Mountain: Trek World Racing Takes 4 Podium Places Including One Title At World Cup Finals

In the Cross Country World Cup, Mathias Flueckiger (SUI) received official recognition as the World Cup Champion in the Men's Under 23 Category having unofficially secured the win at the penultimate race in Val di Sole, Italy. Despite having an unusually disappointing race here at Windham finishing 18th overall, Mathias still finished 1st in the U23 category thus making it a clean sweep of all 6 rounds and demonstrating the outstanding ability of this young Swiss rider. The official World Cup trophy represents a huge achievement and is the first in his collection. Mathias now focuses on battling it out for the top spot on the podium in the U23 Category at the World Championships in Mont-Sainte-Anne, Canada, next week.

Older brother Lukas Flueckieger (SUI) scored his first World Cup podium of the year after an outstanding last race here in Windham. Riding his brand new Swiss-liveried light weight Top Fuel, he fought hard from the start, giving everything he had, to move from his start position of 13 to join the leader pack on lap 4 of 6. He battled it out with Nino Schurter (SUI), Florian Vogel (SUI), Christoph Sauser (SUI) and eventual race winner Jaroslav Kulhavy (CZE) as they entered the last lap, but the climbing on lap 6 got the better of him. Holding off a late charge by multiple World Cup champion Julian Absalon (FRA) Luk hung on to take the 5th place on the podium to make it a memorable weekend for the two Swiss brothers.

In the finals of the Downhill World Cup on Sunday, Tracy Moseley (GBR) once again performed brilliantly to finish 2nd on the podium in the Women's Final race. After a super fast run in qualifying which saw Tracy finish fastest by more than 5 seconds, she was disappointed not to secure 1st place this weekend but her sights are now firmly set on the World Championship title in Canada next week. In the finals of the Men's Downhill race, New Zealand's Justin Leov continued his good form taking 10th place in the final after a his successful podium wins at Crankworx earlier this month.

Unfortunately, teammate Andrew Neethling (RSA) had a frustrating race after a flat tire hindered what started as a spectacular run that had could have seen another potential podium place. In 2nd place at the 2nd split Andrew suffered a rear puncture in the final sector of the race.

Finally, in the Cross Country's Women Elite race, it was a disappointing end to the season for Canadian rider, Emily Batty. Recovering from an unexpected virus which hit a couple of days earlier, Emily had to sit the race out and is now focused on preparing for next week’s World Championship race in Canada.

Thia week the full team including Neko Mulally travel to Mont-Sainte-Anne in Quebec for the prestigious UCI Mountain Bike World Championships taking place from September 1st to 5th.