
Although over a second off the world record time of 3:51.659 (set by team GB in 2012), last night’s Gold medal winning time of 3:52.727 was not far off the mark and suggests that this year’s Rio Olympics are going to be next level.
The Inaugural Anzac Day Omnium, the inception of Brunswick rider Jordan Thomas, was set to be a big night with what promised to be high quality fields racing over endurance distances. In the elite women’s field, seventeen riders took to the boards, and what ensued was nothing short of hotly contested endurance track racing.