Mountain Bike World Championships 2022 [FULL RACE – DHI]

August 27, 2022

Mountain Bike World Championships 2022 – DHI – Les Gets

The Mountain Bike World Championships come around once a season and are the most coveted and hard fought race of the year. To be victorious means wearing the biggest prize in cycling – the Rainbow Jersey. Win it and you become a legend and go down in cycling history for eternity. This year’s World Championships take place in Les Gets, an Alpine ski resort that’s played host to countless top-tier mountain bike competitions over the past thirty years. The French commune has even hosted the Mountain Bike World Championships once already in 2004. Riders from all over the globe will have been competing all year in national races and – for many – on the UCI World Cup circuit, accumulating UCI points to compete for the overall World Cup title.
Similar to a criterium in road racing, short track mountain bike racing was introduced as an exciting, spectator-friendly event. Exciting to watch, the first race was held in the 2018 World Championship. The discipline is now a feature of World Cup events and National Championships. It is raced over seven laps of a 1.2km-long course which for what it lacks in technical difficulty for the riders, it makes up for in leg-sapping short climbs and a relentless pace. It’s an intense race format with riders spending most of the 20-40 minutes deep in the dreaded red zone.

Five times World Champion Loic Bruni reigned supreme in Les Gets as he dominated the Elite Men’s field. Loic is World Champion once again as he now holds the second highest number of Elite Male titles and is only the fourth rider to have ever won the rainbow jersey on home soil. The French didn’t just take the gold as Amaury Pierron took the silver and Loris Vergier secured the bronze medal.

Results :
1st. Loic Bruni: 3:20.478
2nd. Amaury Pierron: 3:23.059
3rd. Loris Vergier: 3:23.864
4th. Troy Brosnan: 3:24.388
5th. Laurie Greenland: 3:24.529