The Alpine crossers are almost at their destination

For a change, this time it was more downhill than uphill with only 1436 meters in altitude. The first teams reached the finish line accordingly quickly – after a good two hours.

The Italian Marco Rebagliati and the Norwegian champion Ole Hem secured their second stage win by just one second and defended third place in the overall ranking.

“a controlled race” Overall, the top three teams were close together, despite repeated attempts to attack. Not much changed in the overall standings on the 6th day. After a second place on the stage, the yellow jersey remains with Urs Huber (SUI) and Simon Stiebjahn (GER), who drove “a controlled race”. Although there were a few attempts to attack and counterattack on the very short route, “on the whole we drove together,” said Urs Huber.

In third place, 3 seconds behind, were the defending champions Jochen Käß and Daniel Geismayr (Centurio Vaude), who got back on the bike after their fall on the 25th stage, “and try what works,” said Käß, who competed despite injury Elbow is further in the race. The duo remains in second place in the overall standings, the gap to the leaders is more than three minutes. South Tyroleans on course for the podium Some South Tyrolean mountain bikers are also taking part in the Transalp. In third place overall are Thomas Piazza from Val Gardena and Viktor Paris from Nals, who compete for the newly founded Saltos Mountain Xtream team. The gap to the leaders Massimo Debertolis and Dax Jaikel, who are currently on the road for 23.08.24:43:XNUMX hours, is almost XNUMX minutes.

The last stage on Saturday leads from Trento to Molveno over 59,68 km and 2358 m altitude.

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The Alpine crossers are almost at their destination

The penultimate stage of the Mountain Bike Transalp ended after just 58 kilometers in the old town of Trento.

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