New Zealand National Track Cycling Championships - IM

Invercragill, New Zealand, March 13-17, 2007

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Race 2 - March 13: Evening session,

Riders continue to smash records

National records continued to tumble during the evening session of the first day of the national track cycling championships in the ILT Velodrome at Invercargill. To accompany the four new records set in the morning's qualifying rounds, the evening session produced three more.

Sam Webster from Auckland beat the oldest record, set 26 years ago on December 5, 1981 by Alan Miller, in the Under 17 boys 500m time trial with a time of 34.680 bumping the previous best of 34.80. Auckland's Stephanie Mackenzie broke the Under 15 girls 500m time trial record of 41.348 with a time of 38.545 and Southland's Pieter Bulling set a new Under 15 boys 500m time trial record with a time of 36.783 - eight tenths of a second quicker than the old record.

The junior men's Under 19 individual pursuit produced the most exciting race with the two Mid South Canterbury teammates Shane Archbold, winner of a silver medal at the 2006 junior world track championships in the teams pursuit beating 16 year old Jason Christie, who was the fastest qualifier in national record time.

The biggest cheer was for local boy Pieter Bulling who took out the under 15 boys 500m time trial in a close fought win over Matthew Noble who was riding for West Coast North Island.

Results

Junior U19 womens 200 m Individual Pursuit

1 Lauren Ellis (Mid South Canterbury)                             2.32.660
2 Cathy Jordan (Southland)                                        2.37.116
3 Emma Petersen (Waikato/BoP)                                     2.37.367

Junior Under 15 Girls 500 m Time Trial

1 Stephanie Mackenzie (Auckland)                                    38.545
2 Amy Pearce (Otago)                                                39.665
3 Seren Adair (Canterbury)                                          40.400

Junior Under 15 Boys 500 m Time Trial

1 Pieter Bulling (Southland)                                        39.783
2 Matthew Noble (West Coast North Island)                           37.859
3 Blair King (Otago)                                                38.577

AWD Womens 3000 m Individual Pursuit

1 Fiona Southorn (Auckland)                                       4.06.020
2 Paula Tesoriero (Wellingon)                                     4.27.405

AWD Tandem Womens Individual Pursuit

1 Neelusha Memon/Annaliisa Farrell (Canterbury)                   3.50.663
2 Jayne Parsons/Michelle Laurenson (West Coast North Island)      3.51.733

AWD Mens LC3 3000 m Individual Pursuit

1 Wayne Beckett (Southland)                                       4.28.685
2 Andrew Hughes (Waikato/BoP)                                     4.34.250

AWD Mens LC1 4000 m Individual Pursuit

1 Nick Bailey (WCNI)                                              5.41.074
2 Waine Harding (Southland)                                       5.47.047

Junior U19 Mens 3000 m Individual Pursuit

1 Shane Archbold (Mid South Canterbury)                           3.27.811
2 Jason Christie (Mid South Canterbury)                           3.28.527
3 Myron Simpson (Auckland)                                        3.29.102

Junior U17 Girls 500 m Time Trial

1 Elizabeth Steel (Canterbury)                                      39.019
2 Sarah Williams (Waikato BoP)                                      40.128
3 Sarah Martin (Canterbury)                                         40.757

Junior U17 Boys 500 m Time Trial

1 Sam Webster (Auckland)                                            34.680
2 Ethjan Mitchell (Auckland)                                        35.583
3 Chad Adair (Canterbury)                                           35.586