Sprinters Leigh Hoffman and Alessia McCaig have underlined their status as Australia's top track cycling speedsters after successfully defending their sprint titles at the national championships in Brisbane.
Fresh from setting the fastest flying lap ever seen in an Australian velodrome in 9.321 seconds the previous day, South Australian Hoffman roared to victory in the men's race on Thursday, defeating Tayte Ryan comfortably to annex his seventh national track title.
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It had been particularly satisfying for the 25-year-old Hoffman to grab back the all-comers record at the Anna Meares Velodrome with his searing lap on Wednesday as the landmark had been set just over a fortnight earlier by Matt Richardson, the former Aussie star now competing for GB, at the Perth World Cup event.
"After the World Cup in Perth, I was recovering and trying to reset for this week," Hoffman said.
"I'm pretty stoked with the all-comers record set in Australia, it was good to rub Richo's record out.
"Now I have the Oceania and the National Championship record. Hopefully, this season, we can get some more records."
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McCaig, who also set a national championship record in qualifying with her 10.644sec lap, went on to claim her third consecutive title and her ninth national crown in all by defeating Queensland's Deneaka Blinco in the final.
Sealing a week in which she'd also won in the keirin, 500m time trial and team sprint, the 22-year-old from Bendigo reflected: "Really stoked to get that done, there is a lot of depth in the field at the moment, it really is incredible."
Eighteen-year-old Queensland prospect Neve Parslow, who claimed the road race and time trial junior national championship double in Perth earlier this year, showed why she's clearly a star of the future as she dominated the elimination final.
