Schurter wins home race
By Cycling News published
Süss victorious in women's contest
There were no surprises at the Racer Bikes Cup round in Flims, Switzerland, on Saturday afternoon, when World Champion Nino Schurter (Scott Swisspower) and Esther Süss (Wheeler-IXS Pro Team) won.
Local hero Schurter finished 12 seconds ahead of Lukas Flückiger (Trek World Racing) at the the finish. Heat and the circuit proved to be selective in determining the race's outcome. On lap one of eight total, Schurter, Martin Gujan (Cannondale) and the two Flückiger brothers established themselves quickly as the leaders, with a gap to the rest of the field.
The world's best ranked Under 23 rider Matthias Flückiger (Trek World Racing) put in a strong performance, but suffered a flat tire during lap two and had to make a comeback to work his way back onto the podium.
Schurter got away on lap four and got himself a lead of almost a minute. On the finale lap, Lukas Flückiger managed to come close to Schurter, but the local favorite held on for the victory.
Despite his flat, Matthias Flückiger worked his way back into third place.
In the women's race, European marathon champion Esther Süss won her final test before the European Championships next week in Israel. She built a steady lead from the start of the six-lap race, and at the end, she finished one and a half minutes ahead of German Elisabeth Brandau (Team Haibike) and the third-placed Sarah Koba (Team Giant Swiss).
Roger Walder (Scott Swisspower) and Linda Indergand (FRM TG Zentralschweiz/IG-RS Uri) won the junior men's and women's races while Matthias Stirnemann (Merida Suisse) won the amateur and masters category.
The next major Swiss race is the National Championships in Gränichen in two weekends although the race will not count toward the Racer Bikes Cup series.
Results
# | Rider Name (Country) Team | Result |
---|---|---|
1 | Nino Schurter (Swi) Scott-Swisspower MTB Racing | 1:42:15 |
2 | Lukas Flückiger (Swi) Trek World Racing | 0:00:12 |
3 | Mathias Flückiger (Swi) Trek World Racing | 0:02:37 |
4 | Martin Gujan (Swi) Cannondale Factory Racing | 0:03:37 |
5 | Marcel Wildhaber (Swi) Scott-Swisspower MTB Racing | 0:04:37 |
6 | Pascal Meyer (Swi) M.I.G Bike Team | 0:06:33 |
7 | Sepp Freiburghaus (Swi) Thömus Racing Team | 0:07:31 |
8 | Silvio Bundi (Swi) ewz-Giant MTB-Team | 0:08:16 |
9 | Severin Disch (Swi) Giant-Swiss-Team | 0:08:31 |
10 | Balz Weber (Swi) DS-Rennsport | 0:08:53 |
11 | Chun Hing Chan (HKg) National Team Hong Kong | 0:09:23 |
12 | Patrik Gallati (Swi) Scott-Swisspower MTB Racing | 0:09:37 |
13 | Giancarlo Sax (Swi) Thömus Racing Team | 0:09:43 |
14 | Christian Bickel (Swi) christianbickel.ch/RV Winterthur | 0:10:42 |
15 | Mirco Widmer (Swi) Giant-Swiss-Team | 0:11:26 |
16 | Dirk Peters (NZl) Rotorua | 0:12:02 |
17 | Michele Casagrande (Ita) Elettroveneta Corratec (Italia) | 0:12:35 |
18 | Michael Hutter (Swi) Pink Gili Swiss | 0:13:18 |
19 | Pascal Ketterer (Ger) Wheeler- iXS Team | 0:14:22 |
-1lap | Daniel Eymann (Swi) Thömus Racing Team | |
-1lap | Dumeni Vincenz (Swi) Thömus Racing Team | |
-1lap | Florian Thie (Swi) MTB Cycletech Racing Team | |
-1lap | Tobias Hollenstein (Swi) Giant-Swiss-Team | |
-1lap | Manuel Ebert (Ita) A.S.C. Tiroler Radler Bozen | |
-1lap | Florian Meyer (Swi) Freemountain - Koba | |
-1lap | Matthias Allenspach (Swi) Tower Sports-VC Eschenbach | |
-1lap | Samuel Reichen (Swi) Haibike-Swiss IT Repair MTB | |
-1lap | Lucien Peterhans (Swi) Velo Franz/Univega | |
-1lap | Bradford Perley (USA) USA National MTB Team | |
-1lap | Markus Bless (Swi) Tower Sports-VC Eschenbach | |
-1lap | Zachary Keller (USA) USA National MTB Team | |
-1lap | Nate Byrom (USA) USA National MTB Team | |
-1lap | Adam Parke (USA) USA National MTB Team | |
DNF | Matthias Rupp (Swi) Scott-Swisspower MTB Racing | |
DNF | Robert Kircher (Aut) Tango-Cycling-Future Team | |
DNF | Patrick Tresch (Swi) GU Plus/Thomyk/VMC Silenen | |
DNF | Marc Metzler (Swi) Pink Gili Swiss | |
DNF | Jonas Baumann (Swi) Haibike-Swiss IT Repair MTB | |
DNF | Yves Corminboeuf (Swi) | |
DNF | Mathias Krähemann (Swi) Bike Team Ramsauer-Micarna | |
DNF | Lucien Besançon (Swi) MTB Cycletech Racing Team |
# | Rider Name (Country) Team | Result |
---|---|---|
1 | Esther Süss (Swi) Wheeler-IXS Pro Team | 1:30:05 |
2 | Elisabeth Brandau (Ger) Team Haibike | 0:01:33 |
3 | Sarah Koba (Swi) Giant-Swiss-Team | 0:04:13 |
4 | Marielle Saner-Guinchard (Swi) BikePark.ch/Scott | 0:05:28 |
5 | Kathrin Stirnemann (Swi) Merida Suisse Team | 0:07:08 |
6 | Hanna Klein (Ger) Rothaus-CUBE MTB Team | 0:08:43 |
7 | Fabienne Niederberger (Swi) Felt | 0:12:05 |
8 | Asa Erlandsson (Swe) Cube-Biketoyz / Varbergs MTB | 0:12:59 |
9 | Michelle Hediger (Swi) Fischer-BMC | 0:13:09 |
10 | Renata Bucher (Swi) Stöckli - Craft | 0:15:20 |
11 | Lorraine Truong (Swi) Prof Raiffeisen/ccl | 0:15:43 |
12 | Nadine Rieder (Ger) FBI racingteam.youngstars | 0:16:15 |
13 | Nicole Hanselmann (Swi) bike-import.ch | 0:18:16 |
14 | Cornelia Schuster (Ita) SSV Pichl Gsies Raiffeisen | 0:18:56 |
-1lap | Alexa Hüni (Ger) VAUDE Simplon Team | |
-1lap | Corina Gantenbein (Swi) Fischer-BMC | |
-1lap | Marina Giger (Swi) Tower Sports-VC Eschenbach | |
-1lap | Catherine Lohri (Swi) Koba | |
-1lap | Tanja Starkermann (Swi) Fischer Junior MTB Team | |
-1lap | Lydia Tanner (USA) USA National MTB Team | |
-1lap | Darya Zaytseva (Rus) KARO Film | |
-1lap | Virginie Pointet (Swi) BikePark.ch/Scott | |
-1lap | Therese Rhodes (Aus) Merida Flight Centre Australia | |
DNF | Céline Farner (Swi) Velo Franz/Univega |
# | Rider Name (Country) Team | Result |
---|---|---|
1 | Roger Walder (Swi) Scott-Swisspower MTB Racing | 1:23:08 |
2 | Michael Stünzi (Swi) Haibike-Swiss IT Repair MTB | 0:01:36 |
3 | Tobias Spescha (Swi) Merida Suisse Team | 0:01:55 |
4 | Janos Ruch (Swi) Fischer Junior MTB Team | 0:02:04 |
5 | Lars Forster (Swi) Tower Sports-VC Eschenbach | 0:02:27 |
6 | Fabian Paumann (Swi) Merida Suisse Team | 0:02:35 |
7 | Jonas Loretz (Swi) Thömus Racing Team | 0:02:36 |
8 | Richard Anderson (NZl) Avanti Bikes | 0:02:37 |
9 | Claude Koster (Swi) MTB Cycletech Racing Team | 0:03:12 |
10 | Valentin Berset (Swi) ACBroye / Dom Cycle | 0:03:46 |
11 | Roger Jenny (Swi) Bike 4 Fun | 0:03:58 |
12 | Florian Chenaux (Swi) Vélo-Club Fribourg/ Cycles Pache | 0:04:17 |
13 | Philipp Hediger (Swi) Fischer Junior MTB Team | 0:04:38 |
14 | Severin Sägesser (Swi) Thömus Racing Team | 0:05:14 |
15 | Armin Kiebacher (Ita) A.S.V. St. Lorenzen | 0:05:42 |
16 | Bryan Allemann (Swi) BikePark.ch/Scott | 0:06:27 |
17 | Florian Suter (Swi) Fischer Junior MTB Team | 0:06:37 |
18 | Silvan Kälin (Swi) TG Zentralschweiz/RV Einsiedeln | 0:06:58 |
19 | Kevin Krieg (Swi) PBR-Matic Swiss MTB Team | 0:07:15 |
20 | Erik Jonsson (Swi) Jonsson Dom Cycle-Merida | 0:08:06 |
21 | Dylan Page (Swi) Dom Cycle / VC Rennaz | 0:08:34 |
22 | Matthias Zink (Ger) Lexware Racing Team | 0:09:15 |
23 | Even Sverdrup Augdal (Nor) Ringerike Sykkelklubb | 0:09:38 |
24 | Marc Schärli (Swi) Fischer-BMC | 0:11:06 |
25 | Alexey Solovyev (Rus) KARO Film | 0:11:17 |
26 | Ronny Koller (Swi) RSS Rheintal | 0:11:32 |
27 | Nikita Chubukov (Rus) KARO Film | 0:11:50 |
28 | Lukas Überall (Aut) Tom's Pro Kirchberg | 0:12:03 |
29 | Dominik Risi (Swi) TG Zentralschweiz/RMC Kerns | 0:12:39 |
30 | Patrick Lüthi (Swi) Prof Raiffeisen CCL | 0:12:54 |
31 | Jan Gafner (Swi) Prof Raiffeisen CCL | 0:13:09 |
32 | Brian Brog (Swi) Free-Mountain-Koba-Team | 0:13:16 |
33 | Daniel Humm (Swi) Tempo-Sport Cannondale/VC Wädenswil | 0:14:57 |
34 | Fredrik Haraldseth (Nor) BOC | 0:15:53 |
35 | Yann Rausis (Swi) | 0:16:12 |
36 | Rico Von Burg (Swi) Thömus Racing Team | 0:17:14 |
37 | Maxi Maier (Ger) MTB-Club-München / Team Merida-Schulte | 0:19:48 |
-1lap | Michael Grod (Swi) VBT-Seetal | |
-1lap | Nick Albrecht (Swi) Race Team - RV Stadt Winterthur | |
-1lap | Felix Wiesbauer (Aut) Tom's Pro Kirchberg | |
-1lap | Maxime Ebel (Swi) Frenetic Bernasconi HiRe | |
-1lap | Pascal Nay (Swi) Thömus Bike Team | |
-1lap | Tobias Schraner (Swi) Fischer-BMC | |
-1lap | Niculin Just (Swi) biketeam.gr | |
-1lap | Elia Omodei (Swi) VC Wohlen/Scott Radsport Stutz | |
-1lap | James Hanus (Aus) | |
-1lap | Pascal Stettler (Swi) Fischer Junior MTB Team | |
DNF | Sascha Bleher (Ger) M.I.G Bike Team | |
DNF | Nico Tambarikas (Swi) RSS-Rheintal | |
DNF | Silvan Casutt (Swi) biketeam.gr |
# | Rider Name (Country) Team | Result |
---|---|---|
1 | Linda Indergand (Swi) FRM TG Zentralschweiz/IG-RS Uri | 1:19:51 |
2 | Lisa Rabensteiner (Ita) Profi Bike Team | 0:09:45 |
3 | Fabienne Andres (Swi) Cannondale Küttel Team/VMC Hägglingen | 0:10:14 |
4 | Julia Tanner (Ita) A.B.C. Egna Neumarkt | 0:11:10 |
5 | Svetlana Poverina (Rus) KARO FILM | 0:13:05 |
6 | Theresa Wolfrum (Ger) BIKE Junior Team | 0:14:14 |
7 | Veronika Widmann (Ita) A.B.C. Egna Neumarkt | 0:20:04 |
DNF | Jolanda Neff (Swi) ewz-Giant MTB Team | |
DNF | Katja Schuster (Ita) SSV Pichl Gsies Raiffeisen | |
DNF | Jil Saxer (Swi) Fischer Junior MTB Team | |
DNF | Lena Wehrle (Ger) RSV St.Märgen / Rothaus-Cube U21 |
# | Rider Name (Country) Team | Result |
---|---|---|
1 | Matthias Stirnemann (Swi) Merida Suisse Team | 1:21:06 |
2 | Reto Indergand (Swi) FRM TG Zentralschweiz/ IG-RS Uri | 0:01:40 |
3 | Lukas Loretz (Swi) Giant-Swiss-Team | 0:02:01 |
4 | Marc Stutzmann (Swi) Free Mountain-Koba/RSC Aaretal | 0:02:09 |
5 | Xavier Dafflon (Swi) Team PRO Cycles-Scott-NewWork | 0:02:27 |
6 | Daniel Kaufmann (Swi) Haibike-Swiss IT Repair MTB | 0:04:27 |
7 | Matthias Lauk (Swi) Energie MTB Team | 0:04:47 |
8 | Mike Schuler (Swi) FRM TG Zentralschweiz | 0:06:00 |
9 | Michael Wildhaber (Swi) Tower Sports-VC Eschenbach | 0:06:28 |
10 | Sebastian Ostertag (Swi) VC Wädenswil/velo-reichmuth.ch | 0:06:31 |
11 | Marcus Nicolai (Ger) Team Bulls | 0:06:32 |
12 | Benoit Grelier (Fra) SCOTT / P.B. | 0:06:32 |
13 | Urs Baumann (Swi) BiXS - iXS Swiss Team | 0:07:15 |
14 | Benjamin Dorn (Ger) Focus Bad Salzdetfurth racing | 0:07:29 |
15 | Rick Reimann (Swi) PBR Matic Swiss MTB Team | 0:07:41 |
16 | Fabian Obrist (Swi) RV Winterthur/ Stevens | 0:08:08 |
17 | Michael Wicki (Swi) RSS Rheintal / Team Radsport Frei | 0:08:17 |
18 | Andreas Zünd (Swi) Pink Gili Swiss | 0:08:21 |
19 | Sandro Kessler (Swi) biketeam.gr | 0:08:47 |
20 | Roland Häfeli (Swi) Fischer-BMC | 0:08:50 |
21 | Jörg Egli (Swi) Wheeler-IXS Swiss Team | 0:09:22 |
22 | Andrea Pendini (Ita) ADV Corratec | 0:10:09 |
23 | Roland Abächerli (Swi) Giant-Swiss-Team | 0:10:24 |
24 | Michael Frei (Swi) Velo Franz-Univega | 0:10:27 |
25 | Jeremias Marti (Swi) TG-Zentralschweiz | 0:11:29 |
26 | Benedikt Mündle (Lie) Merida Liechtenstein | 0:11:55 |
27 | Roger Dittli (Swi) Stöckli-Craft | 0:11:57 |
28 | David Baumann (Swi) Haibike-Swiss IT Repair MTB | 0:12:21 |
29 | Marcel Reiser (Ger) VAUDE Simplon Team | 0:12:54 |
30 | Simon Fankhauser (Swi) MTB Cycletech Racing Team | 0:13:11 |
31 | Sandro Soncin (Swi) Goodsport | 0:13:19 |
32 | Pim Heinrich (Swi) FRM TG Zentralschweiz | 0:13:42 |
33 | Adrian Amsler (Swi) Velo Franz-Univega | 0:13:55 |
34 | Martin Strebel (Swi) Fischer Junior MTB Team | 0:15:01 |
35 | Ralph Federer (Swi) Bike Team Ramsauer-Micarna | 0:15:20 |
36 | Michel Woerner (Swi) VCReinach Goldwurst-power Pete's Bikeshop | 0:16:01 |
37 | Marcel Bader (Swi) Bike Zone / VBT Seetal | 0:00:16 |
38 | Roger Winkler (Swi) BikeZone/VBC Rupperswil | 0:00:53 |
39 | Lars Frederic Nordbakken (Nor) Romeriksåsen SK | 0:01:27 |
40 | Jens Frey Halling (Den) Team Hareskov Cykler - Scott | 0:01:44 |
41 | Rafael Haubensak (Swi) www.fehr-velos.ch | 0:02:03 |
42 | Ben Dekker (Ned) dirty hill | 0:08:12 |
DNF | René Wildhaber (Swi) Trek | |
DNF | Robin Böhi (Swi) Bike Team Ramsauer- Micarna | |
DNF | Emilien Barben (Swi) Zeta cycling club | |
DNF | Alain Bischofberger (Swi) Felt / Velo Weidmann | |
DNF | Mirco Zürcher (Swi) BSK Graf/VC Volketswil | |
DNF | Emiel Blok (Ned) Dirty Hill | |
DNF | Luca Formoso (Swi) Cycle-Shop / RV Winterthur |

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