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Goldstone leads junior men’s qualifying at Fort William

Four Canadians through to Sunday's junior finals

Photo by: Bartek Wolinski/Red Bull Content Pool

Saturday’s Qualifying is done on a wet Fort William World Cup in Scotland. Canadian riders are looking sharp for Sunday’s finals.

Jackson Goldstone (Syndicate) sets the pace for the junior men, building speed down the long Fort William track to qualify first with a 4:40.704. That’s just 0.659 seconds ahead of Madison Saracen’s Jordan Williams.

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Tegan Cruz (RockShox Trek) qualifies seventh. Bodhi Kuhn (Rossland B.C.) just sneaks into Sunday’s finals, qualifying 23rd on Saturday. Race plate #13 didn’t come with any good luck for Tristan Lemire (Commencal/Muc-Off). The Quebec racer was fourth at the first split, but 44 seconds back at the second split and misses qualifying.

On the women’s side, Gracey Hemstreet (Norco Factory Team) is third in the junior women’s seeding results. Phoebe Gale (Canyon FMD) looks to be the rider to beat. She put over 13 seconds into the next closest competitor, Aimi Kenyon (Pinkbike Academy).

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Qualification results: 2022 Downhill World Cup #2 – Fort William, Scotland

Junior Men

1. n°1
GOLDSTONE Jackson
SANTA CRUZ SYNDICATE
4:40.704
2. n°3
WILLIAMS Jordan
MADISON SARACEN FACTORY TEAM
4:41.363
+0.659
3. n°2
MEIER-SMITH Remy
PROPAIN FACTORY RACING
4:46.185
+5.481
4. n°7
PINKERTON Kenneth
GT FACTORY RACING
4:51.303
+10.599
5. n°24
BRODIE William
4:55.099
+14.395
6. n°20
VIARDOT Kimi
4:58.054
+17.350
7. n°10
CRUZ Tegan
ROCKSHOX TREK RACE TEAM
4:59.375
+18.671
8. n°9
PIERCY Jack
COMMENCAL LES ORRES
4:59.609
+18.905
9. n°5
KIEFER Henri
CANYON COLLECTIVE PIRELLI
4:59.739
+19.035
10. n°11
CAPPELLO Davide
ROGUE RACING – AFTER SKULL TEAM
5:00.107
+19.403
11. n°58
LUCA Thurlow
5:01.929
+21.225
12. n°27
MARINI Hugo
COMMENCAL/MUC-OFF BY RIDING ADDICTION
5:02.312
+21.608
13. n°57
CRAIK Lucas
5:03.386
+22.682
14. n°34
CONNELLY Jackson
PINKBIKE RACING
5:04.141
+23.437
15. n°18
BECK Cameron
YD RACING
5:04.196
+23.492
16. n°12
HOLGUIN VILLA Sebastian
IJ RACING-CHIGÜIRO EXTREMO TEAM
5:04.852
+24.148
17. n°28
DRISCOLL Toby
5:05.085
+24.381
18. n°22
BERGEL Gabin
5:05.946
+25.242
19. n°45
HICKEN Benjamin
SR SUNTOUR COMMENCAL BY GRAVITY SCHOOL
5:06.537
+25.833
20. n°4
STEVENS-MCNAB Lachlan
UNION
5:06.552
+25.848
21. n°25
PONTVIANNE Nathan
5:06.855
+26.151
22. n°54
DUNCAN Lewis
5:07.082
+26.378
23. n°8
KUHN Bodhi
5:07.205
+26.501
24. n°31
LAPPIN Daniel
5:07.785
+27.081
25. n°19
MARTIN Loïc
5:09.120
+28.416
26. n°35
MEDCALF Evan
EVOLVE RACING
5:09.186
+28.482
27. n°42
WAYMAN Alex
YD RACING
5:09.347
+28.643
28. n°39
OLLIER Thomas
5:09.565
+28.861
29. n°21
ABELLA Léo
COMMENCAL VEE
5:10.027
+29.323
30. n°56
SAVERY Will
5:10.094
+29.390
31. n°46
GOODWILL Douglas
555 RAAW GRAVITY RACING
5:11.359
+30.655
32. n°44
ARNOLD Nico
YD RACING
5:14.269
+33.565
33. n°50
HART Jordi
5:14.313
+33.609
34. n°38
SCHLEBES Nico
5:17.160
+36.456
35. n°13
LEMIRE Tristan
COMMENCAL/MUC-OFF BY RIDING ADDICTION
5:17.210
+36.506

Junior Women (seeding)

1. n°2
GALE Phoebe
CANYON COLLECTIVE FMD
5:33.107
2. n°9
KENYON Aimi
PINKBIKE RACING
5:46.608
+13.501
3. n°1
HEMSTREET Gracey
NORCO FACTORY TEAM
5:48.645
+15.538
4. n°6
DA MOCOGNO Delia
TEAMPROJECT.CH
5:58.576
+25.469
5. n°5
HASTINGS Jenna
PIVOT FACTORY RACING
5:58.668
+25.561
6. n°3
YANKOVA Izabela
GEN-S
6:03.448
+30.341
7. n°15
BOULADOU Lisa
6:07.599
+34.492
8. n°14
PRIORI VIALE Sofia
ROGUE RACING – AFTER SKULL TEAM
6:11.628
+38.521
9. n°7
PETROVSKÁ Vanesa
NS BIKES UR
6:26.924
+53.817
10. n°12
MCCULLY Bethany
6:34.010
+1:00.903
11. n°10
MCDONOUGH Meghan
6:44.810
+1:11.703
12. n°11
MILLER Riley
COMMENCAL NORTH AMERICA
6:44.972
+1:11.865
13. n°13
CAMERON Nina-Yves
6:46.425
+1