The Aveyronnaise Marine Cabirou, 26, won the bronze medal on Sunday at the Downhill Mountain Bike World Championships held in Fort William in Scotland, while the favorite among men Loïc Bruni finished at the foot of the podium. Already vice-world champion in Val di Sole (Italy) in 2021 and bronze medalist in Mont-Sainte-Anne (Canada) in 2019, the Frenchwoman won her 3rd award at world level in the fog of this city of the west of the Scottish Highlands.
She finished just a few tenths of a second behind the Swiss Camille Balanche, 2nd. Austria’s Valentina Höll crushed the competition, securing her second consecutive Worlds title.
On the men’s side, the Niçois Loïc Bruni, five-time world champion and who was putting his title on the line after his victory in Les Gets last year, set the fourth fastest time at the bottom of the track, made muddy by the rain that fell at the start. afternoon on Fort William. Briton Charlie Hatton won ahead of Austrian Andreas Kolb and his compatriot Laurie Greenland.