2022 will be an unforgettable year for david valero. The Granada runner from Baza became one of the great protagonists of world xco and while he has been at a tremendous level all year, his second half of the season has been exceptional. In this campaign he achieved his first victory in XCO World Cup and achieved the subchampionship of world of modalityd. Two milestones that are most notable but not the only ones in a year that is difficult to match.
If someone introduces the periods of david valero This is the extensive competition calendar, far from the “fashionable” formula of competing for a few days and in World Cup. He took part in 30 UCI XCO and Short Track competitions and finished them all, winning 6 of them, including his victory in the Snowshoe World Cup.
His season began in early February competing (and winning) in the The Legend of Tartessos. And he finished, also winning, in October at the last XCO UCI test of the year in Spain. A sample of the great average level he was able to maintain throughout the season.
His first World Cup victory
This regularity was also reflected in the World Cup, where he managed to finish 4th in the final standings of the championship. But, undoubtedly, the high point of time came in the mud of American Snowshoe Circuit. In an epic scenario, Valero achieved his first victory in an XCO World Cup event and the first in history for BH Lynx Race EVO. It was a victory he had longed for Vallnord, where he was 2nd just 10 seconds from victory. In total, he got 4 podiums in the XCO World Cup as these two great results were added to the 3rd place obtained in Mont-Sainte-Anne and the 5th achieved in albstadt, got into his handsa BH Ultimate EVO that is durable.
Spanish XCO Champion for the 7th time and… the first Short Track champion in history
David Valero always takes care of the national competition calendar and proof of this is that he has competed in 8 XCO UCI events in our country. With the Spanish championship of the modality where he got his 7th victory and where he is close to the record of victories of Jose Antonio Hermida.
And not only that, in the latter part of the year he dared to compete with Spanish Short Track Championshipwhich was held for the first time, and got a victory that allowed him to add some important UCI points to end the year as the best biker in the UCI world ranking.
World runner-up in Les Gets
Although his Snowshoe victory was the most important result of the year, the truth was his World runner-up in Les Gets This is probably the result that has the greatest contribution to increasing his popularity around the world. Not so much for the result itself, which is clearly impressive. But because of the way he got it. By hand-to-hand combat with Nino Schurter that was not resolved until the last meter. Valero caressed the rainbow jersey until the last moment.
With these results, and with 2023 as the pre-Olympic year, david valero He will face the next campaign with peace of mind knowing he can fight the best in the world head-on and with an eye on what follows. Olympic Games in Paris 2024.
Source: La Verdad
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