{"id":882387,"date":"2026-09-04T00:10:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T00:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/882387\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T00:10:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T00:10:13","slug":"southland-teen-cyclist-bound-for-world-champs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/882387\/","title":{"rendered":"Southland teen cyclist bound for World Champs"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Riley Faulkner has been named in the New Zealand team to head to the UCI Track World Championships.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Southland teenager Riley Faulkner has earned a national call-up after being named in the New Zealand team for the 2026 UCI Track World Championships.<\/p>\n

Faulkner is yet another in a long list of cycling talent who have emerged out of Southland and progressed to the world stage at an elite level.<\/p>\n

The UCI Track World Championships will be held in Shanghai, China from October 14 to 18.<\/p>\n

Faulkner is one of four female sprint riders named in a group that also includes Olympic gold medallist Ellesse Andrews, double Olympian Rebecca Petch, and Olivia King.<\/p>\n

All up 21 riders have been named across both the UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships and the UCI Track World Championships.<\/p>\n

Faulkner will be joined by two other Southlanders, Tom Sexton and Marshall Erwood, in the New Zealand team.<\/p>\n

Sexton and Erwood are both coming off a trip to the Commonwealth Games last month, where they picked up a bronze medal in the team pursuit.<\/p>\n

They will be joined by Keegan Hornblow, Dan Morton, and George Jackson in New Zealand men\u2019s endurance group at the World Championships.<\/p>\n

Cycling New Zealand UCI Track Cycling World Championships, Shanghai, CHN 14 to 18 October:<\/p>\n

Endurance Male: Marshall Erwood (Invercargill), Keegan Hornblow (Nelson), George Jackson (Wellington), Dan Morton (Auckland), Tom Sexton (Invercargill).<\/p>\n

Endurance Female: Bryony Botha (Auckland), Sami Donnelly (Christchurch), Prue Fowler (Auckland), Emily Shearman (Palmerston North), Ally Wollaston (Cambridge).<\/p>\n

Sprint: Ellesse Andrews (Christchurch), Riley Faulkner (Invercargill), Olivia King (Hamilton), Rebecca Petch (Te Awamutu).<\/p>\n

Cycling New Zealand UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships, Apeldoorn, NED 26 October to 1 November:<\/p>\n

Devon Briggs (Cambridge), Ieuan Edwards (Christchurch), Nicole Murray (Cambridge), Anna Taylor (Cambridge), Siobhan Terry (Rotorua), Emma Foy (Cambridge), Jessie Hodges (Cambridge).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Riley Faulkner has been named in the New Zealand team to head to the UCI Track World Championships.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":882388,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,82],"class_list":["post-882387","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\/882387","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=882387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882387\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/882388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=882387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=882387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=882387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}