{"id":138952,"date":"2025-09-13T00:38:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T00:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/138952\/"},"modified":"2025-09-13T00:38:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T00:38:09","slug":"wright-shines-with-sixth-in-junior-xco-world-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/138952\/","title":{"rendered":"Wright Shines with Sixth in Junior XCO World Championships"},"content":{"rendered":"

The junior cross-country Olympic (XCO) races opened the 2025 UCI Mountain Bike World Championships on the challenging Crans-Montana course in Switzerland, with more than 100 riders lining up in the men\u2019s event.<\/p>\n

Australia\u2019s sole representative, Connor Wright, wasted no time in making his mark. <\/p>\n

The national champion from Western Australia powered off the line when the lights went green and slotted himself into the front group of five during the opening two laps.<\/p>\n

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Connor Wright part of the lead group in Junior Men XCO.<\/p>\n

At the halfway point Wright drifted back a few positions, but he showed the composure of a seasoned rider. <\/p>\n

Having already proven his international calibre with a podium at the Junior World Series round in Nov\u00e9 M\u011bsto earlier this year, the debutant dug deep over the closing laps. <\/p>\n

He crossed the line in sixth place, just over a minute behind French winner Lucas Teste.<\/p>\n

In the junior women\u2019s race, Ruby Taylor made her own debut on the mountain bike global stage. <\/p>\n

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Ruby Taylor competing in the junior XCO race in Crans-Montana.<\/p>\n

Starting from near the back of the grid, the Victorian worked hard to move through the bunch on a course that offered little respite. <\/p>\n

Despite being pulled one lap short, she finished 42nd in the world.<\/p>\n

Results<\/p>\n

Men Junior<\/p>\n

\ud83e\udd47Lucas Teste (FRA)1:14:49
\ud83e\udd48Roger Suren (NAM) +:11
\ud83e\udd49Lewin Iten (SUI) +0:31
6 Connor Wright (AUS) +1:24<\/p>\n

Women Juniors<\/p>\n

\ud83e\udd47Tereza Maru\u0161 \u0160erkezi 1:01:27
\ud83e\udd48Anja Grossman (SUI) +1:13
\ud83e\udd49Barbora Bukovska (CZE) +2:50
42 Ruby Taylor (AUS) -1lap<\/p>\n

Full results can be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The junior cross-country Olympic (XCO) races opened the 2025 UCI Mountain Bike World Championships on the challenging Crans-Montana…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":138953,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,784,85],"class_list":["post-138952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cycling","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138952\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}