Friday 30 March - Monday 2 April 2018
Results
A Grade: Prologue Stage 1 Stage 2 Stage 3 Stage 4 Stage 5 Stage 6
B Grade: Prologue Stage 1 Stage 2 Stage 3 Stage 4 Stage 5 Stage 6
C Grade: Prologue Stage 1 Stage 2 Stage 3 Stage 4 Stage 5 Stage 6
Ladies: Prologue Stage 1 Stage 2 Stage 3 Stage 4 Stage 5 Stage 6
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Event Programme - Course Details
Criterium Map - Stage 5 Map
Please note change of pre-race briefing venue
Stage Maps and Profiles
Manapouri-Te Anau
Mossburn-Winton
Niagara-Invercargill
Riverton-Tuatapere
Tuatapere-Manapouri
HISTORY
The original event was organised during the 1960s by the Glengarry Amateur Cycling Club.
The tour started in Invercargill and the cyclist raced to Queenstown on Queens Birthday Weekend . There were three stages held on the Saturday on the trip to Queenstown and on the Sunday there were two stages held in and around Queenstown.
The old car racing circuit in down town Queenstown was usually used for a criterium to finish the event. The weather was generally terrible, snow, hail or frost were all part of usual winter conditions that greeted the hardened riders each year.
1991 saw the last Queenstown tour as it was then known and it quietly disappeared from the radar until re-started in 1996. The Tour was again held at Queen's Birthday Weekend and was put together in six weeks. Snow greeted the riders at the start in Winton that year and the tour start was moved north to Lumsden so that it would be safe to continue. The following year the tour was moved to Easter Weekend and raced in Autumn not Winter to the riders approval.
1998 saw the event start in Queenstown and become a four day race with a Prologue Time Trial up Fern Hill. Starting in Queenstown made the event even more popular with riders getting away from the colder Southland conditions during Easter. That year the tour took in Cromwell for the first time and became the Cromwell-Queenstown Cycling Tour.
Cromwell is still a big part of this race and the race briefing and prologue criterium are held there every year. The Tour de Lakes now travels into Fiordland taking in Five Rivers, Mossburn, Manapouri and Te Anau. The idea in travelling down and into Fiorland was to get away from traffic problems every two years caused by the War Birds over Wanaka Air Show.
In recent years the two stages in and out of Glenorchy were introduced with the tour finishing on the big climb up to Moke Lake. A dinner presentation and buffet meal are held at the conclusion of the event where the original trophies are still presented. Names like Brian Fowler, Blair Stockwell, Glen McLeay, Chris Gemmell and Gordon McCauley show the class of rider to have won this event.
There are some other very special trophies awarded each year during racing. The sportsmanship award in memory of young Southland cyclist Stuart McLean also the Christophe Czg memorial award for friendship in memory of a popular french cyclist who raced the event in recent years.
The James Faulding Memorial Award for the first A Grade rider to cross the line into Glenorchy is eagerly contested. James was hit by a car while training in Dunedin a few weeks after competing with distinction in his first Tour de Lakes, James was a fine young man with a lot of talent.
This is an open tour and has race classifications in A, B and C Grades as well as an Under 19 and over grade. There is also the offer to give women riders the same opportunities as the men by giving the women their own race with the leaders classifications.
Allan Dunn
Race Director
M 027 773 7050
E [email protected]
**ATTENTION ALL COMPETITORS**
Tour de Lakes Specific Race Regulations
In this stage race, the same bicycle shall be used in all stages, standard road bikes fitted with standard road wheels including the Time Trials (no disc wheels allowed). The only exception permitted will be in the event of a breakage.
Handlebars must be of a standard or classic style, no clip-on extensions will be permitted although aero helmets will be allowed.
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Manapouri Lakeview Motor Inn
Accommodation for Saturday 31 March at the Manapouri Lakeview Motor Inn. Ph 0800 89 62 62 to make your booking now.
Book early as accommodation may be tight in Invercargill at Easter due to Jaguar convention.
Friday 25th March - Monday 28th March 2016
A Grade Full Results
B Grade Full Results
C Grade Full Results
Ladies Grade Full Results Download the course information
Stage 1 Results (please note it says 2013 on the headers but they are 2015)
Stage 2 Results
Stage 3 Results
Stage 4 Results
Stage 5 Results
Stage 6 Results
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Luke Macpherson staves off final day threat to win Tour de Lakes
Canterbury's Richard Lawson made a big play on the final day of the Tour de Lakes cycle race but Luke Macpherson held on to take the crown.
Macpherson went into the final day on Monday with a 2min 34sec lead over second place Justin Stott.
Lawson was more than four minutes behind Macpherson but halved that through a gutsy ride in the tough Queenstown to Glenorchy stage on Monday morning.
Macpherson, however, wasn't about to let his lead slip away and did enough in the final stage from Glenorchy to Moke Lake to win the Vital Signs-sponsored tour.
He finished 1min 55sec ahead of Lawson, who was second, while another Cantabrian, Reon Nolan, was third.
Macpherson has been one of the big improvers in Southland cycling in recent years and his first Tour de Lakes A-grade victory was deserved one.
Nolan claimed the Harcourts Sprint Ace honour in A-grade while Lawson was the Zookeepers King of the Mountain.
It was another Southlander who took out B-grade with Brendon Akeroyd the 2015 champion.
Akeroyd went into the final day with a 53sec lead and that was cut to 20sec, but Akeroyd hung tightly onto the victory with Ben Hillery second and Glen Gould third.
Tour sponsor Michael White took out the sprint ace and Nelson's Ethan Batt the king of the mountain in B-grade.
Wanaka's Mikayla Harvey was crowned the Tour de Lakes women's champion and also picked up the sprint ace honours along the way.
Maddie Campbell was the king of the mountain.
Tour director Allan Dunn was pleased with the way the 2015 event unfolded.
"It was a good field at 80, it was manageable. The best we've ever had was 120 and that was pretty hectic."
Dunn said having six riders from Tahiti in the field was a highlight of the tour.
"It was good to have the a bit of French flavour in the peleton as far as the language goes," Dunn said.
"They are going to go home and spread the good word about cycling here so hopefully we'll have more come back."
- The Southland Times
Course Information
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Perth-based Alex McGregor is targeting a strong National Racing Series across the Ditch after defending his Vital Signs Tour de Lakes title during the long weekend.
McGregor, who grew up in Alexandra, spent time in Dunedin but has since shifted to Western Australia, where much of his family live, returned to Central Otago and claimed the Vital Signs-sponsored four-day race by the narrowest of margins after a gripping finish from Glenorchy to Moke Lake.
After leader and 2012 winner Daniel Barry self-destructed on the penultimate stage from Queenstown to Glenorchy in the morning, it was up to Brad Evans and McGregor to duke it out on the final stage, with McGregor taking the yellow jersey by one second.
The pair had laid down an early marker when they produced identical times in the time trial during Friday's prologue.
"After the prologue it was quite bizarre to have equal tour leaders," McGregor said.
"That sort of shook things up in the first road stage because it didn't fall on one guy to do the chasing or defend the leader's jersey. It was a different scenario to race under, we sort of shared the workload at times."
McGregor had been prepared to settle for a place on the podium before Barry lost 7min 45sec on the 45km beat out to Glenorchy.
"[Dan's] a really nice guy and I've got a lot of respect for him because he's a really strong bike rider. I think he might have just gone out too hard [on Saturday] defending the jersey."
McGregor, who has also claimed a round of the Benchmark Series this month, rides for Perth cycling team Satalyst Giant.
In his spare time he helps his grandfather with a lawnmowing round but most of his focus is on developing as a rider in the ideal climate and strong racing community that Perth provides.
"They are happy with the way I'm going so, hopefully, I can keep the ball rolling into the National Racing Series." McGregor has not really threatened during the Tour of Southland but has ambitions to be a genuine threat to the yellow jersey later this year.
"I've never really had consistency of training going into a Tour of Southland. This year I'll look to do it a bit differently, and obviously have the backing of the racing from the NRS."
Sophie Williamson won the women's race, clearing out from the combined ladies and C-grade bunch on the final stage, to also take the Queen of the Mountains and sprint ace classifications.
Luke Macpherson was the first Southland rider home, finishing fourth overall and claiming the Frank O'Conner Cup.
- © Fairfax NZ News
2014 Official Results
A Grade Stage TT Start Order
A Grade Stage 1
A Grade Stage 2
A Grade TT Stage 3
A Grade TT & GC
A Grade Stage 4
A Grade Stage 5
A Grade Stage 6
B Grade Prologue TT
B Grade Stage TT Start Order
B Grade Stage 1
B Grade Stage 2
B Grade TT Stage 3
B Grade TT & GC
B Grade Stage 4
B Grade Stage 5
B Grade Stage 6
(Clarification that Blake Tait-Jones was second in the B Grade GC - error in resutls provided and cannot amend spreadsheet supplied)
C Grade Prologue TT
C Grade Stage TT Start Order
C Grade Stage 1
C Grade Stage 2
C Grade TT Stage 3
C Grade TT & GC
C Grade Stage 4
C Grade Stage 5
C Grade Stage 6
Ladies Prologue TT
Ladies Grade Stage TT Start Order
Ladies Grade Stage 1
Ladies Grade Stage 2
Ladies Grade TT Stage 3
Ladies Grade TT & GC
Ladies Grade Stage 4
Ladies Grade Stage 5
Ladies Grade Stage 6