2012 Leogang World Champs With CRC/Nukeproof Team
Permalink Team CRC/Nukeproof downhill riders Joe Smith (GB), Matt Simmonds (GB), Matti Lehikoinen (Finland) head to the beautiful alpine town of Leogang in Austria for an action packed World Championships race.
Michael Mechura takes an amazing silver in the 4X race with Lukas finishing in sixth.
2012 DH World Championships - Leogang Team Specialized
Lots of drama at the 2012 UCI Downhill World Championships for Team Monster Energy - Specialized.
Minnar Turns Carbon Into Gold
The Santa Cruz Syndicate are proud to announce Greg Minnaar as the new 2012 Downhill World Champion. Greg’s victory in Leogang marks the first time EVER that a Downhill Gold has been won on a carbon bike... the Santa Cruz V10.
2012 MTB World Championships At Leogang Drama
Gwin has been almost unstoppable in the World Cup, and officially his slower run at the World Championships was put down to brake failure, with winner Greg Minnaar, also one of only two men to deny Gwin in World Cups this season, sympathising about ‘mechanicals’. But in fact Gwin did extremely well even to finish after hitting the dirt hard, as our exclusive video footage above shows.
The disappointed American was 83rd, while South African Minnaar enjoyed a long-awaited follow-up to his Rainbow Jersey in 2003: “It’s been nine years, man!” he exclaimed.
"It was very hard, but I didn’t make any mistakes"
The hunger to win can bring out the best in downhill riders, and women’s winner Morgane Charre was the prime example.
“It was very hard, but I didn’t make any mistakes,” said the shocked Frenchwoman, who beat a raft of riders who’ve won World Cups this year and past titles, including the form rider of the year Rachel Atherton, whose back injury from a practice crash earlier in the weekend left her struggling back in fifth.
