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Victoria’s Shane Perkins (Carngie Caulfield CC) collected his fourth gold medal after riding a blistering individual time trial to claim his fourth gold medal of the Championships. He had already claimed gold in the team sprint, sprint and keirin at the event and today Perkins averaged 58.31km/hour to record 1min1.736secs, shattering Shane Kelly’s 2004 Australian Championship record of 1min02.832sec by more than a second.

“I came into the week really wanting to have a good run through the sprint and hopefully do a good time there,” said Perkins. “I don’t really train for the kilo, I trained for the sprint, but I guess training these days enables you to ride the kilo, so why not have a crack.

“I wasn’t expecting that (time), was hoping to go better than the Victorian titles 1:2 dead, so I am very, very pleased to come off with that time."

Perkins’ teammate and defending champion Joel Leonard took the silver medal (1min03.020sec), with West Australia’s Scott Sunderland (1min03.137sec) in third place.

South Australia’s Annette Edmondson successfully defended her U19 time trial crown, to win her third gold medal of the week in the process.  Edmondson's time of 36.530sec was more than a second faster than the time of West Australia’s Holly Williams who recorded 37.679sec. Blackburn's Naomi Pinto claimed her second medal of the championships taking bronze in 37.793sec.

In the mens U19 kilometre time trial final South Australia’s Jamie Glasspool won gold in 1min4.793secs, just under a second outside the All Comers record he set at the Australian Youth Olympic Festival last month. Queensland’s Michael Hepburn, who set a World Record on the way to winning the individual pursuit earlier in the week, collected the silver medal in a time of 1min06.888sec with Victorian triple gold medallist Maddison Hammond (Northcote CC) claiming bronze in a time of 1min6.908sec.

Concluding the championships was the omnium which is the 'ironman' of track cycling events with competitors contesting five events in one day of racing. Points are awarded for their placing in each of the events with the rider amassing the lowest tally claiming the win.

New South Wales' Richard Lang claimed his first Australian title taking out the elite men's omnium. Lang placed third in the kilometre time trial and flying 200m, first in the scratch race and second in the individual pursuit, to carry a three point advantage over Victorians Trevor Griffiths (Shepparton CC) and James Langedyk (Geelong CC) heading into the final points race.

Despite numerous attempts by the Victorian duo to take a lap on the field Lang maintained his composure and his form to finish in second place for a final tally of 11 points.

Langedyk claimed the silver medal with 15 points, edging out his team mate Griffiths who took home the bronze medal with 16 points.

The 'Robina Joy Trophy', awarded to the most successful state based on placings in men's events, was claimed by Victoria.

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