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Both the cross-country and short track races at the Deer Valley Norba National made up the 16th event on the Mountain Bike Cross-Country Calendar. Ryan Trebon (Bend, OR) took the win in the cross-country contest, while Katerina Nash (Truckee, CA) earned the victory in the pro women's race. In the short track contest, Geoff Kabush (Can) topped the field, while Nash repeated her top performance from the previous day.

With only eight races remaining, the current Mountain Bike Cross-Country Calendar standings are as follows:

1. Brad Stephenson...Sho-Air...130 points
2. Ross Schnell...Trek-VW...116
3. Adam Craig...Giant...110
4. Jeremy Horgan-Kobelski...Subaru-GF...104
5. Barry Wicks...Kona-Les Gets...95
WOMEN
1. Georgia Gould...Luna Chix...220 points
2. Katerina Nash (Cze)...Luna Chix...176
3. Kelli Emmett...Giant...130
4. Heather Irmiger...Subaru-Gary Fisher...112
5. Lea Davison...Trek-VW...73

The cross-country race at Blast the Mast will be the next event on the Mountain Bike Cross-Country Calendar. The Category 3 event will take place in Snowmass, CO, July 11-13. The 18th event on the Mountain Bike Cross-Country Calendar, the Windham Mountain National, will also take place July 12 in Windham, NY (two events on the same weekend?) as action heats up for the U.S. Mountain Bike National Championships, July 17-20 in West Dover, VT.