West Australian Luke Durbridge won the gold medal in the U19 time trial on day one of the 2009 UCI Junior Road World Championships in Moscow, Russia. The 18 year old covered the 25.8km individual road time trial course, over two laps of a circuit out and back from University Square, in a time of 32min52.23sec at and average speed of 47km/h.

"I'm absolutely stoked and I just can't take it in at the moment," said a delighted Durbridge after the medal ceremony. "I headed out really, really quick and was fastest in the first lap (by six seconds on Hansen) and then I died a little bit in the last lap but I managed to hold onto it.

The women's line up of newly crowned individual pursuit World Champion, Michaela Anderson, Megan Dunn and Melissa Hoskins clocked 3min28.363 to defeat Russia's Elena Lichmanova, Lidia Malakhov and Maria Mishina (3min32.487sec) in the 3km team pursuit final. The time of the Australian trio clipped three seconds off their qualifying time and topped the previous Australian record of 3min37.138sec set by the 2008 Australian women's team in South Africa at last year's Championships. Their time also lowered the world best time mark of 3min32sec ridden at the European Championships earlier this year. The World Record for the event, introduced last year, has not previously been credited but Australian team management have submitted the time to be listed as the first official World Record for the 3km women's team pursuit.

The Madison pair of Luke Durbridge and Alex Carver won their event in a nail biting final sprint. It was West Australian Durbridge's second gold medal of the week adding to the one he claimed last week in the road time trial and it came a day after he and his pursuit team mates missed out on gold after a crash marred their final ride against Russia.

"We've been working for this for a while and after the silver medal ride in the team pursuit we were that extra bit motivated," said Durbridge. "I went into the Madison feeling pretty relaxed before the start but when I got out there I got in race mode.

Junior Track World Championships

Gold

Women's Team Pursuit (Megan Dunn, Michaela Anderson, Melissa Hoskins - world record)
Men's Madison (Luke Durbridge, Alex Carver)
Women's Individual Pursuit (Michaela Anderson)

Silver

Men's Team Pursuit (Michael Hepburn, Luke Durbridge, Peter Loft, Dale Parker)

Junior Road World Championships

Gold

Men's Road Time Trial (Luke Durbridge)