Highlights & Results from the Snowshoe XC Marathon World Cup 2023
After four rounds of racing riders take on a gruelling course in Snowshoe for the final stop of the 2023 XC Marathon World Cup series. The racers took on a 105km course with Rae Hannah Otto and Simon Stiebjahn securing the top honours after hours of riding.
In the series overall title fight, it is Lejla Njemcevis and Fabian Rebensteiner who close out the 2023 season as the series champs.
Check out the results below.
Results:
Elite Women:
1st. Rae Hannah Otto: 5:46:31
2nd. Haley Smith: 5:51:44
3rd. Katazina Sosna: 5:54:59
4th. Lejla Njemcevis: 6:04:16
5th. Erin Huck:6:15:17
Elite Men:
1st. Simon Stiebjahn: 4:38:17
2nd. Axel Roudil Cortinat: 4:38:18
3rd. Casey South: 4:38:18
4th. Simon Schneller: 4:38:57
5th. Fabian Rebensteiner: 4:39:28
Final Overall Standings:
Elite Women:
1st. Lejla Njemcevis: 800
2nd. Bettina Janas: 520
3rd. Katazina Sosna: 500
4th. Vera Looser: 410
5th. Estelle Morel: 348
Elite Men:
1st. Fabian Rebensteiner: 650
2nd. Simon Stiebjahn: 606
3rd. Hector Leonardo Paez Leon: 508
4th. Diego Alfonso Arias Cuervo: 470
5th. Diego Rosa: 450
Full men's results here
Full women's results here
Men's final overall standings here.
Women's final overall standings here.
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After Enduro, XCM is next. 9 women on the start for a world cup.
Maybe, maybe, you could listen to the field because, yes, same distance for men and women, this is not fair. We do not care about marketing like "100km is easier to sell to public".
This is so f*cked up.
The UCI marathon is still in a grey zone, it only states that it has to be between 60km and 160km.
Usually racers expect a race winner time of 4h - 4h30 so the men's winner time is already pretty long. The Women's distance is usually about 80% of the Men's distance to stay in that same time frame.
Racing for 6h takes a different preparation and eventually more support on track.
The biggest disappointment for me is that they didn't include the amateurs into the World Cup. This would not affect the front of the race and more people would be motivated to race a real World Cup with the Pro's, rather than doing their own race called "Marathon of Snowshoe" with 25 Men (The Pro's had 33). Pro Women 9, Amateurs 4...
Any other well known Marathon has 500-2000 starters...