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Cyclingnews 2005 Reader Poll Results
Best Male MTB Racer
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Geoff Kabush screamed into the 2005 season with a succession of NORBA victories that culminated in him taking out the overall series title. He also proved he could compete at world level with a fine second place behind Christoph Sauser at the Angelfire world cup round.
But we suspect it's not just his racing success that has landed Kabush your votes this year. The popular Canadian has been an indefatigable campaigner against doping in cycling, wearing his 'Dopers suck' t-shirt on numerous podiums. He's also renowned as an approachable, congenial bloke, and his sheer love of his job comes across strongly in his diaries on Cyclingnews.
World champion Julian Absalon took second place after a year that looked a bit less effortless than his worlds and Olympic wins in 2004.
The evergreen Ned Overend made a bit of a return to mountain bike racing in 2005 and rode to a startling fifth place at the US national championships despite being old enough that the rest of the top five could be his sons!
Results
Votes %ge 1 Geoff Kabush 896 14.3 2 Julian Absalon 651 10.4 3 Ned Overend 636 10.1 4 Thomas Frischknecht 621 9.9 5 Adam Craig 454 7.2 6 Bart Brentjens 422 6.7 7 Christoph Sauser 373 5.9 8 Jeremy Horgan-Kobelski 348 5.5 9 Brian Lopes 270 4.3 10 Steve Peat 216 3.4 11 Cedric Gracia 212 3.4 12 Chris Eatough 211 3.4 13 Jose Antonio Hermida 145 2.3 14 Greg Minnaar 133 2.1 15 Samuel Hill 104 1.7 16 Jared Graves 103 1.6 17 Fredrik Kessiakoff 99 1.6 18 Fabien Barel 93 1.5 19 Ruben Lampe 65 1.0 20 Gee Atherton 61 1.0 21 Nathan Rankin 59 0.9 22 Marc Beaumont 58 0.9 23 Karim Amour 29 0.5 24 Mickael Deldycke 26 0.4 Total 6285
