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.

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 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.

Kiwi riders Lachie Stevens-McNab, Erice van Leuven and Eliana Hulsebosch have all claimed podium placings in the UCI MTB Downhill in Austria