Elite & Junior Race Analysis from the Bielsko-Biala DH World Cup 2024

The second round of the 2024 series brought more incredible racing with the fresh course proving itself worthy of the World Cup circuit. After a savage weekend of racing in Poland, we have collected the stats and dived deep into the numbers from the second stop of the 2024 DH World Cup season.

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Results

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Elite Women

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1st. Marine Cabirou: 3:26.643
2nd. Camille Balanche: 3:27.831 / +1.188
3rd. Nina Hoffmann: 3:28.323 / +1.680
4th. Jess Blewitt: 3:29.068 / +2.425
5th. Tahnee Seagrave: 3:29.890 / +3.247

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Elite Men

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1st. Ronan Dunne: 2:55.766
2nd. Loic Bruni: 2:55.830 / +0.064
3rd. Loris Vergier: 2:56.963 / +1.197
4th. Benoit Coulanges: 2:57.326 / +1.560
5th. Amaury Pierron: 2:57.596 / +1.830

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Junior Women

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1st. Heather Wilson: 3:28.864
2nd. Erice Van Leuven: 3:28.933 / +0.069
3rd. Sacha Earnest: 3:31.379 / +2.515
4th. Eliana Hulsebosch: 3:32.139 / +3.275
5th. Kale Cushman: 3:38.991 / +10.127

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Junior Men

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1st. Asa Vermette: 3:03.588
2nd. Mylann Falquet: 3:07.411 / +3.823
3rd. Dane Jewett: 3:08.243 / +4.655
4th. Till Alran: 3:08.506 / +4.918
5th. Raphaël Giambi: 3:08.907 / +5.319

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Full Elite results can be found here.

Full Junior results can be found here.

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Elite Women's Split Times

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Elite Men's Split Times

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Junior Women's Split Times

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Junior Men's Split Times

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Story of the Race

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The Perfect Race

We have added up the fastest sector times in finals to see how the top racers of the weekend performed against a theoretical 'perfect race'.


Sector 1: 43.954 (Tahnee Seagrave) // Sector 2: 55.462 (Vali Höll) // Sector 3: 27.861 (Jess Blewitt) // Sector 4: 49.700 (Nina Hoffmann) // Sector 5: 27.372 (Marine Cabirou)

Perfect Time: 3:24.349 // 2.294 seconds faster than the race winner


Sector 1: 38.069 (Ronan Dunne) // Sector 2: 46.412 (Lachlan Stevens Mcnab) // Sector 3: 22.986 (Lachlan Stevens-Mcnab) // Sector 4: 42.978 (TLuca Shaw) // Sector 5: 23.381 (Loic Bruni)

Perfect Time: 2:53.826 // 1.940 seconds faster than the race winner


Sector 1: 45.239 (Sacha Earnest) // Sector 2: 56.051 (Heather Wilson) // Sector 3: 28.420 (Heather Wilson) // Sector 4: 49.525 (Erice Van Leuven) // Sector 5: 27.099 (Heather Wilson)

Perfect Time: 3:26.334 // 2.530 seconds faster than the race winner


Sector 1: 40.561 (Mylann Falquet) // Sector 2: 49.008 (Asa Vermette) // Sector 3: 24.155 (Mike Huter) // Sector 4: 44.398 (Asa Vermette) // Sector 5: 24.449 (Dane Jewett)

Perfect Time: 3:02.571 // 1.017 seconds faster than the race winner

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Elites VS Juniors

After Heather Wilson beat the elite women's winner through one sector at Fort William, the second stop of the series sees three of Marine Cabirou's splits beaten by the juniors. Heather Wilson was again setting some blistering times as she bested all the elite women and set the fastest women's finals split time in sector five. Wilson was able to top the fastest elite women's sector five time by 0.273 seconds. Erice Van Leuven was also able to go quicker than Cabirou as she was 0.346 up in split four. Compared to the rest of the top five Van Leuven was the only top-five junior woman to be riding within around two seconds of the fastest elite women.

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Unlike Fort William, the junior men were not able to come close to the elite men in Poland, although this could be in part due to do with the far worse weather conditions in the morning. The rider who consistently rode closest to the elite winner, Ronan Dunne was Asa Vermette. Through sectors two through four he was noticeably closer to Dunne and in both the first and last splits he was the second closest rider to the top elite male time. After beating the Loic Bruni through one split in Fort William Vermette has already shown he has the pace to rival the world's best during the 2024 World Cup season.

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Combined Elite Season Time After Round 2

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Overall Standings

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