2015 UEC European Track Championships

See also: 2015 UEC European Track Championships (under-23 & junior)

The 2015 UEC European Track Championships was the sixth edition of the elite UEC European Track Championships in track cycling and took place at the Velodrome Suisse in Grenchen, Switzerland, between 14 and 18 October. The Event was organised by the European Cycling Union. All European champions are awarded the UEC European Champion jersey which may be worn by the champion throughout the year when competing in the same event at other competitions.

2015 UEC European Track Championships

Venue	Grenchen, Switzerland
Date(s)	(2015-10-14 - 2015-10-18)14–18 October 2015
Velodrome	Velodrome Suisse
Nations participating	27
Cyclists participating	225 (98 women, 157 men)
Events	21 (10 women, 11 men)
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The 10 Olympic events (sprint, team sprint, team pursuit, keirin and omnium for men and women),^[1] as well as 11 other events are on the program for these European Championships. For the first time, the elimination races, known within track cycling as Devils (from the saying Devil take the hindmost) were contested in their own right.

Participating nations

255 cyclists (98 women, 157 men) from 27 nations enrolled for the championships. The number of entrants per nation is shown in parentheses.^[2][3]

•  Austria (3: 3 ♂)
•  Azerbaijan (2: 1 ♂, 1 ♀)
•  Belgium (9: 6 ♂, 3 ♀)
•  Belarus (details) (15: 10 ♂, 5 ♀)
•  Bulgaria (3: 3 ♂)
•  Czech Republic (13: 11 ♂, 2 ♀)
•  Denmark (7: 6 ♂, 1 ♀)
•  Spain (14: 8 ♂, 6 ♀)
•  Finland (4: 2 ♂, 2 ♀)
•  France (17: 10 ♂, 7 ♀)
•  Great Britain (details) (20: 12 ♂, 8 ♀)
•  Georgia (1: 1 ♂)
•  Germany (20: 12 ♂, 8 ♀)
•  Greece (4: 3 ♂, 1 ♀)
•  Hungary (2: 2 ♂)
•  Ireland (13: 6 ♂, 7 ♀)
•  Italy (16: 8 ♂, 8 ♀)
•  Lithuania (8: 2 ♂, 6 ♀)
•  Netherlands (details) (12: 9 ♂, 3 ♀)
•  Norway (3: 2 ♂, 1 ♀)
•  Poland (17: 8 ♂, 9 ♀)
•  Portugal (2: 2 ♂)
•  Russia (22: 12 ♂, 10 ♀)
•   Switzerland (10: 8 ♂, 2 ♀) (host)
•  Slovakia (1: 1 ♀)
•  Turkey (2: 2 ♂)
•  Ukraine (15: 8 ♂, 7 ♀)

Schedule

Interior of Velodrome Suisse during the Championships

Schedule only indicating the finals.

Date	Men's finals	Women's finals
Wednesday 14 October	—	—
Thursday 15 October	Team sprint, Team pursuit, Scratch	Team sprint, Team pursuit, points race
Friday 16 October	Sprint, Points race	Scratch, Sprint
Saturday 17 October	1 km time trial, Elimination race, Individual pursuit, Omnium	500 m time trial
Sunday 18 October	Keirin, Madison	Keirin, Individual pursuit, Omnium, Elimination race

Events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Men's events
Sprint details	Jeffrey Hoogland  Netherlands		Max Niederlag  Germany		Damian Zieliński  Poland
Team Sprint details	Netherlands Nils van 't Hoenderdaal Jeffrey Hoogland Hugo Haak	43.232	Poland Grzegorz Drejgier Rafał Sarnecki Krzysztof Maksel	43.358	Germany Joachim Eilers Max Niederlag Robert Förstemann Maximilian Levy	43.210
Team Pursuit details	Great Britain Jonathan Dibben Owain Doull Andy Tennant Bradley Wiggins Steven Burke Matthew Gibson	3:55.243	Switzerland Silvan Dillier Stefan Küng Frank Pasche Théry Schir	3:57.245	Denmark Lasse Norman Hansen Daniel Hartvig Casper Pedersen Rasmus Quaade Mathias Møller Nielsen	3:57.930
Keirin details	Pavel Kelemen  Czech Republic		François Pervis  France		Denis Dmitriev  Russia
Omnium details	Elia Viviani  Italy	191 pts	Lasse Norman Hansen  Denmark	191 pts	Jonathan Dibben  Great Britain	188 pts
Pursuit[O] details	Stefan Küng  Switzerland	4:14.992	Domenic Weinstein  Germany	4:17.775	Dion Beukeboom  Netherlands	4:21.669
1 km Time Trial[O] details	Jeffrey Hoogland  Netherlands	1:00.350	Joachim Eilers  Germany	1:00.569	Robin Wagner  Czech Republic	1:01.057
Points Race[O] details	Wojciech Pszczolarski  Poland	24	Benjamin Thomas  France	21	Claudio Imhof  Switzerland	19
Scratch Race[O] details	Sebastián Mora  Spain		Tristan Marguet  Switzerland		Adrian Tekliński  Poland
Elimination Race[O] details	Bryan Coquard  France		Simone Consonni  Italy		Christopher Latham  Great Britain
Madison[N] details	Spain Sebastián Mora Albert Torres	12	Russia Mikhail Radionov Andrey Sazanov	0	France Morgan Kneisky Bryan Coquard	24 (-1 lap)
Women's events
Sprint details	Elis Ligtlee  Netherlands		Anastasiia Voinova  Russia		Kristina Vogel  Germany
Team Sprint details	Russia Anastasiia Voinova Daria Shmeleva	32.443	Germany Miriam Welte Kristina Vogel	33.013	Netherlands Laurine van Riessen Elis Ligtlee	33.091
Team Pursuit details	Great Britain Laura Trott Katie Archibald Elinor Barker Joanna Rowsell Ciara Horne	4:17.010	Russia Gulnaz Badykova Tamara Balabolina Aleksandra Chekina Maria Savitskaya Evgenia Romanyuta Aleksandra Goncharova	OVL	Belarus Katsiaryna Piatrouskaya Polina Pivavarava Ina Savenka Marina Shmayankova	4:32.595
Keirin details	Elis Ligtlee  Netherlands		Virginie Cueff  France		Ekaterina Gnidenko  Russia
Omnium details	Laura Trott  Great Britain	231	Amalie Dideriksen  Denmark	195	Aušrinė Trebaitė  Lithuania	185
Pursuit[O] details	Katie Archibald  Great Britain	3:32.832	Élise Delzenne  France	3:37.331	Ciara Horne  Great Britain	3:35.288
500 m Time Trial[O] details	Anastasiia Voinova  Russia	32.794 WR	Elis Ligtlee  Netherlands	33.561	Daria Shmeleva  Russia	33.842
Scratch Race[O] details	Laura Trott  Great Britain		Kirsten Wild  Netherlands		Roxane Fournier  France
Points Race[O] details	Katarzyna Pawłowska  Poland	46	Élise Delzenne  France	35	Stephanie Pohl  Germany	32
Elimination Race[O] details	Katie Archibald  Great Britain		Annalisa Cucinotta  Italy		Irene Usabiaga  Spain

Notes

• Competitors named in italics only participated in rounds prior to the final.
• ^O In the Olympics, all shaded events (except the madison) are contested within the omnium only.
• ^N The madison is not contested in the Olympics.

Medal table

Pavel Kelemen, one of the gold medal winners

  *   Host nation (Switzerland)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Great Britain (GBR)	6	0	3	9
2	Netherlands (NED)	5	2	2	9
3	Russia (RUS)	2	3	3	8
4	Poland (POL)	2	1	2	5
5	Spain (ESP)	2	0	1	3
6	France (FRA)	1	5	2	8
7	Switzerland (SUI)*	1	2	1	4
8	Italy (ITA)	1	2	0	3
9	Czech Republic (CZE)	1	0	1	2
10	Germany (GER)	0	4	3	7
11	Denmark (DEN)	0	2	1	3
12	Belarus (BLR)	0	0	1	1
	Lithuania (LTU)	0	0	1	1
Totals (13 entries)		21	21	21	63