Southland Sport

A big day in the wind has provided a record Tour of Southland field with its first major test of this year’s race. In the end it was rookie Zakk Patterson (Base Solutions Racing) who won a bunch sprint on the Te Anau lakefront, with overnight leader Boris Clark (Quality Foods Southland) retaining hi

Ohaupo rider Boris Clark was as surprised as anyone to be wearing the yellow jersey after today’s second stage of the Tour of Southland. Riding in his fourth lap of the south, Clark (Quality Foods Southland) was happily preparing to collect the Most Combative jersey after being part of the breakaway

Commonwealth Games silver medallist Ben Oliver has earned first use of the Tour of Southland’s yellow jersey after an impressive ride on day one. The 25-year-old, who finished second behind compatriot Sam Gaze in the cross country mountainbike in Birmingham earlier this year, capped an outstanding d

After two Covid-affected years a strong 21-team field will assemble for this week’s SBS Bank Tour of Southland. New Zealand cycling’s longest-running and most prestigious stage race welcomes back riders from across the country and the globe in 2023, something race director Sally Marr is excited and

The Tour of Southland has not always been the sole preserve of hardened road racers. Past years have seen the likes of top rower Hamish Bond, and top mountain biker Sam Gaze, shake up the racing and serve notice of their potential on the road. Last year, it was the turn of local mountain bike […]

It has been a huge month for fast rising Southland motor racing star, Alex Crosbie. Fifteen-year-old Crosbie, a Year 11 student at Southland Boys High School, has spent time in Kuala Lumpur as part of the Ferrari Driver Academy programme as well as experiencing success in New Zealand. Crosbie, the r

Teretonga Park in Invercargill turns 65 years old next month and club patron Barry Keen has been there and seen it all from the beginning. The Southland Sports Car Club, which operates the circuit, celebrates its own milestone with a 75th anniversary next year and in the 10 years prior to the circui

Schools cycling focussed on the deep south with both the SKODA National Schools Track Cycling Championships and Mountain Bike Championships hosted in Southland. The track over two days was staged at the SIT Zero Fees Velodrome at Invercargill with the mountain bike 30 minutes south at Bluff. North I