Shrewsbury’s Charlie Hatton finished second following a stellar World Cup season, just 1.681 seconds behind the winner.<\/p>\n
Hatton said: “I’m absolutely over the moon to be honest.<\/p>\n
“The emotions here are so high. I don’t think I’ve ever had such an adrenaline spike after finishing a ride.<\/p>\n
“A podium at Hardline is always a good Sunday.”<\/p>\n
Last year’s champion Ronan Dunne finished in third place despite sustaining a puncture in the top section of the seeding run. <\/p>\n
“After winning Hardline last year, I definitely wanted to do it again, but it was nice to come away with a podium,” said Dunne.<\/p>\n
“Hats off to Charlie and Asa, they both ripped it.”<\/p>\n
Course co-creator and Hardline pioneer Gee Atherton finished in the top 10, taking ninth place over Chilean Felipe Agurto. <\/p>\n
The 40-year-old becomes the oldest competitor in the competition’s history.<\/p>\n
And mountain bike internet sensation Matt Jones had difficultly in his run, but managed to make it down the mountain and finish the course. <\/p>\n
Jones was one of the only riders in attendance who does not race World Cups regularly.<\/p>\n
He told BBC Sport Wales: “I just about completed it, I ended up crashing twice in one run, which honestly just shows how gnarly it was.<\/p>\n
“I’m particularly unfit compared to these guys who are halfway through a World Cup season, but I made it happen.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shrewsbury’s Charlie Hatton finished second following a stellar World Cup season, just 1.681 seconds behind the winner. Hatton…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296182,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5010],"tags":[748,4884,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-296181","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wales","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114925901224576507","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296181\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}