Sina Frei narrowly misses out on her first podium finish of the season at the last opportunity. Jenny Rissveds wins with a record lead, the Swiss men remain without a win this season.
12.10.2025, 21:12
13.10.2025, 07:01
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Frei finished fourth at the World Cup derby in Mont-Sainte-Anne, Canada. The 28-year-old from Zurich narrowly lost out to Great Britain's Evie Richards in the battle for third place. As in the previous year, she used her good late form to achieve a strong result at the final in Canada, but was denied a podium place by five seconds after finishing second and third in Lake Placid and Mont-Sainte-Anne 2024.
The second-best Swiss athlete was Alessandra Keller. The short track world champion from Zermatt and overall World Cup winner from 2024 finished fifth and ended the season in third place overall. Nicole Koller (10th), who far exceeded expectations in fifth place in the overall World Cup, Jolanda Neff (12th), Ginia Caluori (13th) and Ronja Blöchlinger (14th) also finished in the top 15. Linda Indergand finished 22nd in the last race of her career.
At the top, Sweden's Jenny Rissveds celebrated her fourth World Cup victory of the season in a dominant manner. The world champion, who has regained her strength after difficult years due to psychological problems, triumphed three and a half minutes ahead of New Zealand's overall World Cup winner Samara Maxwell - and thus with the biggest lead ever in the Mountain Bike World Cup. Maxwell, for her part, is her country's first overall winner.
Marcel Guerrini best Swiss rider in fifth place
The Swiss men were not among the front runners in the last World Cup race of the season - apart from young rider Finn Treudler, who showed off his dominance in the U23 category with another victory. Marcel Guerrini finished a good fifth 37 seconds behind the podium, Fabio Püntener seventh.
Britain's Charlie Aldridge took the win ahead of Chile's Martin Vidaurre Kossmann and France's Mathis Azzaro. The American Christopher Blevins (23rd), who dominated the short track in particular, was already crowned overall World Cup winner.
The local men thus remained winless in Nino Schurter's farewell season. However, Püntener's sixth place in the overall World Cup cemented his status as the rising star of the year. After his supposedly first professional contract vanished into thin air before the season and he found a makeshift home with the local Bike Team Solothurn, the 26-year-old from Uri has now joined Team Scott-SRAM as Nino Schurter's successor and Filippo Colombo's teammate. Püntener finished third on the podium in the Olympic cross-country at two of the ten World Cup stops.
