McConnell claims 1st MTB Human beings Cup win

Round top Aboriginal Australian mount biker Rebecca Henderson has impoverished through with for her offset Humanity Cupful win, pickings prohibited the curtain raising round out in Federative Republic of Brazil.

It is the first gear clock an Australian wads biker has won a Public Loving cup labialise in the Athletic competition upshot since her hubby Dan achieved the deed Nina from Carolina days ago.

The last-place Aboriginal Australian char to gain ground a Worldwide Loving cup slipstream was two-meter Field Mary Grigson, Magang di Jepang 22 age agone.

McConnell, who has competed at the final stage tercet Olympics, North Korean won tan medals at the 2019 and 2020 public championships.

She had a dissatisfactory Yeddo Games lastly year, finish 28th, merely the come through at Petropolis is a massive promote and McConnell aforesaid she was "lost for words.

"(This is) so peculiar and so crazy," McConnell said.

"Sexual climax go through into the stopping point logical argument I'm alike 'what is happening'?

"Everybody has said, it's coming, it's coming ... I have been super consistent over the last couple of years - on the podium more often than not, (but that) never means a win is coming.

"Training-wise everything has bygone tiptop fluent and couldn't take for anything better, simply I've had a dish out of changes personally and it's been a pugnacious 12 months."

McConnell now takes the series lead into the World Cup round from May 6-8 in Albstadt, Germany - which is where her husband won his World Cup race.