The 2019 World Champions Are Crowned

Nino Schurter (1) sets out in search of his eighth Elite Men’s Cross-Country World Championship. Brazil’s Henrique Avancini (3) battled with Nino for the early lead. Photo: Boris Beyer/Red Bull Content Pool

For its first visit since 2010, the UCI Mountain Bike World Championships returned to North America. This year marked the third time in 30 years that Mont-Sainte-Anne, Quebec, hosted the event. The popular World Championships race site proved once again why it’s one of the all-time most popular stops on the UCI circuit.

ELITE MEN’S CROSS-COUNTRY

ELITE WOMEN’S DOWNHILL

ELITE WOMEN’S CROSS-COUNTRY

ELITE MEN’S DOWNHILL

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2019 UCI WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS
Mont-Sainte-Anne, Quebec

Nino Schurter, at the age of 33, charged to a recordsetting eighth Elite Men’s XCO World Championship win. Photo: Boris Beyer/Red Bull Content Pool

CROSS-COUNTRY Elite Men

1. Nino Schurter/Switzerland

2. Matthias Flueckiger/Switzerland

3. Stephane Tempier/France (Top Americans: Luke Vrouenvelder, 49th; Keegan Swenson, 57th)

Red Bull Content Pool Switzerland’s Matthias Flueckiger ended up taking second in the Cross-Country race. Photo: Boris Beyer/Red Bull Content Pool

Elite Women

1. Pauline Ferrand-Prevot/France

2. Jolanda Neff/Switzerland

3. Rebecca McConnell/Australia (Top Americans: Kate Courtney, 5th; Lea Davison, 11th; Chloe Woodruff, 15th)

Defending UCI Elite Women’s world champion Kate Courtney took home fifth place this time. Kate still earned a silver medal in the Team Relay competition. Joining her on Team USA in that race were Christopher Blevins, Amos Riley, Haley Batten and Keegan Swenson. Photo: Boris Beyer/Red Bull Content Pool

DOWNHILL Elite Men

1. Loic Bruni/France

2. Troy Brosnan/Australia

3. Amaury Pierron/France (Top Americans: Dakotah Norton, 8th; Luca Shaw, 10th; Aaron Gwin, 12th)

Loic Bruni won his fourth Elite Men’s Downhill World Championship title in five years. Photo: Nathan Hughes/Red Bull Content Pool

Elite Women

1. Myriam Nicole/France

2. Tahnee Seagrave/Great Britain

3. Marine Cabirou/France (Top Americans: Samanth Soriano, 15th; Caroline Washam, 19th; Mazie Hayden, 22nd. America’s Anna Newkirk, who took third in the Juniors, would have placed 14th in the Elites, with her time on the course.)

Myriam Nicole charges out of the starting gate on her way to the Elite Women’s Downhill gold medal. Photo: Nathan Hughes/

Great Britain’s Tahnee Seagrave flew to second place in the Elite Women’s Downhill competition. Photo: Nathan Hughes/Red Bull Content Pool

CROSS-COUNTRY TEAM RELAY

1. Switzerland

2. United States of America

3. France

E-MTB CROSS-COUNTRY MEN

1. Alan Hatherly/South Africa

2. Jerome Gilloux/France

3. Julien Absalon/France (Top Americans: Charlie Mullins, 4th; Ryan Standish, 16th; David Harrison, 24th)

E-MTB CROSS-COUNTRY WOMEN

1. Nathalie Schneitter/Switzerland

2. Maghalie Rochette/Canada

3. Anneke Beerten/Netherlands

E-bike cross-country women winners.

The men’s E-MTB (electric mountain bike) World Championship was packed with male mountain bike legends: Julien Absalon had won the UCI World Cup Series seven times, the UCI World Championships five times, and both the 2004 and 2008 Olympic gold medals; Jaroslav Kulhavy, the 2012 Olympic gold medalist, took fifth in the e-bike event; Marco Aurelio Fontana, the 2012 Olympic bronze medalist, placed sixth; Miguel Martinez, the 1997 and 2000 World Cup champion, 2000 UCI world champion and 2000 Olympic gold medalist, placed 7th; and Christoph Sauser—the 2000 Olympic bronze medalist, 2004 and 2005 World Cup champion, 2008 UCI world champion, and the record-setting five-time winner of the Absa Cape Epic—placed 10th.

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