Karen Hanlen will race for New Zealand at the 2013 Mountain Bike World Championships (Image credit: Alan Ofsoski)
London Olympian Karen Hanlen and junior world champion Anton Cooper will lead a 29-strong New Zealand team at the UCI Mountain Bike World Championships in South Africa in August.
The team is dominated in numbers by downhill riders, headed by New Zealand's professional quartet of world number four ranked Brook MacDonald (Trek World Racing), 13th ranked George Brannigan (Trek World Racing), 15th ranked Sam Blenkinsop (Lapierre International) and 19th ranked Cameron Cole (Yeti Fox Shox).
The championships will be staged in Pietermaritzburg, 80kms from Durban, with the junior cross country on August 29, the U23 cross country and junior downhill on August 30, the elite cross country on August 31 and the elite downhill on September 1.
New Zealand team for 2013 UCI Mountain Bike World Championships
Elite men downhill Brook MacDonald Sam Blenkinsop Cam Cole George Brannigan Matt Walker Louis Hamilton Wyn Masters
Elite women downhill Alanna Columb Amy Laird Sophie Tyas Veronique Sandler
Junior men downhill Joshua McCombie Lawrence Cawte Connor Harvey Jamahl Stringer Kyle Lockwood Michael Melles Raphael Kammlein-Cutler
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Elite men cross country Carl Jones
Elite women cross country Karen Hanlen Kate Fluker Samara Sheppard
U23 men cross country Anton Cooper Sam Shaw Dirk Peters
Junior men cross country Ben Oliver Sam Gaze Craig Oliver
