Bendigo's cycling champion Glenn O'Shea and Adelaide's Jack Bobridge were runners-up in Saturday night's duel for the Australian Madison at Melbourne's Hisense Arena.
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Some of the world's biggest names in track cycling could not halt the charge of New South Wales team-mates Jackson Law and Nick Yallouris to win gold.
Several world champions were in the 200-lap showdown.
Law and Yallouris won the first three intermediate sprints before O'Shea and Bobridge made a late charge to be within four points.
Daniel Fitter and Miles Scotson held the race lead for a short time after lapping the field.
Law and Yallouris struck back with a lap of their own to be back in the race lead on points.
At 54 laps to go, Bobridge and O’Shea also gained a lap on the field to a huge roar from the crowd.
But it was to the NSW pairing who would fight on for a memorable victory.
Yallouris won his first national title against a field that include reigning world champions Miles Scotson and Alex Edmondson, and Olympians Leigh Howard and Cameron Meyer.
The Law-Yallouris team was only finalised five days before the race after Law's brother Scott was scratch because of illness.
Earlier in the night, South Australia's Annette Edmondson and Jessica Mundy celebrated back-to-back women's madison crowns.
The all-SA team had a great battle with Tasmania's Macey Stewart and Georgia Baker.
A crowd of 4000 witnessed a superb night of track racing, which included the 117th Austral Wheelrace, tne women's Austral, and category one sprints.
In the 117th Austral Wheelrace, Zach Williams from New Zealand won the men's final.
Queensland's Brooke Tucker won the women's Austral.
Edmondson and Mundy won three of the five intermediate sprints.
Omnium national champion Ashlee Ankudinoff teamed with Imogen Jelbart from Bendigo to be third.
The women's madison included Bendigo's Tayla Evans teamed with Welsh cyclist Hayley Jones.
The men's sprint and keirin finals were won by Matthew Glaetzer.
Anna Meares wowed the crowd with victory in the sprint ahead of Rikkie Belder, while it was a role reversal in the keirin with a photo finish awarding young-gun Belder the win.