World Mountain Bike Orienteering Relay Results

In the final event of the World Mountain Bike Orienteering Championships, New Zealand placed 9th of 13 nations in the women's relay, finishing ahead of Great Britain and Australia. In the men's relay, Chris Forne had the team in 6th place out of 25 after leg one, however New Zealand slipped down on legs two and three to finish 17th. The race culminated with Denmark holding out Russia by a mere seven seconds.


Results
Women
1. Finland 133:40
2. Russia 138:55
3. Austria 139:29
9. New Zealand 161:16
(Marquita Gelderman, Georgia Whitla, Kath Copland)

Men
1. Denmark 133:09
2. Russia 133:16
3. Czech Republic 136:24
17. New Zealand 165:18
(Chris Forne, Greg Barbour, Emily Wall)





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