Rotorua professional rider Lachlan Stevens-McNab has finished runner-up in the elite men’s downhill mountain bike at the UCI MTB World Championship at Val di Sole, Italy today.

Sixteen New Zealand downhill riders have qualified for tomorrow’s finals after outstanding qualifying performances at the UCI MTB World championships in Val di Sole, Italy.

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.

New Zealand mountain bikers climb to the high altitude of Andorra for the sixth round of the UCI MTB World Series for both downhill and cross-country this weekend.

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.