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NZ Team for UCI 2010 World Mountainbike Championships Announced
MTBNZ has great pleasure in announcing the NZ Mountainbike Team to compete at the 2010 UCI World Mountainbike Championships, to be held at Mont Saint Anne in Quebec, Canada, between August 31st and September 5th. Cross Country Richard Anderson, Blenhiem Mathew Waghorn, Palmerston North Locky McArthur, Auckland Bradley Hudson, Christchurch Alexa Peters, Rotorua Dirk [...]
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Blenkinsop and Anderson Top Ten at Mountainbike World Cup, Val di Sole, Italy
Italy’s Val di Sole was host to the fifth round of the UCI MTB World Cup over the weekend – 20 NZers were competing in Saturday’s Cross Country and Sunday’s Downhill events. Junior Men Cross Country – Anderson 7th Richard Anderson (Avanti, Blenhiem) raced to a fighting 7th place at his second World Cup. [...]
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UCI MTB World Cup, Champery, Switzerland – Kiwis Tame the Mudfest!
Europe delivered another wet, muddy weekend to the 2010 UCI World Cup at Champery in Switzerland over the weekend. This 4th round of the World Cup is also the first this year where both Downhill and Cross Country disciplines came together at the same event – and both were affected by the weather. Downhill [...]
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2011 NZ MTB Cup and National MTB Champs Announced
Mountainbike NZ are pleased to announce the NZ MTB Cup and National MTB Championship schedule for the summer of 2011. NZ MTB Cup, Cross Country Round 1 Jan 9th Tauranga Round 2 Jan 16th Napier Round 3 Feb 13th Nelson Round 4 Feb 20th Christchurch NZ MTB Cup, Downhill Round 1 Jan 7/8 [...]
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NZ Performance Wrap July 7-11th
NZ mountainbikers competed at high profile events on two continents during the weekend – summaries of key performances follow: Avalanche Cup and Mega Avalanche, France The hugely popular Avalanche Series of events in Oz en Osains and Alp d’Heuz filled a week long period between July 5th and July 11th. Cameron Cole (Christchurch) [...]
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Pair of 8′s for Anderson and Peters, Racer Bikes Cup, Flims, Switzerland
Dirk Peters (Rotorua) and Richard Anderson (Blenheim) tackled the seventh round of the high profile Racer Bikes Cup in Flims, Switzerland yesterday. Anderson claimed an 8th in the Junior (Under 19) category, while Peters finished in outright 16th in the Elite/Under 23 race – and 8th of the Under 23 athletes competing. The two [...]
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Anderson wins in Cross Country MTB Stronghold – Bern, Switzerland
Richard Anderson continued to realise his stunning potential with a win in the prestigious HC category International Mountainbike Race in Bern, Switzerland yesterday. The Blenheim flyer picked up a flu on his way to Europe at the end of May, and has taken some time to shake the effects of this completely. But against a [...]
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Leov wins at Leogang, Austria – iXS European Downhill Cup
Justin Leov remained in Austria after last weekend’s UCI World Cup for the second round of the iXS Downhill Cup – this time absolutely taming the Leogang downhill course and the Elite category for a deserved win. The Dunedin based, Trek World Racing professional followed up from his top ten result at the Leogang World [...]
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Blenkinsop and Cole Podium at UCI MTB World Cup, Austria; NZ World MTB Wrap
Blenkinsop and Cole Podium at UCI MTB World Cup, Leogang, Austria New Zealand Downhill athletes Sam Blenkinsop and Cameron Cole claimed 4th and 5th podium places at the third round of the UCI MTB World Cup in Austria yesterday. Both racers got their heads around the miserable practice and race conditions at Leogang, to [...]
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New Zealand Mountainbikers in Canada – Crankworx and Coupe du Canada