Check out last week’s events with our weekly recap!
September 21st-22nd |Grächen, Switzerland
She’s back! Just three weeks after being crowned UCI World Champion in cross-country Olympic, Pauline Ferrand-Prévot confirmed that she is back in shape with a win at the UCI World Championships for the longer distance. In her first XCM Worlds, the French athlete took an early lead on the 70km course to finish nearly two minutes ahead of Slovenia's Blaza Pintarič and South African Robyn De Groot.
In the men’s race (94km) victory went to South America for the second year running. After Brazil’s Henrique Avancini in 2018, it was the turn of Colombian Héctor Páez León to take the rainbow jersey after a race where the overall win was far from decided until a few kilometres from the end, with the lead changing constantly.
September 20th |Graz, Austria
With wins in three of the six rounds of the UCI Mountain Bike Eliminator World Cup, young Italian Gaia Tormena has taken the overall win. The UCI World Champion had to make do with second place in the final round in Graz (Austria) but was already assured of overall victory before taking to the start line. Sweden’s Ella Holmegård added a win in Graz to her fourth-round win in Valkenswaard (the Netherlands) to take second overall. Germany’s Marion Fromberger, winner of the opening UCI World Cup round in Barcelona (Spain) finishes the season third.
Men’s overall victory goes to French rider Hugo Briatta, who clocked up his third win in Graz. He raced solo to victory in Austria ahead of UCI World Champion and fellow Frenchman Titouan Perrin-Ganier and Dutch champion Jeroen van Eck. The three athletes finish in that order in the overall UCI World Cup standings.
September 22nd |Waterloo, USA