Pruszkow confirmed as venue for cycling European Championships

August 27 - Sir Chris Hoy and Victoria Pendleton (pictured) will travel to Poland rather than Delhi this autumn after the European Cycling Union confirmed Pruszkow will be the venue for the European Elite Track Cycling Championships.

Sir Chris and Pendleton were forced to pull out of October's Commonwealth Games due to a scheduling clash with the European Championships, which has been upgraded from an under-23 event to now offer Olympic qualification points ahead of London 2012.

The competition will take place in Pruszkow, near the Polish capital Warsaw, from November 5 to 7 at the BGZ Arena which played host to the 2009 Track Cycling World Championships.

Hoy and Pendleton, Commonwealth gold medallists in Melbourne in 2006 for Scotland and England respectively, last month withdrew from the Delhi Games due to the scheduling clash in order to prioritise their progression to the London 2012 Olympics.

The duo were the first of British Cycling's star names to announce they would not be travelling to India for the October 3 to 14 Commonwealth Games.


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