Otago dominated the prizegiving with long-serving coach Bob Jones scooping the coach of the year award and club servant Barry Ellis named volunteer of the year.
Henderson was named road cyclist of the year and Shanks the track cyclist of the year.
Cycling Otago president Chris Henderson was thrilled for Jones and Ellis - two men he described as hardworking and generous with their time.
"Any time there is work to be done Baz [Barry Ellis] is there to do it," Henderson said, adding Jones was just as devoted.
"Bob's probably been coaching for 20 to 25 years. He mainly nurtures the younger riders. Probably his biggest attribute is that he doesn't burn the riders out.
"Anyone that Bob has anything to do with tends to stay in the sport."
Jones said he was pleased to get the award.
The 57-year-old made his competitive debut in August 1964 and has been hooked ever since.
"It gets in your blood. It's like a disease," he said. "I've always been involved with taking teams away. But it was probably the mid to late '80s that I got involved with actually coaching people one-on-one.
"Before that I sort of coached myself and my brother [Max]."
Jones said the type of athletes coming into the sport had changed over the years.
Today's class is better conditioned but "softer mentally".
"In the old days it was hit-and-miss. It was about how many ks [kilometres] you did. I know people who went out and did 40,000km a year and they got no quicker for doing it.
"Now, if you did that, you'd be mixing it up with strength training and the right amount of speed work and stuff like that."
"But you've got to have that base there to start off. If you haven't got a base, you can do all the speed work under the sun and it won't take you anywhere."
Ellis got involved in cycling through his sons in 1993 and, like Jones, became hooked.
"It was quite humbling that someone respects me enough to put my name forward in the first place," Ellis said.
"I've only been involved in the sport a short time, compared to some people. You do it to get things done but certainly over the last 10 years it has been a pretty full-on effort."
Ellis was made a life member of Cycling Otago in June and also spends some of his spare time volunteering for the Otago Table Tennis Association.
