2025 WHOOP UCI Mountain Bike World Series: Conolly and Łukasik confirm Enduro overall titles

Penultimate round of 2025 UCI Enduro World Cup

In a WHOOP UCI Mountain Bike World Series double-header weekend alongside some huge UCI Downhill World Cup racing, the UCI Enduro World Cup stole the show with a one-day thriller in La Thuile - Valle d’Aosta, Italy.

Both the Women Elite and Men Elite overall titles were confirmed in the sixth and penultimate round of the 2025 UCI Enduro World Cup, as the riders competed on three tough stages before a dramatic new floodlit night stage, where the victories were sealed.

Men Elite: Łukasik “so stoked!”

Poland’s Sławomir Łukasik (Yeti/Fox Factory Race Team) overcame New Zealand’s Charles Murray (Specialized Gravity) on the final 600-metre night stage to win a huge day by a tiny margin of only 0.05-sec.

And with it, 32-year-old Łukasik claimed the Men Elite UCI Enduro World Cup overall title. With victories in rounds 2 and 5 already in the bag, the Polish rider has been super-strong all season, never finishing off the podium.

While Murray has been consistent, it was Jesse Melamed (Canyon Cllctv Factory Team) who started the day second overall. Both the Canadian and Australia’s Daniel Booker (who beasted the ‘Nightfall’ stage), have both tasted victory this year and kept themselves in contention.

“It was so much fun riding here and every stage was amazing, with a bit of everything on it,” said Łukasik. “It was a really good battle with Charles today, it was a really great day. I can’t believe I’ve won the overall, it’s an amazing feeling and I’m so stoked about that. It will be fun to ride and be more focused for the UCI World Championships.”

After six rounds, Łukasik leads the overall with an unassailable 2170 points from Murray, 1550, while Melamed, only 20 points behind, will look to overturn that deficit in the final round. Booker is fourth with 1385 points while William Brodie (GBR), sits on 1280.

Women Elite: Celebration for Conolly

Meanwhile, the action in the Women Elite enduro racing was every bit as exciting. Slovakia’s Simona Kuchyňková (Cube Action Team) becomes the fourth Women Elite winner of this year’s series, despite a late crash. She is making an impression in her first season as an Elite rider.

The 21-year-old won by 2 seconds over Britain’s Ella Conolly, the privateer who won the previous three rounds. With her third second-place finish of 2025, Conolly confirmed her Women Elite UCI Enduro World Cup overall title.

“I knew I could wrap up the title today, so I’m happy with how I rode and Simona was just incredible today, she’s an insane rider so I’m really stoked for her,” said Conolly.

“It’s been my best season so far and I’m really happy. It was my goal at the start of the season to win the overall. We’ll celebrate tonight, we’ve got a small break until the next UCI World Cup and then the UCI World Championships is the next goal.”

Ella Conolly has confirmed the overall with 2250 points after 6 rounds, while Kuchyňková stays second (1720) followed by Italian Nadine Ellecosta (Abetone Ancillotti Vittoria Factory Team) – 2nd on the night stage – with 1540 points. A 280-point haul from La Thuile takes the consistent Morgane Charre (Pivot Factory Racing) up to 1530, clear from her French compatriots Lily Planquart and Julie Duvert (Theory Racing).

Downhill: Goldstone making history

The action at La Thuile continued on Sunday with the Elite finals of the fifth (out of 10) round of the UCI Downhill World Cup on a fast, loose 2.3km track.

Germany’s Nina Hoffmann (Santa Cruz Syndicate) became the fourth Women Elite UCI World Cup winner in five rounds, smashing almost 10 seconds off her Qualifying 1 run, less than a month after crashing in Leogang.

Austria’s Valentina Höll (YT Mob) was second, 3 seconds back, and despite no win yet this series, tops the overall table at the halfway stage. Canada’s Gracey Hemstreet (Norco Race Division) – winner of rounds 2 and 3 – took third in La Thuile.

But the open mouths in Italy were saved for Hemstreet’s fellow Canadian, Jackson Goldstone (Santa Cruz Syndicate) who won a fourth consecutive round of the UCI Downhill World Cup. He matches the record set by American Aaron Gwin in 2012, when Goldstone was eight years old. France’s decorated talents Loris Vergier (Commencal/Muc-Off by Riding Addiction) and Loïc Bruni (Specialized Gravity) finished 2nd and 3rd respectively.

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