October 18/19 11:45 am - Bouchard 2nd Overall after 2 Stages of Kos Island
Posted by Editoress on 10/18/19
Results from the first two stages of the Kos Island UCI MTB Race in Greece. This event is held over four days and consists of: XCT, XCM, XCC and XCC.
"It was a really nice race, but a tough one," said Bouchard. "Last week I was in a marathon, so I was a bit conservative to start. On the second lap I felt that I was a bit stronger than the group, so tactically I tried to place myself in a good position. Hector [Paez] went away [attacked] on the second lap, but we were fighting for second place, so I am really happy with the fight I made to get that position."
"On the last lap, it was a four man battle, so it was nice to finish the Queen stage of the race like this. I tried a bit to follow Hector, but he really attacked strongly, so I settled for the battle for second place. I knew I was going well on the downhill, so every lap I tried to enter the downhill at the front, to avoid getting gapped and to save energy. It's one of my best results, to finish just behind the Marathon world champion; the field is pretty deep here, so I'm happy."
| XCT: Time Trial (October 17th) | |
| Men | |
| 1 Martin Blums (Lat) CST Sando Bafang MTB Racing TEam | 0:17:22 |
| 2 Nadir Colledani (Ita) Bianchi Countervail | at 0:08 |
| 3 Georg Egger (Ger) MSC Weisenbach | s.t. |
| 4 Leandre Bouchard (Can) Pivot Cycles-OTE | 0:17 |
| 5 Luis Henrique Cocuzzi (Bra) Scott LAR | 0:20 |
| 13 Raphael Auclair (Can) Pivot Cycles-OTE | 0:42 |
| Women | |
| 1 Ronja Eibl (Ger) Corendon-Circus | 0:20:20 |
| 2 Annika Langvad (Den) Specialized Racing | at 0:02 |
| 3 Maja Wloszczowska (Pol) Poland | 0:18 |
| 4 Lea Davison (USA) | 0:33 |
| 5 Paula Gorycka (Pol) Strüby-Bixs Team | 0:35 |
| XCM | |
| Men, 70km | |
| 1 Hector Paez (Col) Giant Polimedical | 3:14:38 |
| 2 Leandre Bouchard (Can) Pivot Cycles-OTE | 3:15:37 |
| 3 Alexandre Balmer (Sui) Scott Devo | 3:15:51 |
| 4 Jose Gerardo Ulloa Arevalo (Mex) Code GTO Cadencia.mx | 3:16:26 |
| 5 Mirko Tabachi (Ita) KTM Protex Dama | 3:17:05 |
| 35 Raphael Auclair (Can) Pivot Cycles-OTE | 3:58:27 |
| Women, 70km | |
| 1 Maja Wloszczowska (Pol) Poland | 3:50:18 |
| 2 Annika Langvad (Den) Specialized Racing | 3:50:21 |
| 3 Ronja Eibl (Ger) Corendon-Circus | 3:54:27 |
| 4 Lea Davison (USA) | 3:55:28 |
| 5 Isla Short (GBr) Great Britain | 3:58:23 |
| GC | |
| Men | |
| 1 Hector Paez (Col) Giant Polimedical | 3:32:23 |
| 2 Leandre Bouchard (Can) Pivot Cycles-OTE | at 0:54 |
| 3 Alexandre Balmer (Sui) Scott Devo | 1:19 |
| 4 Jose Gerardo Ulloa Arevalo (Mex) Code GTO Cadencia.mx | 1:59 |
| 5 Mirko Tabachi (Ita) KTM Protex Dama | 2:29 |
| 35 Raphael Auclair (Can) Pivot Cycles-OTE | 41:49 |
| Women | |
| 1 Annika Langvad (Den) Specialized Racing | 4;10:44 |
| 2 Maja Wloszczowska (Pol) Poland | at 0:14 |
| 3 Ronja Eibl (Ger) Corendon-Circus | 4:04 |
| 4 Lea Davison (USA) | 5:38 |
| 5 Isla Short (GBr) Great Britain | 8:43 |
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