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Sport Projects have secured another prestigious cycling event, with Cycling Australia appointing us as the organiser for the Brisbane round of the UCI Track Cycling World Cup. We are so pleased to be part of an event that sees the best of track cycling battle it out for gold and valuable qualifying points ahead of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.
The Tissot Track World Cup is the first major UCI world track cycling event hosted by Australia since the UCI Tissot Track Cycling World Championships in Melbourne in 2012. A Sport Projects delivery of the UCI Track World Cup in Brisbane comes after working with Madison Sports Group and nurturing the expansion of the Six-Day Cycling Series into Australia last season, both in Melbourne and Brisbane.
In announcing that Sport Projects will deliver the Track World Cup in Brisbane, Managing Director Steve Peterson said “While we have a healthy roster of high profile outdoor sports events, we are pleased to be expanding our indoor activity, capitalising on our demonstrated capacity to deliver high-quality stadium and venue experiences. The Anna Meares Velodrome is one of the leading velodrome venues in the world and we are thrilled to be back there and working with Cycling Australia and the Stadiums Queensland team again! Whilst we are proudly Melbourne based, The Track World Cup in Brisbane on top of the JP Morgan Corporate Challenge in Sydney and Six Day Track Cycling, also in Brisbane, means we are just as active outside of our home state as we are within it”.
The UCI Track Cycling World Cup will take place at the Anna Meares Velodrome in Brisbane on December 13-15. You can find out more about the event and buy tickets here
Sport Projects Deliver a Cycling ‘Triple Treat’ this Events Season
After delivering the Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race (CEGORR) since 2018 Sport Projects has had its contract renewed as event management services supplier for the next three years. The CEGORR is one of the largest road events in Australia. Running since 2015 the first CEGORR was host to Cadel Evans’ final professional road cycling race. From here it quickly became a world class cycling event attaining UCI world tour status in 2017.
Sport Projects have been involved with the event since 2017, delivering ‘Towards Zero Race Melbourne’, a new addition to the CEGORR weekend of cycling in Albert Park. In 2017 we were appointed by Visit Victoria as the event management supplier for the event, in its entirety. This includes the Elite Men’s Race, Elite Women’s Race, Race Melbourne, the Swisse People’s Ride and the Family Ride. It’s a festival of cycling and we have enjoyed the challenge and excitement of delivering every part of it throughout 2018 and 2019.
We look forward to continuing to deliver a CEGORR that is always changing, innovating and improving the rider and spectator experience. In 2020, the Deakin University Elite Women’s race is elevated to World Tour status for the first time. The first UCI Women’s World Tour event ever to take place in the Southern Hemisphere. Find out more about the CEGORR weekend here.
Sport Projects new organisers of ‘Race the Train: The Goldfields Steam Train Challenge’
Recently the Sport Projects team had the honour of organising the Olivia Newton-John Wellness Walk and Research Run on behalf of Austin Health.
Our team had already been involved in the course and traffic management planning and delivery for the event for the previous two years, but in 2018 our role was stepped up. With a new fundraising and events team on board and limited experience with the previous editions of the event, it made sense to de-risk the all-important event delivery, by contracting an event operations team.
Furthermore and perhaps more importantly, the management team at Austin Health recognised that their expertise and skills were best channelled into promoting the event, generating registrations, attracting sponsors and maximising fundraising. As we would always say, “leave the booking of the toilets to us”.
Since our involvement commenced we had always tried to forecast, as part of our proposal, the benefits of leaving the operations and logistics to us. This is the booking of the toilets sure, but also, contracting specialist marquee, staging, fencing and audio suppliers. Perhaps even more importantly, ensuring there are a team of staff and workforce deployed on event day to ensure everything is run smoothly, including the stage management of the day.
With Austin Health making the leap and extending our involvement to wider production management across the event, they have been able to reap the rewards as an organisation and as a team.
Lauren Stewart was the lead project manager for Austin Health and we couldn’t have put it any better ourselves; “Having Sport Projects set up the logistics and event management this year has meant that we were able to spend a lot more time raising funds with the WWRR community. When we look at the increase in the number of participants, sponsorship and donations this year it has been time very well spent”.
With a record number of participants in 2018, more than 4,000, as well an overall fundraising figure of more than $600,000, the positive results are compelling. And for Steve, after the death of his mother in 2013, this event means so much more than simply having a happy client.
Read a bit more about what services Sport Projects can offer as the road event specialists, here. The ONJ Cancer Centre press release is here. Get in contact with us and we will be only too happy to discuss your objectives and whether an event like the Wellness Walk and Research Run is something that can benefit your agency or cause.
Sport Projects are proud to be the event organiser for the upcoming Australian leg of the Six-Day Cycling Series. This event combines the best in track cycling with an electric party atmosphere. The lights are turned down low and DJs pump out tunes before, during and after the racing. If you would like to be part of the action the Melbourne event takes place on 07-09 February 2019 while the Brisbane event takes place on 12-14 April. You can purchase tickets through Ticketek here.
03 October 2017
Sport Projects appointed as the event management supplier for the Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race
Visit Victoria has appointed Sport Projects as the event management supplier for the Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race, for 2018 and 2019.
Visit Victoria General Manager, Major Events Mr Damien de Bohun congratulated Sports Projects.
“We’re delighted to appoint a highly experienced and respected company to deliver one of Victoria’s most important major events, the Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race,’ Mr de Bohun said.
‘Sport Projects offers international experience in delivering cycling events, and knows the rigour required for delivering a major event in a public space, using public roads‘.
Steve Peterson, Managing Director of Sport Projects, said: “We are excited at the prospect of taking on the organisation of this world class event. Our experienced and dedicated team look forward to working hard to achieve the event’s objectives over the next two years, helping to position the event to further develop, grow and innovate into the future.”
The Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race was established in 2015 and has quickly grown into one of the most popular events on Australia’s sporting calendar. Featuring one day in Melbourne and two days in Geelong, the event has grown into an iconic weekend of international cycling, featuring a UCI World Tour men’s race and UCI 1.1 women’s as the feature events.
The event features a true festival of cycling appealing to all ages and abilities.
With Belgian kermesse style racing on the iconic Formula One circuit at Albert Park, a Family Ride along the beautiful Geelong Waterfront, a People’s Ride and two days of action-packed ‘classics’ racing across the Geelong and Surf Coast regions, the event allows all cyclists, novice to elite, to share the roads in a celebration of cycling.
For more event details, check out the Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race www.cadelevansgreatoceanroadrace.com.au
For more details on the event management services supplier, Sport Projects, check out their new website at www.sportprojects.com.au
For more information on the appointment of Sport Projects and the organisation of the event, contact the Event Director Steve Peterson from Sport Projects steve@sportprojects.com.au or 0466 485 670
We’re delighted to appoint a highly experienced and respected company to deliver one of Victoria’s most important major events, the Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race.
Damian de Bohun