2025 FIM International Six Days Enduro (ISDE) results from Bergamo where Italy extended their World Trophy lead as Sweden ramp up the pressure on France for second, USA Women have a nightmare and Josep Garcia continues his win streak.

Day three at the 2025 International Six Days Enduro brought five new tests in the mountains north of Bergamo serving up snaking enduro tests on lush hillside pastures.

With more off-road transfers today and all but tests one and six ridden once only, these were virgin pastures which caused some crashes but gave us as awesome display of bike control as they struggled to keep it between the tapes.

The story of the day is an extension of the World trophy lead for Team Italy, Andrea Verona putting it to the man Josep Garcia for the scratch result, Junior World Trophy remaining the tightest contest and USA women lead handsomely despite getting used as a berm.

World Trophy winning recipe

Two days and two winning margins of around two minutes means Team Italy now have over four minutes on France and Sweden. It’s a relentless drive forwards for the local boys who are very much revelling in the familiar territory it must be said.

Their recipe for ISDE victory is a tried and tested one: have all four riders in the top 15 scratch. Everyone being fast is working well – who would have guessed it?

The fight for second continues between France and Sweden who were helped today by Persson’s good test times. France are four minutes down on the Italians but have the Swedes just over 40 seconds behind with half the ISDE done.

As ever, the fourth rider on the time sheets is making the difference (or not) and in fact that is truthful for all the top teams – looking down the individual classification and spot the team members down the order and you will see why teams like USA and Spain are not achieving here this year.

Spain move back into P4 again today switching around the stagnant United States with Australia dropping back to P6 comfortably ahead of Team GB, Finland, Chile and Austria completing the top 10.

Verona almost does it

Josep Garcia and Andrea Verona still exchange blows in the fight for individual honours. Verona pulled a blinding test two time this morning to lead overall but Garcia ticked off five of the six test victories for another overall day win, 7.79 seconds ahead of the Italian.

Repeating a results sheet from ISDE 2021, Mikael Persson was happy at the finish with third overall – albeit 50s down on the high-flying leaders.

Italian WT men Samuele Bernadini and Morgan Lesiardo complete the top five with today’s fastest Junior, Leo Joyon from the French team impressing on the grass tests for sixth overall.

Juniors – “I had two crashes in one test”

The Junior contest is fierce at this year’s ISDE, The top junior riders are mixing it big time with the senior riders and beating some hugely experienced international riders to boot.

Italian teamster Manuel Verzeroli had two crashes in test one, one of them pretty big, but regrouped enough to help the home boys maintain the advantage but only by 44 seconds.

On day three, on the fresh tests and with conditions again familiar to them (green and slippery), the French Juniors rallied a result which brings them back into contention. Leo Joyon won the day individually and helped France close to just 15 seconds of the Australians and a minute of the overall JWT lead. These three teams of nine riders are not giving an inch.

USA Women unflustered as “everyone used me as a berm”

Team USA had an eventful day but still continue to dominate. Rachael Gutish lost a little bit of time first thing this morning getting her front tyre changed within the 15 minutes service.

More dramatically Brandy Richards and Korie Steede were among the many costing themselves a tonne of time getting hung-up in test two. It had a technical section which Stede says, “was the worst spot to get stuck and everyone just used me as a berm after that,” she explained at the finish.

Never-the-less they American trio extend their advantage to over 20 minutes after three days of racing…

The errors from the USA women gave Danielle Macdonald all the sniff of a day win she needed. Rachel Gutish must have thought she had it nailed down but the Aussie took the scratch result with a flying final test and snatched it by two seconds.

Team Australia’s Madison Healey had her own troubles and it probably cost them taking back second place from France.

Club Trophy leaderboard

The contest for Club Trophy honours is stagnant with the official Italian club team maintaining a 3:46 lead over Team Rabaconda who are doing battle with BBM for the podium. Missouri Mudders and GTBN complete the top five in a USA-dominated leaderboard.

ISDE Italy World Trophy results, day 3:

ISDE Italy individual scratch results, day 3 (top 45):

Junior World Trophy results, day 3:

Women’s World Trophy results, day 3:

Club Trophy results, day 3:

Coming as soon as they are official...

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