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Britons Josh Bryceland and Rachel Atherton were the respective winners of the men's and women's events at the fifth downhill of the UCI Mountain Bike World Cup in Mont Sainte Anne, Canada on Saturday (1st August).

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Mont Sainte Anne in Canada staged the fifth downhill of the 2015 UCI Mountain Bike World Cup on Saturday.

British rider Josh Bryceland completed his comeback from the ankle injury he sustained at the 2014 World Championships by clinching his first win of the World Cup season.

Bryceland completed the course in a time of four minutes, 22.156 seconds - just a fifth-of-a-second faster than France's Loic Bruni in second place.

Australia's Troy Brosnan completed the men's podium places, finishing 0.225-of-a-second shy of the winning pace.

Aaron Gwin of the USA finished down in seventh place, but remains top of the World Cup downhill rankings.

Bruni sits in second place ahead of Greg Minnaar in third place, Brosnan in fourth and Bryceland in fifth.

Meanwhile, in the women's race, Bryceland's compatriot Rachel Atherton made it a perfect day for Great Britain.

This after she made it four wins from five in the women's downhill, topping the timesheets in five minutes, 3.674 seconds.

Despite making her run in pouring rain, Atherton finished almost three-and-a-half seconds ahead of fellow Brit Manon Carpenter in second place, with Myriam Nicole of France taking third.

Atherton extended her lead over another French rider - Emmeline Ragot - at the top of the World Cup downhill rankings to 375 points with two events left in the season.