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New Zealand cyclists have scored wins in the United States and Europe.
Wanganui rider Catherine Cheatley won the CSC Invitational Classic in Arlington, Virginia this morning after she broke away with two other riders with 40km to go and won the sprint for first in front of a huge crowd
Cheatley, bronze medallist in the points race at last year's world track championship, is showing good form as she pushes for a place in New Zealand's Olympics road race lineup.
"I took a lot of motivation from my teammate Leigh Hobson taking third at the Montreal World Cup," Cheatley said.
"I was in a break earlier and I knew if it was hard and I was hurting that everyone else was hurting too.
"I had just come back from a break and I went on the attack straight after."
In Belgium, New Zealand's Olympics 4000m individual pursuit medal hope, Hayden Roulston beat a field of 180 riders to win the 175km Etienne de Wilde road race yesterday.
Roulston, from Ashburton, is in Europe with the rest of the national track team preparing for the Beijing Olympics in August.
In Montreal, New Zealand's top ranked women's road rider Joanne Kiesanowski finished 13th in the seventh round of the women's World Cup road series won by Germany's Judith Arndt yesterday.
- NZPA
