Mountain Bike & Trials World Championships

4 Cross Finals: - km

USA dominate at the 4X finals

The finals of the 4X world championship took place on Friday night and Brian Lopes stormed the men's race to take the gold, followed by Frenchman Romain Saladini and Jurg Meijer from the Netherlands.

Crowd favourite and 4X title contender Cedric Gracia had a bad fall in his quarter-final race.

In the women's event, Jill Kintner (USA) was too good for Anneke Beerten (Netherlands) and Melissa Buhl (USA), giving America a total of two gold medals and a bronze in the 4X event.

4 CROSS FINALS RESULTS

Men

Big Final

1 Brian Lopes (United States of America)
2 Romain Saladini (France)
3 Jurg Meijer (Netherlands)
4 Roger Rinderknecht (Switzerland)

Small Final

5 Rafael Alvarez De Lara Lu (Spain)
6 Tomas Slavik (Czech Republic)
7 Scott Beaumont (Great Britain)
8 Jared Graves (Australia)

1/4 Finals

9 Kamil Tatarkovic (Czech Republic)
10 Mickael Deldycke (France)
11 Gee Atherton (Great Britain)
12 Johannes Fischbach (Germany)
13 Cédric Gracia (France)
14 Joost Wichman (Netherlands)
15 Filip Polc (Slovakia)
16 Lewis Lacey (Great Britain)

Women

1 Jill Kintner (United States of America)
2 Anneke Beerten (Netherlands)
3 Melissa Buhl (United States of America)
4 Jana Horakova (Czech Republic)

Small Final

5 Mio Suemasa (Japan)
6 Rachel Seydoux (Switzerland)
7 Joey Gough (Great Britain)
8 Caroline Buchanan (Australia)

1/4 Finals

9 Fionn Griffiths (Great Britain)
10 Steffi Marth (Germany)
11 Diana Marggraff (Ecuador)
12 Julia Boer (Hungary)
13 Anita Molcik (Austria)
14 Neven Steinmetz (United States of America)
15 Laura Brethauer (Germany)
16 Elisa Canepa (Italy)

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