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During the GP of Moscow, France's Kevin Sireau has broken the world record for the 200 metres flying start with a time of 9.650 seconds. The previous best time was 9.772 by Theo Bos who also set the record at the Krylatskoe velodrome before switching to road racing.
Another Frenchman actually went faster than Bos, too: current world sprint champion Gregory Baugé stopped the clock in 9.654 seconds, but the world record now belongs to the 22-year-old from Issoudun, a town in the centre of France that will host the finish of stage 10 of the coming Tour de France on Bastille Day.
Sireau is a two-time world champion in the team sprint. He's a member of the Cofidis track team and he's coached by Benoît Vêtu at the national sprint centre of Hyères in south of France. Vêtu recently turned down the offer of becoming a national coach for China after French cycling legend Daniel Morelon. His choice was based on the brilliant future he believes Sireau has. (JFQ)

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For the second day in a row, Kevin Sireau has broken the world record for the 200 metre flying sprint at the GP of Moscow. The Frenchman covered the distance in 9.572, which is a significant improvement over the 9.650 he recorded on Friday. Before Sireau lowered the world record twice in two days, the previous record belonged to Theo Bos who rode 9.772 in December 2006. As did Sireau, Bos also set his record in Moscow on the Krylatskoe velodrome, utilized for the 1980 Olympic Games, which has a reputation for being particularly fast.
A tall sprinter (1.88m and 90kg), Sireau is a two-time world champion. In Manchester, England last year and Pruszkow, Poland this year he won the team sprint with the French team. Sireau also won a bronze medal in the individual sprint behind his compatriot Gregory Baugé and Malaysia’s Azizul Hasni Awang at the 2009 world championships.
In addition to Sireau, four members of Team Moscow set a new world record for the junior men's team pursuit. Victor Manakov, Konstantin Kuperasov, Ivan Savitsky and Matvej Zubov covered 4000 metres in 4:04.448 at Russia's junior national championships, beating the previous mark by more than three seconds. The previous world record was also set by a Russian team in 2003.

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