Canadian Goldstone Banks Fourth Win In A Row After Thrilling La Thuile Downhill Victory

Jackson Goldstone celebrating at UCI Mountain Bike World Cup 2025, La Thuile, Italy.

Jackson Goldstone produced another spectacular performance on Sunday to edge out Frenchman Loris Vergier for victory in the 2025 Mountain Bike

World Cup downhill race at La Thuile as both Valentina Höll and Gracey Hemstreet ended on the women’s podium.

Goldstone came into the Italian race weekend on the back of an astonishing run of form that saw the 21-year-old reel off elite downhill wins

at Loudenvielle, Leogang and Val di Sole in the past month.

The new La Thuile course is one of the longest on the 2025 calendar and after high-speed, flat corners, big vertical drops and wooded sections, it

transitions into tricky bumpy rocks and roots.

Loic Bruni performing at UCI Mountain Bike World Cup 2025, La Thuile, Italy.

Saturday’s qualifying saw Goldstone keep the hammer down on his competitors with a smooth, consistent ride to top the timesheets ahead of

American Luca Shaw and Irishman Oisin O Callaghan.

Sunday’s race saw Vergier put down a brilliant run to post a time of 3:27.738 that held for over an hour with Goldstone posting a slowish first

section that saw him ranked seventh before upping the ante to go faster and faster until hitting first at Split 4 and then a 0.604s victory margin.

Four-time MTB World Cup downhill champion Loïc Bruni was fastest at Split 2, but could not keep up the pace to finish in third place which leaves

him 195 points behind Goldstone with five stops left. “Goldstone said: “I am on a roll. Such a crazy feeling to do four in a row. I

can’t believe that just happened. It felt right during the whole run. The dust is so soft here and so powdery that it is really hard not to get sunk in and

have those mistakes. I pushed through and gave it everything.”

Earlier, German Nina Hoffmann was in the top two across all the splits to claim the women’s DH victory in a time of 3:57.934 with Austrian Höll and

Canadian Hemstreet finishing strong to make the podium as Briton T ahnée Seagrave fell away after posting the best time in the first two sectors.

Höll’s third second-placed finish of 2025 means her overall 2025 lead is now 54 points over Hemstreet with Seagrave 247 points back from the top

ahead of the Pal downhill stop in Andorra next week.