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Six Days and sophomore Ava Silvestri—a late replacement for the injured Korie Steede—the team owned the race to finish with a time of 6:21.18, ahead of Austra - lia and an eye-popping 30:17.95 ahead of third-place Sweden. It marked the fifth WWT triumph for the U.S. Of the 124 Club teams, GTBN (Jaden Dahners, Layton Smail and Jhak Walker) were the best of the American trios. Third for much of the week, they powered to the second-best time of all teams in the final moto by less than five seconds, claiming second in the final standings be - hind the dominating Team Italy. France's Moto Club Puy en Velay settled for third, while another American team—XC Gear with Cooper Jones, Hunter Smith and Cole Whitmer—finished fourth. Other American Club teams included U.S. Sprint Enduro (An - thony Ferrante, Anson Maloney and Zach Toth) in eighth, Elizabeth Scott Community (Alex Dorsey, Lane Lorenzo and Ryder Thoma- selli) in ninth and 13th place Missouri Mudders (Eric Forsberg, Huck Jenkins and Eric Stevenson). Hough Legacy Racing was a distant 86th due to two issues; Tanner Whipple was the sole survivor who made it all six days. Trevor Maley went out on day three with a rear-wheel issue, though he could repair, re-im - stoked about it. I feel like I did well managing my race. Like the first day, I struggled a lot be- cause I didn't know what pace I needed to sprint at, and I actually had a bad crash in the third test. That kind of humbled me a little bit and helped me figure out the pace to go without crashing—go- ing fast enough to win but slow enough to not get hurt [in case she fell]. Then I was okay with losing a test, but I'm staying upright. When I'm super-comfort- able and I feel like I can push, I would push. When I needed to step back a little bit, I would, but when I needed to push, I would." Alongside veteran team - mate Rachel Gutish in her ninth alongside Garcia. Runner-up Honda Red Moto Racing was some nine minutes back, while FMF KTM Factory Racing took third with Davis, Mateo Oliveira and Australian Gus Riordan. Women's World Trophy (WWT) belonged entirely to the U.S., with Brandy Richards the top individual woman for the third time. While she didn't win every test as she did in Italy three years ago, she did win all six days, opting not to go over the limit in order to stay focused on the bigger picture. "I'm pretty stoked [about that]," she said. "The conditions were so difficult, so just to do it in these conditions, I'm pretty OCTOBER 14-19, 2024 SILLEDA, SPAIN OFF-ROAD I 98TH NOCO FIM INTERNATIONAL SIX DAYS ENDURO P86 The U.S. WWT team of Brandy Richards (center), Rachel Gutish (left) and Ava Silvestri dominated the women's competition. Richards was the top individual woman rider and won all six days. PHOTO: FUTURE7MEDIA