Strong Brings Home Silver For Southland

Southland’s Corbin Strong has picked up a silver medal for New Zealand on the second day of the UCI Track Cycling World Championships in Berlin.

Corbin forms part of the Vantage elite team, which came second to Denmark with a time of three minutes 49.712 seconds in the final. In the past 12 years, New Zealand has won a medal seven times.

Teammate Jordan Kerby said the team worked as hard as they could.

“We went into the final with the idea of racing this as fast as we could and what would be would be. We could only control how fast we can go. It is a great improvement and a great stepping stone towards Tokyo.”

Southlander Natasha Hansen also did the region proud, breaking her own national record in sprint qualifying with a time of 10.638. However, Natasha and teammate Olivia Podmore were beaten by Irena Starikova from Ukraine, and TIanshi Zhong from China in the first round.