The first race of the Swiss iXS Downhill Series in Morgins attracts around 400 participants from 15 nations to the beautiful and varied downhill course. As in the previous year, there will be a duel between the nations of Switzerland and France again this year. Among the fastest riders, Ivan Oziol sets the best time and ousts his compatriot Romain Paulhan from the hotseat. However, a number of the following riders were unable to match Oziol's top time.

First the 2010 junior Swiss champion Basil Weber comes close to the leader and takes second intermediate place. However, a stopper in the last technical forest section prevents the young Zurich rider from setting a possible best time. The following riders are unable to match the best time. The tide turns with the start of Nicolas Ortiz. His new best time is also not beaten by Florian Arthus, but pushes Basil Weber into third place. The Briton Lee Huskinson takes fifth place.

First elite victory for Fink
In the elite women's category, France's Laura Lohner is the favorite. She underlined this with her best time in Saturday's qualifying race. Enduro specialist Lorraine Truong also drew attention to herself there with second place. On race day, however, Lohner was unable to match her performance from the presentation and was stranded in sixth place. Instead, Géraldine Fink turned up the heat. In the end, the young Swiss rider won by just under five seconds ahead of Lorraine Truong from Romande and just under six seconds ahead of Lea Rutz. This is Fink's first victory in the elite category.

In the u17 boys' junior category, Great Britain's Kaos Seagrave and Switzerland's Janis Lehmann swapped places. Lehmann was fastest in qualifying, but Seagrave set the fastest time in the final on Sunday. Just under two seconds behind him, Lehmann took second place. A further second back in third place was Swiss rider Loris Michellod.The next race of the iXS Swiss DH Cup will take place in Lenzerheide on July 25-27, 2014.

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Results iXS Swiss Downhill Cup, Morgins
Men
1.	Nicolas Ortiz (FRA)	Rage	4.24,456
2.	Ivan Oziol (FRA)	P2V Team	+0.01,808
3	Florian Arthus (FRA)	Club des Sports des Ménuires	+0.03,576
4	Basil Weber (SUI)	Team Project	+0.05,725
5.	Lee Huskinson (GBR)	Torico Morzine	+0.05,906
6.	Dominik Gspan (SUI)	ewz mountainbiketeam loop	+0.06,224
7.	Lucas Frigout (FRA)	sodicycle mtb racing	+0.06,270
9.	Dylan Levesque (FRA)	TEAM AVEYRON VTT	+0.06,488
10.	Colin Favre (SUI)	Cyclone Trek Anzère	+0.06,939
Women
1.	Géraldine Fink (SUI)		5.21,816
2.	Lorraine Truong (SUI)	Norco - Verbier	+0.04,548
3.	Lea Rutz (SUI)	Never Freeze	+0.05,806
4.	Sidonie Jolidon (SUI)	Spirit Free	+0.19,191
5.	Luana Oliveira (BRA)	Swiss Downhill Syndicate	+0.23,618
u17-boys
1.	Kaos Seagrave (GBR)		4,49,606
2.	Janis Lehmann (SUI)	aendus-bike-gallery.ch	+0.01,567
3.	Loris Michellod (SUI)	Bike Club Verbier	+0.03,277
4.	Luca Henzi (SUI)	Hot-Trail	+0.05,929
5.	Frederik Buch (GER)		+0.13,234