At the start of the World Series race in Whistler, local hero Jesse Melamed looks set to win the race. Overall leader Richie Rude rode a flat tire on the second stage and then set off to catch up. Melamed lost some ground on every descent, but was able to maintain his lead into the final long stage. On this stage, Rude is once again the fastest - Melamed's lead is gone. Rude takes another victory, but the underdog Canadian still has every reason to be happy. After all, second place is his best career result. Australian Josh Carlson finished third - not even two seconds behind Melamed.

René Wildhaber receives further confirmation that his form is right. He steadily improved from the first stage onwards and set the eleventh-best time on the final stage. Wildhaber finishes in a good 13th place. Ludo May has not quite reached his old level of form yet. However, compared to the race in Aspen (USA), where May finished 49th, a decent improvement can be seen in Whistler with 36th place.

Ravanel again

French rider Cecile Ravanel had a tough start to the race and suffered faults on stages one and two. So it was her compatriot Isabeau Courdurier who led the race until the last of the five stages. But Ravanel started to catch up on the third descent. She closes the gap on the final descent. She takes over a minute off Courdurier and thus also the victory. It was even close for her, as the Canadian Casey Brown crept up to four seconds behind her.

Anita Gehrig didn't quite go to plan. She doesn't really get into the race at the start and gets lost on a transfer due to a lack of good signposting. As if the race wasn't tough enough already, she had to make up the lost time to avoid a time penalty. Despite everything, Gehrig is able to improve and rides to fifth place in the end. Satisfied with the result, she is pleased to have scored further important points to consolidate her third place in the overall standings.

With seventh place, Carolin Gehrig also delivers another very good result. However, she also struggled to find her rhythm on the first two stages. Like her twin sister, she also stepped on the gas from the third downhill stage onwards, which was extremely important in terms of the result. After all, tenth-placed Canadian Vaea Verbeeck is just 14 seconds behind her.

Nathalie Schneitter also put in a good race. After the World Cup race in Mont Saint Anne, she treats herself to the Enduro World Series race in Whistler as "dessert" and finishes in 16th place.
There is a Swiss victory in the Challenger race of the Sram-Canadien-Open. Camille Balanche from Romande rode the fastest time on each of the four stages, winning by over a minute.

Results Enduro World Series #6 Whistler/Can
Results Enduro Sram-Canadien-Open Challenger-Enduro

Back to Europe

The 2016 Enduro World Series is already coming to an end. But there are still two races to go. The next one will take place in Valberg-Guillaumes, France, where the athletes will be served up stages on the famous "Terre noir", among other things.

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