National sprint record holder Nathan Seddon (Otago) (Image credit: BikeNZ)
On Wednesday, two more national records were broken by New Zealand riders at the track national championships in Invercargill.
Auckland's Myron Simpson and Canterbury's Natasha Hansen broke the 200m record. Simpson recorded 10.878 seconds for the 200m qualifying event for the Under 19 category. The former record was held for the past five months by Eddie Dawkins with 10.997sec.
Hansen logged a 12.463 second time to set a new record in the women's Under 19 category. She defeated the previous record, which stood for eight years at 12.524 seconds.
