News and Results

Junior Worlds representative Dylan Kennett again showed his class in winning a riveting Gore to Invercargill Classic last night.

The days of slowly working your way back in to the new year are gone. Cycling Southland is right in the heart of our most hectic time of the year. In fact, it hasn't really stopped since October.

Alexandra's Sophie Williamson pretty much did it all last week. The 17-year-old won the women's race in the inaugural Milford Mountain Classic on Wednesday night, spent two nights on the track as part of the New Year carnival and was racing on grass at the Browns sports on Saturday.

40 riders took on the blustery conditions of the 2012 Invercargill to Browns Road Race.

Cycling Southland's four representatives at the UCI World Cup in Beijing all distinguished themselves overnight.

The winner of the Distinction Hotels Milford Mountain Classic, Jeremy Yates, has heaped praise on the road cycle race after comfortably taking out the inaugural honours in Te Anau yesterday.

Check out the results from Tuesday night's racing events.

National elite men's road cycling champion James Williamson has hit the road after claiming his title in Christchurch on Sunday and will line up to race at Milford tomorrow.

Cycling Southland members featured strongly in the 2012 Lake Dunstan Cycle Classic held over 96 kilometres in Central Otago on  Sunday.

James Williamson's victory in the Elite Road Race in Christchurch today completed an historic double for the Wakatipu/Central Otago club and Cycling Southland following on the heels of clubmate and triathlete Nicky Samuels' victory in the Womens race on Saturday.

Keen-eyed readers will see the list of winners from last night's New Zealand track and road cycling awards bears little resemblance to the list I came up with earlier in the week writes The Southland Times' Nathan Burdon.

Cycling Southland's Nicky Samuels thought so little of her chances of winning the RaboDirect Elite National Road Cycling Championships in Christchurch today that she planned a training run for immediately after she finished.

Westley Gough and Peter Latham have attended world championships and Commonwealth and Olympics Games as part of the New Zealand team pursuit squad and they are not giving up on their dreams of riding in London later this year.

Cycling Southland started its 2012 representative racing year at the Eilte Road Nationals in Christchurch today in solid fashion.

New Zealand omnium rider Joanne Kiesanowski wasn't planning on spending part of January in Beijing. The Chinese capital's climate is not the most hospitable at this time of year but it will now be the next stop in Kiesanowski's Olympic build-up.

The name of Invercargill cycling identity Laurie Tall has been mentioned as a possible new moniker for the cycling velodrome, but the man himself won't have a bar of it.

Enterprising form last month has earned young female sprinters Natasha Hansen (Southland) and Katie Schofield (Otago) the opportunity to press a late claim for Olympic selection.

Southland track sprinter Matt Archibald will make his World Cup debut early in the new year. Less than four years after he attended his first national cycling championships, the former rower will head to Beijing in January to try to push his claims for a place in the New Zealand team for the London Olympics.

New Zealand cycling appears to be "on track" looking ahead to the 2012 Olympics.

Southlanders Eddie Dawkins and Stephanie McKenzie feature as finalists for the prestigious BikeNZ Road and Track Rider of the Year Awards announced today.