New Zealand’s Ellesse Andrews, who became the most successful female sprinter at a single Olympic Games in Paris last year led New Zealand to a new Oceania Championship Record of 47.288 seconds in the elite women’s team sprint.

The trio were dominant throughout the rounds, with 47.478secs in qualifying the first of three Championship records of their day and 47.304 in round one.

Andrews combined with fellow Olympic medallist Shaane Fulton and Olivia King to reclaim the title New Zealand last won in 2022.

“[That feels] good! We haven’t ridden a team sprint since the Games and we haven’t ridden a team sprint in this combination for years either so I think it was really cool to come out and test a new combination with Liv and Shaane and put a good performance down,” said Andrews.

With the team event down the dual Olympian now turns her attention to the individual events and will line up in the sprint, keirin and newly introduced 1km time trial over the next three days.

“I feel like it will be some really good racing out there. We saw five teams I think today in the team sprint, so I think there should be a good few girls entering the individual events.”

Silver went to Australia’s Kristine Perkins, 2023 champion Alyssia McCaig and Sophie Watts in 48.068 seconds with Lauren Perry, Kalinda Robinson and Emma Stevens (Australia) rounding out the podium.

In the elite men’s team sprint defending champions Ryan Elliott and Daniel Barber combined with former winners Thomas Cornish and Leigh Hoffman to earn the fourth consecutive title for Australia.

Their time of 43.194 seconds was nearly two seconds clear of New Zealand’s Luke Blackwood, Kaio Lart, Jaxson Russell and Louis Vuleta. Byron Davies, Maxwell Liebeknecht and Tayte Ryan collected bronze.

Olympic silver medallists Bryony Botha and Emily Shearman along with Samantha Donnelly, Prudence Fowler and Rylee McMullen secured a second consecutive elite women’s team pursuit titles for New Zealand. Botha and Shearman who were both part of the team a year ago in a sign of the growing strength in New Zealand pursuiting.

Their time of 4 minutes 15.226 seconds was more than five seconds faster than Australia’s Alli Anderson, Nicole Duncan, Sally Carter, Claudia Marks and Keria Will. Isla Carr, Lilyth Jones, Odette Lynch and Summer Nordmeyer (Australia) picked up bronze.

2019 1km time trial champion Cameron Scott combined with Declan Trezise, Liam Walsh and Oscar Gallagher for a time of 3 minutes 57.335 seconds, over a second and a half clear of New Zealand’s Thomas Sexton who was part of the 2024 winning team, Kyle Aitken, Ben Oliver, Marshall Erwood and Mitchel Fitzsimons.

Bronze went to 2024 champion Keegan Hornblow, Magnus Jamieson, Lucas Bhimy, Daniel Morton and Campbell Stewart.

New Zealand secured a lockout of the elite scratch races. The women’s race had a dramatic finish with newly crowned champion Mckenzie Milne putting in a late charge in the closing laps to overhaul leader Lucy Reeve who had to settle for bronze with Samantha Donnelly completing the podium with the bunch sprint win.

In the men’s Hornblow added medal number two of the day turning his team pursuit bronze to gold ahead of teammate Stewart with 2020 1km time trial champion Nicholas Kergozou.

Under 19 champions were crowned in the sprint and individual pursuit. Ebony Robinson (Australia) beat out Emily Watch (Australia) and Ella Liang (Australia) in the women’s sprint. In the men’s Alex Schuler (New Zealand) took the crown ahead of Flynn Underwood (New Zealand) and Angus Withington (Australia).

Amelie Sanders (Australia) set a new Oceania Record of 3mins 34.885secs on route to gold in the individual pursuit ahead of Ava Schmidtke (Australia) who set the first Oceania Record over the new distance last December. Leani Van der Berg made it an all Australian podium.

Alexander Hewes (Australia) claimed the men’s title in 3mins 13.065secs beating faster qualifier Toby Jones (Australia) as Samuel Washington made it an all Australian podium.

The Para-cycling competition opened with the scratch races with titles going to Paralympic Champion Korey Boddington (Australia) men’s C5, Kyle Willis (Australia) men’s C3, Alana Forster (Australia) women’s C5, Siobhan Terry (New Zealand) women’s C4 and Paige Greco (Australia) women’s C3.

Results – Full Results

Elite Women Team Sprint
Gold: Ellesse Andrews, Shaane Fulton and Olivia King (New Zealand)
Silver: Alessia McCaig, Kristine Perkins and Sophie Watts (Australia)
Australia: Lauren Perry, Kalinda Robinson and Emma Stevens (Australia)

Elite Men Team Sprint
Gold: Daniel Barber, Thomas Cornish, Ryan Elliott and Leigh Hoffman (Australia)
Silver: Luke Blackwood, Kaio Lart, Jaxson Russell and Louis Vuleta (New Zealand)
Australia: Byron Davies, Maxwell Liebeknecht and Tayte Ryan (Australia)

Elite Women Team Pursuit
Gold: Bryony Botha, Samantha Donnelly, Prudence Fowler, Rylee McMullen and Emily Shearman (New Zealand)
Silver: Alli Anderson, Sally Carter, Nicole Duncan, Claudia Marcks and Keira Will (Australia)
Australia: Isla Carr, Lilyth Jones, Odette Lynch and Summer Nordmeyer (Australia)

Elite Men Team Pursuit
Gold: Oscar Gallagher, Cameron Scott, Declan Trezise and Liam Walsh (Australia)
Silver: Kyle Aitken, Marshall Erwood, Mitchell Fitzsimons, Ben Oliver and Thomas Sexton (New Zealand)
Australia: Lucas Bhimy, Keegan Hornblow, Magnus Jamieson, Daniel Morton and Campbell Stewart (New Zealand)

Elite Women Scratch Race
Gold: Mckenzie Milne (New Zealand)
Silver: Lucy Reeve (New Zealand)
Bronze: Samantha Donnelly (New Zealand)

Elite Men Scratch Race
Gold: Keegan Hornblow (New Zealand)
Silver: Campbell Stewart (New Zealand)
Australia: Nicholas Kergozou (New Zealand)

Under 19 Men Sprint
Gold: Alex Schuler (New Zealand)
Silver: Flynn Underwood (New Zealand)
Bronze: Angus Withington (Australia)

Under 19 Women Sprint
Gold: Ebony Robinson (Australia)
Silver: Emily Watch (Australia)
Bronze: Ella Liang (Australia)

Under 19 Men Individual Pursuit
Gold: Alexander Hewes (Australia)
Silver: Toby Jones (Australia)
Bronze: Samuel Washinton (Australia)

Under 19 Women Individual Pursuit
Gold: Amelie Sanders (Australia)
Silver: Ava Schmidtke (Australia)
Bronze: Leani Van der Berg (Australia)

Para Scratch Race
Men C3: Kyle Willis (Australia)
Men C5: Korey Boddington (Australia)
Women C3: Paige Greco (Australia)
Women C4: Siobhan Terry (New Zealand)
Women C5: Alana Forster (Australia)