{"id":142252,"date":"2025-09-14T01:06:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T01:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/142252\/"},"modified":"2025-09-14T01:06:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T01:06:10","slug":"rebecca-henderson-digs-deep-for-11th-at-world-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/142252\/","title":{"rendered":"Rebecca Henderson digs deep for 11th at World Championships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The women were the first to battle for the elite cross-country world title on the demanding Crans-Montana course, with Rebecca Henderson lining up as the sole representative of the ARA Australian Cycling Team.<\/p>\n<p>Henderson knew how important the start would be after missing her pedal in the short track earlier in the week. <\/p>\n<p>Despite a clean start she was caught behind another rider and pushed back into the middle of the pack. <\/p>\n<p>Forced to burn valuable energy in the chase, she fought to move her way back into contention.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"1600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/ES017611.jpg\" width=\"2400\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Rebecca Henderson racing at 2025 World Championships<\/p>\n<p>Across seven brutal laps, rhythm was hard to find. <\/p>\n<p>The climbs were relentless and the descents were more about letting go of the brakes and holding on tight than finding any flow.<\/p>\n<p>By the end of lap one, the race had already split apart. <\/p>\n<p>Former Olympic champion Jenny Rissveds was out front alone with Henderson part of the second chasing group.<\/p>\n<p>Through lap two Henderson was in ninth alongside Switzerland\u2019s Sina Frei and Nicole Koller, sitting around 30 seconds behind the leaders which included New Zealand&#8217;s Samara Maxwell and Alessandra Keller from Switzerland.<\/p>\n<p>At the halfway point the Australian was distanced from the front pack and would find herself battling away solo for the remaining laps.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"1600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/AW7_8430.jpg\" width=\"2400\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Rebecca Henderson fought her way to 11th place.<\/p>\n<p>Rissveds proved untouchable. The Swede powered away to claim her first ever elite World Championship crown.<\/p>\n<p>Henderson fought to the line, to finish 11th on a day that demanded everything from the riders.<\/p>\n<p>The U23 men faced eight laps of the same course, and it was a rough start for the Australians.<\/p>\n<p>Harry Doye missed his pedal off the line and had to fight from behind. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"1600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/AW6_9951.jpg\" width=\"2400\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Harry Doye racing on the Crans-Montana course.<\/p>\n<p>Despite working his way through the field he was pulled with one lap to go.<\/p>\n<p>For teammate Joel Dodds, the race came to an early end after a crash on lap two.<\/p>\n<p>Results\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Women Elite\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\ud83e\udd47 Jenny Rissveds (SWE) 1:21:35\u00a0<br \/>\ud83e\udd48Samara Maxwell (NZL) +0:18\u00a0<br \/>\ud83e\udd49Alessandra Keller (SUI) +0:56\u00a0<br \/>11 Rebecca Henderson (AUS) +3:10\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Men U23\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\ud83e\udd47FinFinn Treudler (SUI) 1:20:25\u00a0<br \/>\ud83e\udd48Cole Puchard (CAN) +0:54\u00a0<br \/>\ud83e\udd49Gustav Pedersen (GER) + 2:14\u00a0<br \/>60 Harry Doye (AUS) -2lap\u00a0<br \/>Joel Dodds DNF\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tissottiming.com\/2025\/mtbxcowch\/schedule\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Full results can be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Photo Credit: SWPix<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The women were the first to battle for the elite cross-country world title on the demanding Crans-Montana course,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":142253,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,82],"class_list":["post-142252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cycling","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}