Sarah Lee makes it a double at international track cycling meeting in Melbourne
Star Hong Kong rider claims the women’s keirin final from Australian Anna Meares to add to her sprint title at the event
Hong Kong’s Sarah Lee Wai-sze made it a double at the International Track Series in Australia when the star rider won the women’s keirin final in Melbourne on Thursday.
Her latest success at the International Cycling Union category one event came just a day after she outclassed Australian Stephanie Morton in a best-of-three sprint final, and this time the victim was another Australian top sprinter, Anna Meares, a three-time keirin world champion.
“The result has justified our intensive training in building up for the Rio Games,” said coach Shen Jinkang after watching Lee’s performance.
“But we still need to fix some of the problems we have identified during the competition and this will be carried out in the final stages of our Olympic preparation in China before we set off for Rio.”
The Melbourne grand prix event, which will continue on Saturday and Sunday, is Lee’s only racing opportunity before she leaves for the Rio Games.
Both Lee and Meares reached yesterday’s final after easy wins in the first and second rounds but Lee was simply unstoppable in the six-rider gold medal race, which also included rising Australian stars Rikki Belder and Caitlin Ward, Malaysia’s Fatehah Mustapa and Shannon McCurley of Ireland.