Alison Shanks will ride off for the gold medal on the final night of the UCI Track Cycling World Championships in Melbourne.

And so it ends. Five days of incredible competition, endless conversations with teams event organisers, volunteers and officials drew to a close today at Melbourne's Hisense Arena. This week has provided a huge amount of information and ideas which we can utilise immediately for our upcoming hosting of Junior Worlds, but also further develop across all of the events we at Cycling Southland deliver during the year.

Hawkes Bay rider Westley Gough had the weight of a nation on his shoulders to stop an Australian clean sweep in the individual pursuit at the UCI Track Cycling World Championships in Melbourne tonight.