Craig finishes in top 10 in Quebec bike race

Mountain biker Adam Craig of Corinth and Bend, Ore., raced to his first top-10 finish of the season on the World Cup men’s elite cross country circuit, a ninth-place effort over the weekend at Mont-Sainte-Anne, Quebec.

The 24-year-old Craig was timed in 2 hours, 7 minutes, 52 seconds for six laps of the mountainous course located at a ski resort just north of Quebec City.

Christopher Sauser of Switzerland won the race for the second straight year, this time in 2:00:09.

Fourth in the same race a year ago, Craig was the top-finishing American, well ahead of 19th-place Jeremy Horgan-Kobelski of Boulder, Colo.

Horgan-Kobelski remains the top American after five of the six World Cup events this season. With just a Sept. 9 race at Schladming, Austria, remaining, Horgan-Kobelski is 11th in points, while Craig is 19th.