For the second year in a row, Sydney teenagers Lucy and Fergus Mackie have been named in the Australian MTBO team for the junior world championships.
The Big Foot pair will join Newcastle's Glen Charlton (AUS senior team) at MTBO WOC and JWOC in Lithuania in August after a sterling weekend in Ballarat at the Victorian championships, which doubled as the national trials.
Lucy, 19, won the Sprint and Long champs, and took second in the Middle Distance. Fergus, 16, was second in the Long, and third in the Sprint and Middle Distance. Both were competing in the open 21A age classes.
It was a quite a weekend for the Mackies with dad Hamish in M40A winning the Middle and Long, and coming second in the opening Sprint on Saturday. A happy but tiring drive home for this fantastic family!
Glen came fourth in all three disciplines to earn his WOC debut. Former Bennelong Northsider Marina Iskhakova, now living in Canberra, has been chosen to represent Australia at the World Cup round in France in late July.
The Australian WOC team is Angus Robinson, Glen Charlton, Rocky Thackray. The JWOC team is Lucy Mackie, Fergus Mackie.
Other podium placings by ONSW riders at Ballarat were:
W16A: Rhiannon Prentice (Newcastle): 1st in Sprint, 1st in Long, 2nd in Middle
M40A: Michael Ridley-Smith (Garingal): 3rd in Middle, 3rd in Long
M50A: Andrew Power (NC) 3rd in Sprint
M60A: Robert Prentice (NC): 1st in Sprint, 1st in Middle
M70A: Tim Hackney (NC): 3rd in Sprint
Congratulations to all, and a reminder that NSW is hosting the Australian champs at Wingello in the Southern Highlands on Oct 7-8.
