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Results from the British DH & XC National Championships

Jul 25, 2022
by Ed Spratt  
There are some fast steep sections on this Glencoe track with plenty of line choice to either use the berms or power straight through the middle.

Last weekend saw plenty of top-level racing in the UK with both the DH and XC national championships. Check out who are the 2022 champions below.


Downhill

The downhill racing took place on the rough and rugged course in Glencoe, Scotland. As the World Cup is in Snowshoe this weekend there wasn't a full field of top riders as many chose to head to the next race instead of competing for the national title. After some close racing it was Greg Williamson and Stacey Fisher who take the titles for this year in the Elite categories.

Greg Williamson is the fifth and final world cup rider in the men s race but the Scotsman will be keen to stake his claim to the national title on home soil
Stacey Fisher is the current leader of the National Series leader and coming off the back of some impressive World Cup results she has to be the favourite for the women s title this weekend.

Elite Women

1st. Stacey Fisher: 2:49.277
2nd. Jess Stone: 2:52.120
3rd. Kerry Wilson: 3:03.547

Elite Men

1st. Greg Williamson: 2:17.375
2nd. Adam Brayton: 2:18.356
3rd. Taylor Vernon: 2:18.531


Junior Women

1st. Bethany McCully: 3:24.301
2nd. Elin Berry: 3:36.949
3rd. Nina-Yves Cameron: 3:37.582

Junior Men

1st. William Brodie: 2:20.370
2nd. Luca Thurlow: 2:21.312
3rd. Freddie Davies: 2:29.558


Full Results can be found here.


XC

Moving onto the XC racing riders were treated to some great racing in southern Scotland at Kirroughtree Forest. The Elite Women's race had some stacked talent with the top UK riders Evie Richards, Annie Last and Isla Short all on the start lines. The 2022 title for the Elite would go to Annie Last and Cameron Orr.

Elite Women

1st. Annie Last: 1:28:30
2nd. Evie Richards: 1:31:00
3rd. Isla Short: 1:31:48

Elite Men

1st. Cameron Orr: 1:33:17
2nd. Thomas Mein: 1:36:58
3rd. Isaac Mundy: 1:37:34


U23 Women

1st. Harriet Harnden: 1:14:37
2nd. Elena McGorum: 1:19:02
3rd. Anna Flynn: 1:21:41

U23 Men

1st. Charlie Aldridge: 1:17:58
2nd. Joseph Blackmore: 1:18:10
3rd. Rory McGuire: 1:19:56


Full Results can be found here.


XCC

Finally we have the results from the first-ever British short track championships where a charging Annie Last and Charlie Aldridge secured the wins.

Annie Last started her weekend off on a high taking the win by a bike length
European Short Track Champion Charlie Alridge took a comfortable win to start off the weekend

Women

1st. Annie Last: 23:23.2
2nd. Evie Richards: 23:24.6
3rd. Harriet Harnden: 23:50.7

Men

1st. Charlie Aldridge: 24:11.9
2nd. Cameron Orr: 24:14.0
3rd. Cameron Mason: 24:19.3


Full Results can be found here.



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32 Comments
  • 25 0
 Granddad still got it #GASTOFLAT
  • 11 3
 don't want to knock the riders down but not too wise to put this race when all the top racers are traveling to snowshoe
  • 4 0
 Most countries 1National Championships are now all held for the most part on the same weekend to allow for no conflicts with World Cups. World Cup racers not wanting to risk it if in the hunt for World Cup points back it down or take a pass. No one's offended by it. Has to happen sometime and mid-July is way better than the gong shows Nationals around the world were turning into at one point with late season weather.
  • 7 0
 Shout out to my wifey Evie for two seconds!!
  • 6 0
 The first shall be Last.
  • 7 4
 I still don't know why BC put this on a week before the 95% of the pro's fly out to the states.
  • 22 0
 It's not BC's fault. This is the UCI's designated weekend for Nat Champs, so it's them we can blame
  • 1 1
 @wesu: That's fair enough, poor planning as the only people who really benefit are US & Canada pros.
  • 1 0
 @Behindthetapeproductions: Training for Commonwealth Games?
  • 1 0
 I have a feeling the French DH riders got their date changed as none of the top riders could make it. Wonder why the other countries couldn't do the same.
  • 1 0
 @glorydh20: Think with Andorra followed by, Champs, Showshoe, weekend off, Nationals, Regional in the next 5 weeks there is not a lot of space in the calendar for the pros to race Nationals and WC.
  • 1 0
 @wesu:
  • 2 0
 Women going faster than the men in the XC?
  • 13 0
 Women usualy race fewer laps then men.
  • 11 2
 @Bureb: Props for using 'fewer'.
  • 4 6
 @iamamodel: Oh, come on now. Is the bar really set that low? (While your at it you may also want to check the speling of usualy...)
  • 5 1
 @mi-bike: The crux of the biscuit is the apostrophe.
  • 5 0
 @mi-bike: You're.
  • 3 3
 @bigkev123: Thanks for checking my speling!
  • 2 0
 @mi-bike: I just thought it was funny as elsewhere in these comments a British flag wrote 'less than' but the Austrian 'fewer'.
  • 1 0
 1) earlier in the afternoon when the track was drying
2) not so many laps
3 )women were lapping 1.30 slower at the sharp end.
  • 1 0
 Corr Willam Gell Has become bad, he was winning all the local races! must of died....
  • 6 8
 Also saw a girl celebrating on Insta as the scottish and british DH champ. Turns out she was only one in her cat. Could have went to top, taken wheels off and walked backwards down trail and won the title.
  • 18 1
 Gotta turn up to win.
  • 6 2
 @fatduke: gotta be in it to win it
  • 12 0
 Thus happens all over the world. She was the only one willing to try so more than deserves the medal.
  • 1 16
flag mi-bike (Jul 25, 2022 at 6:58) (Below Threshold)
 @rosscomtb80: could of* went
  • 5 0
 She never started off as the only one in the category, other girl crashed out unfortunately. Got to hold it together for race runs though so it was well deserved in my opinion getting the win!
  • 5 0
 "For one to finish first one must first finish"
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