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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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New Zealand Mountainbikers in Canada – Crankworx and Coupe du Canada
Crankworx, August 7-15; Blenkinsop and Leov on Form The Crankworx MTB Festival in Whistler, Canada wrapped up on Sunday after a week of competition across a wide range of MTB disciplines. Part of the New Zealand MTB Team were racing in the gravity events as a lead-in to the UCI World Mountainbike Championships to [...]
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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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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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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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NZ MTB Team Competition Final Day – Wrap