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CYCLING VICTORIAAnnual Report 2015-2016

RACINGpage07

Another banner year in racing was highlighted by the hosting of 6 National Championships and 5 UCI events in Victoria.

RIDINGpage21 Through 2015/16, over 4,500 school students were

directly impacted through school programs that CV facilitated.

WATCHINGpage25 So far this year 1,481,281 viewers have watched

a cycling event on TV in Victoria.

MARKETINGpage29 Most of the CV marketing has focused on

increasing the digital footprint.

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PRESIDENT’S REPORTpage01 In 2015 Cycling Victoria saw a growth in over 25%

year-on-year in entries over all disciplines. TMB

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RIDING

WATCHINGSo far this year 1,481,281 viewers have watched a cycling event on TV in Victoria.

MARKETINGMost of the CV marketing has focused on increasing the digital footprint.

BMXpage37 BMX Victoria has drafted and released the

Strategic Plan 2016-2019 after an evaluation of its 2012-2015 Strategic Plan.

FINANCEpage41 We are pleased to report a surplus for the

2015/16 financial year.

PEOPLETwo key committees were developed this year: Audit and Risk and Nominations.

Contents

1. Rep

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Pre

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I take great pleasure in advising that 2016 has been a successful and significant year for Cycling Victoria. Both sport and business outcomes advanced the momentum and achievement of targets set for year one of the 2016 – 2019 Strategic Plan. Specific highlights included:

Welcome to the 2015 Cycling Victoria Annual General meeting.

Hosted 6 National Championships and 5 UCI

Events

Significant increase in Riding / recreation

members

A 10% increase in the number of officials

and coaches

More than 15,000 individuals participants

in riding programs

An increase in racing participation

by 25%

A surplus of $155,000 from $2,045,000 revenue. CV’s net equity position lifted by 21%

over the year.

Building a love of cycling. More people Riding, Racing & Watching.”

Cycling Victoria’s strategic vision is:

The importance and investment in facilities has continued to grow in line with our stratetgy. Significant achievements have been realised this year including:

f Planned Upgrades to the Hawthorn Velodrome Club Rooms

f $200,000 for perspex track-side fencing at DISC.

f Upgrades to Brunswick Velodrome and continued work with St Kilda CC on a permanent home in Fisherman’s Bend.

1.More People Riding

Riding is a major strategic fo-cus for CV. This year, more than 15,000 people participated in events and programs through-out the state. Cornerstone programs were:

� Women; Breeze Rides and Social Spin

� People with a disability; Try Cycling

� Older Adults; Life Cycle 55+

The Seight Challenge Series continued with the Whittlesea Challenge, Mount Macedon Challenge and Marysville Chal-lenge. CV also partnered with Melburn Roobaix, Sam Miranda Tour and Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Ride. CV has launched “The Amazing Ride” family adventure as the first new ride for 2017. Other new ride launches will follow in 2017.

It relies on continuing to grow and improve racing whilst also increasing the Ride/ recrea-tion membership. Clubs are embracing recre-ation and finding the new members a positive part of club culture.

We can review each of these strategic pillars; riding, racing, watching, marketing and peo-ple:

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2.More People Racing

The number of people racing across the state rose by 25% this year. Growth came from Cyclo-cross and major track events. The Winter Track Series was successful with about 120 entries per event and up 20% on the previous year. Rac-ing membership flat-lined and reflects a national trend. CV will continue to work with CA and clubs to recruit and retain rac-ing members in 2017.

CV remains committed to grow-ing track racing. The “Track Su-per Series” will be a significant initiative as it aims to attract new-to-the-sport audiences, as well as consolidating the support of long-time track fans through a multi-grade team, in-novative racing formats and run as a series so that team sup-port can develop. Please check out these events. It is also great to note that track fans had the first 6 day race in 25+ years earlier this month. The event was well run and attendances will undoubtedly grow next year.

3.More People Watching

Assessing how many people are watching cycling was a new initiative. It has therefore been a learning experience in terms of understanding what information is available and what is rel-evant to CV. Data on television viewership and event specta-tors are in process of being benchmarked with the objective of measuring future increases in those watching our sport.

Social media continues to expand and is a key communi-cation strategy. 40,000+ people per month access CV social media channels.

A communication strategy aimed at traditional media will be implemented in 2017.

Current CV sponsors include Seight Custom Clothing, TAC, Winning Edge, Singapore Airlines, Physiohealth and Croydon Cycleworks. CV values these relationships and looks forward to continuing to work together.

The Victorian Road Series continued to enjoy enormous success in 2016 measured by participation numbers of 000 riders and positive feedback from all stakeholders.

The Victorian Junior Road Series has been launched; it comprises 5 races including the established junior tours.

VICS (Vic Interschool Cycling Series) is expected to grow further; 7 races in the series, an average of 220 riders per event, 30 schools involved and an enthusiastic and committed patron in Simon Gerrans.

The Moto-scouts group is now operating effectively; its goal of creating and maintain-ing professional standards for moto-riders is crucial for major road races. The Moto-scouts accreditation program has been noted by the VicPol Special Solo Group.

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Acknowledge-ment & Thanks

On behalf of Cycling Victoria, I wish to thank our wonderful volunteers and high-energy club administrators. Your hard work and continued support drives the sport and ensures that Victoria remains the centre of cycling in Australia.

We thank our key partners: Cycling Australia, BMX Victoria, the Victorian Institute of Sport, Vichealth, and Sport and Rec-reation Victoria for their contin-ued support.

Kipp Kaufmann and his dedi-cated team have provided out-standing service and commit-ment in what was a very busy year for all.

Finally, I thank the Cycling Vic-toria board comprising: Doug Armstrong, Lisa Byrne, Matt Fletcher, David Grant, Monique Hanley, Mark Heinz, Jo Jericho, Laurie Noonan, Heather Park and David Tennant for their enthusiastic participation and support over the year.

Board Governance

Your CV board completed the VicSport “Next stage of govern-ance” program during the year. The 2016 board member elec-tion will be the third and final step in reducing the number of elected board members to 2 per year. At the Half Year Gen-eral Meeting clubs supported the board initiative to ensure gender parity by requiring that clubs vote for female and male candidates separately to ensure both genders are represented in each election. This initiative also ensures compliance with the state government require-ment of at least 40% gender diversity for state government funded not-for-profit boards. 2016 saw the commencement of an Audit and Risk Committee and a Nominations Committee. Both these committees at-tracted highly skilled individuals prepared to assist in helping CV continue to improve. They are working well. The Austral-ian Sports Commission (ASC) Governance Principles require these committees from NSOs. CV has, as a rule, adopted ASC Governance Principles on the basis of representing best practice. The CV board will be undertaking a board audit early in 2017.

Cycling Australia (CA)

2016 was a big year for CA due to the Rio Olympics and Paralympics. As recorded at the time, cycling results at Rio were generally disappointing. The Paralympic team was the exception and achieved the predicted medal tally. Following the appointment of a new HPU Director, probably by Febru-ary, a review of HPU will be conducted by CA. This review will include provision for sub-missions from members and interested parties.

2016 represented the second year of operation for the cur-rent CA board. CA recorded a surplus of $305,000 for FY16. The shift by CA to Melbourne occurred.

The CA NRS Review continues with a recommendation for the development of a strategy for the best business case moving forward. ASC funding is sought for this next step.

CA launched a new commis-sion structure during the year. The commissions are; Sport, Technical, Coaching, Women’s and Advocacy. Victorian mem-bers are included in all commis-sions.

Malcolm Speed stepped down as Chair of CA at the 2016 AGM. His replacement will be announced by early-December.


The Year Ahead

CV will support the incoming CA Chair whilst ensuring that we continue to contribute to the strategic direction and imple-mentation of CA initiatives.

CV will continue to focus on membership growth initiatives. This will cover both Racing and Riding members.

New racing and recreation rides will be launched and offer some exciting experiences for our members and prospective members.

Glen PearsallPresident, Cycling Victoria

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2. Rac

ing

Another banner year in racing was highlighted by the hosting of 6 National Championships and 5 UCI events in Victoria.

ROAD

Road Cycling has continued the trend of the last few years with another increase in participa-tion. The 9 race series Singa-pore Airlines Victorian Road Series (VRS) has now estab-lished itself as the premier state series in Australia with many top riders and teams participat-ing in the races.

2016 also saw the continua-tion of the Victorian Time Trial Series and Victorian Junior Tour Series. These continue to show strength however will undergo changes in 2017 to better meet the needs of our riders.

Additionally we saw the host-ing of the Australian Elite Road National Championships, Junior Road National Championships (U15/17) and the Oceania Road Championships in Victoria.

The summer of cycling grew to new heights with the Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race and the Herald Sun Tour continued to grow in stature in-ternationally with top riders like Chris Froome competing in the events this year. Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race has been granted World Tour status from 2017 onwards which is a major achievement for the event organisers.

CYCLO-CROSS

After a successful launch of the Victorian CX Series in 2015, the 2016 Victorian CX Series grew with an average of a 40% increase in participation in the series events this year. The events in regional areas saw a huge grown indicating a strong trend for more participation in CX. Cycling Victoria and Fields of Joy CX hosted the 2015 CX National Championships at Essendon Fields which saw re-cord numbers participate in the national championship which also saw many Victorian’s claim the national title for their age division. Sunbury CC (Fields of Joy CX) also successfully hosted a major UCI event – a great achievement for the club.

TRACK

Track cycling continues to see both positive and negative ebbs and flows. Regional towns of Ballarat, Bendigo, Shepparton, Wangaratta, Echuca-Moama and Ararat showed great sup-port for track cycling having conducted Christmas Carnivals and/or State Championship events. These are certainly the backbone of track cycling. Additionally 2016 saw Cycling Victoria successfully hosting of 2 National Championships (Australian Madison Champi-onships & Australian Masters Track Championships) and 2 UCI events (International Track Series – Melbourne and The Austral Track meet at Hisense Arena). This year the season saw the expansion in the Winter Track Series - the five race days increased by 20% per round of which 24% were female.


VICTORIAN SCHOOLS CY-CLING CHAMPI-ONSHIPS

The 2015 VSCC has been one of the most successful to date with a continued growth in participation numbers overall, although a number of events have had to be rationalised due to poor previous attendances.

Mountain biking and BMX featured heavily in the VSCC along with road racing. Moun-tain biking continued to be the fastest growing discipline with an average of 230+ participants per round.

A weekend of state final events was hosted in Bendigo in Octo-ber. BMX, mountain biking and road racing were hosted over three consecutive days with fantastic numbers, competition and atmosphere. Overall, 600 individuals participated in the 3 days.

By the numbers:

� 5 road events, with 843 par-ticipants overall,

� 4 mountain bike events, with 883 participants overall,

� 5 BMX events, with 490 par-ticipants overall.

VICTORIAN IN-TERSCHOOL CYCLING SERIES

The VICS series ran again in 2015/16 and grew on aver-age by 30% per round. The series came together through the collaboration of CV, vari-ous schools, parents of junior cyclists and Simon Gerrans. Simon came on board as the ambassador of the series and has been crucial in promoting and driving the event forward.

The model is based around a ‘Saturday morning school sport’ model with schools com-peting against other schools for the Simon Gerrans Perpetual Trophy.

Within the first series, seven events occurred with a mixture of individual times trials, team time trials, criteriums and a hill climb taking place.

A key element of the program was the requirement to have a licence for the program. CV negotiated a 6 month VICS licence with CA to allow partici-pants to compete in the series and also participate in any other cycling event between the start of October and end of March.

By the numbers:

� 1,034 participants across the race series,

� 68 schools involved in the series

FACILITIES

After the publication of the Vic-torian Cycling Facilities Strategy in 2015 CV and our clubs have been working on a number of projects to provide additional facilities for the sport. Projects that have been completed or funded this year include:

� rspex at the Darebin Interna-tional Velodrome

� Refurbishment of Hawthorn Velodrome

� Safety Upgrades to Packer Park Velodrome

� New Club Rooms at Brun-swick Velodrome

� Construction of Casey BMX Track started

� Upgrades to H.A. Smith Velo-drome surface

� Cycling Victoria are also working on a number of facili-ties projects including:

� New inner city off-road circuit with St Kilda CC

� Cycling facilities at Caulfield Racecourse

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Event Entries Women Total Entries Previous Year

Winter Track Series Round 1 66 28 94 55





Winter Track Series Round 6 - - - 69

Winter Track Series Round 7 - - - 57

Melbourne Cup on Wheels 43 29 72 117

Victorian Omnium Champs 55 18 73 44

Victorian Track Grand Prix 84 42 126 123

Footscray Track Open 107 47 154 0

Victorian Club Teams Championships (Track) 70 17 87 141

Ararat Track Carnival 57 28 85 101

Victorian Senior Track Championships (Elite/Paracycling)

32 17 49 45

The Austral / Australian Madison Championships 180 83 263 259

Christmas Carnival - Horsham - - - 92

Christmas Carnival - Ballarat 99 49 148 -

Christmas Carnival - Bendigo 166 64 230 208

Christmas Carnival - Shepparton 109 45 154 142

Christmas Carnival - Wangaratta 104 44 148 146

Echuca-Moama Junior Carnival 57 36 93 84

Wangaratta Track Carnival 38 7 45 80

Victorian Junior Track Championships J11/13 93 35 128 115

Victorian Junior J15/17 Track Championships 52 22 74 71

Victorian Masters Track Championship 60 15 75 62

Bendigo International Madison Carnival (no Criterium) 84 28 112 186

Victorian Club Teams Championships (Road) 259 99 358 289

Hamilton 120 88 0 88 96

VIC 100km Championships 66 2 68 50

Eildon Junior & Women Tour 122 57 179 191

Melbourne to Ballarat 180 17 197 199

Victorian CX Series - Round 4 141 15 156 0

Victorian CX Championships 164 20 184 -

Wangaratta ITT 46 10 56 34

Victorian Junior Road Championships 237 69 306 326

National CX Championships 201 35 236 -

Victorian Masters Road Championships 233 38 271 245

2015-2016 EVENT COMPARISON


Event Entries Women Total Entries Previous Year

Tour of the Great South Coast 117 0 117 130

Sam Miranda 483 150 633 512

Rob Vernon Handicap 128 19 147 163

Victorian CX Series - Round 5 101 24 125 -

CA Junior National Road Championships 410 160 570 -

Amy's Otway Tour 0 56 56 55

Midlands Tour 170 32 202 202

Victorian CX Series - Round 6 60 8 68 -

Melbourne to Warrnambool 225 19 244 199

Tour of Goldfields 0 66 66 65

Eildon ITT 44 13 57 -

Eildon Road Race 113 20 133 -

Tour de Bress Criterium 43 17 60 66

Tour of Bright 585 107 692 738

SKCC Super Crit 110 55 165 179

Bay Cycling Classic 489 144 633 309

Australian Road Nationals 456 150 606 -

Cadel Evans Road Race 146 72 218 183

Hearld Sun Tour 96 0 96 94

Tour of East Gippsland 303 75 378 291

Oceania Road Championships 277 96 373 -

Grand Prix Victorian Criterium Championships 340 60 400 207

Mansfield Tour 270 57 327 358

Australian Hill Climb Championships 116 30 146 -

Geelong ITT 80 24 104 94

Baw Baw Classic 179 15 194 174

Victorian Country/Metro Championships 321 52 373 346

Wal Smith Memorial 70 6 76 73

Leongatha Junior Experience 42 12 54 64

Castlemaine ITT 85 25 110 121

Ararat Junior Tour 106 30 136 157

Tour of the South West 295 73 368 365

Fields of Joy CX (VICXS) 200 54 254 206

Preston Mountain Classic 140 27 167 211

Fred Icke Road Race 185 32 217 114

Mt Beauty CX (VICXS) 130 37 167 76

Bright CX (VICXS) 130 43 173 -

Dirty Deeds CX (VICXS) 221 55 276 156

Bendigo Junior Tour 139 37 176 -

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ELITE & J19 NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS

The Championships were hosted in Melbourne from the 3rd February – 6th February,

2016. Victoria sent a team of 17 athletes, wi=th 9 support staff.

The team completed the cham-pionships with a medal haul of 8 gold medals, 9 silver medals,

and 5 bronze medals.

From this event, 5 Victorian ath-letes were invited to represent

Australia at the world junior championships. These were:

� Ruby Roseman Gannon � Godfrey Slattery

� Thomas McDonald � Kelland O’Brien � Connor Rowley

Athlete Medals Event

Kelland O’BrienRiley HartThomas McDonaldGodfrey Slattery

Gold U19 Men Team Pursuit

Brit JacksonEmma Chilton

Gold U19 Women Team Sprint

Shane PerkinsJacob SchmidDavid Koroknai

Bronze Elite Men Team Sprint

Emma Chilton Bronze U19 Women 7.5km Scratch

Caitlin Ward Gold Elite Women 500m Time Trial

Ruby Roseman-Gannon Silver U19 Women Individual Pursuit

Kelland O’Brien GoldGoldGoldSilver

U19 Men Individual PursuitU19 Men 25km PointsU19 Men 10km ScratchU19 Men 1000m Time Trial

Godfrey Slattery Silver U19 Men Individual Pursuit

Brit Jackson Bronze U19 Women Time Trial

Connor Rowley GoldBronzeSilver

U19 Men SprintU19 Men 1000m Time TrialU19 Men Keirin

Thomas McFarlane SilverBronze

U19 Men 10km ScratchU19 Men Sprint

Jacob Schmid SilverSilver

Elite Men SprintElite Men Keirin

Riley Hart Silver U19 Men 25km Points

Ruby Roseman-Gannon Silver U19 Women 20km Points

Shane Perkins GoldBronze

Elite Men KeirinElite Men Sprint

TRACK

Development: Performance


J15 & J17 NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS

The Championships were hosted in Melbourne from the

24th February – 27th February, 2016. Victoria sent a team of 24

athletes.

The team completed the cham-pionships with a medal haul of

2 Gold medals, 7 Silver medals, and 5 Bronze medals.


Alice CullingJemma EastwoodSarah GiganteAlana Field

Gold JW17 Team Pursuit

Jemma Eastwood SilverSilver

JW17 PointsJW17 Pursuit

Neve Bradbury Bronze JW15 Keirin

Alex Allott Bronze JM15 Keirin

mma EastwoodAlana Field

Silver JW17 Team Sprint

Alice Culling GoldSilver

JW17 PursuitJW17 Scratch

Graeme Frislie Bronze JM17 Scratch

Nathan BofOliver BoothGraeme Frislie

Bronze JM17 Team Sprint

Nathan BofJoshua HeatherMax StewartAustin Timmins

Silver JM17 Team Sprint

Nathan Bof Silver JM17 Sprint

Isla Bradbury Bronze JW15 Individual Pursuit

Anna Field Sliver JW17 Sprint

ATHLETE DEVELOPMENT

PROGRAM:

TRACK ENDURANCE & SPRINT SQUADS

In partnership with the VIS, Cycling Victoria has been working to develop the next generation of track superstars.

Hilton Clarke has been coaching both a sprint and separate endur-ance squad. The VIS has increased the number of athletes it sup-ports on scholarship and for the second consecutive year years has allowed J17 athletes into the program.

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J15 & J17 NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS

The Championships were hosted in Shepparton from the

11th of September – 13th of September, 2015. Victoria sent

a team of 21 athletes.

The team completed the cham-pionships with a medal haul of

2 gold medals, and 2 bronze medals.


Georgia O’Rourke Bronze JW17 Individual Time Trial

Godfrey Slattery BronzeGold

JM17 Individual Time Trial JM17 Road Race

Graeme Frislie Gold JM15 Criterium

ROAD

ATHLETE DEVELOPMENT PRO-GRAM: ROAD

A thorough athlete development program (road) focused on a range of different areas including skills and technique. The program started with a two day camp commencing in Bendigo.

Following the camp, a number of development days were hosted by Cycling Victoria in partnership with the regional academies. These camps focused on skill sets used for racing. These skill sets in-cluded:

� Hill climbing – A development day in Ballarat where the partici-pants learnt how to climb a hill and tactics to use the hill to their advantage in racing.

� Descending – A development day at the one-in-twenty in Dan-denong, participants learnt different techniques in descending and how to descend safely in a bunch.

Each development day had an average of 15 participants with camps being hosted at a range of venues around the state.

AUSTRALIAN MASTERS TRACK NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS

March 30th- April 2nd


James Follacchio Silver Silver

MMAS1 Time Trial MMAS1 Sprint

Paul Morris SilverBronzeBronze

MMAS2 Time TrialMMAS2 Sprint MMAS2 Scratch

Craig Ferdinands SilverBronzeBronze

MMAS3 Time TrialMMAS3 SprintMMAS3 Scratch

ALL VICTORIAN MEDAL WINNERS AT NATIONAL LEVEL



Brian McGowan GoldBronzeBronze

MMAS9 Time TrialMMAS9 SprintMMAS9 Scratch

Neil Wray GoldSilver

MMAS10 Time TrialMMAS10 Sprint

Michelle Cook Bronze WMAS1 Time Trial

Leeana-Kate James BronzeBronze

WMAS2 Time Trial WMAS2 Pursuit

Gigi Van Der Poll SilverBronze

WMAS3 Time Trial WMAS3 Sprint

Gabrielle Belz GoldSilverSilverSilver

WMAS4 Time TrialWMAS4 PursuitWMAS4 SprintWMAS4 Scratch

David Chadderton BronzeBronze

MMAS9 Pursuit MMAS9 Sprint

Malcolm Powell Silver MMAS10 Pursuit

Samantha Sutton Bronze WMAS4 Pursuit

Tom Leaper Gold MMAS3 Scratch

Walter Dapcich Silver MMAS5 Scratch

David Moreland Silver MMAS6 Scratch

Peter Ganns Bronze MMAS7 Scratch

Lawrence Naughton Silver MMAS9 Scratch

Carina Newman Bronze MWAS1 Scratch

Vanessa Goss Bronze MWAS3 Scratch

Gabrielle BelzRebecca SutherlandLeena-Kate JamesGigi Van Der Poll

Silver WMAS Team Pursuit- all ages

Michael GallagherPaul MasonDavid KellyRohan Andrew

Gold MMAS Team Pursuit- All ages

Craig FerdinandsSean ClearyPaul Parker

Bronze MMAS Team Sprint

Gigi Van Der PollGabrielle Belz

Silver WMAS Team Sprint

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2016 MASTERS ROAD NATIONAL

CHAMPIONSHIPS25th-27th September 2015


Dominik Dudkiewicz Gold MMAS1 Criterium

Gerard Donnelly GoldGoldSilver

MMAS6 Criterium MMAS6 Road RaceMMAS6 Time Trial

Russell Newnham SilverSilverBronze

MMAS6 Criterium MMAS6 Road RaceMMAS6 Time Trial

William Gordin BronzeGold

MMAS6 CriteriumMMAS6 Time Trial

Harry Hanley Silver MMAS5 Criterium

Andrew Gray GoldBronzeGold

MMAS2 CriteriumMMAS2 Road RaceMMAS2 Time Trial

Stephen Lane SilverSilver

MMAS2 Criterium MMAS2 Time Trial

Anna Davis SilverGold

WMAS4 Road Race WMAS5 Time Trial

Caroline Clarke Silver WMAS6 Road Race

Cheryle Barker BronzeSilver

WMAS6 Road Race WMAS6 Time Trial

Damien Jones Silver MMAS4 Road Race

Justine Barrow Bronze WMAS2 Road Race

Rowan Dever Bronze MMAS1 Road Race

Jay Phillpotts Gold MMAS2 Road Race

Bret Steiszkal Gold MMAS1 Time Trial

Dean Heathcote Bronze MMAS4 Time Trial

John Cain Gold MMAS5 Time Trial

Carmine Soriano Silver MMAS5 Time Trial

Doug Barrett Bronze MMAS9 Time Trial

William McConnell Gold MMAS10 Time Trial

Elizabeth Hall Gold WMAS4 Time Trial

Marg Noonan Gold WMAS7 Time Trial

Robyn Baker Bronze WMAS7 Time Trial


2016 CYCLO-CROSS Athlete Medals Event

Garry Milburn Silver Elite Men

Christopher Aiken Bronze Elite Men

Peta Mullens Silver Elite Women

April McDonough Bronze Elite Women

Ben Walkerden Silver U23 Men

Erin Mitchell Silver U23 Women

Adam Blazevic Gold U19 Men

Japser Albrecht Bronze U19 Men

Teagan Atherstone Silver U19 Women

Anakin Williams Bronze U17 Men

James Mountain Silver U15 Men

Ruben Bell Bronze U15 Men

Paul Jones Gold Masters 1 Men

Stephen Whiting Silver Masters 1 Men

Brad Eastwick Bronze Masters 1 Men

Aroha Yates Bronze Masters 1 Women

Jarrod Moroni Gold Masters 2 Men

Simon Bishop Silver Masters 3 Men

Patrick Oliver Silver Masters 5 Men

Rob Eva Bronze Masters 5 Men

Craig Peacock Gold Masters 6 Men

Michael Lawson Masters 7 Men

2016 CA U19 ROAD CHAMPIONSHIPS


Ruby Roseman-Gannon BronzeBronze

Junior women’s Criterium Junior women’s Road Race

Kelland O’Brien Silver Junior men’s Criterium

Ross Gordon Bronze Junior men’s Criterium

PARA TRACK CHAMPIONSHIPS


Hannah MacDougall Sliver WC4 Pursuit

Gabriel Bouris SliverSliver

MC1 Time TrialMC1 Pursuit

Massie Knight SliverSilver

MC3 Time Trial MC3 Pursuit

Alistair Donohoe GoldGold

MC5 Time Trial MC5 Pursuit

Jessica Gallagher Gold Women Tandem Time Trial

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PARA ROAD CHAMPIONSHIPS

PARA ROAD CHAMPIONSHIPS


Carol Cooke Gold~Gold~ WT2 Individual Time Trial~WT2 Road Race

Alex Welsh Gold MH3 Road Race

Stuart Tripp Gold~Gold MH5 Individual Time Trial~MH5 Road Race

Jared Pope Gold~Gold~ MC2 Individual Time Trial ~MC2 Road Race

Massie Knight Silver~Silver MC3 Individual Time Trial~MC3 Road Race

Hannah MacDougall WC4 Individual Time Trial~WC4 Road Race

Alistair Donohoe Bronze~Gold MC5 Individual Time Trial~MC5 Road Race

Gabriel Bouris Silver MC2 Individual Time Trial

Michael Taylor Silver MH3 Road Race


Neil Van Der Ploeg Bronze Men’s Road Race

Bridie O’Donnell Sliver Women’s Time Trial

Peta Mullens GoldSliver

Women’s Road Race Women’s Criterium

Steele Von Hoff Gold Men’s Criterium

Shannon Malseed GoldGold

U23 Women’s Road Race U23 Women’s Criterium

Tayla Evens Bronze U23 Women’s Criterium

Alistair Donohoe Sliver U23 Men’s Road Race

Chris Hamilton Gold U23 Men’s Criterium

Oscar Stevenson Sliver U23 Men’s Time Trial


3. Rid

ing

Through 2015/16, over 4,500 school students were directly impacted through school programs that CV facilitated. This was an increase in 80% from 2014/15.

SCHOOLS

The Riding department worked with a number of organisa-tions to promote cycling within schools. Of these Cycling Aus-tralia and Girls Sport Victoria were most prominent.

CV was integral in the develop-ment of Australian Sporting Schools program: Let’s Ride. This program was tested in Victoria through a range of different schools that were at-tended. Additionally, the Let’s Ride Legends Ambassadors program was launched in Victo-ria with many schools taking up the program as an internally de-livered program. Approximately 2,700 students participated in this program.

The Riding department had a strong focus on increas-ing female participation within schools. In order to achieve this select schools were targeted, these included; Methodist Ladies College , Ivanhoe Girls Grammar to name a few.

Additionally, Girls Sport Victo-ria partnered with CV to affect female participation numbers amongst junior girls. Their an-nual program grew again, and discussions are occurring to further expand this program.

Through 2015/16, over 4,500 school students were directly impacted through school pro-grams that CV facilitated. This was an increase in 80% from 2014/15.

BREEZE

The Breeze Rides program commenced redevelopment in 2015/16 with a working group being set up to investigate the future needs of the program and a Breeze Rides Liaison be-ing appointed.

The working group investigated issues such as branding, com-munications, reporting, risk management and participation leading to the development of a work plan. The work plan will be implemented in 2015/16 as the program continues.

In 2015/16 close to 6,600 wom-en participated in the program.

THE WOMEN’S RIDE

In 2015 CV initiated The Wom-en’s Ride. In 2016 it ran for a second time with growth of 15%.

The Women’s Ride is a single day celebration of women’s riding. It’s Victoria’s annual mass participation riding event designed especially to encour-age more women to participate in cycling.

In contrast to a lot of recrea-tional rides, The Women’s Ride invites BUGS, riding bunches, cycling clubs, bicycle shops and anyone interested to lead their own ride and take part in the festivities on the day. The rides are registered and adver-tised to the public so everyone – women, men and families can participate.

The 2016 event saw further partnerships develop, with Cycling Victoria and Bicycle Network coming together with the joint objective of increasing womens participation.

The day was a tremendous success, however it is per-ceived that the potential around the event is still to be realized.


By the numbers:

� In excess of 2,500 individuals participated in the events,

� Over 50 different rides around metropolitan and regional Victoria,

� 15 cycling related events hosted hundreds of individu-als participating in the rides, •

� Over 500,000 social media impressions (Facebook, Ins-tagram, Twitter)

� Coverage in local, regional, state and national media (Tel-evision, Radio, Print)

SOCIAL SPIN

In 2015/16 Cycling Victoria re-ceived seed funding ($100,000) from VicHealth as a part of their ‘Changing the game’: women’s participation funding program. With this funding Cycling Victo-ria developed an initiative called Social Spin.

Social Spin is a program that delivers pop-up spin style classes for inactive or some-what active women, with the aim to make them more ac-tive. Based on a fun and social experience, classes will be de-livered using flat-bar bikes and ‘wind trainers’, and a flexibility in terms of set-up location.

The program was piloted in a number of different local government authorities with varying degrees of success. In its first year, it reached 369 par-ticipants across City of Greater Geelong, Know City Council, and City of Darebin.

LIFE CYCLE 55+

In 2015/16 Cycling Victoria received programme fund-ing of $375,000 over 3 years from VicHealth as a part of their State Sports Association Participation funding grants. Cycling Victoria’s focus with this funding will be to increase cycling participation amongst adults over the age of 55.

This funding was used to develop a product called ‘Life Cycle. The products objectives are too:

� Increase participation in adult riding programs,

� Increase Cycling Victoria’s product offering mature

adults,

� Capture adults classified as inactive or somewhat active into riding programs,

� Generate a new sustainable asset for CV,

� Provide a pathway for future cycling participation amongst mature adults.

Life by bike comprises three programs developed by CV. These programs are:

� Inspired: Targets those who have been off the bike for a while, or are new to the bike and want to build skills and confidence,

� Explore: Targets mature adults wish to explore their local area, and increase their social network through weekly rides in their local area. Four rides have com-menced; Geelong, Brighton, Casey and Hawthorn.

� Adventure. Provides a cycling tourism opportunity for older adults in conjunc-tion with major events, and regional providers.

In 2015/16, the pilot saw 243 individuals participate.

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So far this year 1,481,281 viewers have watched a cycling event on TV in Victoria.

2016 saw CV begin to benchmark the num-ber of viewers and look at increasing the engagement of the fan in Victoria.

So far this year 1,481,281 viewers have watched a cycling event on TV in Victoria. Additionally over 100,0000 people will have attended a major cycling event in Victoria this year.

The highlights have included:

� Cycling Australia Road Nationals � Mitchelton Bay Series � National Road Series � Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race. � Austral Wheelrace


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Most of the CV marketing has focused on increasing the digital footprint. With growth over 25% our strategy in this area is certainly taking shape.

Membership

2015 – 2016 saw a number of new changes in the member-ship which included:

� Introduction of the Ride Basic Membership

� Acknowledgement of short term memberships (day and 3 day)

� Introduction of the VICS membership as part of the club structure

Once again CV were steadfast in not increasing the prices of mem-bership for the 4th consecutive year.

With engagement from our clubs we introduced a new ‘Club Affili-ate’ policy which would allow clubs to join corporate entities. Most recently we have developed a new Corporate Club program which encourages participation among corporate groups in CV activities.

For the third consecutive year CV did not raise membership prices – making those in Victoria the second cheapest in the country.

Most excitingly our membership saw large increases in 2015-2016 particularly in the areas of riding and short term membership.

Membership statistics across cycling categories:

Racing 4,655Recreational 1,301Temporary 301Non-Riding 176

Racing 4,233Recreational 2,411Temporary 3,300Non-Riding 184

Year till date 10,128

Year 20156,433


Communication



Sponsorship

Over the past 12 months existing partnerships were renewed with TAC, Singapore Airlines, Seight, Physiohealth and Winning Edge. Addition-ally we welcomed a number of new partners into the fold. Beastwear were appointed as the official leisurewear partner, Big 4 Holiday Parks as our accommodation partner for several regional events together with numerous event partners including Anchor Point, City of Whittlesea, Dahlsens Mitre 10 and Beechworth Bakery.

Our partners play an integral role in the operation of the business and we thank each and every one of them for their continued support.

Participation Statistics across various web platforms:

Communication Channels This period 2015 Growth@CyclingVictoria (Twitter) 10,200 8,821 14%CV Instagram 16, 300 9,403 43%CV Facebook 14,336 10,534 26%Other Channels 5,531 3,939 29%

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6.People

Two key committees were developed this year: Audit and Risk and Nominations. These committees play a critical role in Cycling Victoria to ensure we meet the Australian Sports Commission Good Governance principals.People

Board

Staff

CEO Kipp Kaufmann

Finance Manager Peter Quibell

Commercial Manager Andrew Haug

Communications & Membership Manager Paul Lumsden

Road Manager Simon Gwynn

Track Manager Craig Eastwood

Events Manager Karin Jones

Clubs Manager Daniel Woodrow

Manager - Riding & People Mark Drehlich

Coordinator - People and Programs Alan Mok

Coordinator - Riding Programs Tanja Van Bokhoven

Coordinator - Business Development Renata Ferah

BMX Manager Kyle Chandler

President Glen Pearsall

Vice President Mark Heintz

Finance Director Lisa Byrne

Executive Member Monique Hanley

Board Members Laurie Noonan

David Grant

Matt Fletcher

Heather Park

Jo Jericho

Doug Armstrong

David Tennant


Commissaire Development

In 2015-16, the number of level one commissaire had increase by 48. There was a major in-crease in clubs that didn’t have any commissaires to having one or two.

The target over the next few years we will be aiming at all clubs to have at least 4 com-missaires.

The number of regional com-missaire has also increased, with 23 of the 48 being from regional clubs.

Our Committee Coach Development

In 2015-16 Cycling Victoria ran two Level One and four Road and Track Skill courses run every year.

Over the 6 coaching course we were able to increase the coaches in Victoria by 64.

A total of 21 up¬skilled there NCAS Road and Track Skills qualifications and began their pathway to becoming level one coaches.

Audit & Risk Heather Park (Chair)Lisa ByrneGuy UnderwoodDavid WilliamsLloyd Freeburn

Technical Committee Laurie Noonan (Chair)Matthew WrightMark ZanattaGreg GriffithsKaren O’CallaghanPam Williams Michelle Grima

Moto Committee Warwick James (Chair)Chris GreenPedro EberbachStuart Keighley

Marketing & Watching Mat Vine (Chair)

Julian Murphy

HistoryCommittee

Bill Liddy

Ken Mansell (Convenor)

Robert Hess

Ray Bowles

Malcolm Powell

Bruce Goodwin

Garry Jones

Nominations Katrina Spence (Chair)

Melinda Jacobson

Laurie Noonan

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BMX Victoria has drafted and released the Strategic Plan 2016-2019 after an evaluation of its 2012-2015 Strategic Plan and an organisation-wide review of association operations.

BODI TURNER AT THE OLYM-PICS

Bodi Turner had both the Victorian and Australian BMX communities behind him as he became the first Victorian to compete for the Green and Gold in BMX in the Olympic Games at Rio de Janeiro earlier this year. He made it through his qualifying motos before missing out with a 5th in his Quarter Final. We congratulate him for his dedication across the journey. We were all proud watching him on the biggest stage with memories of his pro-gress all the way from a junior at Eastfield BMX Club.

MEMBERSHIP

After a period of strong growth, BMX membership grew mod-estly with an annual growth of 3.05% over the past 12 months. Analysis of membership re-tention data shows that BMX continues to show a strong capacity to gain new members

while our modest growth return indicates that there is work to be done in improving our reten-tion rates. While comparable with other cycling disciplines, it is a priority moving forward to improve our retention rates, particularly in regional areas, while continuing to attract new members to our clubs.

STATE EVENTS

BMX Victoria members contin-ue to travel several hundred at a time to all corners of the state for Open Events. In addition, the 2016 Track Attack Series in January saw 426 riders com-pete while the 2016 Junior State Series was contested by 328 riders across the seven rounds. The State Championships gained approximately 800 en-tries with 300 traveling to Shep-parton BMX Club from every state of Australia and New Zealand. Along with the BMXV Event Management Group, who has tirelessly worked throughout the year preparing for events, BMX Victoria would like to take this opportunity to thank all the volunteers and

clubs for their efforts in putting on fantastic competitions over the year.

NATIONAL EVENTS

The 2016 National Champion-ships were held at Bathurst in New South Wales. The Victo-rian BMX community traveled in great numbers, with 222 riders making the journey. Victo-rian riders achieved fantastic success, taking home 12 ‘1A’ national titles and 59 top 8 plates, punching well above their weight when considering gross numbers.

GOVERNANCE / STRATEGIC PLAN

BMX Victoria has drafted and released the Strategic Plan 2016-2019 after an evaluation of its 2012-2015 Strategic Plan and an organisation-wide re-view of association operations. This process incorporated the entirety of BMX Victoria’s op-erations and input was sought from all varied stakeholders of BMX. The Board and Admin-istration are working towards the Plan’s related Operational Plan looking to develop BMX in Victoria.

OFFICIALS/VOL-UNTEERS

BMX Victoria continues to maintain a solid base of volun-teers with the state possessing


approximately 200 accredited officials. BMX Victoria has held several Level 2 Officials courses to upskill Officials and actively encourages the acquisition and retention of Volunteers/Officials. The BMX community thanks all of those who volunteer their time in various roles to keep the sport running smoothly.

COACHES / STATE TEAM

Josh Callan continues to do a fantastic job as BMX Victoria State Coach, as demonstrated in part by the fantastic results of the state at the National Championships mentioned earlier. Coaching remains a pri-ority for the Board as Beginner and Level One courses have been held and other resources planned to be developed and implemented in the near future.

ADMINISTRA-TION

The Board of BMX Victoria continues to receive support through Manager Kyle Chan-dler with the support of Cycling Victoria. Kyle looks after the VicHealth programs and other administrative duties to assist the operations of BMX Victoria.

PARTICIPATION

BMX Victoria has rolled out the ‘Pumped’ grassroots program backed by the VicHealth In-novation Challenge and admin-istratively assisted by Cycling Victoria. The initiative utilises

under-programmed council pump-tracks in several loca-tions around Victoria utilising local coaches. So far, close to 200 participants have experi-enced the program in ten loca-tions across Victoria. We have received fantastic feedback from families and participants involved with the program and have been pleased to see some use the program to transition to full club membership in their local areas.

VSCC

In conjunction with Cycling Victoria, BMX Victoria has re-cently completed the Victorian Schools Cycling Champion-ship Series. Over 400 children attended the three zone finals in Hoppers Crossing, Knox, Park Orchards and the State Final in Bendigo. These events were run by the host clubs with support from BMX Victoria and member club volunteers. Bro-ken into Racing (BMXA member riders) and Novice riders (those without membership) the cham-pionships gave many riders

their first taste of full-track BMX experience. The winning school for the series, Moyston Primary School based near Ararat, took 23 of the schools 28 attendees to the series to race in the Nov-ice category.

FACILITIES

BMX Victoria continues to work with member clubs in an effort to build and improve future and current track facilities around the state with local and state government support. Lobby-ing and support for projects at various stages include tracks across Victoria at Bacchus Marsh, Mansfield, Clifton Hill, Shepparton, Frankston, Oak-leigh, Casey, Mill Park and Bendigo. The Casey BMX Club facility is progressing nicely, with the first stage of the 2.87M project scheduled for comple-tion for riding in March/April 2017.

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We are pleased to report a surplus for the 2015/16 financial year.

Cycling Victoria Finance Report 2015-2016

I’m delighted to be able to report that Cycling Victoria (CV) has reported a surplus for the 2015/16 financial year, continuing the trend of healthy financial results over the last few years. The surplus reported in the accounts for the year is $152,419 and the retained earnings for the organisation amounts to $895,978 as per the Balance Sheet. While the surplus reported this final year is slightly less than last year’s surplus it is still a very healthy result and the ongoing exceptional cost management and run-ning of events by the Cycling Victoria team, led by Kipp Kauffman, is a key factor in that result.

We have in place an investment plan which will make use of a small proportion of the retained earnings and sup-ports the updated strategy for Cycling Victoria as well as being an investment in providing improved services to our members.


Key Activities during 2015-2016 financial year

� The Cycling Victoria Audit and Risk Committee has been established and the first activity under-taken by this group has been to implement and conduct an external audit tender process. A short list of candidates based on the selection criteria was collated, a recommended service provider presented to the board and a vote on this recom-mendation to be conducted during this year’s AGM as per the CV Constitution.

� The Financial Statements have been aligned with the CV Strategy and groups financial results into the 5 areas of focus within the strategy ie Rid-ing, Racing, Watching, People, Resources. The budget for 2016-2017 has also been prepared using this approach.

� As reported in last year’s financials, the Australia Sports Commission (ASC) along with a number of other State cycling bodies lent funds total-ling $2,000,000 of which $150,000 was provided by CV. This loan is repayable in January 2019. Todate, CA has met all of its repayment obliga-tions and is currently reporting cashflow positive. However, the degree of traction with reinvigorat-ing the organisation along with lack of clarity of focus, purpose and priorities is somewhat un-clear. Cycling Victoria and Cycling Australia have worked diligently on the relationship between the two organisations and this has improved signifi-cantly during the past 12 months. Cycling Victoria monitors extremely closely the financial position of Cycling Australia and the organisation’s ability to honour its obligations associated with the loan from Cycling Victoria.

Financial Processes and Oversight

To support the duties and obligations of the board the following activities are undertaken:

� The Finance Director presents the Profit and Loss Report and Balance Sheet to the Board at each monthly Board meeting.

� Prior to each Board meeting, the Finance Director, General Manager and Financial Con-troller review and analyse the draft Profit and Loss Report and Balance Sheet prior to their finalisation for distribution to Board members.

� At each Board meeting the CEO (Kipp Kauff-man) is required to confirm that to his knowl-edge CV is solvent ie has the funds available to meet all known financial obligations.

� The Association’s auditor meets annually with the Board to discuss the audit process, the Audited accounts, and the Auditor’s Report, and, to respond to questioning from Board members regarding the annual accounts.

Financial Objectives of the CV Board

The current key financial strategies of the CV Board are:

� To budget for, and achieve, a surplus in each financial year

� To continue to cash reserves at the rate of a minimum of $25k per annum

� To achieve surpluses and an increase in cash reserves whilst limiting membership fee increases

� To replace obsolete assets and purchase new assets to ensure highest standards of mem-bership servicing.

� To invest in assets and activities that support the strategy and growth of the organisation

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The key financial metrics for CV

Quick Ratio

Quick Ratio ie Ability to meeting Short Term Obligations as at June 30 of 2.07. A quick ratio of 1 or more indicates fiscal robustness.

Debt Ratio

Debt Ratio ie Proportion of Debt Relative to Assets as at June 30 of 0.37. A debt ratio of 1 or less is good and the CV ratio denotes the majority of assets are financed through equity; a strength for CV.

Surplus for the year

$152,419Budgeted surplus for 2016 was $43,316.67

Retained Earnings

$895,978Turnover in excess of

$2MQuick Ratio

2.07as at June 30

Debt Ratio

0.37as at June 30

as at June 30, 2016


2015-16 Balance Sheet

Assets � Value of Total Assets totalled $1,416,022, an increase of 19% during the financial year.

� The balance of Receivables as at June 30 was $95,062

� Cash held in the CV current account as at June 30 was $166,206 and cash reserves totalling $794,690 held in a term deposit as at June 30 2016.

Liabilities � Payables as at June 30 was $97,580, an increase of 27% from 30th June 2015.

� Other Liabilities increased from to $258,523 to $296,903. The vast majority of this liability as at June 30 being Grants and Sponsor-ships received in Advance.

� As at June 30 2016, the total liabilities of CV increased from $450,561 to $520,044. As was the case for both the 2014 and 2015 financial year, the primary driver for this liability is Grants and Sponsorships received in advanced as noted above.

� PAYG Tax, GST and su-perannuation liabilities of $47,807 as at the financial year end

2015-16 Profit and Loss Report

The Net Surplus of $152,419 far exceeded the projected surplus of $43,316.67 budgeted for during the financial year.

� There are many drivers in the increase in income for the organisa-tion including track hire, state racing and hosted races (Australian Masters Track Championships, Melbourne Cup on Wheels and Tour of the South West)

� Cost of Sales has been managed closely resulting in a lower Cost of Sales figure than what was expected in the budget.

� There will be an increase in spend (both operating and capital) in activities that support the CV strategy in F17.

2016-2017 Financial Year

For the 2017 financial year, CV has budgeted for a surplus (af-ter Depreciation) of $18,487.

In closing, along with my col-leagues on the CV Board, I would like to acknowledge the support, guidance and assis-tance provided by Kipp Kauf-mann and Peter Quibell. The ongoing evolution and improve-ment of the financial capability of the organisation is made possible by the contribution and effort of this team.

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