New Zealand world mountain bike champion Samara (Sammie) Maxwell is taking a year-long break from competitive sport to safeguard her wellbeing and longevity.

New Zealand mountain biker Samara Maxwell has become the first kiwi to win the UCI MTB Cross-Country World Series title after the final round in Canada today.

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.

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.

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.

Sammie Maxwell had to work hard for an important podium placing to maintain her overall lead after round seven of the UCI MTB cross-country world series in France.

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.

Kiwi mountain biker Sammie Maxwell produced an outstanding performance to finish runner-up in the latest round of the UCI MTB Cross-country World Series in Italy.

New Zealand mountain bikers, led by Sammie Maxwell, have revelled in the cold and muddy conditions to bag a handful of podium performances in the latest round of the UCI MTB World Series in Leogang.

Kiwi mountain bikers converge on Austria’s iconic Leogang Bikepark for a UCI World Series triple-header comprising downhill, cross-country, and enduro competition this weekend

New Zealand’s flying teens made their mark in the latest rounds of the UCI MTB World Series for Enduro and Downhill in the French Pyrenees

New Zealand mountain bikers return to a favoured stop in the French Pyrenees for the next rounds in the UCI World Series for both downhill and enduro competition this weekend.

NZ mountain biker Sammie Maxwell claims runner-up in UCI MTB Cross-country World Series.

Lachlan Stevens-McNab at the 2024 world championships PHOTO: SW PIX. Twenty-seven New Zealand riders have entered the UCI MTB World...

Samara Maxwell continued her successful weekend at Araxa, Minas Gerais, Brazil with a win to follow her silver 24 hours earlier.