Julien Camellini 2nd, Hill Wins Maribor UCI DH #1
Sunday, May 11th, 2008
Sam Hill, Julien Camellini, Steve Peat
Nigel Page sent along a report on the front lines with the Chain Reaction Cycles team. Julien Camellini put in an amazing run for 2nd place in the World Cup final today in Maribor. After qualifying first in the morning Julien kept his nerve and focus to put in an amazing final run to place 2nd behind World Champion Sam Hill.
Chris Kovarik also put in a fantastic run to place 7th only 0.67 seconds behind 3rd place. This is a great start to the World Cups for Chris after a dissapointing season last year. Chris is right in with the top guys again where he should be and this will give him the confidence to start winning World Cups again like we all know he can. All of us at Chain Reaction Cycles / Intense are stoked to have Chris on the team.
This is Juliens best World Cup result to date riding his new Intense M6. This is a fantastic result for Julien and Chain Reaction Cycles / Intense. We are all super stoked with this result to start off the World Cup season.
Matt and Ruaridh both put in great runs in a stacked field with all the top guys in the World riding at their limit. Matt managed 23rd position only 10.62 second down on the winning time and Ruaridh has overcome his knee injury to place 33rd only 11.97 seconds down. We are stoked to have these 2 brilliant young riders onboard the team. They are now both two of the favourites to be selected for the GB team for the World Championships in Italy.
We all worked hard as a team for this weekend and we couldn’t be happier for this great start to the World Cup season.
We look forward to the next UCI round in Vallnord on the 1st June. Team CRC will now head off to Morzine tomorrow. Chris Kovarik and Ruaridh Cunningham will be racing the Lisbon Downtown next weekend.
Todays results:
UCI World Cup Round 1 Maribour
Pro Men (full results, including qualifying here)
1: Sam Hill 2:47.54
2: Julien Camellini 2:50.62
3: Steve Peat 2:51.85
4: Fabien Barel 2:52.11
5: Greg Minnaar 2:52.19
6: Gee Atherton 2:52.34
7: Chris Kovarik 2:52.52
8: Justin Leov 2:52.56
9: Brendan Fairclough 2:54.23
10: Andrew Neethling 2:55.49
23: Mathew Simmonds 2:58.16
33: Ruaridh CUNNINGHAM2:59.51
Pro Women (full results here)
1: Sabrina Jonnier 3:14.31
2: Rachel Atherton 3:14.49
3: Emmeline Ragot 3:21.80
May 12th, 2008 at 12:36 am
How did Joe Smith, recent UK juniors champ do ?