Sporting Digest: Cycling

WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS (Palermo, Sicily): Sprint, 200m time-trial qualifying round (fastest 24 qualify): 1 D Hill (Aus) 10.321sec; 2 C Harnett (Can) 10.330; 3 R Chiappa (It) 10.359; 4 E Pokorny (Ger) 10.402; 5 J Fiedler (Ger) 10.406; 6 F Magne (Fr) 10.442; 7 M Nothstein (US) 10.472; 8 M Huebner (Ger) 10.586; 9 A Kiksis (Lat) 10.604; 10 F Colas (Fr) 10.620; 11 B Clays (US) 10.653; 12 F Paris (It) 10.713; 13 F Guidoni (Arg) 10.744; 14 J Solt (US) 10.755; 15 P Sulpice (Fr) 10.764; 16 L Vassilopoulos (Gr) 10.799; 17 V Berzins (Lat) 10.842; 18 J Jerabek (Slovak) 10.880; 19 I Schelinskyi (Rus) 10.889; 20 E Schoefs (Bel) 10.897; 21 B Dandanell (Den) 10.903; 22 L Nielsen (Den) 10.921; 23 J Lovito (Arg) 10.952; 24 M Hrbacek (Slovak) 10.956. 1,000m time trial final: 1 F Rousseau (Fr) 1:03.163; 2 E Hartwell (US) 1:03.795; 3 S Kelly (Aus) 1:03.846; 4 M Scheurer (Ger) 1:05.848; 5 C Medlinger (Austria) 1:05.856; 6 G Krejner (Pol) 1:05.918; 7 J Andrews (NZ) 1:06.201; 8 M Hamalainen (Fin) 1:06.276; 9 G Capitano (It) 1:06.293; 10 J-A Escuredo (Sp) 1:06.439. 4,000m individual pursuit quarter-finals: F Moreau (Fr) 4:30.162 bt P Ermenault (Fr) 4:32.181; G Fulst (Ger) 4:30.218 bt S O'Grady (Aus) 4:31.158; J Lehmann (Ger) 4:32.249 bt D Woods (Aus) 4:40.016; C Boardman (GB) 4:25.801 bt J Martinez (Sp) 4:29.604.