World champion Matthew Glaetzer won the men's sprint event on the penultimate day of the Oceania Track Cycling Championships in Adelaide in Australia ©Kevin Anderson/Chameleon Photography

Commonwealth Games gold medallists Matthew Glaetzer and Stephanie Morton delighted the home crowd with winning performances on the penultimate day of the Oceania Track Cycling Championships in Adelaide in Australia.

World champion Glaetzer raced his way to a fifth career Oceania men's sprint crown by beating compatriot Nathan Hart in the final at the Adelaide Super-Drome.

He had earlier set a blistering time of 9.725sec to top qualifying before dispatching New Zealand’s Jackson Ogle in the eighth final.

Glaetzer then proved too quick for defending champion Sam Webster of New Zealand, the only other rider to stand on the top step of the podium in the last eight Championships, before booking a spot in the final over another Kiwi, Edward Dawkins.

"I have messed it up the last couple of years, so I am really glad to get it back," he said.

"It is an important title for us with good points and now Olympic qualifying has begun it is really important for us."

Commenting on racing in the rainbow jersey in front of a home crowd, Glaetzer added: "It was a bit of added pressure.

"That was good for me like to pile the pressure on ahead of international racing. 

"The crowd was great tonight.

"It is special as we haven't had an Aussie sprint world champion for a number of years so I am honoured I can put the bands on and show it off to the crowd with some good racing."

The race for bronze went to a decider with Jacob Schmid making it an Australian one-two-three finish after a closely-fought battle with Dawkins.

Morton, meanwhile, reigned supreme in the women’s keirin to claim a fifth title in the event in dominating fashion.

Australia's Stephanie Morton took the women's keirin gold medal ©Kevin Anderson/Chameleon Photography
Australia's Stephanie Morton took the women's keirin gold medal ©Kevin Anderson/Chameleon Photography

The 27-year-old put several bike lengths in to the field as she crossed the line ahead of New Zealand's rising star Olivia Podmore, the under-19 champion from 2014.

New Zealand’s Natasha Hansen, the 2012 champion, completed the podium.

"It was a tough one, but it was good with a real quality field out there," Morton said.

"It is pretty cool the Oceanias are here in Adelaide - we are getting such a strong women's field so I was really happy to come away with the win."

It was a battle of the rising stars in the men's individual pursuit with 2018 bronze medallist Conor Leahy claiming the biggest win of his career.

The Australian stopped the clock in 4:18.872, catching his compatriot Lucas Plapp, the silver medallist, on the way.

Plapp, who claimed two junior world titles in Swiss town Aigle in August and silver in the time trial at the International Cycling Union Road World Championships in Innsbruck in Austria last month, made his first trip to the podium as an elite rider.

Australia’s Ben Harvey completed the podium.

In the four-event women’s omnium competition, Australia’s Georgia Baker was too strong throughout with the 2016 champion winning the scratch, tempo and elimination races to go into the points race with the maximum 120 points - 16 clear of her closest rivals.

Making her status as race leader known, she quickly added to her total in the first sprint before monitoring the race closely for the remaining 70 laps.

Despite attempts to unseat her from the top of the standings, Baker's speed proved too much to finish on 131 points.

An all-Australian podium was completed by Annette Edmondson with 117 points and three-time gold medallist Ashlee Ankudinoff with 115.