Austrian Mona Mitterwallner sets off early and then runs lonely circles in the Saalfelden mud. At times, she has a lead of up to two minutes over her closest rival Luisa Daubermann from Germany, who ultimately wins the silver medal. Aneta Novotna from the Czech Republic rode to third place.

Elisa Alvarez could also have finished in the latter position. The Swiss junior started well and was in third place on lap two. However, a chain break dashed her hopes of a top result. After an enforced break in the tech zone, she was able to continue the race and fought her way to the finish in 25th place.
Annika Liehner rode to 14th place as the best Swiss rider and was delighted with this result. "I got away well at the start and was able to make up positions on the first lap," says Liehner, who had to start relatively far back. "The race was then mega tough and you can never stop fighting and that's exactly what I did. I'm super happy with 14th place!"

Results XC World Junior Championships
1st Mona Mitterwallner (AUT)
2. Luisa Daubermann (GER)
3. Aneta Novotna (CZE)
4th Olivia Onesti (FRA)
5th Line Burquier (FRA)
14th Annika Liehner (SUI)
16th Nicole Göldi (SUI)
25th Elisa Alvarez (SUI)

Great team performance by the Swiss juniors

Janis Baumann puts in a strong performance in the junior race. The man from Graubünden was even in the lead for a while, but was back in third place at the start of the third lap - within striking distance of the German Lennart-Jan Krayer and the leading Frenchman Luca Martin, who soon increased his lead. Dario Lillo and Luke Wiedmann are a little further back in fifth and eighth place respectively.

There is a change: Krayer takes the lead and Baumann is now in second place, around 20 seconds behind. The former leader Martin loses a lot of ground, but is still in third place. The Swiss rider doesn't let up and makes up a few seconds, and another Swiss rider also catches up behind him: Finn Treudler has fought his way up to ninth position, which means there are now four Swiss in the top 10.

However, Janis Baumann soon loses ground again, while Luca Martin catches up. Lennart-Jan Krayer celebrates the Junior World Championship title, Janis Baumann wins the silver medal ahead of the Frenchman.
"I didn't have such a good feeling at the start, but I rode my pace and concentrated on the technical sections and tried to get to the front more and more. The track was so broken because of the rain, so it was very much down to technical ability and not just performance," said Baumann, analyzing his key to success.

Dario Lillo was unable to hold on to fifth place, but still finished a good sixth and right behind him, his teammates Luke Wiedmann and Finn Treudler lined up in seventh and eighth place - a great team result.

Results XC World Championship Juniors
1st Lennart-Jan Krayer (GER)
2nd Janis Baumann (SUI)
3rd Luca Martin (FRA)
4th Riley Amos (USA)
5th Oliver Vederso Solvhoj
6th Dario Lillo (SUI)
7th Luke Wiedmann (SUI)
8th Finn Treudler (SUI)
25th Timo Müller (SUI)
26th Roman Holzer (SUI)
36th Lars Sommer (SUI)

Pugin and Pidcock are the new e-bike world champions

In the women's category, the Swiss Nathalie Schneitter and Kathrin Stirnemann immediately storm to the top, followed by the French enduro specialist Melanie Pugin.
This constellation goes into the second round as the top trio. The third Swiss rider Alba Wunderlin follows a little further behind in fifth place, just ahead of Nadine Sapin (FRA) and last year's runner-up Maghalie Rochette (CAN).

In round two, however, Pugin turns up the heat and "flows" away from her Swiss opponents. But while the gap to the back of the podium widened, the two Swiss skiers kept the gap to the Frenchwoman for a short time, but then the two lost ground and Schneitter fell behind Stirnemann shortly afterwards.
Pugin also takes her lead into the final lap, but Stirnemann gradually closes the gap again. In the end, however, it was not enough and Melanie Pugin became e-bike world champion ahead of Kathrin Stirnemann and Nathalie Schneitter. Alba Wunderlin finished the race in eighth place.

Results E-MTB World Championship Women
1st Melanie Pugin (FRA)
2. Kathrin Stirnemann (SUI)
3rd Nathalie Schneitter (SUI)
4th Sofia Wiedenroth (SUI)
5th Maghalie Rochette (CAN)
8th Alba Wunderlin (SUI)

Ryf fifth

Joris Ryf makes a promising start to the e-mountain bike world championships and settles into second place for the first two and a half laps, followed by British multi-talent Thomas Pidcock. The latter then rides past Ryf and distances him by a few seconds.
Meanwhile, Frenchman Jérome Gilloux leads the race by around 30 seconds. Jürg Graf, another Swiss rider, follows in sixth place.

On the following laps, however, Gilloux's lead began to falter as Pidcock caught up and turned the tide on the fifth lap. The young Brit pulled out a lead of over 30 seconds by the finish and took the title from South African Alan Hatherly, who had to withdraw from the race at short notice.
Behind Gilloux, the Dane Simon Andreassen wins the bronze medal, while Joris Ryf secures a good fifth place. Jürg Graf took eighth place.

Results E-MTB World Championships Men
1st Thomas Pidcock (GBR)
2nd Jérome Gilloux (FRA)
3rd Simon Andreassen (DEN)
4th Martino Fruet (ITA)
5th Joris Ryf (SUI)
8th Jürg Graf (SUI)
11th Simon Vitzthum (SUI)
13th Gusti Wildhaber (SUI)
15th Andreas Moser (SUI)
17th Ursin Spescha (SUI)