Seventh place for Jofre Cullell in the short cross country race

The Catalan Jofre Cullel This Thursday he took a deserved seventh place in the short mountain bike cross-country test of the Cycling World Cups to be held in Glasgow, after starring in a meritorious comeback, from starting in 28th place.

the new zealand samuel thought he was declared world champion in this way -in which he reaffirmed the title achieved last year-, marked by the obligation of all participants to make a continuous effort during the 11 laps of the circuit, which the participants completed in just twenty minutes.

Spain is represented by the BH Coloma Team cyclist, Jofre Cullell, after the European champion of the specialty, david’s fields from Orbea, has given up participation to focus on Sunday’s long test.

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Like Campos, others of the best mountain bike specialists in the world, such as Nino Schurter, Jordan Sarrou, David Valero or Mathieu Van der Poel, the road champion, decided not to participate, where the leading role was taken by others cyclists who usually occupy the first positions in this specialty at the World Cup.

At the beginning the “favorites”, like British Pidcock, French Koretzky or German Schwarzbauer let Gaze do it, as if they didn’t believe he could win again.

But the New Zealander led the event from the start; thus, he led the pack in the first few laps, with high speed and holding the first half of the race, when the Latvian Martins Blums and the Czech Odrej Cink took over.

But on the final lap, with just five riders ahead and with German Schwarzbauer sent off for a minor crash after Pidcock’s aggressive ‘block pass’ in the final right corner of the race, the New Zealander was the most aggressive in the last return and did not leave the first place until the end, to win by a single second of the Frenchman rent Victor Koretsky just a few tenths behind, while bronze went to British Thomas Pidcock, two seconds behind.

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Jofre Cullell, 24 years old, he was trapped at the end and could not fight for medals, but he sprinted to seventh place with only eight seconds behind. This is his best classification in an international race of this modality because he competed in the elite category.