Yesterday, 2012 Olympic gold medallist and Czech mountain biking star Jaroslav Kulhavy added the UCI MTB Marathon World Championships title to his list of international titles when he rode away from the rest of the field halfway into the race at Cascades MTB Park. Kulhavy was satisfied with being able to tick off the marathon world title […]
Archives for June 2014
Kulhavy and Langvad win 2014 XCM World Championship Titles
June 29, 2014 – and the Marathon World Championships finally leave Europe! What better place to land than in South Africa, a nation with plenty of mountain bike made ex-Euro’s, and a place with a history of successful premium event management with the ABSA Cape Epic, and specifically World Cups and a previous World Championship […]
Marathon Mountain Bike World Championships 2014 Live Stream
For the first time ever video coverage of the 2014 Marathon Mountain Bike World Championships 2014 will be streamed live across the world on Sunday 29th June from Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. It will be an interesting challenge for the crews as they cover the longer form race and the action within. You can watch the stream […]
Radio interviews with Sauser and Sipho ahead of XCM Worlds
Just ahead of the 2014 Marathon MTB World Championships, reigning XCM World Champion Christophe Sauser spoke to Nick Tatham, about returning to his summer home of South Africa, but in winter for the XCM Champs. Sauser believes the course is very hard, and that the sub 100km distance belies the difficulty. Tatham also spoke […]
Women to watch at the 2014 XCM Worlds
This weekend, the eyes of the Marathon MTB racing world will be on Cascades MTB Park in Pietermartizberg. With the men’s and women’s Marathon World Champion titles being decided on 29th June, it’s worth looking at who, from the 167 starters, will take home the stripey jersey. Earlier this week, we looked over the 136 men […]
Inside the Beskidy MTB Trophy
Where there are mountains, there are mountain bikes, and therefore mountain bike races. Ok that’s not strictly true. But add a reasonably prosperous economy to it, and leisure time and you’re closer to the mark. The Beskidy MTB Trophy is a hard, four day MTB Stage Race in southern Poland, near the ski town of […]
Sellaronda Hero – 2014 Highlights video
The Sellaronda Hero has quickly become one of the most popular marathon races in Europe, for amateur riders and elite. With over 4000 starters, and a course that loops around the Sella group, it has been a World Series Marathon event, and in 2015 will be the Marathon World Championship. In 2014, the races were […]
The Art of Crashing
Subaru-MarathonMTB.com Racer Stu Spies loves a road race – in fact he just loves racing. Stu checks in with his thoughts on crashing. Surely part of his build towards the 2014 Transalp? We don’t like to talk about it, sometimes we barely acknowledge its existence, but it is woven into the fabric of what we […]
Profiling the Men of the 2014 XCM Worlds
We are just days away from the 2014 Marathon MTB World Championships, which are taking place at Cascades MTB Park, in Pietermaritzberg, South Africa. This will be the first time that XCM Worlds has been raced outside of Europe since the first race in Lugano in 2003. South Africa is mountain bike mad, and with […]
Chasing the XCM World Championships
World Championship events are the pinnacle of any sport. With a young sport like mountain biking that continues to diverge and grow, we now have five separate UCI sanctioned disciplines that contest a World Title. It may be confusing to outsiders, but it shows the variety in the sport, and the range of talented athletes […]