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With a seventh stage win on the final day at the 21st Crocodile Trophy the Swiss Urs Huber claimed his third race victory since 2009 and 2010. Soren Nissen from Denmark claims the second place ahead of Australia’s Marathon National Champion, Brendan Johnston from Canberra. Nicholas Pettina comes in fourth overall and the young Austrian […]
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 […]
Have you just realised that the world’s oldest mountain bike stage race is about to start it’s ‘hump day’? With stage 5 about to start, racers are well and truly on the way to Port Douglas and the finish line. The race so far Starting on Saturday with a lap based XC race at Smithfield, […]
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 […]
There is just one week to go before the 21st Crocodile Trophy kicks off in Tropical North Queensland. The Crocodile Trophy is Australia’s and the World’s oldest and most iconic mountain bike stage race. Since 2014, it has been endorsed by the International Cycling Federation (UCI) with the “S1” ranking and offers valuable points to participants towards […]
When I raced my first marathon in Europe (Kitzalpbike, 2007), at the start of a long working holiday, I was soon asked if I had raced the Crocodile Trophy. Even though this was less than ten years ago, at the time there was no appeal for me. Long, hot days on corrugated terrain – I’d seen the […]
