{"id":477656,"date":"2026-02-16T02:33:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T02:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/477656\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T02:33:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T02:33:09","slug":"cyclists-glitzy-night-out-at-halberg-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/477656\/","title":{"rendered":"Cyclists’ glitzy night out at Halberg Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Marshall Erwood with the bronze medal he won at the World Track Cycling Championships in Chile.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Marshall Erwood has given himself three days off following a frantic month on the bike, and a trip to the glitzy Halberg Awards on Monday night has taken up one of those days.<\/p>\n

Erwood, as well as fellow Southland cyclists Tom Sexton and Nick Kergozou, have squeezed in the NZ Criterium Championships, Tour of Southland, NZ Road Nationals, and Oceania Track Cycling Championships, all in the space of four weeks.<\/p>\n

The trio headed to Auckland for Monday night\u2019s Halberg Awards, where they are a finalist in the Team of the Year category.<\/p>\n

Their finalist spot comes on the back of claiming bronze in the team pursuit at the World Track Cycling Championships in Chile last year.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s going to be pretty special. I\u2019m going to have to be on my best behaviour, I\u2019ve got the rest of the team pursuit boys to keep me in line,\u201d 20-year-old Erwood told The Tribune in the lead up to the Halberg Awards.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think I\u2019ve been to such a prestigious event before, so I\u2019ve had to dust off the suit and get that ready.\u201d<\/p>\n

Another Southlander, Alena Saili, is also a finalist in the Team of the Year category as part of the Black Ferns sevens team.<\/p>\n

Erwood finished up at the Oceania Track Cycling Championships in Cambridge on Saturday, and after a couple of days\u2019 rest, he plans to return to training on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

The focus has switched to preparing for World Cup events in Hong Kong and Malaysia in April.<\/p>\n

After those two World Cup events, he will spend about a month training in Invercargill before then heading to the United States to compete on the road.<\/p>\n

That will lead him to the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow in July and August.<\/p>\n

\u201cEveryone in Southland just froths it when you get a medal or do well overseas, so I would love to get a result there,\u201d Erwood said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wouldn\u2019t mind winning the [Elimination Race at the Commonwealth Games], that would be pretty cool.\u201d<\/p>\n

That\u2019s just what he did at the Oceania Track Cycling Championships, winning the Elimination Race in Cambridge.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was pretty happy with how I was tracking, considering I hadn\u2019t touched the track bike for about two months.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe jumped straight into a team pursuit, and I wasn\u2019t sure how I was going to go. I told the boys I was quite nervous. But we jumped into the team pursuit, and I felt amazing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Erwood was hopeful to also win the Individual Pursuit and Omnium events, but it was fellow Southlander, Sexton, who won those.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s on fire,\u201d Erwood said of Sexton\u2019s performances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Marshall Erwood with the bronze medal he won at the World Track Cycling Championships in Chile. Marshall Erwood…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":477657,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,82],"class_list":["post-477656","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\/477656","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=477656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477656\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/477657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}