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.

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.

Taupo 23-year-old Sammie Maxwell has fought her way to the silver medal in the elite women’s cross-country race at the UCI MTB World Championships in Switzerland.