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The women’s race was won by the young French rider Loana Lecomte. This is her second back to back perfect weekend at Leogang. There are some rather steep and long climbs on this course and this clearly suits her well.
Neff was leading into the first lap, but soon dropped back. The second lap saw Loana take the lead and put a gap between herself and Rissveds.
All eyes were on the two Austrian riders riding their home race: Mona Mitterwallner and Laura Stigger. Mitterwallner crashed within the first few seconds of the race starting and had to stop for quite a while to get her handlebars straightened and bike checked over. She finished strong in 15th place in spite of that! Laura Stigger gave the audience something to cheer about, finishing third. Her and Sina Frei were riding close together for most of the race, but Laura pulled away on the long climb in the last lap.
Jenny Rissveds finished second. She pushed incredibly well throughout the race. She hasn’t been off the podium for any race this season.
Quite interestingly, it seems PFP isn’t the only one with eyes on the World Champs on home soil this year. Loana Lecomte mentioned in her interview that she’s keen to focus more on World Champs and less on World Cup overall results or the individual World Cup wins. She said that she would perhaps want to win another World Cup or so this year, but her eyes are on the rainbow jersey.
Women’s XCO Leogang results
Men’s XCO Leogang
With Schurter fighting HARD for his record breaking 34th XCO win, the strong battle between him and Flückiger was very much on for most of the race. Finally, it was Flückiger who got his hard earned win at Leogang. And with that, this was a perfect weekend for him, quite like last year.
Hatherly put on a strong fight, being in touch with Flückiger and Schurter for most of the race, but not quite getting to the front with them. He finished third.
Vlad Dascalu is still after a World Cup win after going very close far too many times. He finished fourth, ahead of Marotte.
Men’s XCO Leogang Results
Schurter still leads the overall XC rankings, with Dascalu second by 189 points behind. Flückiger sits third. Pidcock, who was absent from this race, has dropped to fifth in the overall.
It was incredible seeing some real strong riding at Leogang this weekend. Next World Cup is at Lenzerheide. The XC short track final will be on 8th July and XCO finals will be on 10th of July.
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