The Team Championship

The hill-top finish line of the Onewhero course always produces a stunning climax to the racing there, and Race Four of the 2020/21 Team Championship, the Grassroots Trust Onewhero Classic, delivered yet again. Although outnumbered in the break, Henrietta Christie and Annamarie Lipp of the Velo Project team cleverly took a 1-2 in the Elite […]

The rolling hills of Ngaruawahia produced splits and breaks across all of the categories in Race Three of the Grassroots Trust 2020/21 Team Championship, the Waikato District Council Grand Prix. In both Elite races, early breaks proved to be the tactic of the day, with Xander White (Black Spoke Pro Cycling Academy) and Olivia Ray […]

Exciting sprint finishes dominated Race Two of the Grassroots Trust 2020/21 Team Championship, the South Waikato District Council – Forrest Classic. Elite Men Individual Leader Nick Kergozou’s Central Roofing / Revolution Cycling successfully dragging back the break of the day in the last few kilometres for Kergozou to extend his points tally, while Jessie Hodges […]

With double points on offer no one was holding back in the South Waikato District Council Final, the last race of the 2019/20 Grassroots Trust Team Championship. Tokoroa’s notorious tough chip rolling forestry roads combined with a consistent niggling breeze and the days heat produced honest racing performances across all of the six categories. Consistently […]

On a day when finding shade would be the preference, no one was hiding when it came to producing some spectacular racing in Race 5 of the Team Championship, the Grassroots Trust Tamahere Classic. Embargoed from the riders until just two days before, the undulating route proved to break up the bunches in most of […]

Velo Project’s Kirsty McCallum played it cool and calculated in the final Elite Womens race of the Dynamo Events Team Championship, the Grassroots Trust Onewhero Classic, taking the win on the day to become the Overall Winner of the series. While back to back wins in the Category 1 race rewarded Josh Kuysten of the […]

Straight from the flag the racing was full gas in both the Category 1 and Elite Women events during the Waikato District Council Grand Prix on Sunday, the third race of the 2019/20 Grassroots Trust Team Championship series. Both races dictated by moves in the opening kilometres, Josh Kuysten of the GD Pringle Building /Spoken […]

It was day for animated racing, with breaks forming early in both the Elite Women and the Category 1 races during second event of the Grassroots Trust Team Championship. The South Waikato District Council – Forrest Classic held around Tokoroa’s rolling countryside saw Holly Edmondston of Velo Project take the win in the Elite Women […]

Despite multiple attacks throughout all of the first races of the Grassroots Trust Team Championship, the short flat Cambridge course delivered bunch sprints across the categories, with Georgia Danford of the Castelli Womens Racing team taking the victory in the Elite Women race and Team Central Roofing Revolution Cycling’s Tom Sexton steering clear of a […]

In just four years the Dynamo Events organized Grassroots Trust Team Championship series has become a staple in the New Zealand cycle racing calendar. Focusing not just on individual triumph but more towards team performance and tactics, the six-race event returns again, kicking off its first round in Cambridge on the 22nd September. Sixty-seven teams […]