Yunca Junior Tour of Southland
The 2010 Yunca Junior Tour of Southland is on Friday 1st - Sunday 3rd October 2010Download 2010 Entry Form in Word FormatDownload 2010 Entry Form in PDF FormatIn its 26th year, the Yunca Tour is now the premier multi-stage road cycling tour for junior cyclists in New Zealand. Last year 138 cyclists entered the event including many New Zealand representatives and 23 Australian representative riders with a number of those riders now representing their countries at this year's Junior Worlds in Italy. The Yunca Tour is "the" road cycling tour that junior cyclists work towards during the road racing calendar. Southland cycling has real depth with very competitive cyclists and in the past some of our best cyclists have learnt valuable lessons about competitive cycling during the Yunca Tour. Tom Scully, Eddie Dawkins, Cameron Karwowski, Cathy Jordon, Sequoia Cooper, Matt Randall, Glen Thomson and Glenn McLeay, just to mention a few, are some of Southland's top riders who had their first exposure to multi-staged competitive road racing in the Yunca. The Yunca is a safe and competitive course. Many months of work is put into the event to ensure the event runs smoothly, from working with the NZ Police and Councils to traffic management plans and consents to arranging sponsorship, billets with the help of Cycling Southland and a significant number of volunteers who help with road marshalling, rider support, judging, time keeping and hospitality. Sier Vermunt the 2010 Tour director is excited about this year's Yunca tour and the possibility of a large number of Australian juniors entering. ‘We have got some of the best roads in the country to race on and Southlanders get right behind the Yunca". Click here for the 2009 Junior Tour of Southland Details
Click here for the 2008 Junior Tour of Southland Details |
