The former Tour of Southland winner has been competing at the event to spice up his road training and he nabbed a bronze medal in the men’s individual pursuit.
He upgraded to gold with a winning ride in the men’s 30km points race on Friday. And then on Saturday he made a bold move with a long-range breakaway in the scratch race alongside Aucklander Aaron Wyllie.
Evans won the sprint between the pair to nab his second gold, while Harry Waine (Auckland) beat the chasing pack in the sprint for bronze.
Waikato-Bay of Plenty rider Ally Wollaston has been one of the stars as well.
The under-19 rider finished day four of racing at the SIT Velodrome by adding a silver in the team pursuit and gold in the scratch race to the national titles she had already won in the points race, omnium and individual pursuit.
"It’s been a good week. I’m very, very pleased. I came into it with pretty high expectations, so happy to come out of it achieving them," Wollaston said.
"I was hoping for a couple of medals. Before I came in I had my mind set on the [individual pursuit] and that turned out pretty well.
"I set a new PB in the qualifying time, but I was hoping for a faster time — still more time to get that."
Wollaston’s major focus this year is selection in the New Zealand team for the junior world track championships in Switzerland.
Older sister Nina has picked up two silver medals as the pilot rider for blind Southland athlete Hannah Pascoe on the tandem.
Canterbury dominated the team pursuit finals, claiming both the men’s and women’s titles with dominant rides in their respective finals.
Southland’s Nicole Marshall came from the back of the pack with a lap to go to win the under-19 women’s keirin.
Thomas Garbett (West Coast North Island) continued to make the under-19 sprint competition his own, adding the keirin title to the sprint and kilo gold medals he won earlier in the week.
Auckland’s Sam Dakin has been another standout.
The 21-year-old sprinter won the elite 1000m time trial, sprint and keirin.
"You couldn’t plan for much better really," Dakin said.
"I came here a year ago in pretty good nick and just completely underperformed, so to come back a year later and do the triple was a dream week."
This year’s championships have been notable for the missing cohort of New Zealand’s best riders, who are in the Netherlands for next week’s world championships.
However, the vacuum has been ably filled by young stagers like Dakin.
Waikato-Bay of Plenty’s Tess Young narrowly missed out completing a triple of women’s sprint wins in her former home town when she had to settle for second in the keirin.
