UCI Mountain Bike World Cup
Overall series winners -- Cross-country ( XCO )
Table:
Season

Winner

Runner-up

Third

1991

Sara Ballantyne

Juli Furtado

Regina Stiefl

1992

Ruthie Matthes

Juli Furtado

Chantal Daucourt

1993

Juli Furtado

Ruthie Matthes

Alison Sydor

1994

Juli Furtado

Caroline Alexander

Alison Sydor

1995

Juli Furtado

Alison Sydor

Paola Pezzo

1996

Alison Sydor

Gunn-Rita Dahle

Juli Furtado

1997

Paola Pezzo

Alison Sydor

Chantal Daucourt

1998

Alison Sydor

Laurence Leboucher

Paola Pezzo

1999

Alison Sydor

Gunn-Rita Dahle

Annabella Stropparo

2000

Barbara Blatter

Alison Dunlap

Alison Sydor

2001

Barbara Blatter

Caroline Alexander

Margarita Fullana

2002

Alison Dunlap

Sabine Spitz

Margarita Fullana

2003

Gunn-Rita Dahle

Sabine Spitz

Irina Kalentieva

2004

Gunn-Rita Dahle

Marie-Hélène Prémont

Annabella Stropparo

2005

Gunn-Rita Dahle

Sabine Spitz

Marie-Hélène Prémont

2006

Gunn-Rita Dahle

Marie-Hélène Prémont

Sabine Spitz

2007

Irina Kalentieva

Marie-Hélène Prémont

Ren Chengyuan

2008

Marie-Hélène Prémont

Catharine Pendrel

Margarita Fullana

2009

Elisabeth Osl

Lene Byberg

Catharine Pendrel

2010

Catharine Pendrel

Willow Koerber

Eva Lechner

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Juliana Juli Furtado ( born April 4 , 1967 in New York City ) is a retired American professional mountain biker , who began her sports career in skiing . After knee injuries dashed her hopes of ski success , she took up cycling and won the US National Road Championship , and then went on to be very successful at mountain bike events - during her short 6-year career in MTB Furtado won five national titles and represented her country at the Olympics .
Ruthie Matthes ( born November 11 , 1965 ) is an American professional bicycle racer who won the World Cross-Country Mountain Bike Championship in 1991 . She is also a road cyclist , having twice finished in 2nd place in the Women 's Challenge bicycle stage race . Ruthie is one of a series of professional riders who got their start in cycling through the Red Zinger Mini Classics youth bicycle race series in Colorado .
Chantal Daucourt ( born 23 June 1966 ) is a Swiss professional cross-country mountain biker of the 1990s and 2000s ( decade ) as well as a competition ski mountaineer . Daucourt was born in Biel/Bienne and grew up in Courroux . She works as a registered nurse at the University Hospital of Lausanne .
Alison Jane Sydor ( born September 9 , 1966 ) is a Canadian retired professional cross country mountain cyclist . She began cycling at age 20 and is a graduate of the University of Victoria . She won a silver medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics in mountain bike , and has won 3 world mountain bike championships gold medals ( 1994 in Vail , Colorado ; 1995 in Kirchzarten , Germany ; 1996 in Cairns , Australia ; and the 2002 relay race in Kaprun , Austria . ) Sydor has also won five silver medals ( 1992 , 1999 , 2000 , 2001 and 2003 ) and three bronze ( 1998 , 1999 ( relay race ) , 2004 ) at mountain bike world championships , and one bronze at the road world championships ( 1991 ) . In addition , Sydor has won 17 World Cup ( cross-country ) races in her career , and for 13 consecutive years ( 1992-2004 ) never finished outside of the top-5 at the world championships . In 1995 and 1996 , Sydor was awarded the Velma Springstead Trophy as Canada 's top female athlete . In September 2007 Sydor was inducted into the Mountain Bike Hall of Fame In December 2007 it was publicly announced that Sydor will be inducted into British Columbia Sports Hall of Fame Class of 2008 at a ceremony on May 29 , 2008 . Sydor and teammate Pia Sundstedt won the Women 's Category in the Absa Cape Epic in 2008 . Sydor then came back to win the Mixed Category with Nico Pfitzenmaier in 2009 . In 2013 , Sydor was inducted into Canada 's Sports Hall of Fame .
Caroline Alexander ( born 3 March 1968 ) is a cross-country mountain biker and road cyclist born in Barrow-in-Furness . She was a swimmer as a child and did not cycle until she was 20 . She first rode a bike in competition in a triathlon : she came second in the swimming and was fastest on the bike . She entered her first mountain bike race , which she won . Within a year she was one of the top three mountain-bike racers in the UK . She left her job as a draughtswoman in Barrow shipyards and became a full-time cyclist . She represented Britain at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta and the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney . She was a reserve for the British Cycling team at the 2001 UCI road world championships Alexander also represented Britain at the UCI Women 's Road World Cup events in 2002 . Alexander represented Scotland in the first mountain-bike event in the Commonwealth Games in 2002 . Alexander retired from cycling in 2004 . In 2009 , she was inducted into the British Cycling Hall of Fame .
Paola Pezzo ( born 8 January 1969 , in Bosco Chiesanuova ) is a cross-country mountain bike racer from Verona , Italy . In 1996 in Atlanta , Georgia , in the U.S. , she won the Olympic gold medal in mountain biking , when the event made its debut .
Gunn-Rita Dahle Flesjå ( born 10 February 1973 ) is a Norwegian cross-country and marathon mountain biker . She won the women 's cross-country gold medal at the 2004 Olympic Games and is a multiple World Champion . She has won six World Championships and six European championships . Dahle has also won four UCI World Cup XC in a row . She was on the start list of 2018 Cross Country European Championships .
Laurence Leboucher ( born 22 February 1972 in Alençon , Orne ) is a French professional cross-country mountain bike and cyclo-cross racer . She is a three-time Olympian and two-time world cyclo-cross champion .
The 1999 UCI Mountain Bike World Cup were the 1999 mountain biking world cup races and were held in three disciplines : Cross-country , Downhill and Dual for both men and women .
Annabella Stropparo ( born 4 July 1968 ) is an Italian cyclist . She competed in the women 's cross-country event at the 1996 Summer Olympics .
Barbara Blatter ( born 22 December 1970 ) is a Swiss mountain biker . She won the Silver Medal in Mountainbike in 2000 Summer Olympics .
Alison Dunlap ( born July 27 , 1969 ) is an American professional cyclist . She won the world cross-country mountain bike championship in 2001 and two Mountain Bike World Cup races . She also won the Redlands Bicycle Classic on the road in 1996 . Dunlap represented the United States in the road race at the 1996 Summer Olympics and the cross-country mountain bike event at the 2000 Summer Olympics .
The 2001 UCI Mountain Bike World Cup included four disciplines : cross-country , cross-country time-trial , downhill , and dual-slalom . It was sponsored by Tissot . The cross-country , downhill and dual-slalom events on 7 and 8 July were originally scheduled to be held at Whistler , but were moved to Grouse Mountain .
Margarita Fullana Riera ( born 9 April 1972 ) , also known as Marga Fullana , is a Spanish mountain biker . She won the Bronze Medal in Women 's Cross-Country Mountain Biking at the 2000 Summer Olympics . In 2001 she received the Ramon Llull Award from the government of the Balearic Islands .
Sabine Spitz ( born 27 December 1971 in Herrischried , Baden-Württemberg ) is a German cross country cyclist . She won bronze in Women 's cross-country at the 2004 Summer Olympics , silver in the event in the 2012 Summer Olympics and gold in the event in the 2008 Summer Olympics . Furthermore , she became World Champion in 2003 . In March , 2017 , Spitz raced her second eight-day Absa Cape Epic stage race in South Africa . She and South African partner Robyn de Groot were the pre-race favourites for the Womens Category but Spitz had a problematic ride : she crashed badly on two stages and these setbacks ultimately cost them any chance of victory . They eventually finished the 651 km route in third place . In 2016 she and Ukrainian Yana Belomoina had finished second in the race , which takes place in the Western Cape each year .
Irina Nikolayevna Kalentieva ( Russian : Ирина Николаевна Калентьева ) ( born 10 November 1977 in Batyrevsky District , Chuvashia ) is a professional cross-country mountain bike racer from Russia . She won the UCI Mountain Bike & Trials World Championships in 2007 and 2009 . She also won a bronze medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing and finished fourth at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London and 13th at the 2004 Summer Olympics .
Marie-Hélène Prémont ( born October 24 , 1977 ) is a Canadian cross-country mountain biker . She is a 6-time Canadian Champion , represented Canada twice at the Olympics ( 2004 , winning a silver medal , and 2008 ) , a Commonwealth Games gold medalist , and from 2004 to 2008 was a regular medal winner on the UCI Mountain Bike World Cup cross country circuit .
The 2005 UCI Mountain Bike World Cup included four disciplines : marathon , cross-country , downhill and 4-cross .
The 2006 UCI Mountain Bike World Cup includes four disciplines : marathon , cross-country , downhill and 4-cross .
Ren Chengyuan ( born 1986-09-20 in Jiangsu ) is a female Chinese Olympic cyclist , who competed for Team China at the 2008 Summer Olympics .
The 2008 UCI Mountain Bike World Cup includes four disciplines : cross-country , downhill , marathon and four-cross . It is sponsored by Nissan .
Catharine Pendrel ( born September 30 , 1980 ) is a Canadian cross-country mountain biker from Fredericton , New Brunswick . A member of the Canadian National team since 2004 , Pendrel was the world champion in cross-country mountain biking in 2011 and 2014 and the 2007 Pan American Games champion . She is also the current reigning Commonwealth Games champion when she won gold in Glasgow . Additionally , Pendrel is the 2010 World Cup Champion as well as the winner of the 2012 UCI and 2016 World Cup Series . She won a bronze medal at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro .
The 2009 UCI Mountain Bike World Cup includes three disciplines : cross-country , downhill and four-cross . It is sponsored by Nissan .
Elisabeth Osl is an Austrian cross-country mountain biker . She competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics , she finished in 11th . At the 2012 Summer Olympics , she competed in the Women 's cross-country at Hadleigh Farm , finishing in 15th place .
Lene Byberg ( born 25 November 1982 ) is a Norwegian cross-country mountain biker , and former road bicycle racer . She has participated in the Olympic Games in both road cycling and mountain biking .
The 2010 UCI Mountain Bike World Cup includes three disciplines : cross-country , downhill and four-cross .
Eva Lechner is an Italian cyclo-cross , road bicycle racer and mountain bike racer who has won at least one national title in all three disciplines . She won the team relay at the 2012 Mountain bike World Championships together with Luca Braidot , Marco Aurelio Fontana and Beltain Schmid . At the 2012 Summer Olympics , she competed in the Women 's cross-country finishing in 17th place . At the 2008 Summer Olympics she finished 16th in the Women 's cross-country She was on the start list of 2018 Cross-Country European Championships and finished 8 . Lechner won the silver medal in the women 's elite race at the 2014 UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships , coming second to Marianne Vos .