Second World Cup

Höll still in the top ten after crashing in Poland

Valentina Höll raced to sixth place despite a crash.(Bild: Stefan Voitl)

Downhill ace Valentina Höll messed up the dress rehearsal before her home World Cup in Leogang. In Poland, the 22-year-old only finished in sixth place after a crash at the start. However, she still leads the overall standings.

A dress rehearsal is definitely a different story. Before the home World Cup in Leogang, downhill ace Valentina Höll had her second race of the season in Bielsko Biala (Poland). However, the mountain biker crashed right after the start on Sunday. Determined as the 22-year-old is, however, she did not give up the race and fought her way up to sixth place, eight seconds behind. The victory went to Marine Cabirou (Fra).

"It is what it is. There are no regrets this weekend," Höll wrote on social media. On a positive note: after a break, which she now wants to take, she will start as the overall World Cup leader on her home track in Leogang (June 7-9). She has a ten-point lead over Great Britain's Tahnee Seagrave, who finished behind Höll in the semi-finals on Saturday. This was despite the fact that the woman from Salzburg had fallen off on the way and straightened her chain.

Styrian Andreas Kolb finished eighth in the men's race. The Schladminger wants to repeat his victory from last year in Leogang.