Jackson Goldstone (Santa Cruz Syndicate) and Monika Hrastnik (AON Racing-Tourne Cambervans) mastered the difficult terrain in Val di Sole - Trentino to qualify quickest for tomorrow’s UCI Downhill World Cup Finals.
Christopher Blevins (Specialized Factory Racing) and Puck Pieterse (Alpecin-Deceuninck) powered clear from their opponents on the final lap to take victories in the UCI Cross-country Short Track (XCC) World Cup at Val Di Sole - Trentino
After a well-earned one-week break, the WHOOP UCI Mountain Bike World Series goes again this weekend with the UCI Cross-country and UCI Downhill World Cups taking to the trails of Val di Sole - Trentino (Italy).
Next week, enduro athletes will head to Val di Fassa, Trentino for the fifth round of the UCI Enduro World Cup and the second 2-day race of the season. They'll be joined by hundreds of aspiring racers, who'll tackle the Shimano Enduro Open race, in one of the most iconic venues on the planet.
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
