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World Championships - CM
Verona, Italy, September 27-October 3, 2004
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Race 1 - Monday September 27: Time Trial - Junior Women, 15.75km
Czech MTB rider powers to Garda gold
By Tim Maloney, European Editor
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Now in its 10th year, the Junior Women's Time Trial was run on a beautiful, crystal-clear Monday midday. The 15.75km course climbs east from the lakeside village of Garda, up through rolling hills of the Bardolino wine region and then descends down and back along the eastern shore of Lake Garda to the start. Already bronze medalist in the Junior Women's World MTB championships last August, Czech rider Theresa Hurikova had a superb ride to win the gold medal in a time of 22'14, 5.37 seconds ahead of US Junior Women's TT champion Rebecca Much, who scored an excellent silver. 18 year-old Much of Chicago, Ill., who two senior women's races at Superweek in July, races for XXX Racing/Athletico.
Tereza Hurikova was a happy girl at the finish of the first competition of the 2004 World Championships. "It's my dream, but I'm a mountain biker. This is my second World Championships this year. In [the MTB] World's I had a problem with my bike. I [would have been] the winner, but with my defect I was third."
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When asked if she expected to win today, Hurikova laughed, "I'm very happy! This is such a nice place, and I liked the uphill start. I went out fast, and I wanted to have the same speed to finish."
The bronze medal went to Australian Amanda Spratt, already Junior World Champion in the Points Race in June. The 16 year-old rider for New South Wales showed today her obvious talent on both road and track. "I'm over the moon because I came here not knowing what to expect and it's been an amazing experience," said Spratt. "I am absolutely stoked."
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"The course was pretty tough with a climb at the start but it was wonderful to have so many enthusiastic spectators cheering for us," she said. "We're not used to having so many people watch us race and it was my first experience of that sort of support for a junior road event."
Pre-race favourite and last starter today was German rider Sabine Fisher, who was third in the road race and 11th in the Jr. Women's Worlds last year, but at her 10.6km split in was fifth. Fisher finished out of the medals in managed 4th, 0'45 out of the medals.
Photography
Images by Fotoreporter Sirotti
- Martina Faccin (Italy) was Italy's best rider in 12th
- Martina Faccin (Italy) keeps her focus
- Rebecca Bertolo (Italy) heads for the finish
- Tereza Hurikova (Czech Republic) is pretty happy with herself
- Tereza Hurikova (Czech Republic) on the podium
- Tereza Hurikova kisses her gold medal
- The podium was definitely one to enjoy standing on
- The podium of the junior women's TT Rebecca Much (2nd), Tereza Hurikova (1st) and Amanda Spratt (3rd)
Images by AFP Photo
- Tereza Hurikova (Czech Republic) en route to winning the gold in the junior women's time trial
- Rebecca Much (USA) on the start ramp
- Amanda Spratt (Australia) gets the countdown
Images by Mitch Friedman Photography
- Liina Normak Kata of Estonia gets a good rub down
- Amanda Spratt (Aus) warms for her 3rd place ride
- Italian Rebecca Bertolo has a very cool warm up bike. She finished 17th.
- Work is done on one of the Italian girls' bikes
- The Lithuanian girls are cheering their team on
- Italian Polizia ready to lead the way for the TT
- Open wide now
- Sabine Fischer of Germany has her cleat worked on. Can this be the start of a bad day?
- The Polish team meets its rider
- Luydmila Zakirova of Russia warming up for her 15th placing in Jr Women TT
- The Canadian girls Joelle Mumainuille and Anna Tratnyek warm up together as they finished side-by-side in the Jr Women TT in 18th and 19th
- Japan's Mayuko Hagiwara is the first woman out on the TT course and placed 30th
- Amanda Spratt (Aus) in the start house
- Amanda Spratt (Australia) starts out on her way to the bronze medal
- Rebecca Much (USA) catches the rider who started 2 min ahead of her (Jennifer Hohl, Swi)
- A very happy Tereza Hurikova (Cze) gives the thumbs up for her World Championship
- Amanda Spratt (Aus) shows her Bronze medal that will look nice with her Gold from Jr Track Worlds
- The podium girls are dressed by the stenographer of the Arena di Verona Foundation, and wear the costumes of some of the famous operas, such as Rigoletto, Aida, Madame Butterfly, Il Trovatore and La Traviata
- Sabine Fischer of Germany gets a hug from her teammate, as she is unhappy not to have done better then her 4th place
Results
1 Tereza Hurikova (Czech Republic) 22.14.10 (42.501 km/h) 2 Rebecca Much (USA) 0.05.37 3 Amanda Spratt (Australia) 0.05.67 4 Sabine Fischer (Germany) 0.51.58 5 Marianne Vos (Netherlands) 0.55.45 6 Roxane Knetemann (Netherlands) 0.57.94 7 Alexandra Sontheimer (Germany) 1.01.83 8 Natasha Mapley (Australia) 1.09.08 9 Irina Zemlyanskaya (Russia) 1.13.26 10 Emmanuelle Merlot (France) 1.19.41 11 Aleksandra Dawidowicz (Poland) 1.21.39 12 Martina Faccin (Italy) 1.21.46 13 Florence Girardet (France) 1.27.18 14 Jwona Pytel (Poland) 1.28.67 15 Luydmila Zakirova (Russia) 1.28.86 16 Marie Lindberg (Sweden) 1.29.24 17 Rebecca Bertolo (Italy) 1.33.05 18 Joelle Numainville (Canada) 1.34.69 19 Anna Tratnyek (Canada) 1.35.29 20 Daiva Tuslaite (Lithuania) 1.37.17 21 Inga Cilvinaite (Lithuania) 1.38.54 22 Karen Verbeek (Belgium) 1.39.21 23 Olena Sharga (Ukraine) 1.40.38 24 Jarmila Machacova (Czech Republic) 1.41.46 25 Olena Andruk (Ukraine) 1.46.15 26 Veronika Sprügel (Austria) 1.51.01 27 Karin Metzler (Switzerland) 1.52.66 28 Maria De Lourdes Garcia-Navas Llaneras (Spain) 1.56.44 29 Kata - Liina Normak (Estonia) 2.09.68 30 Mayuko Hagiwara (Japan) 2.24.87 31 Jennifer Hohl (Switzerland) 2.28.54 32 Silvia Tirado Marquez (Spain) 2.40.85 33 Axelle Doisy (Belgium) 2.42.59 34 Mary Brennan (Ireland) 2.55.80 35 Catrine Josefsson (Sweden) 3.02.33 36 Veranika Vyrastka (Bielorussia) 3.26.74 37 Laura Lepasalu (Estonia) 3.35.43 38 Stefanie Wiedner (Austria) 4.03.17 Intermediate time check - 10.5 km 1 Tereza Hurikova (Czech Republic) 15.24.74 2 Amanda Spratt (Australia) 0.06.97 3 Rebecca Much (USA) 0.10.60 4 Marianne Vos (Netherlands) 0.41.85 5 Sabine Fischer (Germany) 0.41.90 6 Alexandra Sontheimer (Germany) 0.47.96 7 Roxane Knetemann (Netherlands) 0.48.27 8 Natasha Mapley (Australia) 0.52.64 9 Irina Zemlyanskaya (Russia) 0.56.11 10 Emmanuelle Merlot (France) 0.58.24 11 Marie Lindberg (Sweden) 1.03.72 12 Jwona Pytel (Poland) 1.04.37 13 Aleksandra Dawidowicz (Poland) 1.05.77 14 Luydmila Zakirova (Russia) 1.05.91 15 Daiva Tuslaite (Lithuania) 1.07.24 16 Jarmila Machacova (Czech Republic) 1.07.44 17 Rebecca Bertolo (Italy) 1.09.04 18 Joelle Numainville (Canada) 1.09.79 19 Florence Girardet (France) 1.10.12 20 Inga Cilvinaite (Lithuania) 1.10.16 21 Anna Tratnyek (Canada) 1.10.88 22 Olena Sharga (Ukraine) 1.11.58 23 Karen Verbeek (Belgium) 1.12.34 24 Martina Faccin (Italy) 1.13.43 25 Olena Andruk (Ukraine) 1.14.58 26 Veronika Sprügel (Austria) 1.16.52 27 Maria De Lourdes Garcia-Navas Llaneras (Spain) 1.22.89 28 Karin Metzler (Switzerland) 1.25.45 29 Kata - Liina Normak (Estonia) 1.33.43 30 Jennifer Hohl (Switzerland) 1.46.18 31 Mayuko Hagiwara (Japan) 1.58.14 32 Axelle Doisy (Belgium) 2.00.26 33 Silvia Tirado Marquez (Spain) 2.04.82 34 Catrine Josefsson (Sweden) 2.06.75 35 Mary Brennan (Ireland) 2.11.39 36 Laura Lepasalu (Estonia) 2.24.56 37 Veranika Vyrastka (Bielorussia) 2.32.97 38 Stefanie Wiedner (Austria) 2.54.37
