Victor Koretzky (Specialised Manufacturing unit Racing) and Laura Stigger (Specialised) claimed the general quick observe (XCC) victories of the 12 months on the Mont-Sainte-Anne UCI MTB International Cup whilst Puck Pieterse (Alpecin-Deceuninck) and Luca Schwarzbauer (Canyon CLLCTV) took out the full International Cup XCC titles.
Stigger, who remaining week claimed her first elite cross-country Olympic (XCO) victory at Snowshoe, stored the momentum rolling in Canada when the Austrian delivered a formidable assault within the ultimate lap of 8. She dropped Leona Lecomte (Canyon CLLCTV), who completed 2d, and Rebecca Henderson (Primaflor Mondraker Genuins Racing Group) who took 3rd.
Pieterse came around the road in 5th position which was once sufficient for the 21 12 months outdated rider to assert the fast observe collection win forward of Alessandra Keller (Thömus Maxon), who completed 14th at the day.
“I gave the whole lot I had,” mentioned Pieterse who was once hoping for a greater end result to complete off her 12 months of quick observe racing, alternatively was once happy to protected the full. “I will let it sink in this night and the following day somewhat after which attempt to center of attention yet one more time to move complete fuel.”
The Dutch rider, who may be on course to take out the XCO collection name mentioned “I’m hoping I’ve higher legs than nowadays on Sunday as a result of I in reality need to move out with a bang.”
Within the elite males’s quick observe race it was once a gaggle of 8 that got here via in combination firstly of the general lap of ten, and Koretzky was once fast to put down an assault. The French rider stretched out a small hole after which held it via to the end to stay his finish of season quick observe victory streak on a roll, making it 3 in a row. Jordan Sarrou (Group BMC) was once 2d and US rider Christopher Blevins (Specialised Manufacturing unit Racing) got here 3rd.
“The start of this season was once no longer so excellent for me and now I’m in excellent form and I am simply playing using within the entrance. It is superb to battle, like nowadays, with sturdy guys,” mentioned an emotional Koretzky within the televised post-race interview. “It was once in reality tactical and I really like racing like this as a result of till the remaining lap you by no means know who will win.”
Schwarzbauer crossed the road in 7th position, taking part in a cautious hand to ensure he secured the collection name. The German rider completed on 1550 issues, 110 issues forward of Sarrou.
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