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MTB World Cup DH-4X #7 - B
Pila, Italy, August 20-21, 2005
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Race 2 - August 21: Downhill
Chausson wins women's race
World Cup in Minnaar's and Jonnier's hands
Those who were among the many who defied the rain and cold weather to watch the DH competition in Pila (Italy) certainly weren't disappointed. The show was amazing, with the best DH specialists in the world challenging each others on a hard and slippery run, while the highest mountains around were covered in snow.
It turned out to be Samuel Hill's day, who took great risks in the technical sections but succeeded in leaving Minnaar (the future World Cup winner) behind him. Hill was the last to start, but was already winning at the intermediate checkpoint. On the second part of the race, he pushed even harder and crossed the finish line with the best time (4.15.64) at the unbelievable average speed of 36.61 km/h. Minnaar had to take the second place, but the World Cup is already in his hands. He "paid" 6.75 and beat the outsider Brendan Fairclough (GBr) who fell during the semi-finals.
Among women, French Anne-Caroline Chausson got her third victory in a row this season. She came down very fast, didn't make any mistakes and registered a splendid 4.52.97, ahead of British Rachel Atherton by a slight 3.33.
This was the second last World Cup competition, and South African Greg Minnaar is already champion (1485 points). Hill didn't participate in overseas races, and is in the 2nd place with 795 points, ahead of the other Australian Nathan Rennie.
French Sabrina Jonnier, who only finished 5th in Pila, made her advantage larger (1275 points) on British Tracey Moseley (1169).
Results
1 Samuel Hill (Aus) 4.15.64 2 Greg Minnaar (RSA) Team G-Cross Honda 4.22.39 3 Brendan Fairclough (GBr) 4.22.94 4 David Vazquez Lopez (Spa) Maxxis-Msc 4.25.60 5 Fabien Barel (Fra) Kona Les Gets 4.25.76 6 Marc Beaumont (GBr) 4.26.77 7 Justin Leov (NZl) 4.29.43 8 Alan Beggin (Ita) 4.29.62 9 Steve Peat (GBr) 4.29.92 10 Markolf Berchtold (Bra) Maxxis-Msc 4.30.70 11 Daniel Atherton (GBr) 4.32.26 12 Nico Vink (Bel) 4.33.27 13 George Atherton (GBr) 4.33.62 14 Bernat Guardia Pascual (Spa) 4.33.86 15 Dave Wardell (GBr) 4.34.09 16 Neil Donoghue (GBr) 4.34.96 17 Cédric Gracia (Fra) Siemens Cannondale Mtb Racing Team 4.35.06 18 Amiel Cavalier (Aus) 4.35.39 19 Julien Camellini (Fra) Commencal Oxbow 4.35.42 20 Matti Lehikoinen (Fin) Team G-Cross Honda 4.35.57 21 Dan Stanbridge (GBr) 4.35.88 22 Liam Panozzo (Aus) 4.37.13 23 Filip Polc (Svk) 4.37.27 24 Karim Amour (Fra) 4.37.41 25 Adam Vagner (Cze) 4.37.47 26 Oscar Saiz Castane (Spa) Giant-Racing-Team 4.37.66 27 Marcus Klausmann (Ger) Ghost International Racing Team 4.38.13 28 Ohlund Hermann (Swe) 4.38.14 29 Lars Peyer (Swi) 4.38.82 30 Kris Hargreaves (GBr) 4.38.90 31 Justin Havukainen (Aus) 4.39.12 32 Ben Reid (Irl) 4.39.37 33 Samuel Zbinden (Swi) 4.39.57 34 Dan Harper (GBr) 4.39.86 35 Glenn Haden (NZl) 4.40.78 36 Thibaut Ruffin (Fra) American Products Factory Connection 4.40.99 37 Stuart Thomson (GBr) 4.41.25 38 Bryn Atkinson (Aus) 4.41.46 39 Carlo Gambirasio (Ita) 4.42.57 40 Pierre-Charles Georges (Fra) 4.42.60 41 Christopher Kovarik (Aus) 4.42.86 42 Daniel Critchlow (GBr) 4.43.05 43 Bruno Zanchi (Ita) 4.43.07 44 Hugh Mansfield (Aus) 4.43.19 45 Thomas Braithwaite (GBr) 4.43.52 46 Philip Shucksmith (GBr) 4.43.89 47 Luka Novak (Slo) 4.43.91 48 Matt Simmonds (GBr) 4.44.20 49 Rémy Casanova (Fra) 4.44.24 50 Cyrille Kurtz (Fra) 4.44.28 51 Rémy Charrier (Fra) 4.44.50 52 Mathias Haas (Aut) Ms-Racing Team Europe 4.44.53 53 Marcel Beer (Swi) 4.44.90 54 Damien Mermoud (Swi) 4.44.95 55 Damien Spagnolo (Fra) Qbikes Les Sybelles 4.44.97 56 Fabien Cousinie (Fra) 4.45.10 57 Dominik Gspan (Swi) 4.46.34 58 Vlastimil Hyncica (Cze) 4.46.94 59 Kyle Strait (USA) Specialized Factory Racing 4.47.14 60 Quentin Derbier (Fra) 4.47.16 61 Claudio Caluori (Swi) Ms-Racing Team Europe 4.47.36 62 Richard Cheetham (GBr) 4.47.37 63 Ashley Mullane (GBr) 4.48.99 64 Gertje Tholen (Ned) 4.50.87 65 Claudio Cozzi (Ita) 4.51.01 66 Christophe Poupon (Fra) 4.52.00 67 David Eme (Fra) 4.53.13 68 Lee Pincher (GBr) 4.55.44 69 Thomas Ryser (Swi) 4.56.02 70 Enrico Dal Fitto (Ita) 4.56.33 71 Jamie Popham (Irl) 4.56.40 72 Mickael Deldycke (Fra) 4.56.58 73 Antoine Badouard (Fra) 4.59.48 74 Mathieu Troquier (Fra) 5.01.02 75 Darren Pokoj (Aus) 5.02.57 76 Johan Engstrom (Swe) 5.02.93 77 Frank Schneider (Ger) 5.03.64 78 Maxime Remy (Fra) 5.06.00 79 Cameron Cole (NZl) 5.06.56 80 Will Longden (GBr) 5.51.17 81 Matej Charvat (Cze) 4.55.62 82 Maciej Jodko (Pol) 4.55.67 83 Robert Smith (GBr) 4.56.32 84 Ivan Oulego Moreno (Spa) 4.56.90 85 Florent Wolter (Fra) 4.57.05 86 Tom Holland (NZl) 4.57.31 87 Robin Baloochi (USA) 4.57.62 88 Emanuel Pereira Pombo (Por) 4.57.77 89 Hemmo Nimrod (Isr) 4.58.35 90 Janez Grasic (Swi) 4.58.38 91 Ayden Eves (Aus) 4.58.52 92 Benjamin Shingler (Aus) 4.58.96 93 Mike Skinner (NZl) 4.59.44 94 Craig Pattle (NZl) 4.59.53 95 Peter Fernbach (Aut) Arbö Rsp Downhill Racing Team 4.59.55 96 Luca Pittino (Ita) 4.59.75 97 David Smith (GBr) 5.00.05 98 Koen Van Valkenhoef (Ned) 5.01.06 99 Lorenzo Suding (Ger) 5.01.08 100 Daniel Wolfe (Irl) 5.01.10 101 Michal Kollbek (Pol) 5.01.18 102 Christopher Marshall (GBr) 5.01.25 103 Ashley Cross (GBr) 5.02.35 104 Julian Lowndes (NZl) 5.03.41 105 Pascal Depetris (Fra) 5.03.50 106 Gerard Wolfe (Irl) 5.03.58 107 Jamie Faulkner (GBr) 5.03.59 108 Falco Ruppert (Ger) 5.03.87 109 Jonathan Cheetham (GBr) 5.04.12 110 Kieran Bennett (NZl) 5.04.24 111 James Marples (GBr) 5.04.37 112 Miikael Kinnunen (Aus) 5.04.46 112 Fergus Lamb (GBr) 114 David Duggan (GBr) 5.04.90 115 Andre Wagenknecht (Ger) 5.05.31 116 Markus Schwab (Swi) 5.06.20 117 Abdres Jaramillo Botero (Col) 5.06.42 118 Simon Rivoire (Fra) 5.06.70 119 Salminen Himar Sanchez (Spa) 5.07.07 120 Ondrei Barta (Cze) 5.07.12 121 Marco Milivinti (Ita) 5.07.40 122 Ramon Hunziker (Swi) 5.07.80 123 Thomas Todtli (Swi) 5.08.54 124 Kamil Tatarkovic (Cze) Kona Les Gets 5.09.49 125 René Rohrer (Swi) 5.10.02 126 Björn Aeschlimann (Swi) 5.10.69 127 David Ryce (Can) 5.11.32 128 Orlando Sarioglou (Ger) 5.12.03 129 Victor Roux (Fra) 5.13.23 130 Simon Finkel (Ger) 5.14.34 131 Benoit Stoclet (Fra) American Products Factory Connection 5.14.41 132 Mario Sieder (Aut) 5.14.54 133 John Lawlor (Irl) 5.14.75 134 Luke Marshall (GBr) 5.15.43 135 Bostjan Volf (Slo) 5.16.00 136 Simon Charvat (Cze) 5.17.55 137 Andraz Jersin (Slo) 5.17.92 138 Mario Koch (Ger) 5.18.95 139 Joan Vicente Merida (Spa) 5.19.11 140 Michael Cowan (Irl) 5.19.77 141 Joe Barnes (GBr) 5.21.27 142 Jan Cestnik (Slo) 5.21.49 143 Jérôme Hunziker (Swi) 5.23.41 144 Hynek Cizinsky (Cze) 5.23.47 145 Juan Fernando Fran Navarro (Col) 5.24.72 146 Pavel Cep (Cze) 5.24.96 147 Alan Clogher (Irl) 5.25.26 148 Tine Mahkovec (Slo) 5.25.56 149 Gianluca Billa (Ita) 5.29.96 150 Petr Takac (Cze) 5.30.19 151 Alexandre Sicard (Fra) 5.34.23 152 Nicholas Fischer (Swi) 5.34.82 153 Caspi Amir (Isr) 5.38.86 154 Richard Smith (Irl) 5.41.30 155 Dusan Leposa (Slo) 5.43.22 156 Milan Cizinsky (Cze) 5.46.84 157 Massimo Rosson (Ita) 5.51.71 158 Tommy Wilkinson (GBr) 6.18.70 159 Pascual Canals Flix (Spa) 8.02.88 DNF Doron Dan (Isr) DNF Aurelien Giordanengo (Fra) DNS Nathan Rennie (Aus) DNS Rob Warner (GBr) DNS Richard Thomas (GBr) DNS Scott Beaumont (GBr) Team Kona Beaumont Racing DNS Nathan Rankin (NZl) DNS Lee Bertram (GBr) DNS Mikolaj Wincenciak (Pol) DNS Federico Mattia Gemme (Ita) Women 1 Anne-Caroline Chausson (Fra) Commencal Oxbow 4.52.97 2 Rachel Atherton (GBr) 4.56.30 3 Emmeline Ragot (Fra) Qbikes Les Sybelles 4.59.71 4 Helen Gaskell (GBr) 5.04.73 5 Sabrina Jonnier (Fra) 5.06.52 6 Scarlett Hagen (NZl) 5.07.71 7 Tracy Moseley (GBr) Kona Les Gets 5.08.50 8 Céline Gros (Fra) Team Morzine Avoriaz 5.12.87 9 Vanessa Quin (NZl) 5.14.01 10 Nolvenn Le Caer (Fra) 5.15.36 11 Marielle Saner (Swi) 5.17.85 12 Jenna Makgill (NZl) 5.19.08 13 Fionn Griffiths (GBr) 5.22.36 14 Pascaline Reusser (Swi) 5.33.79 15 Petra Bernhard (Aut) Ms-Racing Team Europe 5.36.63 16 Maria Conway (GBr) 5.36.69 17 Anja Rees-Jones (GBr) 5.39.52 18 Anita Molcik (Aut) Arbö Rsp Downhill Racing Team 5.42.72 19 Claire Buchar (Can) 5.45.30 20 Angelika Hohenwarter (Aut) 5.57.76 21 Claire Whiteman (Aus) 5.58.64 22 Alice Kühne (Swi) 6.04.62 23 Silja Stadler (Swi) 6.05.34 24 Karen Ballantine (GBr) 6.10.16 25 Calamaty-Jayne Cann (GBr) 6.21.91 26 Alfageme Violeta Janeiro (Spa) 6.25.33 27 Haby-Blu Cann (GBr) 6.30.30 28 Helene Fruhwirth (Aut) 6.32.58 29 Zsofia Koczka (Hun) 6.33.32 30 Anna Sojka (Pol) 6.40.03 31 Jaymie Marti (Bar) 7.17.27 32 Jules Coventry (GBr) 7.31.26 33 Michela Thaler (Ita) Arbö Rsp Downhill Racing Team 7.40.62 34 Helena Boskova (Svk) 7.45.67 35 Petra Wiltshire (GBr) 8.05.56 DNS Anneke Beerten (Ned) Specialized Factory Racing DNS Daniela Bossard (Swi) DNS Ramona Stellnberger (Aut)
World Cup standings after round 7
1 Greg Minnaar (RSA) Hon 1485 pts 2 Samuel Hill (Aus) 795 3 Nathan Rennie (Aus) 720 4 Fabien Barel (Fra) Klg 702 5 Mickael Pascal (Fra) Max 678 6 Cédric Gracia (Fra) Scn 633 7 Marc Beaumont (GBr) 610 8 George Atherton (GBr) 587 9 Christopher Kovarik (Aus) 573 10 Justin Leov (NZl) 561 11 David Vazquez Lopez (Spa) Max 545 12 Markolf Berchtold (Bra) Max 524 13 Matti Lehikoinen (Fin) Hon 517 14 Daniel Atherton (GBr) 488 15 Julien Camellini (Fra) Cox 468 16 Mick Hannah (Aus) 419 17 Steve Peat (GBr) 370 18 Andrew Neethling (RSA) 338 19 Bryn Atkinson (Aus) 319 20 Jared Graves (Aus) 313 21 Justin Havukainen (Aus) 280 22 Neil Donoghue (GBr) 275 23 Claudio Caluori (Swi) Msr 244 24 Brendan Fairclough (GBr) 215 25 Dave Wardell (GBr) 204 26 Marcus Klausmann (Ger) Gho 202 27 Nico Vink (Bel) Mdb 186 28 Kyle Strait (USA) Sfr 184 29 Bernat Guardia Pascual (Spa) 169 30 Damien Mermoud (Swi) 161 31 John Kirkcaldie (NZl) 155 32 Will Longden (GBr) 151 33 Amiel Cavalier (Aus) 149 34 Oscar Saiz Castane (Spa) Grt 142 35 Ivan Oulego Moreno (Spa) 114 36 Alan Beggin (Ita) 111 37 Jared Rando (Aus) 101 38 Joel Panozzo (Aus) 92 39 Antionio Leiva (Chi) 86 40 Liam Panozzo (Aus) 82 41 Filip Polc (Svk) 79 42 Pascual Canals Flix (Spa) 74 43 Thomas Braithwaite (GBr) 69 44 Vlastimil Hyncica (Cze) 65 45 Adam Vagner (Cze) 62 46 Frank Schneider (Ger) 62 47 Henry O Donnell (USA) 61 48 Pierre Charles Georges (Fra) 57 49 Dan Harper (GBr) 51 50 Mickael Deldycke (Fra) 49 51 Maxime Remy (Fra) 47 52 Robin Baloochi (USA) 46 53 Rich Houseman (USA) 45 54 Damien Spagnolo (Fra) Qbs 41 55 Dan Stanbridge (GBr) 40 56 Cyrille Kurtz (Fra) 40 57 Christopher Panozzo (Aus) 40 58 Mathieu Troquier (Fra) 40 59 Felipe Costa Wermuth (Bra) 39 60 Sven Martin (RSA) 38 61 Thibaut Ruffin (Fra) Apf 35 62 Gertje Tholen (Ned) 35 63 Samuel Zbinden (Swi) 33 64 Luke Strom (Aus) 32 65 Herman Oelund (Swe) 32 66 Guido Tschugg (Ger) 32 67 Kamil Tatarkovic (Cze) Klg 32 68 Cristian Valdiviezo (Ecu) 31 69 Karim Amour (Fra) 30 70 Cody Warren (USA) 30 71 Romain Saladini (Fra) Cox 30 72 Himar Sanchez Salminen (Spa) 30 73 Nathaniel Giacomozzi (Bra) 28 74 Jamie Popham (Irl) 26 75 Sebastian Vasquez (Chi) 25 76 Rob Warner (GBr) 25 77 Duncan Riffle (USA) 24 78 Mario Jarrin (Ecu) Zen 24 79 Ohlund Hermann (Swe) 23 80 Volkmar Berchtold (Bra) 23 81 Lars Peyer (Swi) 22 82 Ben Reid (Irl) 22 83 Carlo Gambirasio (Ita) 22 84 Daniel Critchlow (GBr) 22 85 Matt Johnston (USA) 22 86 Kris Hargreaves (GBr) 21 87 Anderson Furlanetto (Bra) 21 88 Charles-Alexandre Dube (Can) 21 89 Lars Peyer (Swi) 19 90 Cristian Soto (Chi) 19 91 Ayden Eves (Aus) 19 92 Yoann Barelli (Fra) Lpi 19 93 Louis-Philippe Leonard (Can) 18 94 Maurizio Acuna (Chi) 18 95 Leandro Campovilla (Bra) 17 96 Fabien Pedemanaud (Fra) Apf 17 97 Glenn Haden (NZl) 16 98 Echeverria Diego (Chi) 16 99 Chris Ball (GBr) 16 100 Curtis Keene (USA) 15 101 Ignacio Rojo (Chi) 15 102 Maty Charoat (Cze) 15 103 Stuart Thomson (GBr) 14 104 Des Curry (NZl) 14 105 Rowen Sorrell (GBr) 14 106 Richard Thomas (GBr) 14 107 Ben Cathro (GBr) 14 108 Vincent Saut (Fra) Lpi 14 109 Andres Sotomayor (Ecu) 13 110 Mathieu Laurin (Can) 13 111 Geritt Beytagh (USA) 12 112 Matthew Thompson (USA) 12 113 Lee Pincher (GBr) 12 114 Michal Marosi (Cze) 12 115 Mauricio Estrada Pulgarin (Col) 12 116 Romain Lescure (Fra) 11 117 Chris Vandine (USA) 10 118 Scott Beaumont (GBr) Kon 10 119 Dino Cecchi (Per) 10 120 Jorge Acuna (Chi) 9 121 Jon Cheetham (GBr) 9 122 Florent Payet (Fra) 9 123 Bruno Zanchi (Ita) 8 124 Kirt Voreis (USA) 8 125 James Marples (GBr) 8 126 Justin Brown (Can) 8 127 Tom Holland (NZl) 8 128 Hugh Mansfield (Aus) 7 129 Daniel Weinman (USA) 7 129 David Klaassenvandorscho (USA) 7 131 Sebastian Reategui (Per) 7 132 Mathias Haas (Aut) Msr 7 133 Thomas Vanderham (Can) 7 134 Steve Wentz (USA) 6 135 Richard Cheetham (GBr) 6 136 Philip Shucksmith (GBr) 5 137 Giuliano Tessaro (Bra) 5 138 Remy Charrier (Fra) 5 139 Luka Novak (Slo) 4 140 Guilherme Bisarria (Bra) 4 141 Ashley Mullane (GBr) 4 142 Matt Simmonds (GBr) 3 143 Felipe Bortoletti (Bra) 3 144 Geoff Pendrel (Can) 3 145 Rémy Casanova (Fra) 2 146 Oscar Pellegrina (Arg) 2 147 Salvador Gonzalez (Spa) 2 148 Antoine Badouard (Fra) 1 149 Gonzalo Rodriguez (Arg) 1 150 Filip Matus (Cze) 1 Women 1 Sabrina Jonnier (Fra) 1274 pts 2 Tracy Moseley (GBr) Klg 1169 3 Rachel Atherton (GBr) 925 4 Marielle Saner (Swi) 901 5 Vanessa Quin (NZl) 887 6 Anne-Caroline Chausson (Fra) Cox 720 7 Scarlett Hagen (NZl) 718 8 Helen Gaskell (GBr) 701 9 Céline Gros (Fra) Mza 689 10 Emmeline Ragot (Fra) Qbs 552 11 Petra Bernhard (Aut) Msr 480 12 Fionn Griffiths (GBr) 440 13 Anita Molcik (Aut) Rsp 346 14 Kathy Pruitt (USA) 332 15 Anneke Beerten (Ned) Sfr 278 16 Nolvenn Le Caer (Fra) 231 17 Anja Rees Jones (GBr) 200 18 Maria Conway (GBr) 181 19 Melissa Buhl (USA) 163 20 Claire Buchar (Can) 162 21 Mio Suemasa (Jpn) 158 22 Pascaline Reusser (Swi) 157 23 Bernardita Pizzaro (Chi) 152 24 Angelika Hohenwarter (Aut) 150 25 Miriam Ruchti (Swi) 129 26 Antje Kramer (Ger) 120 27 April Lawyer (USA) 115 28 Miriam Blas Otondo (Spa) 101 29 Diana Marggraff (Ecu) Zen 100 30 Alice Kuhne (Swi) 98 31 Danika Schroeter (Can) 95 32 Michelle Dumaresq (Can) 93 33 Calamaty-Jayne Cann (GBr) 90 34 Anka Martin (RSA) 86 35 Daniela Bossard (Swi) 82 36 Karen Ballentine (GBr) 73 37 Violeta Alfageme (Spa) 72 38 Silja Stadler (Swi) 69 39 Jenna Makgill (NZl) 67 40 Patricia Loureiro (Bra) 67 41 Julia Lasso (Ecu) 63 42 Angelica Pereira De Castro (Bra) 59 43 Lisa Myklak (USA) 55 44 Verónica Miranda (Chi) 55 45 Michaela Thaler (Ita) Rsp 55 46 Jacqueline Harmony (USA) 52 47 Joanna Petterson (USA) 46 48 Emily Johnston (USA) 40 49 Katrina Strand (Can) 40 50 Mireia Bosca Ballester (Spa) 40 51 Leana Gerrard (USA) 37 52 Claire Whiteman (Aus) 37 53 Victoria Hernandez Molinas (Spa) 34 54 Mylene Fortier (Can) 32 55 Zsofia Koczka (Hun) 30 56 Celine Spicher (Swi) 28 57 Jules Coventry (GBr) 28 Teams 1 Maxxis Msc 423 pts 2 Team G Cross Honda 311 3 Kona Les Gets 269 4 Commencal Oxbow 148 5 Siemens Cannondale Mtb Racing T. 110 6 Team Morzine Avoriaz 100 7 Qbikes Les Sybelles 54 8 Team Orange 40 9 Ms Racing Team Europe 33 10 Specialized Factory Racing 30 11 Ghost International Racing Team 19 12 Giant Racing Team 15 13 Merlan Duo Be One 4 14 Arbö Rsp Downhill Racing 2
