Parti wins Maros Cup

On Saturday, Cluj-Napoca hosted the second edition of the Maros Bike XCO Cup, a UCI Category 2 race organized by the Maros Sport Club under the supervision of the Romanian Cycling Federation.

Availability of points for Olympic Games qualification attracted a line-up of experienced riders. The national teams of Romania, Hungary, Serbia battled it out with the others on a technical and 4.8km course with 180m of climbing per lap.

Rain the previous week resulted in muddy conditions that added to the excitement and unpredictability of an already challenging track. The favourites handled these conditions well and the hungarian pair of Andras Parti and Szilard Buruczki stamped their authority on the race from the first lap, opening up a gap of 30 seconds.

Over the next few laps, Buruczki increased the pressure and nobody but his national team colleague could match this high tempo. But this early effort seemed to have cost him too much energy because on lap 4, Parti launched a decisive attack, that turned out to be the race-winning move.

Well behind this pair Hungarian rider Blazso Marton went almost unchallenged on a solo ride to gain third place. The fight for the fourth position was the most intense, Slovakian rider Martin Haring recovered from a huge crash to beat local favourite Lucian Logigan and Serbia's Bojan Djurdjic for fourth.

Despite the fact that local riders missed out on the podium, they managed to show promise by getting sixth and eighth.

The women's race was dominated by pre-race favourite Gyurka Zsuzsa, who again showed the quality that made her one of Romania's premier talents.

Full Results

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Elite men
#Rider Name (Country) TeamResult
1Andras Parti (Hun) EOC / Hungarian National Team1:33:50
2Szilard Buruczki (Hun) Magellan Kobanya TC / Hungarian National Team0:02:56
3Marton Blazso (Hun) Bike Team Szeged0:06:05
4Martin Haring (Svk) CK Branska Bystrica0:07:56
5Bojan Djurdjic (Srb) National team of Serbia0:08:04
6Lucian Logigan (Rom) Romanian National Team0:08:26
7Andras Szatmary (Hun) Euroone-Cube UCI MTB Team0:08:49
8Tudor Oprea Ovidiu (Rom) Romanian National Team0:10:04
9Oriol Domenech (Spa) Palautordera Club Ciclista0:13:21
10Mark Csielka (Hun) Euroone-Cube UCI MTB Team0:16:28
11Ivan Jovanovic (Srb) National team of Serbia0:17:42
12Marius-Cristian Petrache (Rom) Romanian National Team0:20:07
-1lapAleksa Maric (Srb) National team of SerbiaRow 12 - Cell 2
-1lapOliver Strbac (Srb) National team of SerbiaRow 13 - Cell 2
-1lapDaniel Marius Rosioru (Rom) C.S. Conpet EmmedueRow 14 - Cell 2
-1lapAdrian Nitu (Rom) C.S. Conpet EmmedueRow 15 - Cell 2
-1lapElisei Miron (Rom) C.S. MarosRow 16 - Cell 2
-1lapZorán Zsivity (Hun) Pedaldöngölök hkeRow 17 - Cell 2
-1lapToth Zoltan (Rom) Garage RacingRow 18 - Cell 2
-1lapGeorgian Popovici (Rom) C.S. Conpet EmmedueRow 19 - Cell 2
-1lapGustav Mircea (Rom) C.S. MuresulRow 20 - Cell 2
-1lapGeorge Vlad Sabau (Rom) C.S. MarosRow 21 - Cell 2
-2lapsZoltan Deak (Rom) C.S. MarosRow 22 - Cell 2
DNFIvan Tomic (Srb) National team of SerbiaRow 23 - Cell 2
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Elite Women
#Rider Name (Country) TeamResult
1Zsuzsa Gyurka (Rom) Master Ski & Bike Club1:21:08
2Linda Trif (Rom) Garage Racing0:00:22
3Beata Piringer (Rom) C.S Muresul0:05:11
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Junior men
#Rider Name (Country) TeamResult
1Istvan Terebesi (Rom) C.S. Muresul1:18:19
2Cristian Losonczi (Rom) C.S. Muresul0:01:41
3Attila Laczkó (Rom) C.S. Muresul0:10:40
4Tudor Tegzesiu (Rom) C.S. Vointa0:40:06
5Robert Orban (Rom) C.S. Vointa0:47:58
DNFSergiu Panczel (Rom) C.S. VointaRow 5 - Cell 2

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