Australian clean sweep at CWG day 3
Australia is only getting better, with a second clean sweep of the gold medals in track cycling on day three of four days of the event. The national team took all three medals on the first day and three of the four on the second day, and has now taken all
four on the third day, for a total 10 of 11 gold medals.
The seventh gold for Australia was the third for Anna Meares who dominated the women’s sprint competition ahead of Welsh cyclist Becky James and Australian Emily Rosemond, who was competing again her countrywoman Kaarle McCulloch for the bronze medal.
"I'm just so happy, coming up against someone like Anna Meares in the final is amazing," said James. "Not many people get to race her in the final so to beat some of the other Australians and get silver is fantastic, I'm speechless."
Shane Perkins was similarly undefeated in his climbing to the final where he won the eighth Australian gold medal against his countryman Scott Sunderland. The bronze medal race was also between two countrymen, New Zealand’s Edward James Dawkins and Sam Michael
Webster, with the latter winning for the bronze.
Megan Dunn took the ninth gold in the women’s 10km scratch race, ahead of Joanne Kiesanowski of New Zealand and Anna Blyth of England for silver and bronze, respectively. Twenty-two-year-old Blyth managed to finish on the podium despite having to stop to
change her rear wheel during the race.
Megan Dunn (Australia) won the women's 10km scratch race to add another gold medal to her victory in the points race the previous day. Joanne Kiesanowski (New Zealand) and Anna Blyth (England) earned silver and bronze respectively.
"I was so looking forward to that race, it all went to plan and you've got to be happy with a medal," said Blyth. "This has got to be one of my best medals yet. If you'd told me when I was starting out as a junior that I would be a Commonwealth Games medallist
I would have been pretty shocked."
In the final race of day three, the men’s individual pursuit, the four-man Australian team of Jack Bobridge, Michael Hepburn, Cameron Meyer and Dale Parker won the 4km final race by overtaking the team from New Zealand, who earned the silver medal. The bronze
medal race was between Northern Ireland and India, with the former coming out on top.
"Cameron is one of the world's very best, he's on another level to me and I'm very, very happy to be second best to him," said George Atkins of New Zealand’s team. "This is my first major senior medal, so it means so much.”
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