Nino Schurter (Scott-Sram MTB Racing Team) gained the elite males’s cross-country race on the fourth spherical of the WHOOP UCI Mountain Bike World Series in Val di Sole, Trentino.
Schurter completed the race with a solo win seven seconds forward of runner-up Alan Hatherly (Cannondale Factory Racing) and 46 seconds forward of a chasing group that sprinted for third gained by Mathis Azzaro (Decathlon Ford Racing Team). Luca Braidot (Santa Cruz Rockshox Pro Team) was fourth, and Filippo Colombo (Scott-Sram MTB Racing Team) was fifth.
“I’m tremendous pleased about this victory. It’s a extremely cool course – tactical but in addition bodily… It’s good to nonetheless be capable of win at 38, nice to nonetheless be on the high. It’s a observe the place using within the group doesn’t enable you to very a lot, so my plan was to make it exhausting from the beginning.”
A lead group was decreased to only two – Schurter and Hatherly – by the third lap after Schurter put strain on the circuit’s climbs.
Schurter made his successful assault via the feed zone after which carried his pace onto the primary climb, extending his lead over a chasing Hatherly. Although he initially held 17 seconds, the hole dropped to only seven by the point he crossed the end line for the win.
Victor Koretzky (Specialized Factory Racing) continues to guide the WHOOP UCI Mountain Bike World Series particular person standings with 789 factors. Schurter is in second place with 755 factors, and Hatherly is in third place with 709.
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