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

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.

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

Kiwi gravity peddlers showed no lag after the European summer break, with 12 riders qualifying for the finals at the last European round of the UCI MTB World Series in Les Gets,

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.

Auckland gravity rider Sacha Earnest grabbed the second elite podium of her career with third place in the latest round of the UCI MTB World Series in La Thuile, Italy .

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 rider Winni Goldsbury has earned her third straight podium after wild weather disrupted the final day of the third round in the UCI Enduro MTB World Series in Trentino, northern Italy.

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

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.