Otago rising track star Joshua Grieve is heading to the Netherlands.
The national omnium champion was announced as part of a 10-strong team selected for the UCI junior track world championships in August.
The 17-year-old is part of the new-look team in which only sprinters Alex Schuler, of Cambridge, and Riley Faulkner, of Southland, return from last year.
Schuler, 18, who is the national junior spring and keirin champion, will be joined by Ben Murphy (Cambridge) and Flynn Underwood (Hamilton) in the men’s team sprint, after the combination won the Oceania Championship title recently.
Faulkner, who is the national sprint champion, was part of the team that won silver last year.
She is joined by Canterbury trio Sophie Maxwell, 17, Shaylah Sayers and Jesse Thomson, both 16.
Sayers won the national junior titles in omnium, points and scratch races and was runner-up in the scratch race at the Oceania Championships.
Maxwell won the national junior individual pursuit and was runner-up in the omnium, points and elimination, where she also finished second in the Oceania Championships, while Thomson was a medallist in the individual pursuit and scratch race.
The male endurance riders comprise the Auckland pair of Hunter Dalton, the elimination national champion, and the highly promising 16-year-old in David Kwon, who was runner-up in the national championships in omnium, points and elimination. — APL
