Stevens-McNab\u2019s fellow Kiwi in the Trek Factory team, Sacha Earnest, returned from injury that forced her out of the world championships to score a season-best fifth in her rookie year in the elite women\u2019s category.<\/p>\n
Earnest, who produced a superb run in the final, moved up to 13th in the overall standings with fellow Kiwi Jess Blewitt (Queenstown, Cube Factory) in eighth.<\/p>\n
Tauranga\u2019s Eliana Hulsebosch was the best of the Kiwis in the junior women\u2019s final, with the Santa Cruz Syndicate rider sixth just ahead of Rotorua\u2019s Bellah Birchall (Team High Country).<\/p>\n
Hulsebosch is in fourth place overall, five points off a top-three finish, with Birchall sixth.<\/p>\n
The Lenzerheide event concludes with the cross-country races tomorrow where Kiwi Samara Maxwell is looking to extend her lead in the elite competition.<\/p>\n
Downhill and cross-country riders then head to Lake Placid-Mt Van Hoevenberg which hosts the penultimate round of the UCI MTB World Cup on October 3-5 ahead of the final stop at Mont-Sainte-Anne in Canada on October 9-12.<\/p>\n
Downhill results:<\/p>\n
Elite men final: Amaury Pierron (FRA) 2:44.699, 1; Henri Liefer (GER) 2:45.106, 2; Lachie Stevens-McNab (NZL, Trek Factory) 2:45.513, 3.<\/p>\n
Elite women: Tahee Seagrave (GBR) 3:11.579, 1; Nina Hoffmann (GER) 3:11.640, 2; Valentina Holl (AUT) 3:12.394, 3. Also: Sacha Earnest (Auckland, Trek Factory) 3:16.197, 5.<\/p>\n
Junior men: Asa Vermette (USA) 2:44.707, 1; Jonty Williamson (Palmerston North, Yeti Fox) 2:49.491, 2; Oli Clark (Kaik\u014dura, MS Racing) 2:50.463, 3. Also NZers: Seppy Binsbergen (Taranaki) 3:09.248, 16; Tyler Waite (Clive, Yeti-Fox) 3:11.176, 17.<\/p>\n
Junior women: Rosa Zierl (AUT) 3:11.437, 1; Aletha Ostgaard (USA) 3:14.588, 2; Marie Rosa Jensen (NOR) 3:16.797, 3. Also NZers: Eliana Hulsebosch (Tauranga, Santa Cruz Synd) 3:19.669, 6; Bellah Birchall (Rotorua, High Country) 3:25.152, 7.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stevens-McNab\u2019s fellow Kiwi in the Trek Factory team, Sacha Earnest, returned from injury that forced her out of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":160611,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[1929,64,63,106550,5794,784,3188,26051,2649,13057,106551,4717,106548,106554,17415,35068,36391,106552,89833,25954,161,9672,85,106549,6221,106553,39556,1720],"class_list":["post-160610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-at","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-biker","tag-claims","tag-cycling","tag-downhill","tag-elite","tag-final","tag-first","tag-grabbed","tag-in","tag-lachlan","tag-lenzerheide","tag-mens","tag-mountain","tag-mtb","tag-placing","tag-podium","tag-rotorua","tag-season","tag-series","tag-sports","tag-stevensmcnab","tag-switzerland","tag-third","tag-uci","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160610","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=160610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160610\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}