News and Results

Cycling Southland’s Erin Criglington has been a dominant force in Masters track cycling over recent years, winning multiple national titles on an annual basis. She can now add a World Championship gold and a coveted rainbow jersey to her glittering career after winning the 40-44 Individual Pursuit at the World Masters Track in Manchester this morning.

Hi everyone, it’s amazing to think the 30^th Anniversary 2013 Yunca Junior Tour has been and gone already – and what a ripper it was with the weather gods being so kind this year.

The World Masters Track Champs kicked off today with the time trials and day 1 brought Erin Criglington silver, with day 2 proving equally successful.

It may have taken to the final few hundred metres of this year’s Yunca Junior Tour of Southland, but Cycling Southland's Josh Haggerty ended his junior cycling career in the best possible fashion yesterday.

Another great day of racing in perfect conditions today at Te Tipua in Eastern Southland has set up a gripping finale to the 30th anniversary Yunca Junior Tour of Southland tomorrow.

Close racing and sprint finishes marked the opening day of the 30th anniversary Yunca Junior Tour of Southland for 2013 at Teretonga today. The day featured the opening Vital Signs-sponsored Individual Time Trial followed by an afternoon kermesse sponsored by Zookeepers Cafe at Teretonga Raceway over eight different age categories.

There were some impressive displays at racing this week, with the number of Division 1 Sprinters far out-numbering the Enduros and making for some fantastic racing!

Hello to you all for October!

Well it’s the eve of the 2013 Yunca Junior Tour and over 140 of the top juniors from throughout NZ and Australia are about to converge in the south and battle out titles in the individual age group categories from under 15s to under 19s.

Congratulations to the yellow jersey winners of event four in the Baxter and Neilson Plumbers sponsored junior track racing series!

A chilly, drizzly day greeted riders at Te Tipua for the 4^th race in the Winter Points Series, around the “Beast of the East” circuit.  We were very grateful to Jos Miller for opening up the school for us to use the toilets and have a dry place to change and sign on – Thank you Jos!!

This year marked the second running of our Secondary School version of the Corporate Pursuit, in team sprint format.

While we didn’t break any records on the numbers front on Tuesday, it was awesome to welcome a couple of new riders to the fold and also a couple of top riders from outside the region / new to the region, and everyone had a fun albiet tough night of racing.

The third race in the Baxter and Neilson junior track cycling series for 2013 took place last Friday undeterred by the craft show in the centre of the velodrome.

Hi on a glorious Southland spring day, the nights are getting longer and with the help of daylight saving this weekend it’s going to get even better soon!

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.