Tag Archives: Rachel Atherton

The third stop of the 2019 UCI Downhill MTB World Cup took place in Leogang, Austria over the weekend. The track, with newly added sections, produced extremely exciting and close racing. There was no room for error forcing riders to put a perfect top-to-bottom run together in order to be in contention. Greg Minnaar had a pearler of a weekend ...

Reigning UCI Downhill MTB World Cup champions, Rachel Atherton and Amaury Pierron, put down their marker for a 2019 repeat with victory at wet Round 2 of the series at Fort William in Scotland. Loris Vergier, who qualified fastest in the Men’s Division, was the last rider down the hill with a respectable and consistent in a time of 4:32.209 ...

The opening race of the 2019 UCI Downhill MTB World Cup season took place at Maribor in Slovenia over the weekend. The return to Maribor was both exciting for competitors and fans alike as the course proved to be challenging with close racing. In the Men’s Division, Danny Hart put down a blistering run early in the day to take ...

The final round of the 2018 UCI Downhill MTB World Cup took place in La Bresse, France over the weekend. Wet and muddy conditions proved difficult as the heavyweights battled it out on the short and diverse course.  In the men’s division, Martin Maes, fresh off a victory from the Enduro World Series in Whistler, took advantage of the soggy conditions to ...

The penultimate round of the 2018 UCI Downhill MTB World Cup took place in Mont-Sainte-Anne, Canada. The popular course features some of the fastest and most technical sections of the world circuit resulting in thrilling racing. In the Mens race it was Loïc Bruni who returned to the podium and claimed the win with a blistering time of 4:12,713. Troy Brosnan ...