Durangoan Riley Amos of Trek Factory Racing reached the World Cup podium for the first time this season on Saturday. Racing at the sixth stop of Mercedes-Benz UCI Mountain Bike World Cup in Vallnord, Andorra, Amos finished third in the men’s U23 race.
Carter Woods placed first in 1 hour, 4 minutes and 14 seconds. Luca Martin finished second in 1:04:33, and Amos crossed third in 1:05:15, finishing 14 seconds ahead of the fourth-place rider, Charlie Aldridge.
“Pure happiness to be back on a World Cup podium, what a treat,” Amos posted on Instagram. “Finally had every piece in place today from start to finish, no better feeling.”
Amos also moved up into sixth place overall in the World Cup’s U23 standings with his performance.
Fellow Durangoan Christopher Blevins competed in the men’s elite short track cross-country and cross-country Olympic races.
In the short-track race Friday, Blevins placed 17th out of 40 competitors in 21:30. Mathias Fluckiger took the win in 20:55.
In the cross-country Olympic race, Blevins finished 31st out of the 100 cyclists who started the race in 1:19:58.
Luca Braidot won the race by 10 seconds in 1:15:31.
In the overall standings, Blevins is now in 25th place with 413 points. Nino Schurter, who finished third in Vallnord, leads the series with 1,342 points.
Neither Ruth Holcomb (U23 women) or Savilia Blunk (elite women) competed at the World Cup stop in Andorra.
The World Cup will next hold its lone stop in the United States on July 29-31 in Snowshoe, West Virginia. Last year, Blevins won the elite men’s cross-country Olympic race in Snowshoe, which was the first time a U.S.A. male mountain biker had accomplished the feat since Tinker Juarez in 1994.
