Tom Pidcock beats Mathieu van der Poel to win Nove Mesto World Cup

Tom Pidcock
(Image credit: Michal Červený)

Tom Pidcock (Ineos Grenadiers) said "I was born to mountain bike", and he certainly backed that statement up with a dominant performance on Sunday at Round 2 of the XCO World Cup in Nove Mesto, Czech Republic. 

Pidcock rode the best mountain bikers in the world off his wheel to beat Mathieu van der Poel (Alpecin-Fenix) by a minute. Mathias Flueckiger (Thomus RN Swiss Bike) took third, while world number-one Nino Schurter (Scott-SRAM) was seventh. 

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Results
Pos.Rider Name (Country) TeamResult
1Thomas Pidcock (Great Britain) 1:20:55
2Mathieu Van der Poel (Netherlands) 0:01:00
3Mathias Flueckiger (Switzerland) 0:01:15
4Ondřej Cink (Czech Republic) 0:02:00
5Jordan Sarrou (France) 0:02:21
6Alan Hatherly (South Africa) 0:02:28
7Nino Schurter (Switzerland) 0:03:04
8Anton Cooper (New Zealand) 0:03:14
9Titouan Carod (France) 0:03:37
10Thomas Griot (France) 0:03:51
11Sebastian Fini Carstensen (Denmark) 0:04:11
12Bartlomiej Wawak (Poland) 0:04:38
13Luca Braidot (Italy) 0:04:48
14Milan Vader (Netherlands) 0:04:55
15David Valero Serrano (Spain) 0:04:58
16Joshua Dubau (France) 0:05:05
17Vlad Dascalu (Romania) 0:05:11
18Nadir Colledani (Italy) 0:05:14
19Leandre Bouchard (Canada)
20Christopher Blevins (United States Of America) 0:05:25
21Antoine Philipp (France) 0:05:31
22Thomas Litscher (Switzerland) 0:05:49
23Henrique Avancini (Brazil) 0:06:08
24Victor Koretzky (France) 0:06:10
25Pierre De Froidmont (Belgium)
26Lukas Flückiger (Switzerland) 0:06:11
27Vital Albin (Switzerland) 0:06:17
28Lars Forster (Switzerland) 0:06:28
29Jofre Cullell Estape (Spain) 0:06:33
30Anton Sintsov (Russian Federation) 0:06:45
31Gioele Bertolini (Italy) 0:06:50
32Maxime Marotte (France) 0:06:56
33Mirko Tabacchi (Italy) 0:07:03
34Jens Schuermans (Belgium) 0:07:12
35Marcel Guerrini (Switzerland) 0:07:17
36Samuel Gaze (New Zealand) 0:07:20
37Manuel Fumic (Germany) 0:07:21
38Gerhard Kerschbaumer (Italy) 0:07:24
39Luca Schwarzbauer (Germany) 0:07:30
40Julian Schelb (Germany) 0:07:34
41Ismael Esteban Aguero (Spain) 0:07:36
42Jose Gerardo Ulloa Arevalo (Mexico) 0:07:39
43Reto Indergand (Switzerland)
44Peter Disera (Canada) 0:07:40
45Sergio Mantecon Gutierrez (Spain)
46Karl Markt (Austria) 0:07:48
47Martins Blums (Latvia)
48Stephane Tempier (France) 0:07:51
49Sean Fincham (Canada) 0:08:02
50Niklas Schehl (Germany) 0:08:04
51Jan Vastl (Czech Republic) 0:08:11
52Simon Andreassen (Denmark) 0:08:18
53Jan Škarnitzl (Czech Republic) 0:08:23
54Catriel Soto (Argentina) 0:08:36
55Gregor Raggl (Austria) 0:08:44
56Luiz Henrique Cocuzzi (Brazil) 0:08:47
57Daan Soete (Belgium)
58Keegan Swenson (United States Of America) 0:08:53
59Andrew L'Esperance (Canada)
60Andri Frischknecht (Switzerland) 0:09:07
61Dmytro Titarenko (Ukraine) 0:09:11
62Jonas Lindberg (Denmark) 0:09:20
63Marc Andre Fortier (Canada) 0:09:34
64Erik Hægstad (Norway) 0:09:57
65Thibault Daniel (France) 0:09:58
66Georg Egger (Germany) 0:10:01
67Simon Vitzthum (Switzerland) 0:10:03
68Andrin Beeli (Switzerland) 0:10:27
69Krzysztof Lukasik (Poland) 0:10:52
70Pablo Rodriguez Guede (Spain) 0:11:27
71Hugo Drechou (France)
72Basile Allard (France)
73Emil Lindgren (Sweden)
74Emil Hasund Eid (Norway)
75Guilherme Gotardelo Muller (Brazil)
76Ben Oliver (New Zealand)
77Mário Costa (Portugal)
78Tyler Orschel (Canada)
79Shlomi Haimy (Israel)
80Bruno Vitali (Switzerland)
81Josef Jelínek (Czech Republic)
82Ivan Filatov (Russian Federation)
83Maxime Loret (France)
84Matej Ulik (Slovakia)
85Nick Burki (Switzerland)
86Clément Auvin (France)
87Filip Helta (Poland)
88Quinton Disera (Canada)
89Dimitrios Antoniadis (Greece)
90Frazer Clacherty (Great Britain)
91Nicolas Delich Pardo (Chile)
92Luis Neff (Germany)
93Raphael Auclair (Canada)
94Pierre-geoffroy Plantet (France)
95Fabian Giger (Switzerland)
96Ulan Bastos Galinski (Brazil)
97Fabio Hernando Castañeda Monsalve (Colombia)
98Tomáš Paprstka (Czech Republic)
99Martin Haring (Slovakia)
100Daniel Mcconnell (Australia)
101Rok Naglič (Slovenia)
102Kohei Yamamoto (Japan)
103Joris Ryf (Switzerland)
104Cole Paton (United States Of America)
105Jhonatan Botero Villegas (Colombia)
106András Parti (Hungary)
107Silas Graf (Germany)
108Alex Bregenzer (Germany)
109Moritz Bscherer (Austria)
110Florian Trigo (France)
111Sebastian Miranda Maldonado (Chile)
112Tomáš Ševců (Czech Republic)
113Gioele De Cosmo (Italy)
114Timofei Ivanov (Russian Federation)
115Oleksandr Koniaiev (Ukraine)
116Sam De Nijs (Netherlands)
117Kevin Krieg (Switzerland)
118Karol Ostaszewski (Poland)
119David Bártek (Czech Republic)
120Sascha Weber (Germany)
121Alexandre Vialle (Canada)
122Arthur Tropardy (France)
123Lorenzo Serres (France)
124Raphael Gagne (Canada)
125Tim Feinauer (Germany)
126Felix Belhumeur (Canada)
127Rob Vanden Haesevelde (Belgium)
128Florian Wimmer (Austria)
129Zdeněk Vobecký (Czech Republic)
130Tristan De Lange (Namibia)
131Ede-karoly Molnar (Romania)
132Fabian Costa (Austria)
133Wim De Bruin (Netherlands)
134Periklis Ilias (Greece)
135Gregor Dimic (Slovenia)
136Charoun Molla Amet ali Oglou (Greece)
137Lucian Logigan (Romania)
138Pau Romero Barcelo (Spain)
139Abdulkadir Kelleci (Turkey)
140Serdar Depe (Turkey)
141George-vlad Sabau (Romania)
DNFUrsin Spescha (Switzerland)
DNFMatthias Stirnemann (Switzerland)
DNFMaximilian Foidl (Austria)
DNFMaximilian Brandl (Germany)

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