Team TORQ

The only UCI-registered mountain bike team in Australia, the TORQ Performance Nutrition team features some of Australia's top racers and future stars, including current national and Oceania Champion Dan McConnell

For 2011-2012, TORQ racers are targeting the Australian Mountain Bike National Series, National Championships and Oceania Continental Championships. The team's top priority is racing Olympic distance cross country events, but it is also mixing things up with some short track, marathon and endurance events - and maybe even some road races.

Some members will head abroad for the World Cups - an important part of Australian national team selection process for the 2011 World Championships. In the past two years, the team has grown to include some new faces with some great results to back them up.

McConnell, who represented Australia at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, China, is perhaps the team's most well-known member. Mark Fenner, Brenton Jones, Mark Tupalski, Luke Fetch, Robbie Hucker, Jenni King, Katherine O'Shea, Joanna Wall and Becky Mates are also on the roster. Members take turns writing diary entries.

Latest articles by Team TORQ

Jenni King races in Tasmania

King, McConnell provide domestic season higlights

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Torq's Lacis ponders effects of the loss of Cycling Australia MTB funding

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The finishing straight.

Tackling the Tour de Timor

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Jo Wall experiences the ruggedness of Timor

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Jo Wall relaxes at the 24-hour solo championships

Wall recounts race to win 24-hour Aussie solo title

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First-ever 24-hour solo race ends in victory

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Brenton Jones (Team Torq) crosses a river in Alice Springs

A week of racing

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Alice Springs MTB Enduro tests two of the team's racers

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The TORQ team.

The year so far

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Three entries from three of our respective national champions

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Mixed team podium: Tour de Timor

Team Torq reflects on racing in Timor

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New mountain bike stage recalled fondly all around

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Dan McConnell raced the elite men's race.

Reflecting on a worlds at home

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Several Torq Team members share their experiences in Canberra

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The Team TORQ setup, with Jayco base that contains most creature comforts.

Feeling the pull

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Team TORQ heads to the Gravity 12 hour

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Dean and Jarvis having a rest.

Team Torq's Kona 24 hour

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A deluge and damaged dropout challenge team

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Luke Fetch comes home to the finish.

Fetch recounts fourth-place ride at Otway Odyssey

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A stellar day of racing for Australia's Fetch and his teammates

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Katherine O'Shea heads out the elite women's field at Thredbo on the cross country start loop.

Going Oceanic

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Two weekends ago, the TORQ team was in Thredbo, NSW, for the 2009 Oceania Championships. TORQ...

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Katherine O'Shea and Dean Clark are treated to stunning views and sunshine during Stage 1.

"Racing" the inaugural Terra Australis

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It feels a little weird for me to be writing about the Terra Australis – although I was in a team of...

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Team Torq's new Cube SCR before being locked in a box and sent across the globe

An unexpected arrival in the United Kingdom

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Getting the body up to World Cup speed

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Jo Wall battles it out against Rowena Fry during the last lap of the elite women's race.

Highs and lows at Aussie nationals

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Last weekend the TORQ team was in Canberra for the Australian National Championships . Luckily, our...

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The team poses at a photo shoot

Launched into action

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It's hard to believe it's already December. It's well and truly race season in Australia, with...

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Katherine O'Shea rode well from the start. She led out the women's field in front of teammate Tory Thomas

Breaking the curse

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For most of the Torq team, the start of the 2008-2009 Australian mountain bike season has been...

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Team Torq is en route to the Alpine Assault

Alpine assault

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Torq team checks out new event

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A Torq team rider tackles a tough, rooty section.

Home bliss

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Torq team rides out the Canadian World Cups and prepares for Worlds

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Tory and Jo Wall outside outside our "bike shed" at our accomodation in Bromont. The building was originally used as stables to house horses competing in the Montreal Olympics. Photo: Tim Retchford.

World Cupping in Canada

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Bonjour from Quebec

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There wasn't too much talking at the top of some of the super steep climbs. Tory Thomas, Dan McConnell, Luke Fetch and Dean Clark feel the hurt during a training ride on the Otway Odyssey Race.

Returning to good times

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It's been another beautiful sunny day in hometown Mount Beauty, a perfect training day… but I'm...

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Jo Wall and Katherine O'Shea

Going fast for the short and the long

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I am writing this diary entry as the 2008-2009 Australian National series comes to a close. My race...

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A busy month

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Katherine O'Shea & Dan MacConnell globe-trottting on the World Cup circuit

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On the podium

All systems go

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Tupac and Fenz tackle Mawson Marathon

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Jo Wall shows her stuff on a fast descent in the cross country race.

Brand shining new

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I wasn't sure what to expect when I signed with the newly formed Australian Torq/VIS mountain bike...

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All riders at the 2011 Terra

Terra 2011

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Fenner and Wall successful in multi-day race

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