New Zealand Downhill Mountain Bike Cup - Wellington 2012: Results

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Sarah Atkin on her way to a win(Image credit: Mountain Bike New Zealand (MTBNZ))

The Long Gulley race course in Brooklyn has a long pedigree of racing at a national level and always provides challenging and variable conditions to add to the challenge of one of the fastest and shortest courses on the national circuit. Weather did play its part, but stayed largely settled for both days of practice and competition to give a dry, dusty and fast platform for what turned out to be incredibly close racing across all categories.

The elite men's field contained riders from nine different countries, giving New Zealand's athletes a serious challenge on their home turf. Fabian Cousinie (France) provided the real excitement with a seeding result at number three. Even then, the local crowd wasn't prepared to accept the possibility that a visiting international would win at Long Gulley, but that is exactly the scenario that played out in the afternoon race run.

Cousinie raced a flawless run to win from NZ MTB Cup leader Brook MacDonald (Napier) by less than half a second. MacDonald's 2012 World Cup teammate also nearly got the better of him, but the slimmest of margins (1/100th of a second) had Markus Pekoll (Austria) back in third spot. The rest of the elite men's podium were two seconds further back, Richard Leacock and Bryn Dickerson (both Wellington) not able to turn a home track advantage to their benefit, but doing more than enough to head the rest of the field.

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Elite men
#	Rider Name (Country) Team	Result
1	Fabian Cousine	0:02:08.14
2	Brook MacDonald	0:00:00.35
3	Markus Pekoll	0:00:00.36
4	Richard Leacock	0:00:02.20
5	Bryn Dickerson	0:00:02.40
6	Wyn Masters	0:00:03.25
7	Matt Walker	0:00:03.69
8	Sam Perry	0:00:04.66
9	Reon Boe	0:00:05.05
10	Rupert Chapman	0:00:05.48
11	Luke Stevens	0:00:05.63
12	Daniel Meilink	0:00:05.71
13	Daniel Heads	0:00:06.77
14	Remi Gauvin	0:00:08.13
15	Jarrah Davies	0:00:08.15
16	Junya Nagata	0:00:08.32
17	Thomas Jeandin	0:00:08.72
18	Kazuki Shimizu	0:00:10.24
19	Martin Kuhn	0:00:17.83
20	Sam Stevens	0:00:17.93
DNF	George Brannigan	Row 20 - Cell 2

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Elite women
#	Rider Name (Country) Team	Result
1	Sarah Atkin	0:02:32.61
2	Adrienne Hooper	0:00:18.39
3	Veronique Sandler	0:00:22.84
4	Sophiemarie Bethell	0:02:34.84

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U19 men
#	Rider Name (Country) Team	Result
1	Louis Hamilton	0:02:15.08
2	Reece Potter	0:00:01.28
3	Kurt Summerfield	0:00:02.34
4	Guillaune Cauvin	0:00:02.46
5	Lawrence Cawte	0:00:04.97
6	Jack Futter	0:00:05.63
7	Jamahl Stringer	0:00:07.22
8	Jack Arnopp	0:00:07.63
9	Jackson Hine	0:00:08.21
10	Michael Melles	0:00:08.53
11	Jake Robinson	0:00:10.19
12	Lloyd Jenks	0:00:10.66
13	Robert Havill	0:00:11.72
14	Dan McCombie	0:00:12.82
15	Andy Wilson	0:00:14.05
16	Callum Sprosen	0:00:14.88
17	Cole Smith	0:00:16.90
18	Will Keay	0:00:16.98
19	JD Devlin	0:00:17.15
20	Jeremy Clegg	0:00:19.23
21	Leo Sandler	0:00:19.87
22	Alex Kennett	0:00:20.05
23	James Shipp	0:00:22.26
24	Kyle Lockwood	0:00:22.87
25	Jack Dodd	0:00:23.66
26	Harrison Redshaw	0:00:26.20
DNS	Sakramyn Jenner	Row 26 - Cell 2
DNS	Jordan Burns	Row 27 - Cell 2

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U17 men
#	Rider Name (Country) Team	Result
1	Josh McCombie	0:02:21.49
2	Carl Goodwin	0:00:00.35
3	Izac Anderson	0:00:02.42
4	Scott Dockary	0:00:07.23
5	Ezra Adams	0:00:07.38
6	Jack Humphries	0:00:09.93
7	Logan Henry	0:00:10.62
8	Toa Palanihi	0:00:12.53
9	Hayden Melles	0:00:12.61
10	Kale Edwards	0:00:15.51
11	Matt Lawton	0:00:15.84
12	Daniel Horgan	0:00:17.50
13	Nick Goodson	0:00:23.97
14	Luke Small	0:00:33.66
DNF	Caleb Scott	Row 14 - Cell 2
DNS	Jonathon Kennett	Row 15 - Cell 2

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Senior men
#	Rider Name (Country) Team	Result
1	Carl Edmondson	0:02:17.46
2	Nick McConachie	0:00:00.42
3	Phillip Marfell	0:00:03.54
4	Asher Ellery	0:00:04.11
5	Tom Humphries	0:00:04.24
6	Tyler Perrin	0:00:04.65
7	Tristan Ratcliffe	0:00:06.63
8	Tyler Brooker	0:00:06.98
9	Mitchell Townsend	0:00:07.46
10	Jourdan Leithbridge	0:00:07.61
11	Ryan Hunt	0:00:07.65
12	Joel Tunbridge	0:00:08.31
13	Adam Ahmed	0:00:09.30
14	Devlin Montana	0:00:09.50
15	Jason Lang	0:00:09.59
16	Florian de Vires	0:00:10.20
17	Leith Christensen	0:00:11.31
18	Cole Titchmarsh	0:00:12.53
19	Thilo Rucknagel	0:00:13.18
20	Steven Pattle	0:00:14.16
21	Andy Sherratt	0:00:15.07
22	Mark Davidge	0:00:15.54
23	Eugene Black	0:00:16.03
24	Ollie Knight	0:00:18.87
25	Benjamin Kamp	0:00:19.43
26	Aaron Chan	0:00:26.23
27	Keita Mochizuki	0:00:27.88
28	Jayden Harris	0:00:31.34
29	Zac Chandler	0:00:58.91
30	Jason Gurr	0:01:04.39
31	Sam Fisher	0:01:44.88
32	Scott McGregor	0:02:12.49
DNF	Kurt McDonald	Row 32 - Cell 2
DNS	Dayne Scott	Row 33 - Cell 2
DNS	Robert Chappell	Row 34 - Cell 2

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Master 1 men
#	Rider Name (Country) Team	Result
1	Jamie Nicoll	0:02:20.66
2	Craig McGinnity	0:00:05.05
3	Jeremy Jones	0:00:05.31
4	Kevin Warner	0:00:11.61
5	Liam O'Keeffe	0:00:13.02
6	Mathew McGovern	0:00:16.57
7	Ewan Baron	0:00:21.67
8	Andrew Kourochkin	0:00:23.42
DNS	Tim Warner	Row 8 - Cell 2