In both the women's and men's races, the fastest qualifiers also ride to the fastest time in the final. In the women's event, it was the newly crowned world champion from France, Myriam Nicole, who came out on top ahead of Tahnee Seagrave (GBR) and Valentina Höll (AUT).

Camille Balanche fell ill after the World Championships, but doesn't feel reduced in Lenzerheide and finishes fifth. It is the first race at world level that she has not finished in the top 3 in 2021. Still a very good result, of course, which brings her important points for the overall standings, where she is currently in second place. "I made a small mistake, but I don't think it was decisive. All the top riders were at the start and there were no retirements, so I'm happy with my fifth place in front of a Swiss audience," said Balanche, who was unable to play to her usual strengths on the short and less demanding course.

Delia Da Mocogno is on course for the podium. The young Swiss rider rode a strong race, but crashed shortly before the end and had to avoid the drop before the finish. She finishes sixth and says: "It's a shame about the result, but above all it annoys me that I couldn't jump the last drop because of my crash."

French superiority

In the men's final, Loris Vergier shortens his qualifying time by almost three seconds to 2:46.921, giving the Frenchman another victory. However, it was by a wafer-thin margin, as the reigning European champion was initially behind and only snatched victory in the final third. Loic Bruni finished second, just 0.197 seconds behind, with World Cup leader Thibault Daprela in third place, 0.370 seconds behind. Only slightly behind his compatriots, Amaury Pierron rides to fourth place, and this after the Frenchman had to miss a large part of the season due to injury. The first non-Frenchman is Laurie Greenland (GBR) in fifth place.

The Swiss put in a good performance at their home race, even if they were unable to influence the outcome at the top. Yannick Bächler is once again the best Swiss. The man from Fribourg comes 30th, his best World Cup result if you don't count his 27th place in Les Gets, where he benefited from the weather.

Janis Lehmann is also doing well. After finishing 57th in qualifying, the Swiss rider improved enormously to finish 38th, as did Lino Lehmann, who secured the last place in the final in qualifying and achieved his best result in the race with 40th place. Noel Niederberger was unable to build on his performance from the qualification. Qualifying in 27th place on Friday, Niederberger rode to 44th place in the final race.

Results

After finishing eleventh at the World Championships, Nicolas Bächler was able to improve again in the U19 race. The younger brother of Yannick Bächler rides to tenth place in Lenzerheide - his best result on the international stage.

The race was won by Junior World Champion Jackson Goldstone from Canada.

Results