{"id":271263,"date":"2026-02-06T21:20:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T21:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/271263\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T21:20:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T21:20:08","slug":"ally-wollaston-sprints-to-emotional-new-zealand-road-race-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/271263\/","title":{"rendered":"Ally Wollaston sprints to emotional New Zealand road race title"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Ally<\/p>\n

\nAlly Wollaston represents the FDJ United-Suez team.
\nPhoto: FDJ-Suez\n<\/p>\n

World Tour professional Ally Wollaston has continued her exceptional start to the year by clinching the New Zealand women’s road race title near Cambridge.<\/p>\n

Wollaston used her sprint prowess to kick clear of a group of seven that had broken clear early in the 130km race, comprising 13 laps of a circuit.<\/p>\n

Representing her FDJ United-Suez team, she saw off Mikayla Harvey by three seconds, followed by UCI World Esport champion Kate McCarthy in third.<\/p>\n

Wollaston made her move on the final climb.<\/p>\n

“Taking the jersey back with me to Europe was a really big goal for me,” said an emotional Wollaston.<\/p>\n

“It was a tightknit group and no-one was skipping turns. Kudos to the girls who all threw the kitchen sink at it today and I was blown away that I was there for the final two laps.<\/p>\n

“I love this loop. It feels like my backyard and I have trained here so much in my career.<\/p>\n

“It was such a great environment out racing today.”<\/p>\n

The win was Wollaston’s fourth in the last month.<\/p>\n

She won the first two stages of the World Tour’s Tour Down Under<\/a> near Adelaide and followed that up with victory at the one-day Great Ocean Race<\/a> near Melbourne.<\/p>\n

Sign up for Ng\u0101 Pitopito K\u014drero<\/a>, a daily newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ally Wollaston represents the FDJ United-Suez team. Photo: FDJ-Suez World Tour professional Ally Wollaston has continued her exceptional…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":271264,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[48,47,111,43,139,69,49,46,44,45],"class_list":{"0":"post-271263","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-audio","9":"tag-current-affairs","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz","14":"tag-podcasts","15":"tag-public-radio","16":"tag-radio-new-zealand","17":"tag-rnz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}