Victor Koretzky (Specialised Manufacturing facility Racing) and Laura Stigger (Specialised) claimed the ultimate brief monitor (XCC) victories of the 12 months on the Mont-Sainte-Anne UCI MTB World Cup whereas Puck Pieterse (Alpecin-Deceuninck) and Luca Schwarzbauer (Canyon CLLCTV) took out the general World Cup XCC titles.
Stigger, who final week claimed her first elite cross-country Olympic (XCO) victory at Snowshoe, saved the momentum rolling in Canada when the Austrian delivered a strong assault within the closing lap of eight. She dropped Leona Lecomte (Canyon CLLCTV), who completed second, and Rebecca Henderson (Primaflor Mondraker Genuins Racing Group) who took third.
Pieterse came visiting the road in fifth place which was sufficient for the 21 12 months previous rider to assert the brief monitor collection win forward of Alessandra Keller (Thömus Maxon), who completed 14th on the day.
“I gave every part I had,” stated Pieterse who hoped for a greater consequence to complete off her 12 months of brief monitor racing, nonetheless was happy to safe the general. “I will let it sink in tonight and tomorrow a bit after which attempt to focus yet another time to go full gasoline.”
The Dutch rider, who can also be on monitor to take out the XCO collection title stated “I hope I’ve higher legs than as we speak on Sunday as a result of I actually need to exit with a bang.”
Within the elite males’s brief monitor race it was a gaggle of eight that got here by means of collectively firstly of the ultimate lap of ten, and Koretzky was fast to put down an assault. The French rider stretched out a small hole after which held it by means of to the end to maintain his finish of season brief monitor victory streak on a roll, making it three in a row. Jordan Sarrou (Group BMC) was second and US rider Christopher Blevins (Specialised Manufacturing facility Racing) got here third.
“The start of this season was not so good for me and now I’m in good condition and I am simply having fun with using within the entrance. It is superb to combat, like as we speak, with robust guys,” stated an emotional Koretzky within the televised post-race interview. “It was actually tactical and I like racing like this as a result of till the final lap you by no means know who will win.”
Schwarzbauer crossed the road in seventh place, taking part in a cautious hand to ensure he secured the collection title. The German rider completed on 1550 factors, 110 factors forward of Sarrou.
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