Julien Absalon of Team Orbea rode powered ahead for six laps to take a solo victory at the Bromont World Cup, just one week after his win at Mont-Sainte-Anne.

Lukas Flückiger of Team Athleticum spent most of the race trying to real in the French National Champion Absalon. Near the end Flückiger slowed, but he hung tough to finish second while Team Giant’s Adam Craig came in third.

Bromont World Cup MTB Results:

1 Julien Absalon (Fra) Orbea 2.16.24
2 Lukas Flückiger (Swi) Athleticum-MTB-Team 2.14
3 Adam Craig (USA) Giant Mountain Bike Team 3.46
4 Geoff Kabush (Can) Team Maxxis 5.07
5 José Antonio Hermida Ramos (Spa) Multivan Merida 6.07
6 Martin Gujan (Swi) Athleticum-MTB-Team 7.17
7 Jiri Friedl (Cze) Merida Biking Team 7.23
8 Jaroslav Kulhavy (Cze) 7.56
9 Liam Killeen (GBr) Specialized Factory Racin 8.01
10 Todd Wells (USA) GT Bicycles 8.39
11 Jeremy Horgan-Kobelski (USA) Subaru-Gary Fisher 8.55
12 Hannes Metzler (Aut) Giant Mountain Bike Team 10.33
13 Cédric Ravanel (Fra) Team Lapierre Internation 11.27
14 Derek Zandstra (Can) 11.45
15 Seamus Mcgrath (Can) 13.45
16 Christoph Soukup (Aut) 15.23
17 Jeremiah Bishop (USA) Trek-VW 16.34
18 Karl Markt (Aut) 16.49
19 Carl Decker (USA) Giant Mountain Bike Team 17.05
20 Mathieu Toulouse (Can) Team Maxxis 18.17
21 Michael Broderick (USA) 18.52
22 Matthew Hadley (Can) 20.04
23 Cristobal Silva Ibaceta (Chi) 21.13
24 Burry Stander (RSA) GT Bicycles 21.21

One lap down:

25 Connor Mcconvey (Irl)
26 Eric Batty (Can)
27 Ola Kjören (Nor)
28 Daniel Sessford (Can)
29 Martin Fanger (Swi)
30 Maxime Marotte (Fra) BH-SR. Suntour
31 Matous Ulman (Cze)
32 Barry Wicks (USA) Kona
33 Kris Sneddon (Can) Kona
34 Samuel Schultz (USA) Subaru-Gary Fisher
35 Craig Richey (Can)
36 Jan Skarnitzl (Cze)

Two laps down:

37 Freddy Betremieux (Fra) BH-SR. Suntour
38 Raphael Gagne (Can) Rocky Mountain
39 Gareth Montgomerie (GBr)
40 Calle Friberg (Swe)
41 Francis Morin (Can)
42 Andrew Watson (Can)
43 Bas Peters (Ned)
44 Nicola Rohrbach (Swi) Central Ghost Pro Team
45 Spencer Paxson (USA)
46 Tad Elliot (USA)
47 Kenji Takeya (Jpn)
48 Frank Schotman (Ned)
49 Andrew Freye (USA)

Three laps down:

50 Leni Trudel (Can)
51 Troy Wells (USA)
52 Cody Peterson (USA)
53 Pierre Lebreton (Fra) BH-SR. Suntour
54 Martin Loo (Est) Merida Biking Team
55 Ethan Gilmour (USA)
56 Anders Hovdenes (Nor) Team Etto Hoydahl
57 Timothy Madgwick (NZl)
58 Ryan Atkins (Can)
DNF Robin Seymour (Irl)
DNF Max Plaxton (Can) Rocky Mountain
DNF John Gray (NZl)
DNF Julien Fillion (Can)
DNF Josef Kamler (Cze) Ceska Sporitelna MTB
DNF Kyle Douglas (Can)
DNF Mitchell Peterson (USA)
DNF Pablo Voigt Rodriguez (Mex)
DNS Kashi Leuchs (NZl) Cannondale-Vredestein