Golden haul for McCulloch in Adelaide

Kaarle McCulloch had a standout championships (Photo: CC)

Sydney's Kaarle McCulloch set a 500m time trial Championship record and personal best time to win her fourth gold medal of the week at the Australian Track Championships at Adelaide's Super-Drome.

The 22 year old posted a time of 34.208 seconds to clip three tenths of a second off the previous mark of 34.5423sec set by Anna Meares at the Championships in 2007.

The time also shaved three hundredths of a second of McCulloch's personal best. It's the second Championship record for McCulloch who qualified fastest in the sprint in a record time over the flying 200m distance.

McCulloch also leaves Adelaide with the sprint, keirin and team sprint titles.

"Considering I trained yesterday as well I've had seven days straight on the track and my legs were a little tired this morning so to come out and do a personal best and a Championship record is very satisfying," said McCulloch.

"I was a bit surprised actually as I wasn't expecting too much out of my legs based on my form in Beijing so to come out and do PB's in both timed events has really given me confidence."

In the men's kilometre time trial Victorian Joel Leonard was the only rider to crack 1min03sec posting a time of 1min02.900sec to win the gold medal.

South Australia's James Glasspool claimed silver in 1min03.488sec and Woollongong's Scott Law, who last night won the scratch race, clocked 1min04.246sec to finish in third place.

"I was looking to do a good time somewhere in the 1.02's and I did a high 1.02 but it got me a gold medal," said Leonard who won the same event in 2008. "I had a reasonable year this year but to step up after a few injuries and come home with the title is great.

"It's also nice to come out and win today after missing a medal last night in a reasonably rough keirin."

The omnium competition, in which riders must contest five events for the medal, delivered some exciting action in the final day of competition.

First year senior rider, Michael Hepburn, upstaged local hero Jack Bobridge to win the men's omnium by a one point margin.

Hepburn won the 5km scratch race and 3km pursuit and was second in the 15km points race. He was third in both the flying 200m and kilometre time trial to finish on 10 points.

Bobridge meantime won the points race and was second in every other event except the flying 200m where he placed fourth.

"I'm over the moon with this win," said Hepburn. I've been feeling a little flat the last couple of weeks and I sat out the scratch race last night to focus on this omnium."

The bronze medal was won by Woollongong rider Scott Law who finished on 18 points.

In the women's omnium, riders contested five events (500m time trial, flying 200m time trial, 5km scratch race, 2km pursuit and 10km points race) and it was Sydney's Ashlee Ankudinoff who ended the event with the lowest cumulative points total of 11 to defeat reigning World Champion Josephine Tomic from West Australia who amassed 14 points.

Ankudinoff won the 200m, 500m and pursuit and was second in the scratch race. She dropped to sixth in the points race but her lead was enough to secure the gold medal. WA's Sarah Kent claimed the bronze medal with 19 points.

"I went into the points race knowing I had to finish no more than four places behind Josie to secure it and my plan was just to stick with her," said Ankudinoff who was the silver medallist in 2009.

"She went in an early break and I had to close it but doing the 2min22 in the pursuit set me up with a buffer which was good.