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Red Bull Downtown - NE
Lisbon, Portugal, May 9, 2004
Peat and Chausson on top again
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Steve Peat and Anne-Caroline Chasson once again topped the podium at the 2004 Red Bull Downtown, a unique downhill mountain bike race that uses as its course the narrow streets and steps of the Portuguese capital.
Cedric Gracia set the best time in qualifying, making his way down the kilometre-long course through the streets and down the steps of Alfama in 1:39.097. Only one second separated the top four qualifiers: Mick Hannah (Aus) was the second-fastest, David Vazquez (Spa) the third and Steve Peat (GBr) fourth.
No surprise in the women's qualifiers as Anne-Caroline Chausson (Fra) was four seconds faster than the UK's Helen Gaskel with a time of 1:50.291. Anneke Beerten (Ned) was third.
The women were first to go in the finals, and Anne-Caro held on to her top position, shaving over three seconds off her time in the process. Big surprise of the day was Anneke Beerten's secondplace, bumping Helen Gaskell to third.
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- Anne-Caroline Chausson was once again unbeatable in the women's event
- Anneke Beerten was a surprise runner-up... well, not too surprising from this car conquest
- Helen Gaskell takes steps to secure third
- Steve Peat won yet another Red Bull Downtown
- Cedric Gracia set the fastest time in qualifying
- Steps are less bumpy this way
- Mick Hannah looked as comfortable on steps as he does on trails - and as fast
- Greg Minaar piloted his unusual Honda rig to seventh place
- Guido Tschugg on the way to eighth
- Greg Minaar's Honda really does look like all that's missing is the engine
- The women's podium - Anneke Beerten (Ned), Anne-Caroline Chausson (Fra) and Helen Gaskell (GBr)
- The men's podium - Mick Hannah (Aus), Steve Peat (GBr) and Cedric Gracia (Fra)
Results
Men 1 Steve Peat (GBr) 1.35.962 2 Mick Hannah (Aus) 1.36.900 3 Cedric Gracia (Fra) 1.38.031 4 David Vasquez (Spa) 1.38.382 5 Samuel Hill (Aus) 1.39.823 6 Himar Sanchez (Spa) 1.40.197 7 Greg Minnaar (RSA) 1.40.336 8 Guido Tschugg (Ger) 1.40.861 9 Bas de Bever (Ned) 1.41.540 10 Roger Gonzalez (Spa) 1.42.081 11 Pascual Canals (Spa) 1.42.152 12 Mickael Pascal (Fra) 1.42.647 13 Mark Beaumont (GBr) 1.42.676 14 Oscar Saiz (Spa) 1.43.027 15 Jorge Aguin (Spa) 1.43.657 16 Bernat Guardia (Spa) 1.43.801 17 Cláudio Loureiro (Por) 1.43.922 18 Diego Alvarez (Spa) 1.44.134 19 Paulo Domingues (Por) 1.44.566 20 Ivan Oulego (Spa) 1.44.784 21 Rudiger Jahnel (Aut) 1.45.122 22 Emanuel Pombo (Por) 1.45.214 23 Neil Donoghue (GBr) 1.45.300 24 Nuno Duarte (Por) 1.45.560 25 Janez Grasic (Swi) 1.45.829 26 Jon Cheetham (GBr) 1.46.014 27 Afonso Ferreira (Por) 1.46.214 28 Márcio Ferreira (Por) 1.47.437 29 Carlos Loureiro 1 (Por) 1.48.063 30 José Perez (Mex) 1.49.677 31 Jordi Bago (Spa) 1.49.975 32 Ruben Ramos (Por) 1.50.054 33 André Beato (Por) 1.50.122 34 Mário Jarrin (Ecu) 1.50.792 35 Daniel Pombo (Por) 1.51.119 36 Adolfo Silva (Por) 1.52.150 37 Ferran Marias Sorribes (Spa) 1.52.399 38 Luís Sousa (Por) 1.52.417 39 Sérgio Campos (Por) 1.52.907 40 Felicio Bras (Por) 1.53.632 41 Marco Fidalgo (Por) 1.53.852 42 Guillermo Gongora (Mex) 1.55.016 43 Cameron Zink (USA) 1.55.210 44 Ary Camboa (Por) 1.56.114 45 Richard Gasperotti (Swi) 1.58.907 46 Pedro Salgueiro (Por) 2.04.269 47 João Estevão (Por) 2.07.152 Women 1 Anne-Caroline Chausson (Fra) 1.47.103 2 Anneke Beerten (Ned) 1.51.861 3 Helen Gaskell (GBr) 1.53.536 4 Marielle Saner (Swi) 1.54.222 5 Sabrina Jonnier (Fra) 1.54.791 6 Diana Marggraff (Ecu) 1.55.939 7 Rachel Atherton (GBr) 1.58.111 8 Anita Molcik (Aut) 1.59.956 9 Fionn Griffiths (GBr) 2.02.433 10 Miriam Blas (Spa) 2.04.167 11 Violeta Janeiro (Spa) 2.05.334 12 Jullyana Cardoso (Bra) 2.11.882 13 Ana Martins (Por) 2.21.640
