Junior Track Cycling

Here are the unofficial omnium results from the 2005 Northern California/Nevada District Junior Track District Championships, held May 27, 2005. [Checked against the official results on June 1, with no changes.] Individual race results appear in a separate article.

Results of the 10-12 Men's Omnium at Junior Districts, NCNCA, USA, 2005-05-27 to 2005-05-27:

Omnium			Event Places
Place	Points	Name	2k Scratch	1k Scratch	500m Scratch
1	19	Lanier, Andrew Jr.	1	1	2
2	17	Smith, Marcus	2	2	1
3	9	Linder, Canaan	3	3	3

Results of the 10-12 Women's Omnium at Junior Districts, NCNCA, USA, 2005-05-27 to 2005-05-27:

Omnium			Event Places
Place	Points	Name	2k Scratch	1k Scratch	500m Scratch
1	19	Meilahn, Taylor	1	2	1
2	17	Meilahn, Erica	2	1	2

Results of the 13-14 Women's Omnium at Junior Districts, NCNCA, USA, 2005-05-27 to 2005-05-27:

Omnium			Event Places
Place	Points	Name	2k Scratch	Standing 500	Points	5k Scratch
1	26	LaFleur, Michelle	1	1	2	1
2	22	Stolman, Elissa	2	2	1	2
3	12	Freitas, Kelsey	3	3	3	3

Results of the 13-14 Men's Omnium at Junior Districts, NCNCA, USA, 2005-05-27 to 2005-05-27:

Omnium			Event Places
Place	Points	Name	2k Scratch	Standing 500	5k Scratch	Points
1	28	Shaffer, Joel	1	1	1	1
2	16	Parkerson, Cooper	3	3	2	2
3	16	Stallman, David	2	2	3	3
4	8	Freitas, Davis	4	4	4	4

Results of the 15-16 Men's Omnium at Junior Districts, NCNCA, USA, 2005-05-27 to 2005-05-27:

Omnium			Event Places
Place	Points	Name	5k Scratch	Standing 500
1	14	Barsi-Rhyne, Ben	1	1
2	8	LeClair, J.P.	3	2
3	8	Jerabek, Nicholas	2	3

15-16 Note: I missed the results from two of the 15-16 races, but it appears that Jerabek ended up with Silver and LeClair with bronze.

Results of the 15-16 Women's Omnium at Junior Districts, NCNCA, USA, 2005-05-27 to 2005-05-27:

Omnium			Event Places
Place	Points	Name	5k Scratch	Standing 500
1	14	LaFleur, Kelly	1	1

Here are some photos from yesterday’s (5/27/2005) championships.

I have now checked these results against the official ones, so everything should be correct. Note that I still don’t have separate results for a couple of the 15-16 races, nor do I have points from the points races. If anyone happens to have them, please let me know.

Results of the 10-12 Men's 500m Scratch race at Junior Districts, NCNCA, USA, 2005-05-27 to 2005-05-27:

Place	Name
1	Smith, Marcus
2	Lanier, Andrew Jr.
3	Linder, Canaan

Results of the 10-12 Men's 1k Scratch race at Junior Districts, NCNCA, USA, 2005-05-27 to 2005-05-27:

Place	Name
1	Lanier, Andrew Jr.
2	Smith, Marcus
3	Linder, Canaan

Results of the 10-12 Men's 2k Scratch race at Junior Districts, NCNCA, USA, 2005-05-27 to 2005-05-27:

Place	Name
1	Lanier, Andrew Jr.
2	Smith, Marcus
3	Linder, Canaan

Results of the 10-12 Women's 500m Scratch race at Junior Districts, NCNCA, USA, 2005-05-27 to 2005-05-27:

Place	Name
1	Meilahn, Taylor
2	Meilahn, Erica

Results of the 10-12 Women's 1k Scratch race at Junior Districts, NCNCA, USA, 2005-05-27 to 2005-05-27:

Place	Name
1	Meilahn, Erica
2	Meilahn, Taylor

Results of the 10-12 Women's 2k Scratch race at Junior Districts, NCNCA, USA, 2005-05-27 to 2005-05-27:

Place	Name
1	Meilahn, Taylor
2	Meilahn, Erica

Results of the 13-14 Men's 2k Scratch race at Junior Districts, NCNCA, USA, 2005-05-27 to 2005-05-27:

Place	Name
1	Shaffer, Joel
2	Stallman, David
3	Parkerson, Cooper
4	Freitas, Davis

Results of the 13-14 Men's Standing 500 race at Junior Districts, NCNCA, USA, 2005-05-27 to 2005-05-27:

Place	Name	Time
1	Shaffer, Joel	0:40.100
2	Stallman, David	0:45.100
3	Parkerson, Cooper	0:46.899
4	Freitas, Davis	0:52.100

Results of the 13-14 Men's 5k Scratch race at Junior Districts, NCNCA, USA, 2005-05-27 to 2005-05-27:

Place	Name
1	Shaffer, Joel
2	Parkerson, Cooper
3	Stallman, David
4	Freitas, Davis

Results of the 13-14 Men's Points race at Junior Districts, NCNCA, USA, 2005-05-27 to 2005-05-27:

Place	Name	Points
1	Shaffer, Joel	28
2	Parkerson, Cooper	16
3	Stallman, David	16
4	Freitas, Davis	8

Results of the 13-14 Women's 2k Scratch race at Junior Districts, NCNCA, USA, 2005-05-27 to 2005-05-27:

Place	Name
1	LaFleur, Michelle
2	Stolman, Elissa
3	Freitas, Kelsey

Results of the 13-14 Women's Standing 500 race at Junior Districts, NCNCA, USA, 2005-05-27 to 2005-05-27:

Place	Name	Time
1	LaFleur, Michelle	0:41.399
2	Stolman, Elissa	0:45.600
3	Freitas, Kelsey	0:53.100

Results of the 13-14 Women's Points race at Junior Districts, NCNCA, USA, 2005-05-27 to 2005-05-27:

Place	Name	Points
1	Stolman, Elissa	0
2	LaFleur, Michelle	0
3	Freitas, Kelsey	0

Results of the 13-14 Women's 5k Scratch race at Junior Districts, NCNCA, USA, 2005-05-27 to 2005-05-27:

Place	Name
1	LaFleur, Michelle
2	Stolman, Elissa
3	Freitas, Kelsey

Results of the 15-16 Men's 5k Scratch race at Junior Districts, NCNCA, USA, 2005-05-27 to 2005-05-27:

Place	Name
1	Barsi-Rhyne, Ben
2	Jerabek, Nicholas
3	LeClair, J.P.

Results of the 15-16 Men's Standing 500 race at Junior Districts, NCNCA, USA, 2005-05-27 to 2005-05-27:

Place	Name	Time
1	Barsi-Rhyne, Ben	0:38.399
2	LeClair, J.P.	0:41.200
3	Jerabek, Nicholas	0:43.000

Results of the 15-16 Women's 5k Scratch race at Junior Districts, NCNCA, USA, 2005-05-27 to 2005-05-27:

Place	Name
1	LaFleur, Kelly

Results of the 15-16 Women's Standing 500 race at Junior Districts, NCNCA, USA, 2005-05-27 to 2005-05-27:

Place	Name	Time
1	LaFleur, Kelly	0:42.700

Results of the 17-18 Men's Individual Pursuit race at Junior Districts, NCNCA, USA, 2005-05-27 to 2005-05-27:

Place	Name	Time
1	Holloway, Daniel	3:57.698
2	Anton, Blake	4:03.000
3	Ryan, James	4:12.400

Results of the 17-18 Men's Kilo race at Junior Districts, NCNCA, USA, 2005-05-27 to 2005-05-27:

Place	Name
1	Holloway, Daniel
2	Anton, Blake
3	Ryan, James

Results of the 17-18 Men's Sprints race at Junior Districts, NCNCA, USA, 2005-05-27 to 2005-05-27:

Place	Name
1	Holloway, Daniel
2	Anton, Blake

Results of the 17-18 Men's Points race at Junior Districts, NCNCA, USA, 2005-05-27 to 2005-05-27:

Place	Name	Points
1	Holloway, Daniel	0
2	Anton, Blake	0
3	Ryan, James	0

Results of the 17-18 Men's 10k Scratch race at Junior Districts, NCNCA, USA, 2005-05-27 to 2005-05-27:

Place	Name
1	Ryan, James
2	Holloway, Daniel
3	Anton, Blake

Results of the 17-18 Women's Individual Pursuit race at Junior Districts, NCNCA, USA, 2005-05-27 to 2005-05-27:

Place	Name	Time
1	LaFleur, Kim	3:08.000

Please consider using the new gear chart. If you have links here, you may wish to change them to the new location.

NOTE: Junior gear limits on the track will be changing at the beginning of the 2006 season. The chart now reflects the new 2006 USCF rulebook.

A few days ago I got a sudden inexplicable urge to create an online gear chart, even though I have a perfectly usable one in Excel, and even though there are several good ones already on the web. This one is perhaps the most customizable web version, though. You can choose which gears to show, what information and units you want to see, and even see how fast you will go in each gear at a given cadence. Naturally, the junior gear limits (based on USCF rules) are shown for easy reference.

Feel free to leave a comment if you want any other features - I’ll probably do what you ask if it’s not too complicated. First request: I have added 42 and 52 tooth chainrings for the convenience of those who may be setting up a first fix gear using available road parts. Remember that you can add or remove chainrings and cogs by using the checkboxes below.

Chainring	Cog	Exact Inches	Rollout (feet)
52	15	92.0	24.08
50	15	88.5	23.16
49	15	86.7	22.69
52	16	86.2	22.58
48	15	84.9	22.23
47	15	83.1	21.77
50	16	82.9	21.71
49	16	81.3	21.28
52	17	81.2	21.25
48	16	79.6	20.84
50	17	78.0	20.43
47	16	77.9	20.41
49	17	76.5	20.02
48	17	74.9	19.61
42	15	74.3	19.45
47	17	73.4	19.21
42	16	69.7	18.24
42	17	65.6	17.16

Bold, black: meets 15-16 age group rollout limits (22.25 feet max = 84.99 gear inches)
Italic: meets 13-14 age group rollout limits (20.875 feet max = 79.74 gear inches)
Bold, red: meets 10-12 age group rollout limits (19.667 feet max = 75.12 gear inches)

Using the settings below, you can customize the table to your needs.
Available cogs: 13  14  15  16  17  18  
Available chainrings: 39  40  41  42  43  44  45  46  47  48  49  50  51  52  53  
Actual effective tire diameter in inches (if you have millimeters, divide by 25.4):
Cadence (rpm) for speed column:
Format: Chainrings across, cogs down Highest gear to lowest
Columns to show: Gear Inches  Exact Inches  Rollout (feet)  Rollout (meters)  Speed (mph)  Speed (kph)  
Note that "Gear Inches" refers to the equivalent wheel diameter, calculated as if the wheel is 27" in diameter. "Exact inches" is the same thing, taking into account the actual rolling diameter of the wheel.

Some approximate effective diameters are:

Tire size	Effective diameter (in)
700c x 23mm	26.54
700c x 20mm	26.26
650c x 23mm	24.57

Remember that the only way to know your exact wheel diameter is to test your own bike. It’s better to roll the wheel a few turns and measure the distance than to try to measure the diameter directly. Just remember to divide your measurement by the number of turns, and by Pi (about 3.14).
Be cautious. You can’t get disqualified for using too low a gear, but a strict referee, an inaccurate measurement, or a last minute tire change can disqualify riders who push the limits on the high side.

Disclaimer: be sure to verify the rules and measurements which apply to you. 17-18 riders are not subject to gear limits on the track under either USA or UCI rules but other countries may have different rules. In the USA, younger juniors are subject to limits, and those are reflected in the table below. Riders in the USA are responsible for knowing and applying section 1J6 of the USCF Rulebook correctly. Other riders may or may not be subject to similar rules, and should check with their national cycling authorities. Do not rely entirely on my interpretation. Please correct me (leave a comment) if I am wrong, or if you can provide a link to your country’s rules for junior gearing.

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