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World Cup XC #5 DH/4X #4 - B
Mont Sainte-Anne, Canada, June 25-26, 2005
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Race 2 - June 25: Elite Men XC, 6 laps
Sauser wins two-man battle
By Rob Jones in Mont Sainte-Anne
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The Men's XC was really a two person race. From the gun Christoph Sauser (Siemens Cannondale) and team-mate Fredrik Kessiakoff of Sweden built a strong lead and then see-sawed back and forth, until Sauser pulled away at the start of the last lap.
Sauser, who is the World Cup leader and the defending World Cup Champion, helped to pull Kessiakoff to his best World Cup finish ever. Both were pleased and so was the Cannondale Team, with both riders on full suspension Scalpels. Kessiakoff was the most emotional. "I'm very happy. I just had a good day. Christoph has so much experience. I think he is still a better rider than I am, but I proved today that I am closer to the top riders and I tried to stay with him as much as I could, but at the end he just rode away from me."
Sauser looked like it was business as usual. "I knew from the first lap that we were pretty safe up here. When Adam Craig (Giant) got close I decided to add some more seconds. We weren't cruising but we were always aware of where he was. We always had a gear in reserve. The last lap you always worry about a mechanical so I added a little more time."
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Canadian fans were very pleased with the fine third place from National Champion Geoff Kabush (Maxxis). Kabush was in a tight battle with Liam Killeen (Specialized), Raul Paulissen (Giant), and Jeremiah Bishop (Trek VW) into the 3rd lap. Bishop had a meltdown on lap three, and Paulissen also began to fall back. Kabush eventually dropped Killeen and then set his sights on Craig. Going into Lap 5 Kabush caught Craig on the climb through the feed zone and then put him away for good on the big climb. "I've raced all season in North America so it has been frustrating not to have been on the podium at a World Cup this year. Once I made it into a podium position I became more conservative – maybe I could have closed it up a bit on second (place), but I just wanted to protect my podium spot."
Also showing a return to World Class form was former 2 time World Champion Roland Green, racing his first World Cup in over a year. Green was pleased with his 9th place finish. "Starting that far back, I forgot what it was like. There was a lot of traffic to go through. I knew with the heat that if I started too fast I would blow up, so I just rode a steady race."
Liam Killeen (Specialized) rounded out the podium in fifth place.
Photography
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Images by Rob Jones/www.canadiancyclist.com
- Chris Sheppard (Haro adidas)
- Roland Green (Kona Les Gets) - returning to form after 2 years of illness
- Peter Wedge (Kona Les Gets)
- Roel Paulissen (Giant-Racing-Team) - 8th on the day, 4th in standings
- Geoff Kabush (Maxxis) made fans happy with his 3rd place finish
- Peter Wedge fans
- Christoph Sauser (Siemens Cannondale) - business as usual
- Fredrik Kessiakoff (Siemens Cannondale) would acheive his best result so far
- Jeremiah Bishop part of the early lead group
- Liam Killeen (Specialized) - another good finish for the talented young Brit
- Seamus Mcgrath (Haro adidas) and Mathieu Toulouse (Maxxis)
- Jose Antonio Hermida (Multivan Merida) and Roland Green (Kona)
- Roland Green (Kona)
Images by Marek Lazarski/www.lazarskiphoto.com
- Christophe Sauser (Siemens Cannondale) looking confident at the start
- Geoff Kabush (Maxxis) before the off
- And they're off - Dust! Traffic! It must be a mountain bike XC!
- Christophe Sauser leads Fredrik Kessiakoff on the way to a Siemens Cannondale one-two
- Fredrik Kessiakoff (Siemens Cannondale) would finish just 18 seconds behind team-mate Sauser
- Geoff Kabush (Maxxis) - unzipped and suspended on the way to his a World Cup podium placing
- Adam Craig (Giant) - wide-eyed, but definitely not legless.
- Carl Friberg (Bikin'cyprus)
- Marti Gispert Labarta (Maxxis-MSC) on the way to sixth
- Liam Killeen (Specialized) puts the power down on the way to fifth
- Jeremiah Bishop
- Roland Green (Kona-Les Gets) - on the comeback trail with a ninth place finish
- Roel Paulissen (Giant) - in the colours of Belgian champion.
- Jose Antonio Hermida Ramos (Multivan Merida Biking) - on the way to tenth place
- Kashi Leuchs (Bianchi Agos) was a surprisingly low 30th
- Ricky Federau (Gearsracing.Com)
- Chris Sheppard (Haro adidas) bounces down through the woods
- Canadian rider Andrew Watson
- Erwin Bakker (Heijdens-Ten Tusscher) - lucky seventh
- Seamus McGrath (Haro adidas) on the way to 23rd place
- Christoph Sauser wins the Mt St Anne World Cup
- The men's podium - Adam Craig (Giant), Fredrik Kessiakoff (Siemens Cannondale), Christoph Sauser (Siemens Cannondale), Geoff Kabush (Maxxis) and Liam Killeen (Specialized)
- The men's podium gets a champagne hose-down
Results
1 Christoph Sauser (Sui) Siemens Cannondale Mtb 1.57.28 2 Fredrik Kessiakoff (Swe) Siemens Cannondale Mtb 0.18 3 Geoff Kabush (Can) Maxxis 1.16 4 Adam Craig (USA) Giant 1.46 5 Liam Killeen (GBr) Specialized Factory Racin 2.17 6 Marti Gispert Labarta (Esp) Maxxis-MSC 4.25 7 Erwin Bakker (Ned) Heijdens-Ten Tusscher 5.15 8 Roel Paulissen (Bel) Giant-Racing-Team 6.03 9 Roland Green (Can) Kona Les Gets 6.12 10 Jose Antonio Hermida Ramos (Esp) Multivan Merida Biking 7.42 11 Ludovic Dubau (Fra) Devinci-Pro Race 8.29 12 Lado Fumic (GBr) Fumicracing.Com 9.06 13 Ralph Naf (Sui) Multivan Merida Biking 9.11 14 Milan Spesny (Cze) 9.16 15 Ricky Federau (Can) Gearsracing.Com 9.29 16 Peter Riis Andersen (Den) 9.40 17 Stefan Sahm (Ger) Giant-Racing-Team 9.49 18 Michael Broderick (USA) 10.08 19 Kris Sneddon (Can) Kona Les Gets 10.24 20 Jakob Fuglsang (Den) Heijdens-Ten Tusscher 10.42 21 Jeremy Horgan-Kobelski (USA) Subaru-Gary Fisher 11.21 22 Barry Wicks (USA) Kona Les Gets 11.37 23 Seamus Mcgrath (Can) Haro adidas 11.56 24 Mathieu Toulouse (Can) Maxxis 12.20 25 Andrew Watson (Can) 12.33 26 Jochen Kass (Ger) Giant-Racing-Team 13.09 27 Chris Sheppard (Can) Haro adidas 14.07 28 Jeremiah Bishop (USA) 14.34 29 Sam Schultz (USA) 14.48 30 Kashi Leuchs (NZl) Bianchi Agos 15.18 31 Matthew Hadley (Can) 15.27 32 Derek Zandstra (Can) 15.59 33 Peter Wedge (Can) Kona Les Gets 16.28 34 Benjamin Rudiger (Ger) 16.40 35 Todd Wells (USA) 17.04 36 Tim Böhme (Ger) 17.41 37 Jamie Lamb (Can) 17.51 38 Benoit Simard (Can) 18.58 39 Ivan Alvarez Gutierrez (Esp) 19.27 40 Michael Northcott (NZl) 19.40 41 Keiichi Tsujiura (Jpn) 20.08 42 Carl Friberg (Swe) Bikin'cyprus Int. 20.38 43 Frederic Bussieres (Can) 21.18 1 lap down 44 Michael Weiss (Aut) 45 Lukas Hanus (Svk) 46 Martin Lazarski (Can) 47 Carl Decker (USA) 2 laps down 48 Juan Carlos Hernandez (Mex) 49 Bruno Lafontaine (Can) 50 Alexandre Frappier (Can) 51 Takahiro Ogasawara (Jpn) Subaru-Gary Fisher 52 Pierre Lebreton (Fra) Devinci-Pro Race 53 Jean-Sebastien Perron (Can) 54 Alan Obye (USA) 55 Guido Visser (Can) 56 Roddi Lega (Can) 57 Nick Waite (USA) 58 Adam Snyder (USA) 59 Daniel Sessford (Can) 60 Jean-Nicolas Lavertu (Can) 61 Charles Pendry (USA) 62 John Devine (USA) 63 Jiri Friedl (Cze) 64 Sebastien Tremblay (Can) 65 Amon Pease (USA) 3 laps down 66 Damien Bynens (Bel) 67 David Gagnon (Can) 68 Jonathan Boulanger (Can) 69 Timothy Madgwick (NZl) 70 Stuart Houltham (NZl) 71 Niicholas Ranno (USA) 72 Tristan Galbraith (Can) 73 Matt Douglas (Can) 74 Jean-Francois Vennes (Can) 75 Aaron Tuckerman (NZl) 76 Luc Doiron (Can) DNF Manuel Fumic (Ger) DNF Max Plaxton (Can) Maxxis-MSC DNF Mirko Pirazzoli (Ita) DNF Richard Mccauley (Irl) DNF Martin Lafontaine (Can) DNF Tom Skinner (Can) DNF Sam Jurekovic (USA) DNS Sid Taberlay (Aus) Specialized Factory Racin DNS Ryan Trebon (USA) Kona Les Gets World Cup standings after round 5 1 Christoph Sauser (Sui) 1020 pts 2 Julien Absalon (Fra) 729 3 Jose Hermida Ramos (Esp) 685 4 Roel Paulissen (Bel) 645 5 Marco Bui (Ita) 635 6 Fredrik Kessiakoff (Swe) 587 7 Liam Killeen (GBr) 455 8 Lado Fumic (Ger) 383 9 Adam Craig (USA) 362 10 Erwin Bakker (Ned) 353 11 Jean-Christophe Peraud (Fra) 353 12 Thomas Frischknecht (Sui) 281 13 Ralph Naf (Sui) 278 14 Marti Gispert Labarta (Esp) 273 15 Jochen Kass (Ger) 262 16 Jakob Fuglsang (Den) 254 17 Michael Weiss (Aut) 248 18 Kashi Leuchs (NZl) 232 19 Miguel Martinez (Fra) 226 20 Silvio Bundi (Sui) 224 21 Manuel Fumic (Ger) 216 22 Marc Trayter Alemany (Esp) 205 23 Martin Gujan (Sui) 200 24 Milan Spesny (Cze) 199 25 Oliver Beckingsale (GBr) 192 26 Marek Galinski (Pol) 191 27 Bart Brentjens (Ned) 187 28 Christoph Soukup (Aut) 184 29 Christof Bischof (Sui) 178 30 Jerome Chevalier (Fra) 176 31 Jader Zoli (Ita) 174 32 Nino Schurter (Sui) 174 33 Geoff Kabush (Can) 170 34 Mirko Pirazzoli (Ita) 170 35 Bas Peters (Ned) 162 36 Carlos Coloma Nicolas (Esp) 162 37 Michael Broderick (USA) 160 38 Wolfram Kurschat (Ger) 158 39 Sergiy Rysenko (Ukr) 158 40 Sid Taberley (Aus) 149 41 Andreas Kugler (Sui) 122 42 Ludovic Dubau (Fra) 121 43 Ruben Ruzafa Cueto (Esp) 120 44 Frederic Frech (Fra) 119 45 Stefan Sahm (Ger) 118 46 Thijs Al (Ned) 118 47 Inaki Lejarreta Errasti (Esp) 116 48 Maarten Tjallingii (Ned) 113 49 Florian Vogel (Sui) 113 50 Balz Weber (Sui) 110 51 Yury Trofimov (Rus) 109 52 Peter Riis Andersen (Den) 104 53 Igor Bogdan (Ukr) 103 54 Thomas Dietsch (Fra) 103 55 Ivan Alvarez Guttierrez (Esp) 85 56 Roland Green (Can) 80 57 Martino Fruet (Ita) 78 58 Till Marx (Sui) 77 59 Todd Wells (USA) 76 60 Karl Platt (Ger) 73 61 Johannes Sickmueller (Ger) 72 62 Moritz Milatz (Ger) 72 63 Emil Lindgren (Swe) 70 64 Tim Boehme (Ger) 68 65 Carl Friberg (Swe) 68 66 Jürg Graf (Sui) 68 67 Benjamin Rudiger (Ger) 67 68 Ricky Federau (Can) 61 69 Pierre Lebreton (Fra) 60 70 Alejandro Diaz De La Pena Lo (Esp) 60 71 Jelmer Pietersma (Ned) 60 72 Hannes Metzler (Aut) 58 73 Peter Pouly (Fra) 58 74 Kris Sneddon (Can) 57 75 Martin Kraler (Aut) 57 76 Andreas Dilger (Ger) 57 77 Jeremy Horgan-Kobelski (USA) 55 78 Gion Manetsch (Sui) 55 79 Barry Wicks (USA) 54 80 Roman Rametsteiner (Aut) 54 81 Johann Pallhuber (Ita) 54 82 Seamus Mcgrath (Can) 53 83 Mathieu Toulouse (Can) 52 84 Andrew Watson (Can) 51 85 Haakon Austad (Nor) 51 86 Cedric Ravanel (Fra) 50 87 Chris Sheppard (Can) 49 88 Jeremiah Bishop (USA) 48 89 Sam Schultz (USA) 47 90 Ivan Mantecon Guttierre (Esp) 46 91 Miha Solar (Slo) 46 92 Matthew Hadley (Can) 45 93 Dariusz Batek (Pol) 45 94 Derek Zandstra (Can) 44 95 Alban Lakata (Aut) 44 96 44 97 Peter Wedge (Can) 43 98 Jamie Lamb (Can) 39 99 Jiri Friedl (Cze) 39 100 Benoit Simard (Can) 38 101 Toni Longo (Ita) 37 102 Michael Northcott (NZl) 36 103 Keiichi Tsujiura (Jpn) 35 104 Mike Felderer (Ita) 35 105 Frederic Bussieres (Can) 33 106 Radim Korinek (Cze) 33 107 Friedemann Schmude (Ger) 32 108 Lukà Hanus (Svk) 31 109 Oriol Morata Abril (Esp) 31 110 Stephane Tempier (Fra) 31 111 Martin Lazarski (Can) 30 112 Carl Decker (USA) 29 113 Nicolas Filippi (Fra) 29 114 Juan Hernandez (Mex) 28 115 Oleksandr Yakymenko (Ukr) 28 116 Bruno Lafontaine (Can) 27 117 Alexandre Frappier (Can) 26 118 Takahiro Ogasawara (Jpn) 25 119 Jean-Sebastien Perron (Can) 23 120 Fabio Bernasconi (Sui) 23 121 Alan Obye (USA) 22 122 Pavel Boudny (Cze) 22 123 Klaus Nielsen (Den) 22 124 Guido Visser (Can) 21 125 Eloi Gispert (Esp) 21 126 Roddi Lega (Can) 20 127 Nick Waite (USA) 19 128 Adam Snyder (USA) 18 129 Daniel Sessford (Can) 17 130 Hans Becking (Ned) 17 131 Filip Eberl (Cze) 17 132 Jean-Nicolas Lavertu (Can) 16 133 Charles Pendry (USA) 15 134 Damien Bynens (Bel) 15 135 Jose Garcia Rodriguez (Esp) 15 136 John Devine (USA) 14 137 Simon Richardson (GBr) 14 138 Lars Nordhaug (Nor) 14 139 Frank Schotman (Ned) 13 140 Philip Spencer (GBr) 13 141 Sebastien Tremblay (Can) 12 142 Philip Tavell (Swe) 12 143 Amon Pease (USA) 11 144 Roland Golderer (Ger) 11 145 Leonardo Zanotti (Ita) 11 146 Andreas Tiberi (Ita) 10 147 Hannes Genze (Ger) 10 148 Guillermo Bogas Oliva (Esp) 10 149 David Gagnon (Can) 9 150 Rick Evers (Ned) 9 151 Kryspin Pyrgies (Pol) 9 152 Jonathan Boulanger (Can) 8 153 Tomas Vokrouhlik (Cze) 8 154 Thomas Roccaro (Sui) 8 155 Timothy Madewick (NZl) 7 156 Sebastien Delfosse (Bel) 7 157 Torsten Marx (Ger) 7 158 Stuart Houltham (NZl) 6 159 Joan Llordella Prat (Esp) 6 160 Joris Boillat (Sui) 6 161 Raffael Schmid (Sui) 6 162 Niicholas Ranno (USA) 5 163 Tristan Galbraith (Can) 4 164 Ivan Schalbetter (Sui) 4 165 François Bailly Maitre (Fra) 4 166 Sebastien Hansen (Fra) 4 167 Matt Douglas (Can) 3 168 Antonio Ortiz Barranco (Esp) 3 169 Jiri Novak (Cze) 3 170 Jean-Francois Vennes (Can) 2 171 Bjorn Brems (Bel) 2 172 Maxim Gogolev (Rus) 2 173 Flavio Derungs (Sui) 2 174 Aaron Tuckerman (NZl) 1 175 Igor Baretto (Ita) 1 176 Andras Melts (Hun) 1 177 Fredrik Modin (Swe) 1
