Schurter comes out swinging in Albstadt
World champion makes up for Short Track disappointment
World champion Nino Schurter (Scott-SRAM) had something to prove on Sunday, in Albstadt, Germany, at round 2 of the Mountain Bike World Cup. He had lost the first round of 2018 after sweeping the Series in 2017, and then did not finish the Short Track race on Friday, relegating him to the third row of the start grid.
By the end of the start loop, Schurter was firmly in control at the front of the race. He was joined for the first laps by cyclo-cross pro turned mountain biker Mathieu van der Poel (Corendon-Circus), Maxime Marotte (Cannondale Factory), Mathias Flueckiger (Thomus-RN Racing), Lars Forster (BMC) and round 1 winner Sam Gaze (Specialized).
Gaze flatted and eventually dropped out of the race, while Flueckiger also flatted and Forster could not handle the pace, and were replaced by Stephane Tempier (Bianchi Countervail) and Jordan Sarrou (KMC-Ekoi-SR Suntour).
When Schurter ramped up the pressure on the fourth lap, only Tempier could go with him, leaving van der Poel and Marotte chasing 13 seconds back. Schurter dropped Tempier on the penultimate fifth lap, while van der Poel dropped Marotte for third.
"It's a really good feeling to have my first World Cup win of the year," said Schurter. "I was quite disappointed after the Short Track, with the hard luck with a mechanical. It's a nice relief [to win]. The first lap I was lucky, I was able to ride well and into the first corner I was at the front. It's important to be at the front. Third row was okay, but it definitely makes it more difficult."
Schurter leads the standings with 450 points, a slim 15-point margin over Van der Poel, with Marotte at 385 points and former leader Gaze at 350 points.
Results
# | Rider Name (Country) Team | Result |
---|---|---|
1 | Nino Schurter (Swi) | 1:28:07 |
2 | Stephane Tempier (Fra) | 0:00:16 |
3 | Mathieu Van Der Poel (Ned) | 0:00:40 |
4 | Maxime Marotte (Fra) | 0:00:50 |
5 | Jordan Sarrou (Fra) | 0:01:11 |
6 | Mathias Flueckiger (Swi) | 0:01:26 |
7 | David Valero Serrano (Spa) | 0:01:31 |
8 | Lukas Flueckiger (Swi) | 0:01:51 |
9 | Manuel Fumic (Ger) | 0:02:24 |
10 | Nicola Rohrbach (Swi) | 0:02:47 |
11 | Lars Forster (Swi) | 0:03:03 |
12 | Reto Indergand (Swi) | 0:03:27 |
13 | Marco Aurelio Fontana (Ita) | 0:03:42 |
14 | Luca Braidot (Ita) | 0:03:55 |
15 | Martin Loo (Est) | 0:04:05 |
16 | Marek Konwa (Pol) | 0:04:19 |
17 | Henrique Avancini (Bra) | Row 16 - Cell 2 |
18 | Anton Cooper (NZl) | 0:04:20 |
19 | Gioele Bertolini (Ita) | 0:04:24 |
20 | Titouan Carod (Fra) | 0:04:32 |
21 | Pablo Rodriguez Guede (Spa) | Row 20 - Cell 2 |
22 | Maximilian Foidl (Aut) | 0:04:34 |
23 | Anton Sintsov (Rus) | 0:04:48 |
24 | David Rosa (Por) | 0:04:52 |
25 | Thomas Litscher (Swi) | 0:05:05 |
26 | Carlos Coloma Nicolas (Spa) | 0:05:32 |
27 | Catriel Soto (Arg) | 0:05:38 |
28 | Peter Disera (Can) | 0:05:51 |
29 | Hugo Drechou (Fra) | 0:06:04 |
30 | Jhonatan Botero Villegas (Col) | 0:06:13 |
31 | Andrea Tiberi (Ita) | 0:06:18 |
32 | Jan Škarnitzl (Cze) | 0:06:19 |
33 | Andri Frischknecht (Swi) | 0:06:20 |
34 | Leandre Bouchard (Can) | 0:06:21 |
35 | Matthias Stirnemann (Swi) | 0:06:40 |
36 | Marcel Guerrini (Swi) | 0:06:54 |
37 | Victor Koretzky (Fra) | 0:06:56 |
38 | Karl Markt (Aut) | 0:06:58 |
39 | Gerhard Kerschbaumer (Ita) | 0:07:11 |
40 | Fabian Giger (Swi) | 0:07:16 |
41 | Florian Vogel (Swi) | 0:07:20 |
42 | Gregor Raggl (Aut) | 0:07:21 |
43 | Georg Egger (Ger) | 0:07:24 |
44 | Martin Gluth (Ger) | 0:07:41 |
45 | Florian Chenaux (Swi) | 0:07:43 |
46 | Michael Stünzi (Swi) | 0:07:49 |
47 | Julian Schelb (Ger) | 0:07:54 |
48 | Daniel Mcconnell (Aus) | 0:07:55 |
49 | Luiz Henrique Cocuzzi (Bra) | 0:08:05 |
50 | Nicholas Pettina' (Ita) | 0:08:07 |
51 | Daniele Braidot (Ita) | 0:08:20 |
52 | Raphael Gay (Fra) | 0:08:31 |
53 | Bartlomiej Wawak (Pol) | 0:08:51 |
54 | Sergio Mantecon Gutierrez (Spa) | 0:09:00 |
55 | Manuel Fasnacht (Swi) | 0:09:08 |
56 | András Parti (Hun) | 0:09:14 |
57 | Raphael Gagne (Can) | 0:09:23 |
58 | Michiel Van Der Heijden (Ned) | 0:09:25 |
59 | Arnis Petersons (Lat) | 0:09:36 |
60 | Maxime Loret (Fra) | 0:09:37 |
61 | Shlomi Haimy (Isr) | 0:09:42 |
62 | Simon Vitzthum (Swi) | 0:09:52 |
63 | Sebastian Fini Carstensen (Den) | 0:10:00 |
64 | Ismael Esteban Aguero (Spa) | 0:10:12 |
65 | Jan Vastl (Cze) | 0:10:24 |
66 | Andrew L'esperance (Can) | 0:10:37 |
67 | Florian Trigo (Fra) | 0:10:56 |
68 | Mário Costa (Por) | 0:11:08 |
69 | Luke Vrouwenvelder (USA) | 0:11:09 |
70 | Tom Meeusen (Bel) | 0:12:26 |
71 | Grant Ferguson (GBr) | 0:13:56 |
72 | Jens Schuermans (Bel) | Row 71 - Cell 2 |
73 | Ruben Scheire (Bel) | Row 72 - Cell 2 |
74 | Lorenzo Pellegrini (Ita) | Row 73 - Cell 2 |
75 | Arthur Tropardy (Fra) | Row 74 - Cell 2 |
76 | Timofei Ivanov (Rus) | Row 75 - Cell 2 |
77 | Andrin Beeli (Swi) | Row 76 - Cell 2 |
78 | Tomáš Paprstka (Cze) | Row 77 - Cell 2 |
79 | Gregor Krajnc (Slo) | Row 78 - Cell 2 |
80 | Lukas Baum (Ger) | Row 79 - Cell 2 |
81 | Benoît Jeanniard (Fra) | Row 80 - Cell 2 |
82 | Sven Strähle (Ger) | Row 81 - Cell 2 |
83 | Ivan Diaz Buj (Spa) | Row 82 - Cell 2 |
84 | Keegan Swenson (USA) | Row 83 - Cell 2 |
85 | Guy Sessler (Isr) | Row 84 - Cell 2 |
86 | Denis Fumarola (Ita) | Row 85 - Cell 2 |
87 | Dario Gasco (Arg) | Row 86 - Cell 2 |
88 | Lorenzo Samparisi (Ita) | Row 87 - Cell 2 |
89 | Maximilian Holz (Ger) | Row 88 - Cell 2 |
90 | Alexis Paris (Fra) | Row 89 - Cell 2 |
91 | Maxim Gogolev (Rus) | Row 90 - Cell 2 |
92 | Harold Flandre (Fra) | Row 91 - Cell 2 |
93 | Fco. Javier Poza Ruiz (Spa) | Row 92 - Cell 2 |
94 | Domenico Valerio (Ita) | Row 93 - Cell 2 |
95 | Jasper Ockeloen (Ned) | Row 94 - Cell 2 |
96 | Tom Bell (GBr) | Row 95 - Cell 2 |
97 | Frank Beemer (Ned) | Row 96 - Cell 2 |
98 | Erno Jacob Mccrae (Bel) | Row 97 - Cell 2 |
99 | Louis Wolf (Ger) | Row 98 - Cell 2 |
100 | Simon Gegenheimer (Ger) | Row 99 - Cell 2 |
101 | Sebastian Jayne (Aus) | Row 100 - Cell 2 |
102 | Kohei Yamamoto (Jpn) | Row 101 - Cell 2 |
103 | Manuel Sanchez Aldeguer (Spa) | Row 102 - Cell 2 |
104 | Jakob Hartmann (Ger) | Row 103 - Cell 2 |
105 | Tobias Dominik Rotermund (Ger) | Row 104 - Cell 2 |
106 | Rubens Donizete Valeriano (Bra) | Row 105 - Cell 2 |
107 | Zdenek Vobecký (Cze) | Row 106 - Cell 2 |
108 | José Aurelio Hernandez De Jesus (Mex) | Row 107 - Cell 2 |
109 | Guilherme Gotardelo Muller (Bra) | Row 108 - Cell 2 |
110 | Jaime Miranda Jaime (Mex) | Row 109 - Cell 2 |
111 | Jan Withaar (RSA) | Row 110 - Cell 2 |
112 | Edoardo Bonetto (Ita) | Row 111 - Cell 2 |
113 | Marcel Lehrian (Ger) | Row 112 - Cell 2 |
114 | Joseph De Poortere Emelien (Fra) | Row 113 - Cell 2 |
115 | Thom Bonder (Ned) | Row 114 - Cell 2 |
116 | Robert Schwenk (Ger) | Row 115 - Cell 2 |
117 | Titouan Perrin Ganier (Fra) | Row 116 - Cell 2 |
118 | Mikhail Besaha (Blr) | Row 117 - Cell 2 |
119 | Markus Schulte-Lünzum (Ger) | Row 118 - Cell 2 |
120 | Ingvar Omarsson ISL | Row 119 - Cell 2 |
121 | Till Drobisch (Nam) | Row 120 - Cell 2 |
122 | Pierrick Kersuzan (Fra) | Row 121 - Cell 2 |
123 | George-Vlad Sabau (Rom) | Row 122 - Cell 2 |
124 | Tobias Sindlinger (Ger) | Row 123 - Cell 2 |
DNF | Samuel Gaze (NZl) | Row 124 - Cell 2 |
DNF | Christian Pfäffle (Ger) | Row 125 - Cell 2 |
DNF | Nadir Colledani (Ita) | Row 126 - Cell 2 |
DNF | Martin Fanger (Swi) | Row 127 - Cell 2 |
DNF | Martins Blums (Lat) | Row 128 - Cell 2 |
DNF | Ondrej Cink (Cze) | Row 129 - Cell 2 |
DNF | Aleksander Stafilov (Rus) | Row 130 - Cell 2 |
DNF | Jeff Luyten (Bel) | Row 131 - Cell 2 |
DNF | Vincent Sibille (Fra) | Row 132 - Cell 2 |
DNF | Jaroslav Kulhavý (Cze) | Row 133 - Cell 2 |
DNS | Wolfram Kurschat (Ger) | Row 134 - Cell 2 |
DNS | Martin Stošek (Cze) | Row 135 - Cell 2 |
DNS | Frédéric Ischard (Fra) | Row 136 - Cell 2 |
DNS | Ben Zwiehoff (Ger) | Row 137 - Cell 2 |
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