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Tour de Fern Schedule                                     Leaderboard

The 2024 Olympic Games kick-off in Paris this July and the Tour de Fern – Sprint for the Fern will get Kiwis amped up with some community sporting action on home soil.

Kiwis can attend the Tour de Fern – Sprint for the Fern activation in their region, jump on a stationary bike and embrace some friendly competition with their peers and our Olympians. 

Using state-of-the-art Technogym Ride smart bikes, riders will experience a virtual ride of what it’s like to race 300 metres along the Champs-Élysées.

Do you want to follow the Leaderboard?

Simply scan the QR code below or if you are on your smartphone, hold your finger on QR code below to download the Technogym app to see the times by age-groups on a leaderboard.

Presented in partnership with Cycling New Zealand, the Tour de Fern – Sprint for the Fern is a public cycling activation that will visit Auckland, Tauranga, Wellington, Hamilton (Fieldays), Christchurch and Invercargill from mid-May to late June, when interest in Paris 2024 will be growing to fever pitch.

All participants will be entered into a nationwide leaderboard to see who can sprint the course the fastest, being ranked against our Olympic cyclists’ times. Select Olympians and legacy athletes will attend each activation, allowing the public to mingle and even ride alongside them.

The Tour de Fern – Sprint for the Fern will begin at St Lukes mall in Auckland on Friday 10th and Saturday 11th May, with Olympic cyclists Ellesse Andrews and Sam Dakin attending in person on Friday morning to mingle with the public and record their own times on the bikes.

Olympian and trampoline gymnast Dylan Schmidt will also be at St Lukes on Friday 10 May between 12.30pm and 3.30pm.

On Saturday 11 May, public attendees have the opportunity to meet more Olympians: hammer thrower Julia Ratcliffe and surfer Billy Stairmand who’ll be at St Lukes between 1pm and 4pm.

Tour de Fern – Sprint For The Fern is presented with thanks to Allianz, Barfoot & Thompson, Beef + Lamb New Zealand, Cadbury, Flex Fitness, High Performance Sport New Zealand, Jennian Homes, Manuka Doctor, Technogym and Toyota New Zealand.

Tour Dates and Athletes in Attendance:

Auckland

Tauranga

  • Sunday 26 May - Tauranga Crossing - Athletes TBC

Wellington

  • Friday 31 May - Queensgate Shopping Centre  - Athletes TBC
  • Saturday 1 June - Queensgate Shopping Centre - Athletes TBC

Hamilton

  • Wednesday 12 June  - Fieldays Mystery Creek - Athletes TBC
  • Thursday 13 June  - Fieldays Mystery Creek - Athletes TBC
  • Friday 14 June  - Fieldays Mystery Creek - Athletes TBC
  • Saturday 15 June  - Fieldays Mystery Creek - Athletes TBC

Christchurch

  • Saturday 22 June - Westfield Riccarton - Athletes TBC

Invercargill

  • Monday 24 June - Cycling Southland Velodrome - Athletes TBC

 

For more information contact: office@olympic.org.nz

For media enquiries contact: olivia.boswell@commonground.co.nz

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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