Cycling: Aussies triumph, Hammer nails 5th title

Aussies regained their world track crown on the first day of the world track cycling championships.

Australia avenged two successive men’s team pursuit title losses to Great Britain on Wednesday as they regained their world track crown on the first day of the world track cycling championships.

The Australians came second to the British at both last year’s world championships in Melbourne and then at the London Olympics.

However, their young quartet of Glenn O’Shea, Alexander Edmondson, Michael Hepburn and Alexander Morgan got the better of their old rivals in Minsk to win in a time of three minutes 56. 751 seconds over the four-kilometre course.

Denmark took the bronze medal, beating Spain in their match-up.

Earlier American track star Sarah Hammer added another chapter to her remarkable record in the women’s pursuit as she won a fifth world title.

Published in The Express Tribune, February 22^nd, 2013.