{"id":137201,"date":"2025-09-14T18:06:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T18:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/137201\/"},"modified":"2025-09-14T18:06:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T18:06:09","slug":"uci-mtb-world-championships-rising-canadian-star-isabella-holmgren-takes-second-straight-u23-xco-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/137201\/","title":{"rendered":"UCI MTB World Championships: Rising Canadian star Isabella Holmgren takes second straight U23 XCO title"},"content":{"rendered":"

Isabella Holmgren (Canada) completed the double-double at the UCI Mountain Bike World Championships<\/a> in Switzerland, backing up her Cross-country short track success with a dominant victory in the U23 Women’s XCO race on Sunday to keep both rainbow jerseys she won last year.<\/p>\n

Isabella Holmgren made her move on the second of six laps of the Crans Montana course and made her dominance plainly clear by extending her lead to an astonishing 2:16 by the finish.<\/p>\n

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Vida Lopez de San Roman (USA) crossed the line in second place, while the bronze medal went to Valentina Corvi (Italy), who finished 3:20 down on the winner.<\/p>\n

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Only six riders finished within five minutes of Isabella Holmgren, who underlined her status as one of the future multi-discipline stars of the sport. All the more remarkable is the fact that this title comes two weeks after Isabella Holmgren sealed victory in the Tour de l’Avenir Femmes – a key U23 race on the road.<\/p>\n

Isabella’s sister Ava Holmgren finished seventh, while Switzerland placed four riders in the top 10 – Anina Hutter in fourth, Elina Benoit in fifth, Lea Huber in sixth, Monique Halter in eighth.<\/p>\n

Results<\/p>\n

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