{"id":488853,"date":"2026-02-18T23:10:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T23:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/488853\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T23:10:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T23:10:13","slug":"three-wins-at-junior-state-cycling-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/488853\/","title":{"rendered":"Three wins at junior state cycling championships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eleanor Finlay earned three top placings as she was among a group of Gunnedah Triathlon Club members competing at last weekend\u2019s NSW Junior U9-13 Track State Championships at the Dubbo cycling\u00a0facility.<\/p>\n<p>After battling gastro last Friday, Eleanor had two victories the following day and one triumph on the Sunday while competing in the Junior Girls 9 (JG9) category.<\/p>\n<p>Eleanor won the individual time trial and scratch race last Saturday, and followed up with victory in Sunday\u2019s sprint derby.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"gofollow\" data-track=\"NDY1LDQxLDEsNjA=\" href=\"www.vantage-nsw.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Made-Simple-Vantage_NSW_Gunnedah_Times_Digital_Ad_May_2025.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"\/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/narrabricourier.com.au\/2025-collective-guide-to-the-north-west\/current\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/CM_Tourism-Magazine_Mobile-Banner_728x90px.png\" width=\"728\" height=\"90\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Of the other Gunnedah Triathlon Club members, Reggie Stewart was in the Junior Girls (JG11) category while John Finlay was in the Junior Boys (JB11) category.<\/p>\n<p>Reggie placed fourth in the individual time trial, scratch race and sprint derby, having repeatedly finished close behind the third placegetter.<\/p>\n<p>John came fourth in the individual time trial, second in the scratch race and fourth in the sprint derby.<\/p>\n<p>John finished a mere 0.03 of a second behind the bronze winner in the individual time trial, and then he led the scratch race for much of the time.<\/p>\n<p>Other competitors across the two days came from Bankstown, Bathurst, Castlemaine, Dubbo, Illawarra, Neo, Vikings, and Wagga Wagga.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-96061\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/John-F-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>John Finlay.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-30038 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/ReggieStewartTOUCHED_41915.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Reggie Stewart.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"SocialOnly\" href=\"https:\/\/narrabricourier.com.au\/photo-sales\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">To order photos from this page click here<\/a>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eleanor Finlay earned three top placings as she was among a group of Gunnedah Triathlon Club members competing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":488854,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,784,85],"class_list":["post-488853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cycling","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=488853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/488854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}