Sally Bigham (Topeak Ergon) and Mirko Celestino took victories at at Ischgl Ironbike Marathon, a race well known for being a challenging event with 79km, 3820m of climbing and a maximum altitude of 2853m.
Bigham's race went according to plan from the beginning. After just a couple of kilometres she had formed a gap over the other riders, and it was a lead that she didn't ever give up. She won in 5:14:45, 25 minutes ahead of second place Katrin Schwing and 26 minutes ahead of Birgit Söllner.
"I felt so strong. The win was great, and the course was difficult, but breath-taking," said Bigham.
In the men's race, Celestino won by over five minutes ahead of Karl Platt and by 16:44 over newly crowned World Champion Alban Lakata.
It was Lakata's first appearance in rainbow stripes. After a week of media obligations following his new title, he said, "Third position today was good. I crashed, and didn't have a great pre-race, but I am very pleased all things considered."
Results
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Elite men
#
Rider Name (Country) Team
Result
1
Mirko Celestino (Ita)
3:58:52
2
Karl Platt (Ger)
0:05:16
3
Alban Lakata (Aut)
0:16:44
4
Alexey Medvedev (Rus)
0:20:27
5
David George (RSA)
0:21:47
6
Tim Bohme (Ger)
0:23:19
7
Mannie Heymans (Nam)
0:24:11
8
Jakob Nimpf (Aut)
0:26:30
9
Mauro Bettin (Ita)
0:30:06
10
Daniel Gathof (Ger)
0:32:01
11
Stefan Schaufuss (Ger)
0:32:23
12
Niels Boon (Ned)
0:33:37
13
Georg Piazza (Ita)
0:33:38
14
Guido Thaler (Aut)
0:34:22
15
Michael Schuchardt (Ger)
0:36:01
16
Gunter Egger (Ita)
0:39:45
17
Onno Reijnhout (Ned)
0:52:29
18
Gerhard Kaufmann (Aut)
1:04:33
19
Klemens Bont (Swi)
1:05:03
20
Wolfgang Fink (Ger)
1:06:58
21
Robin Weber (Ger)
1:12:18
22
Christoph Seeber (Ita)
1:16:15
23
Christian Süss (Ger)
1:16:45
24
Michael Bonnekessel (Ger)
1:16:48
25
Klaus Hannawald (Ger)
1:18:37
26
Hartmann Stifter (Ita)
1:25:37
27
Gotthard Nossig (Aut)
1:29:42
28
Leander Hamelink (Ned)
1:32:21
29
Martin Hankele (Ger)
1:32:46
30
Martin Jochem (Ger)
1:32:56
31
Thomas Berger (Aut)
1:33:21
32
Matthias Waldhart (Aut)
1:36:18
33
Erkan Sakallioglu (Ger)
1:43:31
34
Jörg Schrod (Ger)
1:46:08
35
Andrea Berlusconi (Ita)
1:47:18
36
Nenad Miric (Srb)
1:49:25
37
Marcus Werf (Ger)
1:53:32
38
Christian Kux (Ger)
1:57:37
39
Christian Eckert (Ger)
2:00:42
40
Clemens Sietas (Ger)
2:05:10
41
Fabrizio Marchi (Ita)
2:20:12
42
Peter Huntjens (Ned)
2:23:24
43
Steffen Reger (Ger)
2:25:04
44
Thomas Jäger (Ger)
2:42:47
45
Frederik Vandendriessche (Bel)
3:06:14
46
David Delsemme (Bel)
3:17:00
47
Tonny Muller (Ger)
3:24:50
48
Eltjo Biemold (Ned)
3:32:19
49
Uwe Koch (Ger)
3:49:39
DSQ
Richard Wagenaar (Ned)
Row 49 - Cell 2
DNF
Armin Neurauter (Aut)
Row 50 - Cell 2
DNF
Tommy Galle (Ger)
Row 51 - Cell 2
DNF
Bruno Lechner (Ita)
Row 52 - Cell 2
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Elite women
#
Rider Name (Country) Team
Result
1
Sally Bigham (GBr)
5:14:45
2
Katrin Schwing (Ger)
0:25:06
3
Birgit Söllner (Ger)
0:26:07
4
Verena Krenslehner (Aut)
0:28:42
5
Silke Keinath (Ger)
1:11:42
6
Daniela Bargholt (Ger)
1:27:34
7
Hedvig Nagy (Hun)
1:39:27
8
Gisela Makowski (Ger)
1:42:49
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