* This event will be run on the 2006 UCI World Championships courses on Mount Ngongotaha in the first weekend of March, next year.
PROGRAMME of events
• THURSDAY MARCH 2
11:00am XC & DH Registration opens
12:00 XC Course ONLY open for practice (ONLY for riders with numbers)
4:00pm Course closed.
• FRIDAY 3 MARCH
DH
9.00am - 3.00pm DH registration
9.00am - 12.30pm DH practise
1.00pm - 3.00pm DH practise
XC
9.00am - 3.00pm XC registration
9.00am - 3.00pm XC practise
RACE DAY: RED BULL OCEANIA 4X CHAMPIONSHIPS
9.00am -3.00pm Registration (OTD entry available till midday)
3.00pm - 4:00pm Practice
4:30pm - 5:30pm Qualifying
6:00pm - 8:00pm 4X RACING
• SATURDAY 4 MARCH
DOWNHILL
8:00am - 4:00pm Registration
8:00am -12:30pm DH Practice
1:00pm - 4:00pm DH Practice
4:00pm - 5:00pm Elite practice
RACE DAY: GALLAGHER GROUP OCEANIA CROSS COUNTRY CHAMPIONSHIPS
8:00am Registration
9:00am Expert XC race
12:00pm Sport XC race
2:00pm Elite and U23 XC race
4.30pm Main XC prize giving
• SUNDAY 5 MARCH
RACE DAY: SUBARU OCEANIA DOWNHILL CHAMPIONSHIPS
8:00am - 9:30am Practice
10:00am DH Seeding runs
1:00pm DH Race runs (non Oceania riders - Barel, Moseley, Gracia. Hill etc - to race last)
3.00pm (TBC) Prize giving
KAINGAROA TIMBERLANDS OCEANIA TRIALS
8:30 - 10:30am Registration
8:30 - 10:30am Walk course
10:30am Briefing
11:00am - 3:00pm Trials
The event will tie in with the Melbourne Commonwealth Games in Melbourne a couple of weeks later - so expect a healthy turn out of Commonwealth XC riders. The 2006 Oceania Championships will allow further fine tuning and tweaking of the courses.
The Oceania Cycling Federation has announced that teams outside the Oceania Federation will be eligible to compete (though not win titles) at the 2006 Oceania Mountain Bike Championships.
The Melbourne Commonwealth are just days later. So there will be a huge incentive for teams from top cycling countries like Canada and the four British nations to enter their cross-country teams. They get a preview of what they will be racing on for World titles six months later and Oceania '06 will be an excellent chance to get race-hardened for
Melbourne coming out of the Northern Hemisphere winter.
Although Downhill and 4X are not included in the Commonwealth Games, the ‘06 Oceanias should also feature top fields in these, as well. Riders from Europe and North America will want to take advantage of their off-season to race on world championship courses under summer sun.
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