Cycling proved New Zealand’s most productive sport at Glasgow 2014 as the country ended with 15 medals - six gold, four silver and five bronze.

Sam Webster, Ethan Mitchell and Eddie Dawkins will hope to defend their men’s team sprint title at the Games, due to take place between April 4 and 15. 

Webster also earned individual sprint gold and keirin silver at Glasgow 2014. 

Bradly Knipe and Zac Williams have also been included in the sprint team for the Gold Coast 2018 and Regan Gough, Jared Gray, Dylan Kennett, Nick Kergozou, Tom Sexton and Campbell Stewart are part of the men’s endurance squad on the track.

Sprinters Emma Cumming, Natasha Hansen and Olivia Podmore have been included in the women’s track squad, along with endurance riders Ellesse Andrews, Bryony Botha, Rushlee Buchanan, Michaela Drummond, Kirstie James and Racquel Sheath.

Hopes of success on the road will also be high, with Linda Villumsen hoping to defend the women’s time trial gold she earned at Glasgow 2014.

The 2015 world champion also claimed a silver medal in the discipline at the Delhi 2010 Commonwealth Games.

Her counterpart in the men’s time trial comes from a different background, with two-time Olympic and eight-time world rowing champion Hamish Bond included as the representative.

Bond competed at the World Road Cycling Championships in the discipline and earned the national title in the event in January.

Shane Archbold, a gold medallist in the men’s scratch race at Glasgow 2014, will be part of the men’s road race squad.

He joins 2014 silver medallist Jack Bauer, Alex Frame and James Oram, while Hayden McCormick is the reserve.

Georgia Williams, Kate McIlroy and Sharlotte Lucas make up the women’s road race team.

New Zealand will have high hopes in mountain biking, with Anton Cooper seeking to defend the gold he won four years ago.

Sam Gaze ended as the silver medallist in Glasgow and is included again on the team, along with Ben Oliver.

Samara Sheppard, who along with Cooper defended their Oceanian titles earlier this month, completes the team.

"We know the hosts are going to be incredibly strong," Martin Barras, Cycling New Zealand high performance director, said. 

"In track cycling especially, they have bypassed the world championships to focus on the Commonwealth Games, while we are targeting the worlds and looking to hold that peak to Gold Coast.

"We have high hopes in mountain bike with the gold and silver medallists returning and also now both with global titles to their name.

"The professional road teams have not, in the main, released their riders for the Commonwealth Games.

"To that end we are thrilled that World Tour riders Jack Bauer and Alex Frame have clearance to compete, along with Georgia Williams and Rushlee Buchanan in the women."

Barras added: "We are excited to have Hamish Bond in the team.

"He is a remarkable character and his sporting prowess is legendary, he has already impressed us to make this standard after less than two years in our sport.

"We have a large number of young riders in the side who have earned their place by performance but at the same time will benefit greatly from the experience of this multi-sports environment as we also prepare ahead to Tokyo and beyond."

Further talks are now ongoing with cyclists from other disciplines who will double-up as support riders in the men’s and women’s road races.

New Zealand’s overall team for the Games is 151 athletes.