Jackson Goldstone crashed in his race run at Leogang World Cup … and still came second
Rough road to the podium for Canada's junior world champ
Jackson Goldstone finished second in the junior men’s downhill race in Saturday’s Leogang World Cup. A podium at a World Cup is a big deal (even if Goldstone, the reigning world champ, has two others already this year). The result is even more impressive when you learn that Goldstone earned silver on Saturday even with a heavy crash near the start of his race run.
Goldstone was one of numerous riders caught out by Leogang’s wildly technical stump section. While the junior men’s race isn’t broadcast live, Cinematographer John Lawlor caught the Canadians crash – and recovery – on camera.
Goldstone gets bucked as he’s launching over one of the stumps, lands very front heavy and goes over the bars. The Syndicate racer is back on his back faster than a World Cup cyclocross racer and continues his run. Goldstone charged down the rest of the Leogang course, pulling 2.5 seconds back from eventual race winner Jordan Williams (Madison Saracen), but it wasn’t quite enough to take the win.
You can see the Canadian’s crash below.
And again, in slow motion.
World Cup racing heads to Lenzerheide, Switzerland next where Goldstone will have another chance to take a win, and to try reclaim his leader’s jersey from Williams.
