In addition to the enduro specialists, most of whom come from Italy, the small winter sports resort on the Italian side of the Splügen Pass is also home to riders from almost every corner of the globe. There are three riders from the United States in the top 10. They use the smaller races between the World Series races in Valloire and La Thuille to maintain their racing rhythm and also achieve good results. Ben Cruz does this best, riding a good 13 seconds ahead of the Italian Marco Milivinti on the first of the two race days. However, it starts to rain in torrents during these three downhill stages.

The persistent rain meant that the race was shortened for the second day of the race. Only one stage is still on the program. In this stage, it was Milivinti who came out on top and was the only rider to set a time of under six minutes in the mud. Cruz finishes this last stage in seventh place. However, his lead from the first day of the race was enough to keep Milivinti at bay. Italian enduro champion Alex Lupato finished third. Cruz's compatriot Adam Craig, once a top 10 rider in the Cross-County World Cup, finished the race in a good fifth place despite a tough battle with the difficult conditions. The third in the group, Lars Sternberg, finished ninth.

The fastest Swiss racer is Armin Beeli from Flims in 19th place, which is not a bad result considering that Beeli barely had time to complete enough training runs on all courses.

Third place won - not victory lost
In the women's race, Carolin Gehrig has one goal at the start - to keep the win in the family. In 2012, her twin sister Anita stood at the top of the podium and last year the Gehrig twins even achieved a double victory. This time on a solo mission, Carolin Gehrig wants to gain the necessary lead on the first stage, her favorite stage, to reach her goal. She crashes on this downhill stage of all stages and finishes in second place behind Louise Paulin from Sweden, who lives in Italy. Gehrig did well in the second and third downhill stages. Nevertheless, the Flims native is also caught by Brit Katy Winton.

Nothing is lost on the second day of racing. The fastest three women are only 15 seconds apart. Realizing that it will be a difficult task to make up this gap in a technically easy stage, Carolin Gehrig attacks again. However, it is not enough to make up ground. This leaves Paulin in the lead, Winton in second and Gehrig in third - almost unchanged and close behind each other. With her third place, Carolin Gehrig can still celebrate an important success - even if nothing came of her hoped-for victory. After all, it is only the second race after her injury break, which ended two weeks ago.

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Results 3rd round Superenduro Series, Madesimo/ITA
Men
1.	Ben Cruz (USA)	Team WTB Cannondale	20.35,98
2.	Marco Milivinti (ITA)	Torpado Factory Racing Team	+00.04,07
3.	Alex Lupato (ITA)	FRM Factory Racing Team	+00.09,61
4.	Greg Callaghan (IRL)	Nukeproof Factory Racing Team	+00.09,92
5.	Adam Craig (USA)	Giant Offroad Team	+00.17,70
6.	Davide Sottocornola (ITA)	Cicobikes-DS	+00.20,84
7.	Mark Scott (GBR)	Wideopen Mag	+00.25,79
8.	Nicola Casadei (ITA)	Gravity Game	+00.37,29
9.	Lars Sternberg (USA)	Transition Bikes	+00.50,64
10.	Vittorio Gambirasio (ITA)	Officine Red	+01.01,82
19.	Armin Beeli (SUI)		+01.53,59
27.	Christian Greub (SUI)	IG BERGVELO	+02.33,81
28.	Urs Pargmann (SUI)	ION	+02.38,70
39.	Alois von Wurstemberger (SUI)	one80-shop.ch	+03.02,63
40.	Jonas Bähler (SUI)	one80-shop.ch	+03.02,70
46.	Gian Ragettli (SUI)		+03.35,05
60.	Olimpio Spini (SUI)	MTB EXPEDITIO	+04.17,46
72.	Luca Zenone (SUI)	MTB EXPEDITIO	+05.04,56
86.	Daniel Limacher (SUI)		+06.10,54
106.	Gustavo Lunardi (SUI)	MTB EXPEDITIO	+11.44,94
Women
1.	Louise Paulin (SWE)	ODDONE BICI	24.49,53
2.	Katy Winton (GBR)	PIVOT MORVELO	+00.02,22
3.	Carolin Gehrig (SUI)	Twins MTB Racing	+00.17,68
4.	Gabrielle Molloy (NZL)	ROTORUA MTB	+00.33,74
5.	Mary Moncorge (FRA)		+01.09,20