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Australian National Track Championships

February 7 - 12, 2005

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Review of Day 1 - Monday

Olympic star Anna Meares too hot for rivals in Adelaide

The women's 500m time trial at the 2005 Australian Track Cycling World Championships was a case of Anna Meares first and daylight second but that was no surprise.

After all with a pedigree that includes Olympic gold, World Championship gold and the current World Record the 21 year old Queenslander was the odds on favourite to defend her Australian title in Adelaide and she did it in a time of 34.897sec.

Her sister, Kerrie, 22, continuing her successful comeback from the back injury that ruled her out of Athens selection in 2004, was more than a second slower in 35.749 to claim the silver medal with West Australian Kristine Bayley third in 36.268.

The Meares sisters thrive on competing against each other but are also each other's greatest supporters. Anna took time out from her preparation for the race to snap a couple of photos of Kerrie on the start line for their website with Kerrie doing the same minutes later for Anna.

"It's good for me to have Kerrie there and it's good for Kerrie to have me there as well - a bit of extra support never goes astray," said Anna. "I'm very happy with that time because I'm not focussing on the time trial this year so much.

"I want to improve my sprint and keirin game at the World Championships this year," said Anna who tonight tried out a bigger gear for the time trial.

Kerrie, meantime improved by two tenths of a second on the time she rode to claim the Oceania crown in December.

"I just had a laugh - I rode up next to her (Anna) and said 'you rode a second faster than me'," said Kerrie. "That's the best I could have done, I've got a lot of improvement to make, my personal best is 34.9 and I'm concentrating on myself and (using) Anna to chase at the moment.

"What better than to have a world and Olympic champion as a training partner and sister - I can't complain."

In the under 19 events Hayley Wright added another victory for Queensland winning the 500m time trial in 37.129, a time which would have placed her fifth in the elite event. Silver went to Bianca Rogers of South Australia in 37.317 and Canberra's Jennifer Loutit claimed bronze in 37.569.

Earlier in the day the 2005 Australian Track Cycling Championships got off to a flying start this afternoon as the multi-disability athletes set the benchmark for the event.

South Australian Angela Fleming cracked the world mark for the LC2 women's 500m time trial riding 44.626. Her time smashed the mark of 46.539 set by Yuan Li Yuan (CHN) in Prague in 2003.

Jane Armstrong of Western Australia knocked four seconds of the 500m time trial mark in the LC3 division riding 46.890 to better the mark of 50.793 set in 2003 by American Alison Jones.

Results - Day 1  

1000m Tandem Time Trial Final 

LC1  500m Time Trial Final

LC2 500m Time Trial Final

LC3  500m Time Trial Final 

CP3  500m Time Trial Final 

500m Time Trial Final

W19 500m Time Trial Final

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