Cycling New Zealand acknowledges Steve Stannard\u2019s immense and passionate contribution to cycling at all levels and offers heartfelt sympathy to Steve\u2019s family and friends on his recent passing.<\/p>\n
Cycling New Zealand recognises the significant contribution to the sport by Steve, who passed away recently after a lengthy battle with cancer.<\/p>\n
A professor, Steve moved to New Zealand to establish the school of sport and exercise science at Massey University over 20 years ago. He was a passionate and successful bike rider who competed to national level and major events like the Oceania Road Championship and the New Zealand Cycle Classic.<\/p>\n
Steve made a massive contribution to cycling as a regular bike rider, a commentator on the sport, and an event organiser who founded and staged the Gravel & Tar race in Manawatu, which was the only UCI-recognised one-day race in New Zealand at the time.<\/p>\n
He served on the Cycling New Zealand Board where he provided practical advice and direction on both cycling events and development.<\/p>\n
The Board and staff of Cycling New Zealand join with the cycling community in recognising Steve\u2019s wonderful contribution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cycling New Zealand acknowledges Steve Stannard\u2019s immense and passionate contribution to cycling at all levels and offers heartfelt…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16178,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,784,85],"class_list":["post-116586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cycling","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}