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Cyclingnews 2005 Reader Poll Results
Best Female MTB Racer
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Gunn-Rita Dahle remained the most dominant female mountain bike racer on the planet in 2005, winning six of the eight rounds of the World Cup and finishing the season on top of the UCI rankings by a huge margin. In her diary on Cyclingnews, Dahle chronicled a season that once again saw her manifest her incredible determination, but never take for granted that she was better than her rivals. A remarkable athlete and unarguably worthy winner of your votes.
Dahle capped off the season with not one but two world championships, landing both the regular cross-country title and the longer-distance Marathon rainbow jersey, and grabbed a European championships and Nordic and Norwegian championships too. In fact, of her 17 starts in UCI-ranked races this year, Dahle failed to win only two of them.
In second place, Alison Dunlap ended her career in the best possible way this year with a victory at the NORBA finals at Mt Snow in August. The 2001 world champion is still hugely popular in her native US and among her post-racing jobs, she will be rider representative to the UCI's mountain bike commission.
Another Cyclingnews diarist, Australia's Niki Gudex was third.
Results
Votes %ge 1 Gunn-Rita Dahle 2327 36.7 2 Alison Dunlap 1310 20.7 3 Niki Gudex 419 6.6 4 Bernadita Pizarro 258 4.1 5 Marie-Helene Premont 214 3.4 6 Anne Caroline Chausson 210 3.3 7 Mary McConneloug 176 2.8 8 Katrina Miller 165 2.6 9 Shonny Vanlandingham 150 2.4 10 Sue Haywood 132 2.1 11 Kathy Pruitt 110 1.7 12 April Lawyer 106 1.7 13 Leana Gerrard 88 1.4 14 Monique Sawicki 87 1.4 15 Maja Wloszczowska 86 1.4 16 Jill Kintner 80 1.3 17 Vanessa Quin 72 1.1 18 Sabine Spitz 71 1.1 19 Tara Llanes 69 1.1 20 Melissa Buhl 58 0.9 21 Petra Henzi 57 0.9 22 Marg Fedyna 34 0.5 23 Sabrina Jonnier 32 0.5 24 Marielle Saner 26 0.4 Total 6337
