The results are in from the opening round of the 2024 EDR World Cup series after riders battled across technical stages and tight liaison times. Finale Ligure proved again why it is a mainstay of enduro racing as it produced some incredible racing with Bailey Christie, Lily Planquart, Hattie Harnden and Richie Rude taking the round one victories.
Check out a breakdown of the stages and more results below.
The Course
Stage 1Base Nato: 2.6km / 381m descent - Stage 1
Stage 2Ingegnere: 3.8km / 484m descent - Stage 2
Stage 3Supergroppo: 7.2km / 653m descent - Stage 3
Stage 4Rocche Gianche: 2km / 252m descent - Stage 4
*Stage four was cancelled for the U21 women and Elite categories.*Stage 5DH Men: 2.8km / 283m descent - Stage 5
Race Results
U21 MenAfter tackling the full five stages, Bailey Christie leaves Finale with the round one win as he kicked off the 2024 series with a win of over 11 seconds against Jt Fisher. Bailey Christie showed he will be one to watch this season with no stage result lower than fourth and a win on stage two. Second-placed Jt Fisher also had a strong start to the World Cup season with a win on stage one and also showed consistency with no single-stage result of less than fifth. Wei Tien Ho ended the day in fourth but walks away from round one as the only U21 male rider to win more than one stage.
Top 5 Finishers1st. Bailey Christie: 37:49.970
2nd. Jt Fisher: 38:01.748 /
+11.7783rd. Marius Tenet Berrat: 38:08.320 /
+18.3504th. Wei Tien Ho: 38:20.144 /
+30.1745th. William Brodie: 38:38.258 /
+48.288
Stage 1
1st. Jt Fisher: 5:11.440
2nd. Bailey Christie: 5:18.635 / +7.195
3rd. William Brodie: 5:21.620 / +10.180
4th. Wei Tien Ho: 5:24.323 / +12.883
5th. Alden Pate: 5:25.593 / +14.153
Stage 2
1st. Bailey Christie: 8:28.414
2nd. Jt Fisher: 8:38.251 / +9.837
3rd. Marius Tenet Berrat: 8:40.400 / +11.986
4th. Bow Habermann: 8:45.101 / +16.687
5th. Wei Tien Ho: 5:24.323 / +17.143
Stage 3
1st. Marius Tenet Berrat: 14:33.811
2nd. Bachelet Baptiste: 14:37.933 / +4.122
3rd. Bailey Christie: 14:39.459 / +5.648
4th. Alden Pate: 14:48.405 / +14.594
5th. Jt Fisher: 14:50.990 / +17.179
Stage 4
1st. Wei Tien Ho: 4:24.860
2nd. Jt Fisher: 4:27.881 / +3.021
3rd. Marius Tenet Berrat: 4:28.032 / +3.172
4th. Bailey Christie: 4:30.215 / +5.355
5th. William Brodie: 4:35.723 / +10.863
Stage 5
1st. Wei Tien Ho: 4:48.820
2nd. Jt Fisher: 4:53.186 / +4.366
3rd. Bailey Christie: 4:53.247 / +4.427
4th. William Brodie: 4:53.912 / +5.092
5th. Sascha Kim: 4:55.175 / +6.355
U21 WomenIt was a dominant show of force from Lapierre Zipp Collective's Lily Planquart as she was fastest across all four stages to finish the day 44 seconds ahead. Winning across every stage and never letting another rider within four seconds of her stage times, Lily Planquart has made her mark on the 2024 season at the opening round and heads into next week's racing with a lot of confidence. Elly Hoskin rode a strong race to take second ahead of Simona Kuchynkova after a day-long battle for the runner-up position. 2023 overall World Cup champion Emmy Lan had a tough day out as she finished in seventh place.
Top 5 Finishers1st. Lily Planquart: 37:23.323
2nd. Elly Hoskin: 38:07.433 /
+44.1103rd. Simona Kuchynkova: 38:18.202 /
+54.8794th. Delia Da Mocogno: 38:42.276 /
+1:18.9535th. Lacey Adams: 39:02.923 /
+1:39.600
Stage 1
1st. Lily Planquart: 5:57.102
2nd. Simona Kuchynkova: 6:01.336 / +4.234
3rd. Emmy Lan: 6:04.777 / +7.675
4th. Elly Hoskin: 6:06.064 / +8.962
5th. Lacey Adams: 6:08.258 / +11.156
Stage 2
1st. Lily Planquart: 9:32.494
2nd. Elly Hoskin: 9:41.597 / +9.103
3rd. Simona Kuchynkova: 9:45.631 / +13.137
4th. Delia Da Mocogno: 9:54.330 / +21.836
5th. Emmy Lan: 9:56.302 / +23.808
Stage 3
1st. Lily Planquart: 16:14.732
2nd. Elly Hoskin: 16:32.742 / +18.010
3rd. Simona Kuchynkova: 16:47.875 / +33.143
4th. Delia Da Mocogno: 16:50.130 / +35.398
5th. Lacey Adams: 16:53.195 / +38.463
Stage 4 (5)
1st. Lily Planquart: 5:38.995
2nd. Simona Kuchynkova: 5:43.360 / +4.365
3rd. Delia Da Mocogno: 5:45.212 / +6.217
4th. Elly Hoskin: 5:47.030 / +8.035
5th. Clairre Chabbert: 5:51.260 / +12.265
Elite WomenDespite a
foot injury just a couple of weeks ago there was no slowing down a charging Hattie Harnden as she went eight seconds faster than 2023 series champion Isabeua Coudurier. Harnden made the most of the long third stage to take control of the race as she was unmatched on the over 15-minute long track. Isabeau Coudrueir matched Harnden's two stage wins on her ride to second place, but her deficit of 26 seconds on stage three would make it impossible to close the gap even after finding 14 seconds on Harnden during stage four. Ella Conolly rode an incredibly consistent race taking three third and one second place stage finish as she secured third place at the end of the racing.
Top 5 Finishers1st. Hattie Harnden: 36:06.599
2nd. Isabeau Courdurier: 36:15.229 /
+8.6303rd. Ella Conolly: 36:23.173 /
+16.5744th. Morgane Charre: 36:23.203 /
+16.6045th. Rae Morrison: 36:47.701 /
+41.102
Stage 1
1st. Isabeau Courdurier: 5:44.004
2nd. Ella Conolly: 5:50.077 / +6.073
3rd. Morgane Charre: 5:51.910 / +7.906
4th. Hattie Harnden: 5:53.691 / +9.687
5th. Nadine Ellecosta: 5:55.480 / +11.476
Stage 2
1st. Hattie Harnden: 9:18.253
2nd. Morgane Charre: 9:19.575 / +1.322
3rd. Ella Conolly: 9:24.106 / +5.853
4th. Isabeau Courdurier: 9:24.268 / +6.015
5th. Raphaela Richter: 9:24.515 / +6.262
Stage 3
1st. Hattie Harnden: 15:30.115
2nd. Rae Morrison: 15:50.334 / +20.219
3rd. Ella Conolly: 15:50.365 / +20.250
4th. Morgane Charre: 15:54.701 / +24.586
5th. Isabeau Courdurier: 15:56.761 / +26.646
Stage 4 (5)
1st. Isabeau Courdurier: 5:10.196
2nd. Morgane Charre: 5:17.017 / +6.821
3rd. Ella Conolly: 5:18.625 / +8.429
4th. Rae Morrison: 5:19.499 / +9.303
5th. Hattie Harnden: 5:24.540 / +14.344
Elite MenThe Yeti Factory team came out fighting at round one as the pairing of Richie Rude and Slawomir Lukasik won every stage. Rude took three of these wins as he is coming into the 2024 season with the same form that saw him win the overall last year. Rude was in a close battle with teammate Lukasik until a final stage puncture took him out of contention for the win, but he still managed to grab fifth place. Charlie Murray rode a great first race of the season riding into 2nd place with Martin Maes back in good form in third.
Top 5 Finishers1st. Richie Rude: 31:53.201
2nd. Charlie Murray: 32:08.474 /
+15.2733rd. Martin Maes: 32:17.791 /
+24.5904th. Mirco Vendemmia: 32:19.749 /
+26.5485th. Slawomir Lukasik: 32:21.943 /
+28.742
Stage 1
1st. Richie Rude: 5:07.416
2nd. Martin Maes: 5:09.211 / +1.795
3rd. Mirco Vendemmia: 5:10.929 / +3.513
4th. Slawomir Lukasik: 5:10.972 / +3.556
5th. Tommaso Francardo: 5:12.250 / +4.834
Stage 2
1st. Richie Rude: 8:18.160
2nd. Slawomir Lukasik: 8:23.112 / +4.952
3rd. Charlie Murray: 8:23.610 / +5.450
4th. Martin Maes: 8:23.805 / +5.645
5th. Mirco Vendemmia: 8:24.157 / +5.997
Stage 3
1st. Slawomir Lukasik: 13:50.008
2nd. Charlie Murray: 13:51.695 / +1.687
3rd. Jesse Melamed: 13:54.143 / +4.135
4th. Mirco Vendemmia: 13:57.195 / +7.187
5th. Richie Rude: 13:58.530 / +8.522
Stage 4 (5)
1st. Richie Rude: 4:29.095
2nd. Martin Maes: 4:35.850 / +6.755
3rd. Charlie Murray: 4:36.900 / +7.805
4th. Greg Callaghan: 4:39.890 / +10.795
5th. Jesse Melamed: 4:40.783 / +11.688
Full Results
U21 Men
U21 Women
Elite Women
Elite Men
Overall Standings
U21 Men
U21 Women
Elite Women
Elite Men
I might be remembering this wrong but when the EWS first started downhill was in a bit of a rut and enduro felt new and exciting . The venues were all places that looked absolutely amazing to ride and genuinely bucket list stuff . The videos and photos that came from Chile and Argentina looked out of this world . It also led into fairly big leaps in bike development which if you were a bike geek was great.
I think most races had a slightly different format as well at the start which for me kept it interesting and it genuinely was a world series with races all over.
I suppose you could say if you were being generous that in an effort to grow the sport they've forgotten what made it good in the first place , if you're not being generous you could say that after ESO took over the downhill they stopped caring.
The fact that this page on this website is the best place to follow a world level event tells you everything really .
UCI has decided that bike parks are good enough venues, and a single half hearted 20 minute recap video is good enough to cover a multi-stage race.
Hell, the best coverage we're getting is from a few racers who are doing it to help their social media presence.
EWS went from a self-run event, full of people who were focused on making it the best it could be, to a 3rd tier UCI event that they could care less about. The difference between the two has been stark.
www.redbull.com/int-en/shows/on-track
I miss that type of coverage. The episodes took a week or two to put together after each round, but I found them to be worth the wait.
Now we get 25 minutes of Ric mumbling into the camera, a select few riders who might or might not be successful at racing and that's it.
I remember when Ric came to the team to do course previews and media and I thought: what a complete Joey. And now he runs all media. Shitshow.
Having a look at the race coverage one, I thought Josh Carlson wasn't bad.
I've never tried to look at live timings, i think that's always been terrible.
But someone else crashed on 4 bad enough that they didn’t get to race it. Whether it was a result of exhaustion or not, its an unfortunate coincidence when people are saying transfer times were too short.
Similar to adding a 3rd “race” with the semi final format in DH. Whether it actually caused more crashes and injuries or not, people will speculate that it did.
They only work 6 weekends of the year
Maybe show a little respect to the racers, how about that.
Just out of curiosity I've checked several riders who used a power meter during the race and the power output in the climbs was piss easy.
All of them were doing less than 3 w/kg in the most sustained climb of the day, around 390m vertical back to Base Nato, and around 2 w/kg on the rest of the more mellow climbs.
None of the athletes I've checked had a fast time in any of the climbs.
For a professional athlete, who can spend 20+ hrs per week training it feels unreal that they are complaining about having to put 3 w/kg to make the cut, which is basically peanuts.
The highest avg. power on the "hardest" climb was around 210 watts. Besides Jesse who is probably 1 or 2 kg below 70, the rest are at +75kg and that power output is really low.
I've checked also the female athletes but Morgane didn't upload her ride yet and Isabeau is private but I can assure you that it not as tight for a liaison.
I actually though EWS/EDR were way tougher and required a lot of training for the liaisons....I was wrong.
I think it's important to factor in that in between the climbs, the riders are smashing out 8-15 minute long max effort race stages. Sounded like they were notably more physical this year too. Once you add in the heat as well, sitting at around 3 W/kg for the rest of the day isn't going to be as easy as it sounds.
I know that those riders can make circles around any ebike in the climbs,crazy fit and simply told that 1 pedal more was impossible. It was a very hard day,hot&humid with 0 time to rest for those who made it in time.
It is possible some of those riders you are talking about were out of time too,but who knows cos it was a disaster.
My only assumption is that they either knew they were not hitting the time or had time to spare. I can't tell as I wasn't there but as an overall, I would assume that if athletes were complaining that they were having to do massive efforts, the data is not backing those claims.
Besides that I love interval training, it's a common routine in my training program so what you're suggesting is actually quite appealing to me.
However, these are not hard climbs, I've done all except the one to stage 3 and I can guarantee they are not long neither hard. Also it wasn't really that hot, roughly around 25˚ over the weekend. Perfect temps to ride.
Yes, the descents were long and physical but even after such efforts putting 3 w/kg is barely rotating the cranks.
We are talking about pro athletes here, not amateurs who work 45 hrs per week, have a family and ride over the weekends during summer time. These are people who get a salary to train all year round, so the fitness level should be high enough to sustain such efforts.
There's a lot of really fit riders in the EDR, don't get me wrong but when some are complaining about the liaisons and then you go check the data, it just doesn't match those claims, those are facts.
Frankly, going 4 w/kg is potentially pushing the envelope over the course of a 6 hour day with 2500 metres of climbing for athletes that are primarily sprint focused. It's not that they're not capable, but you're turning a liaison - especially toward the end of the race - into something a bit more endurance focused than is intended. The 'endurance' part of enduro is related to pushing hard in multiple downhill stages that include sprint climbs.
If they've got to deal with food and maintenance in between stages, and for the last 5+ years of EWS they've had a certain expectation for how rushed a liaison is, then why are they suddenly changing that?
Some guy at home read some power meter data on strava and says they weren't.....
Unfortunately that's also what they have been used to due to the low level of fitness Enduro required now that it's mostly bike park based.
Also, if you've ever been to Finale you'd know the proper DH runs can be counted with the fingers of one hand, the rest of the stages require to put a lot of pedal strokes here an there with a lot of accelerations and small climb sprints to maintain speed, it's no news.
Why on Earth have they decided to swap to this second rate UCI results sheet system?
Now:
- You can’t search for individual riders by name
- it’s literally unusable on mobile
- it’s not even up to date
This is an embarrassing way to treat riders who are putting so much work into pushing this sport forward. What a shame…
Anyone here try to follow WRC rally?
They've probably got a budget running into hundred of millions each round and it's only twice as good.
The truth is its not dhi, and you can't have live feeds that are interesting. The only way is to spin a story about riders in the lead up, then publish a short highlights reel narrating the event.
The results stream seemed more reliable than last year aswell
We the public want coverage of the best and we don’t want to pay for it!
The supposedly bigger backing by Warner Bros, ESO, etc. actually made it worse. Same would have been OK, but it has gone for shit instead…
The sport is way too small to warrant WRC-esque coverage. It's expensive and there will never be enough money in it to make something like that happen.
I get it that the riders are very talented and "deserve" more. But the reality is that MTB Enduro is a flawed concept as a pro sport when we add the realities to the equation.
I personally was responsible for the live timing and all the struggles that came with it.
They hey have swapped to the single supplier (chronorace) who are absolutely brilliant however; the issues in timing are normally network problems and as a new provider will not be aware or know the people.
I’m sad that it is like it is, it can only improve, but enduro definitely deserves more.
Some riders work their ass to get in time just for free,then nobody was penalized or out of time in the race.
It is the worst situation in a race,timing being not reliable/huge mess. Riders work really hard to go to a race at this level,they deserve a flawless event.
I am very interested, are you there on site, or are you doing all this from Canada?
Does PB send people to be at the races??
Cause there's a dire need of information from there, like why someone had a slow time on a stage, or who crashed or had a mechanical. I'm fully aware that there's lots of terrain to cover, and it's not possible to interview everyone after every stage, I know that. But there are many people there spectating, who know each other, so maybe it would be possible to create an information network between them. Everybody would benefit from that, the media, the teams and fans.
The dry data of who placed where is just ... I mean I am glad we get that, but... it's just not enough.
discipline not having a reporter on site unfortunately says a lot about the series‘ development. From the next big thing to a marginalized event…
Is he/she allright?...
If someone crashes drying a live stream, all viewers will know. That doesn't mean they should give detailed personal information on injuries and families.
It happened after Kasper Wooleys run, so must have been a top 50 rider. There are four top 50 riders who DNFed after stage 3. Alex Storr was out because of heat stroke, Connor Fearon at least posted something on Insta today. Thst leaves Adrien Dailly and Nathan Secondi.
Can't find out any more than that through the internet right now.
Thanks for the heads up
Adrien just posted that he had a concussion this winter, crashed on stage 3 and felt some symptoms on the transfer to stage 4. So thst rules him put for a stage 4 crash and only leaves Nathan Secondi.
Can't find a team/team account for him so can't find any updates on him.
Correct, just saw it too. Does not fit to what Kasper said, but maybe there will be some kind of update on this soon from some source
So now seeing loads of women falling out because they didn't make the transfer, bex openly blaming UCI, noga not making the cut ( at least blaming herself)
So far havent seen any complaint from the man category but could be they just to shy.
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I’m embarrassed for them.
He was training there all the winter
No new times on stage 5 as well. It looks like if the riders were stuck on the start gate of the stage that was cancelled.
EDIT:
Oh, results on stage 5 have just started moving again as we speak.
The enduro also doesn’t have a UDH for transmission and the spesh team is sponsored by Sean.
The enduro is a super fun bike, and it’s no problem to climb on. But it’s not as sharp. It really feels like a DH bike in disguise. In a good way. On the surface it seems like a silly 2 bike quiver, but the price was right and it covers all my wants.
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