RESULTS: 2018 U.S. National Mountain Bike Championships 10

The 2018 U.S. National Champs are underway at Snowshoe, West Virgina. We'll drop the results throughout the week right here.

sspomer
7/18/2018 8:04am
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#MTBNats results including Pro and Amateur Enduro results, Amateur Dual Slalom and Amateur XC results.

Pro Men's DH Finals - Full, official results below. Note times are different than originally reported.

  1. Neko Mulally, 3:11.884
  2. Charlie Harrison, 3:12.661
  3. Luca Shaw, 3:14

Jr X Men's DH Finals (full results soon)

  1. Zach Gaeris, 3:33
  2. Nathan St. Clair, 3:40
  3. Matthew Driscoll, 3:45

Pro Women's DH Finals (full results soon)

  1. Samantha Soriano, 4:07
  2. Caroline Washam, 4:18
  3. Jill Kintner, 4:21

Jr X Women's DH Finals (full results soon)

  1. Isabella Naighton
  2. Alli Gaertner
  3. Emily Harris

Pro Men Downhill SEEDING

Pro Women Downhill SEEDING

Jr X Men Downhill SEEDING

Jr X Women Downhill SEEDING

UPDATE, 7-21-2018 - PRO CLASSES WILL BE PAID

 

(We removed the non-national champs results from Tuesday as they just cluttered up the page)

2018 U.S. Mountain Bike National Championship ENDURO RESULTS

 

2018 U.S. Mountain Bike National Championship Amateur Dual Slalom Results

2018 U.S. Mountain Bike National Championships Amateur XC Results

You can click to enlarge and zoom it all in. There's a lot of data with lap times.

Stay tuned for more updates throughout the week.

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hotrodmarlin
5 years ago
Was anyone filming? I've been looking for some video of the race and can't find anything.
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BetterRide.net
5 years ago
31 Pro Men, 8 Jr ex men? So sad! Awesome that the enduro the same weekend as an EWS! The sport I lived and breathed is on life support.
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mickey
5 years ago
DH racing is better than ever- and statistically US downhill racers are better than ever, there are just less of them. DH is just harder than it has ever been, and it costs twice as much as it did 15-20 years ago, when day-job wages were essentially the same as they are now, but far, far more young people had decent jobs, way less college debt and affordable health insurance. MTB racing was on cable and satellite TV, so it was much easier to sell to outside sponsors too.

Now the top-level of racing being televised and controlled by a primary monetary sponsor for the athletes(instead of exposure on Satellite and Cable like we once had) audited numbers about viewership aren't shared freely and that creates a pretty significant barrier to bringing in non-endemic sponsorship that can support larger teams or better domestic production values.
Our "friends" at Redbull are clearly doing amazing things for the sport, but they also are holding many of the most important cards in the sponsorship deck.
As a corollary to that statement:
It's been 15 years since there was a USA governing body that was concerned with high level domestic mountain biking in this country and it's been 20 years since the governing body was responsible for running an actual national series with prize purses and a consistent event staff and rulebook.

That governing body was deliberately disassembled by people at USAC who saw NORBA as a threat.
These days I feel like USAC doesn't even have the tools to relate to the "core" mtb market- and they get to claim "record numbers" of Junior XC starts(if you ignore that junior race numbers were once twice as large under NORBA) on the back of NICA and other regional scholastic xc racing programs... programs that hyper-professionalize little kids and brainwash them into begging for carbon hardtails...
The "Enduro Light" that ESC is promoting is one of the more effective ways I've seen to bring kids into the fun kind of MTB racing.
The problem is clearly much more complex than can be addressed in the comments section on Vital, obviously but...
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bman33
5 years ago
Well said, and very good with specifics Mickey. I lived through the NORBA days as well as NBL/ABA nationals prior the the 'merger' and subsequent USABMX 'rebranding'. USAC is an energy suck at the very best. I look to them specifically as a threat to the spirit of all things MTB / BMX. Their only missions is road cycling and I am not sure how healthy that segment is in the US. I think what you laid out here is a similar reason most are so upset Chris over at EWS is getting cozier with the UCI. The UCI understands the EWS can do things successfully without them and they see that as a threat. My two cents....
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MTB_Chik
5 years ago
How in the heck could the officials allow the DH to be scored to the 1/1000 when transponders were being used? Transponders are never that accurate and are not used for timing at any UCI events. Jeesh!
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sspomer
5 years ago
were the transponders for actual timing or just back-up? thought the DH used normal "beam" system.
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Scrub
5 years ago
I didn't even know it was happening this week. Good luck riders
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bman33
5 years ago
Exactly. @usacycling is a joke and embarrassment. I had plenty of issues with NORBA back in the day. That said, they did promote a little and hype the series..
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