ARA Australian Cycling Team Junior XCO squad selected for 2024 UCI Mountain Bike World Championships

Harry Doye and Eddie Mungoven have been selected to represent the ARA Australian Cycling Team in junior XCO at the 2024 UCI Mountain Bike World Championships in Pal Arinsal, Andorra. 

The duo, announced by the AusCycling National Selection Panel today, complete the ARA Australian Cycling Team junior cohort for Pal Arinsal after the earlier announcement of the junior downhill squad a fortnight ago. 

Doye, 18, and Mungoven, 16, both gained European race experience and valuable UCI points over recent months. 

Doye picked up two wins in the Czechia-based UCI C3 AC Heating Cup in Aš and Stříbro, two top-10 finishes at UCI XCO Junior Series races in Italy and Switzerland and a fifth-place finish at the UCI C1 Subterra Grand Prix Zadov. 

The Victorian finished 40th in the junior men’s field at the UCI Mountain Bike World Cup in Nové Město na Moravě, Czechia in May. The junior men’s event was classified as a UCI XCO Junior Series race. 

Doye’s impending world championships debut carries extra significance after a shoulder injury and subsequent surgery forced the current junior men’s XCO national champion to withdraw from the team for Glasgow 2023. 

Mungoven joins Doye in the team as a first-year junior rider after impressing throughout his first six months in the under-19 category.  

The Canberran finished third in junior men’s XCO after winning the XCC title at the 2024 GWM Mountain Bike National Championships before three races in Czechia. 

Mungoven finished 53rd in Nové Město na Moravě, 10th at the Subterra Grand Prix Zadov and fourth at the Aš AC Heating Cup. 

Eddie Mungoven racing earlier this year at the Aš AC Heating Cup in Czechia. Picture: AC Heating Cup

Mungoven will become a second-generation Australian Cycling Team member in Pal Arinsal, following in the footsteps of his mother Alison Mungoven (nee Wright), who won a 2002 Commonwealth Games bronze medal on the track in the individual pursuit. Eddie’s father Denis was also a champion cyclist, twice finishing second in the elite men’s individual time trial national championship. 

Levi Dougherty was selected but has declined a place on the team due to road commitments. 

Following considered review, no junior women were endorsed by the AusCycling National Selection Panel. An alternative international race experience has been offered to assist their development pathway towards selection in 2025. 

ARA Australian Cycling Team (Junior XCO) for the 2024 UCI Mountain Bike World Championships

• Harry Doye (Red Hill MTBC)
• Eddie Mungoven (Canberra Off-Road Cyclists)

Feature picture: AC Heating Cup