{"id":580116,"date":"2026-04-02T05:50:39","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T05:50:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/580116\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T05:50:39","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T05:50:39","slug":"deni-cyclists-raise-12k-for-hospital-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/580116\/","title":{"rendered":"Deni cyclists raise $12k for hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"

The not-for-profit charity ride saw a dedicated team tackle the more than 500km relay journey from the Murray River in NSW to the Moyne River at Port Fairy in Victoria following their fundraising efforts.<\/p>\n

Deni relay member Matt Tubb said the final tally was a little difficult to calculate with in-kind donations, but estimated just over $12,000 was raised.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe also want to give a big shoutout to Dysons who supplied the bus for transport, and to all our sponsors who were recognised on our sponsors board.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mr Tubb said a group of local cyclers rode with mixed conditions across both days.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere were nine riders in our group – six Deni riders, as well as two Echuca riders and one from Cohuna.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was quite challenging conditions on Saturday. There were strong gusts of a south-westerly, which made it tough.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a relay section on the Saturday, with everyone riding in groups and doing about 70km to 100km each, depending on the group.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe then had really good conditions for a \u2018Mickey Mouse ride\u2019 on the Sunday from Hamilton down to Port Fairy, and on getting there it was almost swimming weather.\u201d<\/p>\n

Team leader Graeme Butcher said Sunday\u2019s ride was a good effort to cap off this year\u2019s ride.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe team rode in different positions on the road for about 90km each on Sunday from 7am to 10am in beautiful weather, which was great.\u201d<\/p>\n

All the funds raised by the team will go to and are held by the Deniliquin Hospital fundraising committee.<\/p>\n

The funds will be spent on what is needed at the hospital outside the NSW government budget.<\/p>\n

From the 2025 relay result, the hospital has received two state-of-the-art Stryker wheelchairs and a new paediatric mannequin to assist with specialised emergency training.<\/p>\n

Mr Tubb said this year\u2019s ride was made even more significant due to the plan to wrap up the Cycle Relay after the 40th anniversary event in 2027.<\/p>\n

Deni riders have been taking part since the very first relay in 1987, and in recent years local fundraising has averaged $10,000 a year.<\/p>\n

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Dave Murphy, Matt Tubb and Shannon Dehne.<\/p>\n

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Darren McKemmish, Graeme Butcher and Jane McMullen.<\/p>\n

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Annie Romanin, Kaz Butcher and Alex Romanin.<\/p>\n

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Dave Murphy, Shannon Dehne and Matt Tubb about to start the 2026 Murray to Moyne.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The not-for-profit charity ride saw a dedicated team tackle the more than 500km relay journey from the Murray…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":579954,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,784,85],"class_list":["post-580116","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\/580116","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=580116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/579954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=580116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=580116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=580116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}