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London Olympic silver medal BMX rider Sarah Walker will proudly carry a brand synonymous with New Zealand cycling at July’s UCI BMX World Championships in Auckland with news that Avanti is once again set to make its mark in the world of BMX. Sheppard Cycles is the New Zealand Company that engineers and distributes the Avanti brand of bikes throughout New Zealand and Australia and has in recent years supported World Champion pursuit rider Alison Shanks and the Pure Black Racing Team and in 2013 the Huon Salmon Genesys Pro Cycling Team.

Now the brand is set to feature once again in the world of BMX bikes with the race bikes carrying the iconic New Zealand Avanti brand from August 2013, with Walker, Tahlia Hansen, Kurt James, Max Macready and Richard McLachlan amongst the first to enjoy the best in Kiwi engineering.

Walker rode the 2014 Avanti branded prototype for the first time today and will take the bike with her to the USA as she prepares for the July 24 - 28 UCI World Championships at Vector Arena (bmxworldsnz.com)

Elite Men results EC round 6:
1 STROMBERGS   Maris    Latvia    
2 TREIMANIS   Edzus    Latvia    
3 ANDRE   Sylvain    France    
4 VEIDE   Rihards    Latvia    
5 MAYET   Romain    France    
6 DOUCET   Thomas    France

New Zealand fans are gearing up for their first chance to see the best BMX riders on the planet when Auckland hosts the 2013 UCI BMX World Championships on 24-28 July. Tickets go on sale to the public worldwide from today for the week-long championships to be held indoors at Vector Arena on the Auckland waterfront.

Kiwi star and Olympic silver medallist Sarah Walker said she 

Make it three straight elite supercross national titles for Olympian Alise Post (Saint Cloud, Minn./Redline) after she dominated the women's competition on Saturday at the 2013 USA Cycling Elite BMX National Championships in southern California. Fellow 2012 Olympian Nic Long (Lakeside, Calif./Haro Bikes) captured his second national championship and first since 2010 in the men's elite field. After winning all three motos as well as the semifinals, Post held off a hard-charging Arielle Martin (Spanaway, Wash./Intense BMX) in the final to claim victory.

"Today was a lot of fun," said Post. "It was good racing, all the girls were on point. For me it just felt really great to win three in a row. It's a great accomplishment. On top of that, I made my momma proud. She's been watching from home and wasn't able to make it, being in the hospital. I'm happy to have won for her."

Another round in the European BMX Championships is taking place in Germany this weekend and once again Maris Strombergs made the trip over. In Weiterstadt, on Saturday he grabbed his first win. Will he do the same on Sunday? Check back after tomorrow's race to find out.

ELITE MEN. Saturday. Weiterstadt EC round 5.
1 STROMBERGS   Maris    Latvia   
2 TREIMANIS   Edzus    Latvia  

Felt good to be back in the final, but the South American fans made it very special to be in Argentina for round 2 of the UCI BMX Supercross season… It was a very long travel from Amsterdam to Santiago del Estero, Argentina but it was all word it… I expected more like a vacation feeling in Argentina, but I saw a different world with much poverty and some hectic/ dangerous traffic in the city. When I see those things I appreciate my own life even more, because I realize it’s not the same everywhere.