On the first night at the Anna Meares Velodrome, the New Zealand team finished with two silver medals, a bronze and a fourth from its four team finals.
The men’s and women’s team sprinters finished sixth and seventh respectively.
On Saturday night, Aaron Gate enjoyed a blast from the past with a dominant victory in the omnium event.
It made three straight World Cup wins for the New Zealand team in the four-discipline Olympic event after world champion Campbell Stewart triumphed in Hong Kong and Cambridge.
Gate made a hot start, finishing second behind Japan’s Eiya Hashimoto in the 10km scratch race after the leading three riders broke clear. It was a similar pattern in the 10km tempo race, where one point is awarded for each lap leader. Gate was among four riders to put a lap on the field to gain 20 bonus points.
He went out early in the elimination race and dominated the points race.
Gate dominated from the get-go, gaining points from the first six sprints including a win and four second placings.
Gate also took up the chase of nine-time world champion Cameron Meyer, from Australia, and in doing so, both riders gained the 20 points bonus for lapping the rest of the field.
Challengers were spent from Gate’s fierce attacks over the first half of the 25km race to mount any further serious attacks.
Gate finished by winning the points race to tally 134 points overall.
On Friday, the women’s team pursuit twice went under its old national record before being edged out by a mere 0.3 seconds to world champion Australia in the 4000m final.
It was a similar position for the men’s pursuit team with Corbin Strong and Tom Sexton coming into the squad in Brisbane to join Stewart, Jordan Kerby and Regan Gough.
The team was only one second outside the national record in qualifying second-fastest in 3min 51.153sec, 1sec behind host Australia.
However the Kiwis smashed their New Zealand record with a stunning 3min 48.244sec performance in the first round, the fastest ride of the competition, and only 0.2sec outside the world record to earn a place in the gold medal ride against Australia.
The New Zealand team was even faster through the 2000m point in the final but the effort took a toll, dropping off the pace in the final four laps.
The men’s team sprint blooded Auckland’s Sam Dakin as Eddie Dawkins was spelled after a demanding workload.
The team qualified fastest with a 43.221sec effort, with Dakin moving to second wheel ahead of Webster in the first round where its 43.311sec showing earned a bronze-medal ride against Olympic champion Great Britain.
New Zealand rallied with a 43.406sec time to beat Great Britain for the bronze medal, with Japan edging Poland for the gold medal in 42.912sec.
