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UCI Enduro World Cup 2026 – Morillon, Haute-Savoie
The 2026 season finale, decided over eight stages and 4,110m of descending in the Giffre valley.
By Matt W. · Last updated August 2026
Morillon closed the 2026 UCI Enduro World Cup on 14–16 August with the two things every finale needs: a title that changed hands on the last day, and a course mean enough to do the changing. Round six of six, eight timed stages across two days, 84.4km of racing and 4,110m of descent — and a forecast that threatened rain all week and never delivered a drop. The trails ran hot, hard and dust-blind, which turned the steep pine forest above the village into the most consequential terrain of the season.
Adrien Dailly won the race and, in doing so, took the overall title off Lief Rodgers, who had arrived in Haute-Savoie with an 82-point cushion and left without it. Morgane Charre won the women’s race on the final stage after Helen Weber crashed away a two-day lead — while Ella Conolly, riding as a privateer, quietly finished fifth and sealed her second consecutive Elite Women’s overall. Those two facts get conflated constantly in the coverage, so to be plain: Charre won at Morillon, Conolly won 2026.
This was Morillon’s second year as host, and its second as the finale. The village debuted on the World Cup calendar in 2025 and the UCI came straight back — which, for a resort of Morillon’s size, tells you most of what you need to know about the trails. Below: the full results, a stage-by-stage breakdown of the course, and how to ride the same trails on a normal week in July. If you’re planning a trip around it, start with our guide to mountain biking in Samoëns, the neighbouring Grand Massif village most riders actually base themselves in.
Morillon 2026 Results
Eight stages, cumulative time, racing on Saturday 15 and Sunday 16 August. 121 men and 30 women were classified as finishers. Full official results are on the UCI MTB World Series results page.
Elite Men
| Rank | Rider | Nat | Team | Time | Gap | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Adrien DAILLY | FRA | Speed Project | 41:56.183 | — | 250 |
| 2 | Tarmo RYYNÄNEN | FIN | — | 42:23.681 | +27.498 | 210 |
| 3 | Gabriel SAINTHUILE | BEL | — | 42:30.607 | +34.424 | 180 |
| 4 | Marius TENET BERRAT | FRA | — | 42:37.071 | +40.888 | 160 |
| 5 | JT FISHER | USA | Yeti / Fox Factory | 42:41.791 | +45.608 | 140 |
| 6 | Lief RODGERS | CAN | — | 42:45.306 | +49.123 | 125 |
| 7 | Mirco VENDEMMIA | ITA | — | 42:45.826 | +49.643 | 110 |
| 8 | Ryan GILCHRIST | AUS | Yeti / Fox Factory | 42:47.607 | +51.424 | 95 |
| 9 | Evan WALL | CAN | — | 42:54.660 | +58.477 | 80 |
| 10 | Tommaso FRANCARDO | ITA | Abetone Vittoria Nencini SF | 43:01.796 | +1:05.613 | 75 |
Elite Women
| Rank | Rider | Nat | Team | Time | Gap | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Morgane CHARRE | FRA | Pivot Factory Racing | 48:25.887 | — | 250 |
| 2 | Nadine ELLECOSTA | ITA | Abetone Vittoria Nencini SF | 48:37.230 | +11.343 | 210 |
| 3 | Helen WEBER | GER | — | 48:45.533 | +19.646 | 180 |
| 4 | Raphaela RICHTER | GER | — | 48:58.347 | +32.460 | 150 |
| 5 | Ella CONOLLY | GBR | — | 49:19.111 | +53.224 | 120 |
| 6 | Elly HOSKIN | CAN | — | 49:20.517 | +54.630 | 90 |
| 7 | Isabeau CARREZ COURDURIER | FRA | — | 49:23.640 | +57.753 | 80 |
| 8 | Mélanie PUGIN | FRA | Speed Project | 49:32.315 | +1:06.428 | 70 |
| 9 | George SWIFT | NZL | — | 50:07.659 | +1:41.772 | 60 |
| 10 | Lily PLANQUART | FRA | — | 50:32.313 | +2:06.426 | 50 |
Only five UCI-registered trade teams contested the 2026 Enduro World Cup, which is why so much of that field races without one. Six of the ten fastest women at Morillon, and half the men’s top ten, were riding unsupported.
Junior Men
| Rank | Rider | Nat | Time | Gap | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hugo MARTI MONTESSINOS | FRA | 43:50.828 | — | 60 |
| 2 | Jules JANNIAUD | FRA | 44:05.364 | +14.536 | 50 |
| 3 | Lorenzo CESARI | ITA | 44:47.675 | +56.847 | 45 |
| 4 | Guillaume MARMILLON | FRA | 44:49.265 | +58.437 | 40 |
| 5 | Emanuele BAGLIETTO | ITA | 45:20.619 | +1:29.791 | 35 |
Twenty-nine juniors started and all twenty-nine finished — the only category at Morillon with no DNFs at all. Marti Montessinos and Janniaud won all eight stages between them, five to three, and swapped the race lead once. Janniaud led after every stage on Saturday and closed day one 0.354 seconds up. Marti Montessinos then took 11.952 seconds back on Stage 5 alone and held the lead to the finish, winning the last two stages for good measure.
Junior Women
| Rank | Rider | Nat | Team | Time | Gap | Pen | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nežka LIBNIK | SLO | — | 51:26.864 | — | — | 60 |
| 2 | Romy WILLIAMS | USA | Speed Project | 55:14.449 | +3:47.585 | — | 50 |
| 3 | Julia GAY | FRA | — | 57:28.057 | +6:01.193 | 1:00 | 45 |
| 4 | Katie ALLSOP | GBR | — | 59:29.056 | +8:02.192 | 5:00 | 40 |
| 5 | Alice FARINELLI | ITA | — | 1:04:23.077 | +12:56.213 | — | 35 |
Read that Penalty column before you read the gaps. Ten Junior Women were entered, nine started, and five of them collected a late-start penalty at Stage 2 — four at five minutes, one at one minute. Two more were penalised again at Stage 7. It is the strangest results sheet of the weekend, and it means the published margins describe the timekeeping more than the racing.
Nežka Libnik won all eight stages, which no penalty can take away from her — she was fastest on every single one, the only rider in any category at Morillon to do it. But the race was closer than four minutes. Bélinda Baudet (FRA) sat second on the road from Stage 1 to Stage 7 and was 1:14.753 down on raw time before a five-minute Stage 7 penalty and a Stage 8 DNF ended her weekend. And Katie Allsop was, on stage times alone, the second-fastest finisher in the field — her raw total of 54:29.056 would have put her 45 seconds clear of Williams. The Stage 2 penalty dropped her to fourth.
So: Libnik was genuinely dominant, and the podium behind her is not a fair picture of the riding.
2026 UCI Enduro World Cup Overall Standings
| Category | 2026 Champion |
|---|---|
| Elite Men | Adrien Dailly (FRA, Speed Project) |
| Elite Women | Ella Conolly (GBR, privateer) — second consecutive title |
| Junior Men | Hugo Marti Montessinos (FRA) |
| Junior Women | Nežka Libnik (SLO) |
| Teams | Speed Project |
Conolly’s title is worth pausing on. She won the 2026 Elite Women’s series without a UCI-registered trade team behind her — there were only five registered EDR teams on the 2026 grid, and hers wasn’t one of them. She has now done it twice in a row.
How the Titles Were Won
The men’s title flipped in a single weekend. Lief Rodgers came to Morillon leading by 82 points, with six riders still mathematically alive. Day one went to Sławomir Łukasik, who won Stages 2 and 4 and closed Saturday 1.587 seconds up on Dailly — and then flatted on Stage 5 on Sunday morning. He posted the 73rd-fastest time on it, dropping 30.655 seconds to Dailly in one descent, and the damage compounded: he missed his Stage 6 start slot and picked up a one-minute penalty for being late at the start. He finished 25th. Dailly took the lead on Stage 5 and never gave it back, arriving at the top of the final stage 27.948 seconds clear of Ryynänen and conceding just 0.45 of it on the way down. Rodgers finished sixth. First EDR overall for Dailly, at the last possible opportunity.
The women’s race and the women’s title went in opposite directions. Helen Weber led after every single stage of the weekend — she was fastest on Stages 2 and 5 and led the race for seven of eight stages — and then went into Stage 8 with a 10.358-second cushion and came out of it 19.646 seconds down. She lost exactly 30.004 seconds to Charre on one descent, the ninth-fastest time on a stage Charre won outright, and finished third. Conolly, who needed only a top-six finish to retire the maths, took fifth and extended a lead she had held since midseason.
The weekend’s other talking point was Raphaël Giambi’s five-minute penalty, applied to Stage 1 for “riding on special stages outside of official training.” He called it “an honest mistake” with “no intention of cheating.” He then went out and set the fastest time of the entire field on Stage 6 — 3:56.668, the only man under 3:57 all weekend. It made no difference: the penalty, a 131st-place Stage 4 and an 18-minute Stage 8 left him classified 121st.
Two more things worth knowing. Isabeau Carrez Courdurier raced her first World Cup since 2024 and won Stage 7 — the short, sharp village stage — on her way to seventh. And Gabriel Sainthuile, born in 2007, took third in Elite Men — the youngest rider anywhere near the podium, on a course that punished inexperience harder than most.
One theme runs through all four categories: liaison discipline decided as many results as riding did. Łukasik lost a minute to a late Stage 6 start, Giambi lost five to riding outside official training, and five of the nine Junior Women who started were penalised at a single stage. On an enduro course this long, with untimed transfers running between two valleys, getting to the start hut on time is part of the race. Morillon 2026 made that point about as forcefully as a World Cup can.
Stage winners
| Stage | Elite Women | Elite Men |
|---|---|---|
| 1 Abadee Red | Morgane Charre 4:35.632 | Marius Tenet Berrat 3:55.826 |
| 2 Montagnes du Giffre | Helen Weber 6:59.175 | Sławomir Łukasik 6:07.136 |
| 3 Dré dans l’Pentu | Nadine Ellecosta 7:19.972 | Adrien Dailly 6:22.292 |
| 4 Paddock Express | Nadine Ellecosta 4:25.785 | Sławomir Łukasik 3:54.995 |
| 5 Red Line | Helen Weber 6:27.141 | Adrien Dailly 5:35.821 |
| 6 Reverse River | Ella Conolly 4:40.431 | Raphaël Giambi 3:56.668 |
| 7 Morillon Village | Isabeau Carrez Courdurier 3:18.967 | Ryan Gilchrist 2:49.678 |
| 8 Haute-Savoie | Morgane Charre 10:12.323 | Tarmo Ryynänen 9:01.925 |
Charre and Dailly each won only two stages. Both won the race on consistency and on getting the last one right — which is the whole argument for eight-stage enduro over a single run.
The Morillon Course
Eight timed stages, four per day, linked by untimed liaisons through La Rivière-Enverse and Samoëns, with uplift from the Morillon gondola and the Sairon chairlift. Total race distance 84.4km; total descending 4,110m. Timed climbing across all eight stages adds up to 215m — this is a gravity course with almost nothing in the way of pedalling relief.
Three stages were carried over from Morillon’s 2025 debut; three were new for 2026.
| Day | Stage | Name | Length | Climb | Descent |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sat 15 | 1 | Abadee Red | 2.07km | +31m | −355m |
| Sat 15 | 2 | Montagnes du Giffre (new) | 3.08km | +52m | −669m |
| Sat 15 | 3 | Dré dans l’Pentu (new) | 3.53km | +9m | −605m |
| Sat 15 | 4 | Paddock Express | 2.63km | +26m | −444m |
| Sun 16 | 5 | Red Line (new) | 2.93km | +17m | −456m |
| Sun 16 | 6 | Reverse River | 2.02km | +48m | −490m |
| Sun 16 | 7 | Morillon Village | 1.34km | +17m | −209m |
| Sun 16 | 8 | Haute-Savoie | 5.03km | +15m | −912m |
Stage 8, “Haute-Savoie”, is the one that matters. Five kilometres, 912 metres of descent, finishing on the valley floor — the longest and biggest-drop stage of the weekend, deliberately placed last. Both Elite titles for the day were settled on it, and it is the stage that will decide this race every year Morillon hosts.
The character of the riding is steep, rooted natural forest under pine, with rock sections and very little manufactured flow. Dré dans l’Pentu — Savoyard patois that translates, roughly, as straight down the steep bit — is a Morillon bike park black run and the trail the valley is known for. It is not a bike-park jump line. It is a raw, root-laden fall-line descent, and it does not need rain to be intimidating.
Which brings us to conditions. The forecast for the weekend was mixed all week and the rain never arrived. Temperatures sat in the high twenties, the loam baked out, and the steep forest sections turned into loose dust over hard-packed dirt — the kind of surface where the front wheel goes light on the entry to every turn. Riders coped with it very differently, and the results reflect that more than any raw fitness difference. Nadine Ellecosta, second in the women’s race, called it “extremely demanding and physical, very hot, but a beautiful race.”
The Morillon Trails You Can Ride Yourself
Here is the part most race reports skip: almost all of it is open to the public. Morillon’s bike park is small, free of pretension and genuinely open — the World Cup runs on lightly modified versions of trails that are there in July on a Tuesday afternoon.
The bike park has four enduro trails plus an escape route:
- Marvel (blue, 4,500m) — the long, forgiving descent and the one to start on. Length rather than gradient.
- Stevan (red) — flowing at the top, progressively steeper and more technical as it drops.
- Dré dans l’Pentu (black) — the World Cup stage. Natural, rooty, steep, and reached from the top of the Sairon chairlift, not from Samoëns.
- L’Arrête (black) — undergrowth and a genuinely steep finish.
- Marveline (green) — an easier exit that peels off Marvel about two-thirds of the way down, if the gradient stops being fun.
One correction worth making, because it trips people up constantly: Dré dans l’Pentu is commonly described as a Samoëns trail, and it isn’t. It is accessed from Morillon’s Sairon lift. Samoëns is 15 minutes down the valley and shares the Grand Massif pass — but the lift you need for that trail is in Morillon.
The wider Grand Massif — Morillon, Samoëns, Les Carroz, Flaine and Sixt-Fer-à-Cheval, spanning 1,100m to 2,480m — carries 27 downhill trails, plus the bike park zone at Les Carroz and high-alpine riding off the Grandes Platières gondola in Flaine. Full detail in our mountain biking in Samoëns guide, which covers the lifts, the trail grades and where to hire a bike.
And a second correction: this is not the Portes du Soleil. The Grand Massif is a completely separate network from the Morzine and Les Gets area — no shared lift, no shared pass, no shared trail. They are within driving distance of each other and nothing more. If you were expecting to link the two on one ticket, plan for two trips or a car. See mountain biking in Morzine for the other side.
Watching the Racing at Morillon
Enduro is the best World Cup discipline to watch in person and Morillon is a good venue for it, because the stages stack above one village rather than sprawling across a valley.
- Entry is free to all public spectator areas. There is no ticket.
- Free event shuttles run roughly 08:30–19:00 at 20-minute intervals, linking the car parks, the village and the stage access points. Car parks have bike racks — ride between stages if you’ve brought a bike.
- The event village in Morillon runs food, brand stands, workshops and evening concerts across the weekend.
- Stage 7 (Morillon Village) is the spectator stage. It’s short — 1.34km — it finishes in the village, and you can watch the whole field come through without walking anywhere.
- Stage 8 (Haute-Savoie) is where the racing is decided. Walking up it costs you effort but it’s where the weekend is actually won.
If you can’t be there, coverage runs on Eurosport and TNT Sports, with streaming on HBO Max and live timing through the UCI MTB World Series website and app. Highlights land on the WHOOP UCI MTB World Series YouTube channel, usually within a day.
Racing at Morillon Yourself
You don’t need a UCI licence to ride this course. The Shimano Enduro Open runs alongside the World Cup on the same stages, the same weekend — roughly 350 amateurs racing the identical trails as the 250-odd pros, on the same timing system, with the results going up on the same board.
Entry for 2026 was €150 (€80 for juniors), which covered the Friday training day, timing, feed stations, uplift and event tech support. Both an Open Enduro and an Open E-Enduro category ran.
Entries open in spring and the Open categories fill. If you want to ride a World Cup enduro course with a number board on the front of your bike, this is the least complicated way in Europe to do it — and Morillon is a friendlier introduction than most, because the stages are short enough to recce properly in a single training day.
Book early and check the current entry conditions on the official event site before planning around them — fees and categories change season to season.
Getting to Morillon
Morillon sits in the Giffre valley in Haute-Savoie, at around 700m, with the satellite bike-and-ski village of Morillon 1100 (Les Esserts) above it at 1,100m.
| From | Detail |
|---|---|
| Geneva Airport | Around 1 hour by road — the obvious arrival point for UK and international riders |
| Cluses (TGV/TER station) | 20 minutes away, with a dedicated Cluses–Morillon event shuttle during race weekend |
| Samoëns | 15 minutes up the valley — the bigger village, and where most people base themselves |
| Morzine / Les Gets | Around 1 hour by car. Separate lift network — see the note above |
A hire car makes the Grand Massif considerably easier if you want to ride Flaine and Les Carroz as well as Morillon, and it’s close to essential outside race weekend when the event shuttles aren’t running.
Where to Stay for the UCI Enduro World Cup
Morillon itself is small. Most riders and spectators stay in Samoëns, 15 minutes away — a bigger village with more beds, better food and a genuine old town, and the reason people extend a Grand Massif trip by a night. Les Carroz is the other realistic base, slightly further out and usually cheaper.
Accommodation across the valley fills for race weekend and prices lift accordingly. If you’re planning around the 2027 edition, book as soon as the calendar is confirmed rather than waiting for entries to open.
Use the live map below to compare prices and find places to stay for the Enduro World Cup, from apartments in Morillon 1100 to hotels and chalets down the valley in Samoëns.
Will the Enduro World Cup Return to Morillon?
Almost certainly yes — but the 2027 picture is more interesting than a simple repeat.
Morillon has now hosted the Enduro World Cup finale twice, in 2025 and 2026, and the UCI came straight back after the first edition. As of August 2026 the 2027 UCI Enduro World Cup calendar has not been published. The series calendar is normally announced jointly by Warner Bros. Discovery Sports, the UCI and the host region around twelve months ahead, with venue-level detail following in the new year — the 2026 calendar appeared in late August 2025, with Haute-Savoie confirmed the following January. Expect the same rhythm.
The bigger story is that Haute-Savoie Mont-Blanc hosts the 2027 UCI Cycling World Championships from 24 August to 5 September 2027 — the multi-discipline “super Worlds” that runs every four years. Twenty world championships, 288 titles, sixteen venues. MTB Enduro and E-Enduro are on the programme, and the Grand Massif is the named mountain-bike venue for them, alongside Les Gets for downhill and cross-country.
The UCI has not yet published which Grand Massif village hosts the enduro, or on what date — so treat “the Enduro World Championships are coming to Morillon” as a strong inference rather than a confirmed fact until the detailed calendar lands. What is confirmed is that world-championship enduro racing is coming to this valley in 2027, on this network of trails.
Before all that, the 2026 UCI Enduro World Championships take place in Finale Ligure, Italy, on 16–18 October 2026.
We’ll update this page as soon as the 2027 dates are confirmed.
Event Details
Event: UCI Enduro World Cup, Round 6 of 6 — WHOOP UCI Mountain Bike World Series
2026 dates: 14–16 August 2026 (training Thursday 13 and Friday 14; racing Saturday 15 and Sunday 16)
Format: 8 timed stages over 2 days
Categories: Men Elite, Women Elite, Men Junior, Women Junior, plus Shimano Enduro Open and Open E-Enduro
Cost: Free to spectate. Rider entry (Open) €150 / €80 juniors
Website: ucimtbworldseries.com
Organiser: UCI MTB World Series (WHOOP UCI Mountain Bike World Series) in partnership with Morillon Grand Massif and Haut-Giffre Tourisme
Venue: Morillon Grand Massif, 1057 Route de Samoëns, 74440 Morillon, Haute-Savoie, France
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UCI Enduro World Cup Morillon FAQs
Who won the 2026 UCI Enduro World Cup?
Adrien Dailly (FRA) won the 2026 Elite Men’s overall title and Ella Conolly (GBR) won the Elite Women’s, her second consecutive title. Hugo Marti Montessinos and Nežka Libnik took the Junior titles, and Speed Project won the team standings.
Who won the UCI Enduro World Cup race at Morillon in 2026?
Adrien Dailly won the Elite Men’s race in 41:56.183 and Morgane Charre won the Elite Women’s in 48:25.887. Charre won the race at Morillon but not the overall series title, which went to Ella Conolly.
How many riders finished the 2026 Morillon Enduro World Cup?
121 men and 30 women were classified as finishers in the Elite categories, with 18 men and one woman recorded as DNF across the eight stages.
When is the UCI Enduro World Cup at Morillon?
The 2026 round ran from 14–16 August 2026, with racing on Saturday 15 and Sunday 16 August. The 2027 UCI Enduro World Cup calendar had not been published as of August 2026 — check the official UCI MTB World Series calendar before booking.
How long is the Morillon Enduro World Cup course?
The 2026 course covered 84.4km in total with 4,110m of descending, split across eight timed stages over two days. The longest stage, “Haute-Savoie”, ran 5.03km with 912m of descent.
Can you ride the Enduro World Cup trails in Morillon?
Yes — most of the course runs on public Morillon bike park trails, including the black-graded Dré dans l’Pentu, which is open through the summer season and reached from the Sairon chairlift.
Can amateurs race the Enduro World Cup at Morillon?
Yes — the Shimano Enduro Open runs alongside the World Cup on the same stages and the same weekend, with around 350 amateur entries. Entry in 2026 was €150, or €80 for juniors.
Is it free to watch the UCI Enduro World Cup at Morillon?
Yes — entry to all public spectator areas is free, and free event shuttles run roughly 08:30–19:00 every 20 minutes between the car parks, the village and the stage access points.
Where is Morillon?
Morillon is a village in the Giffre valley in Haute-Savoie, France, at around 700m altitude, and part of the Grand Massif ski and bike area alongside Samoëns, Les Carroz, Flaine and Sixt-Fer-à-Cheval. Geneva Airport is around an hour away by road.
Is the Grand Massif the same as the Portes du Soleil?
No — the Grand Massif is a separate network from the Portes du Soleil around Morzine and Les Gets. The two areas are within driving distance of each other but share no lift, no pass and no trail.
Do I need MTB travel insurance for Morillon?
Yes — check your policy explicitly covers mountain biking and downhill riding, including lift-served descending, before you travel.