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October 6, 2023
MTB – XCC – World Cup 2023 – 8 – Mont-Sainte-Anne, Canada
As the name suggests, these races take place on shorter versions of the XCO tracks,
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October 6, 2023
MTB – XCC – World Cup 2023 – 8 – Mont-Sainte-Anne, Canada
As the name suggests, these races take place on shorter versions of the XCO tracks, and are usually around 20 minutes in length. It’ll have fewer big features than the main XCO course, and is an all-out race from start to finish. The XCC kicks off the weekend of racing, taking place on the Friday evening. Short track was initially introduced to the World Cup series in 2018, when it was used to determine the start grid for the XCO race, and fed into the overall points. From 2022, the short track still determines Sunday’s start and there are points available for the XCO overall, but it also has its own overall competition.
Victor Koretzky (Specialized Factory Racing) and Laura Stigger (Specialized) claimed the final short track (XCC) victories of the year at the Mont-Sainte-Anne UCI MTB World Cup while Puck Pieterse (Alpecin-Deceuninck) and Luca Schwarzbauer (Canyon CLLCTV) took out the overall World Cup XCC titles.
In the elite men’s short track race, it was a group of eight that came through together at the start of the final lap of ten, and Koretzky was quick to lay down an attack. The French rider stretched out a small gap and held it through to the finish to keep his end-of-season short-track victory streak on a roll, making it three in succession. Jordan Sarrou (Team BMC) was second and US rider Christopher Blevins (Specialized Factory Racing) came third.
“The beginning of this season was not so good for me and now I am in good shape and I’m just enjoying riding in the front. It’s amazing to fight, like today, with strong guys,” said an emotional Koretzky in the televised post-race interview. “It was really tactical and I love racing like this because until the last lap, you never know who will win.”
Schwarzbauer crossed the line in seventh place, playing a careful hand to make sure he secured the series title. The German rider finished on 1550 points, 110 points ahead of Sarrou.
Results :
 and Laura Stigger (Specialized) claimed the final short track (XCC) victories of the year at the Mont-Sainte-Anne UCI MTB World Cup while Puck Pieterse (Alpecin-Deceuninck) and Luca Schwarzbauer (Canyon CLLCTV) took out the overall World Cup XCC titles.
In the elite men's short track race, it was a group of eight that came through together at the start of the final lap of ten, and Koretzky was quick to lay down an attack. The French rider stretched out a small gap and held it through to the finish to keep his end-of-season short-track victory streak on a roll, making it three in succession. Jordan Sarrou (Team BMC) was second and US rider Christopher Blevins (Specialized Factory Racing) came third.
"The beginning of this season was not so good for me and now I am in good shape and I'm just enjoying riding in the front. It's amazing to fight, like today, with strong guys," said an emotional Koretzky in the televised post-race interview. "It was really tactical and I love racing like this because until the last lap, you never know who will win."
Schwarzbauer crossed the line in seventh place, playing a careful hand to make sure he secured the series title. The German rider finished on 1550 points, 110 points ahead of Sarrou.
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