Cycling: Big names have announced themselves for the third round of the KMC MTB Bundesliga. Eliminator World Champion Fabrice Mels from Belgium will start in Titisee-Neustadt on July 11th and 12th, as will the recently crowned German Champion Helen Grobert.
The organizers of the KMC MTB Bundesliga run in Neustadt have two reasons to be happy. Eliminator World Champion Farbrice Mels has announced that he will be taking part in the international premiere of the race in Titisee-Neustadt. In the Eliminator Sprint, the Belgian will put local heroes Simon Stiebjahn and the winner of the Bundesliga Sprint in Wombach, Heiko Hog, to the test.
Mels secured the rainbow jersey at the last World Championships in Hafjell, Norway and is once again one of the absolute top favorites at the World Championships in Andorra this year. That's where he clinched one of his three World Cup victories in the Eliminator Sprint.
The sprint course in Titisee-Neustadt will suit Fabrice Mels, who is very elegant in terms of driving technique, because the route there also leads over roots.
In addition to the rainbow stripes on his jersey, you will also see the black, red and gold on the jersey of German Cross Country Champion Helen Grobert in Neustadt. The Ghost team rider became German champion in the elite category for the first time in Saalhausen on Sunday and has also confirmed her start. Already in May she surprised with ninth and sixth place at the first two World Cup races in Nove Mesto and in Albstadt and is seventh in the overall ranking.
From her hometown of Remetschwiel, she only has a good half-hour journey and can therefore almost consider it a home race. "I'm convinced it will be a great race and the course is sure to be interesting. I raced the Täler-Cup there three years ago ," says Helen Grobert. "It's fantastic, of course, to have a race in our home region of the Black Forest."