The team of New Zealand with Racquel Sheath, Rushlee Buchanan, Kirstie James and Jaime Nielsen competes in the Women's Team Pursuit Finals during the successful 2017 UCI World Cycling in Hong Kong. The haul of five medals matched the previous best established at Melbourne in 2012 and Cali, Colombia two years later, although the key about the Hong Kong return is all five were won in Olympic events. Matheson, doubling as acting high performance boss, said the squad's brains trust had an inkling the return would be impressive. From there, it's a case of aiming up in the next three years building to the Tokyo Olympics in 2020. "That's really important, to strength our squad for 2020 but also get a head start on the 2024 programme."

Source: Otago Daily Times April 18, 2017 03:22 UTC