News and Results

The idea of running a Secondary School Team Sprint Competition – along the lines of the highly successful Corporate Pursuit – is an idea that has been bandied around in Cycling Southland circles for many years.

A very warm, but blustery day greeted us at Browns for the Brown’s Circuit Race on Saturday and with 88 riders across all grades, the racing promised to be exciting!

Another great night of racing of racing under the belt, with some really classy fields all round.  Great to have Cam back home and adding some firepower to A Grade! We just need some more C Graders racing – c’mon all your Corporate Pursuiters – now is your chance!

The track season is really starting to kick off, with great numbers and excellent, edge of your seat racing on Tuesday night.

Saturday 15 September dawned a little damp and cold, but the hardened road crew were out to do those who went before us proud, in this very important race on our calendar.

Multiple PowerNet Tour of Southland winner Hayden Roulston will join fellow World Tour professionals Julian Dean and Jack Bauer in next week’s BikeNZ team to ride the Men’s road race the UCI Road World Championships in The Netherlands.

A strong Southland contingent has been named as part of a young BikeNZ squad named to compete in the Oceania Track Cycling Championships in Adelaide in November.

Southland’s Phillipa Gray and pilot Laura Thompson claimed seventh place in the bunch sprint for bronze in the Individual B road race on the final day of the Paralympics.

Invercargill cyclist Phillipa Gray and her pilot Laura Thompson have completed the set of Paralympic medals in less than a week.

Southland’s Phillippa Gray with Laura Thompson collected a silver medal on the roads on day seven of the Paralympics in London today.

A large field of senior riders turned out in great conditions for the Saturday New Vale Coal Circuit Road Race.

Southland Paralympic cyclists Phillipa Gray and Laura Thompson have won gold in the individual B pursuit after pulverising the former world record by nearly 5sec in their qualification ride.

Southland cyclists Phillipa Gray and Laura Thompson have bagged New Zealand's third medal at the London 2012 Paralympics, securing bronze in the Women's B 1km time trial.

Cycling Southland's Tom Scully is the latest member to be added to a strong southern contingent that will contest this month’s UCI Road World Championships in the Netherlands.

Southland Paralympic team-mates Phillipa Gray and Laura Thompson look primed to deliver on their potential in London, says New Zealand coach Brendon Cameron.

James Hargest College's Jeremy Presbury has one eye on next year's junior world track championships.

Cycling Southland is already looking at hosting future major events after the junior world track championships in Invercargill. The five-day championships saw New Zealand equalling the 10 medals it won in Moscow last year, with seven silver and three bronzes.

Dynamic Russian sprinter Daria Shmeleva finished the UCI Juniors Track World Championships as she started, with a world record at Invercargill, New Zealand today. The 18 year old Shmeleva claimed her fourth gold medal of the championships breaking the world record she set at the recent European Championships by 0.1s.

Eighteen year old Australian Taylah Jennings grabbed her fifth title in two years on the penultimate night of finals at the UCI Juniors Track Cycling Championships in Invercargill, New Zealand tonight. 

Colombia’s Fernando Gaviria Rendon recovered from two crashes on the first night to dominate the men’s omnium on the third day of finals at the UCI Juniors Track Cycling World Championships in Invercargill, New Zealand. The 18-year-old finished third in the individual pursuit, fourth in the scratch race and third in the 1000m time trial to claim a popular victory.