MTB – XCC – World Cup 2024 – 2 – Araxá [FULL RACE] (ladies)

April 20, 2024

MTB – XCC – World Cup 2024 WE – 2 – – Araxá, Brazil 🇧🇷

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.

In the women’s race, Batten also soloed over the line by four seconds ahead of runner-up Linda Indergand (Liv) and six seconds ahead of a sprint for third between Savilia Blunk (Decathlon Ford) and Alessandra Keller (Thomus Maxon).

Brazil has hosted back-to-back rounds of the series, with Araxá, in Western Minas Gerais, hosting round two after the opening round in Mairiporã last weekend.

In the overall rankings for the short track events, Batton is now leading the overall series with 370 points, while Evie Richards is in second with 350 and Keller is third with 310.

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