September 10/16 13:32 pm - Atherton & Hart Set Fastest Times in World Championships Timed Session
Posted by Editoress on 09/10/16
Downhill racing began on Saturday at the 2016 UCI Mountain Bike World Championships in Val di Sole, Italy, with the seeding runs for Junior Women and Men, and timed session for Elite Women and Men.
Defending world champion Rachel Atherton (Great Britain) continues to lead the Elite women's field, as she has all season, setting the fastest time of four minutes and 20.191 seconds for her run. However, Australia's Tracey Hannah was only 0.597 seconds behind Atherton, and the British rider usually has a lead measured in multiple seconds. Myriam Nicole (France) finished third, at 9.760 seconds. Georgia astle was the top canadian in 17th place, followed by Canadian champion Miranda Miller in 21st.
In the Elite men, Great Britain's Danny Hart has been on a winning streak for the past two months, taking three consecutive World Cup victories, and now setting the leading time in the timed session. Hart, the 2011 world champion, finished with a time of three minutes and 35.603 seconds, 2.464 seconds ahead of defending world champion Loic Bruni of France, who has made a strong returned from injury. Bruni's French team mate Florent Payet was third, 2.971 seconds behind Hart. Mark Wallace was the top Canadian, finishing 23rd. Max Scharf was 75th and Canadian champion Kirk McDowall did not finish.
In the Junior categories, Shania Rawson of New Zealand was far ahead of the rest of the women's field with a time of five minutes and 32.328 seconds. Rawson's time was a whopping 24.748 seconds faster than Beatrice Migliorini of the host Italian team. Melanie Chappaz of France was third, 25.703 seconds back. There are no Canadian entries in this category.
The Junior men's seeding run saw Italy's Andrea Bianciotto set the fastest time of three minutes and 48.782 seconds, 2.256 seconds ahead of American Nikolas Nestoroff and 3.074 seconds in front of World Cup champion Finnley Iles of Canada. Other Canadian results are: Magnus Manson in sixth, Henry Fitzgerald in 23rd and Adam Robbins in 35th.
The world championships finals will take place on Sunday.
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Results
| Junior Women - Seeding Run | Time |
Gap |
| 1 Shania Rawson (New Zealand) | 5:32.328 | 0.00 |
| 2 Beatrice Migliorini (Italy) | 5:57.076 | 24.748 |
| 3 Melanie Chappaz (France) | 5:58.031 | 25.703 |
| 4 Samantha Kingshill (United States of America) | 6:15.536 | 43.208 |
| 5 Alessia Missiaggia (Italy) | 6:58.713 | 1:26.385 |
| 6 Eva Battolla (Switzerland) | 10:39.616 | 5:07.288 |
| DNF Flora Lesoin (France) | ||
| DNF Aston Tutt (Great Britain) | ||
| DNF Blanca Aracil Alba (Andorra) | ||
| Junior Men - Seeding Run | Time | Gap |
| 1 Andrea Bianciotto (Italy) | 3:48.782 | 0.00 |
| 2 Nikolas Nestoroff (United States of America) | 3:51.038 | 2.256 |
| 3 Finnley Iles (Canada) | 3:51.856 | 3.074 |
| 4 Gaetan Vige (France) | 3:52.201 | 3.419 |
| 5 Matt Walker (Great Britain) | 3:52.662 | 3.880 |
| 6 Magnus Manson (Canada) | 3:54.250 | 5.468 |
| 7 Elliott Heap (Great Britain) | 3:56.846 | 8.064 |
| 8 Frikk Hess Bolstad (Norway) | 3:58.502 | 9.720 |
| 9 Janis Lehmann (Switzerland) | 3:58.882 | 10.10 |
| 10 Kevin Marry (France) | 3:59.356 | 10.574 |
| 11 Max Hartenstern (Germany) | 3:59.892 | 11.110 |
| 12 Jackson Frew (Australia) | 4:00.105 | 11.323 |
| 13 Maicon Jesus Pradella (Brazil) | 4:00.487 | 11.705 |
| 14 Carlos Von Heyden Langelaan (Spain) | 4:00.561 | 11.779 |
| 15 Federico Monzoni (Italy) | 4:01.349 | 12.567 |
| 16 Sylvain Cougoureux (France) | 4:01.609 | 12.827 |
| 17 Charlie Hatton (Great Britain) | 4:01.939 | 13.157 |
| 18 Joshua Clark (Australia) | 4:02.658 | 13.876 |
| 19 Joe Breeden (Great Britain) | 4:03.542 | 14.760 |
| 20 Remy Morton (Australia) | 4:03.615 | 14.833 |
| 21 Simen Smestad (Norway) | 4:04.859 | 16.077 |
| 22 Kaos Seagrave (Great Britain) | 4:05.839 | 17.057 |
| 23 Henry Fitzgerald (Canada) | 4:05.957 | 17.175 |
| 24 Joshua Rogers (United States of America) | 4:07.055 | 18.273 |
| 25 Valentin Chatanay (France) | 4:10.072 | 21.290 |
| 26 Cole Lucas (New Zealand) | 4:10.986 | 22.204 |
| 27 Brage Vestavik (Norway) | 4:11.084 | 22.302 |
| 28 Devin Kjaer (United States of America) | 4:11.284 | 22.502 |
| 29 Steven Ceballos (Colombia) | 4:12.186 | 23.404 |
| 30 Joe Parfitt (Great Britain) | 4:14.559 | 25.777 |
| 31 Conor Bate (Ireland) | 4:15.427 | 26.645 |
| 32 Filip Zeman (Slovakia) | 4:15.465 | 26.683 |
| 33 Frieder Frey (Germany) | 4:15.783 | 27.001 |
| 34 Hugo Robenek (Czech Republic) | 4:16.021 | 27.239 |
| 35 Adam Robbins (Canada) | 4:17.581 | 28.799 |
| 36 Tomas Ramon Cornejo Vargas (Chile) | 4:17.888 | 29.106 |
| 37 Mirko Manazzale (Italy) | 4:18.064 | 29.282 |
| 38 David Argiles Vives (Spain) | 4:18.249 | 29.467 |
| 39 Liam Bethell (New Zealand) | 4:19.053 | 30.271 |
| 40 Petr Folvarcny (Czech Republic) | 4:21.421 | 32.639 |
| 41 Jakub Zbikowski (Poland) | 4:21.999 | 33.217 |
| 42 Eero Saarela (Finland) | 4:23.434 | 34.652 |
| 43 Sean Bell (United States of America) | 4:23.553 | 34.771 |
| 44 Darcy Coutts (Australia) | 4:24.624 | 35.842 |
| 45 Bruno Almeida (Portugal) | 4:24.932 | 36.150 |
| 46 Jack Crowley (Ireland) | 4:25.155 | 36.373 |
| 47 Benjamin Zwar (Australia) | 4:25.600 | 36.818 |
| 48 Simon Read (New Zealand) | 4:26.388 | 37.606 |
| 49 Christopher Philogene (South Africa) | 4:26.445 | 37.663 |
| 50 Agustin Saez (Chile) | 4:28.381 | 39.599 |
| 51 Lorenzo Sorrentino (Italy) | 4:28.588 | 39.806 |
| 52 Simon Rus (Slovakia) | 4:29.107 | 40.325 |
| 53 Ben Karalus (New Zealand) | 4:29.557 | 40.775 |
| 54 Rudi Pintar (Slovenia) | 4:32.071 | 43.289 |
| 55 Billy Meaclem (New Zealand) | 4:33.454 | 44.672 |
| 56 Pedro Jorge Panizo Cerdera (Spain) | 4:33.899 | 45.117 |
| 57 Carlos Martins (Portugal) | 4:35.842 | 47.060 |
| 58 Loris Michellod (Switzerland) | 4:38.901 | 50.119 |
| 59 Filip Palko (Slovakia) | 4:39.053 | 50.271 |
| 60 Martin Nenchev (Bulgaria) | 4:40.765 | 51.983 |
| 61 Cullen Mcmaster (South Africa) | 4:41.020 | 52.238 |
| 62 Peter Toth (Hungary) | 4:41.571 | 52.789 |
| 63 Emil Melkersson (Sweden) | 4:44.798 | 56.016 |
| 64 Sebastian Pirker (Austria) | 4:47.377 | 58.595 |
| 65 Harry Parsons (Australia) | 4:49.283 | 1:00.501 |
| 66 Diogo Pinto (Portugal) | 4:53.288 | 1:04.506 |
| 67 Nicolas Osorio (Colombia) | 4:57.062 | 1:08.280 |
| 68 Oskar Vuori (Finland) | 4:59.975 | 1:11.193 |
| 69 Quintin Kurtz (United States of America) | 5:14.983 | 1:26.201 |
| 70 Benjamin Filip (Slovakia) | 5:15.939 | 1:27.157 |
| 71 Jannik Abbou (Germany) | 5:20.306 | 1:31.524 |
| 72 Ryoga Izumino (Japan) | 5:45.832 | 1:57.050 |
| 73 Valentin Tenev (Bulgaria) | 5:57.541 | 2:08.759 |
| 74 Baxter Maiwald (Australia) | 6:56.337 | 3:07.555 |
| 75 Oscar Perks (New Zealand) | 7:34.853 | 3:46.071 |
| DNF Yusuke Ioka (Japan) | ||
| DNF Coenie Slabbert (South Africa) | ||
| DNF Steven Walton (United States of America) | ||
| DNF James Purvis (Great Britain) | ||
| DNS Sebastian Grosu (Romania) | ||
| DNS Sebastian Macura (Poland) | ||
| DNS Teodor Mavrodiev (Bulgaria) | ||
| DNS Florian Werres (Germany) | ||
| Elite Women - Official Timed Session | Time | Gap |
| 1 Rachel Atherton (Great Britain) | 4:20.191 | 0.00 |
| 2 Tracey Hannah (Australia) | 4:20.788 | 0.597 |
| 3 Myriam Nicole (France) | 4:29.951 | 9.760 |
| 4 Manon Carpenter (Great Britain) | 4:31.105 | 10.914 |
| 5 Tahnee Seagrave (Great Britain) | 4:33.147 | 12.956 |
| 6 Marine Cabirou (France) | 4:42.487 | 22.296 |
| 7 Eleonora Farina (Italy) | 4:45.691 | 25.500 |
| 8 Veronika Widmann (Italy) | 4:48.883 | 28.692 |
| 9 Alia Marcellini (Italy) | 4:55.688 | 35.497 |
| 10 Carina Cappellari (Switzerland) | 4:59.168 | 38.977 |
| 11 Mariana Salazar Palomo (El Salvador) | 5:01.565 | 41.374 |
| 12 Mio Suemasa (Japan) | 5:02.271 | 42.080 |
| 13 Camila Nogueira (Argentina) | 5:02.498 | 42.307 |
| 14 Josefine Bjorkman (Sweden) | 5:08.085 | 47.894 |
| 15 Alanna Columb (New Zealand) | 5:16.029 | 55.838 |
| 16 Lea Rutz (Switzerland) | 5:18.303 | 58.112 |
| 17 Georgia Astle (Canada) | 5:20.995 | 1:00.804 |
| 18 Blanca Julia Barthe (Spain) | 5:25.622 | 1:05.431 |
| 19 Jana Bartova (Czech Republic) | 5:31.456 | 1:11.265 |
| 20 Danielle Beecroft (Australia) | 5:39.783 | 1:19.592 |
| 21 Miranda Miller (Canada) | 5:49.336 | 1:29.145 |
| 22 Harriet Rucknagel (Germany) | 5:54.362 | 1:34.171 |
| 23 Sandra Rubesam (Germany) | 6:07.158 | 1:46.967 |
| 24 Kim Schwemmer (Germany) | 6:15.209 | 1:55.018 |
| 25 Carmen Martinez (Spain) | 7:05.009 | 2:44.818 |
| DNF Ronja Hill-Wright (Australia) | ||
| DNF Sara Bohm (Germany) | ||
| DNS Monica Hrastnik (Slovenia) | ||
| Elite Men - Official Timed Session | Time | Gap |
| 1 Danny Hart (Great Britain) | 3:35.603 | 0.00 |
| 2 Loic Bruni (France) | 3:38.067 | 2.464 |
| 3 Florent Payet (France) | 3:38.574 | 2.971 |
| 4 Bernard Kerr (Great Britain) | 3:38.806 | 3.203 |
| 5 Remi Thirion (France) | 3:39.956 | 4.353 |
| 6 Aaron Gwin (United States of America) | 3:41.271 | 5.668 |
| 7 Troy Brosnan (Australia) | 3:41.857 | 6.254 |
| 8 Laurie Greenland (Great Britain) | 3:43.764 | 8.161 |
| 9 Luca Shaw (United States of America) | 3:44.629 | 9.026 |
| 10 Greg Minnaar (South Africa) | 3:45.030 | 9.427 |
| 11 Jack Moir (Australia) | 3:45.103 | 9.500 |
| 12 Brook Macdonald (New Zealand) | 3:45.139 | 9.536 |
| 13 Loris Vergier (France) | 3:46.963 | 11.360 |
| 14 Johannes Fischbach (Germany) | 3:48.137 | 12.534 |
| 15 David Trummer (Austria) | 3:48.433 | 12.830 |
| 16 Adam Brayton (Great Britain) | 3:48.571 | 12.968 |
| 17 Connor Fearon (Australia) | 3:48.780 | 13.177 |
| 18 Michael Hannah (Australia) | 3:49.562 | 13.959 |
| 19 George Brannigan (New Zealand) | 3:50.184 | 14.581 |
| 20 Charlie Harrison (United States of America) | 3:50.686 | 15.083 |
| 21 Francesco Colombo (Italy) | 3:50.714 | 15.111 |
| 22 Marcelo Gutierrez Villegas (Colombia) | 3:51.261 | 15.658 |
| 23 Mark Wallace (Canada) | 3:51.607 | 16.004 |
| 24 Wyn Masters (New Zealand) | 3:52.059 | 16.456 |
| 25 Neko Mulally (United States of America) | 3:53.383 | 17.780 |
| 26 Dean Lucas (Australia) | 3:54.314 | 18.711 |
| 27 Rupert Chapman (New Zealand) | 3:54.600 | 18.997 |
| 28 Jure Zabjek (Slovenia) | 3:55.190 | 19.587 |
| 29 Brendan Fairclough (Great Britain) | 3:56.200 | 20.597 |
| 30 Alexandre Fayolle (France) | 3:56.515 | 20.912 |
| 31 Benoit Coulanges (France) | 3:56.742 | 21.139 |
| 32 Martin Maes (Belgium) | 3:57.956 | 22.353 |
| 33 Joshua Button (Australia) | 3:58.100 | 22.497 |
| 34 Oscar Harnstrom (Sweden) | 3:58.395 | 22.792 |
| 35 Andreas Kolb (Austria) | 3:58.959 | 23.356 |
| 36 Jacob Dickson (Ireland) | 3:58.988 | 23.385 |
| 37 Shane Leslie (United States of America) | 3:59.051 | 23.448 |
| 38 Carlo Caire (Italy) | 3:59.057 | 23.454 |
| 39 Ferran Jorba Prats (Spain) | 3:59.543 | 23.940 |
| 40 Slawomir Lukasik (Poland) | 3:59.652 | 24.049 |
| 41 Eliot Jackson (United States of America) | 3:59.794 | 24.191 |
| 42 Isak Leivsson (Norway) | 4:00.075 | 24.472 |
| 43 Gianluca Vernassa (Italy) | 4:00.400 | 24.797 |
| 44 Samuel Blenkinsop (New Zealand) | 4:00.568 | 24.965 |
| 45 Maxime Chapuis (Switzerland) | 4:01.662 | 26.059 |
| 46 Martin Lebl (Czech Republic) | 4:02.041 | 26.438 |
| 47 Edgar Carballo Gonzalez (Spain) | 4:02.299 | 26.696 |
| 48 Christian Textor (Germany) | 4:02.824 | 27.221 |
| 49 Mauricio Andres Acuna Quintana (Chile) | 4:02.941 | 27.338 |
| 50 Alex Marin Trillo (Spain) | 4:03.079 | 27.476 |
| 51 Roger Novack Vieira (Brazil) | 4:04.476 | 28.873 |
| 52 Jakub Riha (Czech Republic) | 4:04.645 | 29.042 |
| 53 Ondrej Stepanek (Czech Republic) | 4:04.981 | 29.378 |
| 54 Vasco Gois Bica (Portugal) | 4:05.568 | 29.965 |
| 55 Greg Williamson (Great Britain) | 4:06.215 | 30.612 |
| 56 Lukas Ucen (Slovakia) | 4:06.473 | 30.870 |
| 57 Lutz Weber (Switzerland) | 4:07.271 | 31.668 |
| 58 Emanuel Pombo (Portugal) | 4:07.603 | 32.000 |
| 59 Felix Heine (Germany) | 4:07.825 | 32.222 |
| 60 Stanislav Sehnal (Czech Republic) | 4:08.525 | 32.922 |
| 61 Nick Beer (Switzerland) | 4:08.909 | 33.306 |
| 62 Kazuki Shimizu (Japan) | 4:09.172 | 33.569 |
| 63 Yuki Kushima (Japan) | 4:09.492 | 33.889 |
| 64 Bryn Dickerson (New Zealand) | 4:09.834 | 34.231 |
| 65 Thomas Estaque (France) | 4:10.130 | 34.527 |
| 66 Jozef Ondic (Slovakia) | 4:10.641 | 35.038 |
| 67 Rafael Gutierrez (Colombia) | 4:11.725 | 36.122 |
| 68 Stefan Garlicki (South Africa) | 4:12.235 | 36.632 |
| 69 Petteri Leivo (Finland) | 4:12.761 | 37.158 |
| 70 Javier Guijarro Villacieros (Spain) | 4:12.948 | 37.345 |
| 71 Mario Milani (Italy) | 4:15.595 | 39.992 |
| 72 Lucas Eduardo Alves De Borba (Brazil) | 4:16.799 | 41.196 |
| 73 Silas Grandy (Germany) | 4:17.079 | 41.476 |
| 74 Jasper Jauch (Germany) | 4:17.138 | 41.535 |
| 75 Max Scharf (Canada) | 4:17.575 | 41.972 |
| 76 Wojciech Czermak (Poland) | 4:18.370 | 42.767 |
| 77 Tom Bersselaar (Netherlands) | 4:19.547 | 43.944 |
| 78 Miran Vauh (Slovenia) | 4:19.663 | 44.060 |
| 79 Tim Hedman (Sweden) | 4:20.656 | 45.053 |
| 80 Mauricio Ernesto Estrada Pulgarin (Colombia) | 4:24.820 | 49.217 |
| 81 Masaki Kato (Japan) | 4:24.968 | 49.365 |
| 82 Yan Yannick Wende (Bolivia) | 4:26.707 | 51.104 |
| 83 Jeremias Maio (Argentina) | 4:27.358 | 51.755 |
| 84 Gabor Palotai (Hungary) | 4:36.073 | 1:00.470 |
| 85 Johannes Von Klebelsberg (Italy) | 4:36.199 | 1:00.596 |
| 86 Johann Potgieter (South Africa) | 4:37.156 | 1:01.553 |
| 87 Peter Keresztes (Hungary) | 4:37.348 | 1:01.745 |
| 88 Markolf Berchtold (Brazil) | 4:39.483 | 1:03.880 |
| 89 Stivian Gatev (Bulgaria) | 4:39.550 | 1:03.947 |
| 90 Esteban Zuluaga (Colombia) | 4:42.707 | 1:07.104 |
| 91 Guillem Casal Valls (Andorra) | 4:47.380 | 1:11.777 |
| 92 Lucas Bertol (Brazil) | 4:49.607 | 1:14.004 |
| 93 Joshua Barth (Germany) | 4:53.912 | 1:18.309 |
| 94 Albert Barilaro Caparros (Andorra) | 5:09.118 | 1:33.515 |
| 95 Erik Irmisch (Germany) | 5:12.925 | 1:37.322 |
| 96 David Zambo (Hungary) | 5:18.616 | 1:43.013 |
| 97 Jonathan Philogene (South Africa) | 5:18.984 | 1:43.381 |
| 98 Ioan-Andrei Sava (Romania) | 5:20.196 | 1:44.593 |
| 99 Maicon Zottis (Brazil) | 5:22.714 | 1:47.111 |
| 100 Markus Pekoll (Austria) | 5:25.212 | 1:49.609 |
| 101 Angel Suarez Alonso (Spain) | 6:30.660 | 2:55.057 |
| 102 Juho Mattus (Estonia) | 6:35.503 | 2:59.900 |
| 103 Amaury Pierron (France) | 6:43.275 | 3:07.672 |
| 104 Joan Neychev (Bulgaria) | 6:43.886 | 3:08.283 |
| 105 Graeme Mudd (Australia) | 6:48.277 | 3:12.674 |
| 106 Edward Masters (New Zealand) | 7:13.723 | 3:38.120 |
| 107 Josh Bryceland (Great Britain) | 7:20.989 | 3:45.386 |
| 108 Jerome Caroli (Switzerland) | 8:20.970 | 4:45.367 |
| 109 Loris Revelli (Italy) | 10:12.825 | 6:37.222 |
| 110 Pablo Seewald (Argentina) | 19:12.023 | 15:36.420 |
| DNF Kirk McDowall (Canada) | ||
| DNF Antti Lampen (Finland) | ||
| DNF Jonathan Sandberg (Sweden) | ||
| DNS Shawn Neer (United States of America) | ||
| DNS Rossen Kovachev (Bulgaria) | ||
| DNS Alexandru-Ciprian Muresan (Romania) |
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