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<\/p>\nGlen Vine cyclist Matthew Bostock was crowned a double champion at the Lloyds British National Track Championships over the weekend. <\/p>\n
Sporting his new Rapha colours after joining the team last week, the 28-year-old triumphed in both the men\u2019s scratch and elimination races. <\/p>\n
Action got underway at the National Cycling Centre in Manchester on Thursday and it didn\u2019t take long for Bocky to make his mark, securing the scratch title on Friday. <\/p>\n
After a strong attack off the front alongside William Roberts, the duo launched their surge with 29 laps remaining but worked solidly together to chase the pack down and take a lap with about 21 laps to go. <\/p>\n
A thrilling battle ensued and it was Bocky who was able to cross the line first to claim the national jersey and set the tone for the rest of the weekend. <\/p>\n
Speaking afterwards, Bostock said: \u2018It\u2019s really good to get a first win with the new team, it takes the pressure off a little bit. One race, one win, it\u2019s not a bad start to the year – I\u2019m happy with that.\u2019 <\/p>\n
And the Commonwealth Games cyclist wasn\u2019t finished there, adding another title to his palmar\u00e8s in Saturday\u2019s elimination race. <\/p>\n
In a high-class field, it proved to be an entertaining but hectic contest as the pre-race favourites battled to avoid an early elimination. <\/p>\n
This continued into the final laps as it whittled down to only three riders: Bostock, national individual pursuit champion Charlie Tanfield and William Tidball. <\/p>\n
After confusion between Tanfield and Tidball, Bocky capitalised to ease away for a simple victory in the end, with Tidball receiving silver and Tanfield bronze. <\/p>\n
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Matthew Bostock (centre) in the champions jersey on the podium after winning the scratch race at the National Track Championships last Friday. Also pictured are runner-up William Roberts and third-place Oliver Wood (Photo: Olly Hassell\/SWpix.com) (Olly Hassell\/SWpix.com)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Glen Vine cyclist Matthew Bostock was crowned a double champion at the Lloyds British National Track Championships over…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":499127,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,784,85],"class_list":["post-499126","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\/499126","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=499126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499126\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/499127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}