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Bundesliga International #2 - C2
Saalhausen, Germany, May 10, 2009
Two young hopefuls, Litscher and Klein, win in Saalhausen
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Two young riders, Thomas Litscher of Switzerland and Hanna Klein of Germany, took surprising wins at the Saalhausen round of the German Bundesliga series.
Thomas Litscher (SKS-MiG), the junior world champion in 2007, just moved into the elite category. In Saalhausen, he took his first victory ahead of Robert Mennen (Topeak-Ergon) and Fabian Giger (SKS-MiG).
Litscher was in the lead together with Emil Lindgren (Felt International), when the Swede decided to leave the race. "There were too many problems with the team in recent weeks, plus there was the positive doping control of Jürg Graf," said Lindgren, who pulled out with three laps to go. "Mentally I was not able to continue. I can't be a superman. My body is good but mentally I couldn't keep going."
This decision left the door open for Litscher. "I'm really happy. In the middle of the race, I suffered and didn't think about winning. But when I caught Emil again, I felt better."
Litscher now leads the Bundesliga overall with 96 points over Ralph Näf (80) and Robert Mennen (76).
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Hanna Klein (Rothaus-Cube) also took her first elite career victory. Klein, who was the runner-up at the junior world championships in 2005, took the lead from the first lap. "I was expecting Sabine (Spitz) to catch me," said Klein. "It was unbelievable to be at the front of a Bundesliga race. When I was in front after a downhill section I thought, 'okay go until they catch you', but I never thought I could hold on until the last lap."
Olympic champion Spitz (central GHOST Pro Team) had a weak start, but moved up from seventh to overtake Alexandra Engen (Merida) to finish second. "It was my fourth training day in a row. So I did not feel fresh," said Spitz. "In the third lap I felt better. These two weeks I have dedicated to the preparation of the Madrid World Cup." Spitz also offered her compliments to the 21-year-old winner.
Klein took the lead in the overall with 105 points ahead of Spitz (95) and Engen (78).
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The men's under 23 race ended ona strange note. Henk-Jaap Moorlag (de Brink-ten Tusscher) was leading after one lap, but he punctured and lost places. Markus Bauer (Lexware Racing) and Felix Euteneuer (Rothaus-Cube) then rode at the front together while Fabian Strecker (Lexware Racing) sat in third.
With the race halfway finished, it came to a sudden end. Germany's 2008 junior champion Marcel Fleschhut (Lexware Racing) crashed on a singletrack downhill section and injured his shoulder. To rescue him, paramedics closed that section of the course, so officials decided to stop the race.
Winner Bauer and Euteneuer agreed with the decision, and Bauer, who also won the sprint race the day before, celebrated his second win of the weekend. "I'm really happy. I had an exam two days ago and did not think about mountain biking all the week. That was maybe the key for my victory," Bauer said.
Bauer won the spring race ahead of Litscher and Marco Schätzing (Zwillingscraft). Bauer now leads the overall ahead of Lukas Kaufmann (Rothaus-Cube).
Photography
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Images by Armin M. Küstenbrück
- The elite men's podium (l-r): René Tann, Robert Mennen, Thomas Litscher, Fabian Giger and Olaf Rochow.
- Thomas Litscher wins in Saalhausen.
- The elite men get off to a flying start.
- The first climb in the elite men's race.
- The elite women's podium (l-r): Anja Gradl, Sabine Spitz, Hanna Klein, Alexandra Engen and Nina Wrobel.
- Hanna Klein celebrates her win elegantly.
Results
Elite/U23 women 1 Hanna Klein (Freiburg) 1.30.17 2 Sabine Spitz (Murg) 2.12 3 Alexandra Engen (S-Bankeryd) 3.47 4 Anja Gradl (Kastl) 5.59 5 Nina Wrobel (D) 6.06 6 Tatjana Dold (Freiburg) 7.32 7 Silke Schmidt (Eppelborn) 11.46 8 Katrin Schwing (Mosbach) 12.43 9 Claudia Seidel (Plauen) 13.19 U15 School men 1 David Horvath (Reutlingen) 24.48 2 Marcel Techt (Lindau) 0.19 3 Jonas Grossmann (Tettau) 0.23 4 Philipp Bertsch (Abensberg) 0.44 5 Daniel Voitl (Pforzheim) 1.11 6 Patrick Strähle (Römerstein) 7 Philipp Zwanenburg (Koblenz) 1.13 8 Jan-Philipp Ebertz (Mittenaar) 1.31 9 Tobias Wagner (Nidda) 1.45 10 Nils Dillmann (Linz am Rhein) 1.59 11 Joshua Barth (Birkenfeld) 2.23 12 Max Ruckriegel (Grafling) 2.33 13 Jonas Rottler (Schömberg) 2.34 14 Bernard Moufang (Nidda) 2.47 15 Johannes Rödel (Bad Urach) 2.51 16 Tobias Eise (Schotten) 3.11 17 Michael Peschel (Bad Staffelstein) 18 Norman Brassel (Essen) 3.16 19 Marvin Jeusfeld (Essen) 3.29 20 Sean Feldhaus (Wuppertal) 3.54 21 Nico Sander (Essen) 3.59 22 Oliver Sust (Essen) 4.07 23 Jörg Greiner (Bad Urach) 4.25 24 Tim Streckenbach (Dettingen) 4.28 25 Nico Fechtmann (Epfenbach) 4.31 26 Till Boenisch (Wiernsheim) 4.36 27 Johannes Stauch (Schotten) 4.41 28 Max Egon Engel (Bad Rappenau) 5.15 29 Oliver Panse (Lauterbach) 5.27 30 Lars Baumbach (Bad Brückenau) 5.32 31 Luca Buschmanns (Aachen) 5.38 32 Alexander Lang (Bad Urach) 5.44 33 Georg Egger (Obergessertshausen) 5.57 34 Sebastian Reichle (Leonberg) 6.38 35 David Hessmann (Lennestadt) 6.48 36 Sam Benner (Betzdorf) 6.53 37 Joshua Benz (Bergisch Gladbach) 7.11 U15 School women 1 Carolin Happke (Erftstadt) 28.48 2 Camilla Kranzusch (Sonthofen) 0.01 3 Romy Schmid (Holzmaden) 0.17 4 Sofia Wiedenroth (D) 0.28 5 Katja Wolfer (Kirchheim unter Teck) 1.39 6 Veronika Brüchle (D) 1.43 7 Antonia Rödel (Bad Urach) 2.02 8 Sarah Bauer (Nürtingen) 2.16 9 Vanessa Schmidt (Betzdorf) 3.47 10 Anika Buhl (Kirchzarten) 3.57 11 Marlene Reiber (Schotten) 4.02 12 Johanna Menzel (Schotten) 4.48 13 Hanna Leersch (Betzdorf) 5.30 14 Katrin Stöhr (Michelstadt) 6.24 15 Amelie Etzel (Neuffen) 7.07 16 Jessica Schweizer (Bad Urach) 7.37 17 Lisa Schaub (Geisenheim) 7.50 U17 Youth men 1 Severin Lehmann (Beuren) 47.37 2 Laurent Gampp (Weilheim) 1.10 3 Christian Pfaeffle (Neuffen) 1.19 4 Fabian Hörz (Neuffen) 1.28 5 Tom Bölts (Kirchzarten) 1.34 6 Simon Krautloher (Vilshofen) 1.59 7 Jan Kalt (Neuffen) 2.15 8 Sam Weber (Untermünkheim) 2.34 9 Philipp Schmid (Bad Urach) 2.37 10 Christopher Platt (Wettenberg) 2.58 11 Louis Wolf (Untermünkheim) 3.03 12 Felix Müller (Kirchzarten) 3.07 13 Willy Klein (Mosbach) 3.15 14 Michel Burghardt (Gießen) 3.19 15 Tobias Burgard (StIngbert) 3.31 16 Malte Nikolas Finke (Hüllhorst) 3.32 17 Christian Ehrke (Kleinmachnow) 3.51 18 Martin Frey (Bad Urach) 3.52 19 Tobias Bremser (Hünstetten) 3.55 20 Johannes Leichtle (Albstadt) 3.58 21 Tom Ziegenbein (Bischofswerda) 4.01 22 Henrik Grobert (Weilheim) 4.04 23 Dominik Hoffmann (Niederwerth) 4.12 24 Felix Müller (StWendel) 4.43 25 Jochen Weisenseel (Schweinfurt) 4.52 26 Florian Brüning (Rheine) 4.59 27 Bastian Richter (Eckersdorf) 5.05 28 Tim Rosenkranz (Derschen) 5.56 29 Marvin Althaus (Grünberg) 6.19 30 Jan Gotthardt (Betzdorf) 6.28 31 Marco Holzschuher (Heinersreuth) 6.30 32 Andreas Cantella (Köngen) 7.00 33 Stefan Werner (Gaukönigshofen) 7.04 34 Mirko Jurik (Biebertal) 7.05 35 Felix Gliese (Nürtingen) 7.28 36 Florian Kortüm (Bochum) 7.32 37 Tobias Sindlinger (Albstadt) 8.53 38 Philipp Scheid (Namborn) 9.01 39 Marcel Lehrian (Heppenheim) 9.10 40 Marius Waldmann (Untermünkheim) 9.16 41 Andre Plagemann (Rheine) 9.27 42 Marco Kerner (Hilpoltstein) 9.32 43 Jerome Janzen (Bitzen) 9.37 44 Julius Selig (Erbach) 9.45 45 Christian Schöllhorn (Albstadt) 10.23 46 Nico Schellenberg (Lennestadt) 10.26 47 Christoph Gegenheimer (Remchingen) 11.08 48 Julius Tigges (Schmallenberg) 11.28 49 Stephan Zöller (Betzdorf) 11.46 50 Yannic Weyland (Heusweiler) 11.54 51 Ricardo Bernardy (Kirkel) 11.56 52 Max-Julian Dreher (Bad Urach) 12.00 53 Ben Zwiehoff (Essen) 12.38 54 Clemens Zech (Kalefeld) 13.15 55 Jan-Erik Puschmann (Weißenfels) 14.28 56 Emil Petersen (Saarbrücken) 16.29 U17 Youth women 1 Johanna Techt (Lindau) 40.32 2 Lena Putz (Röhrnbach) 1.15 3 Sophia Ries (D) 3.37 4 Chiara Eberle (D) 5 Ann-Marie Blankenhorn (Bad Urach) 5.06 6 Majlen Müller (Wuppertal) 5.12 7 Carmen Wolfer (Kirchheim unter Teck) 6.01 8 Amelie Hener (Niederstaufen) 6.12 9 Sophia Panzer (Neusorg) 6.40 10 Julia Thaler (Garching) 6.43 11 Mai Blasi (StBlasien) 7.25 12 Vanessa Kleih (D) 8.56 13 Anna Kurpas (Günzach) 9.22 Elite A & B men 1 Thomas Litscher (CH-Thal) 1.52.44 2 Robert Mennen (Nörvenich) 1.15 3 Fabian Giger (CH-Rieden SG) 1.37 4 René Tann (Suhl) 2.49 5 Olaf Rochow (Schömberg) 3.02 6 Hannes Genze (Sindelfingen) 3.41 7 Torsten Marx (Hechingen) 3.45 8 Conner Mc Convey (D) 6.22 9 Andi Weinhold (Hilmersdorf) 7.19 10 Marco Schätzing (Dresden) 9.40 11 Christopher Maletz (Weißenfels) 9.42 12 Fabian Brzezinski (Trebel) 10.48 13 Steffen Greger (Reutlingen) 11.48 14 Steffen Thum (Aalen) 12.03 15 Michael Stieglbauer (St:Englmar) 12.46 16 Marios Athanasiadgs (CYP) 13.27 17 Wilko Rochow (Schömberg) 14.08 18 Tobias Ullmann (Hilpoltstein) 15.10 Elite U23 men 1 Markus Bauer (Lohr am Main) 39.11 2 Felix Euteneuer (Freiburg) 3 Fabian Strecker (Kirchzarten) 0.42 4 Sebastian Szraucner (Wesel) 0.45 5 Simon Gegenheimer (Remchingen) 0.55 6 Erik Groen (NL) 0.56 7 Heiko Gutmann (Münstertal) 0.57 8 Tim Lemmers (NL-Anna Paulowna) 0.58 9 Lukas Kaufmann (CH-Gränichen) 1.07 10 Danny Neumann (Reichshof) 1.46 11 Andy Eyring (Münnerstadt) 1.52 12 Pascal Hossay (B-Herve Battice) 2.39 13 Rumen Voigt (Zschorlau) 2.59 14 Julian Schwendemann (Steinach) 3.08 15 Manfred Reis (Niederstaufen) 3.18 16 Henk Jaap Moorlag (NL-Onstwedde) 3.22 17 Marcel Braun (Schömberg) 3.28 18 Simon Stiebjahn (Titisee-Neustadt) 3.29 19 Markus Knott (Wörth) 3.30 20 Laurent Mineur (B-Charleroi MontsurMarchienne) 4.01 21 Timo Modosch (Marktoberdorf) 4.23 22 Vero Lüscher (Schömberg) 4.24 23 David Hofmann (Buchenbach) 24 Henrik Hoffmann (Schmallenberg) 4.25 25 Valentin Fiderer (Freiburg) 4.36 26 Philipp Ziegler (Höchberg) 4.37 27 Stefan Schairer (Albstadt) 4.46 28 Pascal Ketterer (Titisee-Neustadt) 5.00 29 Vasilis Adamon (CYP) 5.04 30 Tom Ettlich (Weißenfels) 5.08 31 Matthias Leisling (Mehring) 5.12 32 Svante Johanßon (Westergellersen) 5.19 33 Jelmer Jubbega (NL) 5.23 34 Yves Kellogg (Überlingen) 5.29 35 Maximilian Holz (München) 5.35 36 Christian Lau (Rheine) 5.36 37 Patrick Titus (Helmbrechts) 5.39 38 Tim Kluiber (Spiegelau) 5.54 39 Tommy Galle (Weißenfels) 5.55 40 Ludwig Doehl (Ihrlerstein) 5.57 41 Benjamin Oesterle (Untermünkheim) 6.15 42 Jan-Niklas Droste (Rinteln) 6.18 43 Timo Häfner (Reutlingen) 6.36 44 Tim Höme (Veitsbronn) 6.42 45 Elias Neubert (Breitenbrunn) 7.09 46 Jeffrey Andris (Untermünkheim) 7.25 47 Tobias Trautmann (Weißenfels) 7.28 48 Barry Hayes (Prasdorf) 7.42 49 Johannes Közle (Gerstetten) 8.07 50 Marco Intravaia (Hagen) 8.08 51 Mario Waibel (Degenfeld) 52 Kai Kautz (Kirchheim) 8.10 53 Tobias Henkel (Schmallenberg) 8.15 54 Konstantin Jung (Gerbrunn) 8.16 55 Markus Chrost (Haltern am See) 8.21 56 Pierre Happel (Bad Endbach) 8.32 57 Alexander Huber (Ruhpolding) 8.35 58 Mario Reichling (Kirchhundem) 8.41 59 Philipp Maximilian Daum (Filderstadt) 8.52 60 Marcel Lommers (NL-Sprang Capelle) 10.23 61 Peter Hermann (Espelkamp) 10.28 62 Simon Staufner (Gerstetten) 10.31 U19 Men 1 Julian Schelb (Münstertal) 1.18.49 2 Markus Schulte-Lünzum (Haltern am See) 3.13 3 Sascha Bleher (Bad Urach) 3.20 4 Wenzel Böhm-Gräber (Wiesbaden) 3.42 5 Marcus Nicolai (Dettingen) 3.49 6 Martin Gluth (Helmbrechts) 3.50 7 David Simon (Büchel) 5.27 8 Matthias Zink (Oberried) 6.19 9 Timo Müller (Dettingen) 7.04 10 Martin Knöpfle (Donaueschingen) 7.12 11 Lukas Kuch (Kirchheim) 8.14 12 Lysander Kiesel (Wildpoldsried) 8.27 13 Daniel Nientiedt (Großkarolinenfeld) 14 Philipp Knüttel (Amberg) 8.45 15 Mike Bölts (Oberried) 8.48 16 Benjamin Dorn (Nordhausen) 8.57 17 Philipp Scheläschuß (Römerstein) 8.59 18 Markus Zöller (Betzdorf) 9.02 19 Raphael Freienstein (Kaiserslautern) 9.22 20 Michael Forster (Saal) 9.27 21 Johannes Wolf (Kirchzarten) 9.37 22 Adrian Sauer (Oberkirch) 9.59 23 Anselm Wüllner (Schmallenberg) 10.29 24 Jens De Bruijn (NL-Nijmegen) 10.34 25 Florian Grafmüller (Denzlingen) 12.17 26 Marco Tippmann (Kirchheim) 12.51 27 Dominik Ziegler (Höchberg) 12.58 28 Jan Carlsen (Coburg) 13.01 29 Lukas Holtkamp (Havixbeck) 13.30 30 Daniel Waibel (Degenfeld) 13.51 31 Jan-Nils Preus (Biebergemünd) 14.18 32 Kitis Michalis (CYP) 15.18 33 Robert Traupe (Betzdorf) 15.37 34 Maxi Maier (Garching) 17.47 Masters men 1 Max Friedrich (Kelkheim) 57.56 2 Erik Hühnlein (Birhofsheim) 0.59 3 Andre Kleindienst (Förste) 1.49 4 Matthias Ball (Mosbach) 2.24 5 Michael Bonnekessel (Hamm) 2.44 6 Kim Alexander Tofaute (Koblenz) 2.47 7 Markus Stolz (Bergisch Gladbach) 5.42 8 Stefan Mosch (Herscheid) 9 Michael Stöcker (Hemer) 7.52 10 Pierre Seibertz (Windeck) 13.17 U19 women 1 Mona Eiberweiser (Deggendorf) 1.02.07 2 Helen Grobert (Remetschwil) 3.17 3 Vanessa Mosch (Herscheid) 5.25 4 Elisa Ries (Dettingen) 6.48 5 Julia Haase (Römerstein) 8.50 6 Sarah Bosch (Rosenheim) 11.18 7 Theresa Wolfrum (Helmbrechts) 11.58 8 Ann-Kathrin Scheläschuß (Römerstein) 15.44 9 Stephanie Frank (Feldatal) 16.38 10 Vanessa Tempcke (Seligenporten) 18.45 11 Leonie Back (Essen) 19.24
