Cycling Southland News Archive

Twenty five juniors put on a show of extremely strong racing in honour of the 30th Anniversary of the Curtis Dunn Memorial Race in fine conditions on Saturday.

For the first time in a few years, we had a perfect day for the Memorial Race, which was a treat  - particularly compared to last weekend’s hurricane conditions!

Despite arriving home in Alexandra with a haul of medals from the Junior World Track Cycling Championships in Glasgow, there will be no rest for New Zealand cyclist Liam Aitcheson.

Hi everyone for another busy and news-filled week … so firstly a reminder that Yunca Junior Tour entries close this Friday 20 September, with the ILT Junior Track Carnival entries closing on 30 September. So if you haven’t yet done so, get onlinewww.cyclingsouth.org.nz and register now!

Reports of calmer conditions at Browns on Saturday raised hopes that we might stay dry for the road race ... however, these hopes soon dissolved (into the driving wind!) when the hardy souls arrived in Browns to the same rain, hail and wind as town was experiencing.

H & J Smith Benchmark team mates are expected to go on the hunt for strong finishes at the fifth round of the Benchmark Homes Elite Cycling Series, the McKenzie & Willis Classic when it is raced near Queenstown on Saturday after spending much of the series racing overseas.

Greetings for another Tuesday, today we celebrate Cycling Southland winning the Supreme Award at the 2013 TrustPower Invercargill Southland Community Awards, held at the Civic Theatre last night.

Cycling Southland rode home with the Supreme Award at the 2013 TrustPower Invercargill Southland Community Awards last night.

Rimu School was the scene for another battle against not only other riders but also our dreaded wind!

The second day of racing in the double banger weekend, dawned windy with a threat of rain. However, the Waianiwa weather Gods were kind to us and we got away with a dry afternoon, if not a little wind beaten.

The depth in international paracycling continues to grow, something which makes New Zealand's medal-winning feats at the road world championships even more special.

It was the fast and furious at Tuesday night racing, with some very quick racing indicating that we must be nearing the business end of the season!

Cycling Southland President Lindsay Jordan today announced the resignation of CEO Nick Jeffrey.

Yesterday, I announced the resignation of our CEO Nick Jeffrey. Nick’s final day at Cycling Southland will be Friday 22 November.

Trust you have sprung into the September season of lambs, daffodils and all things Spring-like as the days start to get longer and we welcome more sunshine hours.

Southland is set to stage New Zealand’s first UCI Tier One track cycling event which will carry vital world qualifying points.

A fabulous Southland day greeted riders for the Grove Bush Road Race on Saturday over 76kms, with 70 riders making the most of an excellent day out in the sun.

A good turn out and some great racing was had by all on Friday, topped off by an impressive Madison display from those who undertook the training– it was the best Madison we have seen yet, so top work girls and guys!

A new chapter for New Zealand’s premier road cycling event has been launched with the announcement of SBS Bank as the new naming sponsor of the Tour of Southland cycle race.

We welcomed back our resident super-stars Pieter Bulling and Cam Karwowski to Tuesday night racing this week and they gave us a glimpse of the form they have gained in last six onths over in Europe. These two boys are class acts!