{"id":21286,"date":"2014-02-28T11:50:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-28T11:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/2014\/02\/28\/hoffman-5th-in-15km-scratch-at-uci-track-world-champs-col-r1246\/"},"modified":"2023-02-08T12:11:42","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T12:11:42","slug":"hoffman-5th-in-15km-scratch-at-uci-track-world-champs-col-r1246","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/hoffman-5th-in-15km-scratch-at-uci-track-world-champs-col-r1246\/","title":{"rendered":"Hoffman 5th in 15km Scratch at UCI Track World Champs (COL)"},"content":{"rendered":"

South Africa\u2019s Nolan Hoffman, who races for Team Abantu, finished a credible 5th place in the 15km Scratch Race at the UCI Track World Championships in Cali, Colombia, last night.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=IO9mty0ZsRY<\/a><\/p>\n

The 15km race was won in a time of 16 minutes 37 seconds by Russia\u2019s Ivan Kovalev with an average speed of 54.1km\/h. Defending World Champion, Martyn Irvine of Ireland, was 2nd with Hong Kong\u2019s King Lok Cheung rounding out the podium.<\/p>\n

Hoffman won the bunch sprint with his signature explosive sprint coming just short of catching the Ukrainian rider Roman Lutsyshyn who had attacked earlier and finished up in 4th place.<\/p>\n

The 15km Scratch race saw 20 of the world\u2019s top track riders vying for the rainbow stripes. Early attacks from Ukraine, Italy and Colombia were all marked as the race approached half way.<\/p>\n

King Lok saw an opportunity just over the half way mark and took his chances with a solid attack. He was soon joined by Kovalev as the field started to play a tactical game allowing the two to lap the field.<\/p>\n

The high speed caused the field to splinter and a select group of five riders went clear and quickly gained half a lap. This contained Dylan Kennet (New Zealand), Jordan Parra (Colombia), Elia Viviani (Italy) Jonathan Dibben (Great Britian) and Irvine. Irvine then attacked the group and went in pursuit of lapping the field solo, while Hoffman put in a big attack from the Peloton and bridged the gap to the now 4-man group a few metres off Irvine.<\/p>\n

The Irishman managed to latch onto the back of the peloton as the four-man group began to lose firepower and were eventually caught with 10 laps remaining. The Ukranian put in one last effort to lap the field and gained half a lap. Hoffman using his signature sprint finish managed to win the bunch sprint ending up 5th place.<\/p>\n

Hoffman was content with the result but disappointed in just missing out on a medal: \u201cThe Scratch is a lottery. You have only one opportunity to make it count and I had a go and managed to ride across to a really dangerous move. By the time I got to the leading five, Irvine had slipped off the front and the rest of the guys started missing turns and then we were caught with 10 laps to go. We were so close at a stage, but that\u2019s how the Scratch goes. Sometimes it goes your way other times not. I\u2019m happy to have won the bunch sprint and finish in the top 5 in the world, which was the goal set by Dean (Edwards, Team manager) but I really wanted to get back on the podium. Tomorrow we will see how the Points race goes. This has given me a lot of confidence and I know I have some good form.\u201d<\/p>\n

The national team\u2019s manager, Dean Edwards, was satisfied with the performance of Nolan describing it as a world class performance: \u201cI\u2019m happy that Nolan is back in the top echelon of the world rankings. Our primary goal was to be top 5 in the world again. He was the 2nd Commonwealth rider, which is a major focus for us, that being the Commonwealth Games. He raced with confidence and showed his speed and power by riding across to a dangerous move, which contained the big names. Unfortunately it didn\u2019t stick and that\u2019s the nature of the Scratch, it\u2019s a 50\/50 call and once you make it you have to commit. All in all, I\u2019m satisfied with the result.\u201d<\/p>\n

Download the official Results Communiqu\u00e9 here<\/a><\/p>\n

Summary of results \u2013 Men\u2019s 15km Scratch Race<\/strong><\/p>\n

1 Ivan KOVALEV (RUS) \u2013 Gold<\/p>\n

2 Martyn IRVINE (IRL) \u2013 Silver<\/p>\n

3 King Lok CHEUNG (HKG) \u2013 Bronze<\/p>\n

4 Roman LUTSYSHYN (UKR)<\/p>\n

5 Nolan HOFFMAN (RSA)<\/p>\n

6 Maximilian BEYER (GER)<\/p>\n

7 Dylan KENNETT (NZL)<\/p>\n

8 Glenn O’SHEA (AUS)<\/p>\n

9 Tim VELDT (NED)<\/p>\n

10 Frank PASCHE (SUI)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

South Africa\u2019s Nolan Hoffman, who races for Team Abantu, finished a credible 5th place in the 15km Scratch Race at the UCI Track World Championships in Cali, Colombia, last night. http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=IO9mty0ZsRY The 15km race was won in a time of 16 minutes 37 seconds by Russia\u2019s Ivan Kovalev with an average speed of 54.1km\/h. Defending […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[5005],"featured_location":[],"class_list":["post-21286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-uci-track-world-champs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21286"},{"taxonomy":"featured_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/featured_location?post=21286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}