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This past weekend was chock full of exciting racing action as most European countries hosted their national cyclocross championships. Pasted below is just a smattering of some of the best videos of both the events and the post-race interviews that we’ve come across. Catch up on some of the racing below. Belgian National Championships: The [...]
ROME, ITALY – Marco Aurelio Fontana (Cannodale Factory Racing) has earned back-to-back wins in the Italian Cyclocross Championship. This marks his seventh Italian championship – three in cyclocross and four in cross country. The anticipated match up between Fontana and multi-time national champ Enrico Franzoi (BKCP-Powerplus) did not come to fruition, as Franzoi abandoned during the [...]
Helen Wyman (Kona), this year’s queen of the Koppenberg, repeats as the British national champion, taking her record-setting sixth title. Nikki Harris (APB Cycling Team) and Gabby Day (The ChainStay-RENNER), both of whom have had excellent seasons competing against the world’s best, finished in second and third, respectively. That lead trio showed their World Cup [...]
Philipp Walsleben (BKCP-Powerplus) and Hanka Kupfernagel (Itera-Stevens) both defended their respective titles in the German National Championships. Christoph Pfingsten (Van Vliet EBH Elshof) and Hannes Genze rounded out the men’s podium. The 23 year-old Walsleben is one to watch as he continues to improve in GvA, Superprestige and World Cup competitions. As expected, Sabine Spitz [...]
Francis Mourey (Francaise Des Jeux) continues his impressive run this season, with his 10th win perhaps the most significant yet – the French tricolor jersey will stay on his shoulders for another year. The win marks Mourey’s eighth national cyclocross title, and his sixth in the Elite ranks. He won the race by over a [...]
Christian Heule, who’s become a regular in North America during the early season races, has regained the Swiss cross jersey – his sixth time winning that title. Mountain biker and pre-race favorite Lukas Flückiger (Trek World Racing) finished in fourth, just off the podium. Pirmin Land (Team Delta-Price) was second, with Julien Taramarcaz (BMC Mountain [...]
You’re in extra luck, web readers – we have some catch-up work to do on Laurent Charras’ excellent ongoing video coverage of the women’s World Cup races. Charras’ Petitesreines French video operation wowed us with its coverage of the first three World Cups. If you missed the last video of the Koksijde World Cup, go [...]
While it may be natural to watch the young, up-and-coming domestic riders to see how American cyclocross is stacking up against the European peloton, some of the brightest signs of the quality of the sport in the US have come from the opposite end of the age-spectrum. Last year it was Kevin Hines (Corner Cycle) [...]
Amy Dombroski can breathe a sigh of relief – she’s made the selection for the American Worlds team and will have a chance to go toe-to-toe against the world’s best in search of the coveted rainbow stripes. Read on as Dombroski reflects on “making the cut.” by Amy Dombroski I’ve been on all sides – [...]
HLINSKO, CZECH REPUBLIC – Reigning world champ Zdenek Stybar (Telenet-Fidea) continues to pull out impressive performances as he’s shown that his form has returned after tendinitis forced him to take a mid-season break away from competition. Although Stybar’s 19 year-old teammate Karel Hnik held the lead early, Stybar took over the lead on the first [...]
by Christine Vardaros The most highly-anticpated battle on Belgian soil is to take place in Antwerp this Sunday at the Belgian National Championships. The two favorites are current national champion Sven Nys (Landbouwkrediet) and former world champ Niels Albert (BKCP-Powerplus). But depending on the course conditions, pre-race predictions can easily change – especially in a [...]
Dutch Women’s Nationals by Christine Vardaros If Daphny van den Brand wins the Dutch Championships this Saturday in St. Michielsgestel, it will be her 12th year donning the national stripes. In reality, though, she only wore the jersey for 10 of her 11 times, having traded it in for the rainbow variety the year she [...]
by Christine Vardaros After a late season start in December, 24 year-old Lars Boom (Rabobank) quickly stamped his authority with a victory at the Zolder World Cup in only his fourth race back. But less than a week later, his dreams of snagging his fifth National jersey were almost erased by a fall in the [...]
At 34 years of age, Sven Nys only has one elite World title among his palmares, but with seven Belgian Championships, nine Superprestige titles, seven GvA Trofee titles and six World Cup overall wins, he’s the undisputed king of ’cross in Belgium. And as a member of the UCI’s Cyclocross Commission and an athlete with [...]
Just when you thought cyclocross season was over, here’s information that’ll give you an excuse to keep riding that rig. The Speedway Cyclocrossapalooza comes on the heels of Tennessee’s UCI Kingsport Cup – sounds like a great weekend to us. Flights to Greensboro, NC, about an hour down the highway from the event, are on [...]
Amy Dombroski took a few weeks off after Nationals to rest and re-focus for a big 2011 cyclocross campaign, complete with a new sponsor, new bikes, and a new journal. Join her in her adventures right here. Her first race was the GP 5 Sterne Region in Beromunster, Switzerland, last week. by Amy Dombroski Petange [...]
Zolder World Cup, GVA Trofee Azencross and Hotel Threeland Petange, Luxembourg Christine Vardaros races for the Baboco cyclocross team, based in Belgium, and regularly contributes her accounts of Euro racing to Cyclocross Magazine. by Christine Vardaros As I write this, there is a party going on without me. This has to be one of the [...]
Tom Robertson continues to bring us words and images covering the Euro Cross Campers’ experience, this time from the GP Sven Nys GvA. Missed his previous post? Check out his photos and recap of the Bredene, Belgium, Sylvestercross race. by Tom Robertson The GP Sven Nys is a GvA series event that takes place in [...]
TERVUREN, BELGIUM – Niels Albert (BKCP-Powerplus) distanced his rivals and showed that he’s on great form coming into next weekend’s Belgian National Championships. Albert’s win wraps up the Christmas week of racing in Belgium, which featured big races and stacked fields almost every day between Christmas and January 2nd, and also marks the end of [...]
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