Seven riders from Scottish Cycling’s Performance Development programme and four of Scottish Cycling’s Future Stars competed alongside stars such as Laura Trott, Geraint Thomas and Katie Archibald in Round 4 of the leading track cycling series under the new team title of Scotland Burness Paull on Saturday.

Riding on home soil with a home crowd proved to be a winner for the Scottish riders who performed at their best – with many smashing their personal bests.

Robyn Stewart, 25, one of the sprinters gained a personal best in the Flying 200 with 11.85 – her original record had been 12.1, she also came 3^rd in the Longest Lap – showing off some nifty track standing skills.

Photo: Cameron King

Emma Baird and Ellie Richardson also matched and beat their personal bests respectively, credit to the strengthening training which has been a focus for the sprinters in the past couple of months.

Neah Evans had everyone on tenderhooks during the Elimination race, where she came 3^rd – pipped to the post by Olympic Champion Laura Trott, and triple European Champion Katie Archibald.

Phil Trodden and Ruari Yeoman didn’t let the men down and both received top ten places – Phil got 8^th in the Points, and they teamed up to get 5^th in the Team Elimination.

Photo: Gordon Goldie

The Hoy Future Stars didn’t go unnoticed either. Lewis Stewart won both the Scratch and the Points races – securing 1^st place on the podium. Rhona Callendar took 2^nd place overall, with Jenny Holl making sure both Scots took a top ten with 6^th place.

There were also Scots competing in other teams on Saturday night. Angus Claxton teamed up with Andy Tennant for Team Pedalsure – their 4^th place in the Team Elimination helped to keep the team near the top of the table.

Andy Brown, cycling for Team USN, got 6^th place in the Team Elimination.

Scottish Cycling work with over 60 athletes across a Performance Pathway designed to support riders to achieve selection on to British Cycling Performance Programmes as well as looking forward to the Commonwealth Games in the Gold Coast in 2018. Our long term objective is to develop Scottish riders into World Class Professionals in all disciplines and we recognise that achieving selection onto the GB Cycling Team programme is a step towards achieving that goal for many riders.

Photo: Cameron King

Gary Coltman, Head of Performance for Scottish Cycling says that these opportunities have a huge impact on the development of the Performance Squad:

“With the Commonwealth Games only taking place every four years, it is important that we can provide additional opportunities for riders to represent Scotland at major events.  The Revolution Series provides an extremely high level, inspirational opportunity for both our senior riders but also the next generation of future stars.  Our new partnership with Burness Paull is significant in enabling and supporting our participation in what is becoming a very important series to our long term goals including further Commonwealth Games success”.

Scotland Burness Paull

Robyn Stewart

Emma Baird

Rebecca Dornan

Ellie Richardson

Neah Evans

Ruari Yeoman

Phil Trodden

Future Stars

Jenny Holl

Rhona Callander

Lewis Stewart

Joe Nally

Full results from the weekends Revolution Round 4 can be found here.