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Cycling NZ’s venerable veterans claim medals on final day

UCI TRACK CYCLING WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS, SANTIAGO, CHILE – DAY 4 WRAPUnlucky for some but not for Cycling New Zealand as veteran stars Bryony Botha and Campbell Stewart brought their collective tally to 13 medals on the final day of the UCI Cycling World Championship in Santiago, Chile.The two medals on the final day brought the New Zealand tally to five medals, a total that has only been bettered once at the Glasgow Super Worlds two years ago.Botha won the bronze medal after leading into the fi...

Nicol and Gray new names for UCI Marathon MTB National honours

There are two new names as winners of the UCI Marathon MTB National Championship, staged as part of the annual Whaka 100 event in Rotorua.Rising 20-year-old Taupo cross-country rider, Coen Nicol from Taupo has prevailed in the elite men’s category, while accomplished Christchurch rider, Mary Gray has etched her name on the women’s trophy.Nicol, who has recently returned from a season in Europe and North American on the UCI XCO scene, was at the pointy end of the men’s 100km race in the fam...

Andrews celebrates upgraded event with third NZ bronze medal

UCI TRACK CYCLING WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS, SANTIAGO, CHILE – DAY 4 WRAPOlympic champion Ellesse Andrews secured her first podium at the 2025 UCI Track Cycling World Championships on the penultimate day of competition in Santiago, Chile today.Andrews won the bronze medal in the demanding 1000m time trial, staged for the first time for women this year over the same distance as men.She was third fastest in the morning qualifying in 1:04.524 which broke her own New Zealand record and a fraction outsid...

New names for MTB Marathon Championship at Rotorua’s Whaka 100

Expect new names on the trophies when the UCI Marathon MTB National Championships are decided in Rotorua this weekend.Last year’s winners Sammie Maxwell and Craig Oliver are not competing in the sold-out Whaka 100 which comprises the Cycling New Zealand MTB Marathon National Championships.Maxwell is not competing after her exhausting season-long challenge to become the UCI XCO World Series elite women’s cross country champion, while Oliver focussed on competing with brother Ben in the bucket...

Men’s Team Pursuit quartet beat USA challenge for bronze medal

UCI TRACK CYCLING WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS, SANTIAGO, CHILE – DAY 2 WRAPNew Zealand men’s team pursuit produced an outstanding performance to claim the bronze medal to highlight day two of the UCI Track Cycling World Championships in Santiago, Chile today.The Kiwi team thought it was two bronze medals after a superb ride by Campbell Stewart, originally given third place in the 10km race, which was restarted twice. However officials ruled the race went one lap more than it should, and on corrected...

Young Auckland cyclist grabs debut track medal for New Zealand

UCI TRACK CYCLING WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS, SANTIAGO, CHILE – DAY 1 WRAPTwenty-two year old Auckland rider, Prudence Fowler has claimed the first medal for the Cycling New Zealand team in her debut at the UCI Track Cycling World Championships in Santiago, Chile today.Fowler rode with poise and maturity beyond her years, riding within touch of the lead over the closing stages before a superb final dash to the line to grab third place.The young kiwi rider rode near the pace through out the 10km race,...

2025 Track Worlds - Who/What/When

The Cycling New Zealand Team has arrived in the capital of Chile, Santiago, to compete at 2025 Tissot UCI Track World Championships from 22 to 26 October 2025.11 Kiwi athletes will be in for a weeks’ worth of racing on the Velódromo Peñalolén (or Santiago Velodrome) competing against the world’s best cyclists, chasing medals and rainbow jerseys.Here's everything you need to know ahead of competition this week.Cycling New Zealand TeamMen’s SprintSam Dakin· Sprint, KeirinWomen’s Sprint...

Olympic star leads new faces to UCI Track World Championships in Chile

The New Zealand track cycling team take their first pedal-strokes towards the 2028 Los Angeles Olympic Games when they contest the UCI Track World Championships in Santiago, Chile starting on Thursday (NZT).The kiwi track cyclists led all sports at Paris with five medals overall, and the two golds and a silver for Ellesse Andrews was the most by any rider at an Olympics. Over a year on, while those performances are proudly recorded on CNZ’s Walk of Fame at their training ba...

Briggs bags gold, as New Zealand Para-cyclists make positive start towards LA

UCI PARA-CYCLING TRACK WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS, DAY 4 WRAP RIO DE JANEIROCambridge rider Devon Briggs sealed his love for Rio in winning a gold medal on the final day of the UCI Para-Cycling Track World Championships today.It is the second successive world championship track title for the 21-year-old after success at the same velodrome last year, and a boost in his return to the sport after injury thwarted his Paralympic hopes in Paris.It capped another strong performance for the four-strong Cycling...

New Zealand Para-cyclists hit double figures in world medal haul

UCI PARA-CYCLING TRACK WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS, DAY 3 WRAP RIO DE JANEIROThe New Zealand Para-cycling team moved into double figures in medals with three further podiums the penultimate day of competition at the UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships in Brazil today.The five-strong kiwi contingent won three medals on the first day and four yesterday, adding a further three medals to continue their superb form at Rio de Janeiro.Today’s medal-run began with Rotorua’s Siobhan Terry, in her firs...

Four more medals on day two of UCI Para-cycling Track Worlds

UCI PARA-CYCLING TRACK WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS, DAY 2 WRAP RIO DE JANEIROSeven medals in two days marks an outstanding start for the Cycling New Zealand’s at the UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships in Brazil today.After three silver medals on the opening day, all four team members bagged medals on day two, with silver medals to Nicole Murray, Devon Briggs and the pursuit pairing of vision impaired Emma Foy and pilot Jesse Hodges along with a bronze medal to Siobhan Terry.The best was saved ...

Kiwi Para-cyclists power their way to triple silver medal start in Rio

UCI PARA-CYCLING TRACK WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS, DAY 1 WRAP RIO DE JANEIROCycling New Zealand’s campaign began with a triple platter of silver medals on the opening day of the UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships in Brazil today.Waikato’s Nicole Murray and Devon Briggs along with Rotorua’s Siobhan Terry all claimed silver medals on the renowned slick track at Rio de Janeiro.Murray added to her bulging bag of global medals with a silver in the women’s C5 1000m time trial, which was follo...

2025 Para Track Worlds - Who/What/When

The Cycling New Zealand Para-Cycling Team has touched down in Brazil once again, returning to the Rio Olympic and Paralympic Velodrome to compete at the 2025 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships. This marks the second year in a row that the Championships are being held at the iconic Rio venue, with 5 Kiwi athletes ready to take on the world’s best in the search for medals and rainbow jerseys. Here's everything you need to know ahead of competition this week.  Cycling ...

Experienced NZ team ready for UCI Para-cycling World Championships

An experienced team returns to familiar surrounds for the 2025 Para-cycling Track World Championships in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil starting tomorrow.A five-strong squad, full of experience and promise, have travelled out of the winter training at the Grassroots Trust Velodrome into the spring surrounds of Brazil, which also hosted the world championships last year.“They are ready to race and in good spirits. We had a good final preparation phase in Cambridge prior to departure,” said Cycling Ne...

Maxwell creates kiwi MTB history winning UCI World Series crown

New Zealand mountain biker Samara Maxwell has become the first kiwi to win the UCI MTB Cross-Country World Series title after the final round in Canada today.While World Champion Jenny Rissveds (SWE) was in a class of her own to claim the final round at Mont-Sainte-Anne near Quebec today, likewise the 23-year-old kiwi finished in a commanding second place.It was more than enough for the Taupo rider to secure the overall title in the 10th and final round of the world series that began in Apr...

Kiwi teenage talent prevails in UCI MTB World Cup downhill season finale

Rising New Zealand teenage gravity riders Tyler Waite and Eliana Hulsebosch secured season-ending podium placings in junior downhill when the UCI MTB World Series wound up at Monte-Sainte-Anne in Canada today.The pair of 18-year-olds finished third in the overall standings in respective junior male and junior female championships.Waite (Yeti-Fox Factory) from Clive in the Hawkes Bay was second in today’s final round at Mont-Sainte-Anne behind American Asa Vermette which was enough to jump up t...

Maxwell scores valuable points, kiwi downhillers run hot in Canada

Samara Maxwell managed a solid fifth placing in the short track women’s race on the opening day of the UCI MTB World Cup finale in Mont-Sainte-Anne in Canada.World champion Jenny Rissveds (SWE) took out the race in 21:40, finishing 18 seconds clear of Evie Richards (GBR) who claimed the short track season title.Maxwell was a further two seconds back in fifth, with her lead now 141 points over Rissveds in the XCO overall title race to be decided on Monday (NZT).Meanwhile several the kiwi gravit...

Maxwell to lead kiwi charge for spoils at UCI MTB World Series finale

Paris Olympian Samara Maxwell has an opportunity to become the first New Zealand female to win a UCI MTB Elite World Series title at the final round in Canada over the weekend.The 23-year-old from the Decathlon Ford team carries a 183-point lead into the final round of cross-country with a maximum 330 points up for grabs – 50 in the short track and 280 in the MTB race.Maxwell will be chasing a stronger start in the short-track race and if she finishes ahead of world champion Jenny Rissveds, th...

Oceania Women’s Cycling Teams Launch New Collaboration

New Zealand’s Black Magic Women and Australia’s Meridian Blue Cycling have merged to form an elite women’s cycling programme to create opportunities for female cyclists from Oceania.With over a decade of athlete development between them, Meridian Blue and Black Magic will form a new UCI Women’s Continental team. The team will be ideally placed to provide a springboard for Australian and New Zealand cyclists to progress their careers.Black Magic Women has been a pre-eminent pathway to pro...

Cycling New Zealand acknowledges life member’s contribution

Cycling New Zealand wishes to pass our sympathies to the family and Canterbury Cycling community on the passing of Cycling Road, Track and Cyclocross life member Bruce Dawe.Bruce made a significant contribution to cycling in Canterbury and to Cycling New Zealand over many decades, and was richly deserved when recognised with a Queens Service Medal in 1988.Bruce and his wife Amy were constant volunteers on the cycling scene, not just in Canterbury but around the country, from school cycling to na...

Maxwell digs deep to keep UCI MTB World Series title hopes alive

New Zealand mountain biker Samara Maxwell dug deep to finish third in the penultimate race of the UCI MTB World Series at Lake Placid in USA today.The 23-year-old Taupo rider recovered from an average 14th place in the short track race, fighting her way up from the second row of the grid to claim third in the XCO race today.It means that the Decathlon Ford professional will take a 183 point lead into the final round of the World Series next weekend in Mont Sainte Anne near Quebec, Canada.Ma...

Kiwi gravity trio bag podium placings at UCI MTB World Series in USA

New Zealand gravity riders bagged three podium placings across three finals in the penultimate round of the 2025 UCI MTB World Series at Lake Placid, USA.Auckland’s Sacha Earnest secured her first podium in her debut elite season with the Trek Factory team, and was joined with podiums for emerging kiwi junior stars Tyler Waite (Hawkes Bay) and Eliana Hulsebosch (Tauranga).There were high hopes for a first-ever podium clean-sweep for kiwi downhill riders across all four grade finals but in-form...

Kiwi downhill teammates impress in UCI World Series qualifying in USA

In-form young kiwi downhill riders made eye-catching starts to the penultimate round of the UCI MTB World Series at Lake Placid, USA.Rotorua’s Lachlan Stevens-McNab, coming off his podium in the last round in Switzerland, was sixth fastest in the elite men in qualifying.The Trek Factory rider will be joined in tomorrow’s final by a second kiwi qualifier in Christchurch’s Luke Wayman. The Continental Atherton team gravity rider produced a stunning run in the second qualifying session where ...

Niamh Fisher-Black creates history with cycling world road race podium

New Zealand professional Niamh Fisher-Black made cycling history in finishing second in the elite women’s road race at the UCI Road World Championships in Rwanda today.The diminutive 25-year-old from Nelson has become the first New Zealand rider, female, or male, to podium in the elite road race at the UCI World Championships.The 2022 UCI Junior Road World Champion produced a brilliant and courageous performance in the elite women’s road race, staged over a...

Christchurch rider “surprises himself” with world championship cycling medal

Christchurch rider capped off a remarkable few months with a silver medal in the men’s under-23 time trial at the UCI Road Cycling World Championships in Rwanda today.The 21-year-old surprised himself, clocking 39:28.29 for the 31km distance in Kigali, to finish 1:03 behind winner Jakob Soderqvist of Sweden, in his first world championship.Pringle, who won the under-23 time trial at the national championships this year, only picked up a professional contract in April to join the Red Bull-Bora-...