Results: Junior World Championships, Day 2, Mexico (WC)

August 6, 2007

men_ind_pursuitWe take a look at the days events including Australia’s record 5 world championship haul!

Results, report & photos from the Individual Pursuit, Scratch Race, Omnium & Team Pursuit.

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Breaking news: Meyer wins 3rd world title, takes out scratch race championship!

August 6, 2007

dsc05181Western Australia’s Travis Meyer has won his 3rd world title of the  championships, taking out the 10km scratch race. Meyer now equals his brother’s haul of 3 gold medals at last years world championships in Belgium.

Meyer has had an excellent championships taking gold in the individual pursuit, the teams pursuit and now the scratch race all in 2 days.

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Palmer, Davis & Holloway secure bronze in team sprint - finish 4th

August 6, 2007

dsc05208ACT’s Thomas Palmer, Queensland’s Byron Davis & Western   Australia’s Jason Holloway finished 3rd in the Team Sprint at the junior world championships. The team pulled together to defeat Italy in a race that lasted just over one minute.

The women’s team of Western Australian Jobie Butler and Queenslander Pip Hindmarsh finished just out of the medals in 4th.

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Jack Bobridge, Glenn O’Shea, Leigh Howard & Travis Meyer win world team pursuit championship

August 6, 2007

men_team_pursuitThey’ve done it again! The boys have backed up the team pursuit  championship that they won last year in dominating fashion, defeating the team from Russia in the final.

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Josie Tomic breaks world record twice & wins world championship!

August 6, 2007

women_pursuitWestern Australia’s Josie Tomic has lived her dream in Mexico by  becoming World Champion and at the same time smashing the previous world record not once but twice!

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Travis Meyer repeats brothers performance to world championship

August 6, 2007

men_ind_pursuitTravis Meyer continued Western Australia’s excellent run to win the  Individual Pursuit at the world championships in Mexico. Meyer rode a time of 3.23 in the final to beat Russian Evgeny Kovalev for the gold.

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Glenn O’Shea becomes the first world junior Omnium champion

August 6, 2007

men_omniumBendigo’s Glenn O’Shea has proven he is the strongest all round  junior track cyclist in the world by taking out the Omnium.

O’Shea dominated the race which was held over 2 days instead of the usual day because of rain.

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Results: Tour of Gippsland, Stage 8, VIC (TC)

August 6, 2007

Full results & report.

Grant Irwin has re-payed his teams hard work to take the final stage of the Tour of Gippsland. Irwin easily took out the sprint from Yesterday’s stage winner Nick Sanderson after a fast 40km criterium around Bairnsdale.

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Results: FNWTR round 5, NSW (Track8

August 6, 2007

The Feature race of the night was The Veloflex Tyres 1.5km Wheelrace for Div 2

The limit marker was the experienced master Hugh Gray (110m), whilst scratch was occupied by Ben Harvey and Michael Hickman. It was apparent from very early on that Hugh was going to have no part in a 1.5km flat out effort as he was clearly waiting for some help in the early stages. By lap three the whole bunch had converged into what could now be described as a Scratch race.

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Results: Peel District Cycling Club, WA (Club)

August 6, 2007

Phil Diesel, Phil Edwards and Guy Pathe were the winners in the Peel Cycling Clubs Road Racing Programme last weekend.

Full results & report.

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