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Britain’s Rachel Atherton took bronze at Saturday’s UCI Mountain Bike World Cup Downhill in Leogang, Austria.<\/span><\/p>\n Austria’s Valentina Holl won in front of her home crowd with a time of three minutes and 23.222 seconds ahead of Switzerland’s Camille Balanche.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Atherton was 7.334 seconds off the pace with fellow Briton Phoebe Gale fifth.<\/span><\/p>\n Last week saw five-time world champion Atherton, 35, win the <\/span>World Cup event <\/span><\/a>in Lenzerheide, Switzerland – her 40th World Cup medal.<\/span><\/p>\n Holl told Eurosport: “I mean everyone is here I also have massive expectations for myself and to do it here finally it feels so good.<\/span><\/p>\n “I think my bike was just going so much faster because in the first three corners I thought ‘oh my God it feels different’ but my mechanic did a really good job, to make it a lot firmer and it went a lot faster and helped me keep up my speed all the way down to the finish.”<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n