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World Tour riders return to spice up fields for Elite Road Cycling Nationals

There is a record 15 New Zealand riders from UCI World Tour teams to line up in the 2026 Elite Road Cycling National Championships in Te Awamutu on 5-7 February.Added to the 10 men and five women from New Zealand on the World Tour, there are several Kiwis on the start line who will ride for UCI Pro Teams this year, including defending champion Paul Wright, who joins fellow New Zealand rider Ben Oliver in the new Modern Adventure Pro Cycling team run by American legend George Hincapie.Leading the...

Double-double success for Henderson and Cooper in Oceania MTB

The opening two rounds of the UCI Oceania Continental MTB Series for cross-country proved a double-double success for outstanding professionals, Australian Rebecca Henderson and kiwi star Anton Cooper in Christchurch today.Cooper, readying himself for his 15th year on the professional world circuit, again took full advantage of the home track at Crocodile Park in Halswell, where he first learned the sport at age 11 years.Twenty years on, Cooper went from the start, opening a narrow early le...

Veteran pair dominate opening cross-country Oceania MTB in Christchurch

The two dominant cross-country mountain bikers in Oceania competition, Australian Rebecca Henderson and kiwi Anton Cooper, claimed the opening round honours in the UCI Continental Series in Christchurch today.Four-time Olympian Henderson grabbed an emphatic win in Christchurch today to start the series on the strongest note.The two-time world championship medallist was untroubled in winning the elite women’s honours, clearing out from the field from the start to set fastest time on each of the...

Burnett wins third SBS Bank Tour of Southland title

Josh Burnett has become just the sixth rider to win three or more SBS Bank Tour of Southland titles after surviving a frenetic final day today.Burnett (PowerNet) started the day with a 19sec lead over Cambridge’s Matthew Wilson (Advanced Personnel Cycling Team), but an outstanding individual time trial by Wilson in the morning saw him take the stage victory and cut the lead to just 10sec heading into the final 77km stage from Winton to Invercargill.The fast and furious stage was lashed by wind...

Clark leads way in opening downhill at Mt Hutt

Kiwi mountain bike fans were given a chance to see some of the rising international downhill stars in action when the UCI Oceania Continental Series got underway at Mt Hutt, Canterbury today.The international kiwi elite cream rose to the top in the men’s finals.Fastest qualifier Oli Clark from Kaikoura prevailed in the final, clocking 3:50.31 for his run to finish just over a second ahead of Rotorua international Joe Millington.Clark, 18, enjoyed a brilliant 2025 international season, finishin...

World-class field confirmed for ILT NZ Criterium Championships in Invercargill

Cycling Southland is set to deliver a spectacular afternoon of high-speed racing when the ILT New Zealand Criterium Championships take place on Saturday 17 January, with a world-class field of riders confirmed across all championship categories.Building on the success of last year’s event, the championships will be staged on the new fast, flowing 2.1km circuit incorporating Bainfield Road and Queens Drive.Featuring wide roads and excellent sightlines for spectators, the course is perfectly sui...

2025 — Sublime Season of Success

Cycling New Zealand riders have this year enjoyed arguably their most successful return ever across all genre of pedal power.Kiwi riders have proudly podiumed at UCI World Championships, World Series and World Tour races on Mountain Bike (Cross-country, Downhill and Enduro), Road, BMX, Track and Esport. Additionally in 2025, there are outstanding performances from Para cycling riders on road and track, now fully integrated under the Cycling New Zealand umbrella for the first time.The collective ...

Kiwi riders prosper amid strong international test on the track

New Zealand’s leading track cyclists faced some international competition led by a strong squad from Japan, at the Omnium and Madison National Championships in Cambridge.The two-day event sponsored by Caniwi Capital carried UCI global ranking points as the riders got to blow off the cobwebs from a long road season as they prepare for their international track programme starting in February.Scratch race world champion Kazushige Kuboki led the way with some impressive riding to claim the four-di...

Cycling Southland to host NZ Criterium Champs

Cycling Southland is proud to once again host the ILT New Zealand Criterium Championships on Saturday 17 January 2026, where national jerseys will be contested across all categories from Under 15 through to Elite Men and Women.Following the success of this year’s event, organisers have confirmed a brand-new course for 2026, utilising Bainfield Road and Queens Drive. Riders will complete laps of a fast and flowing 2.1km circuit, turning on Queens Drive at the Gimblett Street intersection. With ...

Kiwi cyclist Kate McCarthy claims second UCI Esports World Championship

Hamilton rider Kate McCarthy dominated racing to claim back-to-back titles at the UCI Esports World Championship at the grand finals in Abu Dhabi today.McCarthy set the stage with a dominant performance on the first stage hill climb and from that point was never seriously threatened over the remaining two stages to beat off the other 21 finalists.The kiwi rider finished on 597 points from Brazil’s Gabriella Guerra 525 points and Italy’s Francesca Tommasi rounded out the podium with 478 point...

Champion heads New Zealand quartet to UCI Esport World Finals

Hamilton’s Kate McCarthy is the top qualifier in the defence of her title for the 2025 UCI Esport World Championships in Abu Dhabi this weekend.McCarthy heads a four-strong New Zealand contingent including last year’s top qualifier Ollie Jones and fellow Cantabrian Michael Vink plus Marlborough-based former Black Stick, Bridget Kiddle.The quartet all qualified for the world championship from qualifying and semifinals, among 22 female and 22 male competitors chasing world championship honours...

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...