9.20pm: Sam Welsford scored a brilliant win in the Bill mcLachlan Memorial 20 laps sratch race.
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Welsford defeated Leigh Howard and Josh Harrison after his Aussie track squad member Jordan Kerby had broken away with 4 laps to go.
8.58pm: VIS riders Sam de Ritter and Ruby Roseman Gannon scored a stunning win in the women’s madison.
de Ritter and Roseman Gannon led Chile’s Catalina Soto and Victoria’s Emma Pane by just 1 point heading into the final sprint.
Soto and Pane looked set to grab enough points to clinch victory when de Ritter and Roseman Gannon lost contact with the lead group inside the final lap of the race.
However, Roseman Gannon dug deep and produced a superb final 200m to reel in Soto and Pane and grab 3rd place in the final sprint.
That was enough for them to clinch victory.
Fellow Victorians Ashley Jones and Alice Culling finished third.
8.51pm: Race on with 5 laps to go.
Soto, 16, wins second-last sprint and the leaders could only finish 4th.
Gannon and de Ritter lead by just 1 point from Soto and Pane with 1 sprint remaining.
8.48pm: Soto and Pane win third-last sprint but Gannon and de Ritter right behind them in second.
Gannon and de Ritter on 19 points ahead of Soto and Pane on 14 with 10 to go.
8.45pm: The young Vics Roseman Gannon and de Ritter back on top after winning next sprint.
They’ve powered away from rivals to lead by 100m on track.
Gannon and de Ritter 16 pts
Hargreaves and Plouffe 12
Jones and Culling 11
8.43pm: The Kiwi team of Shearman and Shields win the next sprint.
Leaderboard with 15 to go:
Hargreaves and Plouffe 12
Roseman Gannon and de Ritter 11
Jones and Culling 9
Soto and Pane 8
Evans and McKinnery down a lap.
8.42pm: Evans and McKinnery half a lap behind the leaders and in big trouble.
8.40pm: breakaway closed down.
With 25 laps to go the leaderboard is:
Evans and McKinnery 12 pts
Hargreaves and Plouffe 10 ptS
Roseman Gannon and De Ritter 10 pts
8.37pm: 30 laps to go in the women’s madison.
The Victorian team of Ruby Roseman Gannon and Sam de Ritter are attempting a breakaway.
They grabbed the last sprint to move to 10 points – one behind Evans and McKinnery.
8.30pm: Bendigo’s Tayla Evans off to a flying start in the women’s Madison.
Evans and team-mate Dani McKinnery, from SA, won the first 2 sprints of the race to grab the lead after 10 laps.
8.15pm: Gutsy win by Tasmania’s Laura Downie in the Black Pearl 400m final.
Career-best win for Downie in her second attempt at the Bendigo carnival.
Downie ran a time of 53.788 seconds to defeat Meg Deana and Kayla Lemm.
8.05pm: Getting ready for the feature athletics event of the night – the women’s Black Pearl 400m final. $3500 to the winner – good coin.
7.55pm: The “Comeback Kid” Zac Gilmore a popular winner of the Gold and Opal Wheelrace final.
The Tasmanian teenager, who recently finished his second bout of chemotherapy, held off a high quality field to win the 2000m final.
Backmarker Sam Welsford was left with too much to do from 20m behind scratch and finished unplaced.
7.45pm: Getting ready for the final of the Gold and Opal Wheelrace. The women’s madison scheduled to start at 8.30pm.
7.34pm: Wow. Brilliant ride. Sam Welsford comes from 15m behind scratch to win his heat of the Golden Mile in sensational style.
Kell O’Brien, Leigh Howard, Nick Yallouris, Cam Scott, Josh Harrison also through to the final.
Sunday night’s final will be sensational as Welsford attempts to become the first rider to win the race three years in a row.
Bendigo’s Emerson Julian won his heat impressively off a handicap of 170m and will be a podium chance tomorrow night.
7.20pm: History made in the heats of the Golden Mile. Emma Pane, Bree Hargreave and Ashlee Jones the first women to qualify for the final of the $3000 Golden Mile Wheelrace.
7.08pm: Six heats now of one of the feature events of the weekend – the Golden Mile Wheelrace. First 3 in each heat through to Sunday night’s final. Action will be fast and furious.
7.03pm: Super run by Bendigo’s Lonain Burnett in heat 4 of the Black Opal. Finished a close-up 2nd and should make the final.
7pm: Glenn Stephens fifth in his Black Opal heat. Anxious wait now to see if that time is quick enough to make final.
6.55pm: Jake Hilson third in his Black Opal heat. Good run. Should be good enough to make tomorrow night’s final.
6.50pm: Time for the heats of the Black Opal 400m Local interest in heat one with Jake Hilson running off 10m.
Veteran Bendigo athlete Glenn Stephens in heat two off 40m.
Lonain Burnett in heat four off 22m.
6.35pm: The Gold and Opal Wheelrace later tonight should be a cracker. Most of the big guns through to the final.
None more impressive than Aussie track star Sam Welsford who made a mockery of his handicap to win his heat comfortably. welsford came from 20m behind scratch to win easily.
His Madison team-mate Kell O’Brien also super impressive in winning his heat off scratch.
Riders for the final: Sam Welsford (-20), Kell O’Brien (scratch), Nick Yallouris (scratch), Cameron Scott (15), Rohan Wight (35), Nick Stopler (40), Josh Harrison (40), Godfrey Slattery (40), Jensen Plowright (55), Graeme Frislie (70), Harry Waine (80), Tom McFarlane (90), Zac Gilmour (100), Brendan Schultz (105), Josh Duffy (120), Nick Simpson (125), Daniel Bucknell (150), Nick Abels (160), Mitchell Barrow (330), Finn Poxon (330).
6.15pm: Five heats of the Gold and Opal Wheelrace (2000m) to be held now. All the big guns for the Madison involved. First 4 in each heat through to the final later tonight.
6.10pm: Outstanding performance by Tiffany Bussem-Jorgensen to win the Richard Kitt Memorial 1500m.
Racing off a handicap of 25 seconds, Bussem-Jorgensen won clearly from Ross Douglas (15 seconds) and Isaac Everett (one minute and 35 seconds).
6pm: Hi folks. Welcome to the Tom Flood Sports Centre for night one of the Symes BMW Bendigo International Madison carnival.
It’s a warm evening in Bendigo and a good crowd is rolling in to watch a great night of athletics and cycling.
The highlight of tonight’s action is the women’s madison at 8.30pm.
Here’s a preview of what’s to come this weekend:
