Cycling Southland News Archive

Big numbers make for exciting racing at ILT Velodrome.

Racing on Friday at the ILT Velodrome kicked off with the Juniors at 6.30pm, who put on one of the most inspiring, exciting nights of racing so far this season to get us all into the racing spirit!

Cycling Southland's junior cyclists face a busy few days on both road and track with the latest chapter in the Baxter & Neilson Track Racing Series to be held tonight, followed by Saturday’s sixth and final Points Series road race at Te Tipua.

Share the Road will be without world championship representative Jack Bauer this year but still holds lofty ambitions for this year's PowerNet Tour of Southland.

The banning of race radios on this year's Tour of Southland would create a level playing field without compromising safety, race director Bruce Ross said yesterday.

Cycling Southland’s silly season is about to hit. Our club will deliver four major national and international events in the space of just six short weeks, starting with the Yunca Junior Tour of Southland. 

In a sharp contrast to the previous week’s road racing conditions, the weather gods turned down the heat and cranked up the rain and wind for Cycling Southland’s MLT-sponsored  Cruickshank Memorial handicap road race on Saturday.

A great night of racing had by all!! The heat's coming on in the A Grade especially as the track season gets well and truely underway. 

Cycling Southland's Sophie Williamson earned a top 20 finish in her first appearance at the World Juniors Road Championships in Copenhagen tonight, finishing the 70 kilometre journey in 18th place while older brother James was unlucky to get caught behind a crash in the final stages of the U23 Men's race.

Friday night is going to be a dramatic one for one particular Cycling Southland family as James and sister Sophie Williamson both line up at the start-line, representing their country at the World Road Championships in Copenhagen.

The showers forecast for Saturdays racing never eventuated and conditions were quite pleasant in behind the hedge where Lynette Mattingly was registering the riders. 

The H and J Outdoor Cycling team had a tough reintroduction to top level racing on the weekend, when they competed in the Twizel to Timaru and Benchmark series round 2 double header.

Fine warm conditions greeted the 51 riders that took part in Saturday's 50km Beast of the East road race which started from Te Tipua school.

After a morning of wet weather in Invercargill I decided to take all my warm & wet weather gear and head to Te Tipua for Saturday’s road race.  As we travelled out to the start the weather improved and by the time we lined up on the start line the sun was shining and the temperatures were in the mid teens.

Southland's road cycling team faces a gruelling weekend with 280 kilometres of racing. Cycling Southland's H&J Smith Outdoor World team will contest the Twizel to Timaru classic today and on Sunday the Southlanders will line up in a 128km Benchmark series race around Timaru.

Otago claimed a convincing victory in the annual interclub team time trial clash with Southland in Outram on Saturday.

Otago claimed a convincing victory in the annual interclub team trial clash with Southland in Outram on Saturday. But it wasn’t all plain sailing for Otago with strong performances from Southland to win the master’s women’s race along with the under-17 girl’s event, while the master’s men 2 came second in their category.