2009 UCI Track Cycling World Championships 2009 UCI Track Cycling World Championships The 2009 UCI Track Cycling World Championships are the World Championship for track cycling. They took place at the BGŻ Arena in Pruszków, Poland from 25 to 29 March 2009. Nineteen events were on the programme, with the women's omnium being added to the eighteen events contested at the 2008 championships. Great Britain failed to live up to expectations following their outstanding performances in the 2008 championships, and the Beijing Olympics bringing home only two gold medals out of a total of nine medals, though they were missing both three time Olympic gold medal
2012 UCI Track Cycling World Championships 2012 UCI Track Cycling World Championships The 2012 UCI Track Cycling World Championships was the World Championships for track cycling in 2012. They took place in Melbourne, Australia from 4 to 8 April 2012. The championships took place in the Hisense Arena which previously hosted the world championships in 2004 and from 2008 to 2010 a round of the World Cup as well as the track cycling at the 2006 Commonwealth Games. The championships were also the final ranking event for the purposes of Olympic qualification. Ten of the nineteen World Championship disciplines are replicated at the 2012 Summer Olympic