Katazina Sosna and Tiago Ferreira win Kronplatz King 2021 | Ride MTB

Katazina Sosna and Tiago Ferreira win Kronplatz King 2021

Latvia's Katazina Sosna and Portugal's Tiago Ferreira won this year's edition of the Kronplatz King, which provided plenty of excitement with several lead changes on the challenging route of the mountain bike classic in the South Tyrolean mountains.

In the end, it was 2016 World Champion Tiago Ferreira from the DMT Racing Team who rode across the finish line first after 3:19.19.1 hours at the foot of the Concordia Peace Bell on Plan de Corones/Kronplatz, narrowly beating Aleksei Medvedev (RUS, 3:20.07.7) from A.S.D. Cicli Taddei.

This meant that the defending champion from 2019 - 2020 had to be canceled due to torrential rain - and the former European champion from Russia finished in the same place.

Thus, the defending champion from 2019 - the race had to be canceled in 2020 due to torrential rain - and the former European champion from Russia ensured the same finish as two years ago.

Mattia Longa (ITA; 3:21.38.6) from the Scott Racing Team, who finished fourth in the fourth edition, secured third place in the strong field of men

The women's race was much closer than the men's, with only a few seconds making the difference in the end

Katazina Sosna from A.S.D. TORPADO-SÜDTIROL finished the King Marathon distance with its 64 kilometers and 3,150 vertical meters in 4:03.56.0 hours, closely followed by Adelheid Morath (GER; 4:04.05.8) from RSV Bike Arge.

Esther Süss (SUI; 4:19.23.5) from BikErich, title winner in 2018 and runner-up in 2019, rounded off the women's podium in third place.

Martina de Silvestro (ITA; 3:26.05.5) and Simon Schupfer (AUT; 2:25.57.6) from dolomite.bike secured victory in the shorter Prince Classic distance (49 km, 2,000 vertical meters).

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