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The new Marathon MTB World Cup is underway

The Marathon World Cup returns with the 1st stage in Nove Mesto, parallel to the Cross Country, and 17 Italians at the start.

Written by

David Finetto

May 10, 2023

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The new World Cup managed by ESO and Discovery+ kicks off from Nove Mesto. At the start there will be all the main Italian marathon teams.

Here is the complete calendar including the Marathon trials.

The UCI marathon mountain bike world cup ran from 2005 to 2008, before being abandoned and relegated to the UCI Marathon Series, a different concept from the World Cup since these were isolated competitions that received that status from the UCI but where there was no general classification or leaders jersey.

MARATHON WORLD CUP HONOR

Sunday 14th May will see the debut of the Cross Country while on Saturday 13th May there will be space for the Marathon, again from the Vysocina Arena in Nove Mesto na Morave. After Nove Mesto it will be the turn of Finale Ligure Sunday 4th June and then space for Les Gets and Snowshow in September/October.

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There will be no LIVE content but only deferred/highlights on the UCI Mountain Bike World Series channels.

WHERE TO FOLLOW THE LIVE OF NOVE MESTO

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THE PATH

GPX TRACK

Participation is also open to amateurs (cost €100). The route includes a 60km ring to be repeated 2 times: at the moment there are 127 registered men from 20 nations. There will be 14 Italian men with the best Italian teams present: Wilier – Pirelli, Scott Racing team, Torpado Factory, DMT Racing team, Taddei Factory, KTM Alchemist. Soudal Lee Cougan present only with Leonardo Paez. There will also be Hubbers Polimedical with Diego Arias.

At the female level, the Italian champion is registered Claudia Peretti e Constance FasolisSurprise for Eva Lechner who, at 37 years old, decides to make her debut in the Marathon World Cup without running cross country.

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In this article:Marathon World Cup, Marathon, Racing World, World Marathon Races

Written by David Finetto

[email protected] I am a fan of everything that has 2 wheels: at a young age I practiced road and track cycling (Italian Allievi champion). At the age of 18 I passed into the cross country competing at national/international level as an Under23. Past Elite, I made the choice to take things more lightly from a training point of view, and my love for gravity disciplines was born, training me as an FCI MTB instructor and guide. Now I have made passion my profession by managing 2 MTB centers on the island of Elba (Bike Center Elba and Elba MTB), creating the FANTAmtb and telling in an ironic but professional way everything that revolves around MTB thanks to 365mountainbike and 365TV (YouTube'PULITI dentro BIKER fuori').