26-28 August 2021 – With a braking limit at the penultimate corner, the Swiss legend Nino Schurter inserts Flückiger and writes another page in the history of Mountain Bike. The 35-year-old Swiss overtook his compatriot Mathias Flückiger with a near-limit braking at the penultimate corner, after six laps spent side by side. For Flückiger it is another silver medal, after the Olympic one in Tokyo, the third consecutive at the World Championships. Third place for the Frenchman Victor Koretzky.
The Italians are far from the top positions: seventeenth Gerhard Kerschbaumer, twentieth Gioele Bertolini, twenty-third Nadir Colledani.
The success of the British Evie Richards in the Elite Women race was clearer: the British girl shook off her opponents from the second round, placing the Dutch Anne Terpstra and the winner of the Short Track, the Swiss Sina Frei, in line. After the Short Track press conference you said that "to win I have to improve my race management". Evie Richards' reaction was not long in coming: the former cyclocross world champion climbed a position compared to Thursday's sprint race, winning the first gold medal for a British athlete in the history of the Mountain Bike World Championships.
Among the U23s there is also glory for Italy with the silver of Juri Zanotti in the race won by the Chilean Martin Vidaurre. Women's test to the dominator of the season, the Austrian Mona Mitterwallner.
Nino SCHURTER
Victor KORETZKY
Vlad DASCALU
Maximilian BRANDL
Samuel GAZE
Henrique AVANCINI
Alan HATHERLY
Milan VADER
David VALERO SERRANO
Jonas LINDBERG
Ondrej CINK
Gerhard KERSCHBAUMER
Christopher BLEVINS
Evie RICHARDS
Maja WLOSZCZOWSKA
Rebecca MCCONNEL
Martin VIDAURRE
Tomer ZALTSMAN
Mona MITTERWALLNER
Kata Blanka VAS
Raquel QUEIROS
Camilo Andres GOMEZ
Oleksandr HUDYMA
