The Dubbo Cycle Club has shone on the big stage again, with a gold medal won at the Oceania Cycling Championships.
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Danny Barber and Kurt Eather recently travelled to Invercargill in New Zealand to compete in the titles, going up against riders from countries across the Pacific region.
Australia and New Zealand have provided many world and Olympic champions and Barber and Eather have both now put their names up in lights.
Barber contested the under 19s while Eather competed in the Elite category.
After earning the title of Champion of Champions at the Australian Under -7 Championships in March this year Danny Barber took to the track for the first time as an Under-19 rider at the Oceania Championships.
Barber was honoured with selection on the first day of the championships into the Australian Under 19 Sprint team.
This was the first time in Australian colours for Barber.
While the team, which included two other riders from South Australia, were the fastest qualifiers into the gold medal ride off they were narrowly beaten by a strong New Zealand team, to take silver.
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On Day three of the championships Barber rode through the sprint program qualifying and elimination races to win the gold medal and earn the individual title of U19 Oceania Sprint Champion.
On the final day of the Championships Barber qualified, by winning his heat and Semi Final, into the Kieran final.
Against a very strong field, Barber took control of the race to claim another gold medal and the title of U19 Oceania Kieran Champion.
The Kieran is a 6 rider sprint event that has a large following in Japan where races are bet on. Barber is now undefeated in Kieran's for the past two years.
Stepping up into the Elite rider category Kurt Eather was extremely strong.
The 18 year old found himself lining up in the Omnium scratch race alongside riders including Elite Scratch World Champion, Sam Weslford and Elite Omnium World Champion Campbell Stewart.
While strong all tournament it was the final event of the championships, the Elite mens Maddison where Eather excelled.
The Maddison event sees teams of 2 ride an extremely draining and physical race over 160 laps of the velodrome, sprinting every 10 laps.
Many teams lose laps and fall by the wayside due to the intensity of racing.
At the Oceania Championships seven riders in the field were Elite World Champions in various endurance events.
Eather teamed up with NSW Institute of Sport Teammate Kai Chapman to contest the race.
Fifteen teams started the event with four teams unable to finish due to the speed of the race.
Three other teams managed to stay in the race but were lapped four times prior to the end.
Eather and Chapman, in their first outing, Anchor were able to stay on the lead lap with the world champion riders and managed to score points in the final sprint crossing the line as the fourth team home.