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1993 UCI Track World Cycling Championships Team Pursuit Gold Australia

In 1993 on August 17th the Track World Titles kicked off in Hamar, Norway. After the near miss from the Olympics in Barcelona where Australia narrowly lost to Germany in the Team Pursuit, revenge would go to Australia at these World Championships and with it would come a World Record and Australia's first ever win in this event at the highest level. It would set a new standard for Australian cycling for the years to come and was the launching pad to Australia winning many more World Titles in this event over the next 30 years. #cycle2max #trackcycling Facebook Post: This week I got back from the 2023 UCI World Championships in Glasgow. I had the privilege of coaching the Aussie Junior men on the road which culminated with Oscar Chamberlain winning the Time Trial World Championship. Today marks exactly 30 years since the start of the UCI Track Worlds were held in Hamar, Norway. This was a historic turn in Australia’s rise to dominance on the track. It was also the first official open era Track World Titles where Pros and Amateurs raced together and Australia would finish on top of the medal tally. It was also the first ever Aussie win in the Team Pursuit at a World Championship and a World Record was smashed by over 5 seconds. This was also the first time I got to stand on top of the Podium as a World Champion. For that reason it is very high on my list of highlights in my career in cycling. The elation and feeling this brought to know your the best, been the first ever from Aus and done it faster than anyone before you changed the mindset and beliefs for many to follow and I’m really proud of this and extremely thankful for all the support team and coaches who helped me achieve this dream. A lot has changed in the 30 years since and Australia’s reputation on the track has risen to be respected World wide. When we achieved this milestone there was so much we still didn’t know which is why the World Record is still cool to look back on with some context. We raced on steel frames with aero bars that had only just entered the World stage. However there was no aero optimisation, no one had ever even talked about CdA let alone knew what it was or how to test it, our skinsuits literally flapped in the wind if you look at the slowmo’s! Gears were tiny (55:16 or 92.8 inches) and so we had massive aerobic engines but no strength like todays athletes. Our cadence was peaking out at 146 rpm at our fastest speeds. There was no start gates to launch out of and the turn strategy was no where near optimal. Last year when I was the Aus Interim track coach and got to coach a great bunch of new kids trying to raise the bar like me and my teammates from 30 years ago, I threatened a friendly challenge to them with the same conditions of gears, equipment, turn strategy etc. 4min 03sec is pretty slow today but it’s all relative to the conditions you had at the time. Add in also in the final I was sitting so close to the wheel trying to extract every last drop that I almost caused a disaster 1min 53sec into the race and clipped the wheel and drifted half way up the track! A lot changed that day for me and for Australian cycling but if I had to sum up what it changed most for me, it changed the mindset and belief that this is what can be done if you want it bad enough. Here’s to the next 30 years! 🍻💪