Located in the Scottish Highlands, Fort William is the World Cup venue where, according to statistics, the most first World Cup victories are celebrated. Troy Brosnan also underlines this statistic. The former Junior World Champion already rode the fastest time in Saturday's qualifying run. In the final race on Sunday, the Australian gets off to a good start but "only" rides the sixth fastest intermediate time. Brosnan then turns up the heat on his rivals and wins after a good four and a half minutes of driving time with a lead of over one and a half seconds over his compatriot and former team colleague Sam Hill.

In contrast to Brosnan, Brit Danny Hart rides the fastest first intermediate time, but loses a little ground in the second, which puts him in third place. This is certainly a success for the downhill world champion from Champéry in 2010, as he has never quite been able to repeat his performance from back then since his title. Canadian Steve Smith, who is competing in his first Downhill World Cup this year after his injury break, also put in a strong race. With sixth place, Smith made a successful return to the sport and finished just ahead of the reigning world champion Greg Minnaar from South Africa.

Swiss downhill figurehead Nick Beer finishes his run in 41st place. Beer is disappointed that he didn't get his run down the way he would have liked. As in the qualification run, the Bernese also "kisses" a tree in the final run. Noel Niederberger, who had qualified for the final in 47th place after his injury break, doesn't get very far. Soon after the start, he suffered a puncture and dropped out of the race. However, the 56th place of Maxime Chapuis from Romand is pleasing. Since the Swiss downhill racers have not been doing well, hardly any Swiss racers qualify for the top 80 who are allowed to compete in the final run. Chapuis managed this with 65th place in the qualification, from which he improved in the final.

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Results #3 Downhill World Cup Fort William/GBR, Men
1.	Troy Brosnan (AUS)	SPECIALIZED RACING DH	4.36,580
2.	Sam Hill (AUS)	CHAIN REACTION CYCLES.COM / NUKEPROOF	+0.01,659
3.	Danny Hart (GBR)	GIANT FACTORY OFF-ROAD TEAM	+0.02,076
4.	Aaron Gwin (USA)	SPECIALIZED RACING DH	+0.02,516
5.	Gee Atherton (GBR)	GT FACTORY RACING	+0.03,142
6.	Steve Smith (CAN)	DEVINCI GLOBAL RACING	+0.04,133
7.	Greg Minnaar (RSA)	SANTA CRUZ SYNDICATE	+0.05,314
8.	Sam Dale (GBR)	MADISON SARACEN FACTORY TEAM	+0.05,861
9.	Greg Williamson (GBR)	TREK WORLD RACING	+0.07,552
10.	Rémi Thirion (FRA)	COMMENCAL / RIDING ADDICTION	+0.07,565
41.	Nick Beer (SUI)	DEVINCI GLOBAL RACING	+0.17,134
56.	Maxime Chapuis (SUI)		+0.22,681
DNF	Noel Niederberger (SUI)	GSTAAD-SCOTT