Tasmania’s former junior world championship teammates Lauren Perry and Macey Stewart are teaming up again at this week’s international track series in Melbourne.
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The 21-year-olds both became multiple world champions in the junior ranks before teaming up to form half a senior team pursuit world cup-winning outfit.
But after both taking time away from elite competition they are being reunited by the five-day feast of racing to be held at Thornbury’s DISC Velodrome from July 25-29.
“It will be good to get some hard racing in to see what shape I’m in,” said Perry, of Launceston.
“I’ve got a lot of speed but not much fitness at the moment.”
It will be good to get some hard racing in to see what shape I’m in
- Launceston cyclist Lauren Perry
Stewart, of Devonport, will join Perry in the elite women’s events while Launceston’s Josh Duffy will compete in the under-19 men’s races.
Five Rio Olympians will headline Australia’s sprinting stocks including reigning Commonwealth Games champions Matthew Glaetzer and fellow South Australian Stephanie Morton and Olympic medallist Kaarle McCulloch (NSW).
ITS Melbourne will also give a chance for the next-generation to announce themselves.
Rob Shaw
Heralding the impact of Tasmanian sport without saying "punching above its weight" is not as easy as it sounds.
Heralding the impact of Tasmanian sport without saying "punching above its weight" is not as easy as it sounds.
