CYCLING: Australia added four medals on the final day of the second round of the UCI Track World Cup in Cambridge, New Zealand. 

Matthew Glaetzer took gold in the sprint, Annette Edmondson and Anna Meares claimed silver in the omnium and keirin respectively and Glenn O'Shea added bronze in the omnium.

Sunday's success brought the total for the World Cup to nine for Australia - the most won by any nation - after dual team pursuit gold, women's sprint and team sprint silver and men's team sprint bronze from Saturday (check out Saturday's action here>>>).

Attention now turns to the Omnium National Championships in Adelaide December 16-17, before the final round of the World Cup series in Hong Kong from 15-17 January.

Men's Sprint
Having qualified fastest Australian and Oceania champion Matthew Glaetzer was dominant throughout the sprint event to claim gold, the third straight series Glaetzer has claimed UCI Track World Cup series sprint gold. 

"It's awesome," said Glaetzer. "It's such a challenge. Max Niederlag pushed me all the way and I had to really execute my racing perfectly to beat him.

"If I had made a mistake he probably would have won it. I raced really well, one of my best competitions that I have raced and I'm really happy with this result."

In qualifying Glaetzer set the best time of 9.698secs. Patrick Constable was tenth fastest in 10.004secs in qualifying, with Peter Lewis was fifteenth 10.071secs.

In the 1/16 finals Glaetzer was too strong for Sandor Szalontay (Hungary) easily moving in to the next round. Patrick Constable advanced over teammate Peter Lewis.

It was the same in the 1/8 finals for Glaetzer who powered in to the next round over Njisane Phillip (Trinidad and Tobago). Patrick Constable lost his heat to Damian Zielinski (Poland) before winning his repechage to advance.

It was an all Australian affair in the quarterfinals between Glaetzer and Constable with Glaetzer emerging victorious.

In the semifinal Glaetzer was too strong for Edward Dawkins of New Zealand. After getting the jump in the first and holding Dawkins off, Glaetzer again lead from the front in the second to earn a spot in the gold medal ride.

In the opening race of the final Max Niederlag (Germany) lead with a lap to go but Glaetzer had too much power as he came over the top to go one up. 

"In the first race it was a drag race coming into the bell and that's not ideal when you're on the outside so I got separation and height and was able to run at him. I committed and managed to come around for the win on that one."

It was shoulder to shoulder for Glaetzer and Niederlag down the back strait in race two but it was Glaetzer first to the line.

"In the second race I was at the front. I knew that I would probably keep the front in the race. He kept around me, he got the jump on me a bit at the start but I managed to hold him on the outside."

Bronze went to Maximilian Levy (Team Erdgas.2012) ahead of local favourite Edward Dawkins (New Zealand) two races to one. 

Constable put in a strong performance across the competition finishing seventh in just his second world cup.

Women's Keirin
Reigning world champion Anna Meares claimed silver in the keirin, just narrowly missing gold on the line.

"I am so, so happy," said Meares after claiming silver. "I love good races and I love hard races and the final didn't disappoint for me.

"I left everything out on the track for what I could put out there. I didn't feel the back throughout the race and it was good."

Meares was dominant in the first round as she stormed to the line taking victory.

In round two Hyejin Lee of Korea launched an early attack with two laps to go but seeing the move Meares shot to the front, leading for all of the final lap to take a convincing win to secure a spot in the final.

Monique Sullivan went early in the final and sensing the danger Meares took control of things at the front of the race leading in to the final strait. Meares was just pipped on the line for gold by a late charge from Shuang Guo (Giant-Max Success Sports). Bronze went to Monique Sullivan of Canada.

Women's Omnium
Reigning world champion Annette Edmondson claimed silver in her first event on the world stage in the rainbow jersey. "Things don't always go to plan and I am disappointed, but I am still happy to come away with a medal in the end.

"We didn't really know what to expect coming here. We had a massive training block so it is quite nice to go home with a medal."

There was no stopping Edmondson in the opening event of day two of the omnium. Flying around the two laps of the track in 35.358secs to win the 500m time trial, taking the lead in the process. 

Edmondson placed second in the flying lap with a time of 13.987secs giving her a narrow two point advantage heading in to the points race on closest rival Allison Beveridge (Canada).

After taking the first sprint in the points race Edmondson had doubled her advantage to four points. From here though Edmondson was on the back foot as Beveridge took control adding 10 points over the next three sprints. 

A valiant effort by world champion Edmondson earned her silver but Beveridge held on to gold with Jolien D'hoore (Belgium) rounding out the podium with bronze.

"I wanted to try to increase my advantage in the points race but I think I had a bit of a brain fade out there and I should have just followed Beveridge so I made a couple of mistakes," Edmondson admitted after the race.

"My legs blew and I had nothing left so it was a grovel just to stay in the mix."

Men's Omnium
Glenn O'Shea made a strong start to the second day of the omnium. Taking second in the 1km time trial in 1min 3.174secs to finish with the second fastest time. Only New Zealand's Nicholas Kergozou was able to go fastest in 1min 2.559secs.

A time of 13.151secs in the flying lap was good enough for third place and put the former world champion in touching distance of the podium in fourth ahead of the points race.

After making a conservative start to the points race O'Shea joined a group a of three with Lasse Norman Hansen (Denmark), Juan Esteban Arango (Colombia) and Christopher Latham (Great Britain) in a move that took a lap. The 20 points gained moved O'Shea in to the bronze medal position he held to the end of the race.

"I am reasonably happy although I had a pretty poor scratch race and not the best pursuit but I chipped away and rode really well today, I thought and made the most out of a bad situation," O'Shea explained.

"I'm really happy with how I finished. It is a good stepping stone towards next year."

Hansen took gold with Latham silver.

Amy Cure added a gold medal to her collection winning the UCI C1 scratch race to add to her team pursuit gold medal.

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