Jonnier wins women's downhill
Ragot and Pugin complete podium
The first half of the 2010 season for the Mountain Bike World Cup concluded on Sunday at the new venue of Leogang, Austria, with the third round for downhill. Riders had to deal with cold temperatures, rain and mud, which had chewed the course up significantly, and left big holes and ruts full of water.
The two leading riders in the downhill series extended their leads, as the series hits the halfway mark. Sabrina Jonnier (Maxxis-Rocky Mountain) took her second win of the year, and extended her lead after another favorite, Rachel Atherton (Commencal), crashed.
Atherton won the qualifying run of the women, six-tenths of a second ahead of World Champion Emmeline Ragot (Suspension Center). Jonnier finished a distant fourth, seven and a half seconds behind Atherton. However, in the final, Jonnier stepped her game up, with a time nearly half a second faster than Atherton's qualifying time.
Atherton was the last rider to race, and the only one who could possibly beat the French rider. At the first time check, the British rider was three seconds up, but the 2008 World Cup champion crashed further down the course and did not finish. Ragot took second and Tracy Moseley (Trek World Team) third. Jonnier now holds a significant 140 point lead over Floriane Pugin (Scott 11), with Atherton third, 190 points behind.
"It is a really hard course, as hard as Maribor, maybe harder," said Jonnier. "It is just not the conditions I like at all. I like dry, sunny tracks, not this .... wet, muddy and yucky. The hardest part for me was the big drops, you can't go too fast or you end up missing the turn, and too slow you go over the bars. I tried to be fast enough and safe at the same time, just stay on my bike. It was good enough to take the win."
1 | Sabrina Jonnier (Fra) Team Maxxis-Rocky Mountain | 0:04:52.70 |
2 | Emmeline Ragot (Fra) Suspension Center | 0:00:03.54 |
3 | Floriane Pugin (Fra) Scott 11 | 0:00:05.35 |
4 | Tracy Moseley (GBr) Trek World Racing | 0:00:09.69 |
5 | Myriam Nicole (Fra) Commencal Superiders | 0:00:12.78 |
6 | Céline Gros (Fra) Morzine-Avoriaz/Haute-Savoie | 0:00:18.21 |
7 | Claire Buchar (Can) Chain Reaction Cycles/Intense | 0:00:20.02 |
8 | Manon Carpenter (GBr) | 0:00:20.50 |
9 | Petra Bernhard (Aut) RC Alpine Commencal Austria | 0:00:20.92 |
10 | Micayla Gatto (Can) Commencal Marzocchi Young Guns | 0:00:35.99 |
11 | Fionn Griffiths (GBr) Norco World Team | 0:00:40.02 |
12 | Harriet Rucknagel (Ger) | 0:00:43.81 |
13 | Joanna Petterson (RSA) | 0:00:44.56 |
14 | Melissa Buhl (USA) KHS | 0:00:51.79 |
15 | Katy Curd (GBr) | 0:00:58.24 |
16 | Mio Suemasa (Jpn) FFC | 0:00:59.26 |
17 | Miriam Ruchti (Swi) Dr-Gravity Union | 0:01:01.26 |
18 | Aimee Dix (GBr) | 0:01:21.32 |
19 | Sophie Borderes (Fra) | 0:01:57.82 |
DNF | Rachel Atherton (GBr) Commencal | Row 19 - Cell 2 |
# | Rider Name (Country) Team | Result | Header Cell - Column 3 |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Chain Reaction Cycles/Intense | 80 | pts |
2 | Team Maxxis-Rocky Mountain | 68 | Row 1 - Cell 3 |
3 | Santa Cruz Syndicate | 66 | Row 2 - Cell 3 |
4 | Trek World Racing | 60 | Row 3 - Cell 3 |
5 | MS Evil Racing | 52 | Row 4 - Cell 3 |
6 | Commencal | 50 | Row 5 - Cell 3 |
7 | Scott 11 | 40 | Row 6 - Cell 3 |
8 | Suspension Center | 35 | Row 7 - Cell 3 |
9 | Yeti Fox Shox Factory Race Team | 32 | Row 8 - Cell 3 |
10 | Lapierre International | 30 | Row 9 - Cell 3 |
11 | Commencal Superiders | 28 | Row 10 - Cell 3 |
12 | Morzine-Avoriaz/Haute-Savoie | 26 | Row 11 - Cell 3 |
13 | Monster Energy / Specialized / Mad Catz | 24 | Row 12 - Cell 3 |
14 | RC Alpine Commencal Austria | 22 | Row 13 - Cell 3 |
15 | Norco World Team | 20 | Row 14 - Cell 3 |
16 | Giant Factory Team | 18 | Row 15 - Cell 3 |
17 | Team Cingolani - Protone | 17 | Row 16 - Cell 3 |
18 | GT Bicycles | 16 | Row 17 - Cell 3 |
19 | Dr-Gravity Union | 14 | Row 18 - Cell 3 |
20 | Solid Aclass Factory Team | 11 | Row 19 - Cell 3 |
21 | Dirt Norco Race Team | 10 | Row 20 - Cell 3 |
22 | Ancillotti Doganaccia Racing Team | 6 | Row 21 - Cell 3 |
23 | Kenda-Playbiker | 4 | Row 22 - Cell 3 |
# | Rider Name (Country) Team | Result | Header Cell - Column 3 |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Sabrina Jonnier (Fra) Team Maxxis-Rocky Mountain | 650 | pts |
2 | Floriane Pugin (Fra) Scott 11 | 510 | Row 1 - Cell 3 |
3 | Rachel Atherton (GBr) Commencal | 460 | Row 2 - Cell 3 |
4 | Tracy Moseley (GBr) Trek World Racing | 389 | Row 3 - Cell 3 |
5 | Emmeline Ragot (Fra) Suspension Center | 385 | Row 4 - Cell 3 |
6 | Myriam Nicole (Fra) Commencal Superiders | 350 | Row 5 - Cell 3 |
7 | Claire Buchar (Can) Chain Reaction Cycles/Intense | 282 | Row 6 - Cell 3 |
8 | Mio Suemasa (Jpn) | 261 | Row 7 - Cell 3 |
9 | Céline Gros (Fra) Morzine-Avoriaz/Haute-Savoie | 252 | Row 8 - Cell 3 |
10 | Petra Bernhard (Aut) RC Alpine Commencal Austria | 240 | Row 9 - Cell 3 |
11 | Manon Carpenter° (GBr) | 187 | Row 10 - Cell 3 |
12 | Micayla Gatto (Can) | 115 | Row 11 - Cell 3 |
13 | Katy Curd (GBr) | 100 | Row 12 - Cell 3 |
14 | Fionn Griffiths (GBr) Norco World Team | 95 | Row 13 - Cell 3 |
15 | Harriet Rucknagel (Ger) | 90 | Row 14 - Cell 3 |
16 | Melissa Buhl (USA) | 75 | Row 15 - Cell 3 |
17 | Jessica Stone (GBr) | 70 | Row 16 - Cell 3 |
18 | Emilie Siegenthaler (Swi) Scott 11 | 65 | Row 17 - Cell 3 |
19 | Miriam Ruchti (Swi) Dr-Gravity Union | 60 | Row 18 - Cell 3 |
20 | Joanna Petterson (RSA) | 40 | Row 19 - Cell 3 |
21 | Aimee Dix (GBr) | 25 | Row 20 - Cell 3 |
22 | Anais Pajot (Fra) Team Sunn Montgenevre | 20 | Row 21 - Cell 3 |
23 | Fanny Lombard° (Fra) | 20 | Row 22 - Cell 3 |
24 | Sophie Borderes (Fra) | 15 | Row 23 - Cell 3 |
25 | Birgit Braumann (Aut) | 10 | Row 24 - Cell 3 |
26 | Morgane Charre (Fra) | 5 | Row 25 - Cell 3 |
# | Rider Name (Country) Team | Result | Header Cell - Column 3 |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Chain Reaction Cycles/Intense | 224 | pts |
2 | Commencal | 200 | Row 1 - Cell 3 |
3 | Team Maxxis-Rocky Mountain | 200 | Row 2 - Cell 3 |
4 | Scott 11 | 190 | Row 3 - Cell 3 |
5 | Santa Cruz Syndicate | 171 | Row 4 - Cell 3 |
6 | Trek World Racing | 168 | Row 5 - Cell 3 |
7 | Monster Energy / Specialized / Mad Catz | 93 | Row 6 - Cell 3 |
8 | MS Evil Racing | 93 | Row 7 - Cell 3 |
9 | Commencal Superiders | 90 | Row 8 - Cell 3 |
10 | Yeti Fox Shox Factory Race Team | 86 | Row 9 - Cell 3 |
11 | Suspension Center | 84 | Row 10 - Cell 3 |
12 | GT Bicycles | 77 | Row 11 - Cell 3 |
13 | Lapierre International | 75 | Row 12 - Cell 3 |
14 | RC Alpine Commencal Austria | 69 | Row 13 - Cell 3 |
15 | Morzine-Avoriaz/Haute-Savoie | 68 | Row 14 - Cell 3 |
16 | Giant Factory Team | 48 | Row 15 - Cell 3 |
17 | Dr-Gravity Union | 42 | Row 16 - Cell 3 |
18 | Kona | 41 | Row 17 - Cell 3 |
19 | Norco World Team | 39 | Row 18 - Cell 3 |
20 | Kenda-Playbiker | 27 | Row 19 - Cell 3 |
21 | Mondraker Factory Team | 22 | Row 20 - Cell 3 |
22 | Team Sunn Montgenevre | 20 | Row 21 - Cell 3 |
23 | Team Cingolani - Protone | 17 | Row 22 - Cell 3 |
24 | Dirt Norco Race Team | 15 | Row 23 - Cell 3 |
25 | Solid Aclass Factory Team | 11 | Row 24 - Cell 3 |
26 | Blackmountain Morewood United | 9 | Row 25 - Cell 3 |
27 | Massi Team | 8 | Row 26 - Cell 3 |
28 | Ancillotti Doganaccia Racing Team | 6 | Row 27 - Cell 3 |
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