Schurter upsets Absalon for first elite world title

It took a team effort, but the Swiss duo of Nino Schurter and Florian Vogel were able to crack the puzzle of how to beat France's Julien Absalon.

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Results
1Nino Schurter (Switzerland)2:04:39
2Julien Absalon (France)0:00:03
3Florian Vogel (Switzerland)0:00:58
4José Antonio Hermida Ramos (Spain)Row 3 - Cell 2
5Geoff Kabush (Canada)0:02:04
6Cédric Ravanel (France)0:02:35
7Jean-Christophe Peraud (France)0:02:59
8Todd Wells (United States of America)0:03:06
9Jaroslav Kulhavy (Czech Republic)0:03:22
10Christoph Sauser (Switzerland)0:03:45
11Marco Aurelio Fontana (Italy)0:03:56
12Stéphane Tempier (France)0:04:09
13Martin Gujan (Switzerland)0:04:24
14Sven Nys (Belgium)0:04:30
15Chris Jongewaard (Australia)0:04:35
16Roel Paulissen (Belgium)0:04:44
17Emil Lindgren (Sweden)0:04:51
18Adam Craig (United States of America)0:05:03
19Filip Meirhaeghe (Belgium)0:05:16
20Inaki Lejarreta Errasti (Spain)0:05:22
21Ruben Ruzafa Cueto (Spain)0:05:23
22Max Plaxton (Canada)0:06:07
23Moritz Milatz (Germany)0:06:36
24Carlos Coloma Nicolas (Spain)0:06:45
25Milan Spesny (Czech Republic)0:06:53
26Jelmer Pietersma (Netherlands)0:06:58
27Tony Longo (Italy)0:07:08
28Sergio Mantecon Gutierrez (Spain)0:07:28
29Samuel Schultz (United States of America)0:07:31
30Rudi Van Houts (Netherlands)0:07:32
31Rubens Valeriano (Brazil)0:07:48
32Daniel Mcconnell (Australia)0:08:19
33Karl Markt (Austria)0:08:30
34Jeremy Horgan-Kobelski (United States of America)0:09:01
35Ben Henderson (Australia)0:09:16
36Jan Skarnitzl (Czech Republic)0:10:31
37Derek Zandstra (Canada)0:10:46
38Manuel Fumic (Germany)0:11:00
39Sid Taberlay (Australia)0:11:01
40Michal Lami (Slovakia)0:11:07
41Liam Killeen (Great Britain)0:11:16
42Seamus Mcgrath (Canada)0:11:37
43Lukas Flückiger (Switzerland)0:11:48
44Maxim Gogolev (Russian Federation)0:11:52
45Anton Gogolev (Russian Federation)0:12:07
46Kohei Yamamoto (Japan)0:12:14
47Jianhua Ji (People's Republic Of China)0:12:36
48Bjorn Brems (Belgium)0:12:41
49Hannes Metzler (Austria)0:13:09
50Pavel Boudny (Czech Republic)0:13:18
51Marc Bassingthwaighte (Namibia)0:13:29
52Fabio Hernando Castaneda Monsalve (Colombia)0:13:50
53Edivando De Souza Cruz (Brazil)0:13:52
54Carl Decker (United States of America)0:14:27
55Dylan Cooper (Australia)0:14:53
56Periklis Ilias (Greece)0:16:46
57Stuart Houltham (New Zealand)0:16:51
58Ivan Seledkov (Russian Federation)0:17:09
59Cristobal Silva Ibaceta (Chile)-1 lap
60Ricardo Pscheidt (Brazil)-1 lap
61Andrew Blair (Australia)-1 lap
62Keiichi Tsujiura (Japan)-2 laps
63Shufeng Zhang (People's Republic Of China)-2 laps
64Kirill Kazantsev (Kazakhstan)-3 laps
65Michael Broderick (United States of America)-3 laps
66Alban Lakata (Austria)-5 laps
67Ken Onodera (Japan)-5 laps
68Marios Athanasiadis (Cyprus)-6 laps
DNFBas Peters (Netherlands)Row 68 - Cell 2
DNFEvgeniy Pechenin (Russian Federation)Row 69 - Cell 2
DNFJohnny Cattaneo (Italy)Row 70 - Cell 2
DNFBrendon Sharratt (New Zealand)Row 71 - Cell 2
DNFKlaus Nielsen (Denmark)Row 72 - Cell 2
DNFMichael Northcott (New-Zealand)Row 73 - Cell 2
DNFMarcin Karczynski (Poland)Row 74 - Cell 2

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