There will be two new winners crowned at this year's Clarence Street Cyclery Cup on Saturday night with defending champions Kaarle McCulloch and Tom Cornish on national team duty.
It is Cycling NSW's big track event of the season with the NSW Para-cycling Championships to also be featured at the Dunc Gray Velodrome.
St George Cycling Club's McCulloch is in training for the Brisbane World Cup event next month while Sutherland sprinter Tom Cornish has just competed in the UCI World Cup in Glasgow as part of the Australian Cycling Team Podium Potential Academy.
Numerous world and continental champions will showcase their talents at the Bass Hill Velodrome where St George's para-cyclist Amanda Reid will don the rainbow bands in her pet event, the C2 500m time trial.
Reid is the reigning world champion and world record-holder in the discipline after she set a time of 39.505 seconds in the Netherlands this year. The NSW Para-cycling Championships will be a stepping stone towards next year's World Championships and Paralympics.
The carnival will also feature Masters world champions Keith Oliver from St George and Illawarra's Shane Dirks-Oliver. A longstanding legend of the sport, Dirks-Oliver took the world title in the 75+ points race this year.
Although Olympian and world champion McCulloch has withdrawn, up-and-coming NSW sprinters will go all out to light up the Dunc Gray Velodrome.
St George's John Trovas will be reunited with Victorian sprinter Sam Gallagher, who together won a team sprint silver medal at the junior world championships this year. Gallagher also won a worlds silver medal in the keirin. Joining them will be fellow Australian representatives and multiple national champions Ashlee Jones and Bill Simpson (Carnegie Caufield CC).
The 2019-20 Clarence Street Cyclery Cup takes place at Dunc Gray Velodrome, Bass Hill from 1pm on Saturday. Tickets available at the door.
