Victor Koretzky (Specialised) and Haley Batten (Specialised) gained the opening males’s and ladies’s brief observe occasions on the second spherical of the UCI MTB World Cup, held in Araxá, Brazil.
Koretzky crossed the road with a solo win three seconds forward of runner-up Christopher Blevins (Specialised) and a further second on third-placed Alan Hatherly (Cannondale) in what was a detailed battle for the victory.
Within the ladies’s race, Batten additionally soloed over the road by 4 seconds forward of runner-up Linda Indergand (Liv) and 6 seconds forward of a dash for third between Savilia Blunk (Decathlon Ford) and Alessandra Keller (Thomus Maxon).
Brazil has hosted back-to-back rounds of the sequence, with Araxá, in Western Minas Gerais, internet hosting spherical two after the opening spherical in Mairiporã final weekend.
Within the total rankings for the brief observe occasions, Batton is now main the general sequence with 370 factors, whereas Evie Richards is in second with 350 and Keller is third with 310.
Within the males’s total rankings, Koretzky moved into the lead with 400 factors, forward of Sam Gaze, who slid to second with 360, whereas Luca Schwarzbauer is third with 340.
