Great Britain won the International Six Days Enduro (ISDE) World Trophy team competition for the first time in almost 70 years in southern France on Saturday.

Two of the four-man team were Manx - Jamie McCanney and Jed Etchells - the latter a late call-up from the junior team. The remaining two were four-time world champion Steve Holcombe and former leading motocrosser Nathan Watson.

In a dramatic turn of fortune, Italy clinched the vice-champion position in the closing moments of the final Cross Test, beating Spain to the runner-up result by an incredible five tenths of a second after almost 13 hours of racing over six days.

The victory capped what was an exceptional week of racing in Le Puy-En-Velay as Great Britain also won the Women’s World Trophy.