Italy's Valentina Corvi continued her dominating run this season, claiming the U23 women's title at the UCI Mountain Bike World Championships in front of her home nation crowd at Vale di Sole.
Corvi went to the front early and stayed there, crossing the line with a 43 second margin to Switzerland's Anina Hutter while compatriot Monique Halter was third at 1:55 behind the new world champion. Halter won the short-track title earlier in the championships.
The women's U23 race was the opening event on Sunday, with men's U23 race plus the elite women's and men's races running afterward and drawing the Mountain Bike World Championships to a close.
Simone is a degree-qualified journalist that has accumulated decades of wide-ranging experience while working across a variety of leading media organisations. She joined Cyclingnews as a Production Editor at the start of the 2021 season and has now moved into the role of Australia Editor. Previously she worked as a freelance writer, Australian Editor at Ella CyclingTips and as a correspondent for Reuters and Bloomberg. Cycling was initially purely a leisure pursuit for Simone, who started out as a business journalist, but in 2015 her career focus also shifted to the sport.
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