Cycling Southland News Archive

Cycling Southland’s Phillipa Gray, Laura Thompson and Kylie Young were today named in the New Zealand Paralympic Games squad to line up in London in September.

While most cycling attention is on the London Olympics, a group of up-and-coming talent is leaving no stone unturned to reach the top of the world. The 16-strong BikeNZ junior track cycling team heads overseas in the coming weeks to prepare for the UCI World Championships to be held on home territory in Invercargill on 22-26 August.

With an average age under 20 years, a youthful BikeNZ-Pure Black Racing team will take on their ultimate test that will sort the men from the boys in the An Post Ras Tour of Ireland starting on Sunday.

On Friday 8 June you are invited to join for an evening of celebration to support our Cycling Southland finalists Eddie Dawkins, Steph McKenzie and Ross Machejefski for the ILT Southland Sports Awards

Cycling Southland tonight paid tribute to a large list of contributors on and off the bike at the annual Awards evening, held at Ascot Park Hotel. The evening recognized volunteers, new-comers and the first ever Rider of the Year awards.

AvantiPlus Invercargill invites you down to their Tay Street store on Saturday 26 May for their Avanti and Scott Bikes Road Demo Day.

The team at Muscle Fix are offering this year's Harrex Group Corporate Pursuit participants a special introductory offer to new clients.

For all you guys keen to get some cross training in over winter, the Southland Triathlon and Mulit-sport club  have some Sunday events coming up over winter.  So dust off your runners and get out there!

Come and pit yourself against other Southland Schools in a three-up team competition on the Stadium Southland Velodrome!!  

Cycling Southland and New Zealand Junior track representative Sophie Williamson capped her junior road racing career in New Zealand with an incredible double in the Under 19 Women's Time Trial and Road Race at the Club Road Nationals in Hawkes Bay last week. Here's Soph's own race review.

Another hugely successful performance year saw three Cycling Southland's Eddie Dawkins, Stephanie McKenzie and Ross Machejefski named as finalists in the ILT Southland Sport Person of the Year awards at a Cocktail function held at Ascot Park Hotel last night.

Cycling Southland riders again featured prominently in BikeNZ's Development squads released today, headlined by confirmation of Junior Worlds Track representative Sophie Williamson's entry for the 2012 Junior Road World Championships in Holland in September.

In March 2013 a New Zealand-wide fundraising campaign will culminate at the Southland Velodrome when Eugene Collins will attempt a 24-hour record attempt on 15 and 16 March. If you are able to help as an official, commissaire or provide any other support for the record find out more.

This is supposedly our cycling off-season, although you wouldn’t know it. I guess the moment we were awarded the Junior World Track Cycling Champs for this year, we gave up the right to any off-season writes Chief Executive Nick Jeffrey.

Get ready - Wednesday Night Winter MTB Training Rolls start on Wednesday 16 May.

The morning of the Elite & U23 Men’s Road Race dawned and the music started pumping at 6am. I’ve gotta say, it was great to finally have everyone up early at once (and fizzing right from the get go!) and to not have to sneak around making breakfast and packing lunch before slinking out the door at 7am to take whoever was racing that day out to the course! 

Christchurch rider Sam Horgan can enjoy a well earned break after claiming the RaboDirect national club road championship in Hawkes Bay today.

The one and only Brehan Cairns provides Saturday's (and Friday night's!) Tour Diary entry. Today is Saturday and I am going to start this diary with the happenings of Friday night.

Murray Heath got me at a weak moment recently writes The Southland Times' Nathan Burdon.

Alexandra’s Sophie Williamson edged out Wanganui’s Cassie Cameron in a sprint finish to win her second national title of the week the under-19 race at the RaboDirect Club Road National in Hawkes Bay today.