2017 Cycling New Zealand Annual Report
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ANNUAL REPORT 2017 ALSO CONTAINING THE ANNUAL REPORTS OF: PAGE 1 / CYCLING NEW ZEALAND ANNUAL REPORT 2017 CONTENTS 2017 Highlights 1 Board Members 2 Chairperson’s Report 3 CEO & High Performance Report 4 Community Pathways Report 8 Education Development Report 9 Athlete Development 10 Events 12 Sponsorship & Partners 13 Road & Track President’s Report 15 MTB President’s Report 18 BMX Chairman’s Report 19 Schools Cycling 20 2017 Results 22 2017 Financial Information 26 Board & Member Organisation Officers 36 Our Sponsors & Partners 37 2017 HIGHLIGHTS ELLESSE ANDREWS NZ MEN’S SPRINT TEAM WORLD TITLE AND WORLD RECORD HOLDER - 2017 JUNIOR NZ MEN’S SPRINT TEAM OF SAM WEBSTER, ETHAN MITCHELL AND EDDIE WORLD TRACK CYCLING CHAMPIONSHIPS, ITALY AND DAWKINS WIN THEIR 3RD WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP GOLD IN FOUR YEARS EMERGING TALENT HALBERG AWARD WINNER GEORGE BENNETT JESSIE SMITH SAM GAZE WINNER, UCI WORLD TOUR EVENT RETAINS CRUISER BMX 2017 MOUNTAIN BIKE U23 WORLD AMGEN TOUR OF CALIFORNIA WORLD TITLE CHAMPION CAIRNS, AUSTRALIA SECURING THE 2019 AND 2020 NEW ZEALAND MOVED UCI TRACK TH FROM 20TH TO 8TH CYCLING PLACE IN THE MTB WORLD CUPS WORLD RANKINGS IN CAMBRIDGE CAMBRIDGE | NEW ZEALAND PAGE 1 / CYCLING NEW ZEALAND ANNUAL REPORT 2017 OUR BOARD MEMBERS TONY MITCHELL ALISON SHANKS Chairperson Alison retired from professional Tony Mitchell has 20 years cycling in early 2014 after 9 experience in leadership roles years representing NZ. She with organisations including holds a BCom in Marketing Datamine, The NZ Institute of (Hons) and a BSc in Human Chartered Accountants, Nielsen, Nutrition. Alison now conducts Heinz-Watties and Nestle. His marketing consulting work expertise includes business and is a Board Member of management and sales and HPSNZ, a member of the NZOC marketing. Tony is on the UCI Athletes Commission, an NZOC Management Committee and Ambassador and a Skoda NZ holds other roles with UCI and is Ambassador, and is part of the also Vice President of the Oceania Cycling Confederation. NZOC Aspiring Women’s Olympic Leader’s Programme. STEPHEN BARCLAY PETE RODEN Stephen’s career spans In 1999 Pete started Adobe construction, business Construction BOP Ltd while transformation and sports. completing a Level Two NZQA From 2010 to 2013 he was in coaching. the CEO of the San Francisco Pete has had recent roles America’s Cup, delivering a as President of Tauranga global series of preliminary Master Builders, YMCA Board events before the finals in San Tauranga, current member Francisco. Stephen has worked of IOD Tauranga, and Vice in several countries around the Chair of BMX NZ. Pete is world and holds a BE (Civil) currently the Director of from Auckland and an MBA Adobe Construction and Elements Water Sports. Pete has also from Melbourne. Stephen advises he owns too many bikes for his represented NZ in both MTB and BMX. level of ability. JENNY GIBBS RICHARD LEGGAT Jenny is an Auckland- Richard chairs the board of based lawyer specialising in NZ Cycle Trail Inc. Following a commercial and corporate commerce degree he worked law. She also acts as Board for Lane Walker Rudkin before Secretariat for The Skills switching into the finance Organisation and its’ two sector and working as a wholly-owned subsidiaries, share broker in Christchurch, and sits as Advisor on followed by four years in the Board’s Audit & Risk London and then Auckland. Committee and Health & Richard is now working as a full Safety Committee. She is also time director with positions on a committee member of the several public sector boards as New Zealand Animal Law Association Charitable Trust. well the board of Snowsports NZ. MALCOLM THOMAS IVAN APLIN Malcolm Thomas is an Ivan is currently self-employed investment adviser based in as an event organiser and Rotorua who has worked in the traffic management trainer. financial sector for nearly 30 Ivan has been the event years. His current involvement Director for the NZ Elite Road in cycling began in the mid National Championships since 1990’s and he is a keen 2015, based in Napier. recreational cyclist. Malcolm is Ivan spent 11 years on the Treasurer of Rotorua Mountain Cycling New Zealand Road Bike Club and a previous and Track council including Secretary of Mountain Bike three years as president. New Zealand. He is a director Ivan’s time in cycling has been more as an administrator and event of the company delivering Crankworx Rotorua and has served as organiser than any great success on the bike! Chairman of the Rotorua Budget Advisory Service. PAGE 2 / CYCLING NEW ZEALAND ANNUAL REPORT 2017 CHAIRPERSON TONY MITCHELL Cycling New Zealand has the ambitious vision of inspiring New Zealanders to ride across all codes and at all levels. We strive to achieve this by investing in high performance programmes, athletes, sporting pathways and community initiatives. It has been my first year as Chair, but I have been on the 2017 also was initially forecast to be a challenging year Cycling New Zealand Board for five years now, and it is a financially exacerbated by a reduction in HPSNZ funding, pleasure to hold this role at an exciting and challenging time however with good cost management, we have been able for the sport. Standing on the metaphorical rock looking to exit 2017 in a healthy position to chase our goals in the back at 2017 and asking has Cycling New Zealand moved coming years. forward in pursuit of its vision, I believe we can say yes, but there is still work to be done. I would like to thank all the staff of Cycling New Zealand. The first year after an Olympic campaign is never an easy one, 2017 saw considerable progress across many areas of the but the team has continued to work hard with considerable organisation from performance on the world stage, growth progress being made. Myself and the board are very in national events, to engaging with the community through appreciative of all their efforts. coach education. The continued rollout of our Performance Hubs saw the launch of the Barfoot and Thompson Auckland The CEO report does make a thank you to all of Cycling Performance Hub and the preparation for the launch of New Zealand’s sponsors and supporters which I would like additional Hubs to reach our target of seven. to reiterate. Without their support, quite simply we would The broader High Performance Programme underwent not be able to have accomplished what has been achieved a review post Rio and continues to be a work-on to find in 2017. I would like to make a special mention to APL for all advantages and improvements in such a competitive their on-going support. APL is a tremendous organisation environment. In pursuit of this, it is pleasing to now have and with their brands of Altherm Window Solutions, First Martin Barras as High-Performance Director, and once Martin Windows and Doors and Vantage Windows and Doors we are settles in, I have no doubt he will have a significant impact on fortunate indeed to have them as our principal partner. the programme through to Tokyo and beyond. I would like to finish by challenging ourselves both within Working relationships with our Member Organisations Cycling New Zealand and across all codes to keep building continue to flourish, and we are seeing not only great our community and continue to move forward towards the collaboration between the Member Organisations and vision of inspiring New Zealanders to ride through whatever Cycling New Zealand, but equally importantly it is exciting to role we play in our sport of cycling. see genuine collaboration between Member Organisations. 2017 also saw a significant strengthening of links and influence within international cycling for New Zealand as we successfully pushed to secure a seat on the UCI Management Committee. I am extremely grateful to have the opportunity to serve on the UCI board for New Zealand and Oceania Cycling. With this additional role, I am looking forward to working with our member organisations, event promoters and relevant government departments over the next four years to improve the outcomes for New Zealand. Cycling New Zealand continues to strengthen its relationship with Sport New Zealand and grow our governance expertise through linking with Sport New Zealand’s Governance Mark programme. This programme is world-class for governance standards and something that our board is unanimously TONY MITCHELL committed to. Chairperson PAGE 3 / CYCLING NEW ZEALAND ANNUAL REPORT 2017 LEADING& PAGE 4 / CYCLING NEW ZEALAND ANNUAL REPORT 2017 CEO & HIGH PERFORMANCE ANDREW MATHESON // CHIEF EXECUTIVE OUR VISION Having worked in the sporting sector for many years now, I have come to learn that no two years are the same, and that every year sports organisations will be provided with unique challenges and opportunities. Without doubt 2017 was a challenging year, however in many parts of our work we have been able to continue to make forward progress. One of the more important pieces of work undertaken in 2017 Also importantly we are working hard on the values that we was the reshaping of our strategic plan including reassessing live by and are working towards living up to the following: our vision, mission and values. These elements can seem by • We are proud of who we are, what we do, and the sport some people as superficial, however ultimately they are vital and organisation we represent to the growth and prosperity of Cycling New Zealand, and • We care equally about people and performance therefore the growth and prosperity of our great sport in all • We are inspired and inspiring its codes. We have reshaped our vision to be “Inspiring New • We are humble and engaging Zealanders to Ride” - if the national cycling federation is not • We are driven by the legacy we will leave inspiring our great nation then we are clearly not doing our job.