U.S. Open Downhill Results
Sunday, May 25th, 2008
Steve Smith Wins the Pro Men’s Class
Top 20 Pro Men and Women results (unofficial) and pictures inside.
U.S. Open Pro Men Final Results:
- Steve Smith 2:36.737
- Sam Hill 2:37.326
- Bryn Atkinson 2:38.603
- Matti Lehikoinen 2:41.011
- Andrew Neethling 2:41.430
- Filip Polc 2:41.519
- Brendan Fairclough 2:41.691
- Geritt Beytagh 2:42.280 (Top USA)
- Amiel Cavalier2:42.641
- Jurgen Beneke 2:42.783
- Derrick Nobman 2:43.876
- Kurtis Keene 2:44.061
- Jared Rando 2:44.211
- Cole Bangert 2:44.423
- Tyler Morland 2:44.682
- Chris Herndon 2:46.276
- Joshua Button 2:46.539
- Chris Higgerson 2:47.650
- Jason Memmelar 2:47.702
- Will Rischbieth 2:48.966
The rest of the results will be posted later or check the official U.S. Open page.
Jurgen Beneke - 10th (click to enlarge)
Amiel Cavalier - 9th (click to enlarge)
Geritt Beytagh - 8th (click to enlarge)
Brendan Fairclough - 7th (click to enlarge)
Filip Polc - 6th (click to enlarge)
Andrew Neethling - 5th (click to enlarge)
Matti Lehikoinen - 4th (click to enlarge)
Bryn Atkinson - 3rd (click to enlarge)
Sam Hill - 2nd (click to enlarge)
Steve Smith - 1st (click to enlarge)
U.S. Open Pro Women Final Results:
- Fionn Griffiths 3:03.333
- Kathy Pruitt 3:06.151
- Joanna Peterson 3:12.648
- Marie-Eve Marcotte 3:25.206
- Dawn Bourque 3:25.576
- Katrina Strand 3:26.620
- Alexis Wruble 3:51.272
- Katie Holden 4:34.197
Kathy Pruitt - 2nd (click to enlarge)
Fionn Griffiths - 1st (click to enlarge)
[2008 US Open Gallery] [2008 US Open Coverage]
May 25th, 2008 at 6:25 pm
FULL RESULTS PLEASE !!
May 25th, 2008 at 7:36 pm
Nice work Steve! It’s great to see my fellow Canucks are doing well in the race standings! I hope he does well this year in the WC, and bring some gold home to Canada.
May 25th, 2008 at 7:47 pm
Hill…..didn’t…..win….what…the…hell?!
I demand a race report and a mention of some stack that Hill had that saw him post a time 20 seconds slower than he would have!
May 25th, 2008 at 9:42 pm
Way to go Steve! Good work… ‘knew you could beat Sam.
May 25th, 2008 at 9:44 pm
Jurgen Beneke 10th! I’m impressed…great, man!
May 25th, 2008 at 11:13 pm
TITS!!!!
May 25th, 2008 at 11:33 pm
Filip Polc was the slowest pro in practice all morning… go figure
May 26th, 2008 at 2:26 am
ISLAND BOY FTW!!!
GO STEVIE!
Many Luckies will be lifted in celebration!!!
May 26th, 2008 at 3:40 am
Good to see Bryn at the pointy end, and Will R. in the top 20, awesome effort. Josh Button another awesome job, watch out for him at the jnr worlds this year.
May 26th, 2008 at 4:59 am
So I heard that Sam Hill only lost by 0.6 secs because he crashed twice, stopped half way and boned 3 chicks and then stopped a bit before the finish line to skull a beer. He would have beaten him, but being Australian he finished the beer before finishing the race…priorities.
You just read this on a website…so it is true! *Uses crazy e-hypnosis*
May 26th, 2008 at 11:49 am
Congrats to Gerritt from Morewood Bikes !!!
May 26th, 2008 at 1:50 pm
But to give Sammy a fair chance Steve ran chainless! He just used this race to up his cardio for the next.
May 26th, 2008 at 3:17 pm
Wow, Jurgen Beneke? He has to be about 40 years old?
May 26th, 2008 at 5:46 pm
Josh B and Will R, absolute top spots guys well done. your on fire!!
May 26th, 2008 at 7:45 pm
I’m stoked to see a Canadian lad take on the world’s best! Way to go Steve! Likewise to Tyler Morland!
May 26th, 2008 at 9:08 pm
go steve. that was/is so cool. i was stoked for him. watch out for this kid, he’s fast (but you knew that).
props to all the other racers as well, there was some serious competition at the Open this year…
**P.S. steve smith and sam hill both have two syllible names…feel free to discuss name length and race speed corrolation (it’s there man!) ; )
May 27th, 2008 at 10:19 am
^steve peat. what?????
May 27th, 2008 at 12:41 pm
THAT’S MY BOY!!!!!!!!! Proud of you Steve.
May 27th, 2008 at 1:32 pm
Nice work, Mr Smith. Go get the shocks done on your mom’s Tracker with your winnings.
June 19th, 2008 at 1:57 pm
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
I’m guessing you saw Seasons!