Games - New Zealand's Webster defends sprint gold


Track Cycling - Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games - Men's Sprint Medal Ceremony - Anna Meares Velodrome - Gold Coast, Australia - April 7, 2018. Sam Webster of New Zealand celebrates winning a gold medal. REUTERS/Paul Childs

GOLD COAST, Australia (Reuters) - Four years after felling English giant Jason Kenny in Glasgow, New Zealand's Sam Webster conquered the Commonwealth again to defend his sprint gold in style at the Gold Coast Games on Saturday.

Auckland ace Webster took three sprints to stun Mancunian maestro Kenny in the nerve-shredding 2014 final but needed only two to despatch Jack Carlin, the Scottish world silver medallist, at the Anna Meares Velodrome.

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