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RESULTS – Qualifying World Cup Lourdes Downhill

The favorites Loic Bruni and Vali Holl win the qualifications in Lourdes, the first stage of the DH World Cup. Interesting results from the Italians.

Written by

David Finetto

March 26 2022

Loic Bruni jokes before departure

In the men's elite many big names, and a lot of France, in the top positions: it means that they already wanted to try the race pace so as not to be caught unprepared on Sunday. Nice surprise, if you can say a surprise, for the young man Finn Iles, according to everyone, an authentic phenomenon that is now making its way among the big names.

Great performances by the Italians with Davide Palazzari 18th and Loris Revelli 29th: the top 10 is not far off and it would be a fantastic result for our standard bearers!

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ORDER OF ARRIVAL ELITE M

Rank	Name / Team	Time / Gap
1.	BRUNI Loic SPECIALIZED GRAVITY	2:49.271
2.	Iles Finnley SPECIALIZED GRAVITY	2:50.454 +1.183
3.	PIERRON Amaury COMMENCAL/MUC-OFF BY RIDING ADDICTION	2:50.774 +1.503
4.	DAPRELA Thibaut COMMENCAL/MUC-OFF BY RIDING ADDICTION	2:50.976 +1.705
5.	COULANGES Benoit DORVAL AM COMMENCAL	2:51.090 +1.819
6.	VERGIER Loris TREK FACTORY RACING IE	2:51.607 +2.336
7.	HART Danny CUBE FACTORY RACING	2:53.303 +4.032
8.	VIDAL Antoine COMMENCAL LES ORRES	2:53.664 +4.393
9.	WILSON Reece TREK FACTORY RACING IE	2:53.954 +4.683
10	SHAW Luke CANYON COLLECTIVE FACTORY TEAM	2:54.243 +4.972

Among the women there is the battle that everyone was waiting for: the expert, and world champion, Myriam Nicole against the young rampant Valentina Holl. Excellent performance by Eleonora Farina who sets an excellent 5th time just 7 seconds and 8 tenths from the top. Excellent 9th also for Veronika Widmann, always very solid.

ORDER OF ARRIVAL ELITE W

Rank	Name / Team	Time / Gap
1.	HÖLL Valentina ROCKSHOX TREK RACE TEAM	3:19.449
2.	NICOLE Myriam COMMENCAL/MUC-OFF BY RIDING ADDICTION	3:19.973 +0.524
3.	SEAGRAVE Tahnee CANYON COLLECTIVE FMD	3:23.911 +4.462
4.	BALANCHE Camille DORVAL AM COMMENCAL	3:24.162 +4.713
5.	FLOUR Eleonora MS MONDRAKER TEAM	3:27.265 +7.816
6.	CABIROU Marine SCOTT DOWNHILL FACTORY	3:30.458 +11.009
7.	BERNARD Mathilde SCOTT MANIGOD SHOT	3:34.022 +14.573
8.	JOHNSET A thousand COMMEN CAL / 100%	3:37.352 +17.903
9.	WIDMANN Veronika MADISON SARACEN FACTORY TEAM	3:40.166 +20.717
10	PARTON Mikayla	3:45.013 +25.564

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In this article:Amaury Pierron, World Cup, David Palazzari, Downhill, Finn Iles, Loic Bruni, Loris Revelli, Lourdes, Racing World, Myriam Nicole, Tahnee Seagrave, Vali Holl

Written by David Finetto

famac@famac.ind.br I am passionate about everything that has 2 wheels: in my youth I practiced competitive cycling on the road and on the track with good results. At the age of 18 I moved to cross country competing at national/international level as U23. Once I passed Elite, I made the choice to take things easier from the training point of view, and that's how my love for gravity disciplines was born, training as an FCI MTB instructor and guide. Now I have made my passion my profession by managing 3 MTB centers on the island of Elba (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').