First Endurance - Australia - Sports Distribution

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We are pleased to announce the launch of a First Endurance and Garmin partnership for Australia.

First Endurance offers safe & legal products that are developed to work together, as a system, to help endurance athletes optimize their performance.

Garmin manufactures leading edge training and fitness products to further enhance our fitness range.

We believe the best way to test new prototypes is to get them in the hands of our athletes. We solicit constant feedback from our athletes and use this feedback to stay at the forefront of endurance performance.

First Endurance is proud to announce the availability of the Science in Sports range of products. From Energy Bars and Gels to Recovery drinks, SiS has it covered for the keen cyclist, runner or other sporting enthusiast.

Racing has changed forever !

Michael Hepburn rainbow jersey

Michael Hepburn after his record-breaking ride

Sponsored Athlete Michael Hepburn breaks world record en route to gold.

The Australian track program might have suffered defeat at the elite level in the past few years, but the junior riders have given the country new vigor at the Junior Track World Championships in Moscow this week.

Michael Hepburn broke the world record twice on his way to the win in the men's 3km individual pursuit. The teams female pursuiters began the championships by taking gold and silver in the women's individual pursuit on Tueday, and followed up with another gold in the women's team pursuit on Wednesday.

Hepburn smashed his previous world record, set at the Australian championships in February, to claim the rainbow jersey in the men's individual pursuit.

He set a new world record in the qualifying round of 3:15.743, bettering his previous mark which was set in the qualifying round at the Australian Championships in Adelaide in February.

"Coming into the Championships I was fairly confident, and training had been going close to perfect so I knew I had better form than in February," said Hepburn.

His qualifying time was more than a second faster than that of the second quickest qualifier, Russian Konstantin Kuperasov (3:17.172). Hepburn trimmed 0.157 seconds from his previous time to take the gold in the final with a 3:15.586, catching his Russian rival in the process.

"It was a bit of a surprise to go quicker in the final," said Hepburn. "Over the first kilometre it was pretty close and then I slowly started to build on it.

"Once I could see his back wheel in the same straight Tim (Coach Tim Dekker) just screamed at me to 'go get him' and I brought it home to catch him in the last lap," explained Hepburn. "I left everything I had on the track and just knowing as soon as I crossed the line that I had the rainbow jersey in my arms was pretty special and quite emotional."