Meyer to have dip at double
Eight-time world champion Cameron Meyer says there is no reason he can’t have his cake and eat it too after earning selection in both the track and road teams for April’s Commonwealth Games.
Meyer (pictured) won three golds on the track at the 2010 Games the last time he competed in both disciplines.
Part of a 36-strong cycling squad, the 30-year-old from Perth will take his place in the road race on the Gold Coast and is confident of at least winning a spot in the points race at Brisbane’s Anna Meares Velodrome.
Reigning team pursuit world champions Samuel Welsford, Kelland O’Brien, Alexander Porter and Nicholas Yallouris plus individual pursuit world champion Jordan
Kerby and returning three-time world champion Leigh Howard round out a strong track endurance team.
“I’ll be busy but I’m ready. I did both in 2010 and it’s a hard mix but having done the World Tour on the road I know I can handle the workload,” Meyer said.
“It’s a good team, good mix with these young world champions emerging and guys like (2006 Commonwealth Games road race gold medallist) Mat Hayman there who won years ago.”
Track stars Stephanie Morton, Matthew Glaetzer and Annette Edmondson will defend their respective titles while 16 riders will make Commonwealth Games debuts as selectors eye success at Tokyo’s 2020 Games.
Reigning road national champion Shannon Malseed, triple world championship medallist Katrin Garfoot and Chloe Hosking headline the women’s road team, with Hosking set to become just the third Australian female cyclist to compete in three Games.
Bronze medallists in 2014, dual Olympians and mountain-biking power couple Daniel and Rebecca McConnell will contest the cross-country competition.