Results: Marathon World Championships 2023

Aug 6, 2023 at 9:17
by Ed Spratt  
The results are in from the 2023 Marathon World Championships in the Tweed Valley, Scotland. After hours of racing and a 96km loop, it is Mona Mitterwallner and Henrique Avancini who take home the rainbow jerseys. Check out the results below.


Results

Elite Women

1st. Mona Mitterwallner: 5:07:50
2nd. Candice Lill: +0:54
3rd. Adelheid Morath: +9:50
4th. Lejla Njemcevic: +12:42
5th. Estelle Morel: +12:48

Elite Men

1st. Henrique Avancini: 4:14:42
2nd. Martin Stosek: +0:28
3rd. Lukas Baum: +1:43
4th. Marc Stutzmann: +3:33
5th. Hector Leonardo Paez Leon: +3:35



Full Results

Elite Women

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Elite Men

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39 Comments
  • 86 1
 "Macpherson Mbeya of Malawi on his way to finishing the MTB Marathon at @uci_cyclingworlds today in the Tweed Valley. Macpherson came home in 101st and last place, almost 4 hours behind the winning rider. All I can say is congratulations to him for his fortitude and for taking this massive task on - finishing this gruelling route is a great achievement. Macpherson arrived in the UK as the only Malawian athlete with no bikes and was loaned three by Billy Bisland bikes in Glasgow, to allow him to take part in Gran Fondo, Marathon and Time Trial - three massive races in four days. Macpherson himself admitted he had never seen bikes like this, let alone used them....."

From:
www.instagram.com/p/CvnGwK7IWlw/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA=
  • 19 0
 That's rad. Can we please get an article with interview on that?
  • 2 0
 That's awesome; thank you for sharing the link too
  • 2 0
 @edspratt @henryquinney @whoeverelseistherenow
  • 1 0
 Super inspiring. I would love to hear more about this rider
  • 2 0
 Absolutely in awe of these racers. Went up yesterday to spectate at glentress and cheered this guy on as he was passing by buzzards nest. Later on I rode by the finish area to check out the new stuff they've built and was there when he crossed the finish line. I couldn't believe the course they'd created for these guys used some trails that we race in enduro races. Incredibly fit and skilful athletes.
  • 2 0
 @Jimmy0: Much better use of Pinkbike than the Toto Wolfe news flash!
  • 2 0
 I find this awesome and there should be more amateurs allowed in Marathon World Cups and World Championships. It also makes me mad again at the UCI. When I had the once in a lifetime chance to compete at Marathon Worlds, they DNF'd me (and a few that were behind me) at the last checkpoint, the finish line.. even I was way faster than this guy, or any other last placed guy in recent years. I wrote the UCI, all the way up to the president and never got an explanation why I was not listed in the results. This was my dream and it will forever upset me.
  • 23 1
 I rode a pretty hard 7.5 mile loop today, so this resonates
  • 8 0
 I thought that was pretty lame and then I converted miles to kilometres! Props!
  • 16 0
 It would have been nice to see some of this race, but as far as I know, absolutely nothing......Live timing was the only way. Not great for a sport in 2023.
  • 6 0
 I agree. Based on some photos and reports that I've seen - for example, Haley Smith www.strava.com/pros/731190 who finished in 15th place, the course looked gorgeous and very challenging. I would have loved to have seen it being ridden.

Almost 100km and more than 3,000m of climbing in just over 5 hours for the women's winner. That's nuts.

Also, big congrats to Haley, Andrew and our other Canadian racers!
  • 2 0
 I've seen XCM races broadcast live in the past and I'm almost certain it was Mitterwallner's 2021 world champs win. They really dropped the ball.
  • 1 0
 @boozed: Yes, that's the best coverage we've seen for the XC Marathon Worlds; you could see who was leading, and knew what was happening. Last year in Denmark was poor, I didn't think this year could be worse, but it was. And part of the 'super' Worlds......
  • 2 0
 @gdharries: thanks for the link, just emailed her ride to myself (don't have a Strava subscription). I'm local ish, but the course map on the uci website was rubbish quality. I've zoomed in on her ride and now know exactly where the whole course went. 99% of it can be ridden anytime, just a small section where they used a blue graded trail backwards that can't be done, but wouldn't have to go too far out of the way to get around that.
  • 5 0
 Epic route designed by the late great Rab Wardell ❤️ These athletes deserved better coverage .
Proud to say I helped out a braz team today get there bike repaired .
I hope lots of folks visit the area to ride the course in the future
  • 7 0
 Matt Beer finished ahead of Hatherly? Holy crap! Oh, wait. That's Matthew Beers...
  • 8 0
 Of course. Because there's no such thing as 'just one beer'. It always ends up with more than one beer.
  • 8 2
 Congrats Henrique Avancini!! Brazil`s MTB proud and joy.
  • 3 0
 Congratulations to Mona and Henrique!
That's quite a training run with the qualifying heat for the Short Track coming up on Tuesday.
Do the winners or podium riders get protected status for the XCC event?
  • 1 0
 No protection. For the XCC event, participants are selected only from the UCI ranking.
  • 1 0
 Great respect for the marathon riders, what a track/route. Especially after seeing all the XCO BS.
Only protected riders for XCO are the road racers looks like.
Marathon=REAL XC
  • 2 0
 A very cool bike race that was. Very difficult conditions, a course worthy of the World Championship, in part rather Enduro-style descents! Especially the descent between km 40 & 50 I can recommend to every biker :-)
Congratulations to all who made it to the finish. Congratulations to the 15 women who were faster than my wife. I know from my own experience what extra load that is in addition to job and family!
  • 2 0
 At least the result shows up here. Not even highlights on GCN, like they did for some of the world cups.
Has Avancini switched disciplines or is he competing in the XC later this week as well?
  • 1 0
 he'll do both as well
  • 1 0
 Brujulabike.com says Spain's RTVE will be showing the MTB team relay at 13:30 on Aug 9. Then the eMTB champs at 16:00.

www.brujulabike.com/campeonato-mundo-mtb-2023-donde-ver-informacion

www.rtve.es/play/videos/directo/campeonato-mundo-ciclismo-2023
  • 1 0
 I watched part of the race at the Golfie (Innerleithen) . . . great racing and so fast! Shame there was nothing on either GCN+ or the BBC. No footage . . . . I didn't even hear a mention on any highlight shows. Such a shame.
  • 2 0
 I hate to be that guy but my job requires me to point out Mona and Henri are both FSA-sponsored athletes. As are Charlie and Andi
  • 3 1
 I don’t think I could finish that race in that time on a full powered e-bike, crazy
  • 10 2
 Yeah it would only make it half way on one battery
  • 3 0
 @brookscurran: when we rode to part of the course to spectate we thought we would have ages to wait… then Elite men showed up 20 minutes later, crazy the speed they did a loop we would normally treat as a days ride.
  • 1 0
 @brookscurran: a marshal at the race yesterday told me the photographers ebike batteries were running out on the climb into glentress, which is roughly half way.
  • 1 0
 Top course. Some of the race was the EWS timed sections. That’s punchy on an xc bike
  • 1 0
 Has anyone in the US been able to watch a replay of this? I can't find it on Flo.
  • 1 0
 Absa cape epic vibes. Very nice race
  • 5 0
 Absa cape epic minus the helicopters and follow bikes so the fans get to watch the racing
  • 4 3
 Yeahhhhh Avancini from BRAZIL!!
  • 2 0
 Congrats Avansenna!
  • 1 0
 Also, racing a bike for 5hrs? F**k that!







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