Bathurst Cycling Club juniors enjoy success at NSW Junior Road Championships

The Bathurst club sent five cyclists - Ebony Robinson, Sebastian and Jenna Gallagher, Cadel Lovett and Luke Tuckwell - to the small Riverina town of Wantabadgery for the championships, with three of them receiving at least one medal in their respective events.

Bathurst Cycling Club president Marian Renshaw said the five riders performed extremely well, considering the lack of preparation they had heading into the championships.

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"It's been very, very hard for them because they've hardly had any competition during the COVID stretch," she said.

"We had Cadel Lovett and Ebony Robinson competing in the under 15s, Luke Tuckwell in his second year of under 17s and Jenna Gallagher in the under 13s.

"Sebastian, he's only in under 9s at the moment, so he actually does participation racing, which they don't actually give medals for but he competed in the road race and time trial. He was well up the top."

Jenna Gallagher picked up a gold medal in her individual time trial and a silver in her road race, competing in the under 11 girls category.

Her brother Sebastian finished second in the road race in the participation category, but didn't receive a medal.

Robinson - who is in her first year competing in the under 15s category - finished eighth in both her individual time trial and road race events.

Cadel Lovett was unlucky not to get gold on the day, picking up silver in both the individual time trial and road race for the under 15 men's category.

Luke Tuckwell also missed out on a gold, finishing with a silver in the individual time trial in the under 17 men's category, while also finishing eighth in his road race.

Lovett and Robinson also competed with Orange cyclists Xavier Bland and Cameron Crump for the Western Region Academy of Sport in the under 15 divisional time trial.

The team finished with a bronze medal.

It was also announced that the previously planned National Junior Road Championship at Wagga Wagga later this year would not be going ahead.

That means that the weekend's event was the last major event for Bathurst's leading junior cyclists.

Moving forward, Renshaw believes the Bathurst club has a good crop of youngsters.

"All in all, they had a great time [at the state championships]," Renshaw said.

"We have a good crop of youngsters. Toireasa Gallagher has been doing the little juniors, like anything below 13s. She's been doing an excellent job.

"I coach the rest and they've been doing, really, really well."