10th Alanya İnternational XC race report - UCI Class 1
29th October, Alanya, Türkiye.
What a 'Day' it was in Turkey today. Turkish Republic Day and the MTB race ın Alanya. The race was live on Turkish TV (TRT) and a Satelite TV channel or two.
Unlike last years win, İ missed out on the Podıum today...5th place. Great race though.
A quick look at results for Scotland:-
Ross Creber wins the junior race by a long way. He wanted to do the elite race but was not allowed to.
İain Nimmo won the (British XC master XC MTB Champion) masters by a long way.
İ nearly caught 4th place on the 6th and last lap up to the top of the Castle. Bischof had a great race beating Paulisson. The top five elite riders were quite close together which surprised me. I have not trained enough this year for XC races
The TV coverage was amazing....İ hope someone saw ıt; all two and half hours it! The weather was amazing as usual and this race is one of the best races to do on Earth. Make the effort and get out here next year. With the Euro XC champs being in Cappadoccia (central Türkey) next year, Turkey is makıng an amazing effort building up to this event.
Many thanks to Gali and İnbar...great friends from Northern İsrael. Gali supported me today and he was great. He also gave me some Joe's Sealant for tubeless yyres...better than Stans!
Elite men results:-
Johann Pallhuber (ITA) - 1st
Christof Bischof (SWI) - 2nd
Roel Paulisson (BEL) - 3rd
Sergy Risenko (UKR) - 4th
James Ouchterlony(SCO) - 5th
Elite Women:-
Maria Osl (AUT) - 1st
Nataliya Krompets (UKR) - 2nd
Tarja Owens (IRL) - 3rd
İnbar Ronen (ISL) - 4th
Not sure of 5th place but must be a Turkish lady.
What a 'Day' it was in Turkey today. Turkish Republic Day and the MTB race ın Alanya. The race was live on Turkish TV (TRT) and a Satelite TV channel or two.
Unlike last years win, İ missed out on the Podıum today...5th place. Great race though.
A quick look at results for Scotland:-
Ross Creber wins the junior race by a long way. He wanted to do the elite race but was not allowed to.
İain Nimmo won the (British XC master XC MTB Champion) masters by a long way.
İ nearly caught 4th place on the 6th and last lap up to the top of the Castle. Bischof had a great race beating Paulisson. The top five elite riders were quite close together which surprised me. I have not trained enough this year for XC races
The TV coverage was amazing....İ hope someone saw ıt; all two and half hours it! The weather was amazing as usual and this race is one of the best races to do on Earth. Make the effort and get out here next year. With the Euro XC champs being in Cappadoccia (central Türkey) next year, Turkey is makıng an amazing effort building up to this event.
Many thanks to Gali and İnbar...great friends from Northern İsrael. Gali supported me today and he was great. He also gave me some Joe's Sealant for tubeless yyres...better than Stans!
Elite men results:-
Johann Pallhuber (ITA) - 1st
Christof Bischof (SWI) - 2nd
Roel Paulisson (BEL) - 3rd
Sergy Risenko (UKR) - 4th
James Ouchterlony(SCO) - 5th
Elite Women:-
Maria Osl (AUT) - 1st
Nataliya Krompets (UKR) - 2nd
Tarja Owens (IRL) - 3rd
İnbar Ronen (ISL) - 4th
Not sure of 5th place but must be a Turkish lady.
posted by James Ouchterlony @ 5:20 AM
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