America’s Christopher Blevins has dropped to third in the latest UCI Elite Men’s Cross-country rankings.
Blevins won both Elite Men’s UCI cross-country titles last year: the XCO (Cross-country Olympic) and the XCC (also known as the Short Track Cross-country).
As a result, Blevins spent weeks at the top of the UCI Cross-country rankings, but he recently got passed by Fabio Püntener. Now, in the latest points rankings from the UCI, released Tuesday, March 24th, Blevins has also been passed by U23 XC star Finn Treudler of Switzerland, so Blevins is now sitting in third in the UCI points rankings. What’s more, Blevins is now only six points ahead of Martin Vidaurre Kossman and only 11 points ahead of Simone Avondetto, so Blevins might get passed again in the coming months. It’s not easy to stay ranked as the best in the world.
Here are the top ten Elite Men in the UCI XC rankings, as shown at xcodata.com:
The green and red arrows under the riders’ rankings show how many places the riders moved up or down (respectively) in the last week.
To our surprise, we also saw that Nino Schurter moved up two spots to 4oth place in the new rankings, while Anton Cooper has dropped three places to 43rd place.
Here are the latest points rankings shown on the UCI website:
Here are the top American men in the latest UCI XC points rankings as shown at xcodata.com:
Christopher Blevins is now ranked third, after dropping one place. Riley Amos is now ranked 31st, after having gone up three places. Cole Paton moved up 50 places in the last week, to 255th in the world.
Here are the top American women according to the latest UCI points rankings for cross-country racers:
Here are the top 13 American women in the latest UCI cross-country rankings:
Here’s a link that will take you to the UCI website:
Once you get there, you can click on “Rankings” and find the results that we’ve shared above.