{"id":753222,"date":"2026-06-22T08:33:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T08:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/753222\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T08:33:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T08:33:11","slug":"jenny-rissveds-wins-again-in-lenzerheide-as-luca-martin-scores-first-mountain-bike-world-series-victory-of-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/753222\/","title":{"rendered":"Jenny Rissveds wins again in Lenzerheide as Luca Martin scores first Mountain Bike World Series victory of year"},"content":{"rendered":"

For a second week in a row world champion Jenny Rissveds got to celebrate on the top step of the podium, taking a solo victory in the women’s elite Cross-Country Olympic (XCO) race at the Whoop UCI Mountain Bike World Series in Lenzerheide.<\/p>\n

Luca Martin (Cannondale Factory Racing), on the other hand, turned a run of second places into victory this time turning the tables by claiming the top spot in the men’s elite race after a long battle with last week’s winner in Leogang, Adrien Boichis (Specialized Factory Racing).<\/p>\n

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The lead group was whittled down from six to four and then two, with Boichis pushing on the climbs and launching a last lap attack on asphalt as he chased a second victory on the trot, but then he slipped out on the gravel and crashed. That was all Martin needed to get away and pull out a gap that left him crossing the line with time to celebrate.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI\u2019m so happy after three second places, I needed to win. It was a crazy race. In the first part I tried to stay at the back [of the leading group] and feel my shape,” said series leader Martin in a media release after taking his first World Cup XCO win of the year and second of his career.<\/p>\n

\u201cI knew the last lap would be very dangerous and it was never finished. When Adrien attacked I felt like I could come back in the downhill. He crashed, it was very slippery, when I saw that I had to go.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Behind Martin and Boichis, it was Bjorn Riley (Scott SRAM MTB) in third.<\/p>\n

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Luca Martin (Cannondale Factory Racing) celebrates his first XCO victory of the year at the 2026 Lenzerheide round of the WHOOP UCI Mountain Bike World Series (Image credit: \u00a9 WHOOP UCI Mountain Bike World Series \/ Michal Cerveny)<\/p>\n

For Rissveds, there was no final lap battle as the world champion and series leader took off solo early after reeling in an opening surge by home-nation rider Ronja Bl\u00f6chlinger (Liv Factory Racing). After that Rissveds forged on alone right to the line, to take the win with a one minute advantage to the Swiss rider Bl\u00f6chlinger, who held firm for her first World Cup XCO podium finish and second podium of the weekend.<\/p>\n

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“I\u2019m really happy about today\u2019s race. In short track on Friday, I was pretty exhausted to be honest,” said Rissveds, also mentioning that it hadn’t been an easy week given controversy surrounding the contact with Savilla Blunk that resulted in a crash for the Decathlon Ford Racing ride on the first lap in Leogang in the last round.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was just trying to be patient today, but then I realised that I was feeling good.\u201d<\/p>\n

Blunk, who earlier won the short track in Lenzerheide, claimed third, 12 seconds back from Bl\u00f6chlinger.<\/p>\n

After two weekends in a row of racing, there will now be a couple of weeks until another set of close rounds \u2013 La Thuile, Italy from July 3-5 and Pal Arinsal, Andorra from July 10-12.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For a second week in a row world champion Jenny Rissveds got to celebrate on the top step…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":753223,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,82],"class_list":["post-753222","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\/753222","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=753222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/753223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=753222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=753222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=753222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}