The three-time UCI Enduro World Cup overall champion Isabeau Courdurier has competed as a full-time professional racer for the last time, signing off with a win in the first-ever UCI Mountain Bike Enduro World Championships. The 30-year-old Frenchwoman has been at the top of the sport since its very start but will be taking a step back in 2025 to focus on herself and starting a family.
A groundbreaking inaugural UCI Mountain Bike Enduro & E-enduro World Championships saw France take a clean sweep of the four titles on offer as Isabeau Courdurier, Alex Rudeau, Kevin Miquel and Estelle Charles became the first riders in their disciplines to don the iconic rainbow bands.
The 2024 WHOOP UCI Mountain Bike World Series returned this weekend for the penultimate round of competition of the UCI Downhill World Cup, and the stakes couldn’t have been higher.
The penultimate UCI Downhill World Cup of the season has been hampered by bad weather as heavy rain and impassable mud have caused carnage on the hills of Loudenvielle - Peyragudes.
After Friday’s Enduro epic, today (Saturday) saw the turn of the E-enduro athletes for the final time in the 2024 WHOOP UCI Mountain Bike World Series
The finale of the UCI Enduro World Cup was billed as a battle royale with both the men’s and women’s titles yet to be decided. But no one was prepared for what went down in the first race day at the WHOOP UCI Mountain Bike World Series in Loudenvielle – Peyragudes, presented by Facom.
After a two-month break, the WHOOP UCI Mountain Bike World Series is back this weekend with a Gravity feast as the UCI Downhill World Cup and UCI Enduro and E-enduro World Cups take to the trails of Loudenvielle - Peyragudes, France. We look at everything you need to know about the Loudenvielle - Peyragudes round of the WHOOP UCI Mountain Bike World Series races, including when the Enduro, E-enduro and Downhill events are scheduled to take place, who is racing, and how to watch.
Last week’s UCI Mountain Bike World Championship in Pal Arinsal, Andorra, kicked off the second half of the season with a bang after an Olympics-filled summer break. But there’s still plenty to be decided this year as the 2024 WHOOP UCI Mountain Bike World Series crosses the Pyrenees and rolls into France’s Loudenvielle - Peyragudes.
Pauline Ferrand-Prévot has called time on her glittering cross-country mountain bike career, which has seen the 32-year-old achieve everything there is in the sport.
The final day of the 2024 UCI Mountain Bike World Championships saw Women and Men Elite and Under 23 cross-country Olympic (XCO) finals. Puck Pieterse (Netherlands) and Alan Hatherly (South Africa) won their first Elite titles. Isabella Holmgren (Canada) and Luca Martin (France) won the Under 23 titles - Holmgren doubling up after winning the cross-country short track (XCC) title.
Day four of competition at the 2024 UCI Mountain Bike World Championships featured the Women Elite and Men Elite downhill finals. On the fast, dusty track at Pal Arinsal, Andorra, Valentina Höll (Austria) won her third successive title, and Loris Vergier (France) was the fastest of the men’s field.
The third day of competition at the 2024 UCI Mountain Bike World Championships in Pal Arinsal, Andorra, saw Elite cross-country short track (XCC) titles go to Evie Richards (Great Britain) and Victor Koretzky (France). The first ever Under-23 XCC UCI World titles went to Isabella Holmgren (Canada) and Riley Amos (USA). Viktoria Chladoňova (Slovakia) and Albert Philipsen (Denmark) are the 2024 Junior World Champions for cross-country Olympic (XCO).
Day two of the 2024 UCI Mountain Bike World Championships in Pal Arinsal, Andorra, saw Erice Van Leuven (New Zealand) successfully defend her Women Junior downhill rainbow jersey. Asa Vermette (USA) is the new Men Junior downhill UCI World Champion.
The first day of the 2024 UCI Mountain Bike World Championships in Pal Arinsal, Andorra, saw rainbow jerseys awarded to Sofia Wiedenroth (GER) and Jérôme Gilloux (FRA) in E-mountain bike cross-country (E-MTB), before the USA took their first win in the cross-country team relay (XCR).
While there may have been a break in the 2024 WHOOP UCI Mountain Bike World Series over summer, there’s been plenty of off-road action for fans to sink their teeth into since the most recent UCI World Cup in Les Gets, Haute-Savoie.
