Cycling Australia’s members of the budding Tokyo 2020 team are racing domestically in South Australia’s Super Series
Cam Scott and Georgia Baker are just two huge names from Australian cycling’s track team who will add spark the Super Series on Sunday.
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Budding Tokyo 2020 Olympian Georgia Baker bouncing back from heart surgery in 2017 is headlining a plethora of potential track cycling medal winners racing at Victoria Park on Sunday.
Baker and 2018 under 23 Australian criterium Cam Scott, 20, are just two huge names from Australia’s track cycling team that will leave the boards temporarily for the tarmac in round five of Cycling SA’s Super Series — the Vic Park XL Criterium.
Jarrad Drizners is this year’s under 23 Australian criterium champion.
Baker, 25, was diagnosed with supraventricular tachycardia — an abnormally fast heart rhythm — after losing her father Patrick to a heart attack.
“It’s heaps of fun I like it, it’s really exciting, short and sharp not too long and it’s always really fast and exciting to watch there’s alway a lot going on,’’ Baker said about the criterium.
“We have raced a few times here at Vic Park, I also raced last year in the Super Series but this is also the first time I’m racing in the new circuit.
“It’s different and an exciting circuit.”
“My goal for now is the Olympics and that’s heavily in our minds.
“At the moment we’re just training really hard, we’ve got the beginning of the track season and we’re training for the upcoming World Cups at the end of the year.
“We have one at Cambridge (New Zealand), Brisbane and in Glasgow in a couple of weeks time.”
Chloe Moran from Team Prochem and the Central Districts Cycling Club lead the elite women’s Super Series picking up 20 points on the Copper Coast last weekend.
She has 62 points, 24 ahead of Maeve Plouffe from Cycling Australia Academy and Port Adelaide Cycling Club and Amy Cure from Cycling Australia and Mersey Valley Devonport Cycling Club.
Drizners from Cycling Australia Academy and the Kilkenny Cycling Club is leading the men’s elite after a 20 point weekend in Moonta, 15 points ahead Tristan Saunders from Butterfields- Appselec p/b VDR and the Norwood Cycling Club.
Scott a criterium king, however, is going to give the Super Series leaders more than enough to think about at Victoria Park.
The Cycling Australia and St George Cycling Club gun is burning up to 600km per week in training as the track season approaches fast.
“It’s a different type of training everything helps and crit racing is short,” Scott said.
“The ones here are between 40 minutes and an hour which is pretty good for the track riders, you know the madison it’s 40 minutes but it’s very similar and high intensity in that environment.
“There’s a lot of crossover.”
“Most people are pretty much very good on the bike here in Adelaide and all the A-graders are very good at bike handling.”