Rebecca Petch

EVENT: Cycling – Women's Track: Team Sprint, Indiv Sprint, 500m Time Trial, Keirin

Te Awamutu rider Rebecca Petch is mixing her passion for BMX and a new-found success in track cycling. She won numerous world championship age medals in BMX, and reached the semifinals at the Tokyo Olympics, before trying track riding.

She adapted quickly, breaking the national record in her first attempt at the standing one-lap, and has achieved world-class times as the starter in the women's sprint group that broke the national and Oceania record.

At the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games Petch won gold alongside her teammates in the women's team sprint.