Storer Selected for Junior Road World Championships

Published On: 15 July 2014

Michael Storer's successful month has been crowned with selection onto the Australian Junior U19 team for the UCI Road World Championships in September

Western Australian Institute of Sport cyclist Michael Storer has been named on the Australian team for the 2014 UCI Junior Road World Championships in Ponferrada, Spain.

Storer’s selection comes less than a fortnight after the North Perth resident claimed the national criterium title at the junior road championships in Canberra, in a year that has also seen the Midland Cycling Club member win an Oceania Championship in the junior road time trial.

September’s (21-28) World Titles, which also host U23 and senior events, will see Storer compete as a first year U19, creating an opportunity for the 17 year-old to gain valuable experience that will again see him eligible to compete in U19 junior ranks at next year’s world championships.

This means Storer will line up to race in an environment that will also include the world’s premier road talent, with names such as Cadel Evans, Tony Martin and Fabian Cancellara all potential combatants in the men’s senior elite events.

Storer also follows in the footsteps of several WAIS cycling products to have competed at junior world championship level, with names such as Cameron Meyer, Sarah Kent and Luke Durbridge all having made the grade to name but a few.

The Australian Junior team features a second West Australian, with Jai Hindley selected in the four-strong men’s squad, alongside Victorian Lucas Hamilton and Queenland’s James Thompson. The men will be joined by three selected riders in the women’s team, after Anna-Leeza Hull (NSW), Alexandra Manly (SA) and Macey Stewart (TAS) each earned nomination.

* Storer was interview on the West Coast Cycling show. You can find his interview below at 1:10

In other Cycling news, WAIS athlete Isabella King has won the elite women’s omnium at the Japan Track Cup.

After dominating day one, King faced stiffer competition from Japan’s Sakura Tsukagoshi across day two, who won both the 500 TT and flying lap time trials with King second in each.

Heading into the deciding points race, King closely marked any move that went and racked up points in eight of ten sprints to take the win with 219 points to Tsukagoshi ‘s 191, which also confirmed her overall omnium win in the process.