MTBNZ is pleased to announce the Long List of athletes for the 2012 UCI Mountainbike World Championships, being held in Leogang, Austria at the end of August. Read More »

Woodends’ favourite son Anton Cooper carried on his Mountainbike World Cup winning ways overnight in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa at the season opening round. After winning the last two World Cup rounds of 2011, Cooper made short work of the Cascades MTB Park Junior Mens race to win comfortably by four and a half minutes. Read More »

Whakatane’s Karen Hanlen raced to a stunning 8th at the first round of the 2012 UCI Mountainbike World Cup in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa overnight. In a world class quality field of competitors, containing every Olympic nations top Elite cross country athletes Hanlen put herself in a position to not only challenge for the race lead, but to claim a result that will allow her to build on what has already been a form summer. Read More »

The 2012 Oceania Mountainbike Championships finished today with the Downhill and Cross Country Eliminator races in the Whakarewarewa Forest in Rotorua. Weather was very changeable, with just enough rain falling on and off all day to keep competitors guessing and gambling with the variable conditions. Competition was tough, and the strong international presence was felt again today in both feature races. Read More »

A change has been made to the afternoon race schedule for Saturday’s XCO race day. U19 Men, U19 Women and U23 Women will now start at 1pm, with the Elite Men, Elite Women and U23 Men starting at 3pm.

The Commissaires communique is here, with a revised timetable here.

The 2012 edition of the southern hemispheres most important mountainbike race is all set to go this weekend, in the Whakarewarewa Forest in Rotorua. The RaboDirect Oceanias event, presented by Nature Valley returns to New Zealand every second year, and its status continues to grow as the highest level domestic mountainbike event for all of the Oceania countries represented.
 
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