I just need to take my hat off to Tim Decker, who works bloody hard and the end result shows
BENDIGO cycling stars Glenn O'Shea and Braeden Dean have won silver and bronze respectively in the early days of the Cycling Australia track championships in Melbourne.
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Adelaide-based O'Shea teamed with Luke Davison, Mitchell Mulhern and Scott Sunderland in the teams pursuit final at Darebin's indoor velodrome.
Racing in the Budget Forklifts colours, O'Shea and his team-mates were beaten by the South Australian team of Alex Edmondson, Miles Scotson, Alex Porter and Callum Scotson.
The SA quartet was up on almost every time check and clocked a sub-four minute time of 3:59.331mins, more than three seconds faster than the Budget Forklifts line-up in 4:02.559.
"I think you always want to go sub four minutes, but we knuckled down and to be able to do that is really special,” said Edmondson who teamed with O'Shea to be third in last year's Bendigo International Madison.
“I just need to take my hat off to Tim Decker, who works bloody hard and the end result shows," said Edmondson.
Also based in Adelaide as Cycling Australia's track endurance coach, Decker has played a key role in the success of many of the country's best riders, including the Glasgow Commonwealth Games.
Decker and O'Shea are in the running for the 50th Bendigo Bank Bendigo Advertiser-Prime 7 Sports Star of the Year award.
Not all went to plan for Budget as Mulhern and Sunderland clipped wheels out of the starting gate and fell on the back straight.
O’Shea’s silver medal comes after being part of the previous four South Australian team pursuit wins at the track nationals.
“It’s fun coming up against a good mate [fellow TP world champion Alex Edmondson] which makes it a bit of a friendly rivalry and it probably pushed us a bit further,” said O’Shea.
Night one of the championships included a bronze medal for Dean in the team sprint.
The teenager from Maiden Gully teamed with Shane Perkins and Emerson Harwood clocked a time of 45.069 to be third in the medal race behind NSW and South Australia.
Dean achieved a time of 1:03.57 to be fourth in the 1000m time trial.