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Cyclists chasing even more medals on 3rd day of Birmingham action

Bryony Botha in action at the Commonwealth Games.

The New Zealand cycling team are hoping to add more medals on day three of their Commonwealth Games campaign in London with podium finishes in three events still on the cards on Monday morning.

Having amassed an impressive eight medals for New Zealand so far in the first two days of competition, the cycling team returned to Lee Valley VeloPark on Sunday evening entered in four more events.

George Jackson, Campbell Stewart and Corbin Strong will compete in the men's scratch race final on Monday morning after making it through qualifying.

Strong and Stewart finished 4th and 5th respectively in their heat while Jackson qualified after getting tied up in a horror crash in the other heat which saw a cyclist go over the wall and into the crowd, stopping the session.

Earlier, Sam Dakin, Sam Webster and Callum Saunders were up first for New Zealand on day three in the men's individual sprint.

With 16 of the 27 entries advancing, Dakin and Webster managed to qualify through to the next round while Saunders was the unlucky 17th fastest in qualifying.

However that was as far as the pair got, with Webster going down to men's keirin champion Nicholas Paul from Trinidad and Tobago in his round of 16 fixture while Dakin was eliminated by Malaysia's Shah Sahrom.

Along with the men's scratch race trio, Michaela Drummond, Emily Shearman and individual pursuit champion Bryony Botha will chase medals in the women's points race before Rebecca Petch rounds out the day in the 500m time trial.

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