In just her second significant race of the year, Sammie Maxwell fought her way to an impressive fifth place at the UCI MTB World Championship elite women’s cross-country in Italy

Encouraging signs from Paris Olympians Sammie Maxwell and Sam Gaze in the short track races to start the UCI MTB World Championship in Les Gets in the Haute Savoie region of France.

Popular rider and social media commentator, Wyn Masters will get the New Zealand campaign off the start line at the UCI MTB World Championships in Val di Sole, Italy.

Palmerston North downhill rider, Jonty Williamson has created history after claiming his sixth win of the season at the UCI MTB World Cup at Les Gets in France

Nine New Zealand mountain bikers lie in the top-20 in respective overall standings going into the final European round of the UCI MTB World Series in Les Gets, in the Haute Savoie region of south east France.

A 36-strong New Zealand team has been named for the UCI MTB World Championships at Val di Sole in Italy this month.

New Zealand’s growing list of MTB racers take on arguably the steepest terrain on the circuit at La Thuile in Italy near the French border for the latest round of the UCI World Series for downhill, cross-country and enduro this weekend.

New Zealand riders Anton Cooper and Sam Gaze finished mid-pack in the second round of the UCI MTB World Series Cross-country at Nové Mesto Na Morave in the Czech Republic today.

Paris Olympian Sam Gaze produced a brave cross-country display in the season-opening UCI MTB World Cup in South Korea.

Ten kiwi gravity riders have won through to the finals of the new UCI MTB World Cup season which has ventured to South Korea for the first time in 25 years.

Experience proved decisive whether a short-track sprint or full-day enduro on the final day of the UCI Mountain Bike Championships in Rotorua.

Two 30-something mountain bike legends showed that class is permanent as they dominated the Cycling New Zealand Cross-country Championships in Rotorua.

The king of cross-country mountain bike, Anton Cooper is set to extend his extraordinary run in the Cycling New Zealand XCO National Championships at the spiritual home of the sport in Rotorua this weekend.

Anton Cooper on his way to the title at the UCI Oceania MTB elite cross-country PHOTO: CYCLING NZ

The opening two rounds of the UCI Oceania Continental MTB Series for cross-country proved a double-double success for outstanding professionals, Australian Rebecca Henderson and kiwi star Anton Cooper in Christchurch.

Australian Rebecca Henderson and Kiwi Anton Cooper claim opening round honours at UCI Continental Series.

New Zealand mountain biker Samara (Sammie) Maxwell dug deep to finish third in the penultimate race of the UCI MTB World Series at Lake Placid in the United States..

New Zealand’s Samara Maxwell had to settle for sixth place but still maintains a significant lead after the final European leg of the UCI MTB Cross-country World Series in Switzerland.

Cambridge professional Sam Gaze produced remarkable effort to pass more than 50 riders to 12th place in the elite men’s cross-country on the final day of the UCI MTB World Championships in Switzerland.

New Zealand mountain bikers Samara Maxwell and Sam Gaze were both encouraged with their fifth placings in the short track cross-country race at the UCI MTB World Championships in Switzerland.