The 1995

UCI Mountain Bike World Championships The UCI Mountain Bike World Championships are the world championship events for mountain bike racing in the disciplines of cross country, downhill, and four-cross. They are organized by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI), the governing ...

were held in

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, Germany from 18 to 19 September 1995. These were the sixth annual UCI world championships in mountain biking and the first to be held in Germany. Alison Sydor of Canada successfully defended her world title in the women's cross country. The men's cross country was won by Bart Brentjens of the

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, who would win the first

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gold medal in men's cross country the following year at the

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of France won the men's downhill in his first year in the elite category, after having won the junior men's downhill world title the three previous years.

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of the United States won the women's downhill.

Medal summary

Men's events

Women's events

Medal table

References

External links

UCI Mountain Bike World Championships 1995 UCI Mountain Bike World Championships

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