Val di Sole 2021, Sina Frei by a whisker on Evie Richards

There is a reason why Short Track it took just four seasons to win the hearts of fans and fansUCI Mountain Bike World Championships in Val di Sole, for the first time, his world championship spotlight: impossible to resist a race lasting just 20 minutes, lived entirely at full speed, and capable of taking every prediction and throwing it in the bin.

Source: press release

The one of Thursday August 26 in Val di Sole it was the first time of the Short Track in the world championship program, and it certainly won't be the last. The limelight offered by the athletes is too great 950 meters of the ring designed by Great Val di Sole Events, dotted with technical passages, humps and steep ups and downs, to be able to archive it as a successful experiment, the evidence offered by Christopher Blevins (USA) e Sina Free (Switzerland) to write your name first on a brand new roll of honor. It doesn't happen every day.

If anything, the women's short track race offered an even greater spectacle: all the most anticipated protagonists responded to their presence when it mattered, and a top-class performance was needed to prevail. 

That's exactly what Sina Frei, the Swiss Olympic silver medalist a few weeks ago, achieved. Today, she managed to secure the most precious medal around her neck. At the end of a true elimination race, from which only Frei had escaped, Yolanda Neff e Linda Indiangand (Switzerland), Evie Richards (Great Britain) e Rebecca McConnell (Australia), the 24-year-old from the canton of Zurich made the winning attack on the final lap, slipping into a tight corner before the most challenging section of the track.

“At the start of the race I was a bit unexpected - said Sina Frei. - On the last lap I broke through even though I wasn't sure I could make it. I was very happy to win the sprint with Evi (Richards)". 

Frei used her skills as a climber to open a small but important gap, while behind her a very generous Evie Richards ("I spent too much in the first few laps, as usual,”He will admit at the press conference) launched into a breakneck pursuit until the hookup took place right at the last corner. The British tried to get out of the Swiss sprint, but her comeback stopped a few centimeters from the gold medal. Bronze medal for Pauline Ferrand Prevot, whose acceleration in the penultimate lap failed to create distance between himself and his rivals.

Ninth the first of the Italians, Greta Seiwald. Twelfth Eve Lechner, previously author of a start in the head. On the other hand, a crash forced him to retire Clare Teocchi. 

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