It proved a battle of the kiwi world champion cyclists on day two of UCI Cambridge Grand Prix.
Campbell Stewart, the 2019 omnium world champion, won the final sprint to claim the Points race honours from his cycling New Zealand teammate Corbin Strong, who won the world championship in that discipline in 2020.
Stewart was in sublime form on the second day of the three-day UCI event which has attracted riders from 10 nations competing for valuable international ranking points at the Grassroots Trust Velodrome in Cambridge.
Strong took the early advantage with 12 points at the halfway mark, ahead of Scotland’s Mark Stewart on 11, George Jackson on nine and Campbell Stewart on 5, with both Stewarts and Strong putting a lap on the field to claim the 230 bonus points.
Campbell Stewart finished strongest, winning the penultimate sprint and the final double-points sprint to claim the honours by just two points from Strong with Mark Stewart a further three points back.
The WorldTour professional for Bike Exchange also won the Elimination race, where the last rider every second lap is eliminated, ahead of Jackson and Strong.
However, Jackson had his share of the spoils winning the scratch race from Campbell and Mark Stewart.
However Campbell Stewart signed off on an outstanding day, when he paired with fellow Commonwealth Games gold medallist Tom Sexton, winning the final two sprints to claim the honours in the two-rider Madison over 30kms from Strong and Mark Stewart with Jackson and Keegan Hornblow third.
Triple Commonwealth Games gold medallist, Ellesse Andrews, showed her class in sprint, topping the qualifiers in 10.842s ahead of Japan’s Riyu Ohta and teammate Olivia King, and went through without blemish, winning the final over Ohta in two-straight rides.
King claimed third in two rides for third over teammate Shaana Fulton.
Japan’s Kaiya Ota edged New Zealand’s Sam Dakin in the final of the keirin competition, with fellow kiwi teammate Callum Saunders third.
In Para-cycling action, world champions Devon Briggs (1:09.554) and Nicole Murray (38.306) prevailed in their respective C1-5 time trials.
The competition concludes on Sunday.