MTB | Candice Lill finishes fourth at 2024 UCI Mountain Bike World Championships

Of the 60 riders, it was a strong start for Puck Pieterse, Alessandra Keller (SUI), Candice Lill (RSA) and the USA’s Sevilia Blunk and Hayley Batten, along with 2023 UCI World Champion Pauline Ferrand-Prévot (FRA).

Evie Richards (GBR), winner of the XCC UCI world title, crashed on the first passage through the rock section.

Ferrand-Prévot dropped back as Blunk also faded. Pieterse fended off a challenge from Lill on lap 3, as the two went 30-seconds clear. Ultimately the 22-year-old Dutch woman went alone out front.

On the penultimate lap, Lill slid coming into the tech zone and a chasing Anne Terpstra closed in and passed her for a provisional Dutch 1-2. Loana Lecomte (FRA) was in fourth, followed by Martina Berta (ITA), and Richards.

Lill and Terpstra traded places on the final lap as Berta moved away from Lecomte and survived a scare in the final rock garden, reeling in Lill to take third.

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