Southland's Eddie Dawkins has won the sprint final at the Grand Prix track cycling meet in Valencia, Spain.
All four riders of the BikeNZ sprint team qualifying for the elimination sprint rounds.
Fellow Invercargill rider Matt Archibald was fastest of the Kiwis in qualifying in fifth place (10.29s), with Dawkins sixth (10.35s), Sam Webster seventh (10.36s) and Ethan Mitchell ninth (10.51s).
Germany's Robert Fosterman was fastest in 10.182s, just 1/1000th of a second ahead of French Olympic medallist Michael D'Almeida.
All four Kiwis won their first round rides to progress to the quarterfinals, where Dawkins edged out Archibald in two close rides, Webster lost in the third race decider to Spain's Juan Peralta and Mitchell lost to D'Almeida in two straight rides.
Dawkins continued on his roll, winning the semifinal and going on to beat D'Almeida in the final,
The BikeNZ team will race in the keirin tomorrow.
