2022 UCI Mountain Bike World Championships

2022 World Championships
Location	Les Gets, France
Dates	24 to 28 August 2022

The 2022 UCI Mountain Bike World Championships were held in the French commune Les Gets from 24 to 28 August 2022.^[1]

Les Gets, located in the Haute-Savoie department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of France close to the border with Switzerland, previously hosted the 2004 UCI Mountain Bike & Trials World Championships.^[2] The Les Gets Bike Park, which is located within the Portes du Soleil ski area, has 128 km (80 mi) of marked trails and provides for downhill, cross-country, freestyle, freeride, and e-mountain biking.^[3]

Competition format

The following competitions and rider categories were contested at this event of the UCI Mountain Bike World Championships:^[4]

Competition format

Event and categories	Year of birth
Cross country (XCO)
Men & women elite	1999 and older
Men & women U23	2000–2003
Men & women junior	2004 and 2005
Downhill (DHI)
Men & women elite	2003 and older
Men & women junior	2004 and 2005
E-mtb
Men & women elite	2003 and older (including masters)
Cross-country short track (XCC)
Men & women elite	1999 and older

In addition, a team relay was held restricted to one team of six riders per country. The default team composition was one man elite, one woman elite, one man U23, one man juniors, one woman U23 and one woman juniors, but the rules also allowed for substitutions.^[4]

Medal summary

Medal table

  *   Host nation (France)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	France*	5	4	3	12
2	Switzerland	4	5	4	13
3	New Zealand	2	0	0	2
4	Italy	1	1	2	4
5	Germany	1	1	0	2
6	Austria	1	0	0	1
	Great Britain	1	0	0	1
8	Australia	0	1	0	1
	Canada	0	1	0	1
	Netherlands	0	1	0	1
	Spain	0	1	0	1
12	United States	0	0	3	3
13	Colombia	0	0	1	1
	Denmark	0	0	1	1
	Poland	0	0	1	1
Totals (15 entries)		15	15	15	45

Men's events

The elite downhill saw an all-French podium, with Loïc Bruni winning his fifth elite downhill world championship.^[5] In the short track, New Zealand's Sam Gaze and the incumbent American world champion, Christopher Blevins, were competing for the title when both aimed for the same line at the last rock garden. Blevins crashed and eventually crossed the line in 16th place while Gaze took the title.^[6][7]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Cross-country Olympic[8]	Nino Schurter  Switzerland	1:21:13	David Valero  Spain	1:21:22	Luca Braidot  Italy	1:21:42
Cross-country short track[9]	Sam Gaze  New Zealand	22:21	Filippo Colombo  Switzerland	22:24	Thomas Litscher  Switzerland	22:38
Electric MTB Cross-country[10]	Jérôme Gilloux  France	52:21	Hugo Pigeon  France	52:50	Joris Ryf  Switzerland	53:03
Downhill[11]	Loïc Bruni  France	3:20.478	Amaury Pierron  France	3:23.059	Loris Vergier  France	3:23.864

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Cross-country Olympic[12]	Pauline Ferrand-Prévot  France	1:22:08	Jolanda Neff  Switzerland	1:23:43	Haley Batten  United States	1:24:21
Cross-country short track[13]	Pauline Ferrand-Prévot  France	21:56	Alessandra Keller  Switzerland	22:14	Gwendalyn Gibson  United States	22:17
Electric MTB Cross-country[14]	Nicole Göldi  Switzerland	47:00	Justine Tonso  France	48:15	Nathalie Schneitter  Switzerland	48:25
Downhill[15]	Valentina Höll  Austria	3:53.857	Nina Hoffmann  Germany	3:54.763	Myriam Nicole  France	3:57.304

Team event

Eighteen teams competed in the team event, with seventeen of those finishing. The French team was in the lead when their fifth rider crashed and had to finish the lap standing after having lost the saddle, dropping to fifth place. Switzerland won the world title ahead of Italy and the United States. New Zealand had been in third position when their third rider crashed; the team did not finish.^[16][17]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Cross-country Olympic[16]	Switzerland Dario Lillo Khalid Sidahmed Ramona Forchini Ronja Blöchlinger Anina Hutter Nino Schurter	1:17:14	Italy Luca Braidot Marco Betteo Martina Berta Valentina Corvi Giada Specia Simone Avondetto	1:17:20	United States Christopher Blevins Cayden Parker Madigan Munro Bailey Cioppa Haley Batten Riley Amos	1:17:28

Under-23 and Junior events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Men's Under-23 Cross-country[18]	Simone Avondetto  Italy	1:10:35	Mathis Azzaro  France	1:11:03	Luca Schätti  Switzerland	1:11:32
Men's Junior Cross-country[19]	Paul Schehl  Germany	1:02:48	Jan Christen  Switzerland	1:03:06	Paul Magnier  France	1:03:12
Men's Junior Downhill[20]	Jordan Williams  Great Britain	3:28.324	Remy Meier-Smith  Australia	3:34.240	Davide Cappello  Italy	3:36.021
Women's Under-23 Cross-country[21]	Line Burquier  France	1:11:09	Puck Pieterse  Netherlands	1:11:52	Sofie Pedersen  Denmark	1:12:08
Women's Junior Cross-country[22]	Monique Halter  Switzerland	59:37	Lea Huber  Switzerland	1:00:53	Natalia Grzegorzewska  Poland	1:01:03
Women's Junior Downhill[23]	Jenna Hastings  New Zealand	4:18.541	Gracey Hemstreet  Canada	4:20.411	Valentina Roa Sanchez  Colombia	4:34.485

See also

• 2022 UCI Mountain Bike World Cup

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