The Great Britain Cycling Team continued their campaign at the 2024 UCI Mountain Bike World Championships in Andorra, with the junior downhill squad storming to fantastic final runs as the elite riders fired through qualifications.

Junior downhill finals

Having qualified third fastest in yesterday’s qualification, Heather Wilson suffered an unfortunate crash early in her run. Despite recovering well, Wilson finished in 19th place with a time of 4:09.386.

Noa Hirst Walker finished 14th in the junior men in a time of 2:46.060 to top the British junior men. After a fantastic qualifying run, George Madley finished 18th with a fast finish, while Daniel Parfitt was just 0.2 seconds behind in 19th. Oscar Griffiths delivered a consistent run, recovering well from a dip at the third time check to come home 30th. Rudi Eichhorn finished 33rd, Will Haines was 45th, and Billy Pugh was 57th to round off a brilliant championship campaign against some of the best riders in the world.

Elite downhill qualifications

Tahnee Seagrave stormed to second in the elite women’s downhill qualifying. Seagrave clocked 3:06.475, three seconds behind top qualifier Myriam Nicole (France) to sail through to Saturday's final. Louise-Anna Ferguson qualified in 12th place, with Hattie Harnden not far behind in 16th. Phoebe Gale, Stacey Fisher and Mikayla Parton came home in 30th, 31st and 32nd, respectively, while Aimi Kenyon was 34th. 

Danny Hart qualified third in the elite men’s downhill, clocking 2:42.074, just two seconds off leader Loic Bruni (France). Defending world champion Charlie Hatton qualified 14th in 2:44.609, while Matt Walker was 20th, and Bernard Kerr and Reece Wilson finished 22nd and 23rd, respectively. 2023 world bronze medallist Laurie Greenland qualified 30th as Greg Williamson finished 49th and Joe Breeden came home 61st in a field of 95.

Competition continues tomorrow with a jam-packed line up of events including men’s and women’s junior XCO Olympic and men’s and women’s under-23 and elite XCO short-track finals.