Ukrainian Yana Belomoina wins the World Cup race in Mont Saint Anne and thus also the overall World Cup early on - the first ever for Ukraine! The resurgent Pauline Ferrand Prevot rides to second place, with Catherine Pendrel in third. Alessandra Keller and Linda Indergand take ninth and tenth place respectively.

In the starting phase, Olympic champion Jenny Rissveds crashes in her first World Cup race of the season. She also knocks Alessandra Keller and the German Helen Grobert off their bikes. Yana Belomoina doesn't get off to a particularly good start either and it takes 45 minutes for the Ukrainian to get to the front, where last year's winner Catharine Pendrel had set the fastest pace. This briefly created a leading trio with Pauline Ferrand Prevot, but Pendrel was no longer able to follow her two rivals.On the penultimate lap, Belomoina was able to distance herself from her rival and ride safely to victory. Because Maja Wloszczowska from Poland decided not to start after all due to her wrist injury, Belomoina was able to secure the overall winner's white jersey ahead of time.

In the absence of Jolanda Neff, the Swiss riders were not able to get involved in the battle for the podium places on this day. Keller needed two laps to find her rhythm after the crash. "I don't know if that was due to the crash, maybe the exams at university are a bit too much at the moment," Keller shrugs. "In any case, I'm not satisfied."

Linda Indergand expresses her satisfaction, but only in view of the circumstances. She "twisted" her ankle in training on Thursday. This also disrupted her preparation. "I wasn't able to train on the track the way I wanted to and until yesterday I didn't even know whether I would be able to start," explains Indergand. The European Championship silver medallist also admits that the tape she had applied restricted her flexibility in her ankle. She was still riding in seventh place on the first lap, but then increasingly lost ground.

Corina Gantenbein is delighted with the second-best World Cup result of her career. She rides her way up to tenth place because "it always stalled in front of me", has to pay for it for a while and then works her way up again from 14th place. "I think I can be very satisfied," she sums up.

World Cup #6, Mont Saint Anne/CAN, XCO Women
1.	Yana Belomoina (CST Sandd American Eagle MTB Racing Team / UKR)	01:17.50
2.	Pauline Ferrand Prevot (Canyon Factory Racing XC / FRA)	01:18.34	+00.44
3.	Catharine Pendrel (Clfi Pro Team / CAN)	01:19.04	+01.14
4.	Emily Batty (Trek Factory Racing XC / CAN)	01:19.39	+01.49
5.	Irina Kalentyeva (Möbel Märki MTB Pro Team / RUS)	01:19.57	+02.07
6.	Anne Tauber (Habitat Mountainbike Team / NED)	01:20.29	+02.39
7.	Tanja Zakelj (Unior Tools Team / SLO)	01:20.36	+02.46
8.	Annie Last (OMX Pro Team / GBR)	01:20.37	+02.47
9.	Alessandra Keller (Radon Factory XC Team / SUI)	01:21.02	+03.12
10.	Linda Indergand (Focus XC Team / SUI)	01:21.11	+03.21
12.	Corina Gantenbein (Möbel Märki MTB Pro Team / SUI)	01:22.15	+04.25
23.	Kathrin Stirnemann (Radon Factory XC Team / SUI)	01:26.10	+08.20
25.	Katrin Leumann (Goldwurst Power / SUI)	01:28.13	+10.23