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Australian-born but Norway-based mountain biker racer, Greg Saw, has confirmed that he will return to Australia to defend his 2014 Crocodile Trophy title. Saw moved to Norway a decade ago, but returned to Australia, and his home town of Atherton, for the Crocodile Trophy in a bid to fight homesickness. He missed the heat of […]
The Crocodile Trophy is one of the longest running mountain bike events in the World. I only know of one other stage race that claims to be older and beats it by a single year. In 2013 the “Croc” celebrated its 19th year and has become one of the biggest and hardest races in the […]
With stage 6 being quite a brutal stage for all but the strong and the canny, it was a triumphant cheer that went up at dinner on Thursday when Race Organiser Gerhard Schoenbacher announced that the 120km stage would be cut to 90km. With the route making a 90km trip to Maytown, and the extra […]
This morning it was so peaceful waking up to the sound of birds. Yesterday we finished at Mt. Mulligan, a working cattle station, and we couldn’t have asked for a better camping spot – right next to a small lake. Everybody was looking much more relaxed and rested after yesterdays ride in the cooler […]
The Crocodile Trophy camp will applaud two new faces on the elite male and female podiums: Wolfgang Krenn from Austria wins ahead of Ivan Rybarik and Ondrej Fojtik in a thrilling finish sprint into the Mt Mulligan. The Belgian mountain bike marathon racer Alice Pirard finished as the fastest woman of the day. “The track […]
Stage 5 Irvinebank – Mt Mulligan Hump day. There is a point in any mountain bike stage race where you finally feel that the end is in sight. We’ve just made it there in the Crocodile Trophy, finishing 5 out of 9 stages. There was an air of uncertainty yesterday about whether the riders who […]
Czech rider Ivan Rybarik wins the fourth stage of the 2012 Crocodile Trophy at Irvinebank today and the overall race result stays the same with Czech and Austrian riders dominating the top five positions: Rybarik leads ahead of fellow Czech rider Ondrej Fojtik in second and the Austrian Wolfgang Krenn is third. Ondrej Slezak (CZE) […]
Stage 4, Irvinebank – Irvinebank. 106km, 2400m climbing A comfortable nights sleep with air conditioning and double bed in Atherton was ample preparation for what lay ahead in todays 120km stage of the Crocodile Trophy. The race consisted of 4 x 26.5km laps of a hard, very demanding course with dirt road, single track, sand […]
Another sweaty day, another 111km to race in Far North Queensland. It must be the Crocodile Trophy. This is a race that draws people from all over the globe, although quite a few from Central and Eastern Europe. The Subaru-MarathonMTB.com Team even has a UK/RSA representative this year, with Werner van der Merve flying out […]
Stage 3, Lake Tinaroo – Irvinebank. 111 km, 2700m The Australian media has called it the “Czech domination” at the Crocodile Trophy and also their fellow riders admit that Ivan Rybarik and Ondrej Fojtik’s performances of the last three stages are to be admired. After today’s wild ride across the rough terrain of the Hasties Swamp […]
