Competitions
Sweden's Emil Johansson continued his dominant streak in competition, leaving the 21 remaining riders at the inaugural Red Bull Copenride in Copenhagen to compete for silver in the weather-affected competition.
Aug 18, 2021
Competitions
Briton Bernard Kerr was crowned champion of Red Bull Hardline 2021 for a record third victory on Sunday with an incredible time of 2.33.533 as he flew down the world's toughest downhill mountain bike course in Dyfi Valley, North Wales.
Jul 26, 2021
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Riders started their pursuit for glory on Saturday night with the Pro Stage, where it was Richie Rude (Yeti/Fox Factory Team) and Andreane Lanthier Nadeau (Rocky Mountain Race Face Enduro Team) who raced to victory and set the scene for an intense showdown on Sunday’s four stages.
Jul 12, 2021
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In a season where the racing only seems to get closer, Vittoria EWS La Thuile continued the theme by serving up a race that went down to the wire.
Jul 8, 2021
Competitions
The German Team BULLS combination, of Martin Frey and Simon Schneller, rode home as the champions of the inaugural Andorra MTB Classic-Pyrenees; with two stage wins. In the women’s race, Sandra Mairhofer and Costanza Fasolis, of RDR Italy Leynicese Racing Team, notched up a perfect four from four, stage victories, on their way to the 2021 title.
Jul 6, 2021
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JBG2 CryoSpace and RDR Italy Leynicese Racing Team Crowned Queen Stage Champions.
Jul 3, 2021
Competitions
Having started the Andorra MTB Classic-Pyrenees with stage victories in the Prologue, the day before, both Team BULLS and RDR Italy Leynicese Racing doubled up on the first marathon day.
Jul 1, 2021
Competitions
Mountain biking’s Downhill elite wrapped five days of Crankworx competition today with the deuter Downhill presented by Raiffeisen Club. Charging their way to the top of the box, Loris Vergier (FRA) earns his first Crankworx win, while Vali Höll (AUT) pushes through the pain to repeat on the track she earned her first elite win on last year.
Jun 21, 2021
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Ends her day just off podium, while Jordy Scott continues winning streak, and Tomas Lemoine claims fourth win in Innsbruck Speed & Style
Jun 21, 2021
Competitions
Crankworx has announced the addition of a third stop to the 2021 World Tour.
Jun 19, 2021
Competitions
For the second year in a row, the French dominated the top step in the RockShox Pump Track Challenge Innsbruck. Mathilde Bernard (FRA) takes her third Crankworx Pump Track win, her second in as many years on this track. Chaney Guennet (FRA) makes it 3/5 in Innsbruck, having also won the event in 2017 and 2018. “It feels different each time,” said Guennet. “Last year I finished second, and this year first. It’s been a long time since I finished on the top step so, it’s perfect.” Guennet’s...
Jun 18, 2021
Competitions
Precision and power were the names of the game in the Specialized Dual Slalom Innsbruck today, as live broadcast action kicked off from Crankworx Innsbruck 2021. With a start list that featured a who’s who from every corner of mountain bike racing, it was hard to predict how the day would play out. And the unpredictability continued as racing, and the temperature in Innsbruck, heated up. On the women’s side, Casey Brown (CAN) first knocked out the #1 seeded Kialani Hines (USA) to make it to...
Jun 18, 2021
Competitions
Precision and power were the names of the game in the Specialized Dual Slalom Innsbruck today, as live broadcast action kicked off from Crankworx Innsbruck 2021.
Jun 17, 2021
Competitions
Switzerland's Camille Balanche and Australian Troy Brosnan came out on top as the 2021 UCI Mountain Bike World Cup downhill season started in style at Leogang in Austria. Here is all you need to know:
Jun 14, 2021
Competitions
Overnight rain made way for early morning clouds, scorching sunsh and strong wind, turning the Cross-Country Olympic (XCO) track into a wild mixture of techy roots, fast sprint sections, tricky climbs and steep, slippery descents.
Jun 14, 2021
Competitions
On a beautiful day in the green valley, whose sights excited both the athletes and the attending personnel and media, Italy celebrated the return to the success of arguably its most talented representative: Gerhard Kerschbaumer (Specialized Racing Team) took his first victory of the season in style, relaunching his ambitions in view of the Tokyo Olympic Games and the World Championships in Val di Sole, the latter being an even more cherished goal for the Alto Adige native.
Jun 7, 2021
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The Enduro World Series (EWS) today launches its most ambitious calendar to date, with 2022 scheduled to host the biggest calendar in the history of the sport.
Jun 4, 2021
Competitions
Chill backyard sessions are starting to get next-level. New tricks are getting dialed while new setups are being put to the test. Custom paint jobs are being unveiled. Travel plans are getting locked in.
May 25, 2021
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Two back-to-back weekends of World Cup XC has kicked the season off to a fast and furious start for a hungry field making up for lost time, vying for Olympic spots, and striving to beat World Cup records. It’s been anything but predictable as athletes and teams launch into a high stakes season.
May 21, 2021
Competitions
The Aosta Valley will host the final showdown of the 2021 Internazionali d'Italia season and a UCI Junior Series stage on one of the most cherished MTB courses from the international competitors.
May 17, 2021
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Even though the World Cup kick-off in Germany missed the 20,000 spectators usually huddling together around the track, this first stop managed to deliver MTB racing action at its finest.
May 13, 2021
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After the third round in Nals, the Italian Cross-Country MTB circuit resumes on Wednesday, June 2nd with the debut of the Cat. 1 event in Valle di Casies (South Tyrol).
May 3, 2021
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Capoliveri (Elba Island) is ready to welcome Internazionali d’Italia Series stage 2 on Monday, April 5th. Kate Courtney, Nino Schurter and Henrique Avancini all poised for seasonal debut.
Apr 5, 2021
Competitions
Land of incredible landscapes, peaks and top-class Mountain Bike, South Tyrol is preparing to host Internazionali d’Italia Series’ stage 3 in Nals (Bozen), on Saturday, April 10th and Sunday, April 11th.
Apr 1, 2021
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Jaroslav Kulhavy (CZE) & Martina Berta (ITA) win last stage, Ramona Forchini from Switzerland & Daniele Braidot from Italy take the overall titles after four stages!
Mar 29, 2021
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Sam Gaze and Ramona Forchini have been the fastest in the longest stage of the Mediterranean Epic 2021.
Mar 28, 2021
Competitions
In the men's category, the leader, Fabian Rabensteiner, could not stay in the leading group and said goodbye to the leadership.
Mar 28, 2021
Competitions
The MEDITERRANEAN EPIC is the first mountain bike stage race of 2021 in the UCI Hors Catégorie (highest UCI category), held from Thursday, 25th to Sunday, 28th of March 2021 in the picturesque Spanish region of Castellón.
Mar 28, 2021
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BC Bike Race is proud to announce that in these uncertain times, we are planning for the future.
Nov 17, 2020
Competitions
The long awaited return to world class racing in 2020 saw the YT Mob in Austria for the UCI World Championships on an updated track in Leogang that had a lot of new woods sections that suffered heavily today in the autumn rain.
Oct 14, 2020
Competitions
Sunday at World Championships is traditionally reserved for the world’s best Downhill riders and this year was no different.
Oct 14, 2020
Competitions
Limited visibility, moisture in the air and with the Cross-Country course as challenging as it has been all week, the stage was set for an epic day of World Championship XCO racing in Leogang, Austria, with three races throughout the day; the U23 Women, the Women Elite and Men Elite.
Oct 10, 2020
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Vali Höll and David Trummer share top of the box on home soil, while Brook Macdonald gets loudest cheer of the day in his first race back from injury.
Oct 5, 2020
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Slopestyle riders battle tough conditions and stiff competition, with young Swede continuing to dominate.
Oct 2, 2020
Competitions
The French have swept the first day of Crankworx Innsbruck competition. Adrien Loron and Morgane Charre kicked off the day with wins in the Dual Slalom, and the momentum continued in the RockShox Innsbruck Pump Track Challenge.
Oct 2, 2020
Competitions
The Enduro World Series (EWS) concluded in suitably dramatic fashion in Italy today at Bluegrass EWS Finale Ligure.
Sep 26, 2020
Competitions
Racing doesn’t come tougher than the Vittoria EWS-E Pietra Ligure, so it was only fitting that it should be conquered by two of the sport’s most enduring stars.
Sep 20, 2020
Competitions
The Enduro World Series (EWS) will conclude its 2020 season with four back-to-back races in Finale Ligure and Pietra Ligure, Italy.
Sep 9, 2020
Competitions
Focus on the stage venues - The town in the province of Reggio Emilia and the beautiful "Rock" in the background are set to host Appenninica MTB Parmigiano Reggiano Stage Race again on September 30th and October 1st
Sep 4, 2020
Competitions
The first Enduro World Series (EWS) race of the year took place in Switzerland this weekend - and in true 2020 fashion, it didn’t come easily.
Aug 31, 2020
Competitions
History was made beneath the Matterhorn today, when the first ever EWS-E winners were crowned in Switzerland.
Aug 31, 2020
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Nino Schurter’s hunger for victories has clearly not been dampened by an absence from racing.
Aug 27, 2020
Competitions
There was no stopping Annika Langvad and Haley Batten on Stage 4 of the Swiss Epic. The Specialized – Racing pair continued their Graubünden dominance with a fourth stage win, in as many days.
Aug 27, 2020
Competitions
The Hörnli Trail was among the many highlights of Stage 3 of the 2020 Swiss Epic. In a day packed with downhill singletracks, around Arosa, it was unsurprising that SCOTT- SRAM’s Nino Schurter and Lars Forster emerged victorious.
Aug 24, 2020
Competitions
Stage 2 of the 2020 Swiss Epic was backloaded with climbing.
Aug 24, 2020
Competitions
Graubünden resident, Nino Schurter and his SCOTT-SRAM teammate Lars Forster rode to a dominant stage victory on the opening stage of the 2020 Swiss Epic.
Aug 23, 2020
Competitions
Three weeks. 15 competition and practice days. 73 hours on the bike. 167 kilometers raced. 4590 meters descended. It’s been a time. The marathon multi-discipline mountain bike series that brought together 25 of B.C.’s top mountain bike athletes at the end of July wrapped todaywith one final race.
Aug 18, 2020
Competitions
18 days in to back-to-back-to-back racing and training, B.C.’s best mountain bikers still managed to turn it on when it counted, on a grueling, long and physical track in the Maxxis Sun Peaks DH.
Aug 18, 2020
Competitions
Sun Peaks Dual Slalom wraps three weeks of head-to-head action in the CLIF Crankworx Summer Series, and crowns men’s overall champ.
Aug 13, 2020
Competitions
Enduro action in the CLIF Crankworx Summer Series wrapped today, with the final of three Enduros crowning it’s champions at Sun Peaks Resort.
Aug 13, 2020
Competitions
Over 1200 vertical meters. 7.3 kilometers of steep, rough and rocky singletrack. One infamous entrance, and one equally notorious “choking on glass” (credit to Tyler Morland in Seasons) hike-a-bike section. Add 10 years of history and a list of legendary champions, and the renown of the Mt7 Psychosis race starts to become clear.
Aug 10, 2020
Competitions
Rain pushes riders to dig deep, with “bin it or win it” mentality leading to some “hectic moments”.
Aug 7, 2020
Competitions
“I feel like I’m in the best shape of my life right now,” said Finn Iles after taking three of four stages in the Kicking Horse Enduro today, including the longest stage of the day that followed on the heels of a punishing climb.
Aug 5, 2020
Competitions
It was a big day for mountain bike fans around the world, with two Downhill races to follow along with, wrapping the action of Week 1 of the CLIF Crankworx Summer Series.
Aug 3, 2020
Competitions
1 competition down, 11 more to go, as SilverStar Enduro crowns its champions and lays the foundation for the three-week long fight for the overall.
Jul 29, 2020
Competitions
Appenninica MTB Parmigiano Reggiano Stage Race starting list keeps filling up with big names.
Jun 15, 2020
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Colombia and Chile will take place later this year
Mar 12, 2020
Competitions
When Mathieu van der Poel turned the cycling world on its head by winning cyclocross, road and mountain bike races on the biggest stage, fans were amazed. He also opened the door for a generation of riders who see their futures on the road, in the mountains and boggy fields.
Mar 10, 2020
Competitions
As Jordy Scott (USA) crossed the finish line, her style points boosting her ahead of Vaea Verbeeck (CAN) in the women’s final of the CLIF Speed & Style presented by Mons Royale, it was a win for her and a win for women in the sport.
Mar 6, 2020
Competitions
Standing in the finish corral having bested a stacked field of some of the world’s fastest and most skilled riders, Kyle Strait (USA) could still barely believe he’d managed to tame the new 100% Dual Slalom Rotorua track.
Mar 6, 2020
Competitions
It was a familiar top step of the podium today at Crankworx Rotorua, with the former King and Queen of the Crankworx World Tour, Sam Blenkinsop (NZL) and Jill Kintner (USA), each stepping back up to take the win today in the Rotorua Air DH presented by Bosch.
Mar 4, 2020
Competitions
Through sweat and dust, two non-local Kiwis rose to the challenge to take the win in the first event of Crankworx Rotorua 2020. Wellington’s Rae Morrison accomplished total stage domination, while New Plymouth’s Eddie Masters took four out of six stages over the course of the day.
Mar 1, 2020
Competitions
In 2017, during an interview at Red Bull Joyride, Slopestyle legend Brandon Semenuk said that Emil would be “the next unstoppable dude on the circuit.”
Feb 28, 2020
Competitions
Under the organisation of the Italian MTB Team Coach Mirko Celestino, Andora Race Cup celebrates its second edition with the progression to C1 UCI category.
Feb 28, 2020
Competitions
Tomáš Slavík was crowned champion of Red Bull Monserrate Cerro Abajo in Bogotá, Colombia, billed as the longest downhill race in the world. The Czech rider’s time of 4m 42s proved untouchable, even before torrential rain made it impossible for riders to challenge effectively later in the race.
Feb 25, 2020
Competitions
Brandon Semenuk hit back from a disappointing 2018 Red Bull Rampage to pull off a brilliant first run in Virgin, Utah and win his third title at the 2019 edition with fellow Canadian Brett Rheeder denied back-to-back wins by just over a point. Here is all you need to know:
Oct 28, 2019
Competitions
The Faces team of Candice Lill and Adelheid Morath got their FNB Wines2Whales title defence off to a winning start on Friday, 25 October. Departing Lourensford Wine Estate in consistent rain, the Elite Women endured a muddy day on the bike, but that did little to dampen Lill and Morath’s spirits as they thrived in the wet conditions.
Oct 25, 2019
Competitions
Besides some of the scene’s biggest names, like Andreu Lacondeguy, Brandon Semenuk, Brett Rheeder, Ethan Nell and Rampage veterans like Kyle Strait, Kurt Sorge and Tyler McCaul, Belgian Slopestyle wizard Thomas Genon will be competing in his eighth Red Bull Rampage, where he’s finished within the Top 6 four times prior.
Oct 22, 2019
Competitions
In Silvelle di Trebaseleghe, the Italian location in the Padua’s nearbies hosting the UEC Cyclo-cross European Championships on November 9th and 10th, time seems to have stopped to twenty years ago.
Oct 18, 2019
Competitions
When racers woke up on the morning of Day 4, snow could be seen on the ridgelines just barely above camp.
Oct 2, 2019
Competitions
Saturday, Day 3, was move day. The plan was for racers to pedal out of camp from Takhlakh Lake and to pedal into camp at Green River Horse Camp at the end of the day – Mother Nature had other plans. The night before, as Race Director Nick Gibson delivered the details for the following day’s race, it had begun to snow.
Oct 2, 2019
Competitions
Racers arrived at basecamp on Wednesday and for those who have never experienced a Trans-Cascadia event, they were in for a bit of a surprise.
Oct 1, 2019
Competitions
It’s been said before, but the final round of the 2019 Enduro World Series was one for the history books.
Sep 22, 2019
Competitions
It’s been said before - but the seventh round of the Enduro World Series has surpassed all others to be declared the tightest race of all time.
Aug 30, 2019
Competitions
Good news for all mountain bike fans. Red Bull is going to broadcast the UCI Mountain Bike World Championship 2019 presented by Mercedes-Benz with all races LIVE from Mont-Sainte-Anne (CAN).
Aug 28, 2019
Competitions
For the first time this season, Richie Rude (Yeti/Fox Shox Factory Racing Team), Martin Maes (GT Factory Racing) and Sam Hill (Chain Reaction Cycles Mavic) will go head to head in the ultimate clash of the titans.
Aug 22, 2019
Competitions
A first-time win. A reclamation. Championships awarded. And a Queen, crowned. It was a night of super tight head-to-head battles in the RockShox Ultimate Pump Track Challenge at Crankworx Whistler, ending in celebration and reward after an intense year of racing.
Aug 16, 2019
Competitions
“I know how to race this race,” said a coughing Jill Kintner (USA) from the finish line of the Air DH at Crankworx Whistler.
Aug 14, 2019
Competitions
The biggest ever weekend of enduro at Crankworx has wrapped. In total, approximately 848 competitors lined up at the start gates for the Kidsworx Enduro, Bell Canadian Open Enduro 80, and the CamelBak Canadian Open Enduro presented by Specialized (100 and pro categories).
Aug 12, 2019
Competitions
Mitch Ropelato (USA) had his eyes on the prize today as he dropped into the Garbanzo DH, the first event of Crankworx Whistler 2019.
Aug 11, 2019
Competitions
With 675 riders queued up to race this weekend, Crankworx Whistler will be hosting the biggest Enduro World Series (EWS) race in history.
Aug 9, 2019
Competitions
The Tinhorn Creek TransRockies Stage Seven broke cool and clear in the quiet town of Crowsnest Pass as riders prepared to take on the final epic ride into Fernie.
Aug 2, 2019
Competitions
The ProGold Stage Six of the TransRockies Classic took riders from Elkford, BC, across the Continental Divide and up to the finish at Crowsnest Pass.
Aug 1, 2019
Competitions
The Planet Foods TransRockies Classic Stage 4 took riders from the Nipika Mountain Resort to Whiteswan Lake, BC.
Jul 29, 2019
Competitions
Electrical storms overnight had the start line buzzing with extra energy this morning at Nipika Mountain Resort and the Thule Stage Three of the TransRockies Classic.
Jul 29, 2019
Competitions
Stage Two of the TransRockies Classic was a 75km journey from K2 Ranch to Nipika Mountain Resort. Leaving the Purcell Mountains behind, riders headed east into the Rockies.
Jul 29, 2019
Competitions
The start line of any race is intense, but that of the first day of a seven day stage race brings the energy, anticipation and stoke to a whole new level. Add a thousand meter climb right off the bat, and you can feel the energy pulsing through the field like the low grade hum of a bee hive.
Jul 26, 2019
Competitions
The Enduro World Series (EWS) is excited to unveil its 2020 calendar featuring eight incredible venues across three continents, as the fight to crown the world’s best mountain biker starts all over again.
Jul 23, 2019
Competitions
Kate Courtney and Nino Schurter continued their great recent form to claim UCI MTB World Cup XCO victories at the French Alps stop of Les Gets to boost their overall leads in the standings. Here is all you need to know:
Jul 19, 2019
Competitions
In two-week time, the Mercedes-Benz UCI Mountain Bike World Cup will be back in Val di Sole for of the most awaited weekends of the season, as well as the only World Cup round held in Italy.
Jul 18, 2019
Competitions
Sunny skies broke over Squamish for the first time in three days along the BC coast. It was shaping up to be a perfect finale to a week of incredible racing. BCBR started with a quick tune-up Prologue on Vancouver's North Shore. This lightning fast mini-stage seeded racers for the feast of single-track stage racing that would follow.
Jul 16, 2019
Competitions
It's Stage 5. Racers are in a relationship now - with BC singletrack. But the honeymoon is over. And like any relationship, this one's going to take effort if its' going to work.
Jul 12, 2019
Competitions
The second FMB Gold Event of the 2019 season saw the world's best Slopestyle athletes descend on the quaint Austrian town of Saalbach Hinterglemm, a tiny town that became the global capital of Slopestyle this weekend.
Jul 9, 2019
Competitions
Give a poet a microphone and who knows when they'll stop talking. "We are mountain bikers. We eat pain for breakfast,” Cumberland's town crier shouted out, welcoming BCBR'ers to the start line Monday morning.
Jul 9, 2019
Competitions
Sometimes they like to serve it up greasy in Cumberland. For West Coast mountain bikers, a little drizzle puts a little dazzle into the trail. However, for BCBR's guests from Spain, Mexico, the American Southwest and anywhere else where a drop of rain is enough to cancel a ride, they were left wondering who smeared bacon fat on the roots and rocks of the local trails.
Jul 9, 2019
Competitions
It was business time this morning as elite men and women rolled up to the start line hoping to put Katerina Nash (Team Clif Bar) and Geoff Kabush (Team Yeti-Maxxis) on notice that this year the BCBR story will unfold in a different fashion. One the menu: the incredible two-mountain, tidal wave of fun that is Stage 1, in the beautiful Cowichan Valley.
Jul 7, 2019
Competitions
Raindrops pattered from a grey West Coast sky, threatening to unleash a tempest of a storm. It was a meteorological foreshadow of things to come. Six hundred BC Bike Racers, representing 38 countries, descended on the North Shore July 4 for the launch of BC Bike Race, version Lucky 13.
Jul 7, 2019
Competitions
The Enduro World Series (EWS) has landed in Val Di Fassa Italy for round four.
Jun 26, 2019
Competitions
The track was new, the location different, but the top of the box in today’s iXS Innsbruck Downhill presented by Raiffeisen Club was a familiar sight.
Jun 16, 2019
Competitions
Kialani Hines (USA) and Adrien Loron (FRA) are each riding a high after pulling out all the mental and physical stops at Crankworx Innsbruck Day 2, each closing it out with wins in the RockShox Innsbruck Pump Track Challenge.
Jun 14, 2019