Rising New Zealand teenage gravity riders Tyler Waite and Eliana Hulsebosch have secured season-ending podium placings in at the junior downhill event, at the UCI MTB World Series finale in Monte-Sainte-Anne in Canada today.

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.

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.

Twenty-five New Zealand riders in mountain bike and BMX Racing face crunch competitions around the globe this weekend.

The UCI Mountain Bike World Series is back in action following the summer break in Europe with no time for Kiwi riders to ease their way back into the competition scene.

NZ riders take three podiums between them in downhill finals on opening day of UCI MTB World Series in Poland.

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