{"id":69005,"date":"2014-09-06T17:07:55","date_gmt":"2014-09-06T15:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mtb-mag.com\/?p=69005"},"modified":"2014-09-06T20:47:30","modified_gmt":"2014-09-06T18:47:30","slug":"xc-world-championships-results-and-comment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mtb-mag.com\/en\/xc-world-championships-results-and-comment\/","title":{"rendered":"[Gallery] XC World Championships Results and Comment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With a riveting final few laps this years XC world champion has been decided.\u00a0 Julian Absalon came home in first as world champion after chasing down Nino Schurter between the 3rd and 5th lap. Nino obviously tired by the time he crossed the line in second place after crashing just a little bit before the line in a rare mistake on a technical section. Marco Fontana delighted the crowd and showed his relief as he did a wheelie across the line and came home in third place.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_69010\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-69010\" style=\"width: 750px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mtb-mag.com\/campionati-mondiali-hafjell-vincono-prendel-e-absalon-fontana-bronzo\/immagine-006-12\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-69010\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-69010\" alt=\"Immagine 006\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mtb-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Immagine-006-750x407.jpg\" width=\"750\" height=\"407\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mtb-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Immagine-006-750x407.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.mtb-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Immagine-006.jpg 778w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-69010\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Absalon crosses the line in first.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_69020\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-69020\" style=\"width: 750px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mtb-mag.com\/campionati-mondiali-hafjell-vincono-prendel-e-absalon-fontana-bronzo\/immagine-003-31\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-69020\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-69020\" alt=\"Immagine 003\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mtb-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Immagine-003-750x412.jpg\" width=\"750\" height=\"412\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mtb-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Immagine-003-750x412.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.mtb-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Immagine-003.jpg 780w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-69020\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Schurter manges a silver medal as he crosses in 2nd position after a crash.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_69021\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-69021\" style=\"width: 750px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mtb-mag.com\/campionati-mondiali-hafjell-vincono-prendel-e-absalon-fontana-bronzo\/immagine-004-15\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-69021\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-69021\" alt=\"Immagine 004\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mtb-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Immagine-004-750x386.jpg\" width=\"750\" height=\"386\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mtb-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Immagine-004-750x386.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.mtb-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Immagine-004.jpg 782w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-69021\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fontana crossed the line in 3rd.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_69017\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-69017\" style=\"width: 750px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mtb-mag.com\/campionati-mondiali-hafjell-vincono-prendel-e-absalon-fontana-bronzo\/immagine-013-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-69017\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-69017\" alt=\"Immagine 013\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mtb-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Immagine-013-750x413.jpg\" width=\"750\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mtb-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Immagine-013-750x413.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.mtb-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Immagine-013.jpg 787w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-69017\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The moment of Schurter&#8217;s crash.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_69013\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-69013\" style=\"width: 750px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mtb-mag.com\/campionati-mondiali-hafjell-vincono-prendel-e-absalon-fontana-bronzo\/immagine-009-6\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-69013\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-69013\" alt=\"Immagine 009\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mtb-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Immagine-009-750x317.jpg\" width=\"750\" height=\"317\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mtb-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Immagine-009-750x317.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.mtb-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Immagine-009.jpg 774w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-69013\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fontana obviously happy.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Results &#8211; Elite Men<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"doc_76678\" src=\"\/\/www.scribd.com\/embeds\/238847492\/content?start_page=1&amp;view_mode=scroll&amp;show_recommendations=true\" height=\"600\" width=\"100%\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" data-auto-height=\"false\" data-aspect-ratio=\"undefined\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Results &#8211; Elite Woman<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"doc_67818\" src=\"\/\/www.scribd.com\/embeds\/238836221\/content?start_page=1&amp;view_mode=scroll&amp;show_recommendations=true\" height=\"600\" width=\"100%\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" data-auto-height=\"false\" data-aspect-ratio=\"undefined\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>[flagallery gid=52]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With a riveting final few laps this years XC world champion has been decided.\u00a0 Julian Absalon came home in first as world champion after chasing down Nino Schurter between the 3rd and 5th lap. 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Results &#8211; Elite Men Results &#8211; Elite Woman [flagallery gid=52]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":172966,"featured_media":69016,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3683,3684,3678,4013,3674],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.3 (Yoast SEO v19.7.2) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>[Gallery] XC World Championships Results and Comment | MTB-MAG.COM<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mtb-mag.com\/en\/xc-world-championships-results-and-comment\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"[Gallery] XC World Championships Results and Comment\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"With a riveting final few laps this years XC world champion has been decided.\u00a0 Julian Absalon came home in first as world champion after chasing down Nino Schurter between the 3rd and 5th lap. 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