The Home of Cycling Charitable Trust announced a ten-year naming rights partnership with Sheppard Cycles, with the National Cycling Centre of Excellence velodrome to be called the Avantidrome. The Home of Cycling will be used as a community facility and part of a network of high performance facilities in New Zealand. These are aimed at providing New Zealand athletes with the best facilities in order to create future high performance success. The $28.5 million facility will begin construction in the coming months. Sport New Zealand, Waikato Regional Council, Waipa District Council, Rotorua District Council, The Lion Foundation, First Sovereign Trust and the Perry Group all have already contributed to this financially. However, fundraising continues to be on-going. BikeNZ and the programmes for development and high performance for all forms of cycling: track, road, mountain bike and BMX will be based at the Avantidrome - Home of Cycling. The Avantidrome, located in Hamilton, will feature a world-class 250 metre UCI Category 1 track, over 2000sqm of space for sports performance specialist tenants, a caf and will be linked to world-class facilities for mountain biking, BMX, road and trail cycling. The Avantidrome will be completed and open in late 2013.
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