The youthful cycling combination of Tom Scully and Shane Archbold upset their more fancied rivals to take out the RaboPlus New Zealand Madison Championship at the ILT Velodrome in Invercargill tonight. The pair took full advantage of the expert tuition they have received in a special BikeNZ training camp this week, run by former World and Olympic Madison champion Brett Aitken from Australia.
They beat off the challenges from the Beijing Olympic medallists Marc Ryan and Wes Gough who were second with Jesse Sergent and Sam Bewley third. Scully and Archbold started superbly by winning three of the first four sprints and then positioned themselves well to counter the attacks from Ryan and Gough especially over the last 30 laps.
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| # | Rider Name (Country) Team | Result | Header Cell - Column 3 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tom Scully (Invercargill)/Shane Archbold (Timaru) | 27 | pts |
| 2 | Wes Gough (Waipukurau)/Marc Ryan (Timaru) | 27 | Row 1 - Cell 3 |
| 3 | Sam Bewley (Rotorua)/Jesse Sergent (Feilding) | 14 | Row 2 - Cell 3 |
| 4 | Shem Rodger (Cambridge)/Jason Christie (Ashburton) | 14 | Row 3 - Cell 3 |
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