The opening two rounds of the 2020 Downhill UCI MTB World Cup in Maribor, Slovenia wasn’t the one the Australians were hoping for over the weekend. The opening round more cold and wet weather gripping the already battered hillside of Pohorje, but the rain eased up as as the stopwatches came out and conditions looked like a fairly level playing field with it staying slick yet sticky for most of the field. Last year’s overall winner in the women’s Tracey Hannah,  was last down the hill but the Cairns rider was frustrated with her run, knowing she’d played it too conservatively and left ..read more

Australia’s downhill riders have put the mud and slop they encountered at the UCI Mountain BIke World Championships in Leogang Austria behind them and focused their attention on back to back World Cups in Maribor, Slovenia this weekend.  The likes of  Troy Brosnan, Jack Moir, who both finished inside the top 10 in elite men, along with Kye A’Hern, Mick Hannah and junior Luke Meier-Smith are enjoying the drier conditions. All the above riders finished inside the Top 20 after the first time training session was held overnight. Tracey Hannah, who missed a podium by one spot in Leogang i ..read more

Australian Under 23 Cross Country Mountain Bike champion Zoe Cuthbert has been awarded a scholarship as part of this year’s Sport Australia Hall of Fame Scholarship & Mentoring Program.  The program is supported by Australian Government funding from Sport Australia and the Australian Institute of Sport (AIS) and has grown from offering five Scholarships since it began in 2006 to offering a total of 32 funded Scholarships in 2021. Ten Tier 2 Scholarships have been granted to young athletes from 10 different sports, who will each receive a $5,000 sporting grant. “Receiving this Scholar ..read more

Despite the atrocious conditions the Australian downhillers still proved they are some of the best in the world with three riders finishing inside the top 10 on the final day of the 2020 UCI Mountain Bike World Championships. With rain falling overnight, the track conditions were vastly different than during the qualifying round, and the brutal track caught out many medal contenders. Finding the perfect balance between pushing the limit and being smart in order to stay smooth would prove crucial today. The daunting, muddy conditions in Saalfelden Leogang demanded focus, consistency and flawles ..read more

Rebecca McConnell has claimed back to back world championship bronze medals at the 2020 UCI Mercedes Benz World Championships in Leogang, Austria. The Australian champion worked her way into second place after the start loop chasing world champion Pauline Ferrand Prèvot  who pulled away from the competition quickly, holding an advantage of a minute going into the second lap. The French woman crossed the finish line with a time of 1:27:33, over three minutes ahead of second place, Prévot won her third Elite World Championship title (’15, ’19, ’20) and her second one in a row. &nb ..read more

Four Australian downhillers qualified in the top ten ahead of Sunday’s finals at the 2020 UCI Mercedes Benz Mountain Bike World Championships in Leogang, Austria on Saturday. Tracey Hannah (AUS) finished two seconds behind home town favourite  Val Holl who stopped the clock at 4:35:662. With the forecast for Sunday which suggests Leogang is set for a decent dump of snow overnight and through the day the UCI back up plan for Sunday should it be too bad to race is use the today’s seeding runs to determine the results. The multiple Australian champion wily enough to leave something in reserv ..read more

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Rebecca McConnell showed she was in form ahead of the this weeks UCI Mercedes-Benz World Championships in Leogang, Austria after the final World Cup race on the weekend. Having competed in four races in six days, the Australian champion claimed a podium finish in fourth, her second top 10 result at the Nové Mesto course. A front row start gave the Canberra rider the opportunity to stick with the leading pack, which saw current world champion Pauline Ferrand Prevot (FRA) break away early and claim a much needed victory in her final race in the rainbow stripes. McConnell rode with Laura Stigger ..read more

Rebecca McConnell has ridden her way into the top 10 at the first round of the UCI Mercedes Benz Mountain Bike World Cup in Nové Mesto na Moravé, Czech Republic overnight. The Australian started with the number 28 plate after a mechanical saw her DNF in Wednesdays XCC, forcing her back to the fourth row. McConnell would also get caught behind a crash early on and spent plenty of energy making her way through the field during the five laps. The 2019 World Championship bronze medallist would finish in ninth place behind surprise winner Frenchwoman Loana Lacomte, competing in her first ever elite ..read more

It was a mixed bag of results for Australian cross-country riders at the first round of the UCI Mercedes Mountain Bike World Cup in Nové Mesto, Czech Republic early Wednesday morning. National XCO champion Rebecca McConnell (Prima Flora Mondraker XSauce), had the four plate for the first XCC of the season and was up on the pace of the seven lap race with cold temperatures and a saturation of rain made which made for a course that resembled a cyclocross track at times. A mechanical on the third last lap ended the 2019 world champion bronze medallists race and she will now start on the fourth ro ..read more