Jackson Goldstone and Nina Hoffman put Santa Cruz on top of the La Thuile podium on one of the longest and steepest tracks on the 2025 calendar.
Jackson’s win continue’s his incredible season with a fourth consecutive win, let that sink in… Saturday’s qualifying saw Goldstone keep the hammer down on his competitors with a smooth, consistent ride to top the timesheets ahead of American Luca Shaw and Irishman Oisin O Callaghan. Come finals, Loris Vergier put down a brilliant run to post a time of 3:27.738 that held for over an hour with Goldstone posting a slowish first section that saw him ranked seventh before upping the ante to go faster and faster until hitting first at Split 4 and then a 0.604s victory margin with an uncanny ability to pump speed out of sections most were struggling for traction. Four-time MTB World Cup downhill champion Loïc Bruni was fastest at Split 2, but could not keep up the pace to finish in third place which leaves him 195 points behind Goldstone with five stops left. Troy Brosnan was looking fast all weekend, but a crash saw his chances for another podium slide.
I am on a roll. Such a crazy feeling to do four in a row. I can’t believe that just happened. It felt right during the whole run. The dust is so soft here and so powdery that it is really hard not to get sunk in and have those mistakes. I pushed through and gave it everything.”
Jackson Goldstone
Earlier in the day, German Nina Hoffmann was in the top two across all the splits to claim the women’s DH victory in a time of 3:57.934 with Austrian Höll and Canadian Hemstreet finishing strong to make the podium as Briton Tahnée Seagrave fell away after posting the best time in the first two sectors. Höll’s third second-placed finish of 2025 means her overall 2025 lead is now 54 points over Hemstreet with Seagrave 247 points back from the top ahead of the Pal downhill stop in Andorra this weekend.
