Rebecca Henderson prevails through wild weather and a crash to clinch 12th consecutive Australian mountain bike elite cross-country title

Australia’s 2025 GWM Mountain Bike National Championships may have started with sunshine and blue skies but ended with shortened races, pouring rain and wind gusts of over 100kph on Sunday, however, even the brutal weather conditions and a nasty crash were not enough to blow Rebecca Henderson (Orbea Factory) off course.

Simone Giuliani
Australia Editor

Simone is a degree-qualified journalist that has accumulated decades of wide-ranging experience while working across a variety of leading media organisations. She joined Cyclingnews as a Production Editor at the start of the 2021 season and has now moved into the role of Australia Editor. Previously she worked as a freelance writer, Australian Editor at Ella CyclingTips and as a correspondent for Reuters and Bloomberg. Cycling was initially purely a leisure pursuit for Simone, who started out as a business journalist, but in 2015 her career focus also shifted to the sport.

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