Dubbo's Kurt Eather has further cemented his position as one of the world's best under 19 riders by taking out the points race at the Elite and Under 19 Track Cycling Championships last week.
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Just a week after Dubbo juniors impressed on the national stage it was the elite - and then the masters - riders' turns to shine with Eather just the first of many to medal at the event at Brisbane.
His victory at the Oceania championships and at the NSW championships in the Points Race saw him enter the 100-lap, 25 kilometre event as favourite, due largely to his number two world under 19 ranking.
And he didn't disappoint.
After more than half an hour of a gruelling combination of sprinting and endurance riding, Eather had amassed almost double the number of points of the second placed rider to earn his individual national championship.
Eather credited NSW teammates Joshua Brodie, Alex Micallef and Luke Britten for helping him win.
"Towards the end they were perfect - that's the best they ever could have rode," he told Cycling NSW.
"[They] gave me the perfect lead up for the last sprint. Yeah, it was amazing."
"In the end me, Luke and Alex were all willing to sacrifice ourselves for our teammate and in the end we got the win so we're all happy to be a part of that," Brodie told Cycling NSW.
Eather backed up the gold with bronze medals in the scratch race and in the Madison.
Simone Grounds has been on fire at the Masters championships which started on Sunday.
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The NSW female Masters rider of the year started her campaign with gold in the time trial and backed it up on the same day with gold in the scratch race.
On Monday, after qualifying as fastest rider in the individual pursuit Grounds went on to claim her third gold medal in that event.
Joining her on the podium was Heather Ticehurst who finished with the bronze medal. This was a champion effort from Ticehurst who was suffering from the ill effects of a training crash that occurred on the previous Thursday.
Team pursuit member Jennifer Raines took to the track solo on Monday and set the bar high for her team mates by taking gold in the Masters 1 category of the individual pursuit.
This was Raines' first National individual gold medal, and followed her silver medals in both the time trial and scratch races.
The trio were then joined by Karen Bracht to claim bronze in the women's masters team pursuit championship.
Tim Hines and Jason Farr competed in the same category in Brisbane and it was Hines who claimed the first bragging rights by taking the silver medal in the men's time trial with Farr close behind in fourth.
Farr was able to reverse that result in the men's scratch race by taking the bronze medal with Hines finishing just off the podium in fourth.
Hines backed up on the Monday to take silver in the individual pursuit, with Farr choosing to sit that one out to save himself for his preferred sprint event the following day.
Unfortunately he missed the chance to retain his national title, but Grounds made up for this by taking her maiden national sprint championship.
Graeme Peadon finished Sunday with strong showings in the time trial and scratch race before taking to the track on Monday in his preferred individual pursuit.
A strong qualifying round saw him in third position, only two seconds from the fastest rider. This earned his a position in the bronze medal ride off where he was successful, taking the bronze.
All the riders give much thanks to coach Gus Dawson who spent the past weeks trackside in Brisbane as Dubbo riders contested, any were very successful at, the Junior, Elite, and Masters Australian Championships.
His wife Margaret enjoyed the novel location to celebrate their wedding anniversary.
