After seven fast and furious rounds, the 2025 WHOOP UCI Mountain Bike World Series sets up camp in Italy for three back-to-back race weekends, starting in Val di Sole - Trentino (Italy).
Eight wildcard teams have been selected for the fifth Downhill round of the WHOOP UCI Mountain Bike World Series that will take place in La Thuile, Valle d’Aosta (Italy) on July 3-6.
The Italian venue will put on a WHOOP UCI Mountain Bike World Series debut to remember with the UCI Enduro World Cup concluding with a first-ever golden hour final stage.
The toughest test of the UCI Enduro World Cup so far produced two intense battles for Elite victory as Jesse Melamed (Canyon CLLCTV Factory Team) and Ella Conolly proved worthy winners in Austria’s largest Bike Region Saalbach Hinterglemm Leogang Fieberbrunn Trails.
Ondřej Cink stunned the cross-country Olympic (XCO) world by taking his first UCI World Cup victory at 34 years young for CUBE Factory Racing while Puck Pieterse (Alpecin - Deceuninck) underlined her supremacy by claiming her second women’s Elite win of the weekend.
For the second weekend running, Gracey Hemstreet (Norco Race Division) and Jackson Goldstone (Santa Cruz Syndicate) ruled the UCI Downhill World Cup for Canada in a scintillating Saalfelden Leogang - Salzburgerland (Austria) round that saw the overall lead of both competitions also change hands.
UCI Cross-country Short Track (XCC) World Cups are renowned for producing tight, technical races that tend to conclude with a sprint finish, but the rollercoaster nature of the Saalfelden Leogang – Salzburgerland (Austria) course showed that there’s more than one way to win a race, as Christopher Blevins (Specialized Factory Racing) and Puck Pieterse (Alpecin-Deceuninck) proved.
The UCI Downhill World Cup rounds are coming thick and fast with riders taking to the start huts in Saalfelden Leogang - Salzburgerland (Austria) only five days after Loudenvielle-Peyragudes’ (France) Finals runs.
The iconic Austrian venue hosts a four-day festival of off-road racing this weekend, featuring all WHOOP UCI Mountain Bike World Series formats.
After four back-to-back weekends of racing, the WHOOP UCI Mountain Bike World Series returns this weekend for the fifth consecutive time with Endurance and Gravity action as the UCI Cross-country Olympic, Cross-country Short Track, Downhill and Enduro World Cups all take to The Epic Bikepark parkours of Saalfelden Leogang – Salzburgerland, Austria.
16 wildcard teams – eight cross-country and eight downhill – have been selected for round eight of the WHOOP UCI Mountain Bike World Series in Val di Sole, Trentino (Italy) on June 20-22
Canadian riders Gracey Hemstreet (Norco Race Division) and Jackson Goldstone (Santa Cruz Syndicate) proved their technical skills as they won the women’s and men’s Elite titles at round two of the UCI Downhill World Cup in Loudenvielle – Peyragudes (France), presented by FACOM.
Daniel Booker triumphed in a nail-biting back-and-forth with Sławomir Łukasik (Yeti / Fox Factory Race Team) at the UCI Enduro World Cup round in Loudenvielle - Peyragudes (France), presented by FACOM, as Ella Conolly underlined that she’s the woman to beat in a dominant showing at the WHOOP UCI Mountain Bike World Series.
French riders will be last off the ramp in both the Men and Women Elite UCI Downhill World Cup races in Loudenvielle - Peyragudes (France) as Amaury Pierron and Myriam Nicole were fastest in qualifying for Commencal/Muc-Off by Riding Addiction.
Next week, UCI Enduro World Cup athletes will head to Saalfelden Leogang in Salzburgerland to join forces with the pros across Downhill and XC, for the biggest weekend on the WHOOP UCI MTB World Series calendar.
