July 19/08 4:21 am - Transalp Stage 1: Sydor and Sundstedt in the lead
Posted by Editoress on 07/19/08
Jeantex Bike Transalp
Organizers report
After 3:36: 08, the first stage victory at the JEANTEX BIKE TRANSALP 2008 powered by NISSAN was home and dry for Alison Sydor and Pia Sundstedt. But to get to the podiue, the Canadian-Finnish pairing had to struggle hard to make it.
Due to their strong performance, the due was able to relegate their main competitors Sandra and Peggy Klose from Zwillingscraft-Ideal (3:39:31.8) as well as Katrin Schwing and Fabienne Heinzmann (3:39:35.6), who both almost crossed the finish line at teh same time, to take the second and third spot respectively.
Sydor and Sundstedt were also part of the bunch of bikers taking a detour. "I didn't expect to lose so much time. In addition, Pia had a technical problem which also cost about five minutes. So, we entered the climb to Marienbergjoch as fifth ladies' team" said the three-time World Champion from Canada. But when it was time to go up, both athletes showed what they were made for. "We just passed them one by one. Although we had planned to ride conservatively we are pretty pleased with today's result" said Sydor.
With a little bit of luck and a great performance, defending champions Karl Platt and Stefan Sahm won the first stage of the 2008 JEANTEX BIKE TRANSALP 2008 powered by NISSAN after 3:05:04 in an impressive way. Earlier, it seemed that it would be a sprint duel of two teams for victory after 80.13 kilometres and 1,961 metres in elevation gain.
But Team Bulls was able to gain a decisive lead over the main competitors Martin Kraler and Heinz Verbnjak (Craft & Friends) on the downhill from Marienbergjoch. In Nesselwang, the top pros from Germany were already 30 seconds in front adding more than another minute on the final flat part of the stage. As third after Team Craft & Friends (3:07:32.7), Frank Lehmann and Uwe Hardter of Team Cube 10 (3:09:10.9) came in.
| Women | |
| 1 Team Rocky Mountain (Alison Sydor/Pia Sundstedt) | 3:36:08 |
| 2 Zwillingscraft-Ideal (Peggy Klose/Sandra Klose) | at 3:23 |
| 3 Dolphin-Trek (Katrin Schwing/Fabienne Heinzmann) | 3:27 |
| 4 Giant Swiss Ladies (Barbara Merkofer/Margrit Jörg) | 4:41 |
| 5 Team Cube 5 (Anna-Sofie Noorgard/Christin Norgaard) | 4:57 |
| 19 Uxbridge (Karin Welsh/Karen Rowsell) | 2:55:05 |
| Men | |
| 1 Team Bulls (Platt Karl/Sahm Stefan) | 3:05:54 |
| 2 Craft and Friends (Kraler Martin/Verbnjak Heinz) | at 1:38 |
| 3 Team Cube 10 (Lehmann Frank/Hardter Uwe) | 3:16 |
| 4 Team Vaude-Simplon 1 (Strobel Andreas/Kaufmann Markus) | 4:49 |
| 5 Team Vaude-Simplon 2 (Schmidt Jan/Schmieg Benjamin) | 5:32 |
| 6 Team Cube 4 (Rudiger Benjamin/Bettinger Matthias) | 5:35 |
| 7 Team idworx-offtraxx.net (Papstein Björn/Sievers Holger) | 5:35 |
| 8 Scotiabank-Dos Pinos-Coopenae (Solis Rojas Juan Alberto/Duran Montoya Marconi) | 6:19 |
| 9 Team Imst Gurgltal Radcenter Wolf (Rubisoier Daniel/Federspiel Daniel) | 8:29 |
| 10 Team TEXPA-Simplon (Pscheidl Alexander/Schneidawind Christian) | 9:55 |
| 41 Team Craft/Hayes Brake/Mongoose (Thomas Lloyd/Dwayne Kress ) | 31:07 |
| Mixed | |
| 1 Institut Ftan/Velo Franz Univega (Werner Fischer/Milena Landtwing) | 3:41:03 |
| 2 Zwillingscraft-Ideal-Mixed (Claudia Till/Franz Trattler) | at 0:04 |
| 3 Team Stöckli Wädenswil (Anita Steiner/Cornel Bamert) | 3:09 |
| 4 R & R Sport (Jon Richardson/Sara MacDonald) | 5:07 |
| 5 Team Cube 6 (Heike Hundertmark/Sam Baeten) | 7:39 |
| 64 RAM2 (Maris Tosi/Roy Custodio) | 1:47:38 |
| 71 Trans Rockies Warriors (Colleen Ast/Clive Burke) | 2:37:47 |
| Masters | |
| 1 Team KTM (Ekkehard Dörschlag/Heinz Zörweg) | 3:10:42 |
| 2 Scott-adidas-Naturns (Walter Platzgummer/Johann Grasegger) | at 5:43 |
| 3 Team Cube 3 (Udo Bölts/Werner Wagner) | 12:32 |
| 4 Team Generali (Siegfried Hochenwarter/Georg Koch) | 12:38 |
| 5 ZellwegerArchitektenThun (Hansjürg Gerber/Daniel Feuz) | 16:20 |
| 108 muscat tears (Larry Michienzi /Peter Male) | 1:38:40 |
| Senior Master | |
| 1 ept connect (Ferdinand Ganser/Georg Niggl) | 3:33:20 |
| 2 Giant Swiss D'Ürner Oldies (Walter Ehrler/Marcel Arnold) | 10:12 |
| 3 BBT BüliBikeTigers (Jiri Cesal/Urs Güntensperger) | 18:09 |
| 4 lupine (Rolf Schmitt/Herfried Sonntagbauer) | 20:49 |
| 5 Scott Team Heilenmann/MOM grand Masters (Gerhard Moll/Alfred Jocher) | 20:52 |
| 12 Team Syngenta Prairie Boys (Bill Benson /Don Sissons) | 34:11 |
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