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Summer holiday festivities have been kept in check for New Zealand’s leading track cyclists, who take their first serious pedal-stroke towards the Paris Olympics when the Nations Cup series begins in two weeks.
Southlanders Tom Sexton and Nick Kergozou are adding their experience to the New Zealand men’s endurance squad at the UCI World Championships track event.
Cycling New Zealand has named a 17-strong team to contest an historic UCI Track Cycling World Championships in Glasgow from 2 to 9 August.
Southland rider Tom Sexton heads to his European cycling base buoyed with a bunch of podium performances on the track and road as he begins his journey to next year’s Paris Olympics.
New Zealand’s leading cyclists produced excellent performances in their return to the track both at the Aon Cambridge 3-Day carnival and in Australia over the weekend.
While the rest of New Zealand is lining up Christmas holidays, for Cycling New Zealand elite track riders it signals the start of a hectic and vital summer with Paris Olympic qualification at stake.
The New Zealand men’s team pursuit finished a blink away from qualifying for the bronze medal ride on the opening day of the UCI Track cycling World Championships in Paris.
Southland riders make up a third of the nine-strong New Zealand team heading to Paris in two weeks to compete in the UCI Track World Championships.
The New Zealand women’s cyclists made a strong challenge on the penultimate day of competition at the Oceania Championships in Brisbane.
With a weather-eye on the immediate need for global points but with a desire to look to the future, Cycling New Zealand has selected a mix of proven and potential in the team to context next week’s track competition at the Oceania Championships in Brisbane.
It was girl power to the fore on the penultimate day of the Cycling New Zealand Track National Championships at the Grassroots Trust Velodrome in Cambridge.
Southland’s Tom Sexton will ride for gold in the elite men’s individual pursuit at the Cycling NZ track nationals in Cambridge tonight.
Southland elite riders Tom Sexton, Nick Kergozou and Emma Cumming will be in action in Cambridge from tomorrow.
