Commonwealth Games Day 3: Australia wins extra medals on the velodrome

Australia has continued bringing dwelling the outcomes from Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome, profitable seven extra medals on day three of observe biking and Para biking on the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.

Leigh Hoffman is the dash king

A gold medal to Leigh Hoffman within the males’s dash was the spotlight of the day. The 26-year-old from Whyalla set a brand new Games report in qualifying earlier than comfortably profitable every spherical of the match sprints – together with beating fellow Australian Tayte Ryan within the semi-finals – to say his first particular person gold at this stage.

Ryan took dwelling the bronze to make an Aussie 1– 3 on the rostrum: a unbelievable outcome for the Games debutant who shall be centered on tonight’s time trial, his pet occasion.

The Commonwealth Games might be up there with the Olympics for us Aussies. To come all the best way from Whyalla, who would have thought, actually? – Leigh Hoffman

Claudia Marcks goes massive in 1km TT

Canberra’s Claudia Marcks broke her personal Australian report within the ladies’s 1km time trial, posting a scorching time of 1:05.607.

That benchmark held sturdy because the Commonwealth Games report till Welshwoman Emma Finucane pipped Marcks into the silver-medal place.

It’s Marcks’ her first particular person medal after profitable the crew pursuit on the opening day.

Coming in I wasn’t even certain that I used to be going to be up for a podium, so to be standing right here with a silver medal, I’m over the moon.

I hoped to go point-something-of-a-second sooner, get underneath the sub-1:06. I sort of blew that out. Honestly, the time trial is considered one of my favorite occasions as a result of I can not overthink it. It’s simply: exit as arduous and quick as you’ll be able to, and maintain it for 4 laps. – Claudia Marcks

More success for Aussie tandems

Jessica Gallagher and her pilot Jacqui Mengler-Mohr added a second silver medal to their assortment, this time within the ladies’s tandem 1km time trial. Their time of 1:06.852 was the quickest ever by an Australia ladies’s tandem. They had been bested solely by the Kiwi pairing of Emma Foy, piloted by Jessie Hodges.

We’re more than happy. We left all of it on the market. You at all times come right here wanting extra. But, contemplating our crash two days in the past … a PB for us, on this situation, exhibits that we have loads of upside. So, deliver on Worlds. – Jacqui Mengler-Mohr

Likewise, Kane Perris and Luke Zaccaria doubled their medal tally by profitable their bronze last in opposition to Malaysia within the males’s tandem dash. That makes two bronze medals for the West Australians after additionally inserting third within the ‘Kilo’.

We missed out on a medal on the Paralympics a couple of years in the past, and to come back again at a significant occasion in Scotland, which is nearly a house Games for me with the quantity of household I’ve over right here, and to get on the rostrum with Luke twice, is bloody particular. – Kane Perris

Tom Cornish sprints to silver in crash-marred scratch race

Sydney’s Tom Cornish received his first Commonwealth Games medal as an endurance rider, taking silver in a chaotic males’s scratch race.

An action-packed 10km race noticed Oli Bleddyn and Blake Agnoletto making their presence felt in a number of breakaways earlier than all of it got here right down to an enormous bunch dash.

All three Aussies escaped a mass pile-up on the penultimate lap. Cornish unleashed his trademark dash on the final lap, however was crushed by a fast-finishing Henry Hobbs (England) to take silver.

It’s one other prime outcome for the New South Welshman, who competed on the final Games as a sprinter, profitable medals within the crew dash and 1km time trial.

Georgia Baker provides bronze within the factors race

A breathless ladies’s factors race noticed Georgia Baker again up yesterday’s scratch race win with a hard-fought bronze medal.

The Tasmanian gained a number of laps on the sphere however needed to contest sprints all the best way till the top to defend her podium place from New Zealand’s Ally Wollaston.

It’s Baker’s sixth profession medal on the Commonwealth Games – remarkably, the primary medal that isn’t gold in color.

I actually loved the racing on the market tonight. I felt actually good … It simply must align, however that is simply racing. I’m actually pleased with bronze, and on the finish of the day, the strongest rider wins. – Georgia Baker

Australia goes into the ultimate day of observe biking main the medal tally with seven gold, eight silver and 5 bronze.

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