UCI MTB World Cup, Soldier Hole (XCC, XCO): Halfway, Utah
(September 19-20) – Soldier Hole hosted the primary of two US stops on the World Cup Mountain Bike schedule with a weekend of quick observe and XCO racing in Halfway, Utah.
Gwendalyn Gibson (Trek-Unbroken) positioned 2nd in elite girls’s XCO, incomes her first elite XCO podium spot. Savilia Blunk (Decathlon Ford Racing) positioned 4th and Haley Batten(Specialised Manufacturing facility Racing) positioned 6th. Gibson additionally positioned 7th within the elite girls’s XCC. Bjorn Riley (Scott-SRAM) was 6th and Riley Amos (Trek-Unbroken) was 8th in elite males’s XCO.
Makena Kellerman had a double-podium weekend, sprinting for twond in U23 girls’s XCC and putting 3rd in U23 girls’s XCO. Nicholas Konecny (Lexware MTB) rode to fiveth in U23 males’s XCO.
With one race to go, Bjorn Riley sits 3rd total within the elite males’s XCO standings. Savilia Blunk is 4th total within the elite girls’s XCO standings, and Gwendalyn Gibson and Madigan Munro are 9th and 10th. Makena Kellerman is 8th total in U23 girls’s XCO standings.
The season wraps up in Lake Placid, New York, October 2-4.
Outcomes right here
UCI MTB World Cup, Whistler Mountain Bike Park (DH): British Columbia, Canada
(September 25-27) – Group USA captured two gold medals and a bronze underneath extremely difficult situations on the UCI World Cup downhill, held at Whistler MTB Park.
Asa Vermette (Frameworks Racing/TRP) gained the elite males’s race and Aletha Ostgaard(Canyon DH Racing) gained the junior girls’s ultimate, her eighth podium and fifth WC win this season. Boston Bryant (Outlaw Intense Racing) gained bronze within the junior males’s ultimate.
Ostgaard, whose time was 4 seconds quicker than the elite girls’s winner, additionally captured the junior girls’s total title with the win. Vermette moved into the elite males’s total lead, with only one race remaining within the sequence.
Luca Shaw (Canyon DH Racing) and Dylan Maples (Pivot Manufacturing facility Racing) rounded out the top-10 elite males, coming in 9th and 10th.
In junior girls’s racing, Samantha Porras, Raina Logar (Frameworks Racing/TRP) and Kallie Stewart positioned 6th, 7th and 9th. Brodey Walker (Outlaw Intense Racing) was 6th within the junior males’s ultimate.
The sequence wraps up in Lake Placid, New York, October 2-4.
Outcomes right here
Chequamegon MTB Pageant: Hayward, Wisconsin
(September 19) – 1000’s of cyclists tackled a 40-mile course in Wisconsin’s Northwoods at Chequamegon MTB Pageant, the fourth of six races within the Life Time Grand Prix.
Sofia Gomez Villafañe (Specialised) gained the elite girls’s race, finishing the course in 2:14:10 and capturing her third win of the sequence. Karolina Migon (PAS Racing) and Sarah Lange got here in 15 seconds behind, for twond and threerd.
Matthew Wilson (Scott/Shimano) soloed dwelling for the boys’s win, coming in at 1:57:50. Brendan Johnston (Large-SRAM) and Keegan Swenson (Specialised) sprinted for twond and threerd, with Johnston taking the win by two seconds (1:58:48)
Subsequent up within the sequence is Little Sugar MTB, October 11, in Bella Vista, Arkansas.
Outcomes right here
