FORMER Monmouth School pupil Lewis Oliva scorched around the World Cup cycling track in Mexico to land two bronze medals for Great Britain at the weekend.

The Devauden 21-year-old took third place followed by third in the keirin to finish the meeting in Guadalajara as most successful Brit. 

Oliva, John Paul and Callum Skinner were awarded bronze in the men's competition following relegation for France in their ride-off after an illegal changeover between Gregory Bauge and Kevin Sireau.

The GB trio set a time of 43.854 seconds having earlier qualified in fourth as the Dutch won gold with Germany taking silver.

Oliva, who is targeting the Commonwealth Games for Wales in Glasgow later this year and the Rio Olympics in 2016, then progressed to the second round of the keirin via the repechages after being relegated in his first round heat for entering the sprinter's lane.

In the second round, he made sure of his place in the final with third, and there was drama in the final as Canada's Hugo Barrette was relegated for entering the sprinter's lane and both Azizulhasn Awang (Malaysia) and Joachim Eilers (Germany) were disqualified as Oliva landed bronze behind Matthijs Buchli (Netherlands) in gold and Santiago Ramirez (Colombia) in silver.

On for a hat-trick, Oliva - who also attended Monmouth School's preparatory school, the Grange - made the top 16 in the 200m flying lap qualification – in 13th in 9.996 seconds.

But eventual gold medalist, Dutch rider Hugo Haak, had too much pace for him in the quarter-finals as Oliva finally placed 10th overall in the B finals.

The Welsh cyclist recently turned private eye when his £5,000 Pinarello Paris road bike was stolen on a training ride cafe stop near Manchester with Olympic gold medal cyclists Laura Trott and Jason Kenny.

But just days later the bike was back in his possession after it was spotted for sale on social networking website Facebook. He contacted the seller, asking them to return the bike otherwise their details would be passed on to police, and the bike was dropped off anonymously at a pre-arranged location and returned to Oliva.

"After a day of being a private eye, bike has been returned unscathed!" Oliva said via his Twitter account.