Thirty-four New Zealand mountain bikers will line up for opening European leg of UCI World Series downhill and enduro at the popular venue of Loudenvielle-Peyragudes in the French Pyrenees this weekend.

Palmerston North 17-year-old Jonty Williamson produced a top finish to claim his first junior men’s UCI Mountain Bike World Cup in the opening round of the world series in South Korea.

After a watershed 2025 season on the UCI Mountain Bike World Series standings, kiwi riders will take their first pedal strokes of the new season with renewed confidence and new challenges.

Samara Maxwell managed a solid fifth placing in the short track women’s race on the opening day of the UCI MTB World Cup finale in Mont-Sainte-Anne in Canada.

Paris Olympian Samara Maxwell has an opportunity to become the first New Zealand female to win a UCI MTB Elite World Series title at the final round in Canada over the weekend.

New Zealand gravity riders bagged three podium placings across three finals in the penultimate round of the 2025 UCI MTB World Series at Lake Placid, in upstate New York.

In-form young kiwi downhill riders made eye-catching starts to the penultimate round of the UCI MTB World Series at Lake Placid, New York state.

Only a few days after the massive test of the world championships, kiwi mountain bikers were back in action in the final European stop of the UCI World Series in Lenzerheide, Switzerland.

New Zealand mountain bikers will be looking to build on recent unprecedented success when the UCI Mtb World Series moves to the famed venue of Val di Sole in the mountains among the Dolomites in Trentino, northern Italy.

Two top-10 elite placings for emerging teenagers Sacha Earnest and Luke Wayman highlighted New Zealand performances in the downhill finals in France for the second round of the Whoop UCI MTB World Series.

Kiwi Erice van Leuven finishes her junior career with a remarkable victory at the final UCI MTB World Cup.

Kiwi junior world champion Erice van Leuven led a New Zealand podium onslaught at the UCI MTB World Cup.

NZ junior women downhill riders were on fire again in the final European stop of the UCI MTB World Cup.

There were mixed fortunes for young Kiwi gravity riders at the UCI MTB Downhill World Series.