Alison Shanks
World Champion Cyclist
Alison turned to cycling in 2005 from NZ national grade netball and in her short time in the saddle on the world stage she has some very impressive results with no sign of slowing.
Alison joined the Avanti ranks in 2009 with a goal to gain every advantage she can out of her equipment. Alison rides a quiver of bikes to cater for all scenarios including the new Chrono Evo II for time trails and the Pista Evo II for the track as well as testing some bikes in development.
Her focus is well and truly on the London 2012 Olympics with the only colour wanted to adorn her neck being gold.
- 2011 - GOLD Individual Pursuit Oceania Games
- 2010 - GOLD Womens Team Pursuit, Columbia
- 2009 - Individual Pursuit World Champion
- 2009 - Individual Pursuit NZ National Champion
- 2009 - 1st Beijing World Cup Individual Pursuit
- 2009 - 2nd World Track Champs Team Pursuit
- 2009 - 1st Beijing World Cup Team Pursuit
- 2008 - 4th Olympic Games Beijing Individual Pursuit
National Time Trial Race Report
NATIONAL TIME TRIAL RACE REPORT The first race of the season has been and gone and it was a pretty good hit out to start 2012 with a bronze medal at the National Time Trial Champs in ChCh. I was so excited to be racing on my brand new Avanti Evo2 with Di2!! It is the most amazing machine I have...
the last few weeks
Thelast few weeks have been full on as the track racing season got underway. Beginning in Invercargill with the Oceania Games and then on to Cali, Columbia for the World Cup. The team was still on a high after coming off a great week of racing to kick off the season in Invercargill. In the Teams...
