{"id":319589,"date":"2026-03-08T20:01:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T20:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/319589\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T20:01:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T20:01:07","slug":"sprint-cyclists-edge-back-into-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/319589\/","title":{"rendered":"Sprint cyclists edge back into competition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"p-font\">New Zealand\u2019s female sprint cyclists dusted off the cobwebs in the opening round of the UCI Track Cycling World Cup in Perth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-font\">After a silver medal in the individual sprint, Olympic Games champion Ellesse Andrews and compatriot Olivia King narrowly missed out on the A Final in the keirin on the final day of competition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-font\">Andrews was second in her first round, missing on the A final by 0.2s before finishing second in the B Final, while King , second in her heat, missed the A final by a blink to be 10th overall.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-font\">The pair used the event to kick-start their international racing season, and will turn their attentions to key goals in upcoming UCI Track World Cups in Hong Kong and Malaysia in late April.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Zealand\u2019s female sprint cyclists dusted off the cobwebs in the opening round of the UCI Track Cycling&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":319590,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[111,43,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-319589","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-new-zealand","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-newzealand","11":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/319590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}