Aaron Gwin made it three top five finishes in three tries on the UCI Mountain Bike World Cup downhill tour but was unable to capture the title for the second time this season. Gwin was a bit slow out of the gate as he was tenth at the first split but picked it up over the next couple minutes to move into the top five and finished strong to beat the third and fourth place riders by less than a second. The second place finish gave Gwin 160 points as he grew his lead over Troy Brosnan of Australia who finished fifth.
Gwin wasn’t the only American to find success as Luca Shaw had his best finish of the year in sixth place. Shaw is now 12th in the overall standings. The other three Americans in the final didn’t fare as well with Mitch Ropelato in 55th, Shane Leslie in 60th, and Dakotah Norton in 83rd. All three were over 20 seconds behind the winner.
The next UCI Mountain Bike World Cup downhill event will be in Leogang, Austria next weekend on June 11th and 12th.
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