Source: FCI press release
Junior Loris Revelli conquered the European title in Wisla, Poland downhill junior men. The young Italian talent, decisive in the recent world championships, today unleashed an extraordinary performance in the final, beating the French Laly Thibault by 2"023, who had set the best time in the "seeding run", and the Czech by 2"735 Tomas Navratil.
Hosting the important continental event was Wisla, a small tourist resort located in Poland a few kilometers from the border with the Czech Republic and Slovakia. These two countries, together with the host one, brought most of the participants who battled with a good number of Germans, Austrians and Slovenes. To complete the picture of the athletes our boys with some French, English and Hungarian.
The track was built on one of the low hills surrounding with very little difference in height and therefore little slope, with a couple of insidious groves for the roots and various sections where it was necessary to relaunch the bike and pedal to the full, certainly the least in tune with our habits. .
Loris was expected in Andorra after his beautiful victory in Val di Sole, but a trivial crash prevented him from getting on the podium of the world championships, but here he managed to express his full potential and won in front of the strong Frenchman Thibauld Laly.
But it doesn't end there, Italy of downhill she also takes home silver and bronze in the elite women's race with Veronika Widmann and Eleonora Farina, respectively second and third in the race won by the Czech Jana Bartova. The 22-year-old Italian champion from Termeno finished 2"441 behind the winner.
The home athlete Jana Bartova who had never been in front of our two athletes during the season but who made the most of her perfect knowledge of the track.
In the men's elite race Slovenian Jure Zabjek won with 0 "643 ahead of Polish Sławomir Łukasik and 2" 302 over Swiss Lutz Weber. The blues Carlo Caire and Gianluca Vernassa finished in 20th and 21st place, Francesco Colombo in 37th.
In the "seeding run" Carlo Caire had obtained the 14th position, Vernassa the 27th, then improving clearly in the final.
MEN JUNIORES
Loris Revelli (Ita) 2'24 ″ 001; 2. Laly Thibault (Fra) at 2 ″ 023; 3. Tomas Navratil (Czech Republic) at 2 ″ 735; 4. Maxime Ciriego (Fra) at 3 ″ 545; 5. Denis Kohut (Svk) at 3 ″ 596; 6. Luka Berginc (Slo) at 3 ″ 956; 7. Oskar Masaryk (Svk) at 4 ″ 511; 8. Adam Rojcek (Svk) at 4 ″ 660; 9. James Hurst (Gbr) at 4 ″ 810; 10. Hugo Robenek (Czech Republic) at 7 ″ 058
ELITE WOMEN
Jana Bartova (Czech Republic) 2'44 ″ 597; 2. Veronika Widmann (Ita) at 2 ″ 441; 3. Eleonora Farina (Ita) at 8 ″ 116; 4. Monika Hrastnik (Slo) at 9 ″ 573; 5. Sonia Skrzypnik (Pol) at 11 ″ 506; 6. Elke (Rabeder Aut) at 12 ″ 915
ELITE MEN
Jure Zabjek (Slo) 2'18 ″ 071; 2. Sławomir Łukasik (Pol) at 0 ″ 643; 3. Lutz Weber (Svi) at 2 ″ 302; 4. David Trummer (Aut) at 2 ″ 998; 5. Jack Reading (Gbr) at 3 ″ 130; 6. Harry (Molloy Gbr) at 3 ″ 317; 7. Miran Vauh (Slo) at 3 ″ 322; 8. Attila Liszi (Ung) at 4 ″ 050; 9. Jozef Ondic (Svk) at 4 ″ 110; 10. Noel Niederberger (Svi) at 4 ″ 154; 20. Carlo Caire (Ita) at 6 ″ 985; 21. Gianluca Vernassa (Ita) at 7 ″ 250; 37. Francesco Colombo (Ita).
