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Swiss Power Cup #4 - 1

Hasliberg, May 12-13, 2007

Results

Absalon and Ying win Hasliberg

In the main cross country racing action on Sunday, Olympic champion Julien Absalon (Orbea) and Chinese National team racer Liu Ching won round #4 of the Swisspower Cup in Hasliberg. Both went away early and successfully defended their leads.

In the elite women's field, a Chinese woman was favored to win; however it was Liu Ying, not recent World Cup winner Ren Chengyuan, who took top hours. Second place went to a suprising Elisabeth Osl (Toni's Pro Team Kirchberg) ahead of Katrin Leumann (goldwurst-power.ch).

In the men's race, Julien Absalon rose to the top against the strong competition. New Zealander Kashi Leuchs and Swede Frederik Kessiakoff could only keep up with the speedy Frenchman at the beginning of the race. The two would settle for second and third.

Jérémy Huguenin (Prof Flühmann CCL) won the junior men's race while Vivienne Meyer (Scott Allianz Suisse) took victory in the women's race.

Saturday evening's team relay was won by Scott Allianz Suisse (Thomas Litscher, Jürg Graf, Severin Disch, and Vivienne Meyer) by only 26 seconds ahead of the Swisspower MTB Team (Till Marx, Patrik Gallati, Matthias Rupp, and Nathalie Schneitter).

Results

Elite Men

1 Julien Absalon (Orbea)                              1.42.06
2 Kashi Leuchs (Cannondle-Vredestein)                    0.59
3 Fredrik Kessiakoff (Cannondale-Vredestein)             1.40
4 Martin Gujan (Athleticum MTB Team)                     3.00
5 Florian Vogel (Swisspower Mountainbike-Team)           3.00
6 Inaki Lejarreta (Orbea)                                3.30
7 Nino Schurter (Swisspower Mountainbike-Team)           4.10
8 Ruben Ruzafa (Orbea)                                   4.13
9 Lukas Flückiger (Athleticum MTB Team)                  4.33
10 Silvio Bundi (Giant-Swiss-Team)                       4.40
11 Jakob Fuglsang (Cannondale-Vredestein)                5.21
12 Jürg Graf (Scott Allianz Suisse)                      5.36
13 Daniel McConnell (SouthAustralia.com)                 5.57
14 Balz Weber (Bikepark.ch-Tui)                          6.20
15 Ralph Näf (Multivan Merida Biking Team)               6.43
16 Fabian Giger (Tower Sports - VC Eschenbach)           6.48
17 Alban Lakata (Trek VW)                                7.02
18 Marco Aurelio Fontana (Hard Rock FRW)                 7.16
19 Alexandre Moos (BMC Racing)                           7.26
20 Jean Christophe Peraud (Orbea)                        7.48
21 Carlos Coloma (Spiuk Tau Ceramica)                    7.48
22 Marti Gispert (Spiuk Tau Ceramica)                    8.03
23 Daniel Suter (Giant-Swiss-Team)                       8.21
24 Gion Manetsch (Athleticum MTB Team)                   8.38
25 Andreas Kugler (Fischer-BMC)                          8.41
26 Giuseppe Lamastra (Hard Rock FRW)                     9.24
27 Robert Odink (Kona Verbier Swiss Factory)             9.49
28 Marc Trayter Alemany (Spiuk Tau Ceramica)            10.06
29 Mathias Flückiger (Athleticum MTB Team)              10.24
30 Andreas Moser (Kona Verbier Swiss Factory)           10.50
31 Christof Bischof (Bikin' Cyprus)                     11.12
32 Marcus Derungs (Kona Verbier Swiss Factory)          11.38
33 Guillaume Vinit (Scott Allianz Suisse)               12.13
34 Till Marx (Swisspower Mountainbike-Team)             12.38
35 Marcel Wildhaber (Tower Sports - VC Eschenbach)      12.45
36 Umberto Corti (CBE Tecnoimpianti)                    13.04
37 Urs Huber (Stöckli-Craft)                            13.18
38 Daniel Braunsteins (SouthAustralia.com)              13.30
39 Norbert Wyss (Thömus Racing Team)                    13.37
40 Lukas Kaufmann (Thömus Racing Team)                  14.18
41 Ivan Planzer (Giant-Swiss-Team)                      14.40
42 Michel Urbani (CBE Tecnoimpianti)                    14.48
One lap down
43 Thomas Zahnd (Team Stöckli Craft)                  1.42.26
44 Patrick Tresch (Gisler Bike+Hike)                  1.42.38
45 Michel Luginbühl (SRM Simplon Team)                1.42.50
46 Robert Gehbauer (Multivan Merida Biking Team)      1.43.20
47 Christian Heule (VC Gippingen)                     1.43.22
48 Marco Lang (goldwurst-power.ch)                    1.43.53
49 Marcel Bartholet (Scott Allianz Suisse)            1.44.07
50 Samuel Jud (Bergamont/Windrad)                     1.44.10
51 Florian Meyer (Bergamont Hene's Veloshop)          1.44.10
52 Roger Beuchat (Team LPR)                           1.44.38
53 Beat von Gunten (Swiss Wheeler Team)               1.44.41
54 Ueli Schädler (Energie MTB Team)                   1.44.45
55 Tobias Ammann (Velobern Racing Team)               1.44.52
56 Nicolas Roux (Scott Valloire Galibier)             1.45.26
57 Mathias Krähemann (Ramsauer - Aquapower Team)      1.45.31
58 Lucien Peterhans (Velo Franz-Gary Fischer)         1.45.45
59 Yannick Bernasconi (Dom Cycle)                     1.46.34
60 Markus Bless (Tower Sports - VC Eschenbach)        1.46.43
61 Claudio Fiechter (Velo Franz-Gary Fischer)         1.47.00
62 Georg Widmann (ASV Bike Club Egna)                 1.47.10
63 Hanspeter Gisler (Gisler-VisionGate)               1.47.20
64 Christian Willi (Fischer-BMC)                      1.47.21
65 Nico Windler (Ullmann Yeti)                        1.47.59
66 Patric Eichelberger (Thömus Racing Team)           1.48.39
67 Klemens Bont (Hafner+Gätzi/RMC Gossau)             1.49.01
68 Pascal Schmutz (Corratec Team Schweiz)             1.50.56
69 Gael Martinet (Dome Cycle - Vallée du Trient)      1.53.10
70 Sämi Wüthrich (Velobern Racing Team)               1.54.00
71 Josua Wechsler (Kona Verbier Swiss Factory)        1.58.09
72 Samuel Reichen (Velo Franz-Gary Fischer)           1.58.39
73 Norris Lachlan (SouthAustralia.com)                1.41.17
Two laps down
DNF Damian Perrin (Velobern Racing Team)                     
DNF Hannes Genze (Alb-Gold Mountainbike)                     
DNF David Kopetschny (Corratec Team Schweiz)                 
DNF Sepp Freiburghaus (Thömus Racing Team)                   
DNF Andreas Lieberherr (Velo Franz-Gary Fischer)             
DNF Tobias Hollenstein (Ramsauer - Aquapower Team)           
DNF Daniel Schütz (Scott Allianz Suisse)                     
DNF Rudolf Biedermann (Scott Allianz Suisse)                 
DNF Hansueli Stauffer (Bergamont Sigriswil)                  
DNF Alexis Swetloff (Egobike-MSC)                            
DNF Markus Tschümperlin (GU-Plus / thomyk)                   
DNF Yvan Schalbetter (Kona Verbier Swiss Factory)            
DNF Bruno von Gunten (Swiss Bixs Team)                       
DNF Braulio Juanes (Stern-Rotwild)                           
DNF Nicola Rohrbach (Kona Verbier Swiss Factory)             
DNF Michael Hutter (Pink Gili Swiss)                         
DNF Shaun Lewis (SouthAustralia.com)                         
DNF Daniel Eriksson (Trek Sweden)                            
DNF Mirko Pirazzoli (Fed. Cicl. Italiana)                    
DNS Jonas Perrin (Velobern Racing Team)                      
DNS Hannes Metzler (Giant-Swiss-Team)                        
DNS Andreas Bruder (Koba-Biketeam Graubünden)                
DNS Frederic Frech (Scott Allianz Suisse)                    
DNS Stefan Schütz (Mahu)                                     
DNS Claudio Andenmatten (Simplon Fighters)                   
DNS Joel Niederberger (Corratec Team Schweiz)                
DNS Joris Boillat (Texner BMC)                               
DNS Roel Paulissen (Cannondale-Vredestein)                   
DNS Calle Friberg (SRM-Simplon)                              
 
Elite Women

1 Liu Ying (Chinese National Team)                    1.32.47
2 Elisabeth Osl (Toni's Pro Team Kirchberg)              0.36
3 Katrin Leumann (goldwurst-power.ch)                    3.37
4 Kiara Bisaro (Opus)                                    3.59
5 Jingjing Wang (Chinese Cycling Association)            4.21
6 Eva Lechner (Colnago)                                  4.30
7 Maria Osl (Toni's Pro Team Kirchberg)                  5.35
8 Ren Chengyuan (Chinese Cycling Association)            5.46
9 Esther Süss (BikErich/ RC Gränichen)                   6.46
10 Anna Enocsson (Ghost International Racing Tea)        6.47
11 Nathalie Schneitter (X.0-Felt Womens MTB Team)        7.34
12 Evelyn Staffler (Colnago)                             8.00
13 Nina Göhl (Multivan Merida Biking Team)               8.24
14 Sandra Walter (X.0-Felt Womens MTB Team)              9.02
15 Nadia Walker (X.0-Felt Womens MTB Team)              10.19
16 Maureen Guichardot (Scott Valloire-Galibier)         11.14
17 Fabienne Niederberger (X.0-Felt Womens MTB Team)     11.38
18 Caroline Mani (Amicale Cycliste Bisontine)           11.42
19 Renata Bucher (Stöckli - Craft)                      13.10
20 Franziska Röthlin (X.0-Felt Womens MTB Team)         14.01
21 Fabienne Heinzmann (Thömus Racing Team)              15.50
22 Sandra Klose (Zwillingscraft)                        16.29
23 Andrea Kuster (Swiss Bixs Team)                      17.25
24 Lucrezia Lamastra (Hard Rock FRW)                    18.36
25 Janine Droz (Thömus Racing Team)                     19.42
One lap down
26 Regine Bertschinger (VC Hittnau)                          
27 Corina Gantenbein (Koba-Biketeam Graubünden)              
28 Silvia Mölk (Pietros Veloshop/Merida)                     
29 Peggy Klose (Zwillingscraft)                              
30 Elisabetta Borgia (Hard Rock FRW)                         
31 Andrea Kiser (Thömus Racing Team)                         
32 Daniela Stünzi (X.0-Felt Womens MTB Team)                 
DNF Joelle Schmutz ()                                        
DNF Nadja Roschi (Fischer-BMC)                               
DNF Maroussia Rusca (Scott Allianz Suisse)                   
DNF Hannah Myerscaugh (Trosa Vagnhärad)                      
DNS Sonja Morf (Kona Verbier Swiss Factory)                  
DNS Karin Steiner (GU Plus/thomy k MTB Team)                 
DNS Gunn-Rita Dahle-Flesjaa (Multivan Merida Biking Team)    
DNS Sarah Koba (Koba-Biketeam Graubünden)                    
DNS Susanne Litscher (Wheeler Swiss Team)                    
DNS Margaux Huguenin (VTT Conliege-Jura)                     
DNS Séverine Hansen (Scott les 2 Alpes)                      
DNS Andrea Huser (RC Steffisburg)                            
 
Junior Men

1 Jérémy Huguenin (Prof Flühmann CCL)                 1.25.40
2 Oliver Walder (Peko Engineering / Trek)                0.34
3 Thomas Litscher (Scott Allianz Suisse)                 1.40
4 Matthias Rupp (Swisspower Mountainbike-Team)           2.39
5 Shlomi Haimy (Swisspower Mountainbike-Team)            3.05
6 Konny Looser (Swiss Bixs Team)                         3.27
7 Benjamin Büchi (Scott Allianz Suisse)                  4.28
8 Lucas Lazzeri (CBE Tecnoimpianti)                      4.43
9 Rémi Pompanon (VTT La Pomme MBK)                       5.18
10 Daniel Kaufmann (Koba)                                5.27
11 Marc Metzler (Felt Gili's Velolade)                   5.45
12 Arnaud Grand (VC Rennaz / DOM Cycle)                  5.51
13 Benjamin Loretz (Thömus Racing Team)                  6.38
15 Mirco Widmer (Corratec Team Schweiz)                  7.38
17 Jörg Egli (Swiss Wheeler Team)                        8.28
19 Simon Wäfler (Merida/Bike Center Hegnau)              9.20
21 Daniel Eymann (Thömus Racing Team)                   10.13
23 Marc Koller (Tower Sports - VC Eschenbach)           10.28
25 Bastien Bugnard (Stöckli)                            11.14
27 Jeremias Marti (go-in.ch / TG Zentralschweiz)        11.29
29 Alain Page (DOM Cyclo / VC Rennaz)                   12.21
31 Dominik Widmer (Hobi-Bau / MF.Hügler Wetzikon)       12.45
33 Benno Heussi (GU-Plus / thomyk)                      14.01
35 Donat Albin (Koba-Biketeam Graubünden)               15.08
36 Pirmin Z'Rotz (Univega/TG-Zentralschweiz)            16.39
37 Mirco Zürcher (BSK / VC Volketswil)                  18.03
One lap down
38 Daniel Kiebacher (ASV St. Lorenzen Rad)                   
39 Alexander Fischer (SG Rheinfelden)                        
40 Roger Eppenberger (Koba)                                  
41 Michael Börner (SG Rheinfelden)                           
42 Janick Fischer (bsk-Graf/VC Volketswil)                   
43 Benjamin Walker (VMC Erstfeld IG Radsport)                
DNF Simon Weber (Sherpa Tensing - Pedalerie)                 
DNF Marc Ernst (Hobi-Bau/MF.Hügler Wetzikon)                 
DNF Marco Hungerbühler (Fischer Junior MTB Team)             
DNF Lucien Kammer (BC Bike Team)                             
DNF Thibaud Lhenry (Mesvrin VTT)                             
DNS Giorgio Della Marianna (L'Arcobaleno Carraro Team)       
DNS Jan Gattlen (Bike Sport Simplon)                         
DNS Fabian Cavelti (Koba-Biketeam Graubünden)                
DNS Joris Buhler (RM Team)                                   
DNS Dumeni Vincenz (Koba)                                    
DNS Sebastian Hilbe (Union RV Dornbirn)                      
DNS Daniel Geismayr (Union RV Dornbirn)                      
DNS Matthias Braendle (Pro Cycle Team Bregenz)               
DNS Stefano Panizza (CBE Tecnoimpianti)                      
DNS Fabien Canal (Lapierrre International)                   
DNS Valentin Huber (Green Valley)                            
DNS Arnaud Jouffroy (La Pomme MBK)                           
 
Junior Women

1 Vivienne Meyer (Scott Allianz Suisse)               1.24.41
2 Kathrin Stirnemann (Merida/Hauri/RC Gränichen)         2.36
3 Anna Oberparleiter (ASC Olang)                         5.59
4 Jennifer Sägesser (Thömus Racing Team)                 7.04
5 Karin Rappo (Mahu / BSO)                               8.07
6 Cornelia Schuster (SSV Pichl Gsies Raiffeisen)         9.08
7 Fanny Bourdon (R-VTT)                                 11.13
8 Marina Giger (Tower Sports - VC Eschenbach)           14.44
9 Fanny Martinet (Dome Cycle - Vallée du Trient)        23.18
One lap down
10 Céline Farner (Velo Franz-Gary Fischer)                   
11 Deborah Spescha (Koba-Biketeam Graubünden)                
DNF Lorraine Truong (Prof Flühlmann / CCL)                   
DNF Miriam Fanger (Gisler Craft)                             
DNS Sandra Börner (Nachwuchsteam Sabine Spitz)               
 
Amateur / Masters

1 Martin Fanger (Giant-Swiss-Team)                    1.23.51
2 Patrik Gallati (Swisspower Mountainbike-Team)          0.48
3 Severin Disch (Scott Allianz Suisse)                   1.48
4 Roland Abächerli (Giant-Swiss-Team)                    2.21
5 Pascal Meyer (Scott Allianz Suisse)                    2.26
6 Giancarlo Sax (Kona Verbier Swiss Factory)             2.42
7 René Wildhaber (Schwinn OBG)                           2.59
8 Roland Häfeli (Fischer-BMC)                            3.34
9 Manuel Scheidegger (Thömus Team)                       4.13
10 Pascal Cattin (Thömus Racing Team)                    4.45
11 Marco Arnold (Team Gisler/Craft)                      5.04
12 Joel Graf (BSK Graf)                                  5.20
13 Matthias Allenspach (Tower Sports - VC Eschenbach)    6.39
14 Christophe Geiser (Prof Flühmann)                     6.56
15 Markus Fehr (fehr-velos.ch)                           7.13
16 Jörg Hägler (VC Surselva)                             7.37
17 Urs Baumberger (Sherpa Tensing-Pedalerie)             9.00
18 Urs Baumann (Swiss Bixs Team)                         9.06
19 Guido Thaler (RC Raika Krug Mieming Scott)            9.28
20 Tobias Bosshart (Bikeshop Studer/Biketeam Aador)      9.56
21 Christian Bickel (Sherpa Tensing-Pedalerie)          11.04
22 Benjamin Rauber (Pédale Bulloise)                    11.14
23 Roger Winkler (Team Bike Zone)                       11.31
24 Mathieu Froidevaux (C.C. Moutier/Cycles-Joliat)      11.59
25 Nicolas Aeby (Mahu)                                  12.11
26 Peter Giger (Tower Sports - VC Eschenbach)           12.16
27 Michael Frei (Velo Franz-Gary Fischer)               12.52
28 Richard Hoekstra (Thömus Factoryteam)                13.10
29 Patric Kottmann (goldwurst-power.ch/vcreinach)       13.20
30 Patric Jenni (2Radshop Hintermann/Corratec)          13.36
31 Cyrill Rüttimann (VC Baar Zug / Giant)               13.44
32 Simon Walder (Koba-Biketeam Graubünden)              15.34
33 Michael Montandon (Zeta Cycling)                     15.52
34 Valentin Wendel (Bike Zone Baden)                    17.11
35 David Baumann (Team Bike Zone)                       17.41
One lap down
36 Adrian Gerber (Velobern Racing Team)                      
37 Stefan Straubhaar (Bergamont/Bike Shop Sigriswil)         
38 Sandro Kessler (Wheeler / Velo Flütsch)                   
39 Marco Steiger (Dimensionbike Team)                        
40 Michi Klauser (Ciclosport Mollis VCSD)                    
41 Matthias Straubhaar (www.bikecenter.ch)                   
42 Xavier Scheepers ()                                       
43 David Zbinden (Bike Team Mahu Plaffeien)                  
DNF Yann Montavon (CC Moutier/Bobillier Cycles)              
DNF Markus Hangartner (Mano's Veloshop)                      
DNF Marco Hinrichs (FXX Cube-Hotels)                         
DNF Tim Fair (Ciclisme de Mozambique)                        
DNS Andreas Haller (Nicolai / RSC-Regensdorf)                
DNS Reto Meier (Thömus Bike Team)                            
DNS Jonas Baumann (Campione Celeste)                         
DNS Oliver Schär (TG Hütten)                                 
DNS Tommaso Alemanno (Dimensionbike Team)                    
DNS Marcel Kuratli (Ramsauer - Aquapower Team)               
DNS Marc Bühler (Fischer-BMC)                                
DNS Oliver Windler (Ullmann Yeti)                            
DNS Lukas Winterberg (Campione Celeste)                      
DNS Helmut Flor (ASV Bike Club Egna)                         
DNS Jiri Hudecek (Maxidek-Cannondale)                        

Team Relay

1  Scott Allianz Suisse (Thomas Litscher, Jürg Graf, Severin Disch, Vivienne Meyer)            48.35
2  Swisspower MTB Team (Till Marx, Patrik Gallati, Matthias Rupp, Nathalie Schneitter)          0.26
3  Giant Swiss Team (Martin Fanger, Silvio Bundi, Kathrin Stirnemann, Oliver Walder)            1.02
4  Tower Sports - VC Eschenbach (Fabian Giger, Marina Giger, Marcel Wildhaber, Marc Koller)     3.34
5  Thömus Veloshop (Patric Eichelberger, Janine Droz, Daniel Eymann, Sepp Freiburghaus)         3.49