The 2026 UCI Mountain Bike World Championships concluded Sunday in Val di Sole, Italy, with the Underneath-23 and Elite Cross-Nation Olympic races, with Workforce USA inserting two riders inside the highest 10 within the Elite Ladies’s race.
Elite Males
Three People lined up for the Elite Males’s XCO battle: Riley Amos (Durango, Colo.; Trek Manufacturing facility Racing), Christopher Blevins (Durango, Colo.; Specialised Manufacturing facility Racing), and Bjorn Riley (Boulder, Colo.; SCOTT-SRAM MTB Racing).
The tempo was excessive from the beginning, with the sphere stretched early as riders fought to remain related to the entrance. Amos was among the many quickest off the road, and Riley and Blevins have been additionally within the combine early. By the top of the opening lap, all three People remained inside roughly 18 seconds of the leaders because the race started to take form.
Because the tempo continued, gaps started to open throughout the sphere. Bjorn Riley led the U.S. finishers in nineteenth, with Riley Amos ending thirty fourth and Christopher Blevins thirty seventh.
Outcomes:
1. Thomas Pidcock (GBR)
2. Charlie Aldridge (GBR)
3. Cole Punchard (CAN)
19. Bjorn Riley (USA)
34. Riley Amos (USA)
37. Christopher Blevins (USA)
Elite Ladies
Workforce USA’s strongest outcomes of the day got here within the Elite Ladies’s race, with Savilia Blunk (Inverness, Calif.; Decathlon Ford Racing Workforce) and Haley Batten (Park Metropolis, Utah; Specialised Manufacturing facility Racing) ending back-to-back inside the highest 10. Blunk began close to the entrance and got here by way of the opening lap in seventh. She rode persistently all through the race earlier than grabbing the group’s greatest lead to ninth.
Batten moved rapidly into the lead group, climbing from eleventh on the beginning loop to fifth after the opening lap and remained inside the highest 10 for the remainder of the race. Gwendalyn Gibson (Ramona, Calif.; Trek Manufacturing facility Racing) completed shut behind the duo in eleventh. Madigan Munro (Boulder, Colo.; Liv Racing) rounded out the American leads to nineteenth.
Outcomes:
1. Sina Frei (SUI)
2. Martina Berta (ITA)
3. Nicole Koller (SUI)
9. Savilia Blunk (USA)
10. Haley Batten (USA)
11. Gwendalyn Gibson (USA)
19. Madigan Munro (USA)
U23 Males
The American U23 males left all of it on the course immediately. Nicholas Konecny (Breckenridge, Colo.; Lexwere Mountain Bike Workforce) led Workforce USA within the Underneath-23 Males’s race, staying close to the highest 20 from the opening lap. Konecny moved into fifteenth after the primary full lap and remained inside a couple of positions of that mark all through the race earlier than crossing within the high 20.
Behind him, Jack Spranger (Sammamish, Wash.) and Dan English (San Ramon, Calif.; Trinity Racing) spent a lot of the race shifting ahead by way of the sphere. Spranger got here by way of the beginning loop in 67th earlier than steadily climbing to twenty ninth by the end. English had a good deeper begin in seventy fifth and gained 45 positions over the course of the race to complete a formidable thirtieth.
Outcomes:
1. Nael Rouffiac (FRA)
2. Alix Andre Gallis (FRA)
3. Nicolas Halter (SUI)
19. Nicholas Konecny (USA)
29. Jack Spranger (USA)
30. Dan English (USA)
U23 Ladies
The Underneath-23 Ladies opened Sunday’s racing, with Bailey Cioppa (Durango, Colo.) main the Workforce USA. After coming by way of the beginning loop in forty eighth, Cioppa made vital progress on the opening lap, ultimately ending thirty first on the day.
Greta Kilburn (Burlington, Vt.; Bicycle Specific Racing) delivered a powerful efficiency, in the end crossing the road in thirty eighth.
Outcomes:
1. Valentina Corvi (ITA)
2. Anina Hutter (SUI)
3. Monique Halter (SUI)
29. Bailey Cioppa (USA)
38. Greta Kilburn (USA)
DNF Makena Kellerman (USA)
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