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Mountain Bike New Zealand (MTBNZ) are the national body for mountain biking in New Zealand and are responsible for leading the development and growth of both competitive and recreational mountain biking.
The goals of MTBNZ are to:
Mountain biking clubs are encouraged to affiliate to MTBNZ to further to contribute to the development and direction of the sport in New Zealand.
Whakatane's Karen Hanlen secured a stunning 2nd place at the latest round of the BMC Racing Cup is Switzerland over the weekend.
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*Hanlen Battles to 18th at UCI Mountainbike World Cup Round Two, Houffalize, Belgium* Karen Hanlen (Whakatane) fought her way to an 18th at the latest round of the World Cup overnight in Belgium.
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Whakatane's Karen Hanlen raced to a stunning 8th at the first round of the 2012 UCI Mountainbike World Cup in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa overnight.
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The 2012 Oceania Mountainbike Championships finished today with the Downhill and Cross Country Eliminator races in the Whakarewarewa Forest in Rotorua.
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ROTORUA — Cross Country racing took place at the Oceania Mountainbike Championships on Saturday in the Whakarewarewa Forest in Rotorua.
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ROTORUA — The 2012 edition of the southern hemispheres most important mountainbike race is all set to go this weekend, in the Whakarewarewa Forest in Rotorua.
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WELLINGTON CITY — Wellington was the host for Round Five of the NZ MTB Cup Downhill and Round Three of the Cross Country Series' over the weekend.
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ROTORUA — The fourth downhill round of the NZ MTB Cup (presented by Nature Valley) was raced today (12 February) in Rotorua, with the Whakarewarewa Forest throwing some surprises into the racing mix over the weekend.
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Waghorn Survives the Eliminator; Leov Doubles Title Haul The RaboDirect NZ Mountainbike Championships finished today with the Cross Country Eliminator and Downhill events contested on the slopes of Fringed Hill in the Brook Valley, Nelson.
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The new venue of Mt Hutt provided an exciting addition to the NZ MTB Cup national series this weekend.
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CHRISTCHURCH — The Living Springs Farm Park in Governors Bay, Christchurch hosted the second round of the NZ MTB Cross Country Cup today.
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CHRISTCHURCH — The Living Springs Farm Park in Governors Bay, Christchurch hosted the second round of the NZ MTB Cross Country Cup today [22 January].
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DUNEDIN — Nerves were settled today for several winning athletes during the 2012 Elite Cross country races on Signal Hill in Dunedin today.
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DUNEDIN — The second round of the NZ MTB Downhill Cup presented by Nature Valley was raced today in a damp and soggy, constantly changing Dunedin.
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QUEENSTOWN — The 2012 edition of the long running New Zealand national mountainbike series launches this weekend in Queenstown.
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QUEENSTOWN — The 2012 edition of the long running New Zealand national mountainbike series launches this weekend in Queenstown.
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Anton Cooper won the 2011 Sir Richard Hadlee award for Best Young Sportsman of the Year at the Sport Canterbury awards on Friday last week.
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Sam Blenkinsop (Wanganui) saved his seasons best performance for the most important race of the year today, winning the bronze medal at the infamous Champery Downhill course at the 2011 World Championship event.
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After Anton Cooper's fantastic silver medal performance on Thursday in the Junior Mens Cross country race, NZ's Under 23 and Elite athletes racing on Friday and today at Champery were full of confidence with enthusiasm high at the Grand Paradis race venue.
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Woodend's Anton Cooper made New Zealand proud today with a storming silver medal at the UCI World Mountainbike Championships in Champery, Switzerland.
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The New Zealand Mountainbike Team makes its way to the Swiss venue of Champery today to start its World Championships programme.
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The New Zealand Mountainbike Team completed its competition schedule in Italy today at the final round of the UCI World Cup, in the beautiful northern Italian Val di Sole.
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The New Zealand Mountainbike Team completed its competition schedule in Italy today at the final round of the UCI World Cup, in the beautiful northern Italian Val di Sole.
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CHRISTCHURCH — Brilliant Christchurch teenager Anton Cooper upset the new European champion to win the junior men’s title at the UCI Mountain bike World Cup in the Czech Republic today.
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The Kokanee Crankworx mountainbike week at the Whistler Bike Park is a massive drawcard for the worlds's best gravity racers and freestyle riders.
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Mountainbike NZ and BikeNZ have great pleasure in announcing the NZ MTB Team for the UCI World Mountainbike Championships being held in Champery, Switzerland between August 30 and Sept 4.
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A quick one week turnaround from Canada last weekend for New Zealand's World Cup mountainbike athletes saw the group of 11 travel down to New York state for the only World Cup round on US soil this year.
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Europe based cross country racers stayed on in France while the UCI World MTB Cup shifted to Canada this weekend, racing at the highly subscribed French Cup.
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Rotorua's Samara Sheppard (iXS Wheeler Pro Team) raced to a break-through World Cup performance on Saturday, proudly delivering a fourth pace finish in the Under 23 Women's race at the always challenging east coast Canadian venue.
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MacDonald and Cole 3rd and 5th, NZ Top Ten Domination.
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Matt Scoles wins at Italian Cup, Abertone, Pistoia Alexandra's finest mountainbike export, Matt Scoles won the Abetone round of the Italian Cup on Sunday.
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Samara Sheppard (Wheeler iXS, Rotorua) delivered a charging 7th place finish at the Engelberg seven lap Women's Elite race.
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For the second World Cup in a row, New Zealand's Downhill athletes claimed the most top ten results of any nation at this pinnacle event.
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MacDonald 3rd at Fort William Mountainbike World Cup; Kiwis lay Seige on Fort William Top Ten Brook MacDonald (Hawkes Bay, MS Evil Racing/Red Bull) joined an exclusive group of NZ mountainbike athletes yesterday with a podium third at the 2nd round of the UCI Mountainbike World Cup in Fort William, Scotland.
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Rosara Joseph (Christchurch, RaboBank-Giant) raced to a 21st at the Offenburg World Cup on Sunday.
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Justin Leov (Trek World Racing, Dunedin) raced to a 3rd at the ninth edition of the US Open on Sunday, the same result he posted at this event in 2010.
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New Zealand's Mountainbike athletes have begun making their mark across the northern hemisphere again this year, in search of victories and success at world class events in North America and Europe.
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UCI 2011 World Mountainbike Championships, Champery Switzerland, 31st Aug to 4th September.
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Shepparton, Victoria, Australia, March 19/20 Short Track Cross Country and Downhill events were completed over the last two days in Victoria, with a mixed bag of results for the Kiwi Team.
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Cross Country and Four Cross race day at the Mt Major Oceanias venue in Victoria provided plenty of successful racing for the New Zealand racers and their vocal supporters.
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Shepparton, Victoria, Australia, March 18-20.
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DUNEDIN — The six event 2011 RaboDirect Mountainbike National Championships programme finished today with the Short Track Cross Country and Downhill races, both at Signal Hill, Dunedin.
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DUNEDIN — The RaboDirect MTB National Champs were underway with supporting events on Thursday, and UCI category CN events Friday night and Saturday in the Dunedin locations of Signal Hill and Forrester Park.
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RaboDirect NZ MTB Cup riders raced the final rounds of the Downhill and Cross Country national series events in Christstchurch over the weekend, at the Living Springs Farm Park in Governors Bay.
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NELSON — RaboDirect NZ MTB Cup riders were treated to a massive Fringed Hill Downhill course on Saturday, and a brutally fast Cross Country circuit on Sunday in the penultimate rounds of 2011's national mountainbike series.
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NELSON — Leov and Cole Start 2011 Season in Style Nelson turned on the heat and dry, dusty race conditions to deliver a tough Kaka Hill challenge for the fourth round of the RaboDirect NZ MTB Downhill Cup.
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ROTORUA — In what is destined to be an unprecedented decision for a national series mountainbike event, MTBNZ had to make the difficult decision to cancel the 3rd Round of the RaboDirect NZ MTB Cup (Downhill) in Rotorua this morning.
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NAPIER — New Zealand's best mountainbike racers dealt with a Napier heatwave and world class fields at the Eskdale Mountainbike Park over the weekend.
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TAURANGA — Tauranga delivered frantic competition to match the hot and humid weather at the first round of the RaboDirect NZ MTB Cup over the weekend.
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New Zealand's premier competitive national series of mountainbike racing launches this weekend in Tauranga.
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Justin Leov (Trek World Racing, Dunedin) completed his 2010 northern hemisphere season in style, winning the final round of the US Pro GRT Series at the Whiteface Mountainbike Park, Lake Placid on Monday.
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Downhill competition filled the race programme today at the Mont Sainte Anne World Championships in Quebec, with the Junior and Elite Mens and Womens Championship races taking place.
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NZ MTB Team Competition Days Three and Four - Wrap.
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Samara Sheppard was a black and silver Cross Country mountainbike machine today at the Mont Sainte Anne World Championships in Quebec today.
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NZ MTB Team Competition Day One - Wrap.
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The 28 strong New Zealand MTB Team is now assembled at Mont Sainte Anne in the beautiful Quebec region of Canada’s west, making final preparations for a week of championship racing.
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Only a week out from the first event of the 2010 UCI World Mountainbike Championships in Canada, New Zealand's top mountainbikers have been fine tuning preparations on two continents.
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Mountainbike New Zealand (MTBNZ) has great pleasure in announcing the NZ Mountainbike Team to compete at the 2010 UCI World Mountainbike Championships, to be held at Mont Saint Anne in Quebec, Canada, between August 31st and September 5th.
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Italy's Val di Sole was host to the fifth round of the UCI MTB World Cup over the weekend - 20 NZers were competing in Saturday's Cross Country and Sunday's Downhill events.
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Europe delivered another wet, muddy weekend to the 2010 UCI World Cup at Champery in Switzerland over the weekend.
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Mountainbike NZ are pleased to announce the NZ MTB Cup and National MTB Championship schedule for the summer of 2011.
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The hugely popular Avalanche Series of events in Oz en Osains and Alp d'Heuz filled a week long period between July 5th and July 11th.
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Dirk Peters (Rotorua) and Richard Anderson (Blenheim) tackled the seventh round of the high profile Racer Bikes Cup in Flims, Switzerland yesterday.
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Justin Leov remained in Austria after last weekend's UCI World Cup for the second round of the iXS Downhill Cup - this time absolutely taming the Leogang downhill course and the Elite category for a deserved win.
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Richard Anderson continued to realise his stunning potential with a win in the prestigious HC category International Mountainbike Race in Bern, Switzerland yesterday.
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Dirk Peters (Rotorua) was also dealing with the wet European weather at the sixth round of the Racer Bikes Cup in Switzerland.
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New Zealand Downhill athletes Sam Blenkinsop and Cameron Cole claimed 4th and 5th podium places at the third round of the UCI MTB World Cup in Austria yesterday.
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Kieran Bennet (DRD Tomac, Nelson) remained in the US with his professional team to take on the Chile Challenge at Angel Fire.
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Two of New Zealand's most promising Cross Country athletes kicked off their 2010 European campaigns at Champery on Sunday, at the same venue as that planned for the 2011 World MTB Championships.
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Cameron Cole (Maxxis Rocky Mountain, Christchurch) raced to a podium 2nd place result at the UCI MTB World Cup at Fort William, Scotland that surprised him in the best possible way.
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New Zealands World Class Downhill racers continued their preparation for this weekend's UCI World Cup on opposite sides of the Atlantic over the weekend.
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Nine New Zealand Downhill racers were in action at Innerleithen - the first time the IXS Eurpean Cup had included a venue in Scotland.
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Justin Leov (Trek World Racing - Dunedin) and Kieran Bennett (DRD Tomac - Nelson) were in action at this second round of the US Pro Gravity Racing Tour.
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The weekend of May 22/24 2010 saw NZ's overseas contingent of world class mountainbikers racing at three different events in Europe and the US.
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New Zealand's Rosara Joseph and Nicola Leary continued their European campaigns yesterday at the Heubacher Mountainbike Festival, competing in the Bike the Rock multi-lap Cross Country race at Heubach, Germany.
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The much anticipated opening round of the UCI Mountainbike World Cup Downhill was contested over the weekend in Maribor, Slovenia.
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The UCI Mountain Bike World Cup moved to Europe for round two of the Cross Country series in Houffalize, Belgium over the weekend.
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Alexandra's Matt Scoles opened his 2010 European racing campaign over the weekend with a win for his new professional downhill mountainbike team, Cingolani-Proton.
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Justin Leov (Dunedin, Trek World Racing) kicked on from his strong Sea Otter result in the US last weekend to almost snatch a win at the first round of the new US Pro GRT national downhill series.
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Rosara Joseph returned to World Cup Cross Country racing with a solid performance at the first round of the UCI MTB World Cup at Dalby Forest in the UK yesterday.
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Cameron Cole (Christchurch) and Justin Leov (Dunedin) commenced their 2010 international schedules over the weekend at the Sea Otter Classic in Monterey, California.
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DUNEDIN — The final day of UCI Oceania Mountainbike Championship action has been completed today at the Signal Hill venue in Dunedin.
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DUNEDIN — The second of the three feature events of the UCI Oceania Mountainbike Championships was completed yesterday with Dunedin escaping from a threatening weather front to turn on ideal racing conditions for the Cross Country event at Forrester Park.
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DUNEDIN — The first two days of competition have been completed at the UCI Oceania Mountainbike Championships in Dunedin.
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DUNEDIN — The UCI Oceania Mountainbike Championships are on this weekend in Dunedin.
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WELLINGTON — The third day of the 2010 RaboPlus Mountainbike National Championships was completed today at the Long Gulley Downhill venue at Brooklyn in Wellington.
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WELLINGTON — Mt Victoria Cross Country Champions.
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WELLINGTON — The first day of the 2010 RaboPlus Mountainbike National Championships was completed today on Mt.
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World BMX Champion and Olympian to take on the Gravity Racers.
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ROTORUA — Titles Decider Down to the Wire. The RaboPlus 2010 NZ MTB Cup was completed over the weekend in Rotorua's Whakarewarewa Forest.
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ROTORUA — Rotorua hosts the sixth and final round of the RaboPlus 2010 NZ MTB Cup this weekend in the Whakarewarewa Forest.
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WAIKATO — Round Five of the RaboPlus NZ MTB Cup was completed over the weekend in Tauranga and Hamilton.
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TAURANGA — The RaboPlus 2010 NZ MTB Cup continues with Round Five this weekend in Tauranga and Hamilton.
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ROTORUA — North Island Leg of the Series Under Way this Weekend.
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