{"id":547926,"date":"2026-03-20T00:58:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T00:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/547926\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T00:58:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T00:58:10","slug":"southland-twins-selected-for-junior-world-track-cycling-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/547926\/","title":{"rendered":"Southland twins selected for Junior World Track Cycling Championships"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Southland twins Ollie and Lily Keast have been named in the New Zealand team for the 2026 UCI Junior World Track Cycling Championships.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Southland twins Lily and Ollie Keast can lay claim to a remarkable feat, with both preparing to ride on the world cycling stage at the same time.<\/p>\n

The twin brother and sister have been selected in Cycling New Zealand\u2019s 13-strong team to line up at the 2026 UCI Junior World Track Cycling Championships in Limburg, Belgium.<\/p>\n

The team – which includes a mix of endurance and sprint riders – was announced on Friday in a proud moment for the Keast family, and the perfect 50th birthday present for mother Nicola on Sunday.<\/p>\n

The siblings compete nationally for Canterbury, but both are based and schooled in Southland – Lily at Central Southland College and Ollie at Southland Boys\u2019 High School.<\/p>\n

The Keast twins were both prominent at the recent National Track Cycling Championships in Invercargill, which included Lily breaking the Oceania U19 time trial record.<\/p>\n

The focus now switches to preparing for UCI Junior Track World Championships, which will run from August 19 to 23.<\/p>\n

Men:<\/p>\n

Remi Dalton (Counties Manukau), Cooper Nilsson (Te Awamutu), Jack Allan (Counties Manukau), Oliver Keast (Canterbury), Riley Crampton (Canterbury), Alex Botha (Counties Manukau).<\/p>\n

Women:<\/p>\n

Minnie Collins (Manawatu), Mia Pepper (Counties Manukau), Eliza McKenzie (Canterbury), Jesse Thomson (Canterbury), Lily Keast (Canterbury), Hazel Gardner (Te Awamutu), Neve McKenzie (Counties Manukau).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Southland twins Ollie and Lily Keast have been named in the New Zealand team for the 2026 UCI…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":547927,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,82],"class_list":["post-547926","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\/547926","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=547926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/547927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}