Liu Ying from China won the women’s cross country and Christoph Sauser from Switzerland won he men’s international mountain bike invitational competition in Beijing, Saturday.

“The course was really hard. You have to slow down at every turn. I was familiar with this course, so I took some advantage over some foreign riders,” said Liu, who just won the title of the World Cup last week.

The course was the same one that will be used in the Beijing Olympics.

“I hope I could get the chance to race on the same course here in 2008. I will try my best to get good result,” added Liu.

Silver medal went to Sabine Spitz of Germany and bronze to Lene Byberg of Norway.

In the mens, Bart Brentjens of the Netherlands goth the silver and bronze to Carlos Coloma Nicolas of Spain.

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