A 13-year old mountain biker is asking for Government intervention over being denied a medal because she was home-schooled.

Amelia Twiss came third at the North Island school champs, but was bumped to fourth because of a rule requiring contestants to attend a school.

She is now cycling more than 500km to the Beehive - from Cambridge's NZ cycling HQ - to present her petition.

She says the exclusion seems based on the idea being home-schooled gives more time for training.

She agrees it doesn't seem fair.

"I don't train, I just ride my bike."

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