The ultimate spherical of the first-ever World Cup season within the cross-country Brief Monitor (XCC), noticed world champion Pauline Ferrand-Prévot (BMC) win the ladies’s race and her BMC teammate Titouan Carod win the lads’s on Friday, in Val di Sole, Italy.
The primary general sequence titles went to Alessandra Keller (Thomus Maxon) and Alan Hatherly (Cannondale Manufacturing facility).
The ladies’s 20-minute race shortly got here all the way down to 4 riders – Ferrand-Prévot, Keller, Loana Lecomte (Canyon Collective) and Olympic XCO champion Jolanda Neff (Trek Manufacturing facility).
The group stayed collectively till the ultimate lap, when Lecomte launched an assault on the climb. Solely Ferrand-Prévot may keep together with her, after which handed her within the ultimate nook to take the win by a motorcycle size.
Keller took third, to provide her 1,470 factors, 190 forward of early season sequence chief Rebecca McConnell (Primaflora Mondraker Genuins), who completed second general, 21 factors in entrance of Neff.
The battle for the lads’s title was anticipated to be between Hatherly and second place Filippo Colombo (BMC), who was solely 62 factors again going into the ultimate spherical.
Nevertheless, when Hatherly attacked aggressively within the early laps, Colombo pale, to ultimately end fifteenth. Carod was the one rider to go along with Hatherly, attacking on the ultimate lap to win, with Hatherly securing his title by ending second, forward of Luca Braidot (Santa Cruz FSA).
Colombo held onto to his second within the general standings, however Carod jumped from fifth to 3rd along with his win, his first in XCC.
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