After reviewing the first part of the year last week, what better way to send out 2012 than with part two of our Cycling Year in Review.
JUNE
Steph McKenzie is named Southland's Junior Sportsperson of the Year while Eddie Dawkins and Ross Machejefski both earn finalist spots at the ILT Southland Sports Awards.
JULY
Southland District Council's Cherie Champion, Adrian Buddle, Jamie Cunningham and Mark Day take out the 2012 Harrex Group Corporate Pursuit title, Bradley Wiggins wins the Tour de France and we honour Lyn Randall with Life Membership at our AGM.
AUGUST
Eddie Dawkins earns a top five Olympic result in the Men's Team Sprint while Natasha Hansen features prominently in her Olympic debut and the UCI Juniors Track World Championships are staged in Invercargill. New Zealand win seven silver and three bronze medals and an unprecedented five world record rides are recorded. Brilliantly supported by spectators and the wider Southland community, Cycling Southland delivers the best ever Junior World Champs and stamped the city and our velodrome on the world stage.
SEPTEMBER
Phillipa Gray and Laura Fairweather combine for a full set of Paralympic medals at the London Paralympics. The pair smash the world record in winning gold in the Individual Pursuit after taking bronze in the Time Trial and then completed their set with silver in the road Time Trial. Sophie Williamson rides strongly to just miss a medal in her final race as a junior at the World Road Championships in Holland while Andy McIntyre takes out the Murray McLeay Trophy on Cycling Southland's Memorial Weekend.
OCTOBER
A record field of 189 takes to the roads in our annual Yunca Junior Tour of Southland. The weather gods don't play ball on the Saturday in Te Tipua but the sunshine returned for some exciting climaxes on the final day. At the Velodrome the first track event of the new season shows the unquestionable talent coming through the Junior ranks and stamp Australian Jack Edwards as a freakish talent and a name to watch as a future superstar of the sport.
NOVEMBER
The final PowerNet-sponsored Tour of Southland ends in appropriate fashion with the race lead changing on the final stage of the week long race. Node 4-Subaru's Mike Northey claims a hugely popular victory on the ride to Gala Street. A record 17 Southlanders line up at the Oceania Track Championships in Adelaide. They return with 15 medals including an incredible Southland trifecta with Eddie Dawkins, Cam Karwowski and Matt Dodds finishing 1,2,3 in the Men's kilo.
DECEMBER
James Hargest retain the Secondary School track cycling title by a solitary point, two national records fall at the Southland Track Championships and Jeremy Presbury and Liam Aitcheson are named to ride at the Sydney Youth Olympic Festival in January. Sophie Williamson is named BikeNZ's Emerging Talent while she, Eddie Dawkins and Phillipa Gray all feature in the Halberg Award nominees.
Let's do it all again in 2013. Happy New Year.
Nick Jeffrey is Cycling Southland's Chief Executive
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