Enduro did make it onto the world championship stage before 2025 and celebrated its premiere in Canazei in the Dolomites. As everywhere in the Alps, the snow was no exception and forced the organizers to make certain route changes. Despite these, the athletes faced five ranked downhill stages.

In the women's race, top favorite Isabeau Courdurier took the lead early on. After winning stages one and two, the Frenchwoman struggled a little. This gave her compatriot Melanie Pugin the opportunity to get back into the race for gold with two stage wins. It came down to the final stage and Courdurier had the better end of the race, securing the first rainbow jersey in enduro racing. Behind Pugin, third place was increasingly tight. Morgane Charre was in third place for the entire race, but lost time at the end. In the end, just over three seconds separated her from the season's dominator Harriet Harnden, who had to make do with the leather medal.

Swiss rider Delia Da Mocogno showed a strong race and finished eighth, while Hannah Steintaler represented Austria well in twelfth place.

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Everyone against Rude

In the men's race, most people would have bet on the US American Richie Rude, who clearly won the overall World Cup. But here too, the French were in a class of their own. Alex Rudeau won stage after stage and could only be stopped from winning another stage on the final descent, but was still the race winner. Rudeau thus wrote men's enduro history as the first world champion in this discipline. Second place went to his compatriot Louis Jeandel, who was practically on a par with Rude, but rode to silver ahead of Rude with the best time on the last stage.

Christian Textor was the best German in 22nd place. The best Swiss rider was the U21 rider Severin Zingg in 49th place, just behind the second German Daniel Renz.

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