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NZ MTB Team Competition Days Three and Four – Wrap
UCI Mountainbike World Championships, Mont Sainte Anne, Canada NZ MTB Team Competition Days Three and Four – Wrap Friday and Saturday have been all about Cross Country competition at the Mont Sainte Anne World Championships in Quebec, with a stunning Friday evening of Four Cross racing thrown in to mix things up a little. [...]
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World Champs Day 2 – Samara Sheppard 11th in U23
UCI Mountainbike World Championships, Mont Sainte Anne, Canada NZ MTB Team Competition Day Two – Wrap Samara Sheppard was a black and silver Cross Country mountainbike machine today at the Mont Sainte Anne World Championships in Quebec today. Sheppard (Rotorua) was the sole NZ representative in the 35 strong Under 23 Womens race, run over [...]
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NZ MTB Team Competition Day One – Wrap
UCI Mountainbike World Championships, Mont Sainte Anne, Canada Sept 1st to 5th 2010 The 2010 UCI Mountainbike World Championships officially opened last night at a spectacular opening ceremony in Parliament Grounds in Quebec City last night. The stunning Parliament Buildings formed a beautiful backdrop for the teams presentation and a huge crowd welcomed the 750 [...]
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UCI Mountainbike World Championships, NZ MTB Team Preview
30th August 2010 Attention Sports Editors UCI Mountainbike World Championships, Mont Sainte Anne, Canada; Aug 30th to Sept 5th New Zealand Mountainbike Team ? Preview The 28 strong New Zealand MTB Team is now assembled at Mont Sainte Anne in the beautiful Quebec region of Canada?s west, making final preparations for a week of? championship [...]
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SPARC release Expression of Interest for Cycling Centre of Excellence
Via the Government Tender Service, Sport and Recreation have released an expressions of interest document to construct a cycling centre of excellence. It looks like bids will need to come from councils combined with funders and construction companies. The centre must have access to a “quality mountain biking area”. This is a sign of great [...]
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BikeNZ appoints new Sponsorship Manager
BikeNZ is MTBNZ’s parent organisation (along with BMXNZ, Road and track and Secondary Schools Cycling) Sales, marketing and management executive Helen Mobberley has been appointed to the new position of Sponsorship Manager for BikeNZ. Mobberley will take up the new role immediately for BikeNZ, the national sports organisation that is the umbrella body embracing all [...]
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Masters World MTB Championship
Anyone can enter this event, you don’t need MTBNZ approval or selection. You will need an international UCI license to compete, which you can get from the BikeNZ website. This is a reminder for athletes’ registration to the UCI Mountain Bike Masters World Championships 2010. The event will take place from 7-12 September in Balneário [...]
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UCI release 2011 calendar
UCI website Looks like South Africa is back with round 1 in 2011, they were pretty mad about missing out for 2010.
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PNP Strategic Plan Released
The PNP Club based in Wellington have released their Strat Plan and it makes for interesting reading They have some great initiatives in there like contributing $5 per rider to local trail maintenance groups Supporting riders entering National and Oceania Champs with $40 entry and $50 accommodation allowances.
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NZ MTB Team Competition Final Day – Wrap