Three local cyclists travelled to Melbourne recently after being selected as part of the South Australian Junior Track team that contested the National Junior track championships.

Tim Fulton was a member of the under 17 men's team, while Jai Sutton and Dylan Starkey competed in the under 15 men's division. South Australia looked poised to qualify in the top two of the under 17 3000m Men's Team pursuit.  Fulton was one of the four riders riding off for the Gold or Silver medal, however with three laps to go a rider fell, affecting their time, but still qualified third. The team put in a strong effort in the ride off for the bronze medal against Queensland, who were faster by two seconds, taking out the bronze.  Fulton recorded new personal best times in three events - the 500m time trial, 2000m individual pursuit ( by 3 seconds) and the 200m sprint qualification (by 0.4 sec).  Fulton finished twelfth in the 200m time trial, qualifying for the sprint rounds, but was unfortunately beaten by a Victorian rider in round one.

In the under 15 men's 200m time trial, Dylan Starkey recorded a time of 12.794 seconds which was 0.4 seconds faster than his previous best time in this event and 0.7 seconds behind the fastest rider. This put Starkey in fourteenth place and through to the first round of sprints, while Jai Sutton just missed out on qualifying for the sprints, finishing eighteenth in a time of 13.600sec.

In the 2000m Individual Pursuit, Starkey finished eleventh in a time of 2.39.741 minutes, a new personal best time by two seconds, while Sutton came fifteenth, recording a time of 2:42.956 minute. Sutton also recorded a time of 39.51sec in the 500m time trial and in the scratch race came eighth, being the first South Australian rider to finish