Courdurier enters the year as undoubtedly the woman to beat and although team swaps often raise a lot of question marks around a rider's preparation, this one seems to be an almost seamless fit and it will be hard to bet against her picking up where she left off. We will miss this happy smiling face this weekend. As I sit on the plane, Wanaka bound, I have my sponsors and supporters to thank. She then posted the fastest overall female time at the Tweedlove enduro race aboard her brand new Aeris 145. After a great start to the 2020 season in Zermatt with a third place finish she will be looking for another top result this weekend. No real surprises at the sharp end, with the title leaders wrapping up yet again. Dailly was really on the comeback trail for a lot of 2019 after an awkward elbow injury and many are seeing 2020 as the season that we really see him back to his meteoric best. Hailing from Inverness, Scotland, Ella Conolly spent three years training and racing on the GB MTB XC squad before finding her mojo in the rowdier world of Enduro, winning the final round of the EWS in 2017. Ella celebrates victory aboard the Aeris 145. Ella before EWS practice Ella Conolly joined the Bird Cycleworks race team after she won her category at 'Ard Rock enduro. Did someone call for an all-French super team?! Florian Nicolai and Noga Korem both sit in second with 1240 and 1200 points respectively. Borges would come in six seconds ahead of a flying Jesse Melamed. Only second place Noga Korem would take a stage win from her. Ella was the 2018 Under 21 EWS champion: Ella’s profesional career, first took off when she won the title of being the women’s 2018 Under 21 EWS champion. The rider line-up of Mark Scott and Iago Garay has been bolstered with the inclusion of Romain Paulhan. After a great start to the 2020 season in Zermatt with a third place finish she will be looking for another top result this weekend. There has been minimal equipment changes and with both Scott and Garay already doing well in pre-season races, turning the tide in 2020 looks already to be well underway. Martin Maes couldn’t rack up another clean sweep but took wins on six of the eight stages, with second and fourth places finishes on the other two put him thirty two seconds up on Jose Borges. There was certainly no sign of the #EnduroWetSeries at EWS Madeira 2019 with the trails running in spectacularly dry and fast fashion all weekend long. Martin Maes celebrates his second EWS win in front of the huge Whistler crowd after Sam Hill crosses the finish line of Stage 5. He loves hammering out miles on his long-term demo Saracen bikes and exploring big mountains to bring you stories about them. As they are all very capable of taking out podium positions, alongside Ella Connolly. For 2020 Ella Conolly stays onboard the Cannondale Jekyll that saw her take third at EWS Madeira in 2019. Race Nat Pos Time Pts; Specialized EWS Zermatt: 3: 00:18:13.95: 420: stages full race: Enduro Sports Organisation Ltd Registered Office: 60 High Street Innerleithen Scotland UK EH44 6HF Registered in Scotland: SC437697 EU VAT Registration: … Can I he rectify that in South America? Both Maes and Cordurier sit pretty at the top of the title race with the full 1620 points each. Martin Maes may not have not had the 2019 that he dreamed of, he will have been buoyed by that win during the finale in Zermatt and Team Belgium's strong showing at the Trophy of Nations. 17.2k Followers, 571 Following, 573 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Ella Conolly (@ella_conolly) Jack Moir was one of the headline signings of the 2020 transfer window but has already had a set back in the form of an exploding appendix. Interestingly, Hill didn't win a race in 2019. Young and Jackson Chat Diversity in MTB on the Downtime Podcast. We will miss this happy smiling face this weekend. The smile says it all! Their 2019 campaign may have been tinged with disappointment when France's Florian Nicolai (who has since departed the team) narrowly missed out on the Elite Men's title but what they achieved in the team's championship was testament to their superb consistency and almost total lack of mechanicals. Series Results. Another returning team which we are used to seeing right at the top of the points tables are Ibis. When you finish second in the world it's fair to say that there's no need for any drastic restructuring so the Melamed/Gauvin/ALN/Ostroski combo will return for R1 in Manizales. All of whom are riders to watch out for in the near future. The year is just getting crueler. Jesse Melamed and Morgane Charre round out the top three. Ella has just taken delivery of her new Cannondale Jekyll Carbon 2 and has headed to Santiago, Chile, for round 1 of the EWS 2018. Although they lead the team's championships for a large part of the opening exchanges of 2019, GT Factory Racing would end the year fourth and there's a definite feeling of 'unfinished business' for this year in the blue and yellow camp.