycling titles, and was Felicity Johnson's tandem pilot at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London, where she won a gold medal.
Neil Michael Fachie is a Scottish cyclist and former track athlete, competing in events for people with a visual impairment. Fachie has competed in two Paralympics, as a sprinter in the 2008 Games in Beijing and as a tandem cyclist in London 2012. In London he won the gold medal in the Men's individual 1 km time trial and silver in the individual sprint, both with Barney Storey as his sighted pilot. Outside of the Paralympic Games, Fachie is a nineteen-time world champion and 5 times Commonwealth Games champion, creating tandem partnerships with Barney Storey, Pete Mitchell, and Olympians Craig MacLean and Matt Rotherham.
Helen Sarah Scott, is an English sprint cyclist. As well as competing as part of the Great Britain team Scott is also an able-bodied tandem cyclist, who since 2011 has acted as pilot for Paralympian Aileen McGlynn, Sophie Thornhill and Alison Patrick.
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Sophie Thornhill, is a visually impaired English former racing cyclist who competed in para-cycling tandem track events. She is a double world champion, with pilot Rachel James, and a double Commonwealth gold medallist, with pilot Helen Scott, in the tandem sprint and 1 km time trial events. In April 2014, she set world records in the tandem sprint and 1 km time trial, piloted by James. She retired from competition in 2020.
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