THE NOVE MESTO SHORT TRACK BY KORETZKY WINS WITH A GRAVEL TIRE

This edition of UCI Mountain Bike World Series with the program starting on Friday, in a location like Nove Mesto na Morave which hosts both the cross country races and the Marathon, the day is very intense, considering that there are also the two trials of the UCI Junior Series. Today, Saturday 25 May, the Junior boys opened the day in the Vysocina Arena, then at an unusual time for the Short Trackthe elite raced in the morning.

At 10.30am the 40 women, at 11.05am the men while in the afternoon the program already includes two cross country races, at 2.30pm the Under 23 girls and at 4.30pm the boys.

On a very fast 1 kilometer long track, 38 of the 40 elite women who had the right to open the Short Track races. Two flat rate deals. Group race until the fifth lap with Martina Berta and Chiara Teocchi who on some occasions even took the lead to set the pace. After 12 months for the first time wearing the tricolor jersey was not the top rider of the Santa Cruz Rockshox but Giada Specia who won it at the beginning of the month in Nervesa della Battaglia.

Both the Belluno native and Greta Seiwald remained in the big group until the race exploded on the sixth lap. The Swiss Alessandra Keller lit the fuse on the penultimate lap and with a change of pace managed to break away from the group, taking several meters ahead.

In the last kilometer three came out from behind with the aim of catching the breakaway, the world champion Pauline Prevot Ferrand, the Cup leader Haley Batten and her teammate Laura Stigger.

The gap quickly closed with PFP targeting the Swiss who pedaled at 1000 per hour for 2 kilometres. When the riders showed up at the finish line, the Frenchwoman realized that she wouldn’t make it and stopped pedaling.

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Well deserved success Alessandra Kellersecond PFPthird la Batten which maintains leadership. Worth noting is a bad fall for Jenny Rissveds.

Nothing to do for our four girls who didn’t manage to get into the top 10, but three of them secured the second grid of Sunday’s race, Teocchi 11th, Seiwald 14th, Berta 15th. 23rd the Italian champion Specia.

FINISHING ORDER XCC WOMEN ELITE

At 11.05am the 40 elite men set off under the sun, as in the women’s race, even among the men the route did not allow them to make a difference and all forty pedaled in a large group. Anyone who wanted to win had to stay in front, also to avoid crashes in the middle of the group.

Scott SRAM Racing team on fire in the fifth and sixth lap, first forcing Filippo Colombo and then Nino Schurter, both moved to the front but were unable to detach the other riders. On the seventh and penultimate lap both Tom Pidcock and Victor Koretzky tried to go to the front but in vain, there was too much balance. They were all together.

In the final lap Pidcock took the lead followed by Litscher and a N1NO in great shape. Then the Swiss took the lead and behind him were the two Specializeds who passed him just before the finish line when Litscher had run out of fuel.

Success of Victor Koretzky which consolidates its leadership in the Short Track World Cup after the triumph in Araxa. The blues raced on the Specialized S-Works 8 which was fitted with semi-slick gravel tyres, the Specialized Pathfinder Pro 2Bliss.

The Specialized Pathfinder it is the tire used to win some of the most important gravel races in the world such as the Unbound Gravel, a true semi-slick, which makes speed its strong point. L’S-Works Pathfinder has paced with a virtually smooth center section with very dense and directional diamond-shaped side knobs.

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According to his teammate, the stars and stripes champion Chris Blevinsthird Litscher.

The latter then explained that he had had a gearbox problem due to a fall. Best of the five Italians competing Luca Braidot who finished in 14th position.