Jan 24th.  Hayden Godfrey won two medals for the Kiwis in Beijing last night, an individual medal in the scratch race and a team medal as part of the NZ development team pursuit squad.

The first medal of the evening came when the development combination of Hayden Godfrey, Shane Archbold, Myron Simpson and Aaron Gate claimed the bronze medal in an outstanding team pursuit performance at the Beijing UCI World Cup.

The Kiwis upped their effort to clock an outstanding 4:05.278 with a controlled performance, going faster in each kilometre which delighted BikeNZ head coach Tim Carswell.

"The development boys have put in some great work over the last eight months and they really wanted the medal tonight," Carswell said.

"Their performance is ahead of what our Olympic riders achieved at the same age which is exciting for the track programme going forward. To be going 4:05 is a very good effort."

Australia dominated Netherlands to win the gold.

Godfrey (Christchurch), the 2008 world omnium champion, recovered from his pursuit final to produce a strong effort to win silver in the men's scratch race over 15kms.  The Canterbury rider was just edged by Canada's Zachery Bell in the final sprint for the gold.

Invercargill's Eddie Dawkins was just pipped for a medal in the men's kilo, finishing fourth.

Dawkins finished 8/100ths of a second outside the podium, clocking a slick 1:03.190 to be fourth fastest in an impressive performance, while fellow sprinter Simon Van Velthooven (Palmerston North) finished ninth in the keirin, after he went out in the second round.

The final day of action will see Sam Webster and Eddie Dawkins in the sprint, Tom Scully and Myron Simpson in the Madison and the combination of Alison Shanks, Jaime Nielsen, Rushlee Buchanan and Lauren Ellis in the women's team pursuit.

UCI World Cup, Beijing, day 2 finals:

4000m men's team pursuit:

• Gold medal: Australia 4:01.226, 1; Netherlands dnf.
• Bronze medal: New Zealand (Hayden Godfrey, Archbold, Myron Simpson, Aaron Gate) 4:05.278, 3; Ukraine 4:10.039, 4.
• Qualifying: Australia 4:05.635, 1; Netherlands 4:08.992, 2; New Zealand 4:10.025, 3; Ukraine 4:10.731, 4.

Men's scratch race, 15km:

1. Zachery Bell (CAN)
2. Hayden Godfrey (NZL)
3. Werner Riebenbauer (AUT)

Kilo Time Trial:

1. Miao Zhang (Chn) 1:02.173
2. Joachim Eilers (GER) 1:02.677
3. Kamil Kuczynski (POL) 1:03.105
4. Eddie Dawkins (NZL) 1:03.190

Kierin, first round, heat 4:

• Simon Van Velthooven 2nd.
• Second round Van Velthooven 6th (eliminated).
• Ride-off 7th to 12th: Van Velthooven 3rd – 9th overall

Full results on the UCI site...

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