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The overall race leader Urs Huber won his sixth stage at the 21st Crocodile Trophy at Wetherby Station ahead of Denmark’s Soren Nissen, Nicholas Pettina, Brendan Johnston and Ondrej Fojtik. Elite female Sarah White and amateur woman Kristin Endres rode together, still in the overall lead of their respective categories. The penultimate stage of the […]
The Austrian Lukas Islitzer won the longest stage of the 2015 Crocodile Trophy in a sprint finish by half a wheel-length ahead of the overall race leader, Urs Huber. The Czech double-Crocodile Trophy winner Ondrej Fojitik came third ahead of Soren Nissen and Brendan Johnston. Sarah White remains the fastest women in the rider field that […]
Urs Huber increased his lead at the 21st Crocodile Trophy with his fourth consecutive stage win ahead of Nicholas Pettina and Soren Nissen, with Brendan Johnston coming home in 4th. Unfortunately, Elite woman Regina Genser is out of the race due to a gastro problem. Overall women’s leader Sarah White from Australia says she wants […]
Stage 3 of the 2015 Crocodile Trophy remained in Atherton, as the racers toured the region on a hilly 80km route. The Swiss Urs Huber scored himself a triple-treat with today’s stage win at Atherton. Huber holds onto his leader’s jersey, increasing his overall race lead ahead of runner up and today’s second place, Nicholas Pettina […]
Urs Huber scored his second stage win at the 2015 Crocodile Trophy ahead of the Australian Brendan Johnston and the Italian Nicholas Pettina. Sarah White stays in the overall women’s lead with a third consecutive stage win in Atherton today. The most typical terrain that you would encounter as a mountain biker in Australia are […]
The Swiss Bull, Urs Huber, claimed today’s stage win at Lake Tinaroo ahead of Denmark’s National Marathon Champion Sören Nissen and yesterday’s winner, Nicholas Pettina (ITA). The Australian XCM Champion Brendan Johnston finished in fourth with double-Crocodile Trophy winner Ondrej Fojtik from the Czech Republic. The Australian elite female, Sarah White, increased her race lead […]
The Italian Nicholas Pettina has won the first stage of the Crocodile Trophy with a respectable lead of 3:18.07 minutes at Smithfield MTB Park in Cairns ahead of Urs Huber from Switzerland and the Australian Brendan Johnston. It was a hot start to the nine-day mountain bike stage race in Tropical North Queensland and the local […]
Photos: Patrick Means The first 17 hours of the WEMBO World Solo 24 hour Championships in Weaverville California went great with 6 time World Champion Jason English and I cruising together with over a 30 minute lead on Josh Tostado in 3rd. The course was sweet with a 5 km fireroad climb followed with a […]
In 2014, Jan Leverton got a bunch of women who were new to mountain biking together on the Sunshine Coast to take part in a beginner mountain bike course. As part of this, Leverton sewed the seed of a women-only mountain bike event as a goal for some of these fresh mountain bike women to ‘have a crack’ at […]
This past week I’ve been in the Azores for the Azores MTB Marathon which is part of the UCI World Marathon Series. After a few successful races recently I was excited to see what was possible. 2 weeks ago I narrowly missed out on my first top 10 at the World Series. I’d have been […]
