{"id":693972,"date":"2026-05-26T03:17:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T03:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/693972\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T03:17:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T03:17:11","slug":"wrights-european-purple-patch-after-uci-junior-series-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/693972\/","title":{"rendered":"Wright\u2019s European purple patch after UCI Junior Series win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Connor Wright has continued his unbeaten run in Europe with back-to-back victories at the Nov\u00e9\u00a0M\u00e9sto\u00a0na\u00a0Morav\u00e9\u00a0 UCI\u00a0XCO\u00a0Junior Series.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The West\u00a0Australian\u00a0showcased\u00a0his powerful sprint finish in both the short track (XCC) and Olympic cross-country (XCO) races at the famed Czech\u00a0venue.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>With the XCC included in the UCI Junior Series for the first time, Wright made sure the occasion was memorable. After a tough seven laps, the junior national champion timed his run perfectly, launching his move as the riders entered the finishing straight.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"4000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_0572.JPG\" width=\"6000\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Connor Wright crosses the line in the junior men XCC.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had the run onto the descent and then in the last\u00a0100\u00a0metres\u00a0I managed to pull it off,\u201d Wright said post-race.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>There was little time to recover before he was back between the tape for Sunday\u2019s XCO race, where he delivered another composed performance, particularly through the technical sections of the renowned Nov\u00e9 M\u011bsto course.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"3456\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_9520.JPG\" width=\"5184\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Wright now leads the overall rankings for the UCI XCO Junior Series.<\/p>\n<p>And just like the XCC, the Australian produced another thrilling finish, edging out Austria\u2019s Michael Hettegger\u00a0for\u00a0the win.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The result marked Wright\u2019s fourth straight victory in the UCI XCO Junior Series after earlier wins at the Czech MTB Cup and Bike the Rock in Germany.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>All four wins have\u00a0arrived\u00a0during the AusCycling European U19 and U23\u00a0XCO\u00a0Development Camp, which\u00a0concludes this week.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Wright now turns his attention to the road as part of the AusCycling European Road Development Camp, which will race UCI Nations&#8217; Cups across Switzerland, Germany, France and Slovakia over the next month.<\/p>\n<p>Featured photos:  Philip Metzger<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Connor Wright has continued his unbeaten run in Europe with back-to-back victories at the Nov\u00e9\u00a0M\u00e9sto\u00a0na\u00a0Morav\u00e9\u00a0 UCI\u00a0XCO\u00a0Junior Series.\u00a0 The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":693973,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,82],"class_list":["post-693972","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\/693972","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=693972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/693973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=693972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=693972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=693972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}