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In 1956, Southland cycling officials were invited to submit an event to mark the Invercargill city centenary celebrations. A group of enthusiasts met locally and on Saturday 27 September 1956, the Mayor of Invercargill, Mr Abraham Wachner fired the starting pistol outside of the old Post Office in Dee Street, to officially start the inaugural Tour of Southland.  With gravel roads and blustery northerly winds to contend with, Kelvin Hastie from Dunedin prevailed in the three day event and had the honour of being the victor in the first Tour of Southland, an event that would gain high profile for both the sport of Cycling and the province over future years.  

From its modest beginnings as a three day event, the Tour has always caught the imagination of the Southland people and the public have traditionally turned out in numbers to see the high profiled event travelling literally past their back doors.

Many of New Zealand's champion cyclists have competed in the Tour of Southland during their careers. Names such as Warwick Dalton, Tino Tabak, Stephen Cox, Jack Swart, Paul Jesson, Graeme Miller, Brian Fowler and others, became household names in Southland and for many of these riders, the Tour of Southland featured prominently in their illustrious careers.

Over the years, the Tour has taken regular progressive steps to ensure the events popularity and success with the most significant change coming in 1995 when the event successfully made the transition to a team's event and in 2002 when the event gained UCI status and became a registered category 2.2 UCI international Tour.

In recent years, the Tour of Southland has attracted many international riders but during its 60 years of history there have only been three international riders who have won the Tour - Mel Powell (Australia) back in 1964 and American rider John Lieswyn in both 2002 and 2004. Mitchell Lovelock-Fay - Australia 2014.

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• 1 WILLIAMSON James
• 2 OLIVER Ben
• 3 DUYVESTEYN Kees
• 4 GILBERTSON Theo
• 5 GRAVE Oliver
• 6 RITCHIE Samuel
• 11 COOPER Joseph
• 12 JENNER Samuel
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• 34 EDDY Samual
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• 36 HILL Samuel
• 41 SCOTT Ari
• 42 HAMILTON Ben
• 43 BRIDGWATER Daniel
• 44 HADEN Glenn
• 45 EVANS Toby
• 46 RICHARDS Kane
• 51 PITHIE Campbell
• 52 KEAST Hamish
• 53 KERGOZOU DE LA BOESSIERE Nick
• 54 BATT Ethan
• 55 OLIVER Craig
• 56 COOPER William

• 61 RUSH Christian
• 62 MITCHELL Finn
• 63 PRICE Corby
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• 65 CHAPMAN Adam
• 66 WILSON Matthew

• 71 LAWSON Richard
• 72 YARRELL Guy
• 73 FEINT Camden
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• 76 RIVETT Josh
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• 82 CHIHARA Kazuma
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Tour Countdown: From competitor to first time tour director

“there is no way i could be doing this without the help of a large number of people.... “i’m not going to sit here and tell you i know everything.".

The 2023 SBS Bank Tour of Southland will start on Sunday. In the lead-up to the event, The Tribune is running a series of Tour Countdown stories.

Glen Thomson’s relationship with New Zealand’s premier road cycling race stretches back a few decades now.

The 50-year-old recalls being allowed time off school as a 14-year-old to head out and follow the Tour of Southland as a spectator.

He went on to compete in it as a rider, “eight or nine times” he thinks.

Thomson has also taken on other roles in the tour, including as a team manager.

But he might just have taken on his biggest assignment yet when it comes to the SBS Bank Tour of Southland.

The 2023 Tour of Southland will be his first as the tour’s race director. It’s a pretty big deal given few have held the role since the race was first launched in 1956.

For 35 years Bruce Ross was in charge. Ross handed over the reins after the 2019 tour when he retired, and Sally Marr stepped in.

Now it’s Thomson’s turn.

It’s a job that extends well beyond the seven days of racing. The tasks are wide-ranging, from sorting sponsors to the safety requirements attached to sending a field of about 114 riders throughout Southland.

It could be a daunting assignment.

For Thomson, he points out he’s lucky with the support he has received in the lead-up to the 2023 Tour of Southland, which starts on Sunday.

“There is no way I could be doing this without the help of a large number of people. I don’t feel like I’m in charge telling people what to do.

“I’m not going to sit here and tell you I know everything, because I don’t.”

Included in the large group of helpers is Bruce Ross. He’s been on hand with his encyclopedic knowledge of the tour providing support for Thomson where needed.

“I talk to him daily; he is a really good mentor. He is pretty quick to let me know if I’ve missed something which is perfect.

“We go out and see community sponsors, and he’s come and done that with me. It’s fantastic because you roll in and they all know him and joke with him.

“He’s got a story that relates to them, he’s just a wealth of knowledge.”

“When I’m not with him, everyone is asking how Bruce is. They are all stoked when I tell them he is still helping me out.

“It’s a big ‘we’, it’s not just me. There are a lot of people helping out.”

Before getting involved in cycling administration he carved out an impressive cycling career himself on both the road and track. It included winning a Commonwealth Games gold medal in the points race in 1998 at Kuala Lumpur.

It was after missing out on a trip to the 1996 Olympic Games where he says he got a true understanding of the amount of work that goes on behind the scenes in cycling.

He had stopped riding for a bit and planned to head back to New Zealand from Belgium to ride the Tour of Southland.

He was set to line up for a team sponsored by Sycamore Print before deciding to pull out because he felt he hadn’t trained properly.

“I was asked to come down and manage the team [instead]. I thought, ‘That sounds like fun’, but far out it was hard.

“There was a lot to do, I thought, ‘shit, being a bike rider is easy.”

He got back on his bike after that tour as a manager and felt he became a much better rider as a result.

In fact, he rated the next couple of years after that as the best of his career.

“I think it was because doing that tour as a manager, you just realised how many other people were making things happen for you.

“I have to say I must have been quite a selfish bike rider. That opened my eyes a bit after it.”

Thomson has opted to retain the same Tour of Southland course used in recent years under former race director Sally Marr.

“What Sally has done is really good, especially drawing the stage back from Queenstown and going up the Remarkables, that does mean we don’t impact on Queenstown.

“We certainly didn’t think there was anything about the race that needed changed to make it better. We’ve driven the course and it certainly hasn’t gotten any easier.”

The 14km climb to the midway point of the Remarkables access road was one that was not just a defining point of the race, but could also be a defining point in a rider’s career, Thomson believes.

“It's a European-level climb. There’s a reason that guys who win that stage get interest from professional teams, because they can put their data across and say they are a proper climber.

So, what about Thomson’s personal stand out in terms of Tour of Southland’s to date?

He has cast his mind back to 2006 for his.

“My favorite one would have to be when [Hayden] Roulston won it when he made his comeback. It relaunched his career, and what a career.”

The 2023 SBS Bank Tour of Southland will start on Sunday with the usual 4.2km team time trial around Queens Park in Invercargill.

That will be followed by stage one, a 42km street race around Queens Park.

Additional reporting from Nathan Burdon.

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The results: 2021 Tour Of Southland

The MitoQ-sponsored team NZ Cycling Project was among the 2021 Tour of Southland winners!

Jan 19, 2022

Completing the Tour of Southland is no easy feat. Entering this 540-mile cycling race means signing up for what is arguably the Southern Hemisphere's biggest cycling tour. While cycling through New Zealand’s extraordinarily beautiful deep south might sound delightful – it takes a lot of energy and stamina to race through it for seven days. And that’s why we sponsor NZ Cycling Project – so that their bodies are supported throughout the race, on a cellular level.

“The weather is just so unpredictable”, says James Canny, NZ Cycling Project’s Team Leader. “The stages are hard. The way I explain it to the young riders: it’s like a one-day race, every day. You’ve kind of got to leave it all out there.”

“Recovery in a race like this is so vital”, explains team member Ben Oliver. “We’re racing seven days, as hard as we can”.

It’s not NZ Cycling Project and MitoQ’s first Tour of Southland – the team came away with two jerseys last year. So it was no surprise that this year we had more than one rider on the winner’s stage to accept trophies and jerseys. George Jackson earned the Sprint Ace jersey – a jersey awarded to the rider with the most sprints - for which he not only received the crowd’s applause, but also the traditional team spraying of beer for the team's best performance of the week! Tour debutant Josh Burnett won the trophy for first Southlander in the General Classification standings. Then Paul Wright, last year’s King of the Mountains champion, won the jersey for the Most Combative rider on the final stage.

As the final times and places were tallied for the General Classification results – Jack Drage (9th) and Josh Burnett (10th) cracked the top ten, overall. The team arrived home in 2nd place overall, making the 65th edition of the Tour of Southland one of the team's most successful!

“Without sponsors, a team like NZ Cycling Project wouldn’t be able to exist”, tells Josh. “We’re really fortunate to be represented by some cool New Zealand brands – especially a brand like MitoQ. It’s definitely taken us to a whole new level.”

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