Anna Meares

So has Jack Bobridge - they are the only two though. The 14-strong Australian track team heading to London includes 12 making their Olympic debut. Only 28-year-old Meares and 22-year-old Bobridge have survived the cut from the Beijing Games. Meares, who ...  

Australian sprinter Anna Meares says she will draw on the enthusiasm of a young team in her attempt to beat GB rival Victoria Pendleton in London. Meares, 28, one of only two Olympians in Australia's track squad, is trying to win a medal at a ...  

The Australian Olympic Committee unveiled a 14-member cycling squad on Friday, with Meares and 22-year-old Jack Bobridge the only athletes with any experience at the Olympics. Meares, who became the first Australian female to win Olympic track gold in 2004 ...  

With the team all but selecting itself at April's world track cycling championships in Melbourne, teenager Alex Edmondson secured the only position in doubt, when he was named in the five-man endurance squad. Twelve cyclists will be making their Olympic ...  

Anna Meares says there is nothing like a Games to rock body and mind. Photo: Lee Besford A STAR player in the high times for Australian track cycling, Anna Meares was also there when the bubble burst at the Beijing Olympics. There have been plenty of ...  

IT was another world record, a 10th world championships gold medal, and perhaps for cycling queen Anna Meares an Australian farewell. Meares yesterday capped a bittersweet meet that contained sprint silver and team sprint gold with yet another triumph ...  

MELBOURNE: Australian star Anna Meares has smashed the world flying 200m record on day two of the track cycling world championships. Meares clocked 10.782 seconds on Thursday at Melbourne's Hisense Arena, easily breaking the old mark of 10.793 seconds.  

Inspired by Anna Meares's keirin triumph, fellow Queenslander Michael Hepburn upstaged Adelaide's Jack Bobridge in the 4000m individual pursuit final for an Australian quinella. And South Australian Annette Edmondson was pipped for gold by Briton Laura ...  

IF ANNA Meares was harbouring any disappointment at losing her world title in last night's Team Sprint with partner Kaarle McCulloch, she blew it all out of the water this morning with a world record in the individual sprint. The 28-year-old was the last ...  

Then in the gruelling 160-lap points race, Western Australia’s Cameron Meyer proved himself the ironman of the night. From the 16 sprints contained in the 40km race, Meyer won four from the field of 20 riders. He ended up beating Britain’s Ben Swift ...  

AUSTRALIA'S 3000m team pursuiters obliterated the world record - and held it for less than 20 minutes before it was snatched back by arch-rivals Great Britain. Annette Edmondson, Melissa Hoskins and Josie Tomic had no sooner taken residence in the cycling ...  

Anna Meares fought back from her bitter disappointment in the sprint to lead an Australian gold rush at the world track cycling championships. Meares dominated the keirin for her first gold medal at these titles. Cameron Meyer showed again why ...  

Hepburn qualified fastest earlier in the day and beat Bobridge by more than half a second. New Zealand's Westley Gough spoiled the home riders' hopes of an all-Australian podium by beating Rohan Dennis for the bronze. Anna Meares of Australia won a hard ...  

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP)—Britain’s Victoria Pendleton scraped through early qualifying Saturday to join rival and defending champion Anna Meares of Australia in the second round of the women’s keirin on day four of the world track cycling championships.  

MELBOURNE, April 8 (Reuters) - Australia's Anna Meares set a world record to win the 500 metres time trial title at the track cycling world championships in Melbourne on Sunday. Meares stormed around the Hisense Arena to post a time of 33.010 seconds and ...