Australian Cameron Wright comes out of the starting lap with a five-second lead at the finish line. Behind him, a Chilean leads the chasing pack, but he doesn't play a role later on. Joel Roth invests and closes the gap to Wright before the last quarter of the climb. "I overtook him, but he immediately passed me again," Roth reports. "That was probably the key to gold."

At this point, however, Roth had no idea that the local would take 20 seconds off him on the downhill. "I didn't expect that. But he did a lot of laps on the course and I only managed four because of the team relay," analyzes the Swiss rider. He gets closer to Wright on the climbs. "I felt very strong on the uphill, but of course I couldn't make up 20 seconds five times," explains Roth. Holden Jones also came down the mountain faster and formed a duo with Roth at the finish, extending their lead over the next chasing group to 50 seconds.

On the final lap, Joel Roth was finally able to overtake the Canadian and ride to silver. "I was definitely the strongest on the mountain today, but it's the whole lap that counts. That's why Cameron deserved to be world champion. But silver is not bad either," Roth sums up. "It was my best race of the season. After the race in Basel, I got my confidence back and believed in myself."

Fabio Püntener has to slow down on the first bend after the start because of a crash in front of him. After the 1.6-kilometer starting loop, he starts the first of five laps in 25th place. "After two laps, I really got into the ride and made up more and more places," says Püntener. "I'm definitely very satisfied." He moved up to eleventh place (+2:21).