The ARA Australian Cycling Team has completed its 2026 UCI Junior Track World Championships campaign overnight following five days of racing in Belgium.<\/p>\n
Megan Moore’s bronze medal in the women’s individual pursuit on day four was the sole medal won by Australia at Sport Vlaanderen Heusden-Zolder Velodrome.<\/p>\n
The 17-year-old Balmoral Cycling Club product set a new junior national record of 3 minutes and 31.572 seconds en route to the bronze medal final.<\/p>\n
Moore backed up her record-breaking morning with a winning time of 3:32.638 in the battle for bronze to earn a cherished spot on the Junior Track Worlds podium.<\/p>\n
The men’s team pursuit quintet travelled to Limburg full of hope for a big result but narrowly fell short of a chance to ride for medals.<\/p>\n
Oliver Ward, Jack Sloan, Alistair Forsyth, Lachlan Walters and Will Brown settled for fifth on the second day of racing, setting a time of 3:58.847 in the first round after 4:00.818 in qualifying on the opening day.<\/p>\n
Also in action on the opening day were our team sprint squads, who posted final results of fifth (women – Emily Watch, April Kat and Paige Squire) and sixth (men – Angus Withington, Mitchell Stephens and Luca Pyatt).<\/p>\n
Three further top-10 results were achieved in bunch races.<\/p>\n
Women’s Madison pairing Elsie Apps and Sienna Monteith finished eighth, while the men’s Madison duo of Brown and Ward closed out their week in ninth.<\/p>\n
Apps also ticked off an eighth in the scratch race.<\/p>\n
Feature picture: Mathew Wells\/SWpix.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The ARA Australian Cycling Team has completed its 2026 UCI Junior Track World Championships campaign overnight following five…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":869512,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,82],"class_list":["post-869511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cycling","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=869511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/869512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=869511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=869511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=869511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}