Cannondale-Vredestein took firm control of the race from the start, with team mates Roel Paulissen, Jakob Fuglsang, Kessiakoff and Kashi Leuchs all at the front on the first descent. They were joined by Christoph Sauser (Specialized), Manuel Fumic (Fumic Brothers Racing), Jose Hermida (Multivan-Merida) and Geoff Kabush (Maxxis). Kabush was still feeling the effects of an arm injury two weeks earlier, and faded as the race went on (finishing 45th), but the others proved to be the main race animators.
The one name missing was that of world champion and already World Cup champion Julien Absalon. Absalon admitted to having little motivation for the race, saying: "I did it just for fun today. I had a really bad start, and it is hard to fight back when you have no goal in the race. In the middle I caught up to my team mate Inaki Lejarreta, who is fighting for a Spanish Olympic selection, so my goal became to work for him during the race."
Absalon patiently worked for Lejarreta all race, moving him up to 17th and then holding back at the line to let the Spaniard cross first.
"They were both too fast, and it was too early," commented Sauser. "I know Freddy blows when he goes out so hard, so I was waiting for weakness there. But this time he didn't. I caught Jose (on lap five), but Freddy was out of reach."
Manuel Fumic also caught a tiring Hermida with a lap to go, to take third, with Paulissen rounding out the top-five. Adam Craig (Giant), after his patented slow start, moved up steadily through the field to finish 12th, the top North American result. "I finally got going halfway through the race," said Craig. "Once it opened up I could pass, and catch riders on the tricky bits. I haven't been feeling super tip-top, so I'll take this result."
Hermida took second in the final overall standings behind Absalon, with Sauser third, Paulissen fourth and Kessiakoff moving into fifth.
Race Notes
- Despite the team announcing that he would ride a full suspension bike in a World Cup for the first time, Julien Absalon ended up sticking to his usual hard tail. "I am more comfortable with it," he explained. "Maybe this winter I will spend some time testing a full suspension bike."作者: qhy18227 时间: 2007-9-18 20:16
OH NO ENGLISH...作者: 光影小飞侠 时间: 2007-9-18 20:20
Oh，it's crazy!作者: ○鉳鉲藍○ 时间: 2007-9-18 20:23
应该再来点图片[jhl]作者: 行云流水 时间: 2007-9-18 20:32 标题: A dusty start for the Men's XC
作者: 行云流水 时间: 2007-9-19 21:48 标题: 成绩 1 Fredrik Kessiakoff (Swe) Cannondale-Vredestein 1.53.44
2 Christoph Sauser (Swi) Specialized 1.25
3 Manuel Fumic (Ger) Fumic.Brothers.International 1.41
4 José Antonio Hermida Ramos (Esp) Multivan Merida Biking Team 2.01
5 Roel Paulissen (Bel) Cannondale-Vredestein 2.48
6 Jean-Christophe Peraud (Fra) Orbea 3.22
7 Lado Fumic (Ger) Fumic.Brothers.International 3.37
8 Jakob Fuglsang (Den) Cannondale-Vredestein 3.52
9 Kashi Leuchs (NZl) Cannondale-Vredestein 4.38
10 Filip Meirhaeghe (Bel) Versluys-Landbouwkrediet 4.45
11 Moritz Milatz (Ger) Multivan Merida Biking Team
12 Adam Craig (USA) Giant Mountain Bike Team 4.54
13 Carlos Coloma Nicolas (Esp) Spiuk-Tau Ceramica 5.17
14 Cédric Ravanel (Fra) Team Lapierre International 5.26
15 Christoph Soukup (Aut) 5.57
16 Wolfram Kurschat (Ger) 6.08
17 Inaki Lejarreta Errasti (Esp) Orbea 6.33
18 Julien Absalon (Fra) Orbea 6.34
19 Ralph Naef (Swi) Multivan Merida Biking Team 7.04
20 Milan Spesny (Cze) Merida Biking Team 7.24
21 Jeremy Horgan-Kobelski (USA) Subaru-Gary Fisher 7.27
22 Jürg Graf (Swi) 7.34
23 Peter Riis Andersen (Den) Team Alb-Gold Mountainbike 7.37
24 Jeremiah Bishop (USA) Trek-VW 7.55
25 Hannes Metzler (Aut) 8.14
26 Martin Gujan (Swi) 8.24
27 Marti Gispert Labarta (Esp) Spiuk-Tau Ceramica 8.30
28 Oliver Beckingsale (GBr) 8.39
29 Ivan Alvarez Gutierrez (Esp) ASD KTM International Team 8.53
30 Karl Platt (Ger) Team Bulls 9.17
31 Dariusz Batek (Pol) Halls Professional Mtb Team 9.42
32 Rudi Van Houts (Ned) Dolphin Bike Team 9.54
33 Alban Lakata (Aut) Trek-VW 9.59
34 Stefan Sahm (Ger) Team Bulls 10.00
35 Liam Killeen (GBr) Specialized 10.02
36 Seamus Mcgrath (Can) Rocky Mountain Haywood 10.14
37 Gion Manetsch (Swi) 10.48
38 Thomas Frischknecht (Swi) Swisspower MTB Team 10.53
39 Lukas Flückiger (Swi) 10.54
40 Jochen Kass (Ger) Team Alb-Gold Mountainbike
41 Marek Galinski (Pol) 10.58
42 Ruben Ruzafa Cueto (Esp) Orbea 11.12
43 Jiri Friedl (Cze) Merida Biking Team 11.33
44 Todd Wells (USA) 11.38
45 Geoff Kabush (Can) 12.03
46 Daniel Mcconnell (Aus) 12.29
47 Bart Brentjens (Ned) Dolphin Bike Team 12.39
48 Robert Gehbauer (Aut) Multivan Merida Biking Team
49 Pierre Geoffroy Plantet (Fra) Team Lapierre International 12.40
50 Silvio Bundi (Swi) 12.42
51 Bjorn Brems (Bel) Dolphin Bike Team 12.43
52 Andreas Kugler (Swi) Fischer-BMC 12.48
53 Sergy Kysenko (Ukr) 13.18
54 Christof Bischof (Swi) Bikin'cyprus Int'l Mtb Team 13.56
55 Mathieu Toulouse (Can) 14.19
56 Klaus Nielsen (Den) Team Alb-Gold Mountainbike 14.46
57 Balz Weber (Swi) Bikepark.Ch Tui 14.51
58 Vaclav Hlavac (Cze) 14.57
59 Giuseppe Lamastra (Ita) 15.02
60 Yader Zoli (Ita) ASD KTM International Team
61 Robin Seymour (Irl) Dolphin Bike Team 15.12
62 Michael Broderick (USA) 15.30
63 Tim Wijnants (Bel) ASD KTM International Team 15.57
64 Magnus Darvell (Swe) Team Alb-Gold Mountainbike 16.10
65 Ruud Rentmeester (Ned) 16.19
66 Niall Davis (Irl) 16.27
67 Andrea Tiberi (Ita) 16.50
68 Tim Bohme (Ger) 17.11
69 Filip Eberl (Cze) 17.13
70 Stéphane Tempier (Fra) Gewiss Bianchi 17.30
71 Matous Ulman (Cze) 17.41
72 Lachlan Norris (Aus) 18.54
73 Andras Parti (Hun) 19.15
One lap behind
74 Kris Sneddon (Can) Kona Les Gets
75 Sid Taberlay (Aus) Dolphin Bike Team
76 Max Oste Macdonald (Swe)
77 Roland Plank (Aut)
78 Max Plaxton (Can) Rocky Mountain Haywood
79 Lee Williams (GBr)
80 Olaf Rochow (Ger)
81 Oleksanar Yakymenko (Ukr)
82 Gilberto Simoni (Ita)
83 Ricky Federau (Can)
84 Uwe Hochenwarter (Aut)
85 Luka Mezgec (Slo)
86 Jan Skarnitzl (Cze)
87 Ian Bibby (GBr)
88 Ian Wilkinson (GBr)
89 Marcus Roy (NZl)
90 Steffen Thum (Ger) Team Mayer Stevens
91 Luka Homovec (Slo)
92 Robert Kircher (Aut)
93 Samuel Schultz (USA) Subaru-Gary Fisher
94 Marco Aurelio Fontana (Ita)
95 Evguen Petchenine (Rus) Format-Udmurtia
96 Umberto Corti (Ita)
111 Marios Athanasiades (Cyp) Bikin'cyprus Int'l Mtb Team
112 Florian Vogel (Swi) Swisspower MTB Team
113 Jernej Muzga (Slo)
114 Samo Rauter (Slo)
115 Dani Simcic (Cro)
116 David Vogrin (Slo)
Four laps behind
117 Chris Jongewaard (Aus) Dolphin Bike Team
DSQ Matthias Flückiger (Swi)
DNF Nino Schurter (Swi) Swisspower MTB Team
DNF Bas Peters (Ned)
DNF Jaroslav Kulhavy (Cze)
DNF Torsten Marx (Ger) Team Alb-Gold Mountainbike
DNF Emil Lindgren (Swe) Gewiss Bianchi
DNF Till Marx (Swi) Swisspower MTB Team
DNF Tony Longo (Ita)
DNF Cristobal Silva (Chi)
DNF Marc Colom (Fra)
DNF Conner Mcconvey (Irl)
DNF Andras Melts (Hun)
DNF Carl Decker (USA) Giant Mountain Bike Team
DNF Gerald Hauer (Aut)作者: 行云流水 时间: 2007-9-19 21:48
World Cup Overall Standings
Individual
1 Julien Absalon (Fra) Orbea 1270 pts
2 Jose Antonio Hermida Ramos (Spa) Multivan Merida Biking Team 1030
3 Christoph Sauser (Swi) 916
4 Roel Paulissen (Bel) Cannondale-Vredestein 730
5 Fredrik Kessiakoff (Swe) Cannondale-Vredestein 706
6 Cedric Ravanel (Fra) Team Lapierre International 666
7 Kashi Leuchs (NZl) Cannondale-Vredestein 580
8 Nino Schurter (Swi) Swisspower Mtb Team 560
9 Jakob Fuglsang (Den) Cannondale-Vredestein 545
10 Filip Meirhaeghe (Bel) Versluys-Landbouwkrediet Mtb Team 497
11 Ralph Naef (Swi) Multivan Merida Biking Team 470
12 Manuel Fumic (Ger) Fumic.Brothers.International 424
13 Inaki Lejarreta Errasti (Spa) Orbea 413
14 Jean-Christophe Peraud (Fra) Orbea 410
15 Adam Craig (USA) Giant Mountain Bike Team 363
16 Lado Fumic (Ger) Fumic.Brothers.International 354
17 Wolfram Kurschat (Ger) 354
18 Geoff Kabush (Can) 351
19 Milan Spesny (Cze) Merida Biking Team 342
20 Thomas Frischknecht (Swi) Swisspower Mtb Team 330
21 Lukas Fluckiger (Swi) 297
22 Jader Zoli (Ita) Asd Ktm International Team 294
23 Florian Vogel (Swi) Swisspower Mtb Team 270
24 Balz Weber (Swi) Bikepark.Ch Tui 257
25 Jeremy Horgan-Kobelski (USA) Subaru-Gary Fisher 255
26 Stefan Sahm (Ger) Team Bulls 248
27 Moritz Milatz (Ger) Multivan Merida Biking Team 244
28 Ruben Ruzafa Cueto (Spa) Orbea 241
29 Seamus McGrath (Can) Rocky Mountain Haywood 240
30 Christoph Soukup (Aut) 228
31 Rudi Van Houts (Ned) Dolphin Bike Team 217
32 Jurg Graf (Swi) 208
33 Hannes Metzler (Aut) 202
34 Bas Peters (Ned) 196
35 Karl Platt (Ger) Team Bulls 193
36 Carlos Coloma Nicolas (Spa) Spiuk-Tau Ceramica 192
37 Marek Galinski (Pol) 187
38 Jaroslav Kulhavy (Cze) 185
39 Todd Wells (USA) 180
40 Torsten Marx (Ger) Team Alb-Gold Mountainbike 176
41 Chris Jongewaard (Aus) Dolphin Bike Team 175
42 Marti Gispert Labarta (Spa) Spiuk-Tau Ceramica 174
42 Martin Gujan (Swi) 174
44 Peter Riis Andersen (Den) Team Alb-Gold Mountainbike 173
45 Ivan Alvarez Gutierrez (Spa) Asd Ktm International Team 173
46 Jeremiah Bishop (USA) Trek-Vw 164
47 Bart Brentjens (Ned) Dolphin Bike Team 155
48 Yury Trofimov (Rus) 151
49 Oliver Beckingsale (GBr) 148
50 Max Plaxton (Can) Rocky Mountain Haywood 148
51 Silvio Bundi (Swi) 145
52 Burry Stander (RSA) 143
53 Gion Manetsch (Swi) 139
54 Jochen Kass (Ger) Team Alb-Gold Mountainbike 130
55 Emil Lindgren (Swe) Gewiss Bianchi 121
56 Ricky Federau (Can) 118
57 Marco Aurelio Fontana (Ita) 108
58 Till Marx (Swi) Swisspower Mtb Team 97
59 Michael Weiss (Aut) Bikin'cyprus Int'l Mtb Team 96
60 Stephane Tempier (Fra) Gewiss Bianchi 92
61 Hector Leonardo Paez Leon (Col) Full-Dynamix-R.S.M. 87
62 Ricardo Pscheidt (Bra) 84
63 Valeriano Rubens Donizeti (Bra) 83
64 Rene Tann (Ger) 82
65 Dariusz Batek (Pol) Halls Professional Mtb Team 80
66 Jiri Friedl (Cze) Merida Biking Team 80
67 Sid Taberlay (Aus) Dolphin Bike Team 72
68 Alban Lakata (Aut) Trek-Vw 71
69 Christof Bischof (Swi) Bikin'cyprus Int'l Mtb Team 69
70 Sven Nys (Bel) 58
71 Ludovic Dubau (Fra) Team New Cycling 56
72 Martino Fruet (Ita) 51
73 Jan Skarnitzl (Cze) 47
74 Mathieu Toulouse (Can) 45
75 Klaus Nielsen (Den) Team Alb-Gold Mountainbike 44
76 Michael Broderick (USA) 44
77 Miha Solar (Slo) 42
78 Bjorn Brems (Bel) Dolphin Bike Team 40
79 Derek Zandstra (Can) 40
80 Jelmer Pietersma (Ned) Beone Mountainbiketeam 40
81 Nicolas Bazin (Fra) Bh-Sr. Suntour 38
82 Alexandre Moos (Swi) Bmc Racing 38
83 Tony Longo (Ita) 38
84 Mirko Pirazzoli (Ita) 38
85 Israel Nunez Baticon (Spa) Massi 37
86 Neal Kindree (Can) Kona Les Gets 36
87 Liam Killeen (GBr) 36
88 Matthias Fluckiger (Swi) 36
89 Sergiy Rysenko (Ukr) 35
90 Francois Bailly Maitre (Fra) Scott Valloire Galibier 34
91 Robin Seymour (Irl) 32
92 Massimo De Bertolis (Ita) Full-Dynamix-R.S.M. 32
93 Martin Kraler (Aut) Gewiss Bianchi 30
94 Olivier Maignan (Fra) Bh-Sr. Suntour 28
95 Samuel Schultz (USA) Subaru-Gary Fisher 28
96 Alexis Vuillermoz (Fra) Scott Valloire Galibier 26
97 Tim Bohme (Ger) Team Alb-Gold Mountainbike 25
98 Oleksandr Yakymenko (Ukr) 23
99 Karl Markt (Aut) 23
100 Daniel McConnell (Aus) 22
101 Giuseppe Lamastra (Ita) 21
102 Carl Decker (USA) Giant Mountain Bike Team 21
103 Andrew Watson (Can) 21
104 Filip Eberl (Cze) 20
105 Robert Gehbauer (Aut) Multivan Merida Biking Team 20
106 Nicolas Filippi (Fra) Scott Valloire Galibier 20
107 Pierre Geoffroy Plantet (Fra) Team Lapierre International 19
108 Andreas Kugler (Swi) Fischer-Bmc 16
109 Jeff Hall (USA) 16
110 Maxim Gogolev (Rus) 16
111 Edivando Cruz (Bra) 15
112 Sergy Kysenko (Ukr) 15
113 Tim Heemskerk (Ned) 14
114 Kris Sneddon (Can) Kona Les Gets 13
115 Sergio Mantecon Gutierrez (Spa) Massi 11
116 Kenji Takeya (Jpn) 10
117 Vaclav Hlavac (Cze) 10
118 Benoit Simard (Can) 10
119 Pascal Meyer (Swi) 10
120 Marc Trayter Alemany (Spa) Spiuk-Tau Ceramica 9
121 Yader Zoli (Ita) Asd Ktm International Team 8
122 Jerome Chevallier (Fra) 8作者: 行云流水 时间: 2007-9-19 21:49
U23 men's winner
1 Nino Schurter (Swi) Swisspower Mtb Team 560 pts
2 Jakob Fuglsang (Den) Cannondale-Vredestein 545
3 Jaroslav Kulhavy (Cze) 185
4 Max Plaxton (Can) Rocky Mountain Haywood 148
5 Burry Stander (RSA) 143
6 Emil Lindgren (Swe) Gewiss Bianchi 121
7 Stephane Tempier (Fra) Gewiss Bianchi 92
8 Rene Tann (Ger) 82
9 Dariusz Batek (Pol) Halls Professional Mtb Team 80
10 Jiri Friedl (Cze) Merida Biking Team 80
11 Jan Skarnitzl (Cze) 47
12 Bjorn Brems (Bel) Dolphin Bike Team 40
13 Neal Kindree (Can) Kona Les Gets 36
14 Matthias Fluckiger (Swi) 36
15 Francois Bailly Maitre (Fra) Scott Valloire Galibier 34
16 Samuel Schultz (USA) Subaru-Gary Fisher 28
17 Alexis Vuillermoz (Fra) Scott Valloire Galibier 26
18 Oleksandr Yakymenko (Ukr) 23
19 Daniel McConnell (Aus) 22
20 Robert Gehbauer (Aut) Multivan Merida Biking Team 20
21 Vaclav Hlavac (Cze) 10
22 Pascal Meyer (Swi) 10
Team overall
1 Cannondale-Vredestein 506 pts
2 Orbea 389
3 Multivan Merida Biking Team 307
4 Swisspower Mtb Team 246
5 Fumic.Brothers.International 138
6 Team Lapierre International 135
7 Versluys-Landbouwkrediet Mtb Team 106
8 Giant Mountain Bike Team 70
9 Asd Ktm International Team 70
10 Dolphin Bike Team 56
11 Rocky Mountain Haywood 53
12 Merida Biking Team 50
13 Team Bulls 50
14 Bikepark.Ch Tui 40
15 Team Alb-Gold Mountainbike 38
16 Spiuk-Tau Ceramica 34
17 Subaru-Gary Fisher 26
18 Trek-Vw 16
19 Full-Dynamix-R.S.M. 15
20 Gewiss Bianchi 8
21 Bikin'cyprus Int'l Mtb Team 4作者: 行云流水 时间: 2007-9-19 22:07
Race 2 - September 15: Elite Women Cross Country
Liu wins final cross country in Slovenia
By Rob Jones in Maribor
In the elite women's event, Lui Ying became only the second Chinese woman to win a World Cup, while there were no surprises in the overall standings with recently crowned world champion Irina Kalentyeva (Topeak-Ergon) winning the overall title.
Georgia Gould (Luna) took an aggressive lead on the opening climb, looking to get into the singletrack descent first. She was successful, and was followed by Sabine Spitz (Ghost), Marie-Helene Premont (Rocky Mountain-Haywood) and Kalentyeva. Lui had been caught behind a crash at the start, and made an impressive surge up to the front group on the second lap; recording the fastest lap of the race in the process.
A lap later, and the lead group was down to four - Premont, Kalentyeva, Spitz and Lui, with Gould slowly going backwards. Premont took the lead early in the lap, but by the end it was Lui attacking, with the others unable to match her pace. This was an echo of the world championships a week earlier, when the Chinese rider also put in a massive attack, only to fade in the final lap and finish with the bronze medal.
This time, there was no fading, as she steadily extended her lead over Kalentyeva and Spitz, with Premont riding the climb a little slower than the other two. However, Premont was just conserving her energy, and on the fourth lap she went by Spitz, and then on the fifth surged again, passing Kalentyeva in the final half lap to take second.
"I wanted to save something for the last lap, because I knew that would be important," explained Premont. "I started to go harder on the first climb and then caught Irina before the second technical climb. After that I gave it everything in the final descent and the flat part to the finish."
Both Premont and Kalentyeva were collapsed over their handlebars for minutes after the race, while Lui still looked fresh enough for another lap. Her team mate Ren Chengyuan, who won the U23 title, also had a remarkable race; finishing fifth after a poor start which put her back in the high teens on lap two.
Lui was slightly more animated with her win than usual, cracking a smile as she crossed the line (but no arms in the air, much to the chagrin of photographers). "The crash at the start made it hard for me, because there were too many riders to be able to pass quickly. Maybe I could have been better without the crash."
The question is: How much better than first do you need to be?
In the women's final overall rankings, Premont took second behind Kalentyeva, followed by Ren, Spitz and Marga Fullana (Spiuk) - the latter absent in Maribor after receiving a 15 day suspension for high haematocrit at the world championships.
Race notes
- Kalentyeva was happy to win the World Cup title, but the rainbow stripes she took last week "that means much more, because it was always my dream to win. But the World Cup is very tough to win, because you always have to be in the top-three. This year was quite different, with Gunn-Rita (Dahle-Flesjaa - Multivan-Merida) and Marga (Fullana) missing; I think next year will be more interesting!"
- While many of the top riders head off to Beijing for the test event next weekend, neither Kalentyeva or Premont will attend. For Kalentyeva it is because Russia is not ranked high enough to receive an invite ("It is finished for me this year, now I fly home to visit my parents," she explained.). For Premont it was by choice: "I am too busy with school (she is a graduate student in pharmaceutical studies) and it is a very long trip for two days. There is lots of time next year to see the course; I think I will go by myself maybe in March to see the course."作者: 行云流水 时间: 2007-9-19 22:10 标题: Georgia Gould (Luna) led the field out.
