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  Read the U23 Women's results here. Read the U23 Men's results here. Missed any of the action? Full replays from the UCI Mountain Bike World Series races in Leogang are available here.

Lars Forster (Thömus Maxon) was peerless on an incredibly-tough Leogang course where he powered away from the field in a final-lap attack to win the UCI Mountain Bike Cross-country Olympic World Cup in Austria. Forster’s Thömus Maxon team mate Mathias Flückiger looked impressive earlier in the third-round race after working his way to the front of a leading group including Luca Schwazbauer (Canyon CLLCTV) and Ondrej Cink (Primaflor Mondraker Genuins Race Team). But as Flückiger’s bid for glory was ended by a rear puncture, Forster moved up to Schwarzbauer and Cink before timing a devastating attack to perfection. Schwarzbauer of Germany crossed the line some 14s back in second place and Czech rider Cink was third. In the women’s race, series leader Puck Pieterse (Alpecin-Deceuninck) proved she was in a league of her own when she took command of the race straight from the start line. She made an early break and maintained it from start to finish - crossing the line in stifling heat with an unassailable lead of 38 seconds.  After yesterday’s double win in the UCI Downhill World Cup, Austria continued to display its mountain biking pedigree when Mona Mitterwallner (Cannondale Factory Racing) took second place and Laura Stigger (Specialized Factory Racing) third.  Earlier in the day Sofie Heby Pederson (Wilier-Pirelli Factory Team XCO) destroyed the rest of the U23 Women’s field when she won by 1:08 minute. It was a closer affair in the U23 Men’s race, when Adrien Boichis (Trinity Racing MTB) won his race by a still impressive 12 seconds.  Missed any of the action? Full replays from today’s race are available on GCN+. Full results are posted here. The UCI Downhill World Cup returns in two weeks time when it will be back in action in Val di Sole, Italy on June 29 - July 2.   

Overnight rain did little to dampen the dust on course and even less to the spirit of the spectators who turned out in their droves to see hometown heroes Vali Holl (RockShox Trek Race Team) and Andreas Kolb (Continental Atherton).  And they were richly rewarded for their support as the Austrian took first place in qualification, first place in the semi-final and turned the clock green at every split on her way to a historic win in front of her friends and family.  Camille Balanche (Dorval AM Commencal) came in second place while Rachel Atherton (Continental Atherton) backed up her Lenzerheide win on the third step of the podium. Anticipation was running high in the Austrian crowd when Kolb put down a heater of a run and was duly rewarded with the hot seat. However, with another eight riders yet to drop, the tension was palpable - but as Finn Iles (Specialized Gravity) crossed the line the crowd erupted as it became clear Kolb had done it - taking the win on home soil.  Reigning UCI World Champ Loic Bruni (Specialized) took second, while Jackson Goldstone (Santa Cruz Syndicate) took third.  So after two rounds, it’s Camille Balanche who now leads the standings ahead of Rachel Atherton in second, with Vali Holl in third place. Kolb from nearby Schladming wins his first World Cup  In the men’s standings, it’s Loic Bruni who’s out front, Finn Iles in second and Loris Vergier (Trek Factory Racing Gravity) in third.  The racing continues in Leogang on Sunday with the third round of the UCI Cross-Country World Cup. Watch live on GCN+ globally, on the Eurosport App and discovery+ across Europe. Missed any of the action? Full replays from today’s race are available on GCN+. Full results are posted here. The UCI Downhill World Cup returns in two weeks time when it will be back in action in Val di Sole, Italy on June 29 - July 2. 

Hop on board with Andreas Kolb as he takes the win in the UCI Downhill World Cup in front of his home crowd in Leogang, Austria! The racing continues in Leogang on Sunday with the third round of the UCI Cross-Country World Cup. Watch live on GCN+ globally, on the Eurosport App and discovery+ across Europe. Missed any of the action? Full replays from today’s race are available on GCN+. Full results are posted here. The UCI Downhill World Cup returns in two weeks time when it will be back in action in Val di Sole, Italy on June 29 - July 2. 

With four of seven UCI Mountain Bike Enduro World Cup rounds (EDR) already raced, the fight for the overall is hotting up. Last year’s champ Isabeau Courdurier (Lapierre Zipp Collective) leads the pro-series standings going into round five as does the USA’s Richie Rude (Yeti / Fox Factory Team). In the pro men, the battle for the title has been ferocious with the lead changing hands at every round but with Rude emerging as the most consistent so far. The American goes into the Val Di Fassa Trentino, Italy round wearing the green and white leader’s jersey having also worn it at Finale after coming out of the Tasmanian opening rounds in front. Last year’s champ Jesse Melamed (Canyon CLLCTV Factory Enduro Team) was the leader coming into round four at Leogang but a crash on one stage and a broken chain on another cost him precious time and left him in 10th on the day. Rude on the other hand finished the Austrian race in second only bettered by Melamed’s countryman Rhys Verner (Forbidden Synthesis). Former champ Rude has led the rankings twice this season In the overall that meant that Melamed was leapfrogged by both riders to end up in third as the series heads due south to the Dolomites. Rude and Verner though are separated currently by just 33 points. After his strong showing on home soil at rounds one and two, Nukeproof Sram Factory Racing’s Dan Booker is still in fourth and France’s flat-pedal charger Alex Rudeau (Commencal Enduro Project) is in fifth. Pro Men’s ranking after round four - Leogang Salzburgerland Richie Rude         1485 Rhys Verner         1452 Jesse Melamed    1308 Daniel Booker       1145 Alex Rudeau         1130 The pro women’s jersey has followed a similar trajectory, swapping shoulders at every round. Again, only one rider has worn it twice. Courdurier’s win at round one in Maydena, Tasmania meant she was leading going into the second of the back-to-back rounds in Tasmania. Now, she’s back in green for Val di Fassa Trentino after her convincing win In Leogang. In fact, Courdurier shared the top points tally going into round four with compatriot Morgane Charre (Pivot Factory Racing) but Charre wore the jersey in Leogang having won in Finale Outdoor Region. Bex Baraona (Yeti/Fox Factory Team) is still in third after her strong showing in Tasmania which included the round two win in Derby. Courdurier leads Charre by 83 points going into Val Di Fassa Harriet Harnden (Trek Factory Racing) is in fourth after a ninth place finish in Finale Outdoor Region pulled her tally down despite not being outside the top five at any of the other rounds. After two second-place finishes at the last two rounds, Italy’s Gloria Scarsi (Canyon CLLCTV Dainese) heads back to round five on home soil in fifth place. Pro Women’s ranking after round four - Leogang Salzburgerland Isabeau Courdurier    1723 Morgane Charre         1640 Bex Baraona               1344 Harriet Harnden          1322 Gloria Scarsi               1226 In the U21 women’s field, three women have battled it out through the first four rounds and Canada’s Emmy Lan (Forbidden Synthesis) will wear the leader’s jersey for a third time in Val Di Fassa. Lan is in green and white again in Val Di Fassa Her compatriot Elly Hoskin is second in the rankings after not being outside the top five all season. New Zealand’s Erice Van Leuven is in third after missing the last two rounds to concentrate on downhill having notched up a win and a second in Tasmania. U21 Women’s ranking after round four - Leogang Salzburgerland Emmy Lan                839 Elly Hoskin               537 Erice Van Leuven     462 Australian Sascha Kim has dominated the U21 men’s standings in 2023. Having taken the green jersey at the first round he’s held on to it despite a strong challenge from Frenchman Lisandru Bertini (Lapierre Zipp Collective) who currently lies in second. Canada’s Johnathan Helly is in third. Kim took both home wins in Tasmania Kim started the season with two wins and backed it up with a second in Leogang. Bertini, on the other hand, had a slower start with a third and fourth in Tasmania and a seventh in Finale but has momentum after taking the win in Austria. U21 Men’s ranking after round four - Leogang Salzburgerland Sascha Kim           814 Lisandru Bertini     712 Johnathan Helly    555 So, all to race for in the 2023 UCI Mountain Bike Enduro World Cup season, as the fastest riders in the world set their sights on Italy and the Val Di Fassa Trentino round, the fifth stop on the calendar next weekend: June 24 - 25. Keep up with the action via our social channels and check out enduro race day highlights on the UCI Mountain Bike World Series YouTube channel, alongside in-depth bike checks, course previews and exclusive behind the scenes content.

Preview the UCI Downhill World Cup course with Santa Cruz Syndicate rider Jackson Goldstone.  The downhill racing gets underway today with the junior finals, make sure you’re watching the nail-biting action LIVE on YouTube at 1310 CEST. Friday 16 June Live on UCI Mountain Bike World Series YouTube channel:12.40 CEST UCI Mountain Bike Downhill World Cup - Junior Women, Final13.10 CEST UCI Mountain Bike Downhill World Cup - Junior Men, Final For the full schedule and more information on this week’s races click here. For more information on where to watch click here.

Rachel Atherton reckons living next to Dyfi Bike Park has been absolutely key to regaining some of her stunning speed. The 35-year-old sent the mountain bike world into a frenzy when she won her 40th World Cup at the first round of the 2023 UCI Mountain Bike Downhill World Cup at Lenzerheide last weekend. Her first victory since Andorra in 2019, Atherton only started training two months ago and has juggled her quest for fitness on the bike with looking after her 22-month-old daughter Arna. Initially she planned to spend a couple of extra days holidaying in Switzerland with the family before returning home to Wales to focus on training ahead of August’s World Championships at Fort William. Atherton won at Lenzerheide by half a second from Camille Balanche But the temptation to race again proved strong and Atherton announced earlier in the week she’d ride at round two in Leogang, Austria. The six-time World Champion says getting in shape has been a proper balancing act. “I’ve been training for about two months, I’ve been doing as much as I can, no way near the level I used to but as much as I can while Arna’s napping and still having energy left over to be there for her all day,” she said. “But I think people are surprised because I’m saying this and the results are different “I live at Dyfi Bike Park, I literally live next door and I ride there every weekend and two or three days a week. That has got to be good for you, lapping the bike park all day. Big runs, it’s over five minutes, it’s amazing training and you’re not really realising you’re training.” Dyfi Bike Park Pic: Facebook The 650-acre park in north-west Wales is an Atherton-family affair featuring enduro and downhill tracks which have been designed by brother Dan - himself a legend of the sport. Representing her family’s Continental Atherton team, six-time overall World Cup winner Rachel says that she has thrilled to her progression in a new way. “Other racers come up, Brendan [Fairclough] and Danny [Hart} and Jordan Williams is there a lot and Bernard [Kerr] has moved to our local town so there’s a good crew to ride with. It’s been a real natural progression…. She explained that she’d mastered a technical section in the bike park that she had walked initially. “Just to see that progression it’s mind blowing, “ she said. “It’s so cool to go through that and it not to have been an injury… so you don’t have that fear of hurting yourself because it’s not been an injury but you’ve been off the bike.” Atherton originally planned to go home after round one Atherton says that whatever happens in Leogang, her goal is the World Champs in Fort William, Scotland. “For me this year, the goal is not to win World Champs but that’s the goal I know I’ve got a solid few months of training before that so I can be a lot stronger and fitter and these races were all about that, “ she said. “Now I won last weekend and I’m just here to have fun still. I really missed it being at home and being a new mum it’s so different, it couldn’t be more different to this adrenaline-fuelled extreme, testosterone-driven lifestyle and I’m just so stoked to be back here ….”  

Abella and Bouladou clinch junior World Cup Downhill wins while World Champion Höll and Palazzari qualify fastest for Saturday’s elite race  The French pair tamed the super-fast track in Leogang, Austria at the second round of the UCI Mountain Bike Downhill World Cup. The women’s junior final took place in sunshine and warm temperatures but the junior men had to cope with a race suspension due to some heavy showers and high winds. Bouladou nailed every section of the Leogang track France's Lisa Bouladou put down a hugely-impressive run to win the women’s junior race by more than five seconds and was the only rider to best the fastest qualifying time. The Commencal rider was inch perfect as she came down to take the lead from Britain’s Aimi Kenyon (Pinkbike Racing). USA’s Riley Miller was third another 2.5s back. Fastest qualifier and round one winner New Zealand’s Erice Van Leuven (Commencal Les Orres) crashed dramatically near the top of the track and didn’t finish.  The rain-affected men’s junior race saw a win for Van Leuven’s team mate Leo Abella. The French rider came down in the wet just before the race suspension and held on in the hotseat after the restart despite some courageous wet runs by the faster qualifiers. One of those riders, Trek Factory Racing Gravity’s Bodhi Kuhn ended up second and Spain’s Daniel Castellanos Liberal was third. Abella came down in the wet and held on In the women’s elite qualifying held after the junior finals, World Champion Valentina Höll went fastest in the wet in front of her home crowd. Switzerland’s Camille Balanche (Dorval AM Commencal) qualified in second some 2s behind 21-year-old Höll. Santa Cruz Syndicate’s Nina Hoffman came down in third. Round-one winner Britain’s Rachel Atherton (Continental Atherton) was 7.5s off Höll’s pace in sixth.  Höll is hoping for a big result just a few miles from her family home The men’s elite qualifying was interrupted for some 40 minutes by more heavy rain after just 13 riders of a field of 180 riders had started. The downpour left the track considerably more tricky with later riders struggling to match the earlier times.  Canada’s Finn Iles was the best of the later starters managing to get within 5s of the fastest early qualifier. In the end, almost the whole top 10 came from those who started ahead of the rain with Italy’s Davide Palazzari of the Rogue Racing After Skull Team qualifying fastest, quarter of a second ahead of Britain’s Matt Walker of the Madison Saracen Factory Team. Palazzari will be the last down the hill in Saturday's semi-final France’s Ian Guionnet was third. Britain’s Charlie Hatton (Continental Atherton Racing) is protected so will qualify despite missing out on the top 60 as will Santa Cruz Syndicate’s Greg Minaar. The elites will be back in action on Saturday for semi-final and final races. Full results and the schedule for the weekend are available here

The women took to the famously steep course after a storm blew through, creating difficult conditions as the dry, dusty course they’d practised earlier in the day gave way to a slick, rain drenched course. It proved no match for the power of Pauline Ferrand-Prevot (Ineos Grenadiers) though, who muscled her way to the front of the pack to take her first win of the season. Puck Pieterse (Alpecin-Deceuninck) would cross the line five seconds back in second place, with Evie Richards (Trek Factory Racing XC) rounding out the podium in third. Next up were the Elite Men and it was Jordan Sarrou (Team BMC) who romped to victory, with Luca Schwarzbauer (Canyon CCLTV) just two seconds back in second place. Martin Blums (KMC MTB Racing Team) took third place. Very different conditions on course between Thursday's U23 XCC and Friday's Elite's. The U23 XCC riders got between the tapes on Thursday and enjoyed dry conditions that the elites could only dream of.  In the women’s race Ronja Blochlinger (Liv Factory Racing) came out on top, while in the men’s it was Adrien Boichis (Trinity Racing MTB) who secured top honours.  The cross-country athletes will be back in action on Sunday when they line up for the UCI Cross-country Olympic World Cup.  Full results from today’s race are available here. Missed any of the action? Full replays from the UCI Mountain Bike World Series races in Leogang are available here.

Leogang is no stranger to UCI World Cup racing, but it’s the first time the venue hosts a UCI Enduro World Cup on these famous trails. It was a massive day on the hill which saw riders covering 55km with 1,090m of climbing and a massive 4,800m of descending over the six stages but the racing was tight!  Missed any of the action? Full replays from the UCI Mountain Bike World Series races in Leogang are available here.

Take a look at Rachel Atherton's own named downhill race bike that took her to victory as she returned to racing in Lenzerheide! The Atherton AM.200.M frame, made in Wales, is made using additive manufacturing technology to 3D print titanium lugs which are then bonded to carbon tubes. Rachel gets back between the tape this weekend in Leogang, could we see this bike take another top step?     

RAW action from practice day in Leogang ahead of the UCI Mountain Bike Enduro World Cup tomorrow. A massive day on the bike spanning 71km lie ahead of the riders! A mixture of flat-out bike park trails and alpine, super enduro, rough and ready stages create the course which will make way for some incredible racing. With close battles between the front runners, it's all to play for, but only one rider can come out on top.  Who will take the win in Austria?  You can watch the UCI Mountain Bike Enduro World Cup highlights and behind the scenes content on the UCI Mountain Bike World Series YouTube channel  

The perfect mixture of flat-out bike park trails and alpine, super enduro, rough and ready stages! With close battles between the front runners, it's all to play for, but only one rider can come out on top... For the full schedule and more information on this week’s races click here. Fans will be able to watch the UCI Enduro World Cup highlights and behinds the scenes content on the UCI Mountain Bike World Series YouTube channel For Mountain Bike Cross-country and Downhill fans, you can watch live on GCN+ globally, on the Eurosport App and discovery+ across Europe.  

France’s Isabeau Courdurier (Lapierre Zipp Collective) and Canadian Rhys Verner (Forbidden Synthesis Team) emerged victorious at the fourth round of the UCI Mountain Bike Enduro World Cup in Leogang-Salzburgerland, Austria. The pair were consistently fast on a big, burly day around Leogang which saw riders covering 55km with 1,090m of climbing and a massive 4,800m of descending over the six stages. Leogang is no stranger to UCI World Cup racing, but it’s the first time the EDR and E-EDR racers have taken on these famous trails. Courdurier won three stages to see her triumph by a relatively comfortable 14s from Italy’s Gloria Scarsi (Canyon CLLCTV Dainese). France’s Morgane Charre (Pivot Factory Racing) finished the day in third after taking the day’s final stage. The win for Courdurier is her second of the season after she triumphed at the opening round in Maydena, Australia and will see her take the series leader’s jersey from compatriot Charre. Isabeau Courdurier (Lapierre Zipp Collective) took her second win of the 2023 season. In the men’s race Verner was right up there all day - not outside the top five on any stage - and with three stage wins. But the Canadian was pushed hard by Richie Rude (Yeti/Fox Factory Race Team) and the pair were separated by just two seconds going into the final DH-focussed stage. Canadian Rhys Verner (Forbidden Synthesis Team) fought hard against Richie Rude on the final stage. But Verner took more time on the last test of the day - winning the stage -  and ending up nearly 3s ahead of the USA’s Rude. Commencal Enduro Project’s Alex Rudeau of France came out third and 8.7s back. Rude leads the series going into round five in Italy next weekend. In the U21 Men it was a win for France’s Lisandru Bertini of Lapierre Zipp Collective and in the U21 Women was a second victory of 2023 for Canada’s Emmy Lan of Forbidden Synthesis Team. Team of the day were Forbidden Synthesis Team and Yeti/Fox Factory Race Team are leading the series. In round two of the UCI Mountain Bike E-Enduro World Cup, Chilean Flo Espineira (Orbea Fox Enduro Team) took her first win of the season. Espineira won by a substantial 31-second margin taking five of the 10 stages on a day when after taking the lead on S2 Pro-Line, she didn’t let it go. In the men’s e-enduro it was a second win in a row for French DH legend Fabien Barel on the Canyon. Barel won round one in Pietra Ligure and made it two out of two in Austria. The 42-year-old two-time elite UCI World Downhill Champion won three stages on his way to victory. Barel made it two out of two Full results are here. For the full schedule and more information on this week’s races click here. For more information on where to watch click here.  

The travelling circus that is the massed ranks of the UCI Mountain Bike Downhill World Cup may have left Bike Kingdom Lenzerheide for Leogang but it leaves behind it a race that will be talked about, dissected and referenced for years to come.  Established and new-found greatness boldly dominated the results but there was plenty of nuance and surprise lurking just behind it. Here’s what we learnt: Rachel Atherton will race again in Leogang this weekend. Rachel Atherton hits 40 When it was announced early in the race week that the six time UCI World Champion, Rachel Atherton (Continental Atherton), would take the start line in the elite women’s race there was a communal scratching of heads. How would she stack up against the contemporary establishment? Would the sport have moved beyond her? A sixth place finish at the same venue 12 months later was the only useful yardstick.   What followed was an onslaught of the timesheets. Atherton was just one place behind the 2022 overall title winner Camille Balanche (Dorval AM Commencal) in both qualifying and the semi-final before pushing her way past her come the finals. The winning margin was 0.5secs but the look was vintage Atherton - flowing, in control and devastatingly fast. She is racing again at round two in Leogang, this weekend. Jordan Williams made history by becoming the first rider to take the win in his first elite level race. Jordan Williams wrote history  Britain’s Jordan Williams (Specialized Gravity) made history by becoming the first rider to take the win in his first elite level race having moved up from Juniors for 2023. The 18 year-old seemed floored by what he had achieved - flabbergasted that what he had done had been enough. It had been, by just 0.495secs.  It remains to be underlined that Williams is a first year junior on a team with an elite rider in his tenth year at the top of the big time, Loïc Bruni. The metronomic master of race runs talked excitedly pre-season about working alongside Williams as a mentor. Those thoughts have been dispelled and all eyes will now be on the rider with the UCI World Champion’s stripes (his sixth set) to see what his response will be in Austria.  Vergier (and possibly Kolb) could have upset the applecart  Much of the post-race debate has evolved around Williams and Bruni’s internal sparring but had two other race runs gone fault-free the headlines could have been much different. Loris Vergier (Trek Factory Racing) finished second and looked for all the world that he had the beating of the young Brit for the majority of his 2:39.717 run. He misjudged the landing of one of Lenzerheide’s several road gaps by a matter of inches and was left scrambling to scrub off speed for the following right hander. Vergier on song dances on the very edge of control, perhaps more so than anyone else. But for the aforementioned bobble he may well have done enough.  Andreas Kolb (Atherton Racing) showed his trademark physical strength and meteoric (one of those big, dinosaur-destroying meteors) speed. A mechanical scuppered the semi final run and a crash in the first split stymied the finals effort - but it was there. If the Austrian can connect the dots at his home round this weekend then he could well add to his wins tally.  Gracey Hemstreet turned heads Jordan Williams may have redefined what can be expected of a first year elite but that shouldn’t take anything away from just how impressive Gracey Hemstreet (Norco Factory Racing) was. The 18 year-old from British Columbia bossed her way to fourth in the semi final and then sixth in the finals on her debut to the big stage. Since Miranda Miller departed for enduro back in 2019 Canada has been in need of a new female downhill heroine. In Hemstreet it may have found her.   For the full schedule and more information on this week’s races click here. This weekend’s action will be available to view live on GCN+ globally, on the Eurosport App and discovery+ across Europe.  

The UCI World Cups for Cross-country Olympic, Short Track, Downhill, Enduro and E-Enduro will come together in a single event for the first time in mountain biking’s history. Kicking off on Thursday, Leogang will host no less than 18 individual UCI World Cup races when all categories are tallied.  It’s the UCI Enduro World Cup that gets racing underway this Thursday, when the fourth round of the series will once more see the fastest enduro and e-enduro riders on the planet take to a huge course that features six and ten stages respectively.  In the women’s competition Morgane Charre (Pivot Factory Racing) and Isabeau Courdurier (Lapierre Zipp Collective) are currently tied on points, so expect a fierce battle between these two. It’s a similar story in the men’s race, with series leader Jesse Melamed (Canyon CLLCTV Factory Enduro Team) leading out second place Richie Rude (Yeti/Fox Factory Race Team) by just 18 points.  The racing continues on Thursday with the Junior UCI Downhill World Cup qualification and concludes in the evening with the U23 UCI Short Track World Cup.  On Friday it’s another packed day of racing when qualification gets underway for the elite categories in the UCI Downhill World Cup, followed by the elite race in the UCI Mountain Bike Short Track World Cup.  It’s all about the UCI Downhill World Cup on Saturday, when the elites get between the tapes not once but twice for the semi-final and final races. After Rachel Atherton’s (Continental Atherton) incredible return in Lenzerheide last week, there’s an air of anticipation to see if she’ll take the start again and if she does, will she be able to hold off hometown hero Vali Höll (RockShox Trek Race Team)?  In the men’s race Jordan Williams (Specialized Gravity) stunned the field in Lenzerheide when he took the win in his first race as an elite, but he faces stiff competition from team mate and reigning UCI World Champion, Loïc Bruni. The weekend’s action rounds out with the Elite UCI Cross-Country Olympic World Cup on Sunday. First to take to the start line will be the women, where Loana Lecomte (Canyon CLLCTV) will be looking to capitalise on her victory in Lenzerheide last weekend. And with just nine points separating her and series leader Puck Pieterse (Alepcin-Deceuninck), the stakes could not be higher for this race.  In the men’s competition Nino Schurter (Scott-SRAM MTB Racing Team) will surely start the favourite after his record breaking 34th win in Lenzerheide last week, but looking to stop him making it a 35th will be the likes of Luca Schwarzbauer (Canyon CLLCTV) and Jordan Sarrou (Team BMC).  Alongside the racing, fans will be treated to a Red Bull Air Show with Dario Costa, daily parties, athlete autograph sessions and an expo area. Free shuttles and public transport will also be laid on for spectators and more information can be found here. For the full schedule and more information on this week’s races click here. This weekend’s action will be available to view on Eurosport.com, discovery+ and globally on GCN+. 

“The World’s fastest Mum” who took her 40th World Cup at Round 1 in Lenzerheide will take to the track again this weekend in Leogang.  Rachel celebrating her 40th World Cup with with daughter Arna.  Rachel admits that her victory hasn’t yet sunk in saying that the last 72 hours have been completely surreal. Initial plans were that she would spend a couple of days in Lenzerheide on a family holiday before returning home to Wales to focus on her fitness prior to August’s World Championships at Fort William this August but the temptation to race again proved too strong!  Rachel acknowledges that she isn’t yet racing on top form and that two weekends back to back racing will be tough. She said: I don’t want to be stupid and take risks, racing back to back is hard enough when you’re fully fit and strong and I don’t want to get hurt, I have a baby to take care of. But spending time with the Continental Atherton race team and on board the bike that she co-designed with her two brothers is proving too much fun to resist.  I’m loving my time with the team, being a racer again, and riding the Atherton bike, showing the world just how great this bike rides and seeing my team-mates Andreas and Charlie doing so well – we talked about it all day Sunday, weighing up the pros and cons, trying to decide WHY I’m doing this. Part of me wants to stop now, no more racing, my last race a win, that was always the dream, but now I’m here I don’t want to stop…so it is decided.. I will go and race at Leogang and just see what happens.  A small part of me wishes I didn’t win, because I don’t want any more pressure, I don’t want people to expect me to win or to go well again, I just want to race and ride and be there!  Rachel’s 40th World Cup win means that she is within one victory of equalling Anne Caro Chausson’s record for the most Downhill wins ever. For the full schedule and more information on this week’s races click here. This weekend’s action will be available to view on Eurosport.com, discovery+ and globally on GCN+.     

Loana Lecomte (Canyon CLLCTV) took a convincing win in Lenzerheide, Switzerland at the second round of the UCI Mountain Bike World Cross-country Olympic World Cup.Lecomte powered away from compatriot Pauline Ferrand-Prevot (Ineos Grenadiers) on the final lap of the rooty, technical course.But in the end it was Anne Terpstra (Ghost Factory Racing)  who would take second and Alessandra Keller (Thomus Maxon) third after Ferrand-Prevot faded at the last.The top 10 were bunched together early on with France’s Lecomte on the front but as they reached the halfway stage the European champion had moved back and Swiss national champion Keller was leading the way. Lecomte found another gear to drop the field   However Lecomte and World Champion Ferrand-Prevot attacked Keller and re-took the lead. That trio and Terpstra battled all the way until the final two laps. Nove Mesto winner Puck Pieterse (Alpecin Deceunik) was in the bunch early on but gradually dropped back as the gruelling pace lifted. The gap between the leading four extended coming into the final lap, with Ferrand-Prevot on the front and Lecomte just behind as Terpstra and Keller lost time.But it was Lecomte who had the legs, finding the power to crack the World Champion and pull away. Terpstra also managed to get past a flagging Ferrand-Prevot who was also bested by Keller a few metres from the line. Missed any of the action? Full replays from this weekends race are available globally on GCN+ here.  

Imperious Nino Schurter’s (Scott-Sram MTB Racing Team) hugely-popular victory in Lenzerheide, Switzerland was his 34th World Cup win and saw him clinch the record for the most of any rider. The Swiss star had been tied on 33 with French legend of the sport Julien Absalon. After a hard fought battle for the remaining podium spots at round two of the 2023 series, South Africa’s Alan Hatherly (Cannondale Factory Racing) took the second spot from Frenchman Jordan Sarrou (Team BMC) in third. Schurter looked in control from the start of the men’s race and a group including the World Champion, Sarrou, Matthias Fluckiger (Thomus Maxon), Daniele Braidot (CS Carabinieri - Cicli Olympia Vittoria) and Hatherly traded blows at the front for the first three laps. Schurter taking control at the front of the pack. Then near the start of lap four a mistake by Braidot, who tangled with Hatherly and Sarrou allowed the two Swiss riders to get a gap of a few seconds.And it wasn’t long before Schurter put in a huge attack and opened up a gap to a chasing group led by Sarrou with Hatherly and Braidot behind as Fluckiger dropped back and Kiwi Sam Gaze (Alpecin Deceunik) came back. By the last two laps, a flying Schurter had ground out a gap of almost 30 seconds over Sarrou and Hatherly as the chorus of cowbells seemed to lift the Swiss star more by the second. Nino Schurter on his way to a 34th World Cup win. On the final lap, the South African was overhauled by France’s Thomas Griot (Canyon CLLCTV) who were both challenging Sarrou for the second spot.In the end Hatherly took second from Sarrou in the final wooded section as Griot’s challenge faded leaving him in fourth. But the day was 37-year-old Schurter’s as he crossed the line to enter the record books and revel in a rapturous reception. Missed any of the action? Full replays from this weekends race are available globally on GCN+ here.

A fairytale end to the weekend for Loana Lecomte In the Elite women’s race it was European Champion Loana Lecomte (CANYON CLLCTV) who showed she had the most skill and power to beat Dutch National Champion Anne Terpstra (GHOST FACTORY RACING) into second place by an incredible 18 seconds. Swiss National Champion Alessandra Keller (THÖMUS MAXON) would leave Lenzerheide with the bronze medal. Loana Lecomte had this to say about her Swiss victory: To be honest, I don't know how I did it today. The last few weeks I have had a lot of questions, and it was hard for me. After the short track I had a lot of bad feelings, but Jolanda Neff helped me with this a lot. Today, I just wanted to have fun on my bike, and I won the race, I can't believe it. The biggest goal of the year for me is World Championships so my training is geared towards that. We'll continue to work on this. Hopefully in the next few weeks I will be in the same shape or better. Second place Anne Terpstra, said: The whole race went so quick. When you're racing in a group it's so different to when you're riding alone, there's so much going on. I definitely had fun and I prefer races like this when it's hectic. I really enjoyed it. I didn't really try to find anything extra on the last lap. I tried to recover where I could and stay as close as possible to the rider in front of me. I didn't expect to overtake Pauline on that climb, but I think she was having a hard time. It was a long way to the finish from that point and I was struggling for sure. Third place Alessandra Keller said: The crowd was there for sure and until the last corner I was in fourth. I tried to give it everything I had and managed to get past Pauline eventually. To finish third after a sprint finish is great. Thanks to everyone that was cheering. It was great. Results XCO Women Top 5: 1.    Loana Lecomte (FRA | CANYON CLLCTV) 1:24:41 2.    Anne Tauber (NED | GHOST FACTORY RACING) 1:24:59 3.    Alessandra Keller (SUI | THÖMUS MAXON) 1:25:13 4.    Pauline Ferrand-Prévot (FRA | INEOS GRENADIERS) 1:25:20 5.    Puck Pieterse (NED | ALPECIN-DECEUNINCK) 1:25:35 Overall World Cup Standings: 1.    Puck Pieterse (NED | ALPECIN-DECEUNINCK) 466 Points 2.    Loana Lecomte (FRA | CANYON CLLCTV) 457 Points 3.    Pauline Ferrand-Prévot (FRA | INEOS GRENADIERS) 440 Points 4.    Alessandra Keller (SUI | THÖMUS MAXON) 430 Points 5.    Anne Terpstra (NED | (GHOST FACTORY RACING) 394 Points Nino Schurter heads to Leogang as a record breaker   Reigning World Champion Nino Schurter (SCOTT-SRAM MTB RACING TEAM) would attack early, extending his lead throughout and in the process taking his record-breaking 34th World Cup win on home soil and cementing his place in the sport’s history books. He would take the overall leader’s jersey in the process.  South Africa’s Alan Hatherly (CANNONDALE FACTORY RACING) would be the fastest of the chasing pack in a finish line sprint, 15 seconds behind Schurter in second with France’s Jordan Sarrou (TEAM BMC) in third. Schurter said this about his record-breaking win: There's definitely no better place to do this than here. It's taken me a long time to get to 34 wins. I was really looking forward to this race, to race one last time in Lenzerheide. It was already emotional knowing that we might not race here again. I wanted to give it all and hopefully get the win here. The crowd was insane. They definitely pushed me on today. Feeling the people, the energy, definitely gave me so much. I really enjoy these moments. I need to say a big thank you to everyone who came out to cheer for me, to all the fans, to Lenzerheide. It's insane. Second place Alan Hatherly spoke after the race, saying: I have done this race many times and I won World Championships here as a U23 so I know how to race this course well.  I could see the pace was high from the start, but I knew it would slow eventually. I just paced myself and tried to keep the front of the race in sight. I just clawed my way back to the front. I was suffering with cramps towards the end but still had legs for the sprint to take second. I'm feeling good about Leogang off the back of today. It was a tough week for me. I had a fall earlier in the week that left my knee super swollen, then had a stupid fall in the short track that damaged some ribs. To turn that around is unbelievable.  Jordan Sarrou said: It was a tough race, World Cups are always full gas all the way. It was a really hectic sprint. On the last few laps, I was struggling a bit, but I could sprint for third so I'm happy. Fourth in Nove Mesto, second on Friday and third today. Hopefully I can go better in Austria.  Podium XCO Men Top 5: 1.    Nino Schurter (SUI | SCOTT SRAM MTB RACING TEAM) 1:24:04 2.    Alan Hatherly (RSA | CANNONDALE FACTORY RACING) 1:24:19 3.    Jordan Sarrou (FRA | TEAM BMC) 1:24:20 4.    Thomas Griot (FRA | CANYON CLLCTV) 1:24:20 5.    David Valero Serrano (ESP | BH COLOMA TEAM) 1:24:24 Overall World Cup Standings: 1.    Nino Schurter (SUI | SCOTT SRAM MTB RACING TEAM) 475 Points 2.    Jordan Sarrou (FRA | TEAM BMC) 410 Points 3.    Thomas Griot (FRA | CANYON CLLCTV) 336 Points 4.    Thomas Pidcock (GBR | INEOS GRENADIERS) 330 Points 5.    Alan Hatherly (RSA | CANNONDALE FACTORY RACING) 328 Points Heby Sofie Pedersen and Dario Lillo take home the U23 Cross-country wins In the U23 women’s race, Denmark’s Heby Sofie Pedersen (WILIER – PIRELLI FACTORY TEAM XCO) had the speed when it mattered to lead from start to finish, beating Switzerland’s Ronja Blöchlinger (LIV FACTORY RACING) to second place by an incredible 11 seconds. The final step on the podium would go to Italy’s Sara Cortinovis (SANTA CRUZ ROCKSHOX PRO TEAM). Swiss National Champion Dario Lillo (SCOTT DAVOS MTB PROJECT) made good his final lap attack in the U23 men’s race to win at home, getting the better of Canadian Carter Woods (GIANT FACTORY RACING - XC) in second and France’s Adrien Boichis (TRINITY RACING MTB) in third.   Speaking about her victory after the race, Heby Sofie Pedersen said: It's super important for me to ride alone on this course so I can ride the descents at my own pace and ride the lines I want to ride. I know I'm strong, so this gives me a lot of confidence going into Leogang.  Dario Lillo said: It's unbelievable. I had goosebumps before the race, to race in front of a home crowd is so special, especially in the Swiss champs jersey. My expectations were high after the short track, but I just tried to enjoy the race. I felt good from the beginning but the leading group was big so I knew it would be an all-out sprint. It was hard to see where the riders were behind me, the crowd was so big, they really pushed me to the finish. It's unbelievable to do the double here at my home World Cup. Results U23 XCO Women Top 5: Heby Sofie Petersen (DEN | WILIER – PIRELLI FACTORY TEAM XCO) 1:12:42 Ronja Blöchlinger (SUI | LIV FACTORY RACING) 1:12:53 Sara Cortinovis (ITA | SANTA CRUZ ROCKSHOX PRO TEAM) 1:13:31 Ginia Caluori (SUI | THÖMUS AKROS – YOUNGSTARS) 1:13:49 Zoe Cuthbert (NZL) 1:14:49  Results U23 XCO Men Top 5: Dario Lillo (SUI | SCOTT DAVOS MTB PROJECT) 1:28:58 Carter Woods (CAN | GIANT FACTORY OFF-ROAD TEAM – XC) 1:13:00 Adrien Boichis (FRA | TRINITY RACING MTB) 1:13:10 Brayden Johnson (USA) 1:13:16 Luca Martin (FRA | ORBEA FACTORY TEAM) 1:13:30  LOC president Christoph Müller is happy about a successful World Cup in Lenzerheide: We had a great World Cup weekend with really thrilling races. We saw Rachel Atherton secure her 40th World Cup victory and today we were able to celebrate Nino Schurter as the sole record winner. In total, we were able to welcome over 32,000 visitors over the four days of the World Cup. We are very proud of that because it shows that we have once again put together a great event.  The full results from today’s races can be found here. The UCI Mountain Bike World Series will continue in Saalfelden Leogang in Austria with the formats of Cross-country, Downhill and Enduro. Click here for the full event calendar. Missed any of the action? Full replays from this weekend’s race are available globally on GCN+ here. More information on where to watch which race is available here.