{"id":475419,"date":"2026-02-14T23:50:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T23:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/475419\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T23:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T23:50:09","slug":"sexton-erwood-and-boys-star-at-oceania-track-cycling-champs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/475419\/","title":{"rendered":"Sexton, Erwood, and Boys star at Oceania Track Cycling Champs"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Southland\u2019s Tom Sexton, Benson Boys, and Marshall Erwood all standing on the top of the podium at the Oceania Track Cycling Championships in Cambridge.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Cycling Southland remains a powerhouse on the track following an impressive week at the Oceania Track Cycling Championships in Cambridge.<\/p>\n

Southland cyclists delivered in the elite ranks, while 16-year-old Benson Boys yet again confirmed that he is one of New Zealand\u2019s brightest young cycling talents.<\/p>\n

Marshall Erwood and Tom Sexton\u2019s individual elite titles headlined Southland\u2019s notable week.<\/p>\n

Erwood, who has made big strides over the past year or so, won the Elite Men\u2019s Elimination Race.<\/p>\n

Sexton stood on the top of the podium with his victory in the Elite Men\u2019s Omnium title, and Erwood picked up the bronze medal in that event.<\/p>\n

Sexton added a second individual gold medal to his tally when he was victorious in winning the Elite Men\u2019s Individual Pursuit, in an event that Erwood picked up silver.<\/p>\n

Fellow Southlander Nick Kergozou was also amongst the medals with his bronze in the Elite Men\u2019s Scratch Race.<\/p>\n

While the likes of Erwood and Sexton road themselves to elite Oceania titles, many eyes were also on 16-year-old Boys who continues to make waves in his first year in the Under-19 ranks.<\/p>\n

Heading into the Oceania Track Cycling Championships, Boys had claimed three national titles in the space of three months<\/a>, winning the NZ U19 omnium, criterium, and road race titles.<\/p>\n

The Central Southland College pupil backed that up with a stunning ride at the Oceania Championships to win the U19 scratch race on the back of a powerful sprint finish.<\/p>\n

The Southlander ended up with a bag of medals, also finishing second in the points race, second in the time trial, as well as the elimination race.<\/p>\n

Not surprisingly, his massive workload of racing of late eventually took its toll later in the week, although Boys did find enough in him to produce a strong showing in the points race as part of the omnium event.<\/p>\n

Boys will now get a well-earned short breather before the focus switches to the New Zealand Track Cycling Championships to be held in Invercargill next month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Southland\u2019s Tom Sexton, Benson Boys, and Marshall Erwood all standing on the top of the podium at the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":475420,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,82],"class_list":["post-475419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cycling","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=475419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475419\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/475420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}