Strong Southland Contingent Off To World Champs

Cycling Southland congratulates club members Eddie Dawkins and Tom Scully, who were this morning confirmed in Bike NZ’s 17-strong squad for the World Track Cycling Championships in Denmark later this month.

Dawkins, who has been in blistering form over recent months, is part of a five-strong men’s sprint squad and Scully will ride the Points race and the two-man Madison alongside Timaru’s Marc Ryan.

Cycling Southland’s Chief Executive Nick Jeffrey said, “we are delighted to see Eddie and Tom’s continued development to the point where they now form a key part of the national squad. The NZ squad has been in camp at the ILT Velodrome for the last two weeks and certainly have been driven hard by Tim Carswell and his coaching team. We’ve been lucky enough to see Ali Shanks wearing world championship colours while training and it would be outstanding if we see a few more of those white uniforms when the squad returns for its next camp in Invercargill after Copenhagen.”

“I know I speak for all of the Southland sporting public and certainly for Tom and Eddie’s fellow club members when I wish them and the rest of the squad the very best for their World Champs campaign,” Jeffrey said.

Cycling Southland member Chris O’Connor from Invercargill also joins the team as mechanic.