AJ takes Silver in World Middle Distance Champs

Tuesday, 13 July 2010

AJ has just won the silver medal in the Mens Middle Distance event at the 2010 World MTBO Championships, finishing 40 seconds behind the young Finnish rider, Samuli Saarela.

Some great rides from the rest of the Aussies - their times, including splits at radio controls, are given below (taken from preliminary results).

Unfortunately, the JWOC courses have been cancelled due to a poorly placed control.  Chris Firman finished just outside the top 20, with Luke Poland 30th and Marc Gluskie 36th out of a field of 56 riders.

World Championship Middle Distance event

(includes maps for each discipline)

Middle Distance results

Middle Distance splits

Australian team blog 

Results for all Australian team members:

Men:
  1 Samuli Saarela (FIN) 36:02 (1)   1:00:28 (1)     1:06:34 
  2 Adrian Jackson         38:15 (5)   1:00:53 (2)     1:07:14
21 Alex Randall               41:05 (22) 1:08:09 (21)  1:15:07 
25 Steven Cusworth      43:02 (31)  1:09:34 (26)  1:16:44 
48 Grant Lebbink            46:00 (47)  1:16:59 (47)  1:23:57

Women:
  1 Michaela Gigon (AUT) 26:46 (10)    54:59    (1)   1:00:39
25 Melanie Simpson          30:14 (31)  1:02:30 (24)  1:09:32 
27 Mary Fien                      30:00 (27)  1:02:59 (25)   1:10:13

Junior Men:
Results cancelled due to coursesetting error.
Event to be rerun at the time originally scheduled for the Long Distance qualifying event.

You can follow each event live on the web - go to the 2010 World MTBO Championships website.  Most up to date results were available today via the event page and the preliminary results link, but there was also a less frequent set of updates from the radio controls which gave more information. 

Details of the schedule for the rest of the week - remember that Portugal is 9 hours behind the East Coast of Australia.

Wed 14 July - Long qualifying, JWOC Middle Distance
Fri 16 July - Long Distance
Sat 17 July - Relay