Engen ranked as top female eliminator racer

The xceliminator.com website calculated and published final 2012 world rankings for the young cross country eliminator discipline. First-ever eliminator world champion Alexandra Engen topped the women's rankings, which were released shortly after the previously posted men's eliminator rankings.

Engen collected 1005 points and dominated the upper end of the rankings. The next best racer was Eva Lechner of Italy with 610 points. Engen's Swedish compatriot Jenny Rissveds finished third with 590 points. Kathrin Stirnemann and Anne Terpstra rounded out the top five rankings.

Eliminators made their debut as test events in the World Cup in 2011 and the first-ever eliminator world championships were held in Saalfelden, Austria, in September of 2012. Next year, there will be a record five World Cup rounds of the eliminator.

The UCI does not maintain separate rankings for the eliminator sub-discipline of mountain biking, but the xceliminator.com website decided to fill that void and calculate rankings based on standard UCI points for major eliminator events.

The top 25 female riders in the 2012 ranking are shown below. See www.xceliminator.com/p/world-ranking.html for the complete ranking of 86 racers.

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2012 Women's Eliminator World Rankings
#Rider Name (Country) TeamResultHeader Cell - Column 3
1Alexandra Engen (Swe)1005pts
2Eva Lechner (Ita)610Row 1 - Cell 3
3Jenny Rissveds (Swe)590Row 2 - Cell 3
4Kathrin Stirnemann (Swi)460Row 3 - Cell 3
5Anne Terpstra (Ned)450Row 4 - Cell 3
6Cecile Ravanel (Fra)445Row 5 - Cell 3
7Anneke Beerten (Ned)365Row 6 - Cell 3
8Ramona Forchini (Swi)350Row 7 - Cell 3
9Rowena Fry (Aus)340Row 8 - Cell 3
10Pavla Havlikova (Cze)338Row 9 - Cell 3
11Ana Zupan (Slo)324Row 10 - Cell 3
12Kajsa Snihs (Swe)307Row 11 - Cell 3
13Tracy Moseley (GBr)306Row 12 - Cell 3
14Heidi Sandsto Rosaasen (Nor)267Row 13 - Cell 3
15Chloe Woodruff (USA)266Row 14 - Cell 3
16Jolanda Neff (Swi)250Row 15 - Cell 3
17Annie Last (GBr)250Row 16 - Cell 3
18Laura Turpijn (Ned)247Row 17 - Cell 3
19Aleksandra Dawidowicz (Pol)230Row 18 - Cell 3
20Maaris Meier (Est)204Row 19 - Cell 3
21Ingrid Sofie Jacobsen (Nor)203Row 20 - Cell 3
22Julie Bresset (Fra)200Row 21 - Cell 3
23Tina Perše (Slo)182Row 22 - Cell 3
24Lucie Vesela (Cze)180Row 23 - Cell 3
25Katrin Leumann (Swi)164Row 24 - Cell 3

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