World Cup: Tracy Wins As Rachel Closes on Series Title

UCI MTB World Cup

Canberra, Australia, 30-31 August 2008

Tracy Moseley

The UCI Mountain Bike World Cup moved on to a six race weekend in Canberra, Australia. As we've come to expect over the years, the British Downhillers were in the thick of the action and took their share of the spoils.

In the Women's Downhill, there was a celebration for Tracy Moseley as she took her second race win of the season, with runner-up Rachel Atherton taking a big step towards her first World Cup series title. Rachel is set to be the third Brit after Tracy and Steve Peat to take an MTB World Cup title - often considered more difficult to win than a world championship, requiring, as it does, a season-long consistency over a range of courses. Rachel, of course, won the world title earlier this year, and has firmly established herself as the best rider in the world this year. Meanwhile, Tracy and last year's series winner Sabrina Jonnier lie in wait should Rachel slip up at the last round, in Austria 13-14 September.

Rachel Atherton

You can read Tracy's account of the race on www.tracymoseley.com - meanwhile Fionn Griffiths finished the race in fourth and is fifth in the series.

In the Men's Downhill, South Africa's Greg Minnar continued his late season run of form and took the race and is now odds on for the series wins. Gee Atherton was the best Brit on the day, taking third, and is now 3rd in the series. Steve Peat is now fourth in the series after 7th on the day.

We've got a full round-up of the Canberra results and series standings, including 4-Cross and Cross-Country below.

Results & Series Standings

Men Downhill
1 Greg Minnaar (RSA) Santa Cruz Syndicate
2 Nathan Rennie (Aus) Santa Cruz Syndicate
3 Gee Atherton (GBr) Animal Commencal
4 Fabien Barel (Fra) Subaru Mountain Bike Pro Team
5 Chris Kovarik (Aus) Chain Reaction Cycles/Intense
6 Andrew Neethling (RSA) GT Bicycles / Mongoose Bicycles
7 Steve Peat (GBr) Santa Cruz Syndicate
8 Jared Rando (Aus) Giant Mountain Bike Team
9 Bryn Atkinson (Aus) GT Bicycles / Mongoose Bicycles
10 Samuel Blenkinsop (NZl) Yeti Fox Shox Factory Race Team
11 Samuel Hill (Aus) Monster Energy / Iron Horse
12 Marc Beaumont (GBr) Team Bike Radar
13 Filip Polc (Svk) Kenda Tomac
14 Dan Atherton (GBr) Animal Commencal
15 Justin Leov (NZl) Yeti Fox Shox Factory Race Team
Other GB
18 Neil Donoghue (GBr) Team Bike Radar
21 Brendan Fairclough (GBr) Monster Energy / Iron Horse
23 Matthew Simmonds (GBr) Chain Reaction Cycles/Intense
33 Ruaridh Cunningham (GBr) Chain Reaction Cycles/Intense
34 Dan Stanbridge (GBr) Mojo Orange
43 Ben Cathro (GBr) Mojo Orange

Standings
1 MINNAAR Greg RSA19811113 SCB 1224
2 HILL Samuel AUS19850721 MER 1108
3 ATHERTON Gee GBR19850226 ANC 1037
4 PEAT Steve GBR19740617 SCB 952
5 BAREL Fabien FRA19800726 SUB 609
Other GB in top 20
12 FAIRCLOUGH Brendan GBR19880110 MER 375
13 BEAUMONT Marc GBR19840925 TBR 367
14 ATHERTON Dan GBR19820125 ANC 360

Women Downhill
1 Tracy Moseley (GBr) Kona
2 Rachel Atherton (GBr) Animal Commencal
3 Sabrina Jonnier (Fra) Team Maxxis
4 Fionn Griffiths (GBr) Norco World Team
5 Emmeline Ragot (Fra) Suspension Center
6 Sheryl MacLeod (NZl)
7 Mio Suemasa (Jpn) MS-Intense Factory-Racing
8 Helen Gaskell (GBr)
9 Floriane Pugin (Fra) Playbiker - Iron Horse
10 Anita Molcik (Aut) 4 Elements Yeti/Hotec/RSP

Standings
1 ATHERTON Rachel GBR 1283
2 JONNIER Sabrina FRA 1170
3 MOSELEY Tracy GBR 1117
4 RAGOT Emmeline FRA 776
5 GRIFFITHS Fionn GBR 689
Other GB
18 GASKELL Helen GBR19830116 --- 191
21 CURD Katy GBR19890427 --- 158

Men 4-Cross
1 Jared Graves (Aus) Yeti Fox Shox Factory Race Team
2 Sam Willoughby (Aus)
3 Luke Madill (Aus)
4 Thomas Hubert (Aus)
5 Leigh Darrell (Aus)
6 Johannes Fischbach (Ger) Team Ghost International
7 Guido Tschugg (Ger)
8 Kamil Tatarkovic (Cze) Suzuki-RB
Other GB
10 Dan Atherton (GBr) Animal Commencal

Series Standings
1 ALVAREZ DE LARA LUCAS Rafael ESP 860
2 TSCHUGG Guido GER 810
3 GRACIA Cðgic FRA 570
4 ATHERTON Dan GBR 555
5 GRAVES Jared AUS 500

Women 4-Cross

 

Final Series Standings
1 BEERTEN Anneke NED 1080
2 MOLCIK Anita AUT 540
3 SUEMASA Mio JPN 480
4 BUHL Melissa USA 420
5 GRIFFITHS Fionn GBR 400

Men Cross-Country
1 Ralph Naef (Swi) Multivan Merida Biking Team 1.45.28
2 Jose Antonio Hermida Ramos (Spa) Multivan Merida Biking Team 0.16
3 Geoff Kabush (Can) Team Maxxis 0.28
4 Florian Vogel (Swi) Swisspower MTB Team 0.47
5 Todd Wells (USA) GT Bicycles / Mongoose Bicycles 1.46
6 Burry Stander (RSA) GT Bicycles / Mongoose Bicycles 2.30
7 Roel Paulissen (Bel) Cannondale-Vredestein 3.33
8 Nino Schurter (Swi) Swisspower MTB Team 3.38
9 Marco Aurelio Fontana (Ita) 3.41
10 Chris Jongewaard (Aus) Dolphin-Trek Mountainbike Racing Team 4.07
other GB
14 Liam Killeen (GBr) Specialized Factory Racing 6.26
22 Oliver Beckingsale (GBr) Giant Mountain Bike Team 10.51

Series Standings
1 ABSALON Julien FRA 1340
2 KABUSH Geoff CAN 945
3 SAUSER Christoph SUI 945
4 STANDER Burry * RSA 897
5 HERMIDA RAMOS Jose Antonio ESP 864
other
24 KILLEEN Liam GBR 368
25 BECKINGSALE Oliver GBR 346

Women Cross-Country
1 Irina Kalentieva (Rus) Topeak Ergon Racing Team 1.39.34
2 Rosara Joseph (NZl) Team Ghost International 0.53
3 Catharine Pendrel (Can) Luna Womens MTB Team 0.59
4 Tereza Hurikova (Cze) Ceska Sporitelna MTB 1.10
5 Mary McConneloug (USA) 3.29
6 Blaza Klemencic (Slo) Giant Italia Team 5.49
7 Jodie Willett (Aus) 8.02
8 Katherine O'Shea (Aus) 11.15
9 Zoe King (Aus) 11.37
10 Joanna Wall (Aus) 12.29
Other GB
11 Fiona MacDermid (GBr) 13.47

Series Standings
1 PREMONT Marie-Helene CAN 1420
2 PENDREL Catharine CAN 1133
3 FULLANA RIERA Margarita ESP 910
4 GOULD Georgia USA 812
5 BYBERG Lene NOR 780
other
50 MACDERMID Fiona GBR 131