TASMANIAN cyclists Amy Cure and Georgia Baker will continue to push their Rio Olympics aspirations as part of Australia’s track-cycling team which will contest the first ever World Cup event to be staged in New Zealand.
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A 20-rider strong Australian track cycling team has been named for the second round of the 2015-16 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Series to be hosted in Cambridge from December 4-6.
Reigning team pursuit world champions and world record holders Ashlee Ankudinoff, Cure, Annette Edmondson and Melissa Hoskins will compete for the first time in their rainbow jerseys.
They will be joined by Isabella King, who continues to make a return from illness and reigning national team pursuit champion Baker who claimed gold in the individual pursuit and omnium and October’s Oceania Championships.
Five-time world champion and Olympic silver medallist Michael Hepburn returns to the World Cup circuit for the first time since 2012 as he locks the Rio 2016 Olympic Games in his sights.
Olympic silver medallist Jack Bobridge will also line up at his first world cup since 2012 after he also returned to the track earlier this year.
Joining them will be Olympic silver medallist Glenn O’Shea and London Olympian Alex Edmondson.
Rounding out the men’s endurance squad is Luke Davison and Mitchell Mulhern, ensuring all six riders boast a team-pursuit world championship.
Matthew Glaetzer, who claimed silver in the keirin at the Cali World Cup following two Oceania titles in October, will be looking for more success on the world stage.
National Championship sprint silver medallist Peter Lewis, former junior world champions Jacob Schmidand Patrick Constable, and team sprint specialist Nathan Hart round out the team.
Anna Meares and Stephanie Morton, who claimed silver in the team sprint in Cali, will again line up in the sprint events.
They are joined by three-time world champion Kaarle McCulloch, who is continuing her track season following three gold medals at the Oceania Championships.
The 2015-16 UCI Track World Cup series features the world’s best track cyclists competing across three rounds for points towards World Championships and Rio 2016 Olympic Games qualification.