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\nUCI Track World Cup Hong Kong Women’s Team Pursuit gold medalists: Bryony Botha, Prudence Fowler, Emily Shearman, Ally Wollaston and Samantha Donnelly.
\nPhoto: Alex Whitehead\/SWpix.com\n<\/p>\n
Kiwi track cyclists have secured three medals, two of them gold, on the opening day of the UCI World Cup in Hong Kong.<\/p>\n
Both the women’s and men’s team pursuit triumphed, while Tom Sexton grabbed silver in the omnium.<\/p>\n
It was a slow start for the women’s pursuit team of Bryony Botha, Samantha Donnelly, Emily Shearman and Ally Wollaston, who only qualified third fastest behind Italy and China.<\/p>\n
But after a rider change, which saw Prue Fowler come in for Donnelly, they beat the Chinese to qualify for the final, and then took out Great Britain to win gold.<\/p>\n
“We went in with a clear goal. We wanted to focus on ourselves and produce a ride we could be proud of,” said Shearman.<\/p>\n
“We weren’t stoked with the qualifying this morning and the final was building on from that performance. We are super-stoked to come away with a ride we are proud of. It was well-executed and that resulted in the win and a good time.”<\/p>\n
The men’s team pursuit with Keegan Hornblow, Marshall Erwood, George Jackson and Daniel Morton were also on form.<\/p>\n
They were fastest in qualifying, before beating Japan in the first round with Nic Kergozou coming into the line-up.<\/p>\n
They faced Denmark in the final, and beat them by more than two seconds.<\/p>\n
“We have five guys here who rode across all the rounds,” said Hornblow. “We qualified first which, to honest, was a little bit of a surprise. But to back that up ride-after-ride and come out on top was a great team result.”<\/p>\n
The decision to spell Sexton from the pursuit squad to focus on individual events also paid off.<\/p>\n
He finished second in the two-rider omnium final behind Italian Matteo Florin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UCI Track World Cup Hong Kong Women’s Team Pursuit gold medalists: Bryony Botha, Prudence Fowler, Emily Shearman, Ally…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":614092,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,1590,63,1589,784,44,1591,1588,1586,1587,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-614091","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-audio","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-current-affairs","12":"tag-cycling","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-podcasts","15":"tag-public-radio","16":"tag-radio-new-zealand","17":"tag-rnz","18":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614091","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=614091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614091\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/614092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=614091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=614091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=614091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}