What was expected to be two exciting days of racing in the Valais ski resort of Anzère turned out to be one. Due to the capricious weather on Saturday, the race of the Swiss Championships was postponed to Sunday morning. So it is enduro specialist Gusti Wildhaber who opens the downhill championship on Sunday morning. Wildhaber's time of 4 minutes and 15 seconds is already a high benchmark and it takes some time before it is beaten by Martin Frei. Shortly afterwards, it is Felix Klee who pushes the record down again, only to be narrowly beaten by the Frenchman Maxime Chapuis. Nick Beer is the last rider to make things clear, beating Klee's time by around 5 seconds. He thus reclaims the title of Swiss champion. Felix Klee and Maxime Chapuis win silver and bronze.

Emilie Siegenthaler is no slouch either. After being unable to compete last year due to injury, she sets the fastest time in Anzère. Martina Brühlmann finishes in silver. The surprise in the women's category comes from Alba Wunderlin. Despite a fall that didn't cost her much time, she won the bronze medal. Defending champion Miriam Ruchti has a poor run and has to settle for sixth place.

In the junior category, Noel Niederberger wins the Swiss championship title ahead of Mike Schär and Joel Andrey.

The postponement of the championship to Sunday has already caused displeasure among some riders. When the attending commissioner of the UCI had the only technically difficult section of the freeride course bypassed, the mood sank completely. The reason: the difficult section in question would still have been manageable for most riders. By changing the route, the UCI is even breaking its own rules. According to the regulations, no changes may be made to the course before the race unless all participants have the opportunity to complete at least two training runs on it.

With the UCI commissioner's response, "we're allowed to do that", the Swiss championship race gets underway, even though around a third of the participants have not seen the new section of the course even once. While most of them, including fifth-placed Gusti Wildhaber, were lucky, some riders suffered crashes and minor injuries. If the same decision had been made before training, everyone involved would have been better off in these cases.

Ranking Downhill Swiss Championships Anzère
Elite men
1.	Nick Beer	4.05,310
2.	Felix Klee	+0.05,536
3.	Maxime Chapuis	+0.08,915
4.	Martin Frei	+0.09,175
5.	Gusti Wildhaber	+0.10,179
6.	Freddy Hunziker	+0.10,655
7.	Pascal Tinner	+0.11,938
8.	Jonas Bernet	+0.11,954
9.	Lars Peyer	+0.12,115
10.	Nils Correvon	+0.12,495
Women
1.	Emilie Siegenthaler	4,40,535
2.	Martina Brühlmann	+0.10,440
3.	Alba Wunderlin	+0.17,789
4.	Carina Cappellari	+0.25,379
5.	Géraldine Fink	+0.39,872
Juniors
1.	Noel Niederberger	4,11,390
2.	Mike Schär	+0.06,561
3.	Joel Andrey	+0.11,833
4.	Jérôme Caroli	+0.11,992
5.	Philippe Frey	+0.15,899
Masters
1.	Christian Greub	4,19,668
2.	Thomas Ryser	+0.05,417
3.	Marcel Waldmann	+0.06,366
U17
1.	Ari Montanier	4,34,055
2.	Romain Grognuz	+0.13,495
3.	Marcel Laube	+0.20,073