PORIRUA — International multisport athlete Scott Cole, from Sweden (born in US), who'll be living and racing in NZ this coming summer, will be competing in the 2014 PGT event!
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The Ride To Conquer Cancer celebrated its first annual “Epic Impact Day” in New Zealand on Wednesday. The national fundraising initiative by The Ride participants surged donations in support of life-saving cancer research and clinical trials at Cancer Society Auckland.
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Olympic Silver medallist Bevan Docherty has proven the move from ITU triathlon to the longer form of racing has paid dividends, winning Ironman NZ in March and today claiming victory at 70.3 Boise USA.
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Near perfect conditions set the day in Cairns early on today.
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The Swisse Mark Webber Tasmania Challenge will return to Tassie's west region in 2013, the place where it all began back in 2003.
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Nine national titles were handed out on the opening night of the 2013 Age Group Track Cycling Championships in Invercargill this evening.
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TAUPO — The 18th Annual New Balance Great Lake Relay which incorporates the Nature Valley Length of the Lake Relay and Marathon Tours Length of the Lake solo event gets underway this Friday 22nd February in Taupo.
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QUEENSTOWN — Returning once again to the Queenstown Bike Festival line-up is the Iconic Vertigo Bikes Dirtmasters Downhill.
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For the first time, all seven of New Zealand's World Tour professional cyclists will compete in the Calder Stewart Elite Road Championships in Christchurch next month.
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Wellington’s wizard in the pool, Mary Fisher produced some pure magic tonight, winning gold in the S11 200 m individual medley and rounding out the New Zealand 2012 campaign with 17 medals.
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CHRISTCHURCH — Total dominance - that was the story as Anton Cooper became the first New Zealand mountain biker to win a cross-country world title.
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Seventeen year old mountain biker Anton Cooper is not letting the prospect that he can create history cloud his thoughts at the UCI World Championships in Austria this weekend.
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Kiwi girl power is arguably at its strongest for this weekend’s UCI Mountain Bike Cross-country World Championships in Austria.
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CHRISTCHURCH — Welcome summer by being part of a two-day cycling extravaganza with the iconic Festival of Cycling in the first weekend of December.
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ROTORUA — The first Rotorua Bike Festival in February 2013 will kick another big year in one of New Zealand’s premier adventure sports destinations into high gear.
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WELLINGTON CITY — Big time track cycle racing returns to the Wellington Velodrome on November 4, 2012 with the launch of PNP Cycling Club’s new Burkes Cycles Speed League.
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The Horizon Energy Motu Challenge (October 13) has seen the who’s-who of multisport over the last 18 years.
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COROMANDEL — Since the inaugural event in 2002, this spectacular and challenging tour of the Coromandel Peninsula has become one of New Zealand’s favourite road cycling events.
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TARANAKI — Nathan Smith’s not used to being the most talked about son in the family, but for the next 12 days the Paralympic cyclist is hoping to give his parents every reason to gloat.
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WANAKA — A record seven months out from race day and the elite field for the 2013 Motatapu Speight’s Summit 47km high country mountain bike event scheduled for 9 March 2013 has been filled.
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INVERCARGILL — Riders, spectators and organizers will get the chance to test drive Stadium Southland Velodrome ahead of the 2012 UCI Juniors Track World Championships with a Curtain-Raiser Race Night this weekend.
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Check out the SmartWool YouTube video.
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WANAKA — New Zealand's Challenge Wanaka is on track for its largest field ever on 19 January 2013 with over 1,100 athletes already registered across both the half and full distances.
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TAUPO — The final countdown is on to the 19th annual Mizuno Taupo Half Marathon, which is being held this coming Sunday 5th August 2012.
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Gathered for Kilian's Classik in the Pyrenees, the Salomon team takes time out together on Kilian's home turf.
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WELLINGTON CITY — Dynamo Events today announced international accountancy network BDO as naming sponsor of the Wellington to Auckland Cycle Challenge.
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The world's largest iron distance triathlon and flagship of the Challenge Family global series of iron distance triathlons, Challenge Roth, has sold out in record time for 2013.
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Dust off your running shoes and tick this milestone off your bucket list.
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QUEENSTOWN — International cyclocross superstar Katie Compton has been confirmed to take part in the New Zealand Cyclocross National Series this July – a fast and furious frenzy of mud, sweat and tears.
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QUEENSTOWN — With entries opening tomorrow (June 1st, 2012) high profile adventure racing teams are lining up to compete at the second instalment of the Orion Health GODZone to held in New Zealand from the 8th - 16th March, 2013.
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CAIRNS, Australia (May 29, 2012) – Ironman champion Pete Jacobs and multiple Ironman 70.3 winner Michelle Wu will enter the inaugural URBAN Hotel Group Ironman 70.3 Cairns race as firm favourites following their performances in the Coral Coast 5150 Triathlon last weekend.
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OPOTIKI — The Motu Trails, the seventh Great Ride to be completed under Nga Haerenga, The New Zealand Cycle Trail, will be opened with a public cycling and walking event this Sunday, 20 May.
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The world's largest iron distance triathlon, Challenge Roth, today announced its pro field for 8 July 2012.
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ROTORUA — In his first attempt at Xterra, Graham O’Grady has claimed the title of New Zealand Xterra National Champion.
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ROTORUA — Multisport's past, present and future will be on show at this year's Expand-A-Sign 3D Rotorua, with organisers adding three new events to the burgeoning off-road festival.
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QUEENSTOWN — Queenstown's Mark Williams, who set a new record last year when he fought off a tight challenge, has confirmed he will race in the New World Tour de Wakatipu on his return from South Africa.
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QUEENSTOWN — The 2012 Queenstown Bike Festival (March 30-April 9) is opening next week with more than 20 events in its line up, with a programme offering competition and social events involving all things about the bike, rolled into an exciting package for adults, children, recreational and elite riders, and the general public.
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CHRISTCHURCH — 19 March 2012 – Dylan McNeice has claimed third place in only his second half ironman, at Ironman 70.3 Singapore.
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AUCKLAND — Hot on the heels of Avanti’s Project Evo2 racing bikes wining both the best in category (Gold pin) and supreme (Purple pin) awards in the product discipline at last month’s Best Design Awards in New Zealand the brand has won an internationally coveted red dot award for product design at last week’s awards ceremony in Germany.
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HAMILTON — DAY SIX REPORT: Friday 17 February The longest stage of the tour awaited a weary field of riders this morning, a 94km stage from Tokoroa to Hamilton.
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OHAKUNE — The 2012 Ruapehu Cycle Classic will not be taking place this year.
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OHAKUNE — Elite riders Roman van Uden and Louis Crosby have confirmed their entries for the NZ Bike Magazine Ruapehu Cycle Classic next month.
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OHAKUNE — Ruapehu Cycle Classic Race Directors, Matt and Tania Tuck, are pleased to announce Claymore Partners as Presenting Sponsor of their 2012 event.
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The list of European riders heading to South Australia in January continues to grow with the announcement today of the Astana Pro Team and Liquigas-Cannondale team line ups for the 2012 Santos Tour Down Under.
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AUCKLAND — PureBlack Racing announced today it is increasingly likely it will be unable to pursue plans to race internationally in 2012 due to the lack of sponsorship funding available.
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Botanic Garden Director Caz McCallum welcomed more than five hundred competitors from all over New South Wales, the Australian Capital Territory, as well as Queenslanders and racers from Victoria, who enjoyed the unique opportunity to race the first long distance mountain bike event ever be held in a botanic garden.
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MILFORD — Share the Road team mates Jeremy Yates, Brett Tivers and Chris Macic are preparing for a return to Southland roads, with the trio signing up for the Distinction Hotels Milford Mountain Classic.
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Spectators at the 2012 Santos Tour Down Under can experience a birds-eye-view of the peloton as it makes its way through some of the State's most picturesque regions.
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Dutch team Vacansoleil-DCM is ready to perform at next year's Santos Tour Down Under, with confirmation of the team's rider roster for the event announced today.
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TE ANAU — Thrilled to win the ASICS Kepler Challenge 2011 today for the second year was Vajin Armstrong, 31, of Christchurch, with a seven minute lead.
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OHAKUNE — Organisers of the Ruapehu Cycle Classic are excited to welcome Garmin on board as sponsor for their 2012 event.
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OHAKUNE — Organisers of the Ruapehu Cycle Classic are pleased to announce that the Child Cancer Foundation will be the event’s official charity for 2012.
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AUCKLAND — Team Gallagher began their bid this morning, November 27, to become the first Kiwi team to row from Sydney to Auckland harbour bridges.
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TAUPO — An elite group of NZ riders will be ‘Facing the Challenge’ in Taupo on Saturday for the 35th annual Contact Lake Taupo Cycle Challenge.
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Australia’s cycling heroes will reveal behind the scenes secrets of the pro-circuit at Launceston’s Grand Chancellor Hotel tomorrow night, Friday, 25 November, for an exclusive Open Forum featuring Richie Porte, Nathan Haas and Steele Von Hoff.
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WOKING, England—World Champion and Tour de France green jersey winner Mark Cavendish joined British Prime Minister David Cameron for the grand opening of the new McLaren Production Centre last Thursday.
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QUEENSTOWN — Following the announcement at the Adventure Racing World Championships recently held in Tasmania, Team Seagate has confirmed their entry into the inaugural Orion Health GODZone Adventure, to be held over Easter, 2012 in Queenstown, New Zealand.
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TE ANAU — (Thursday November 24) Fresh from making a strong impact in the PowerNet Tour of Southland, Chris Macic has confirmed he will line up in the Distinction Hotels Milford Mountain Classic in January.
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WANAKA — The Summer Send Off Wanaka Festival of Sport is proud to announce Allpress Espresso as a sponsor of their 2012 event.
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COROMANDEL — Exactly 250 runners from six countries started and finished the eighth annual Great Cranleigh Kauri Run, a 32km mountain run traversing the Coromandel Peninsula.
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KAILUA-KONA, HAWAII: On Friday, November 25, thirty-eight ultra-athletes will once again plunge into the waters of Kailua Bay to begin what is considered to be one of the world's most demanding individual multi-sport events - the three days of the Ultraman World Championships.
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WANAKA — From 2013 multisporters will have their chance of glory with the addition of a multisport option to be raced in alternate years of the Motatapu event.
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The Santos Tour Down Under has a new home in television, with the Nine Network securing the rights to the event for the next three years.
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As the rays from the sun re-emerge from behind the shadow of the moon, the world's first solar eclipse marathon will begin.
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Grant Nisbett has hardly had time to draw breath after commentating on the final of the RWC, but he’s now ready to support Movember- along with a host of other TV commentators.
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Dutch ProTour cycling team Rabobank will compete in the Santos Tour Down Under in January 2012 with an impressive team line up, led by 2005 Santos Tour Down Under winner Luis Leon Sanchez and multiple event stage winners.
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TE ANAU — The 60km Kepler Challenge has one 20 year entrant from Whitianga.
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The leaders are now 72 hours deep into the 700km Adventure Racing World Championships at the XPD Tasmania as they reach Granville Harbour transition with four teams vying for the official lead on time.
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The lead teams in the Adventure Racing World Championship are racing the fine line between exhaustion and sleep deprivation, with just four hours separating the top four teams on course, although team Seagate's penalty is making the racing closer on adjusted time.
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SOUTHLAND — Pavel Stuchlik will feel right at home if forecast snow actually eventuates during the PowerNet Tour of Southland today.
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SOUTHLAND — The PowerNet Tour of Southland was blown wide open today following the withdrawal of leading contender Hayden Roulston.
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On the evening of the first day of the Adventure Racing World Champs 2011 in Tasmania, Kiwi team Seagate lead the worlds best teams on the 700km expedition race by 39 minutes from Team Silva of Sweden.
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SOUTHLAND — Defending champion Hayden Roulston’s grip on the 2011 PowerNet Tour of Southland yellow jersey has been shaved to just six seconds – and he’s not fazed one bit.
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SOUTHLAND — Motivation isn’t hard to find for the PowerNet team in this year’s Tour of Southland – it only takes a quick glance at the name Tess etched on their race kit.
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SOUTHLAND — Legendary PowerNet Tour of Southland champion Brian Fowler admits he’s keen for another crack at the punishing race.
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SOUTHLAND — What’s the definition of tough? Riding a staggering 30km of the PowerNet Tour of Southland with a broken collarbone just millimetres away from protruding through your skin should qualify.
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SOUTHLAND — Hayden Roulston’s foot remains firmly planted on the accelerator in his PowerNet Tour of Southland quest, dubbed “the drive for five”.
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TE ANAU — The event to be held on 3 December on the world famous Kepler Track in Fiordland National Park, is drawing even more competitors from around the world.
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New Zealand cycling champion Cath Cheatley returned home to Wanganui this week to begin the long road to recovery after a serious racing accident nearly a month ago.
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Bring your tunes with you and enhance any activity with the AERIAL7 SOUND DISK SPORTS BEANIE.
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OPOTIKI — Motu Challenge is considered NZ's premier North Island multisport race.
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Avanti’s new Project Evo II racing bike took out the Purple Pin (Supreme) award in the product discipline at last Friday’s Best Design Awards, organised by the Designers Institute of New Zealand.
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The 2011 Santos Tour Down Under took out the most prestigious award at the Australian Event Awards in Sydney, being named the 2011 Australian Event of the Year.
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WANAKA — Entries for the 2012 Summer Send-Off Festival of Sport are now open at www.summersendoff.co.nz.
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Sporting fans have the chance to ride alongside cycling royalty, with the announcement five-time Tour de France winner Eddy Merckx will take part in the 2012 Santos Tour Down Under recreational ride, the Bupa Challenge Tour.
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CHRISTCHURCH — The coming of summer and another step towards Christchurch’s revival will be herald on October 15th with the iconic Le Race Christchurch to Akaroa cycle race.
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GORE — The MLT Moonshine Trail might be an ideal warm-up for the Motatapu, but it also presents its own challenge – and it is one that organisers are hoping plenty of people will take up next year.
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HOBART, Australia (August 10) – The Swisse Mark Webber Tasmania Challenge is set to be the most premium and prestigious event on the multisport calendar this year – and the limited entries to join the field are going fast.
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Singapore, August 10th, 2011, Outdoor Channel (Asia), the world leader in outdoor entertainment, has signed an exclusive partnership with the Adventure Racing World Championship (ARWC 2011) to broadcast the finale of the world’s premier adventuring racing across the Asia-Pacific footprint of Outdoor Channel.
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AUCKLAND — Sporting fans have until 5pm, Monday, August 1, 2011, to take advantage of early-bird prices for the Bupa Challenge Tour, the recreational ride held during the Santos Tour Down Under.
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TE ANAU — Entries for the unique 120km Milford Mountain Classic road cycle race and the shorter 57km Eglinton Challenge – scheduled for January 11, 2012 – are now open online and organisers are expecting a mix of elite and recreational cyclists to take on the challenging route from Milford to Te Anau.
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INVERCARGILL — Friday July 22: There may be several changes to events running alongside this year’s Ascot Park Hotel Southland Marathon, but the marathon – New Zealand’s oldest, in its 102nd year – will remain untouched.
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South Australian cycling legend, Stuart O’Grady, headlines a large group of riders who competed in the 2011 Santos Tour Down Under and will take part in this year’s Tour de France, which starts tonight.
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Competitors in the 2012 Santos Tour Down Under will visit Clare Valley, Adelaide Hills, the Fleurieu Peninsula and the Barossa before a gruelling finish at the top of Old Willunga Hill in the penultimate stage.
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