In which city were the 2017 UCI Mountain Bike World Championships held; a city within the largest country in Oceania and the world's sixth largest country by total area?
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2017 UCI Mountain Bike World Championships The 2017 UCI Mountain Bike World Championships was the 28th edition of the UCI Mountain Bike World Championships. As in 2016, the championships in the various disciplines were held at separate events. The world championships in four-cross were held at Val di Sole, Italy, on 24 and 25 August 2017, alongside UCI World Cup events in cross-country and downhill. The world championships in cross-country and downhill were held in Cairns, Australia, from 5 to 10 September 2017.
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Australia Australia ( , , ), officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands. It is the largest country in Oceania and the world's sixth-largest country by total area. The neighbouring countries are Papua New Guinea, Indonesia and East Timor to the north; the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu to the north-east; and New Zealand to the south-east. Australia's capital is Canberra, and its largest urban area is Sydney.
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2017 Sibiu Cycling Tour The 2017 Sibiu Cycling Tour was a cycling stage race that took place between 5 and 9 July 2017 in and around Sibiu, Romania. Raced over 734 km , the race featured a traditional cobbled prologue along with mountain stages to Bâlea Lake and Păltiniș, and was held as part of the 2017 UCI Europe Tour.
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UCI Mountain Bike World Cup The UCI Mountain Bike World Cup is a multi-round mountain bike racing series that is sanctioned by the Union Cycliste Internationale. The first World Cup series – which was composed of cross-country events – was held in 1989. The Downhill World Cup was inaugurated two years later, and the Dual Slalom World Cup was launched in 1998. The dual-slalom format – which involved knock-out heats with two riders on the parallel courses in each heat – evolved into four-cross (with four riders on a single course per heat) in 2002 before being dropped after the 2011 season. Riders win points according to their placing in each event. The reigning series leaders in each class are identified by a special jersey. The UCI Mountain Bike World Cup is broadcast live and globally on Red Bull TV.
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New Guinea New Guinea (Tok Pisin: "Niugini" ; Dutch: "Nieuw-Guinea" ; German: "Neuguinea" ; Indonesian: "Papua" or, historically, "Irian ") is a large island in Oceania. It is the world's second-largest island, after Greenland, covering a land area of , and the largest wholly or partly within the Southern Hemisphere and Oceania (if excluding Australia as an island).
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Main Divide Cycle Race The Main Divide Cycle Race is a single day road cycling race run by Pegasus Cycling Incorporated held annually in late summer in New Zealand, starting from Darfield on the Canterbury Plains and running for 109 km to "The Main Divide" (908m) just north of Arthurs Pass Village. Along the way there is a King/Queen of the Mountains competition at the summit of Porters Pass (942m). Total vertical ascent for the race is 1,660m.
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Cycling at the 2017 Island Games Cycling, for the 2017 Island Games, held at Visby with the mountain bike events held at Östergravar, Visby, Gotland, Sweden in June 2017.
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2006 Oceania Swimming Championships The 2006 Oceania Swimming Championships were 7–16 July at 3 locations in Queensland, Australia. This was the sixth edition of the Championships, and featured competitions in:
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2013 Oceania Athletics Championships The 2013 Oceania Athletics Championships were held at the Stade Pater Te Hono Nui in Papeete, French Polynesia, between June 3-5, 2013. The event was held jointly with the 2013 Oceania Youth Athletics Championships, and there were also exhibition events for masters, athletes with a disability and children. Detailed reports on a day by day basis were given.
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Athletics at the 2015 Pacific Games Athletics at the 2015 Pacific Games in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea was held on July 13–18, 2015. Four parasport events were also included.
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Six Days of Ghent The Six Days of Ghent (Dutch: "Zesdaagse Vlaanderen-Gent" ) is a six-day track cycling race held annually in Ghent, Belgium.
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St Kilda Cycling Club The St Kilda Cycling Club, commonly referred to as SKCC, is an Australian cycling club based in inner and south-east Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. The club is part of the international cycling union, the sport's peak body.
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Six Days of Brussels The Six Days of Brussels was a six-day track cycling race held annually in Brussels, Belgium.
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2001 World Games The 2001 World Games, the sixth World Games, were an international multi-sport event held in Akita, Japan.
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2011 UCI Oceania Tour The 2011 UCI Oceania Tour was the seventh season of the UCI Oceania Tour. The season began on 26 January 2011 with the Tour of Wellington and ended on 20 March 2011 with the Oceania Cycling Championships.
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2017 Oceania Rugby Under 20 Championship The 2017 Oceania Rugby Under 20s, was the third edition of the Oceania Rugby Junior Championship. The competition was expanded from the previous season with Fiji and Samoa joining New Zealand and hosts Australia for the three-round tournament at Bond University on the Gold Coast.
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Timaru Timaru ( ; Māori: "Te Tihi-o-Maru" ) is a port city in the southern Canterbury region of New Zealand, located 157 kilometres southwest of Christchurch and about 196 kilometres northeast of Dunedin on the eastern Pacific coast of the South Island. The Timaru urban area is home to 28,800 people, and is the largest urban area in South Canterbury, and the second largest in the Canterbury Region overall, after Christchurch. The city is the seat of the Timaru District, which includes the surrounding rural area and the towns of Geraldine, Pleasant Point and Temuka, which combined has a total population of 46,700 .
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Mahina, French Polynesia Mahina is a commune in the suburbs of Papeete in French Polynesia, an overseas territory of France in the Pacific Ocean. Mahina is located on the island of Tahiti, in the administrative subdivision of the Windward Islands, themselves part of the Society Islands. Mahina is the 3rd largest city in French Polynesia with a population of 14,369. Mount Orohena is a nearby mountain.
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Oceania Oceania ( or ) is a geographic region comprising Melanesia, Micronesia, Polynesia and Australasia. Spanning the eastern and western hemispheres, Oceania covers an area of 8,525,989 km2 and has a population of 40 million. Oceania is the smallest continental grouping in land area and the second smallest in population after Antarctica.
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Auckland Region The Auckland Region is one of the sixteen regions of New Zealand, named for the city of Auckland, the country's largest urban area. The region encompasses the Auckland metropolitan area, smaller towns, rural areas, and the islands of the Hauraki Gulf. With percent of the nation's residents, it has by far the biggest population and economy of any region of New Zealand, but the second-smallest land area.
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2013 Oceania Youth Athletics Championships The 2013 Oceania Youth Athletics Championships were held at the Stade Pater Te Hono Nui in Papeete, French Polynesia, between June 3–5, 2013. They were held together with the 2013 Oceania Open Championships. Detailed reports on a day by day basis were given.
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Marshall Islands The Marshall Islands, officially the Republic of the Marshall Islands (Marshallese: "Aolepān Aorōkin M̧ajeļ" ), is an island country located near the equator in the Pacific Ocean, slightly west of the International Date Line. Geographically, the country is part of the larger island group of Micronesia. The country's population of 53,158 people (at the 2011 Census) is spread out over 29 coral atolls, comprising 1,156 individual islands and islets.