France repeated its success in the Men’s Junior Short Track event: the first race of the penultimate day of the MTB European Championships was dominated by Mathieu Ghibaudo, who pulled clear of all his rivals from the second lap onwards on the Monteceneri long course.
Austria’s Michael Hettegger and Germany’s Elias Huckmann – already a bronze medallist in the Short Track – were thus left to battle it out for the other two places on the podium after dispatching Noa Filippi, the other French rider who had won Thursday’s race.
It was to no avail for Switzerland – who, for the first time in this edition of the European Championships, never seemed capable of competing with the formidable French riders: Marwan Barhoumi, the best of the Swiss contingent, failed to repeat his brilliant second-place finish in the Short Track, finishing in 11th place, almost 5’ behind Ghibaudo.
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