{"id":36478,"date":"2018-07-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-19T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maxxis.com\/us\/world-cup-vallnord\/"},"modified":"2021-04-26T15:46:49","modified_gmt":"2021-04-26T19:46:49","slug":"world-cup-vallnord","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.maxxis.com\/us\/news\/world-cup-vallnord\/","title":{"rendered":"World Cup Vallnord"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 500px;height:333.4090909090909px\" src=\"\/media\/985911\/and18_an3x4947.jpg?width=500&amp;height=333.4090909090909\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"38451\"><\/p>\n<p>In firsts for both of their careers, Maxxis\u2019 sponsored riders Loris Vergier and Gerhard Kerschbaumer took landmark victories at Vallnord. Vergier earned his first World Cup DH victory, while Kerschbaumer took his first World Cup XCO win at the races, held July 13-15 in Andorra&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>he news from Vallnord was excellent for Maxxis across the board, as Kerschbaumer, Nino Schurter and Mathieu Van der Poel took the top three spots in men\u2019s XCO, and Gunn Rita Dahle-Flesja took a record-setting 30<sup>th<\/sup> XCO World Cup victory. Vergier was one of a total of seven Maxxis riders who made the men\u2019s DH top ten.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">&nbsp;<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 500px;height:333.4090909090909px\" src=\"\/media\/985913\/and18_an3x6417.jpg?width=500&amp;height=333.4090909090909\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"38453\"><\/p>\n<p>Santa Cruz Syndicate rider Vergier had injured his hand during his qualifying run, and faced the additional challenge of the steepest course on the calendar, but still won decisively by a margin of 1.3 seconds. MS Mondraker riders Brook MacDonald and Laurie Greenland joined Vergier on the podium in third and fourth place. Other Maxxis riders also made the top ten: Danny Hart of Madison Saracen Factory  eam took sixth place;  roy Brosnan of Canyon Factory Downhill  eam was seventh; Edward Masters of Pivot Factory Racing earned ninth place; and Connor Fearon of Kona Factory  eam rounded out the top ten.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">&nbsp;<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 500px;height:333.4090909090909px\" src=\"\/media\/985912\/and18_an3x4914.jpg?width=500&amp;height=333.4090909090909\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"38452\"><\/p>\n<p> he XCO race began with SCO  -SRAM M B Racing\u2019s Schurter taking the lead.  orpado Gabogas rider Kerschbaumer bridged the gap by the end of the first lap, and Corendon-Circus\u2019 Van der Poel was part of a three-man chase group. Kerschbaumer and Schurter traded the lead throughout the steep climbs and equally steep descents of the next several laps. Kerschbaumer gained the lead during the sixth lap and held it for the rest of the race, winning by 0:01:13, with Schurter in second place and Van der Poel, who broke away from the chase group in the fifth lap, in third place.<\/p>\n<p>&#8221; his win means a lot,&#8221; Kerschbaumer told <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cyclingnews.com\/races\/uci-mtb-world-cup-xco-5-vallnord-2018\/elite-men-xco\/results\/\">cyclingnews.com<\/a>. &#8220;One week ago I was second behind Nino and today &#8230; it was amazing.  he altitude I like a lot &#8230; I spent two months at home at altitude and it worked. In the downhills, Nino was stronger than me, but in the long climbs I think I was a little bit better, and I attacked there.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 500px;height:333.4090909090909px\" src=\"\/media\/985915\/and18_an3x7517.jpg?width=500&amp;height=333.4090909090909\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"38455\"><\/p>\n<p>Valentina H\u00f6ll racked up another victory, with SRAM Young Guns Racing\u2019s Paula Zibasa joining her on the Junior Women\u2019s podium in fourth place. Kye A\u2019Hern of Canyon Factory Downhill  eam made the Junior Men\u2019s podium, taking third place.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Maxxis congratulates Loris Vergier and Gerhard Kerschbaumer on their milestone victories, and congratulates Valentina Holl on her latest win.  he company thanks all of these riders for their fine performances.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n","protected":false},"featured_media":36479,"template":"","tags":[438,477],"news_category":[272],"class_list":["post-36478","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-pivot","tag-pivot-factory-racing","news_category-bicycle"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.1 (Yoast SEO v27.1.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>World Cup Vallnord<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maxxis.com\/us\/news\/world-cup-vallnord\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"World Cup Vallnord\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"In firsts for both of their careers, Maxxis\u2019 sponsored riders Loris Vergier and Gerhard Kerschbaumer took landmark victories at Vallnord. 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