Gerardo Ulloa to the top 10 in the MTB World Cup in Andorra – El Sol de León
León, Guanajuato.- The Guanajuato mountain biker and representative Gerardo Ulloa got into the top 10 of the Short Track event, this on the sixth date of the UCI World Cup series that takes place in Vallnord Pal Arinsal , Andorra.
Ulloa was able to bring a race to fruition where he came back from several positions, coupled with the track demanded the best version of each of the 40 participants who took the start. In the end, the Central American champion of the specialty was in tenth position with an official time of 21:19 minutes, 24 seconds behind the winner, the Swiss Mathias Fluckiger; In addition, he was the best Latin American, since the experienced Brazilian Henrique Avancini fell to the twenty-seventh place.
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“Another good result in the XCC (Short Track). A tough race from start to finish, but as always I found myself motivated and climbing places”, said Ulloa Arévalo through social networks.
The podium was completed by the South African Alan Hatherly and the Romanian Vlad Dascalu, with differences of one and four seconds in relation to the first place.
It should be noted that this is the second best result for Ulloso far this season, only behind the sixth place he obtained in the Short Track of the third stage contained in Nove Mesto Na Morave, Czech Republic.
The activity for the member of the Spanish team Massi Bikes is not over yet as this Sunday he will take part in the Cross Countrycompetition in which the Leonese brothers Jaime and Carlos Miranda will also enter.
UCI MTB World Cups
2022 season
Date 6 (Andorra)
Short track
Final results
cyclist | weather |
1 Mathias Flueckiger (SUI) | 20:55 |
2 Alan Hatherly (RSA) | +0:01 |
3 Vlad Dascalu (ROU) | +0:04 |
4 Thomas Litscher (SUI) | +0:11 |
5 Jordan Sarrou (FRA) | +0:12 |
10 Gerardo Ulloa (MEX) | +0:24 |