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XC World Cup #3 - CDM
Fort William, Great Britain, June 5, 2004
Cross Country action in Scottish Highlands
By Chipps Chippendale in Fort William
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Thousands of mountain bike fans made it up to the Highlands of Scotland this weekend for the third XC World Cup of the year and the opening round of the downhill and four-cross events. The first triple-header of the year took place in the shadow of Ben Nevis, Britain's highest mountain and considering the distance of Fort William from the rest of the UK, the thousands of fans lining the course was a great indication that mountain bike racing is still alive and well in the UK.
Gunn-Rita makes it three for three
Gunn-Rita Dahle secured her third win of three World Cup races this year at Fort William. On a very tough, technical (but dry) course, she led from the start and never really looked in any danger of losing her lead. The only real danger would have been from a puncture or a fall on the technical bits of the course - of which there were many. The course has been added to since last year - a popular course with the 'real' mountain bike racers but not so popular among the less technically gifted.
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While her lead was never really in danger, behind her there was a bunch of Canadians battling it out, with Marie-Helene Premont coming in second at 1'46 and a sprint for third, which saw Kiara Bisaro pipping Alison Sydor for the line. Gunn-Rita's nearest rival in the overall points, Irinia Kalentiva was fifth.
This leaves Gunn-Rita in a confident first place in the UCI rankings.
Siemens/Cannondale dominate again
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A Siemens/Cannondale pair of riders led the five lap men's race while behind them there was all sorts of pandemonium with a start line crash involving some of the riders. Roland Green missed it, but then got nailed by a spectator who stumbled into his path, putting Green out of the race in the first kilometre.
Christoph Sauser and Roel Paulissen soon opened a gap and, though pursued by Filip Meirhaeghe in third, only saw each other for most of the race. Behind Meirhaeghe though was a chasing pack of six riders, including Under 23 points leader Liam Killeen, Jean Christophe Peraud and Jose Antonio Hermida.
In the end Sauser opened up a lead of over a minute on Paulissen for a convincing win. Paulissen in turn was over a minute ahead of Filip in third. And Liam Killeen turned in a great performance to beat Peraud to the line.
The Four Cross race is next.
Photography
Images by Chipps Chippendale
- Marie Helene Premont of Canada on her way to second place on the tough, rocky (and rooty) course.
- Gunn-Rita Dahle (Multivan Merida Biking Team) already had a big advantage going into her second lap.
- Gunn-Rita Dahle (Multivan Merida Biking Team) delighted to have won again, carries her bike over the line.
- Canadians Kiara Bisaro and Alison Sydor sprint for third place, with Bisaro edging out Sydor.
- The start of the men's race.
- Christoph Sauser (Siemens Mobile Cannondale) on 'The Berminator' part of the course.
- Luckily for Filip Meirhaeghe (Specialized Mountain Bike Team), the threatening rain didn't last or he would have discovered how see-through his white outfit was.
- On the last lap, Roel Paulissen (Siemens Mobile Cannondale) loses touch with team-mate Christoph Sauser.
- The Cannondale duo of Christoph Sauser and Roel Paulissen.
- Winner Christoph Sauser (Siemens Mobile Cannondale) holds his bike aloft.
Results
1 Christoph Sauser (Swi) Siemens Mobile Cannondale 1.59.32 2 Roel Paulissen (Bel) Siemens Mobile Cannondale 1.24 3 Filip Meirhaeghe (Bel) Specialized 2.33 4 Liam Killeen (GBr) Subaru-Gary Fisher 3.30 5 Jean-Christophe Peraud (Fra) Lapierre International 3.32 6 Jose Antonio Hermida (Spa) Multivan Merida 3.35 7 Lado Fumic (Ger) Team-T-Mobile 4.05 8 Ralph Naef (Swi) Multivan Merida 4.11 9 Bart Brentjens (Ned) Team-T-Mobile 4.15 10 Sid Taberlay (Aus) 5.16 11 Manuel Fumic (Ger) Team-T-Mobile 5.50 12 Cedric Ravanel (Fra) Team Orbea 5.58 13 Ryder Hesjedal (Can) Subaru-Gary Fisher 6.06 14 Marek Galinski (Pol) Team Orbea 6.15 15 Philip Tavell (Swe) Multivan Merida 6.31 16 Jakob Fuglsang (Den) 7.07 17 Christoph Soukup (Aut) 7.15 18 Inaki Lejarreta Errasti (Spa) Team Orbea 7.19 19 Fredrik Kessiakoff (Swe) Siemens Mobile Cannondale 7.48 20 Bas Peters (Ned) 7.51 21 Jeremy Horgan-Kobelski (USA) 8.27 22 Nicolas Filippi (Fra) Lapierre International 8.38 23 Chris Jongewaard (Aus) 8.44 24 Mathieu Toulouse (Can) 8.58 25 Josh Fleming (Aus) 9.01 26 Jeremiah Bishop (USA) Trek-Volkswagen 9.23 27 Peter Riis Andersen (Den) 9.30 28 Carsten Bresser (Ger) Ralph Denk Racing Team 9.35 29 Michael Weiss (Aut) Ghost International Racing 9.47 30 Trofimov Yury (Rus) 10.29 31 Stefan Sahm (Ger) Team-T-Mobile 10.45 32 Wolfram Kurschat (Ger) 10.49 33 Erwin Bakker (Ned) 10.53 34 Adam Craig (USA) 11.06 35 Thys Al (Ned) 11.16 36 Martin Gujan (Swi) 11.36 37 Tim Bohme (Ger) 11.40 38 Andreas Dilger (Ger) 11.43 39 Silvio Bundi (Swi) 11.45 40 Nick Craig (GBr) 11.46 41 Simon Richardson (GBr) 11.49 42 Craig Gordon (Aus) 11.54 43 Ruben Ruzafa Cueto (Spa) 12.14 44 Frederic Frech (Fra) 12.20 45 S. Mantecon Gutierrez (Spa) 12.27 46 Jimmy Tielens (Bel) 12.45 47 Seamus Mcgrath (Can) 12.47 48 Marx Till (Swi) 12.57 49 Martin Kraler (Aut) Ralph Denk Racing Team 13.00 50 Miha Solar (Slo) 13.01 51 Robert Kircher (Aut) Ralph Denk Racing Team 13.03 52 Todd Wells (USA) 13.21 53 Torsten Marx (Ger) 13.35 54 Marten Tjallingii (Ned) 13.41 55 Raffael Schmid (Swi) 13.53 56 Benjamin Rudiger (Ger) 13.55 57 Ivan Seledkov (Rus) 13.56 58 Zak Toogood (GBr) 14.01 59 Geoff Kabush (Can) 14.17 60 Andreas Kugler (Swi) 14.31 61 Lukas Flueckiger (Swi) 14.32 62 Karl-Emi Lindgren (Swe) Bianchi Agos 14.42 63 Gody Jacobs (Bel) 14.55 64 Sebastien Delfosse (Bel) 15.04 65 Michael Broderick (USA) 15.07 66 Sandro Spaeth (Swi) 15.34 67 Oliver Beckingsale (GBr) 15.37 68 Calle Friberg (Swe) 15.57 69 Tim Heemskerk (Ned) 16.34 70 Jody Crawforth (GBr) 16.49 71 Fabio Bernasconi (Swi) 17.38 72 Marc Hanisch (Ger) 17.39 73 Balz Weber (Swi) Maxxis-MSC 18.01 74 Jurg Graf (Swi) 75 Nahuela Andrada (Arg) Zenith-MTB-International 18.57 76 Jamie Newall (GBr) 19.16 77 Christian Poulsen (Den) 19.59 78 Lukas Mueller (Swi) Bikin Cyprus 20.22 79 Phil Dixon (GBr) 20.25 80 Tudor Oprea Ovidiu (Rou) 21.16 81 Ricky Federau (Can) 21.37 82 James Ouchterlony (GBr) 22.23 83 Paul Oldham (GBr) 24.01 One lap behind 84 Ian Wilkinson (GBr) 85 Stuart Bowers (GBr) 86 Ricardo Figueiredo (Por) 87 Geoff Beetham (GBr) 88 Chris Murley (GBr) 89 Barrie Clarke (GBr) 90 Paul Newnham (GBr) 91 Mirko Pirazzoli (Ita) Two laps behind 92 Steve Hambling (GBr) 93 James Fraser-Moodie (GBr) DNF Julien Absalon (Fra) Bianchi Agos DNF Roland Green (Can) Trek-Volkswagen DNF Kashi Leuchs (NZl) Bianchi Agos DNF Marc Golz (Ger) Team-T-Mobile DNF Miguel Martinez (Fra) Commencal-Oxbow DNF Ivan Alvarez (Spa) DNF Florian Vogel (Swi) DNF Jochen Kass (Ger) Team-T-Mobile DNF Alejandro Diaz De La Pena (Spa) Maxxis-MSC DNF Karl Platt (Ger) DNF Christof Bischof (Swi) DNF Jaroslav Kulhavy (Cze) Siemens Mobile Cannondale DNF Johannes Sickmueller (Ger) DNF Roman Rametsteiner (Aut) DNF Rudy Van Houts (Ned) DNF Moritz Milatz (Ger) DNF Robin Seymour (Irl) DNF Fredrik Modin (Swe) DNF Reto Manetsch (Swi) DNF Klaus Nielsen (Den) DNF Thomas Nicke (Ger) Fusion DNF Roan Exelby (RSA) DNF Adrian Lansley (GBr) DNF Luke Stockwell (Aus) DNF Philip Spencer (GBr) DNF Dror Pekatz (Isr) DNF Brandon Stewart (RSA) DNF Joris Massaer (Bel) DNF Steve Farmer (GBr) DNF Richard Mardle (GBr) DNF Norman Gillan (GBr) DNF Robert Wardell (GBr) Women 1 Gunn-Rita Dahle (Nor) Multivan Merida 1.51.46 2 Marie-Helene Premont (Can) 1.46 3 Kiara Bisaro (Can) 3.11 4 Alison Sydor (Can) 5 Irina Kalentieva (Rus) Multivan Merida 3.29 6 Elsbeth Van Rooy-Vink (Ned) 3.39 7 Maria Ostergren (Swe) 4.25 8 Katrin Leumann (Swi) 4.31 9 Annabella Stropparo (Ita) 4.33 10 Barbara Blatter (Swi) Specialized 4.36 11 Mary Mcconneloug (USA) 6.33 12 Nina Gohl (Ger) 6.35 13 Sabine Spitz (Ger) Fusion 6.36 14 Barbel Jungmeier (Aut) 6.39 15 Laurence Leboucher (Fra) 7.05 16 Ivonne Kraft (Ger) Ghost International Racing 7.28 17 Susan Haywood (USA) Trek-Volkswagen 7.40 18 Elena Giacomuzzi (Ita) 7.55 19 Chrissy Redden (Can) Subaru-Gary Fisher 8.36 20 Alison Dunlap (USA) Luna Women's MTB Team 9.20 21 Sabrina Enaux (Fra) Lapierre International 9.22 22 Severine Hansen (Fra) 9.33 23 Janka Stevkova (Svk) 9.55 24 Trish Sinclair (Can) 10.51 25 Lisa Mathison (Aus) Ghost International Racin 11.02 26 Anna Enocsson (Swe) Multivan Merida 11.10 27 Laura Turpijn (Ned) 11.55 28 Shonny Vanlandingham (USA) Luna Women's MTB Team 12.04 29 Cecile Rode (Fra) 12.31 30 Petra Schorkmayer (Aut) 12.34 31 Daniela Louis (Swi) 12.39 32 Nadja Walker (Swi) 13.22 33 Catherine Delfosse (Bel) 14.22 34 Bernardine Boog Rauwerda (Ned) 14.46 35 Regina Marunde (Ger) 15.29 36 Elina Sophocleous (Cyp) Bikin Cyprus 16.04 37 Jenny Mccauley (Irl) 16.23 38 Janet Puiggros Miranda (Spa) 16.52 39 Maaris Meier (Est) 16.53 40 Sandra Klose (Ger) 17.12 41 Melanie Mcquaid (Can) 18.27 42 Sonia Foote (NZl) 18.49 43 Katrin Schwing (Ger) 19.05 44 Petra Hofs (Ned) 22.44 45 Tarja Owens (Irl) 22.52 46 Ruth Mcgavigan (GBr) 25.20 47 Valentina Pazitova (Rus) 27.19 48 Caroline James (GBr) 27.29 49 Katy Middlehurst (GBr) 50 Noelia Rodriguez (Arg) Zenith-MTB-International 27.49 51 Hazel Wakefield (GBr) 28.34 52 Francisca Campos (Chi) Zenith-MTB-International 29.59 53 Jenny Copnall (GBr) Subaru-Gary Fisher 39.13 One lap behind 54 Caroline Goward (GBr) DNF Petra Henzi (Swi) DNF Marga Fullana (Spa) Team Orbea DNF Mette Andersen (Den) DNF Maroussia Rusca (Swi) DNF Adelheid Morath (Ger) DNF Sarah Koba (Swi) DNF Jennifer O´Connor (NZl) DNF Liz Watson (GBr) DNF Sophie Johnson (GBr) DNF Nikki Harris (GBr) DNF Catherine Niblock (GBr)
World Cup standings after round 3
Men 1 Roel Paulissen (Bel) Siemens Mobile 650 pts 2 Christoph Sauser (Swi) Siemens Mobile 580 3 Filip Meirhaeghe (Bel) Specialized 570 4 Julien Absalon (Fra) Bianchi Agos 340 5 Lado Fumic (Ger) Team-T-Mobile 330 6 Jean-Christophe Peraud (Fra) Lapierre International 310 7 Liam Killeen (GBr) Subaru-Gary Fisher 290 8 Sid Taberlay (Aus) 226 9 Bart Brentjens (Ned) Team-T-Mobile 224 10 Jose Antonio Hermida (Spa) Multivan Merida 209 11 Manuel Fumic (Ger) Team-T-Mobile 200 12 Christoph Soukup (Aut) 187 13 Carsten Bresser (Ger) Ralph Denk Racing Team 186 14 Miguel Martinez (Fra) Commencal-Oxbow 184 15 Cedric Ravanel (Fra) Team Orbea 180 16 Ralph Naef (Swi) Multivan Merida 175 17 Thomas Frischknecht (Swi) 156 18 Jakob Fuglsang (Den) 153 19 Erwin Bakker (Ned) 147 20 Bas Peters (Ned) 145 21 Jeremy Horgan-Kobelski (USA) 144 22 Ryder Hesjedal (Can) Subaru-Gary Fisher 143 23 Silvio Bundi (Swi) 143 24 Michael Weiss (Aut) Ghost International Racing 142 25 Josh Fleming (Aus) 128 26 Fredrik Kessiakoff (Swe) Siemens Mobile Cannondale 119 27 Mathieu Toulouse (Can) 118 28 Nicolas Filippi (Fra) Lapierre International 117 29 Philip Tavell (Swe) Multivan Merida 114 30 Martin Kraler (Aut) Ralph Denk Racing Team 110 31 Stefan Sahm (Ger) Team-T-Mobile 109 32 Radim Korinek (Cze) Ceska Sporitelna MTB 109 33 Marek Galinski (Pol) Team Orbea 108 34 Ivan Alvarez (Spa) 108 35 Florian Vogel (Swi) 101 36 Yader Zoli (Ita) 97 37 Peter Riis Andersen (Den) 94 38 Inaki Lejarreta Errasti (Spa) Team Orbea 93 39 Sergiy Rysenko (Ukr) 92 40 Chris Jongewaard (Aus) 91 41 Jelmer Pietersma (Ned) Holland Pro Cycling Team 90 42 Craig Gordon (Aus) 89 43 Peter Pouly (Fra) 88 44 Seamus Mcgrath (Can) 87 45 Thys Al (Ned) 83 46 Wolfram Kurschat (Ger) 76 47 Frederic Frech (Fra) 76 48 Nicholas Craig (GBr) 74 49 Jochen Kass (Ger) Team-T-Mobile 69 50 Alejandro Diaz De La Pena (Spa) Maxxis-MSC 63 51 Kashi Leuchs (NZl) Bianchi Agos 61 52 Martin Gujan (Swi) 60 53 Milan Spesny (Cze) 58 54 Karl Platt (Ger) 57 55 Todd Wells (USA) 55 56 Christof Bischof (Swi) 51 57 Jeremiah Bishop (USA) Trek-Volkswagen 50 58 Roland Green (Can) Trek-Volkswagen 47 59 Trofimov Yury (Rus) 46 60 Lukas Flueckiger (Swi) 44 61 Marco Bui (Ita) 44 62 Jaroslav Kulhavy (Cze) Siemens Mobile Cannondale 44 63 Johannes Sickmueller (Ger) 44 64 Torsten Marx (Ger) 43 65 Adam Craig (USA) 42 66 Jimmy Tielens (Bel) 41 67 Tim Bohme (Ger) 39 68 Roman Rametsteiner (Aut) 39 69 Andreas Dilger (Ger) 38 70 Marten Tjallingii (Ned) 38 71 Andreas Kugler (Swi) 38 72 Alessandro Fontana (Ita) 37 73 Miha Solar (Slo) 36 74 Simon Richardson (GBr) 35 75 Oliver Beckingsale (GBr) 34 76 Mirko Pirazzoli (Ita) 34 77 Carlos Coloma (Spa) 34 78 Ruben Ruzafa Cueto (Spa) 33 79 Martino Fruet (Ita) 33 80 Igor Bogdan (Ukr) 33 81 Johann Pallhuber (Ita) 32 82 Mantecon Gutierrez S. (Spa) 31 83 Geoff Kabush (Can) 30 84 Ricky Federau (Can) 29 85 Marx Till (Swi) 28 86 Benjamin Rudiger (Ger) 27 87 Pavel Boudny (Cze) 27 88 Robert Kircher (Aut) Ralph Denk Racing Team 25 89 Igor Baretto (Ita) 23 90 Rudy Van Houts (Ned) 23 91 Moritz Milatz (Ger) 22 92 Simon Richli (Swi) 22 93 Raffael Schmid (Swi) 21 94 Ivan Seledkov (Rus) 21 95 Sandro Spaeth (Swi) 21 96 Zak Toogood (GBr) 18 97 Reto Manetsch (Swi) 18 98 Gody Jacobs (Bel) 17 99 Robin Seymour (Irl) 17 100 Andreas Dilger (Ger) 16 101 Calle Friberg (Swe) 15 102 Marc Golz (Ger) Team-T-Mobile 15 103 Karl-Emi Lindgren (Swe) Bianchi Agos 14 104 Fredrik Modin (Swe) 13 105 Sebastien Delfosse (Bel) 12 106 Klaus Vesterlund Nielsen (Den) 12 107 Michael Broderick (USA) 11 108 Alban Lakata (Aut) 11 109 Pavel Elsnic (Cze) Ceska Sporitelna MTB 9 110 Oriol Morata Abril (Spa) 8 111 Tim Heemskerk (Ned) 7 112 Eloj Gispert Labarta (Spa) 7 113 Jody Crawforth (GBr) 6 114 Fabio Bernasconi (Swi) 5 115 Ludovic Dubau (Fra) 5 116 Marc Hanisch (Ger) 4 117 Balz Weber (Swi) Maxxis-MSC 3 118 Lukas Mueller (Swi) Bikin Cyprus 3 119 Jurg Graf (Swi) 2 120 Nahuela Andrada (Arg) Zenith-MTB-International 1 121 Juan Trujillo (Spa) 1 Women 1 Gunn-Rita Dahle (Nor) Multivan Merida 750 pts 2 Irina Kalentieva (Rus) Multivan Merida 401 3 Alison Sydor (Can) 380 4 Annabella Stropparo (Ita) 380 5 Marie-Helene Premont (Can) 370 6 Alison Dunlap (USA) Luna Women 341 7 Kiara Bisaro (Can) 320 8 Barbara Blatter (Swi) Specialized 315 9 Ivonne Kraft (Ger) Ghost International Racing 286 10 Elsbeth Van Rooy-Vink (Ned) 228 11 Katrin Leumann (Swi) 203 12 Mary Mcconneloug (USA) 200 13 Maria Ostergren (Swe) 199 14 Laurence Leboucher (Fra) 199 15 Barbel Jungmeier (Aut) 187 16 Susan Haywood (USA) Trek-Volkswagen 181 17 Petra Henzi (Swi) 165 18 Janka Stevkova (Svk) 161 19 Severine Hansen (Fra) 149 20 Sabrina Enaux (Fra) Lapierre International 147 21 Lisa Mathison (Aus) Ghost International Racing 138 22 Anna Enocsson (Swe) Multivan Merida 134 23 Marga Fullana (Spa) Team Orbea 130 24 Petra Schorkmayer (Aut) 126 25 Catherine Delfosse (Bel) 121 26 Katrin Schwing (Ger) 120 27 Janet Puiggros Miranda (Spa) 116 28 Elina Sophocleous (Cyp) Bikin Cyprus 114 29 Regina Marunde (Ger) 110 30 Nina Gohl (Ger) 108 31 Shonny Vanlandingham (USA) Luna Women 108 32 Chrissy Redden (Can) Subaru-Gary Fisher 107 33 Cecile Rode (Fra) 107 34 Yanping Ma (Chn) 102 35 Trish Sinclair (Can) 100 36 Sonia Foote (NZl) 95 37 Paola Pezzo (Ita) 95 38 Bernardine Boog Rauwerda (Ned) 94 39 Sandra Klose (Ger) 92 40 Laura Turpijn (Ned) 91 41 Daniela Louis (Swi) 90 42 Evelyn Staffler (Ita) 90 43 Sarah Noble (Can) 88 44 Melanie Mcquaid (Can) 84 45 Robyn Wong (NZl) 81 46 Nadja Walker (Swi) 79 47 Xiaoning Gao (Chn) 68 48 Sabine Spitz (Ger) Fusion MTB 63 49 Elena Giacomuzzi (Ita) 58 50 Mette Andersen (Den) 58 51 Maroussia Rusca (Swi) 58 52 Maja Wloszczowska (Pol) Lotto-Pzu S.A. 57 53 Lene Byberg (Nor) 54 54 Eva Lechner (Ita) 54 55 Silvia Rovira Planas (Spa) 51 56 Franziska Roethlin (Swi) 47 57 Saskia Elemans (Ned) 44 58 Birgit Jungst (Ger) Multivan Merida 40 59 Jenny Mccauley (Irl) 39 60 Elisabeth Osl (Aut) 39 61 Corine Dorland (Ned) 38 62 Maaris Meier (Est) 37 63 Petra Hofs (Ned) 32 64 Mirjam Dieleman (Ned) 32 65 Tarja Owens (Irl) 31 66 Adelheid Morath (Ger) 31 67 Ruth Mcgavigan (GBr) 30 68 Valentina Pazitova (Rus) 29 69 Caroline James (GBr) 28 70 Sarka Chmurova (Cze) 28 71 Jenny Copnall (GBr) Subaru-Gary Fisher 28 72 Katy Middlehurst (GBr) 27 73 Erica Österlund (Swe) 27 74 Noelia Rodriguez (Arg) Zenith-MTB-International 26 75 Barbara Oberdorfer (Ita) 26
