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Decker, Emmett Win All-Mountain Worlds!
5 August 2012
For the third consecutive year, Giant Factory Off-Road Team rider Carl Decker is the Downieville All-Mountain World Champion. This year was even sweeter for the veteran racer from Bend, Oregon, because, for the first time ever, he won both the cross-country and the downhill race.
Decker’s teammate Kelli Emmett won the women’s title, completing a dominating performance by the Giant crew at the popular festival event in the mountains near Sierra City, California.
The All-Mountain World Championships competition requires racers to choose one bike for two days of racing—a 29-mile XC race on Saturday and a long, grueling downhill on Sunday. In a true overall test of overall trail riding, fitness and off-road bicycle technology, the rider with the best combined time earns the title of All-Mountain World Champion.
Decker chose the Giant Anthem X Advanced 29er and won both the XC and DH. His main competition came from fellow Giant rider Adam Craig of the Rabobank-Giant team, who finished second in the XC and fifth in the DH on his Trance X 29er. Craig ended up finishing second overall.
Also placing well for Giant in the men’s competition was Australian Josh Carlson, who finished fifth in the XC but suffered a mechanical in the DH.
Like Decker, Emmett swept both the XC and DH races. The Colorado resident dominated the pro women’s class on her Anthem X Advanced 29er, beating out another Giant rider Lizzy English, who finished second overall.
Decker’s teammate Kelli Emmett won the women’s title, completing a dominating performance by the Giant crew at the popular festival event in the mountains near Sierra City, California.
The All-Mountain World Championships competition requires racers to choose one bike for two days of racing—a 29-mile XC race on Saturday and a long, grueling downhill on Sunday. In a true overall test of overall trail riding, fitness and off-road bicycle technology, the rider with the best combined time earns the title of All-Mountain World Champion.
Decker chose the Giant Anthem X Advanced 29er and won both the XC and DH. His main competition came from fellow Giant rider Adam Craig of the Rabobank-Giant team, who finished second in the XC and fifth in the DH on his Trance X 29er. Craig ended up finishing second overall.
Also placing well for Giant in the men’s competition was Australian Josh Carlson, who finished fifth in the XC but suffered a mechanical in the DH.
Like Decker, Emmett swept both the XC and DH races. The Colorado resident dominated the pro women’s class on her Anthem X Advanced 29er, beating out another Giant rider Lizzy English, who finished second overall.
