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One of the most exciting mountain bike stage races to launch recently has been the Snowies MTB Festival. Running over 3 days in the New South Wales Snowy Mountains, the event doesn’t travel ultra distances, or demand lots of time off work. But what it does offer is 5 stages of racing over 3 days, […]
355 mountain bikers from 32 countries took on the Alpentour Trophy on Thursday in the Schladming region. Almost 200 kilometres and 8800m of elevation was on the menu over the four days – like riding straight up Mt Everest. Hot summer days meant a lot of exhausted faces at the finish after the first three stages, […]
Stage 3, Ramsau Dachstein // 69 km, 2800m Start and finish in Schladming the king stage of the Alpentour Trophy was today, with 2800m of elevation and 69km. The highlight was the climb onto the Türlwand Hut on 1690m with glorious views of the Dachstein mountain and the ride across the deck of the garden restaurant, […]
Stage 2, Hauser Kaibling // 56 km, 2000m After Leonardo Paez broke his finger on yesterday’s first stage, he also suffered a deep cut under his eye and arrived at the finish with a bloody knee. Even his own Bianchi MTB team admitted that they assumed that yesterday’s stage winner Leonardo Paez would retire […]
Colombia’s Leonardo Paez arrived at the end of the opening stage of the 17th Alpentour Trophy battered and bruised, but emerged victorious as he claimed honours in Planai Stadium, Austria. Hot temperatures combined with still-drying mud sections provided plenty of challenges for competitors. Stage winner Paez himself wasn’t exempt from the carnage, suffering a number of […]
On the back of confirming that the 2015 Crocodile Trophy will have equal prize money for men and women, the race organisers have also announced that their other event, The Alpentour Trophy, another UCI S1 race, will have equal prize money paid to women and men in elite classifications. More than three hundred participants from 26 different nations […]
