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Frislie’s golden haul seals Victoria success at national track titles
- Updated: March 2, 2015
HOST state Victoria finished on top of the National Junior Track Championships table after four days of exciting racing at the Darebin International Sports Centre in Melbourne’s north.
Awarded the Ray Godkin Shield for champion state, Victoria finished the titles on top on 93 points, with New South Wales in second position (63 points) and Queensland (46 points) third.
The Vics’ successful campaign was spearheaded by 14-year-old Graeme Frislie’s remarkable haul of five gold medals, securing victory in every individual under-15 event entered as well as setting an Australian record in the flying 200 metres.
In the final session, Frislie added scratch race gold to his individual pursuit, points race, sprint and time trial national titles, and it was no surprise he ultimately earned the ‘Champion of Champions’ award.
Frislie never looked in danger of being beaten throughout the 20-lap race, out-sprinting Victorian teammate Timothy Butler and Queensland’s James Moriarty for victory.
Also bolstering the Victorian medal tally was Godfrey Slattery, who won the under-17 keirin on the final day of competition, the result his third individual gold for the week, and fifth overall. Slattery proved too strong for Western Australia’s Craig Wiggins for gold.
Slattery also claimed both the under-17 individual time trial and individual pursuit, and under-17 team sprint and team pursuit.
Slattery missed out in the under-17 men’s scratch race, but was part of a Victorian trifecta with Riley Hart avoiding a crash on the final lap to take line honours ahead of Patrick Butler and Slattery.
In the women’s events, WA’s Jade Haines capped an outstanding national championships, finished five gold of her own, with two on the last day.
Haines won the under-17 points race, individual pursuit and time trial before claiming the keirin and scratch race honours.
Haines finished over the top of Queensland’s Lara Tucker in the keirin, with WA teammate Rihana Pezaj also finishing ahead of bronze-medal winning Tucker.
It was an almost identical story in the scratch race, with Haines waiting until the final seconds to open up her sprint, and avoid a crash to overtake a fading Tucker on the final straight. Tucker would again finish third after also being beaten to the line by Victorian Sarah Gigante.
In the under-15 women’s scratch race, Queensland’s Emma Green held off a late charge from South Australia’s Olivia Wheeler to win final.
Source: Cycling Australia
