Commezzadura, 17/22 June 2008 – The World Cup returns to Italy after Ciocco 1991 and Livigno 2005 and does so in great style with one of the most technical courses in the circus designed by Pippo Marani. The track is feared and there is no shortage of twists and turns. Steve Peat sets the best time and will remain sitting on the hot seat for a long time... has the year of the long-awaited rainbow jersey finally arrived? The 34-year-old Englishman loses all hope when he comes down Sam Hill: a descent that has gone down in history (video at the bottom of the page), it floats on its roots and flies over every stone it finds along the way. A masterful interpretation and a pinch of madness. But everything vanishes at the last minute when, on the easiest curve of the route, he slips and is forced to start from a standstill in a section that his opponents face at 40km/h... despite the fact that he is 2nd, 5 tenths behind Steve Peat but it is still missing Gee Atherton. Atherton he doesn't do anything wrong, he too is the author of a great descent and overtakes by over 2 seconds Steve Peat who has to settle for yet another podium while Sam hill he eats his hands for a rainbow jersey thrown to the wind. It would have been the fifth of his career. Sunday 22 June Christopher Sauser achieved victory in the mountain bike world championship cross country, in Val di Sole. Riding a prototype of an S-Works Epic XC, “Susi” took first position and never looked back.
Despite his numerous World Cup race wins, this was his first World Champion title cross country for Christoph and puts him in the enviable position of being able to wear both the XC and the XC Marathon rainbow jersey.
Swiss domination in a grueling race with suffocating heat that forced the runners to work hard to finish it. The gaps are almost Marathon-like rather than heat): Video. Two months later she still went on to win the 2008 Beijing XC Olympics.

XC women's title at Fullana, which breaks away from its rivals during the 4th lap. There Spitz tries to resist, but has to settle for silver, ahead of the outgoing World Champion Irina Kalentieva. To forget the performance of the Italians, among whom they were the best Eve Lechner, among the first to start and then sunk at over 10 minutes. Departure with the American Koerber to set the pace straight away, followed however by the favorites with Spitz, Kalentieva, Fullana, Liu and our Lechner. Further back is Dahle, who started with bib number 29. However, the American doesn't last long and during the first lap a little train forms, led by Spitz, Fullana and Klemencic, who try to take the advantage. Dahle recovers, while Lechner slips back. Fullana closed the 5 laps with a time of 1h39'00" for a title well deserved for today's majestic performance. Silver for the German Sabine Spitz, who reached the finish line at 1'43", while the bronze goes to Irina Kalentieva, 2'20" behind.

EL-M
	Christopher SAUSER	1h58'26 "
2	Florian VOGEL	2'55"
3	Ralph NAF	4'20"
4	Liam Kileen	4'43"
5	Fredrik Kessiakoff	4'48"
6	Christop Soukup	5'08"
7	Roel Paulissen	5'40"
8	Inaki Lejarreta Errasti	6'04"
9	Moritz Milaz	6'52"
10	Oliver Beckingsale	6'58"
11	Jaroslav Khulavy	7'15"
12	Rudy Van Houts	7'27"
13	Johann Pallhuber	7'53"
14	Martin Guyan	8'05"
15	Todd Wells	8'10"
16	Geoff Kabush	8'16"
17	Marek Galinski	8'24"
18	Ivan Alvarez Gutierrez	8'29"
19	Andrew Tiberi	8'49"
20	Jakob Fuglsang	9'26"
21	Ruben Ruzafa Cueto	9'39"
22	Cedric Ravanel	9'58"
23	Lado Fumic	10'04"
24	Seamus McGrath	10'18"
25	Rubens Valerian	10'33"
26	Hector Leonardo Paez	10'52"
27	Thomas Frischknecht	11'35"
28	Bas Peters	11'45"
29	Chris Jongewaard	12'01"
30	Evgneiy Pechenin	12'39"

EL W
	Margarita FULLANA	1h39'01 "
2	Sabine SPITZ	1'43"
3	Irina KALENTIEVA	2'20"
4	Marie-Helene Premont	2'52"
5	Maria Wloszczowska	3'46"
6	Catherine Pendrel	4'51"
7	Gunn-Rita Dahle	5'16"
8	Elisabeth Osl	5'29"
9	Georgia Gould	6'18"
10	Blaza Klemencic	6'38"
11	Katrin Leumann	6'49"
12	Katerina Nash	7'11"
13	Lene Byberg	7'50"
14	Laurence Leboucher	8'46"
15	Petra Henzi	9'04"
16	Anna Szafraniec	9'29"
17	Yiung Liu	9'48"
18	Eve Lechner	10'02"
19	Leah Davison	10'03"
20	Mary McConneloug	10'27"

U23 M
	Nino SCHURTER	1h44'34 "
2	Burry STANDER	41"
3	Mathias FLUCKIGER	3'46"
4	Fabian Giger	4'54"
5	Stephane Tempier	5'55"
6	Darjo Alejandro Gasco	8'26"
7	Raphael Gagne	8'46"
8	Frank Beemer	9'00"
9	Pascal Meyer	9'22"
10	Robert Gehbauer	9'50"

U23W
	Tanya ZAKELJ	1h35'31 "
2	Nathalie SCHNEITTER	2'59"
3	Aleksandra DAWIDOWICZ	3'15"
4	Nataliya Krompets	3'43"
5	Caroline Mani	4'04"
6	Emily Batty	5'00"
7	Julie Krasniak	5'54"
8	Julie Bresset	6'11"
9	Maaike Polspoel	8'05"
10	Daniel Campuzano	8'09"

JUN M
	Peter SAGAN	1h35'21 "
2	Arnaud JOUFFROY	1'34"
3	Matthias RUPP	2'51"
4	Fabian Strecker	5'34"
5	Mirco Widmer	5'42"
6	Luke Braidot	5'43"
7	Henk Jaap Moorlag	6'07"
8	Marcus Luenzum	6'15"
9	Matthew Stirnemann	6'33"
10	Marek Konwa	7'01"

JUN W
	Laura Valentina ABRIL	1h16'08 "
2	Barbara BENKO	38"
3	Mona EIBERWEISER	2'11"
4	Vivianne Meyer	3'19"
5	Paula Gorycka	6'32"
6	Bianca Adolf	6'46"
7	Jana Valesova	7'46"
8	Cornelia Schuster	7'56"
9	Annie Last	8'00"
10	Sanne Cant	8'11"

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