Jérôme Clementz wins the sixth round of the Enduro World Series in the French Alps. With his victory in Val d'Isère, the nimble Frenchman is already the overall winner of the series ahead of the final round in Finale Ligure (ITA). With the fastest time in the first stage on Saturday, Clementz has built up a solid lead and goes into the second day of racing as the leader. His 50-second lead was enough to keep Sunday's fastest rider, Jared Graves (AUS), at bay. Fabien Barel (FRA) comes third.

René Wildhaber is truly taking on a mammoth enduro program. Having already ridden and won the Trans Savoie all week, Wildhaber is also taking on the sixth round of the Enduro World Series. In contrast to the last few events, the 37-year-old will be starting damaged. With bruised, probably even broken ribs, Wildhaber fights his way to an excellent seventh place in the final rankings.

The other Swiss enduro racers also performed very strongly. Former downhill specialist Ludovic May finished in twelfth place among the big names in downhill racing. Florian Golay also finished 17th and Michael Schärer 18th, which is also Schärer's best result in the Enduro World Series.

The grand dame of downhill mountain biking, Anne Caroline Chausson (FRA), has been riding better and better after her injury at the first stop of the series. Now she wins her second race. However, her victory once again casts the organizers in a bad light. It was only announced on the last stage that time penalties would be imposed for not wearing a back number. England's Tracey Moseley, who had been leading the race up to that point and had ridden without a number and never received a warning, had no opportunity to collect her number and was given a race-deciding time penalty. Nevertheless, Moseley still leads the overall standings and will most likely take the overall victory. Chausson's compatriot Cecile Ravanel will ride to third place.

There are also good results to report from a Swiss perspective. Lorraine Truong put in a strong performance to finish sixth and achieve her best result of the series, coming ninth. After a poor first day, Anita Gehrig was able to fight her way up from twelfth to ninth place with a strong recovery. Carolin Gehring is again dogged by bad luck and finishes seventeenth with two flat tires.

The first day of the race was no longer plagued by bad luck. The second stage on Saturday is almost entirely a victim of the bad weather - but the organizers don't seem to accept victims. As a result, the first 50 men start in good visibility. After that, the fog obscures visibility to such an extent that you can barely see two bends in the open terrain. Numerous riders miss the race course, end up on other routes and sometimes find their way back onto the race course and thus to the finish. The organizers hardly seem to be interested in the numerous objections from the riders, which is why this irregular second stage is actually scored. Riders who cannot find their way back onto the race course are disqualified without further ado. The two top riders Anneke Beerten (NED) and Ines Thoma (GER) were among the victims of this arbitrariness.Results men
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