2018 UCI Mountain Bike World Cup explained

Date:	March–August 2018
Previous:	2017
Next:	2019

The 2018 Mercedes-Benz UCI Mountain Bike World Cup was a series of races in Olympic Cross-Country (XCO), Cross-Country Eliminator (XCE), and Downhill (DHI). Each discipline had an Elite Men and an Elite Women category. There were also under-23 categories in the XCO and junior categories in the DHI. The cross-country series and the downhill series each had seven rounds, some of which were held concurrently.

The 2018 series returned to some classic venues, including Fort William, Nové Město, and Mont-Sainte-Anne. There was also a race in Stellenbosch, which was the first time a World Cup race had been held in South Africa since 2014.

Cross-country

Under 23

Downhill

Junior

World Cup standings

Standings after 7 of 7 events

Men

**Cross-country**
width=30	Pos	width=200	Athletes	width=50	Points
1.	Nino Schurter	1861
2.	Mathieu van der Poel	1355
3.	Maxime Marotte	1242
4.	Henrique Avancini	1213
5.	Gerhard Kerschbaumer	1154
6.	Mathias Flückiger	993
7.	Anton Cooper	978
8.	Florian Vogel	962
9.	Lars Förster	902
10.	Titouan Carod	867

**Under 23 cross-country**
width=20	Pos	width=200	Athletes	width=60	Points
1.	Petter Fagerhaug	390
2.	Joshua Dubau	360
3.	Filippo Colombo	280
4.	Antoine Philipp	220
5.	Alan Hatherly	211

**Downhill**
width=30	Pos	width=200	Athletes	width=50	Points
1.	Amaury Pierron	1178
2.	Danny Hart	884
3.	Troy Brosnan	860
4.	Loris Vergier	835
5.	Laurie Greenland	696
6.	Brook MacDonald	692
7.	Loïc Bruni	688
8.	Luca Shaw	649
9.	Gee Atherton	524
10.	Connor Fearon	511

**Junior downhill**
width=20	Pos	width=200	Athletes	width=60	Points
1.	Thibaut Dapréla	380
2.	Henry Kerr	192
3.	Kade Edwards	191
4.	Jamie Edmondson	186
5.	Kye A'Hern	100

Women

**Cross-country**
width=30	Pos	width=200	Athletes	width=50	Points
1.	Jolanda Neff	1930
2.	Annika Langvad	1743
3.	Emily Batty	1305
4.	Alessandra Keller	1275
5.	Anne Tauber	1240
6.	Maja Włoszczowska	1201
7.	Pauline Ferrand-Prévot	1086
8.	Kate Courtney	1029
9.	Gunn-Rita Dahle Flesjå	860
10.	Elisabeth Brandau	856

**Under 23 cross-country**
width=20	Pos	width=200	Athletes	width=60	Points
1.	Sina Frei	610
2.	Malene Degn	435
3.	Evie Richards	410
4.	Marika Tovo	267
5.	Lucie Urruty	183

**Downhill**
width=30	Pos	width=200	Athletes	width=50	Points
1.	Rachel Atherton	1476
2.	Tahnée Seagrave	1316
3.	Tracey Hannah	1055
4.	Myriam Nicole	810
5.	Monika Hrastnik	771
6.	Marine Cabirou	707
7.	Emilie Siegenthaler	476
8.	Mariana Salazar	436
9.	Katy Curd	419
10.	Cécile Ravanel	375

**Junior downhill**
width=20	Pos	width=200	Athletes	width=60	Points
1.	Valentina Höll	420
2.	Anna Newkirk	115
3.	Paula Zibasa	110
4.	Nastasia Gimenez	90
5.	Mille Johnset	85