Schladming – Results Are In

Date Sep 20, 2009

Here are the fresh results from the final World Cup Event of the year. Beneath the men’s and women’s results from Schladming you’ll find the overall World Cup final standings for 2009. Here’s the first video out from mtbcut.

And the Final Men’s UCI World Cup Standings for 2009

Schladming Final Results – Women

Final Women’s UCI World Cup Standings

Qualifying results are in and the top two spots are no surprise – but then you may need to raise an eyebrow. Every point counts now so you can bet riders where going hard – but Minnaar had troubles (“I went down like a home sick mole” was how he put it) and other riders like the new world champ and Mick Hannah didn’t fare as well as they would have liked I’m sure. Steve Smith, the only Canadian in the field of 208 riders, pulled in a respectable 15th. US riders Luke Strobel and Aaron Gwin were 10th and 12th respectively.

Men’s Qualifying Results

Women’s Qualifying Results

4X Finals and more DH Action

4X Qualifying Chat

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Qualifying Action

Friday chit chat

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Thursday chit chat from Schladming

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If you pore through the top 200 UCI DH rankings, right before the final round gets under way in Schladming, you’ll only find one man older than Steve Peat; Brian Lopes (38) who sits in 178th place. And yet Peaty goes into the final round in first place with 1,534 pts. How does he stay at the top of his game? How does he stay fired up? The man is a marvel.

But I erred earlier when I grabbed the UCI rankings rather than the World Cup points standings. Time to rectify that now.

Contrary to what I said earlier, Sam Hill actually leads the World Cup circuit with 1219 points (note – World Championship points do not count toward your World Cup points total). Anyone in the top four could win it but with a big lead on the the remaining field it looks like it will be Hill or Minnaar – and Hill certainly has the edge on this track based on previous results.

Last year’s results for the top six from Schladming are below followed by the final standings.

Rank	Name	Nat.	Age*	Result
1	Samuel BLENKINSOP	NZL	20	4:10.16
2	Samuel HILL	AUS	23	4:11.80
3	Gee ATHERTON	GBR	23	4:12.36
4	Steve PEAT	GBR	34	4:13.20
5	Greg MINNAAR	RSA	27	4:17.56

2009 World Cup Standings Before Final Round in Schladming

Rank	Prev.	NAME / First Name		UCI Code	Team	Points

	1	1	HILL Samuel		AUS19850721	MER	1219
	2	3	MINNAAR Greg		RSA19811113	SCB	1203
	3	2	PEAT Steve		GBR19740617	SCB	1150
	4	4	ATHERTON Gee		GBR19850226	ANC	1078
	5	5	HANNAH Michael		AUS19831121	GTB	929
	6	6	LEOV Justin		NZL19841020	TRK	732
	7	7	FAIRCLOUGH Brendan		GBR19880110	MER	670
	8	8	BLENKINSOP Samuel		NZL19881028	YET	646
	9	10	GWIN Aaron		USA19871224	YET	632
	10	14	BAREL Fabien		FRA19800726	SUB	620
	11	9	SMITH Steve		CAN19891125	MSE	574
	12	13	BRYCELAND Josh		GBR19900323	SCB	529
	13	12	BEER Nick		SUI19870917	STT	520
	14	11	NEETHLING Andrew		RSA19840805	TRK	497
	15	15	BEAUMONT Marc		GBR19840925	GTB	478
	16	16	GUARDIA PASCUAL Bernat		ESP19820930	MAS	439
	17	23	KOVARIK Chris		AUS19780301	CRC	431
	18	22	PASCAL Mickael		FRA19791011	MSC	415
	19	19	RIFFLE Duncan		USA19861029	DRR	414
	20	18	DELFS Mitchell		AUS19890725	KMT	389
	21	17	LEHIKOINEN Matti		FIN19840419	MSE	388
	22	20	VAZQUEZ LOPEZ David		ESP19790210	LSS	382