TOLLAND Cycling Club products Rebel Brooker and Bronte Stewart continue to enhance their reputations after dominating at the state road championships at Gunning on the weekend.
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Still just 16, Stewart showed why she's one of the most highly regarded juniors in NSW after powering to victory in the under-19 time trial on Saturday, before repeating the dose in the road race on Sunday.
However, due to the fact she is still an under-17 rider she was unable to claim the titles with Brooker, 18, crowned the winner of both.
Brooker came home second in the road race and third in the time trial behind another under-17 rider in Sydney's Kiera Will.
It meant Brooker secured gold in all three state level events after also taking out the criterium event earlier this year.
The championships were held in cold, wet and windswept conditions, which Stewart has proven in the past she thrives in.
The Wagga schoolgirl won the state junior criterium championships in horrible conditions in August last year, just a fortnight after doing likewise at the Hunter Junior Tour's road race.
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She once again prevailed in the mentally taxing conditions, in particular on Sunday when she won the road race convincingly.
Brooker said she was happy to tick off the under-19 'triple crown' in her last year before she steps up to the under-23 division.
"My goal in the last year of 19s was to get all three gold medals at state events and I've done that, so that was pretty good," she said.
"It was cold, wet and windy, which changes the race. Some people like those conditions and others struggle, but I don't mind it. The wind was a battle, but it was the same for everyone.
"We all finished in single file (in road race), the conditions blew the field up."
Brooker is hopeful of getting more racing next ear after COVID put paid to her first year with National Road Series team Knights Racing.
The national titles at Ballarat in January is the next big event on her agenda.
"This was supposed to be my first year but we didn't get to have one race. Hopefully we will have some more luck this year," she said.
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