Gb's Pidcock Wins Cross-country World Cup Race In Andorra

Great Britain's Tom Pidcock won golden successful nan UCI Mountain Bike World Cup cross-country title successful Andorra arsenic chap Briton Charlie Aldridge clinched bronze.

Double Olympic champion Pidcock started from nan 4th statement connected nan grid successful Pal Arinsal but quickly moved into nan lead group connected thigh two.

The erstwhile world champion past led from nan halfway shape aft overtaking French champion Luca Martin, whose mechanical responsibility further widened nan spread betwixt nan pair.

Pidcock, returning to upland biking for nan first clip since he won bronze astatine past year's World Championships having focused connected nan roadworthy this season, claimed his eighth World Cup XCO, external triumph arsenic he crossed nan statement successful 1 hour, 20 minutes and 30 seconds.

Martin came second, 21 seconds down Pidcock, pinch Aldridge, 24, successful third.

"It's ace bully to yet triumph present - benignant of a location title - aft a fewer years coming here," said 25-year-old Pidcock, who lives successful Andorra.

"Not an easy spot to race, that's for sure. Racing astatine this tallness [Pal Arinsal colony sits astatine 1,550m altitude], it's not for illustration you tin find much oxygen anywhere.

"The deficiency of acquisition successful nan races this twelvemonth surely played successful my favour. I didn't puncture, I didn't person immoderate problems.

"I was astir tense astir nan start, evidently if I went backwards from nan 4th row, I would person been really acold back."

Pidcock is not apt to title successful immoderate much Mountain Bike World Cups this twelvemonth aliases September's World Championships, which return spot astatine nan aforesaid clip arsenic nan last Grand Tour of nan play connected nan road, nan Vuelta a Espana, wherever he has said he will title for nan wide victory.

Great Britain's erstwhile world champion Evie Richards came sixth successful nan women's race.