Mullumbimby student Leo Pickering-Darcy competed in the mountain bike pump track challenge at Crankworx in Rotorua (New Zealand) and finished fourth in the U/19s, last month.
It was his first ever international bike race.
Crankworx calls itself a multi-stop celebration of mountain biking that unites the sport’s top athletes and the industry at large.
Exciting opportunity
‘It was so good, I was there for a full week. There was bike racing and a festival,’ he said.
When it came to racing Leo narrowly missed out on a podium finish, but was very happy to have had the opportunity to race and has definite plans to return next year.
The whole experience was a lot of fun and he managed to meet ‘lots of cool people’, he said.
The Main Arm local gets his local pump track fixes at Ballina and Suffolk Park.
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