The NZ MTB Cup wrapped up in Napier. The venue added some variability with weather and race course conditions over the three days of competition - the major rain storm covering New Zealand on Wednesday left challenging conditions in the Pan Pac Eskdale Forest which didn't completely dry out. Adaptation was the key for all competitors, and all category winners displayed an ability to react quickly to the constantly changing race courses.
Sunday's cross country races in Napier were a repeat of the previous round in Wellington for the elite winners. The elite women's field chased Whakatane's Karen Hanlen from the start gun, and quickly lost contact with the Cup leader during the first two laps. Hanlen simply stretched her lead throughout the rest of the five lap feature to win by a large margin from Rotorua's Samara Sheppard. Hanlen has not been beaten this summer, and took her perfect record through to a NZ MTB Cup championship title for 2012.
The elite men's race was a close contest between NZ's top three riders this summer, Dirk Peters, Carl Jones and Mike Northcott. The three were locked together through their first three laps, before Peters wound on the pressure early in the fourth to work his way out to a 30-second lead that stretched even further during the fifth. Peter's challenge prompted Northcott to crank into action, with the highly experienced Tokoroa plumber again finding late race pace to claw back at Peter's lead - however just a little too late with Peters winning again to take the NZ MTB Cup championship title for 2012.
Hanlen and Peters have both completed a coveted double this summer - winning the 2012 National Championship and NZ MTB Cup titles.
The U19 junior men's race was missing star attraction Anton Cooper, but this didn't diminish the quality of the race. Cambridge's Sam Gaze, who has been the revelation of this category in the North Island rounds won easily, and just as Cooper has been doing all summer, Gaze produced the fastest lap time of the day while circulating at a pace comparable to the elite leaders. Gaze has high asprirations and goals with this sport, and takes a fantastic level of confidence with him from Napier and into the rest of 2012.
Full Results
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Elite men
#
Rider Name (Country) Team
Result
1
Dirk Peters (NZl)
1:40:49
2
Mike Northcott (NZl)
0:00:24
3
Carl Jones (NZl)
0:01:02
4
Brad Hudson (NZl)
0:02:42
5
Samuel Shaw (NZl)
0:04:03
6
Mathew Waghorn (NZl)
0:05:03
7
Patrick Luthi (Swi)
0:06:37
8
Josh Page (NZl)
0:06:38
9
Max Houtzager (USA)
0:07:24
10
Bradley Setters (NZl)
0:09:58
11
Mark Dunlop (NZl)
0:11:06
12
Adrian Retief (NZl)
0:13:09
13
Nick Miller (NZl)
0:13:38
14
Mailes Davies (NZl)
0:14:12
15
Brendon Sharratt (NZl)
0:14:26
16
Luke Osborne (NZl)
0:14:54
17
Dominic Forkert (NZl)
Row 16 - Cell 2
18
Alex Robertson (NZl)
Row 17 - Cell 2
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Elite women
#
Rider Name (Country) Team
Result
1
Karen Hanlen (NZl)
1:34:08
2
Samara Sheppard (NZl)
0:04:33
3
Katherine O Neil (NZl)
0:06:11
4
Bridget Lodge (NZl)
0:07:55
5
Jeanette Gerrie (NZl)
0:08:45
6
Kate Fluker (NZl)
0:10:22
7
Sasha Smith (NZl)
0:10:25
8
Katrine Gellatly (NZl)
0:11:53
9
Nic Leary (NZl)
0:13:27
10
Celine Ernst (Swi)
Row 9 - Cell 2
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U19 men
#
Rider Name (Country) Team
Result
1
Samuel Gaze (NZl)
1:24:15
2
Nigel McDowell (NZl)
0:03:25
3
Brett Stockman (NZl)
0:07:35
4
Josh Parkin (NZl)
0:07:39
5
Ryan Hunt (NZl)
0:11:35
6
Simon Lawson (NZl)
0:11:45
7
Frank Sutton (NZl)
0:14:07
8
Elliot Pearce (NZl)
0:15:37
9
Guy Hirst (NZl)
0:19:15
10
Daniel Terpstra (NZl)
Row 9 - Cell 2
DNF
Sam Bamford (NZl)
Row 10 - Cell 2
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U19 women
#
Rider Name (Country) Team
Result
1
Amber Johnston (NZl)
1:28:41
2
Toshiko Knight (NZl)
0:08:39
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Masters 1 men
#
Rider Name (Country) Team
Result
1
Mark Leishman
1:33:22
2
Karl Paterson
0:02:24
3
Gavin McCarthy
0:04:03
4
John Kirkcaldie
0:06:28
5
Jonty Taylor
0:07:16
6
Jared Scollay
0:13:56
7
Nathan Strong
Row 6 - Cell 2
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Masters 2 men
#
Rider Name (Country) Team
Result
1
Stephen Owens
1:43:37
2
Dan Kellow
0:02:41
3
Stephen Grenside
0:05:29
4
Richard Trask
0:07:36
5
Jerome Sheppard
0:11:03
6
John McRae
Row 5 - Cell 2
7
Steven Lawson
Row 6 - Cell 2
8
Tom Bamford
Row 7 - Cell 2
9
Paul Gouldsbrough
Row 8 - Cell 2
DNF
Carl Johnston
Row 9 - Cell 2
DNF
Greg Bott
Row 10 - Cell 2
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Masters 3 men
#
Rider Name (Country) Team
Result
1
Paul McDowell
1:25:24
2
Peter Reynolds
0:02:31
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U17 men
#
Rider Name (Country) Team
Result
1
Gareth Cannon
1:14:48
2
Jack Compton
0:00:43
3
Cameron Howell
0:02:58
4
Tom Coombes
0:03:00
5
Ethan Jacobs
0:05:04
6
Andrew Bamford
0:06:19
7
Peter Bethell
0:08:23
8
Sam Dakin
0:08:40
9
Nathan Johnston
0:11:45
10
Ryan Craggs
0:15:14
DNF
Alex Beaven
Row 10 - Cell 2
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Senior women
#
Rider Name (Country) Team
Result
1
Monique Avery
1:31:13
2
Kathryn Campbell
0:11:45
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Masters 1 women
#
Rider Name (Country) Team
Result
1
Megan Dimozantos
1:36:08
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U17 women
#
Rider Name (Country) Team
Result
1
Harriet Beaven
1:06:02
2
Jemma Manchester
0:00:29
3
Olivia Miller
0:04:39
4
Elizabeth Stannard
0:06:58
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Masters 3 women
#
Rider Name (Country) Team
Result
1
Sarah Beadel
1:15:33
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U15 men
#
Rider Name (Country) Team
Result
1
Robert Stannard
1:02:33
2
Paul Wright
0:01:07
3
Conor McRae
0:05:06
4
Henry Carr
0:10:20
5
Lewis Ryan
0:12:09
6
Jake Craggs
0:12:59
7
Joe Sutton
0:13:07
8
Taylor Johnston
0:18:51
DNS
Connor Johnston
Row 8 - Cell 2
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U15 women
#
Rider Name (Country) Team
Result
1
Zia MacDermid
0:45:05
New Zealand Cross Country Cup final standings
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Elite men
#
Rider Name (Country) Team
Result
Header Cell - Column 3
1
Dirk Peters
174
pts
2
Carl Jones
169
Row 1 - Cell 3
3
Mike Northcott
143
Row 2 - Cell 3
4
Brad Hudson
141
Row 3 - Cell 3
5
Tom Bradshaw
123
Row 4 - Cell 3
5
Samuel Shaw
123
Row 5 - Cell 3
7
Patrick Luthi
121
Row 6 - Cell 3
8
Adrian Retief
115
Row 7 - Cell 3
9
Mark Dunlop
98
Row 8 - Cell 3
10
Matt Andrew
96
Row 9 - Cell 3
11
Nick Miller
92
Row 10 - Cell 3
12
Brendon Sharratt
73
Row 11 - Cell 3
12
Max Houtzager
73
Row 12 - Cell 3
12
Josh Page
73
Row 13 - Cell 3
12
Mathew Waghorn
73
Row 14 - Cell 3
16
Logan Horn
70
Row 15 - Cell 3
17
Jeremy Inglis
64
Row 16 - Cell 3
18
Ash Hough
62
Row 17 - Cell 3
19
Chris Jongewaard
49
Row 18 - Cell 3
20
Paul van der Ploeg
45
Row 19 - Cell 3
21
Nick Clark
40
Row 20 - Cell 3
22
Brent Miller
39
Row 21 - Cell 3
23
Bradley Setters
36
Row 22 - Cell 3
24
Fabien Cousinie
35
Row 23 - Cell 3
25
Richard Ussher
34
Row 24 - Cell 3
25
Dave Sharpe
34
Row 25 - Cell 3
27
Harley Going
32
Row 26 - Cell 3
28
Mailes Davies
32
Row 27 - Cell 3
29
Ian Burgess
31
Row 28 - Cell 3
29
Darry Stevens
31
Row 29 - Cell 3
31
Dayle McLauchlan
30
Row 30 - Cell 3
31
Miles Davies
30
Row 31 - Cell 3
31
Luke Osborne
30
Row 32 - Cell 3
34
Ollie Radford
29
Row 33 - Cell 3
34
Dominic Forkert
29
Row 34 - Cell 3
36
Markus Peboll
28
Row 35 - Cell 3
36
36= Alex Robertson
28
Row 36 - Cell 3
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Elite women
#
Rider Name (Country) Team
Result
Header Cell - Column 3
1
Karen Hanlen
180
pts
2
Samara Sheppard
150
Row 1 - Cell 3
3
Katherine O Neil
148
Row 2 - Cell 3
4
Sasha Smith
124
Row 3 - Cell 3
5
Kate Fluker
121
Row 4 - Cell 3
6
Jolanda Neff
98
Row 5 - Cell 3
7
Bridget Lodge
87
Row 6 - Cell 3
8
Jeanette Gerrie
82
Row 7 - Cell 3
9
Fiona MacDermid
81
Row 8 - Cell 3
10
Melissa Newell
78
Row 9 - Cell 3
11
Erin Greene
75
Row 10 - Cell 3
11
Celine Ernst
75
Row 11 - Cell 3
13
Rosara Joseph
54
Row 12 - Cell 3
14
Raewyn Morrison
49
Row 13 - Cell 3
15
Ingrid Richter
39
Row 14 - Cell 3
16
Katrine Gellatly
38
Row 15 - Cell 3
17
Elina Ussher
37
Row 16 - Cell 3
17
Nic Leary
37
Row 17 - Cell 3
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U19 men
#
Rider Name (Country) Team
Result
Header Cell - Column 3
1
Anton Cooper
180
pts
2
Craig Oliver
150
Row 1 - Cell 3
3
Nigel McDowell
144
Row 2 - Cell 3
4
Brett Stockman
138
Row 3 - Cell 3
5
Simon Lawson
122
Row 4 - Cell 3
6
Elliot Pearce
114
Row 5 - Cell 3
6
Samuel Gaze
114
Row 6 - Cell 3
8
Ryan Hunt
111
Row 7 - Cell 3
9
Tom Filmer
98
Row 8 - Cell 3
10
Josh Parkin
87
Row 9 - Cell 3
11
Tom Fox
77
Row 10 - Cell 3
12
Hayden Cleminson
75
Row 11 - Cell 3
12
Frank Sutton
75
Row 12 - Cell 3
14
Cameron Fitzgerald
40
Row 13 - Cell 3
15
Kristoff Ford
38
Row 14 - Cell 3
15
Peter Crampton
37
Row 15 - Cell 3
15
Guy Hirst
37
Row 16 - Cell 3
18
Daniel Terpstra
36
Row 17 - Cell 3
19
Sam Bamford
35
Row 18 - Cell 3
20
Guillaune Cauvin
34
Row 19 - Cell 3
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U19 women
#
Rider Name (Country) Team
Result
Header Cell - Column 3
1
Amber Johnston
174
pts
2
Mary Gray
120
Row 1 - Cell 3
3
Toshiko Knight
108
Row 2 - Cell 3
4
Laura Bridger
103
Row 3 - Cell 3
5
Samantha Hope
94
Row 4 - Cell 3
6
Caitlin Holmes
87
Row 5 - Cell 3
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U17 men
#
Rider Name (Country) Team
Result
Header Cell - Column 3
1
Ben Oliver
180
pts
2
Gareth Cannon
163
Row 1 - Cell 3
3
David Ashby-Coventry
153
Row 2 - Cell 3
4
Jack Compton
145
Row 3 - Cell 3
5
Mitchell Campbell
136
Row 4 - Cell 3
6
Tom Coombes
123
Row 5 - Cell 3
7
Ben Friel
108
Row 6 - Cell 3
8
Nathan Johnston
105
Row 7 - Cell 3
9
Cameron Howell
88
Row 8 - Cell 3
10
Scott Barr
82
Row 9 - Cell 3
11
Ethan Jacobs
79
Row 10 - Cell 3
12
Peter Bethell
78
Row 11 - Cell 3
13
Andrew Bamford
76
Row 12 - Cell 3
13
Sam Dakin
76
Row 13 - Cell 3
15
Bradley Chandler
73
Row 14 - Cell 3
15
Daniel Cleminson
73
Row 15 - Cell 3
17
Kerry Cameron
42
Row 16 - Cell 3
18
Henry Jaine
40
Row 17 - Cell 3
19
Kalin Geisreiter
38
Row 18 - Cell 3
20
Ryan Craggs
36
Row 19 - Cell 3
20
Josh Donaldson
36
Row 20 - Cell 3
22
Gregor Wilson
34
Row 21 - Cell 3
23
Robin Page
32
Row 22 - Cell 3
24
Alex Beaven
31
Row 23 - Cell 3
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U17 women
#
Rider Name (Country) Team
Result
Header Cell - Column 3
1
Harriet Beaven
174
pts
2
Olivia Miller
158
Row 1 - Cell 3
3
Shannon Hope
114
Row 2 - Cell 3
4
Brooke Hudson
94
Row 3 - Cell 3
5
Elizabeth Stannard
49
Row 4 - Cell 3
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Senior men
#
Rider Name (Country) Team
Result
Header Cell - Column 3
1
Tim Mackersy
60
pts
1
Matt Stewart
60
Row 1 - Cell 3
1
Andy King
60
Row 2 - Cell 3
4
Ollie Radford1
54
Row 3 - Cell 3
4
Peter Rattray
54
Row 4 - Cell 3
4
Stephen Butler
54
Row 5 - Cell 3
7
Michael Brown
49
Row 6 - Cell 3
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Senior women
#
Rider Name (Country) Team
Result
Header Cell - Column 3
1
Kathryn Campbell
168
pts
2
Monique Avery
120
Row 1 - Cell 3
3
Emma Prestidge
49
Row 2 - Cell 3
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Master 30+ men
#
Rider Name (Country) Team
Result
Header Cell - Column 3
1
Jonty Taylor
138
pts
2
Jared Scollay
120
Row 1 - Cell 3
3
Gavin McCarthy
109
Row 2 - Cell 3
4
Mark Leishman
60
Row 3 - Cell 3
4
Scotty Cain
60
Row 4 - Cell 3
4
Phil Patterson
60
Row 5 - Cell 3
7
Karl Paterson
54
Row 6 - Cell 3
7
Danny Hellyer
54
Row 7 - Cell 3
7
Tom Keith
54
Row 8 - Cell 3
10
Jacob Grieve
49
Row 9 - Cell 3
10
Tim Madgwick
49
Row 10 - Cell 3
10
Callum Kennedy
49
Row 11 - Cell 3
13
John Kirkcaldie
45
Row 12 - Cell 3
13
Michael Curtis
45
Row 13 - Cell 3
13
Darren Stafford
45
Row 14 - Cell 3
13
Steven Bale
45
Row 15 - Cell 3
17
Adam Heard
42
Row 16 - Cell 3
18
Paul Davis
40
Row 17 - Cell 3
18
Craig Tregurtha
40
Row 18 - Cell 3
18
Ross Weston
40
Row 19 - Cell 3
21
Nathan Strong
39
Row 20 - Cell 3
21
Chris Taylor
39
Row 21 - Cell 3
21
Craig Atwill
39
Row 22 - Cell 3
21
Struan Robertson
39
Row 23 - Cell 3
25
Jon Shutt
38
Row 24 - Cell 3
26
Paul Hurford
37
Row 25 - Cell 3
27
Rex Webb
36
Row 26 - Cell 3
28
Brendon Chittock
35
Row 27 - Cell 3
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Master 30+ women
#
Rider Name (Country) Team
Result
Header Cell - Column 3
1
Megan Dimozantos
60
pts
1
Merrin Brewster
60
Row 1 - Cell 3
1
Kristie Fogarty
60
Row 2 - Cell 3
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Master 40+ men
#
Rider Name (Country) Team
Result
Header Cell - Column 3
1
John McRae
124
pts
1
Jerome Sheppard
124
Row 1 - Cell 3
3
Steven Lawson
121
Row 2 - Cell 3
4
Ray Hope
120
Row 3 - Cell 3
5
Stephen Owens
105
Row 4 - Cell 3
6
Dion Chapman
94
Row 5 - Cell 3
7
Stephen Grenside
91
Row 6 - Cell 3
8
Tom Bamford
77
Row 7 - Cell 3
9
Clive Bennett
60
Row 8 - Cell 3
10
Dan Kellow
54
Row 9 - Cell 3
10
Carl Johnston
54
Row 10 - Cell 3
10
Rob Kilvington
54
Row 11 - Cell 3
13
Rob Soothill
49
Row 12 - Cell 3
13
Jason McCarty
49
Row 13 - Cell 3
15
Richard Trask
45
Row 14 - Cell 3
15
Andy MacDonald
45
Row 15 - Cell 3
17
Martin O Brien
39
Row 16 - Cell 3
18
Gareth Davies
38
Row 17 - Cell 3
18
Dave Hicks
38
Row 18 - Cell 3
20
Paul Gouldsbrough
37
Row 19 - Cell 3
20
Jeremy Steel
37
Row 20 - Cell 3
22
John MacDonell
36
Row 21 - Cell 3
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Master 40+ women
#
Rider Name (Country) Team
Result
Header Cell - Column 3
1
Linda Hope
60
pts
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Master 50+ men
#
Rider Name (Country) Team
Result
Header Cell - Column 3
1
Ian Paintin
180
pts
2
Paul McDowell
154
Row 1 - Cell 3
3
Ant Bradshaw
98
Row 2 - Cell 3
4
Marco Renall
94
Row 3 - Cell 3
5
Peter Reynolds
93
Row 4 - Cell 3
6
Ash Sparks
82
Row 5 - Cell 3
7
Derek Milne
54
Row 6 - Cell 3
7
Geoff Notman
54
Row 7 - Cell 3
9
Tony Beaven
45
Row 8 - Cell 3
10
Gary Moller
42
Row 9 - Cell 3
11
Dave Wallace
38
Row 10 - Cell 3
12
Scott MacLachlan
36
Row 11 - Cell 3
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Master 50+ women
#
Rider Name (Country) Team
Result
Header Cell - Column 3
1
Sarah Beadel
120
pts
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Junior U15 men
#
Rider Name (Country) Team
Result
Header Cell - Column 3
1
Paul Wright
174
pts
2
Conor McRae
157
Row 1 - Cell 3
3
Finn Conway
98
Row 2 - Cell 3
4
Robert Stannard
60
Row 3 - Cell 3
4
Eden Cruise
60
Row 4 - Cell 3
6
Henry Carr
45
Row 5 - Cell 3
6
Luke Gold
45
Row 6 - Cell 3
8
Lewis Ryan
42
Row 7 - Cell 3
9
Jake Craggs
40
Row 8 - Cell 3
10
Joe Sutton
39
Row 9 - Cell 3
11
Taylor Johnston
38
Row 10 - Cell 3
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Junior U15 women
#
Rider Name (Country) Team
Result
Header Cell - Column 3
1
Zia MacDermid
180
pts
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