Tauranga BMXer Karepa Heke Kaiawha is an Oceania champ, who has a ranking of seventh in the world – and this week he added record-breaker to his list of achievements.
Well-known Waikato BMX rider Jason Kelly added to the Kiwi success in the final day of Challenge class racing at the UCI BMX World Championships in the USA today.
Swapping Tauranga’s mid-winter chill for the searing temperatures of South Carolina is the biggest challenge facing Karepa Heke-Kaiawha, 13, and Mitchell Wragg, 15.
New Zealand’s Maynard Peel claimed the junior men’s title, continuing his strong run of form in Bathurst after winning the junior men’s Probikx UCI event yesterday.
Nationals at Puni set the stage for what was going to be another epic challenge across the ditch as 32 trialists raced hard to be successful team members for our 2016 Mighty 11 team to travel to Sydney at the beginning of June.
It is with much pleasure that BMXNZ announce the successful riders in the Junior Test Teams who trialled at Sunset Coast Club, Puni, Friday 25 March 2016.