Top Hawke's Bay Cyclist Moving For Dream Job 25 Nov 2015
Related articles
- Niki Roderick Extends Depth To New Zealand Record Sport
- NZ More Interested in All Whites than All Blacks Sport
- Australia Jumping on the Boy Bandwagon Living
- All Whites claim historic point Sport
- Sick leave expected to increase during World Cup Sport
- Prime Minister to travel to South Africa News
- Snow on The Remarkables Living
- Budget provides $321m for RS&T activities News
- Unemployment rate falls from 7.1 to 6 percent Recruitment
- Team Selected for Ultimate Ride Jet-ski Sport
TOP HAWKE’S BAY CYCLIST MOVING FOR DREAM JOB
Nearing the end of degree studies at EIT, Hannah van Kampen has already scored a job that underpins her road cycling ambitions.
Para Cycling New Zealand has assigned Hannah to work with world para cycling champion Emma Foy as the athlete prepares to defend her title at next year’s Paralympic Games.
Partially sighted, Emma competes on a tandem bike and Hannah is one of her two pilots, taking the front position on the bike.
A
reserve for the Paralympics to be staged in Rio de Janeiro
in September, Hannah will be part of a squad training in
Canada and the USA over the coming northern summer – both
countries she’s never been to before.
Currently
driving from her home in Hastings to train with Emma once a
week in Cambridge, she will relocate to the Waikato once she
completes her Bachelor of Recreation and Sport.
“I won’t be able to tease Waikato cyclists about their weather anymore,” she jokes of the region’s reputation for rain.
Based in either Cambridge or Hamilton, she will be close to the velodrome where she’ll be able to train and compete in cycling events.
“It’s exciting, awesome,” she says of this new chapter in her life. “It’s living the dream.”
Hannah started cycling as a 13-year-old and has been a long-time member of the Ramblers Cycling Club. She was awarded a scholarship for coaching by Ivar Hopman in 2009 and began competing at national level.
Two years later, she was selected to race with the New Zealand development squad in Australia and subsequently moved from the under-19s straight into the elite field of women cyclists.
She gained invaluable experience with cycling stints in Europe and also travelled to compete in the 60-rider Tour of Thailand earlier this year.
Locally, she made her mark in winning last year’s 115km Tour of the Bay.
The former Taikura Rudolf Steiner School student came to EIT on a Year 13 study grant and was also awarded an EIT/Sport Hawke’s Bay sports scholarship.
Hannah says cycling is like having a bug or an addiction.
“I start riding the bike and I can’t stop. I’m not too sporty apart from cycling – I like pushing myself past my limit.”
ENDS
News
Hilary Timmins' Award-Winning UK Documentary Series To Inspire NZ Students
29 Jun 2020 Education
Dream Catchers, produced and directed by Hilary Timmins, celebrates the success stories of more than thirty inspirational New... more
New Zealand reaffirms support for Flight MH17 judicial process
7 Mar 2020 News
Ahead of the start of the criminal trial in the Netherlands on 9 March, Foreign Minister Winston Peters has reaffirmed the need to... more
Business
NZ Government's Economic package to fight COVID-19
17 Mar 2020 Business News
The Coalition Government has launched the most significant peace-time economic plan in modern New Zealand history to cushion the... more
NZ Government announces aviation relief package
19 Mar 2020 Business News
Transport Minister Phil Twyford today outlined the first tranche of the $600 million aviation sector relief package announced earlier... more
Living
Diversity was Key at New Zealand Trade Tasting in London
6 Jun 2022 Food & Wine
New Zealand Winegrowers Annual Trade Tasting was recently held in London, on Wednesday 4 May, in Lindley Hall.
It was the first... more
Kiwi author stuns Behind the Butterfly Gate
12 Jan 2022 Arts
Hidden behind the Butterfly Gate is where the secret has been kept for 76 years...
New Zealand writer Merryn Corcoran’s... more
Property
Fairer rules for tenants and landlords
17 Nov 2019 Property
17 NOVEMBER 2019
The Government has delivered on its promise to the over one million New Zealanders who now rent to make it fairer... more
New Zealand Government will not implement a Capital Gains Tax
17 Apr 2019 Property
The Coalition Government will not proceed with the Tax Working Group’s recommendation for a capital gains tax, Jacinda Ardern... more
Migration
Boosting border security with electronic travel authority – now over 500,000 issued
19 Nov 2019 Migration
19 NOVEMBER 2019
We’ve improved border security with the NZeTA, New Zealand Electronic Travel Authority, which helps us to... more
Christchurch reinstated as refugee settlement location
18 Aug 2018 Migration
18 AUGUST 2018
HON IAIN LEES-GALLOWAY
The announcement that Christchurch can once again be a settlement location for refugees... more
Travel
Gallipoli Anzac Day services cancelled
19 Mar 2020 Travel & Tourism
The New Zealand and Australian Governments have announced this year’s joint Anzac Day services at Gallipoli will be cancelled... more
New Zealanders advised not to travel overseas
19 Mar 2020 Travel & Tourism
New Zealanders advised not to travel overseas
more
Sport
The Skipper's Diary: Sir Richard Hadlee honouring his father and NZ's Forty-Niners
27 Oct 2019 Cricket
NZNewsUK London Editor Charlotte Everett spoke to Sir Richard Hadlee about why he’s chosen to publish his father’s... more
PREVIEW: All Blacks v England semi-final
26 Oct 2019 Rugby
The two most convincing quarterfinals winners are set to square off in a semifinal showdown for the ages when the All Blacks meet old... more
Columns
Gordon Campbell on the Gareth Morgan crusade
11 Nov 2016 Opinion
Gordon Campbell on the Gareth Morgan crusade
First published on Werewolf
The ghastly likes of Marine Le Pen in France and Geert ... more
Gordon Campbell on the US election outcome
10 Nov 2016 Opinion
Column - Gordon Campbell
Gordon Campbell on the US election outcome
Well um.. on the bright side, there (probably)... more
Kiwi Success
Congratulations to Loder Cup winner
26 Sep 2018 People
25 SEPTEMBER 2018
The Loder Cup, one of New Zealand’s oldest conservation awards, has been awarded to Robert McGowan for 2018... more
Appointments to New Zealand National Commission for UNESCO
16 Aug 2018 Appointments
16 AUGUST 2018Appointments to New Zealand National Commission for UNESCO
HON JENNY SALESA
Associate Education Minister Jenny Salesa is... more
Recruitment
Historic pay equity settlement for education support workers
14 Aug 2018 Recruitment
14 AUGUST 2018Historic pay equity settlement for education support workers
RT HON JACINDA ARDERN
HON CHRIS HIPKINS
Prime Minister
The... more
Historic pay equity settlement for education support workers
22 Aug 2018 Recruitment
14 AUGUST 2018Historic pay equity settlement for education support workers
RT HON JACINDA ARDERN
HON CHRIS HIPKINS
Prime Minister
The... more