Night 2 of Track Cycling will see the opportunity for more gold, with four on offer in a variety of events in which Australia should be extremely competitive once again. Join The Roar for a live blog of all the events starting from 7pm AEST.
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Up first tonight are the heats of the Men’s Keirin. The medal race for this event will be the final one of the night.
The Keirin sees six riders per race go up against each other. Once the race starts, there are three laps of the velodrome completed, with the winner being first past the post.
Australia’s Matthew Glatzer, New Zealand’s Edward Dawkins, 2017 world champion, Malaysia’s Azizulhasni Awang and Scotland’s Callum Skinner will be the favourites in this event.
The Women’s Sprint semi-finals and finals also will provide Australia with more medal opportunites, with the silver medalist from the 2018 World Champs, Stephanie Morton featuring alongside compatriot Kaarle McCulloch.
After winning the team sprint last night I wouldn’t be surprised to see an Australia 1-2. Natasha Hansen should provide good competition for both Australians.
The other two events on the schedule tonight are the individual pursuits. The women complete three kilometres, whereas the men complete four.
In the Women ‘s event, Australia could fill all three spots on the podium, with former world champion Rebecca Wiasak, who wasn’t selected in the final Women’s TP squad that won gold last night, going up against compatriots Annette Edmondson and Ashlee Ankudinoff, who was second at the World Champ’s last year.
However, Katie Archibald of Scotland, and Kirstie James of New Zealand will have other ideas.
In the Men’s event, the 2017 World Champion Jordan Kerby goes in as favourite, with fellow Aussie Kelland O’Brien and Sam Welsford in with a shot also.
From the British contingent, Charlie Tanfield was third at the World Champs this year, and should push the Australians.
Join The Roar’s live coverage of Night 2 of Track Cycling from 7pm AEST.
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NZL Ellesse ANDREWS
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Coster gets the time of 35:700
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WAL Eleanor COSTER The Welsh have just won a medal with Barker. How will Coster go?
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IND Aleena REJI The Indian gets us underway with a time of 36.308
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Womens 500 Time Trial Morton the clear favourite. I'm backing her to break the Commonwealth Record.
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Another night of competition done and dusted. Join me again from 6:30 AEST tomorrow night for another night of action.
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Men's Keirin Finals - 1-6 1 AUS Matt GLAETZER 2 WAL Lewis OLIVA +0.035 3 NZL Edward DAWKINS +0.168 4 SCO Jack CARLIN +0.201 5 NZL Sam WEBSTER +0.256 6 MAS Mohd Azizulhasni AWANG +0.386
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Jee Glaetzer can ride. Great stuff.
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Awang got boxed, Glatzer followed Dawkins to the front with a lap to go, and then it was a time trial to the finish. Oliva with a great ride to Silver, Dawkins Bronze. Glatzer a big chance now looking ahead towards the Kilo on Sunday.
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Super from Glatzer. He looked poor yesterday in the Team Sprint, but my goodness that was a brilliant ride.
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Glatzer leads with a lap to go.
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Awang goes, Glatzer outwide.
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Two Kiwis will dictate the race.
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Carlin leads, with Webster, Glatzer, Dawkins, Awang and Oliva.
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Men's Keirin Finals 1-6 Matt Glatzer Mohd Awang Ed Dawkins Sam Webster Jack Carlin Lewis Oliva
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Men's Keirin Finals 7-12 CAN Hugo BARRETTE 8 1 1 AUS Patrick CONSTABLE +0.111 9 1 10 AUS Jacob SCHMID +0.154 10 1 28 ENG Joseph TRUMAN +0.329 11 1 19 CAN Stefan RITTER +0.418 12 1 26 ENG Ryan OWENS +0.555
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Women's Sprint 1 - Stephanie Morton 2 - Natash Hansen 3 - Kaarle McCulloch 4 - Lauriane Genest
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Morton takes Gold. Exact same race to what McCulloch pulled out. Hansen, like Genest had nothing left in the tank.
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Hansen to the front this time, but goes high on the track and Morton goes to the front.
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Women's Sprint - Gold Morton favourite to take Gold. Hansen needs to pull something out of the bag. Unlikely.