September 5, 2010 (Mont-Sainte-Anne, QC) – Canada’s Steve Smith had the ride of his life with a spectacular run to win the silver as Sam Hill from Australia scored his second Elite men’s rainbow jersey with South Africa’s Greg Minnaar taking the bronze. Near the end of his run Smith almost came off the bike but held on to ride it out and his superb time held until the end for the silver – his best result to date.

Results

1. Samuel Hill (Australia) 4:37.9
2. Steve Smith (Canada) 2.63
3. Greg Minnaar (South Africa) 3.00
4. Aaron Gwin (United States) 4.08
5. Gee Atherton (Great Britain) 4.71
6. Marc Beaumont (Great Britain) 7.59
7. Steve Peat (Great Britain) 7.61
8. Danny Hart (Great Britain) 7.87
9. Samuel Blenkinsop (New Zealand) 8.33
10. Damien Spagnolo (France) 9.68
11. Andrew Neethling (South Africa) 10.01
12. Brook Macdonald (New Zealand) 10.23
13. Marcel Beer (Switzerland) 10.71
14. Justin Leov (New Zealand) 11.87
15. Romain Paulhan (France) 11.9
16. Luke Strobel (United States) 13.05
17. Joseph Smith (Great Britain) 13.94
18. Ben Reid (Ireland) 14.42
19. Ruaridh Cunningham (Great Britain) 14.79
20. Julien Camellini (France) 14.87
21. Lorenzo Suding (Italy) 15.98
22. Fabien Pedemanaud (France) 16.13
23. Filip Polc (Slovakia) 16.35
24. Markolf Berchtold (Brazil) 16.37
25. Bernat Guardia Pascual (Spain) 17.02
26. Marco Milivinti (Italy) 17.17
27. Chris Kovarik (Australia) 17.72
28. Brendan Fairclough (Great Britain) 18.77
29. Duncan Riffle (United States) 19.1
30. Matej Charvat (Czech Republic) 19.14
31. Marcelo Gutierrez Villegas (Colombia) 19.34
32. Markus Pekol (Austria) 20.02
33. Pasqual Canals Flix (Spain) 20.23
34. Thomas Vanderham (Canada) 20.5
35. Wyn Masters (New Zealand) 20.66
36. Boris Tetzlaff (Austria) 22.03
37. Nick Beer (Switzerland) 23.48
38. Bradley Benedict (United States) 24.77
39. Rob Fraser (Canada) 25.00
40. Nejc Rutar (Slovenia) 25.23
41. Dennis Dertell (Sweden) 26.85
42. Logan Binggeli (United States) 27.71
43. Wallace Henrique Miranda (Brazil) 28.85
44. Andrew Mitchell (Canada) 29.12
45. Tyler Immer (United States) 29.95
46. Ryan Vanderham (Canada) 30.45
47. Ivan Oulego Moreno (Spain) 31.03
48. Matthew Simmonds (Great Britain) 31.31
49. Antonio Ferreiro Pajuelo (Spain) 32.22
50. Takuya Aoki (Japan) 32.64
51. Camilo Andres Sanchez Paez (Colombia) 34.95
52. Kieran Bennett (New Zealand) 36.1
53. Shaun O’Connor (Australia) 38.98
54. Hans Lambert (Canada) 39.57
55. Enrique Genova (Chile) 42.07
56. Dean Tennant (Canada) 42.1
57. Kyle Strait (United States) 48.68
58. Mario Sieder (Austria) 58.86
59. Mihai Moga (Romania) 01:05.1
60. Robin Wallner (Sweden) 02:30.6
61. Mitchell Delfs (Australia) 04:04.0
DNS Bryn Atkinson (Australia)