Switzerland’s Andrea Waldis gave Colnago a sec­ond world title at the UCI moun­tain bike world cham­pi­onships with a dom­i­nant per­for­mance in the junior women’s race that con­firmed her huge tal­ent and ability.

Riding her black and white-colored Colnago C29 Italia bike, Waldis won alone, savour­ing every sec­ond of her vic­tory and wav­ing a huge Swiss flag as she crossed the fin­ish line.

Waldis took con­trol of the race on lap two and never looked back, dis­tanc­ing her rivals and going on to fin­ish 30 sec­onds ahead of Germany’s Sofia Wiedenroth, with her com­pa­triot Lena Putz third at 1:19. The very test­ing and tech­ni­cal descent proved cru­cial. Waldis opted to take the safer line early on but knew she had to fol­low Wiedenroth when she took the more test­ing line. Wiedenroth crashed but Waldis did not, ensur­ing her a great chance of victory.

“I’m very happy to be world cham­pion. I was focused on my race and being on my line. I didn’t even think about win­ning the Worlds in the first few laps,” Waldis said, modestly.

Edmund Telser, the team man­ager of MTB Pro-Team Colnago-Südtirol, was more emo­tional after a sec­ond con­sec­u­tive world title. 24 hours ear­lier, Eva Lechner and Beltrain Schmid had rid­den Colnago bikes in the Italian team that won the world cross coun­try relay title.

“Andrea had a very good sea­son. After suc­ceed­ing in the World Cup in Val d‘Isere we knew that she had good chances to also medal here at the World Championships,” he said.

Photo cour­tesy of Marius Maasewerd/Team Colnago-Südtirol.

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