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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-...

Greenough runner-up after UCI BMX Racing World Cup series

Cambridge teenager Lily Greenough completed an outstanding debut season in under-23 UCI BMX Racing with a podium finish for the season-long championship that was finalised in Argentina today.Greenough, who won the junior women’s world title in Denmark last month, refocussed after a break in international racing, to finish runner-up in the season-long championship following the final double-round at Santiago Del Estero today.The 17-year-old ventured into the under-23 division for the first time...

Sixth-placed Maxwell retains her weighty UCI MTB World Series lead

New Zealand’s Samara Maxwell had to settle for sixth place but still maintains a significant lead after the final European leg of the UCI MTB Cross-country World Series in Switzerland.The Decathlon Ford rider finished in sixth place, 1m32s behind winner Alessandra Keller (SUI) who prevailed by 16 seconds from world champion Jenny Rissveds (SWE) with Maxwell’s teammate Savilia Blunk (USA) third.After placing fifth in the short-track race earlier in the week at Lenzerheide, Maxwell fought hard...

Stevens-McNab leads triple kiwi podiums at Swiss UCI MTB World Cup

Rotorua mountain biker Lachlan Stevens-McNab grabbed his first elite podium of the season placing third in the men’s downhill final at Lenzerheide, Switzerland.The Trek Factory rider was outstanding down the tight, dry course which forms the largest bike area in Switzerland, at the final European round of the UCI MTB World Series, ahead of the concluding two rounds in USA and Canada.Stevens-McNab, 21, moves into the top-10 in the elite men’s standings on a strong day of performances for kiwi...

Mountain bike and BMX Racing chase UCI World Series podiums

Twenty-five New Zealand riders in mountain bike and BMX Racing face crunch competitions around the globe this weekend.Following on from the successful world championships, the UCI MTB World Series remains in Switzerland for the final European round for cross-country and downhill ahead of deciding rounds in North America.Likewise leading kiwi BMX Racing competitors are in Santiago del Estero, Argentina for the final double-round of the UCI World Series for all grades for 2025.Mountain bike eyes f...

Gutsy Gaze produces eye-catching ride in elite men’s cross-country

2025 UCI MTB WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS DAY 11 Cambridge professional Sam Gaze produced remarkable ride to pass more than 50 riders to 12th place in the elite men’s cross-country on the final day of the UCI MTB World Championships in Switzerland.After an indifferent season, the Commonwealth Games champion was ranked to start in 67th spot near the rear of the field for the exhausting nine-lap race at Crans Montana.He climbed his way through the field with an extraordinary display to fin...

Mighty Maxwell secures silver medal in elite women’s cross-country

Outstanding 23-year-old Sammie Maxwell has fought her way to the silver medal in the elite women’s cross-country race at the UCI MTB World Championships in Switzerland today.In only her second time in elite world championship company, Maxwell raced with equal measures of flair and fortitude to climb up to second, finishing 18 seconds behind Sweden’s Jenny Rissveds on the demanding course in Crans Montana.Maxwell was the under-23 world champion in 2023 and 11th in her elite debut last ye...

Kiwi Junior riders produce strong results in cross-country

2025 UCI MTB WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS DAY 9 New Zealand junior cross-country mountain bikers produced some strong performances in blistering fast races at the UCI MTB World Championships in Crans Montana, Switzerland today.Christchurch teenager Millie Junge led the New Zealand riders in 23rd place in the junior women’s race, moving thought he packed field to emerge as the leading Oceania rider.“I was super-happy. It was one of my best races and the vibes were awesome,” said the Cashmere Hi...

New Zealand mountain bikers seventh in XCO team relay

2025 UCI MTB WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS DAY 8 The New Zealand mixed relay team has finished seventh at the UCI MTB World Championships in Crans Montana, Switzerland.It is the first time New Zealand has fielded a team in the mixed relay in recent memory, with a rider from each grade completed the short course lap comprising junior, under-23 and elite male and female.France won from Italy and Switzerland with New Zealand the first nation outside of Europe and North America to finish. The team compri...