New South Wales to send strong 29-member squad north to #TrackNats22

21 Mar 2022 | 03:54 PMBy: Josh Davies

New South Wales has named a strong 29-member senior squad to descend on Brisbane for the 2022 AusCycling Track National Championships from March 26-30.

Southern Cross Cycling Club product and Australian Cycling Team Podium Ready athlete Thomas Cornish leads the way for New South Wales as the most high-profile name on paper for #TrackNats22.

The defending three-time time trial (1000m) national champion continues to find new levels of speed on the boards, notching a personal best flying 200m time of 9.715 a month ago in Adelaide.

A livewire on the track, Cornish was the provider of two memorable moments of #TrackNats21, the first of those being his first sub-minute time trial, which was followed by an electric come-from-behind third-man performance in the team sprint gold medal final to crown New South Wales as the national champions for 2021.

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Cornish is joined in the elite ranks for the first time by Dubbo youngster Danny Barber, a new member of the Podium Potential Academy.

A prolific national champion in the under-19 ranks over the past two years, Barber now joins an already deeply talented men’s sprint start list for #TrackNats22.

Fellow Podium Potential Academy rookie Kalinda Robinson finds herself in the same position as Barber as she steps up to the elite field for the first time.

The 18-year-old from Bathurst has collected plenty of Track Nationals medals during her two years as an under-19 rider in a mano a mano battle with Victorian Alessia McCaig.

Para-cycling stars and Australian Cycling Team members Amanda Reid and Gordon Allan will also be in Brisbane for #TrackNats22.

Reid, a Paralympic gold medallist at Tokyo 2020, went to a new level in 2021, setting a new women’s C2 500m time trial world record of 38.487-seconds in Japan.

The proud Gurinagi and Wemba Wemba woman was the first Indigenous Australian to win a gold medal in cycling at the Paralympics.

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