2013 British MTB Marathon Championships

June 8, 2024

Date
8 Jun 2024

On 8 June 100 elite cross country mountain bike racers from throughout the UK will descend on Selkirk in the Scottish Borders for the 2013 British MTB Marathon Championships.

And among those fighting for the women’s title will be the 2012 British Marathon Champion, Jane Nuessli (Fischer-BMC), the 2012 World Endurance Champion, Sally Bigham (Topeak Ergon Racing Team), Amber Southern (WXC World Racing), currently ranked number one in the UK and Rachel Fenton (AW Cycles), who will be determined to go one better after her second place British Marathon Championships performance in 2012.

All of the elite riders will take on an 80 km single lap course that includes a fantastic mix of natural and hand-made singletrack, twin-track forest roads, ancient drove roads and some of the very best man-made trail centre routes at Innerleithen in their bid to claim British honours.

The Championships will also be run alongside the Selkirk MTB Marathon, where as many as four hundred ‘sportive’ riders will take on one of three fully marked courses either 25km, 50km and 80km.

There will also be a lot of cycling festivities beginning on the evening of Friday 7 June when Selkirk High Street will be transformed into a traffic free street party for all the family to enjoy with a number of cycling events and activities that spectators can not only watch and marvel at, but also take part in too.

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It is one of our favourite spectacles that the crowds will be able to enjoy - the Urban Street Trial races from the renowned Clan mountain bike display team; riders race head to head over an urban obstacle course likely to include cars, pallets, cable drums and skips.

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