Cycling Southland News Archive

Strong early season form has allowed New Zealand to blood some exciting newcomers on the track cycling team for the final UCI World Cup in Colombia next month, including Southland's Kirstie James and Nick Kergozou.

Central Otago Cycling are having a two-stage club race this Saturday nad the wrong start time was sent out yesterday. 

Check out details for the NZ Cycle Festival Trust event on 7 March 2015 in Taranaki.

Eddie Dawkins has made a brief return to his roots.

It’s nearly ho ho ho time and what a year it’s been too – very exciting and very busy.

BikeNZ, the National Sporting Organisation (NSO) leading and enabling the growth and success of cycling for New Zealanders, has today announced a rebrand to Cycling New Zealand.

Wowee what a massive, exciting event it was over the weekend – some absolutely mad-dog racing, a NZ record for Fam and many more close attempts, PBs flying out the window everywhere, our biggest field of riders on record for our Track Champs, a UCI Para-cycling points qualifying event thrown in and an absolutely massive programme of racing.

Due to the generous sponsorship from South Port again this year, our annual Crit series is to kick off before Christmas.

Big Southland sprinters Eddie Dawkins and Matthew Archibald produced standout performances on the final day of the UCI track cycling World Cup in London today.

New Zealand has won silver and bronze medals on the opening day of the second UCI track cycling World Cup in London.

Laura Fairweather and Emma Foy will be sporting their rainbow jerseys as the New Zealand para-cycling team goes chasing qualification points for the Rio Paralympics in Invercargill this weekend.

The New Zealand track cycling team stepped back into the London velodrome today for the first time since London 2012 in readiness for this weekend's second UCI World Cup starting on late Friday night (NZ time).

Hi out there and phew, it’s a busy old week again here as we get ready to rumble for the C1 Para-cycling Track Open and Southland Track Champs, which are being held from 6pm this Friday night and again from 10am on both Saturday and Sunday.

With no increase in rider fee charges at the Velodrome in more than three years, we are going to be implementing small increases from the New Year.

New Zealand's top track cyclists will be looking to step up a gear when they compete in the second of three UCI World Cups in London next week.

Greetings one and all as another week gains momentum,

This weekend we are hosting kids from Dunedin and Wanaka south for the South Island Secondary Schools Track Champs, and it’s a pretty good field of entries across the board, so head on down for some free entertainment between about 10am and 2pm this Saturday and cheer them all on!

A strong field of riders including the defending champion, Olympic and Commonwealth Games medallists - with Southland's own Pieter Bulling and Cam Karwowski in the mix - and a former UCI Omnium World Champion, will contest Friday’s Criterium National Championships in Auckland.

Please find the Director's Communique for the 2015 Tour de Vineyards available to read here.

The fundraising committee has travel fund initiatives planned to help assist riders to Cambridge next February and March for the Elite and Age Group Track Championships.

Hi folks,
Big sighs and deep breaths! Another SBS Bank Tour of Southland is done and dusted and a ripper it was too – right down to the very last stage with some tightly contested points. Congrats and well done again to all our Cycling Southland riders who took part