Track Cycling World Championships 2010: Australia in bullion running

By Brendan Gallagher 1203PM GMT twenty-four March 2010

Flying path Australia will be one of GB"s greatest rivals in Copenhagen Photo EPA

Australia surfaced the medals list at last year"s World Championships in Pruszkow, Poland, with 10 in total, together with 4 of the competition"s nineteen gold. France were second and Britain third.

Here in Denmark, Anna Meares, who won Olympic china in the women"s sprint, and office prodigy Jack Bobridge spearhead a group that is seeking to indurate foundations that will concede them to set up quietly towards the London Games in 2012.

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Although the women"s 500m time hearing is no longer on the Olympic programme, Meares will foe the women"s opening eventuality this dusk seeking to win behind the pretension she lost last year to Lithuanian Simona Krupeckaite.

"Anna will be unequivocally rival and has finished a small unequivocally great times in precision in new days and weeks," pronounced scurry manager Gary West.

The men"s group scurry will give the likes of Scott Sunderland, Danny Ellis and Jason Niblett a possibility to shake up off the foe cobwebs, and have a glance of key rivals, forward of a small interesting match-ups after in the week.

Great Britain"s contingent of Jason Kenny, Ross Edgar and Sir Chris Hoy sojourn favourites, along with France, but the Australians will be well in the brew along with Germany, who have been consistently posting times next 44 seconds recently.

"The men"s group scurry is a small some-more severe but I was unequivocally speedy with Danny Ellis and his opening out of the embankment at precision today," combined West.

"Jason Niblett will float in second circle and Scott Sunderland in third and both those guys are in unequivocally great form at the moment."

In the men"s points race, Cameron Meyer will line up anticipating to urge his climax from last year and set upon an additional early blow for the Aussies.

Meanwhile, Bobridge"s strife with Taylor Phinney in the particular office should tomorrow should infer the foe of the championship.

Bobridge posted the fastest time ever by a supplement utilizing a required on all sides when he available a time of 4mins 14.427 seconds at the Australian nationals progressing this year, quicker than Bradley Wiggins has ever ridden in competition.

Bobridge"s team-mate, Rohan Dennis, additionally clocked an Australian jot down in Adelaide last month, usually to have Bobridge improved it mins later.

Both will competition the particular office on Thursday, and manager Ian McKenzie hinted that the fast lane conditions in Copenhagen will, similar to Adelaide, be gainful to a small clever performances.

"It"s a bit of a difficult one as to either they"ll go as fast but it would be unequivocally good if they do," pronounced McKenzie.

"The conditions were flattering most undiluted in Adelaide so that contributed to the universe category times, but carrying pronounced that the lane and conditions here appear flattering discerning and I think they"ll both be unequivocally competitive."