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| Venue | Pietermaritzburg, South Africa |
|---|---|
| Date(s) | 26 August – 1 September 2013 |
| Events | 21 (15 mountain bike and 6 trials) |
The 2013 UCI Mountain Bike & Trials World Championships was the 24th edition of the UCI Mountain Bike & Trials World Championships, and was held in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa (Trials, Downhill, Cross-country Eliminator, and Olympic Cross-country events) and Leogang, Austria (Four-cross events). [1]
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cross-country | Julie Bresset  France | Maja Włoszczowska  Poland | Esther Süss  Switzerland |
| Under 23 cross-country | Jolanda Neff Switzerland | Pauline Ferrand-Prévot France | Yana Belomoyna  Ukraine |
| Junior cross-country | Alessandra Keller Switzerland | Emelie Collomb Italy | Sarah Bauer Germany |
| Cross-country eliminator | Alexandra Engen  Sweden | Jolanda Neff Switzerland | Linda Indergand Switzerland |
| Downhill | Rachel Atherton  Great Britain | Emmeline Ragot France | Tracey Hannah  Australia |
| Junior downhill | Tahnée Seagrave Great Britain | Danielle Beecroft Australia | Tegan Molloy Australia |
| Four-cross | Caroline Buchanan Australia [2] | Katy Curd Great Britain | Céline Gros France |
| Trials | Tatiana Janickova Slovakia | Gemma Abant Spain | Janine Jungfels Australia |
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cross-country | Italy Marco Aurelio Fontana Gioele Bertolini Eva Lechner Gerhard Kerschbaumer | France Jordan Sarrou Raphaël Gay Julie Bresset Maxime Marotte | Germany Markus Schulte-Lünzum Georg Egger Hanna Klein Manuel Fumic |
| Trials | Spain Bernat Seuba Benito Ros Rafael Tibau Gemma Abant | France Aurélien Fontenoy Jeremy Descloux Gilles Coustellier Marion Porcher | Germany Lucas Krell Matthias Mrohs Hannes Herrmann Andrea Wesp |
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ESP | 3 | 1 | 2 | 6 |
| SUI | 3 | 1 | 2 | 6 | |
| 3 | GBR | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| 4 | FRA | 2 | 7 | 4 | 13 |
| 5 | AUS | 2 | 2 | 4 | 8 |
| 6 | ITA | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| 7 | GER | 1 | 3 | 3 | 7 |
| 8 |  NED | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 9 |  RSA | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| SVK | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| SWE | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
 USA | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| 13 |  AUT | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 14 |  CAN | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
 CZE | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| POL | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| 17 |  ARG | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
 BEL | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| UKR | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Totals (19 entries) | 21 | 21 | 21 | 63 | |
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