Cycle News - Archive Issues - 2000's

Sweden/286 . Benny Arthursson/124 (Mon) , A nders Nil sson/82 (G· G) . J on as Riede l/1 12 (Bet ) , Stefan Ridelj 133 (Be t ); 9 . Belgium307 • J a n Card inaels/90 ( M o n) , O li v ier Co 150 0 /13 1 ( G- G ) . Hug ues lam bion/1 45 (Bet), Michae l Vukce vik/lOO (She); 10. po int behind , than k s in part to the superb three of Aaron . In th ird pla ce w er e the Aust ral ians , 1 3 poin ts bac k. The second loo p p rovided the ca nvas for a maste rp ie c e by Peters - his s core of two , whic h contributed to the success o f the team - helping it to ove rtake the Ne the rlands by three points. On the third step of the podi um wa s the Australians. Germon y/3 0B - Motthia. Hoffm ann / 136 (Be t) , An dre as ( She) , Ca rs te n GRO UP B: 1. United States/2 6 - Geoff Aa ron/7 (G-G), Jess Kempke. /20 (G-G), Raymond Peters/ l O (She), Cory Pincock/ 82 (G-G), 2, Netherlond./29 Mllircel Bru nsveld/ 26 (Mo n ), Rod ney Heijman s/40 (G-O) , A lex Van Den Broek /1 5 (Mon). Peter Van der Sluis/8 (G· G) ; 3. Austr alia/3 8 - Lee Driessens/ 33 (a0 ) , Robert J one s/14 (She), Col in Zarszu nsk i/39 (Mon) , Kev in ZlIrszunsk i/ 27 (Mon ) ; 4. Ireland/ 48 • Michoel Burton/29 (She), Gareth Andrews(l8 (Bet), Al en Ma rks / 20 (Mon) , An dre w Perry /14 (Bet ); 5. Norway / 54 - Lars Eri k Frem stad/27 (Mon ) , And reas Orea ke r/ 33 (G- G) , Kenn eth Lars en /38 ( Be t) , O la And re Svend sen/ 32 (G-G) ; 6. A ndorr8n3 • Marce l Albos/4 0 (G-G) , Albe rt Cobone./2 3 (Bet) , Xevler C r istina /5 8 (Ma n), Pere M 8r ti /4 2 ( Ma n ); 7 . Switzerl and /78 - Dom inique Guillaume/ 23 (Yam), .Jerernie Monnin/19 (Ma n), Mar cel Stahll/ 57 (Man) , Chr istophe Robert/75 (G-G); 8. Au stria /8 2 • Marku s Adam ec/ 30 (G -G) , Eri ch Brand auer/12 (G-G), Mari o W OMEN It be in g summer in Spai n, there we re no problems with the weather, wh ic h consisted of sh ining s u n a nd m ild tem pera tu res - pe rfect for the 30 fe ma les e nt e re d. Th e re we re n in e nation s rep re s ented , but o nly ei g ht with the m inim um two riders cou ld be Mempor/55 (G-G), Franz! Schlegl/ 69 (G-G), WOMEN : 1. Spain /4 3 • Dolores Sanchez/40 (GG ) , Lele Sa nz /3 (G - G) ; 2 . France/44 • C la i re Bertra nd/11 (Man) . Mllud Henri cy /33 (Man) , 3, Great Britllin / 5 6 • Ra ch el Bu ckl ey /21 (G - G) , M ari e Conway / 35 (Man ); 4 . Gerrmllny / 58 - Iris Kram er/3 (G·G), Denise Brown / 55 (G-G); 5 , Conado/ 66 Christy Williams/2 8 (Man ), Kerry Willi am s/38 (G-G) ; (Ri ght) As expected, World Champi on Dougie Lampkin posted the best Individ ual score, but his team could finish no better than third. considered tea ms (Tine Jacobs fro m Be lgium came alone) . The firs t rider s t arted a t 10 :00, a nd all t h e riders t h a t were n ' t part of .a te am sta rt e d bef o re th e othe rs . Th e 12 hazards wer e fe at u red o n dry ground and ro u n d e d boulders , some quite dang erou s for th e lower skill ride rs, t h ough gr ip was ver y good . Most e x pecte d top perfo rmances f ro m the tw o c onten d er s for t h e recent Eu ropean Champ ionship held in Norw a y (Ge rm a n Iris Kramer won by two o ve r Span iard Laia Sanz ), and both demonstrated the mselve s to be one step above the others competing . But unknown was the le vel of U.S . Cha m p ion Ch risty Williams (of Cana da) , very good last year's unofficial e ve nt , b ut unus ed to riding o n s uch dr y gr ound. O n the first loop , Sa nz , a pplauded by th e few s pectators, clea ne d a ll the sectio ns and led . Behind her was Kramer with two points, then Fre nc h rider Be rtra nd Claire with five . T he best te a m perform a nc e wa s from the Le tte nb ich ler /l0 2 Stranghoner/1 11 (She), .Jens ter Jung/1 20 (G-G), 6, Norway/68 • Kjestl F1o/42 (She), linda Meyer/26 (G-G) : 7. Ita ly / 75 - Sim on o Chouvl e/ 29 (Bet) , Fren cesce DeGiannatonio/ 46 (G -G) ; 8 . USA/122 • Pem de Bruin/7 3 (Man) , Debbie E van s Leavitt/49 (G·G), French , who we re a head of the Spa nis h by just one po int. On th e s ec on d lo op , S a nz made thre e littl e m ist a ke s a nd was ca ug ht by Kramer, wh o dropped ju st a po int. Th e two w e re ti ed in numb er of cl eans , number of dabs, e tc ., so th e vic tor y goes to the fastest rider. Th at was Sanz, who finished in under four hours to become the first officia l indi v idual Ladi es' Cup Champ ion . Among th e teams , the situation from the first loop was re versed , with th e Spanish winn ing ahead of th e French by just o ne po int. CN Trials des Nations Sera, Spain Resuh3: September 9- 10, 2000 GROUP A : 1. Spa in / 44 - A lbert Cabestany/ 28 (Bet ). Marc Colo me rl1 2 (Man) , Marc Fr eixa/ 23 (G - G) , Ma r ce l Ju . tr ib o/ 25 (Mon ); 2 , Japo n/65 Tak ahisa Fuj ina. i /21 (Han ), Kenichi Kuroya ma /35 m (Bet) , Tom oy uki Oga wa/32 (Bet), Teich l Tanaka /53 (Bet) ; 3. Great Brit ain/ 68 - Doug ie Lampkin /9 (Man) , Steve Colley /2 6 (G-G) , Sam Connor/48 (Man) , Ben Hem ingw ay/84 (Bet) ; 4. Ita1Y/1 52 • Diego Basis/ 57 (Mon), Stefano Delli o/ 69 (Mon), Donato Dell io/69 ( Ma n ), D on a to Mi gli o /65 ( Be t) , Dar ia Re dell e G an d in o/7 0 ( M a n ) ; 5 . F i n la nd !t 9 5 • T o mm i Ahvala/4 4 (G-G) , Ju ssi Haapa nen/l OO (Bet) , Samy Haka la /124 (G· G). Joachi m Hin dr en/ 59 (G -G) ; 6 . France /230 - J erom e Bethun e/ 91 (O· G). Frederic Bochet/l1 4 (Bet) , Jerome Delair/1 02 (Bet), Gregory Ey ries/ 65 (She ) ; 7 . Czech Republi c / 28 2 - Pavel B.lo./l03 (G-G), David Kodlec/13 9 (G-G), Mortin (Above l eft) T he United States t ea m , led by Geoff Aaron (abov e), cam e out on top of the B Grou p . It w as goo d news f or the Americans In every way except that i t m eans they 'll be a dvanc ed t o the A Grou p n ext y e a r. BRIEFLy•••• It was a pity that the fir st official female compet ition w a s edged out of the lim el ight by th e headline show , The th ought wa s that holdi ng the eve nts to ge ther wo uld save mo ney and allow the men wo men to help one ano ther; so me ma les were seen helping thei r fema le coun terparts on Sa turday. but mo st were too busy pr eparing for their own co mpetition . Following Saturday 's co mpeti tion was also d ifficult for s pectators , sinc e there were only signs to Sunday's sec tio ns . And eve n Su nday w ou ld have been easier had there been an event pr ogram as at other int ernational trials eve nts . S elva, Ca talona. is in the northeast of Sp ain, a region we re most of the country' s best t rials ri ders were born, inclu ding J o rdi Tarr es . M arc C olomer. and ot he r stars fro m the past and present. In the small villa ge . orga nizers did a great jo b in a cho reographic sense : the pre se ntation of the male tea ms was do ne in a sta dium , and spectators applauded other exhibitions do ne by loc al pe rfo rme rs. Th e Am eri can fe males ta king part in th is even t decided at the end to request for the future so me import ant improveme nts : First, they w ant the tea m to co ns ist of more then two w o men - at least thr ee or four, like the male s, Second, th ey w o uld like the individu al champio ns hip to be held se para t ely the week before or aft er the TdN , since riders who are team members must focu s on th e team and not th ei r own individual perform ance , Tommi A hv a l a finished his Army duty in Finland and is now ready to retu rn to th e USA to continue his work of promoting trials fo r Ga s G as imp ort er D ale M alase k, A hva la is sti ll in good shape , as he pr ov ed by carrying his te am to fi fth plac e , His score of 44 wa s the 10th-be st indivi dual mark . K rou st ek /98 ( Bet) . Ji rti Sv ob o da /93 (Ma n ) ; 8. cue I e n e vv s OCTOBER 4 , 2 0 0 0 29

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