The 2024 UCI Mountain Bike Marathon World Championships took place on Sunday 22 September in Snowshoe, West Virginia, in the USA.  In a stacked women’s field, South Africa’s Candice Lill crossed the line third in a time of 5:16:16, just less than a minute behind Austria’s Mona Mitterwallner who won in 5:15:06. Switzerland’s Sina Frei finished second in a time of 5:15:32. 2016 UCI XCM World Champion, 2017 UCI XCO World Champion and 2020 Olympic Champion – Jolanda Neff (SUI) was 4th.

Lill gave an insight into her race experience on her Instagram page:

 

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In the men’s race, Denmark’s Simon Andreassen won his first XCM UCI World Champion title. Winning in a time of 4:33:08, Andreassen finished just 10 seconds ahead of USA’s Christopher Blevins, the 2021 UCI XCC World Champion. Blevins had already tasted success at Snowshoe with XCO and XCC wins at previous rounds of the UCI Mountain Bike World Cup. Third place went to Spain’s David Valero, 2024 XCM European Championships silver medalist, and winner of the bronze medal at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.

2021 UCI XCM World Champion Andreas Seewald of Germany was fourth (just 18 seconds covered the first four finishers), and France’s Paris 2024 Olympic silver medalist Victor Koretzky 5th.

How did the rest of the the South Africans fare?

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