We had a great night at the track on Friday with some really fun and positive racing. Smaller numbers saw us combining a couple of grades which worked well and it was awesome to see some B grade riders mixing it up in A Grade.

Cycling Southland is again strongly represented in BikeNZ Development’s junior track squads named for training camps in Invercargill with an eye to the upcoming Oceania Championships at the ILT Velodrome in November.

The curtain has dropped on the 2011 UCI Juniors World Track Championships in Moscow and the New Zealand squad ended the five days of competition on Sunday night with 10 medals and 3 fourth-places from 16 events entered, arguably the best result by any group of cyclists at a World Championship.