1/5 September 2009 – The 2009 world championship reserved for elite men took place in Canberra, and offered the large audience present an exhilarating duel between Nino Schurter and the Olympic champion Julian Absalon. At the end, the young Swiss, already a junior and under 23 world champion, prevailed thanks to an overwhelming finish that forced the Frenchman to surrender. The other Swiss took third place on the podium Florian Vogel to 58".
Just for a breath Marcus Aurelius Fontana he failed to place among the "top ten" after having run a courageous race, which saw him move between sixth and seventh position until the fifth of the seven laps of the course.
Fontana was still in the top ten on the penultimate lap, then was overtaken by Sauser, the outgoing world champion, within sight of the finish line.

A good performance, but Fontana has the qualities to aspire to the top of the specialty: he demonstrated it with fifth place at the Beijing Olympics last year. Tony Longo's performance was generous, 27th at the end of a very regular race. Johnny Cattaneo, however, was unlucky, still suffering from his wrist after the fall in the Racers Bike Cup in Bern and forced to retire.

Among the women, with a spectacular progressive race, Irina Kalentieva won the world title cross country elite women. The 32-year-old champion thus returns to wear the rainbow jersey after two years. At the European Championships in July she placed second.
Good test Eve Lechner, ninth at the finish line despite a fall on the 2nd lap, when she was pedaling alongside the leaders. Put out of the podium area, Eva defended her position in the top ten with determination until the end.
Kalentieva's victory in Canberra is incredible. Having started very badly, so much so that she moved to 22nd position on the first lap, 1'02" behind the best, the Russian climbed up to 10th place on the 2nd lap, 1'14" behind Byberg, who in the meantime was passing alone in the lead with 5" on the Spitz and 14" on the Koerber. On lap 3 Kalentieva was already 5th, in the wake of the French Ravanel, 50" behind Byberg. In the fourth and penultimate lap the Russian was third, 29" behind the pacesetter and just 10" behind Koerber, while the Spitz slipped to 4th place at 34". Last lap with Kalentieva unleashed: she catches up and overtakes the American Koerber, points towards Byberg like an eagle, reaches her and overtakes her at double speed, flying towards the finish line. Great disappointment for the Norwegian: after leading for four and a half laps, she sees the gold turn into silver for 13″. Third place went to Koerber, 52” behind.

EL-M
	Nino SCHURTER	2h04'39 "
2	Julien ABSALON	3"
3	Florian VOGEL	58"
4	José Antonio Hermida Ramos	58"
5	Geoff Kabush	2'04"
6	Cédric Ravanel	2'35"
7	Jean Christophe Peraud	2'59"
8	Todd Wells	3'06"
9	Yaroslav Kulhavy	3'22"
10	Christopher Sauser	3'45"
11	Marcus Aurelius Fontana	3'56"
12	Stephane Tempier	4'09"
13	Martin Guyan	4'24"
14	Sven Nys	4'30"
15	Chris Jongewaard	4'35"
16	Roel Paulissen	4'44"
17	Emil Lindgren	4'51"
18	Adam Craig	5'03"
19	Philip Meirhaeghe	5'16"
20	Inaki Lejarreta Errasti	5'22"
21	Ruben Ruzafa Cueto	5'23"
22	Max Plaxton	6'07"
23	Moritz Milatz	6'36"
24	Carlos Coloma Nicolas	6'45"
25	Milan Spesny	6'53"
26	Jelmer Pietersma	6'58"
27	Tony longo	7'08"
28	Sergio Mantecon Gutierrez	7'28"
29	Samuel Schultz	7'31"
30	Rudy Van Houts	7'32"

EL W
	Irina KALENTIEVA	1h43'20 "
2	Lene BYBERG	13"
3	Willow KOERBER	52"
4	Sabine Spitz	1'30"
5	Anna Szafraniec	1'37"
6	Catherine Pendrel	2'36"
7	Cécile Rode Ravanel	3'07"
8	Esther Sweet	3'40"
9	Eve Lechner	3'58"
10	Heather Irmiger	4'12"
11	Blaza Klemencic	5'03"
12	Marie-Helene Premont	5'15"
13	Magdalena Sadlecka	5'50"
14	Catherine Compton	6'32"
15	Georgia Gould	7'01"
16	Margarita Fullana Riera	7'03"
17	Petra Henzi	7'28"
18	Anja Gradl	7'41"
19	Laura Metzler	7'46"
20	Katrin Leumann	7'55"

U23 M
	Burry STANDER	1h54'26 "
2	Alexis VUILLERMOZ	1'21"
3	Thomas LITSCHER	2'46"
4	Peter Sagan	4'15"
5	Marek Konwa	4'45"
6	Guillaume Vinit	4'59"
7	Matthias Wengelin	5'14"
8	Fabian Giger	5'32"
9	Lukas Kaufmann	5'57"
10	Catriel Soto	6'31"

UN23W
	Aleksandra DAWIDOWICZ	1h24'32 "
2	Alexandra ENGEN	1'13"
3	Julie BRESSET	2'31"
4	Catherine Stirnemann	4'03"
5	Annie Last	4'16"
6	Barbara Benko	4'35"
7	Paula Gorycka	5'13"
8	Vivianne Meyer	5'31"
9	Caroline Mani	5'42"
10	Vera Andreeva	5'43"

JUN M
	Gerhard KERSCHBAUMER	1h31'01 "
2	Ricardo MARINHEIRO	1'19"
3	Reto INDERGAND	1'34"
4	Matthew Stirnemann	1'38"
5	Tobias Ludvigsson	3'19"
6	Hugo Drchou	3'32"
7	Julian Schelb	3'38"
8	Luke Braidot	3'38"
9	Tomas Paprstka	4'57"
10	David Rodrigues	5'26"

JUN W
	Pauline FERRAND-PREVOT	1h05'23 "
2	Michelle HEDIGER	33"
3	Candice NEETHLING	1'06"
4	Helen Grobert	3'08"
5	Noga Korem	3'23"
6	Elise Marzoal	4'25"
7	Rebecca Henderson	4'47"
8	Vania Schumacher	4'57"
9	Julie Berteaux	4'58"
10	Yue Bai	5'01"

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