Ireland's Kelvin Batey is flying high at the BMX world championships in Rotterdam; where he has now taken silver and gold.
By Gerard Cromwell
Ireland's Kelvin Batey got his world BMX Championships off to a great start with a silver medal in the masters title race on Wednesday.
But the 33-year-old Rotherham based PE teacher went one better today, taking a gold medal and the world title in the cruiser race.
Batey bombed along the track, opening a considerable led before the second berm and eventually beating South Africa's Tyrone Johns and Simon Homan of Great Britain to the world title.
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"It's really amazing to have finished second in the masters class and then to come back and win another world title on the cruisers," said Batey afterwards.
"This for my friend Dominic Skidmore back home and all the people in Ireland. It's brilliant for Ireland."
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