{"id":558288,"date":"2026-08-04T02:08:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T02:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/558288\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T02:08:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T02:08:08","slug":"uci-mtb-world-champion-to-defend-her-world-e-enduro-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/558288\/","title":{"rendered":"UCI MTB World Champion to defend her World E-Enduro title"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"p-font\">New Zealand mountain biker George Swift will defend her title at the UCI MTB Enduro World Championships, named to lead a three-strong Mountain Bike New Zealand team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-font\">Swift (Yeti-Fox Cycles), who won the elite E-Enduro MTB world championship in Switzerland last year, will defend her title in Italy in October alongside racing the EDR World Championship.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-font\">Staged with downhill and cross-country last year, the UCI MTB Enduro World Championships will be held as a standalone event at Finale Ligure, Italy from 16-18 October.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-font\">Swift, from Warkworth and a member of Auckland Downhill Club, is the sole elite female rider selected.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-font\">She is joined by Bradley Harris (Queenstown MTB Club) who will compete in elite men, with Nelson\u2019s Nico Schroder (Nelson MTB Club) to race Under-19 men.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Zealand mountain biker George Swift will defend her title at the UCI MTB Enduro World Championships, named&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":558289,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-558288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=558288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/558289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=558288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=558288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=558288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}