Sydney, Australia, March 9, 2019 – The World Olympians Association (WOA) on Saturday recognised 11 Olympians, including Kerri Walsh Jennings, Taliqua Clancy and Mariafe Artacho Del Solar with the post-nominal ‘OLY’ at the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour Sydney 3-star at Manly Beach.
Two newly-crowned world champions headline Tasmania's senior cycling squad for next month's track national championships in Brisbane.
Perth's Georgia Baker and North-West cyclist Amy Cure will join Launceston's Lauren Perry and Devonport's Macey Stewart in a four-strong women's outfit, marking the first time the quartet have been at track nationals together since successfully defending their team pursuit title in 2015.
Team pursuit is not on the calendar for the April 3 to 6 event, having already been run in December, but Tasmania coach Matt Gilmore was confident medals would still make their way back over Bass Strait.
ADELAIDE cyclist Alex Manly was still in disbelief yesterday after winning her second gold medal of the UCI track world championships in Poland.
Three days after she was part of Australia’s women’s team pursuit quartet that won the world title in Pruszkow, Manly claimed individual glory as well by winning the 100-lap points race that went down to the final sprint.
“I can’t believe what just happened, it is still a blur, it is so super special,” Manly said.
Tasmanian team pursuit world champions Amy Cure and Georgia Baker almost added a second gold in the women's madison final.
“It was a pretty full on race - right from the get-go, it was on," Perth's Baker said.
"There were many crashes out there, but Amy stayed safe, riding the front of the race as much as we could."
The pair took maximum points in the opening sprint of the 120-lap, 12 sprint race before Dutch powerhouses Amy Pieters and Kirsten Wild put claim to multiple sprint wins and a 13-point lead at the halfway mark during the world championships in Poland.
Georgia Baker and Amy Cure are world champions after their Australian team claimed victory in the women's team pursuit at the UCI Track World Championships in Poland on Thursday night.
The Tasmanians teamed up with South Australia's Annette Edmondson and New South Wales' Ashlee Ankudinoff to defeat Great Britain by two tenths of a second, securing Cure's third world championships gold medal.
TASMANIAN cycling stars Georgia Baker and Amy Cure will be hunting more gold as the Australian women’s team pursuit squad begins its assault on the UCI Track World Championships in Poland.
Baker and Cure are joined by South Australians Annette Edmondson and Alexandra Manly and NSW cyclist Ashlee Ankudinoff in team pursuit qualifying in Pruszkow.
The women’s team pursuit first round and finals will be held in the early hours of Friday morning Tasmanian time. Baker and Cure will also compete together in the 30km madison on Saturday night.
Tasmanian cyclist Amy Cure has completed her final training session ahead of the UCI track world championships in Poland.
Joining Perth's Georgia Baker as Tasmania's only representatives in Australia's 17-rider squad, Cure will begin her campaign on Wednesday when qualifying for the women's team pursuit gets under way.
Adelaide City has bolstered their defence with the resigning of Grace Abbey, ahead of the 2019 edition of the Women’s National Premier League.
Abbey was a crucial part of City’s defence last season in their bid to secure back-to-back Championship, and even came away with Player of the Match in the grand final win against long-time rivals Metro United.
She may not have been able to claim a win in any race at Six Day Melbourne, but Amy Pauwels did enough to hold on for an overall podium finish on Saturday.
Starting the final day of racing in second overall, Pauwels teamed up with Kristina Clonan to finish third in the madison and finished fifth in the scratch race to end the event behind overall winner Annette Edmondson and silver medalist Alexandra Manly.
BATHURST’S Tamsyn Moana-Veale made it three elite women’s podiums in four rounds of the 2XU Triathlon Series on Sunday as she produced another impressive performance at Elwood.
Tasmanian cyclists Georgia Baker and Amy Cure’s hopes of attending another Olympics have been given a boost after the pair were named in Australia’s team for the UCI track world championships.
The duo were named in a 17-strong team which will depart for Poland on February 20, with the championships to begin a week later.
Cycling Australia performance director Simon Jones said the team’s focus would be on learning rather than winning.
“As we build towards Tokyo the focus will increasingly be on performance, but performing with a clear strategy and winning processes,” Jones said.
TOWNSVILLE Hockeyroo Stephanie Kershaw will lean on former players who have recovered from multiple knee injuries to star at the top level after tearing an anterior cruciate ligament for the second time in her career.
The 23-year-old suffered the injury to her left knee at training in Perth on Saturday as the Hockeyroos prepared for next week’s inaugural FIH Pro League.
In 2015 the midfielder’s Olympic dream was dashed when she tore her right ACL in 2015, ending any hope of making her Olympic debut at Rio the following year.
“Sport can be cruel. I found that out pretty quickly after scans confirmed that I tore my left ACL,” Kershaw posted on Instagram.
After spending the past four weeks following her sister Isabella Bozicevic around the Australian circuit, the Caterpillar Burnie International has been Macy’s chance to get on the court.
The grade 4 pupil from Queensland came on board as a ball girl, which has given her the opportunity to be involved as her father Carl and sister Isabella focus on training and matches.
Macy said she was just spending time in the players’ lounge until she was approached to get involved as a ball girl.
IF the smile on the face of Tamsyn Moana-Veale was anything to go by, Sunday’s success in the third round of the 2018-19 2XU Triathlon Series was clearly one she enjoyed.
The star Bathurst triathlete covered the sprint course in Saint Kilda – a 600 meters swim, 26.7 kilometre cycle and 5km run - in a time of one hour, 20 minutes, 24.3 seconds to pick up the elite female category win.
She was first out of the water, clocking a 12:31.2 split, then worked with two other competitors on the bike leg to gap the rest of the field.
Moana-Veale then powered through the run to finish 49 seconds clear of her nearest rival.
Mandurah’s budding BMX starlets got a chance to learn from the very best last month, as Olympian Lauren Reynolds rolled into town.
Ms Reynolds has represented Australia in her chosen sport and attended the Mandurah BMX Club on December 18 to pass on her wisdom.
The women’s Santos Tour Down Under finished on Sunday with Amy Cure claiming a top 10 finish in the final stage in Adelaide.
The Specialized Women’s Racing team rider crossed the finish line of the 42.5 kilometre stage around Rymill Park in ninth place, with stage taken out by Chloe Hosking.
The ninth place finish on Sunday and 40th place finish in the 104.5km third stage on Saturday was enough to help Cure to 47th overall for the tour, which was taken out by Amanda Spratt
West Pine’s Amy Cure has found a new professional team to ride with in 2019 after it was announced she will ride for Specialized Women’s Racing.
Cure took to Instagram announce the news on Monday morning and expressed her excitement about signing on with the team.
Aussie Isabella Bozicevic, affectionately known as the pink assassin, has been making waves down-under in tennis circles and is being touted as the future of the women’s game in Australia. Already the #1 in her age group, seventeen year old Isabella competes on the Pro Tour.
We got a few moments with Isabella to find out how she fuels herself as a pro athlete…
ALEX Manly made a triumphant return to competitive riding by taking out the 2000m women’s wheel final in decisive fashion.
The backmarkers were always favourite to succeed once they caught the leaders on the penultimate lap, with Manly (scratch) swooping down the outside on the run home to win from Queensland duo Lilliana McLennan (140m) and Alexandra Martin-Wallace (20m).
The result was Manly’s first-ever wheel win in Tasmania and comes after an injury lay-off.
“Three months ago I fractured my shoulder in a crash, so this is the first real block of racing I have had since then,” the 22-year-old from South Australia said.
South Australian cycling champion Annette Edmondson is home after months of intense training in Spain and her mind is on the track and a new role.
Edmondson, 26, went straight to the Adelaide Super Dome for a track session just hours after stepping off the plane this week and will do the same every day for the next two months, taking a break only on Christmas Day.
She’ll average three and a half hours on the track and in the gym daily in the lead-up to the Track Cycling World Championship in Poland in February. But a key goal is the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
“We are training really hard at the velodrome on track bikes as well as doing gym work and sessions on the stationary trainers,” she said. “We’ll be doing long rides on the road and short, sharp efforts at the track … our focus is the team pursuit which is a four minute race.”
The focus on the track means it is unlikely she’ll take part in next month’s Tour Down Under.
“I haven’t completely ruled it out but at this stage I’m not planning on riding in it,” she said.
