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nations represented at the 2021 UCI Mountain Bike World Championships in Val di Sole (Italy).
36 million
people were reached across the UCI’s digital platforms during the competitions in Val di Sole.
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distinct mountain bike formats featured on the programme of the 2021 UCI Mountain Bike World Championships: cross-country team relay (XCR), cross-country Olympic (XCO), downhill (DHI), E-Mountain Bike cross-country (E-MTB), cross-country Short Track (XCC) and four-cross (4X).
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is the incredible number of Men Elite cross-country Olympic titles for Switzerland’s Nino Schurter after his victory this year in Val di Sole (Italy). In 2009, Schurter (then 23) became the youngest athlete ever to win the Elite title. At 35, he now also has the distinction of being the oldest XCO UCI World Champion.
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was Sina Frei’s “winning margin” over Evie Richards (GBR) to claim the first ever cross-country Short Track (XCC) rainbow jersey. Indeed, it took a photo finish to confirm the Swiss athlete’s victory in Val di Sole. Christopher Blevins (USA) won the first Men Elite XCC UCI World title.
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Czech victories for four-cross at the 2021 UCI Mountain Bike World Championships thanks to Tomáš Slavík and Michaela Hajkova.
502,000
UCI website visitors were registered throughout the competitions in Val di Sole.
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it would be hard to forget Switzerland’s clean sweep of the women’s XCO Olympic podium: Jolanda Neff, Sina Frei and Linda Indergand did the red cross proud at the Izu mountain bike park in Tokyo.
19 years old
and already UCI World Champion for mountain bike Marathon (XCM): Austria’s Mona Mitterwallner rode to victory in Elba (Italy) ahead of Poland’s Maja Włoszczowska (37), who for the record won the rainbow jersey in 2003, when Mitterwallner was just a year old.
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rounds in the 2021 UCI E-MTB Cross-country World Cup saw overall victories go to French athletes Jérôme Guilloux and Mélanie Pugin.
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UCI Mountain Bike Eliminator World Championship medals for Simon Gegenheimer and at last a gold! After three silvers and a bronze since 2015, he finally raced to victory at the 2021 UCI World Championships in Graz, Austria: “I worked so hard for it for the past 10 years… I had so many medals but not the top one!” said the delighted German athlete.