Belgium's Paulissen wins second consecutive marathon World Championship

Roel Paulissen rode to his second consecutive world marathon championship on Sunday. The Belgian finished in 4:34:36 after completing a tough, hilly 104km course in Austria. Alban Lakata (Austria) finished just 51 seconds back in second while 2007 marathon world champion Christoph Sauser (Switzerland) was third at 4:39.

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#Rider Name (Country) TeamResult
1Roel Paulissen (Belgium)4:34:37
2Alban Lakata (Austria)0:00:51
3Christoph Sauser (Switzerland)0:04:40
4Christoph Soukup (Austria)0:05:55
5Wolfram Kurschat (Germany)0:06:06
6Alexey Medvedev (Russian Federation)0:07:13
7Dario David Cioni (Italy)0:08:49
8Kevin Evans (South Africa)0:09:03
9Lukas Buchli (Switzerland)0:09:34
10Hector Leonardo Paez Leon (Colombia)0:10:21
11Thomas Dietsch (France)0:10:55
12Massimo De Bertolis (Italy)0:11:12
13Urs Huber (Switzerland)0:13:41
14Rudi Van Houts (Netherlands)0:13:47
15Mirko Celestino (Italy)0:14:07
16Andreas Kugler (Switzerland)0:15:56
17Bas Peters (Netherlands)0:15:56
18Jan Jobanek (Czech Republic)0:17:20
19Hannes Genze (Germany)0:19:40
20Tim Bohme (Germany)0:19:41
21Ramses Bekkenk (Netherlands)0:22:11
22Bart Brentjens (Netherlands)0:22:30
23Oliver Beckingsale (Great Britain)0:22:46
24Karl Markt (Austria)0:22:54
25Thomas Zahnd (Switzerland)0:23:02
26Julio Humberto Caro Silva (Colombia)0:24:17
27Mirko Pirazzoli (Italy)0:24:28
28Robert Mennen (Germany)0:25:08
29Jakob Nimpf (Austria)0:25:26
30Johann Pallhuber (Italy)0:25:32
31Gilberto Simoni (Italy)0:25:37
32Alejandro Diaz De La Pena Lopez (Spain)0:28:21
33Matthias Leisling (Germany)0:29:09
34Georg Koch (Austria)0:29:56
35Carsten Bresser (Germany)0:30:31
36Jukka Vastaranta (Finland)0:31:10
37Rafael Visinelli (Italy)0:31:11
38Frank Schotman (Netherlands)0:32:53
39Michal Lami (Slovakia)0:33:24
40Heinz Zörweg (Austria)0:36:14
41Roland Golderer (Germany)0:36:15
42Jelmer Pietersma (Netherlands)0:36:25
43Mike Felderer (Italy)0:37:39
44Michael Binder (Austria)0:37:56
45Thomas Stoll (Switzerland)0:38:50
46Benjamin Wittrup Justesen (Denmark)0:39:59
47Kevin Van Hoovels (Belgium)0:40:44
48Andras Parti (Hungary)0:40:56
49Christian Schneidawind (Germany)0:41:47
50Thomas Strobl (Austria)0:42:14
51Matej Mugerli (Slovenia)0:42:24
52Martin Kellermann (Austria)0:43:08
53Allan Oras (Estonia)0:43:09
54Magnus Darvell (Sweden)0:43:15
55Rene Tann (Germany)0:43:54
56Friedrich Dahler (Switzerland)0:44:52
57Lucien Peterhans (Switzerland)0:44:52
58Adrian Jackson (Australia)0:46:01
59Lars Bleckur (Sweden)0:46:14
60Marton Blazso (Hungary)0:47:52
61Mikael Salomonsson (Sweden)0:48:04
62Stefan Roffler (Switzerland)0:48:12
63Gerhard Kaufmann (Austria)0:48:55
64Ryan Sherlock (Ireland)0:49:08
65Hermann Pernsteiner (Austria)0:49:49
66Peter Unterwaditzer (Austria)0:51:09
67Ervins Smolins (Latvia)0:52:11
68Karl Schaberreiter (Austria)0:53:44
69Zdenek Faber (Slovakia)0:54:30
70Nejc Cernilogar (Slovenia)0:55:40
71Jhon Jairo Botero Salazar (Colombia)0:56:00
72Paul Oldham (Great Britain)0:56:22
73Bartosz Janowski (Poland)0:56:33
74Manfred Zöger (Austria)0:57:47
75Lenart Noc (Slovenia)0:57:58
76Caspar Austa (Estonia)0:57:59
77Johannes Holas (Austria)0:58:56
78Shaun Lewis (Australia)1:04:11
79Pavao Roset (Croatia)1:05:00
80Falk Putzke (Germany)1:08:22
81Sebastian Muth (Germany)1:08:32
82Alexander Sanchez (Costa Rica)1:10:12
83Bartosz Banach (Poland)1:12:28
84Bernd Tauderer (Austria)1:12:53
85Syun Matsumoto (Japan)1:14:48
86Tor Halvor Bjornstad (Norway)1:15:29
87Harlan Price (United States Of America)1:15:31
88Andreas Gatterer (Austria)1:16:31
89Andras Szatmary (Hungary)1:17:21
90Gabor Bogar (Hungary)1:17:22
91Daigoro Yamada (Japan)1:18:11
92Jonathan Camacho (Costa Rica)1:18:59
93Lucian Logigan (Romania)1:20:07
94Nicolae Juganaru Razvan (Romania)1:24:03
95Gints Jakovels (Latvia)1:24:36
96Mike Blewitt (Australia)1:31:39
97Thibault Sabatier (France)1:32:32
98Justin Price (New Zealand)1:35:29
99Victor Galvez Perez (Chile)1:38:11
100Thomas Achouri (Belgium)1:39:28
101Filip Turk (Croatia)1:39:45
102Olivier Raguideau (France)1:41:36
103Ales Hrvatin (Croatia)1:46:18
104Timothy Carleton (Canada)1:46:23
105Daniel Marius Rosioru (Romania)1:50:31
106Marius-Cristian Petrache (Romania)1:50:31
107José Guadalupe Cruz Salas (Mexico)1:53:22
108Ivo Rubinic (Croatia)1:53:27
109Ernests Benhens (Latvia)1:56:03
110Romuald Houin (France)1:59:06
111Jose Antonio Riquelme (Chile)2:02:03
112Eric Weber (France)2:08:34
113Rafal Lukawski (Poland)2:33:02
114Thibaut Ruamps (France)2:34:17
115Bernhard Robert Danitz Duk (Chile)2:51:39
116Benjamin Bonneuil (France)2:53:16
DNFStefan Sahm (Germany)Row 116 - Cell 2
DNFHeinz Verbnjak (Austria)Row 117 - Cell 2
DNFDaniel Federspiel (Austria)Row 118 - Cell 2
DNFSilvio Wieltschnig (Austria)Row 119 - Cell 2
DNFDaniel Geismayer (Austria)Row 120 - Cell 2
DNFTorsten Marx (Germany)Row 121 - Cell 2
DNFThomas Schaberreiter (Austria)Row 122 - Cell 2
DNFAndreas Kirchberger (Austria)Row 123 - Cell 2
DNFBram Rood (Netherlands)Row 124 - Cell 2
DNFWolfgang Krenn (Austria)Row 125 - Cell 2
DNFIvan Rybarik (Czech Republic)Row 126 - Cell 2
DNFSamuel Faruhn (Germany)Row 127 - Cell 2
DNFPhil Cortes (Canada)Row 128 - Cell 2
DNFAndris Smirnovs (Latvia)Row 129 - Cell 2

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