2009 UCI Track Cycling World Championships – Women's scratch from Cuba who won the scratch race with Elizabeth Armitstead and Belinda Goss finishing in second and third position. 2009 UCI Track Cycling World Championships – Women's scratch The Women's Scratch was one of the 8 women's events at the 2009 UCI Track Cycling World Championships, held in Pruszków, Poland. 20 Cyclists from 20 different countries participated in the race. Because of the number of entries, there were no qualification rounds for this discipline. The competition consisted on 40 laps, making a total of 10 km and was run on 27 March 2009. Ellen van Dijk could not cement her
UCI Track Cycling World Championships – Women's team pursuit UCI Track Cycling World Championships – Women's team pursuit The UCI Track Cycling World Championships – Women's team pursuit is the world championship team pursuit for women held annually at the UCI Track Cycling World Championships. The first competition of this event was at the 2008 championships in Manchester, United Kingdom. Since its introduction as an elite event Great Britain have dominated the event, winning the gold medal on six out of ten occasions and silver on two other occasions, both behind Australia. Until 2014, the distance raced was 3 kilometres, or twelve laps on a typical indoor velodrome track.