CadoMotus 4th in Sursee World Inline Cup. Mantia Wins again

This weekend got underway with the 7th stage of the World Inline Cup in Sursee Switzerland. The course was 21km a lap, smooth, slightly windy, and had a few hills, but nothing like the WIC Weinfelden stage. The CadoMotus ladies team, along with Diederik Hol (Manager/Director of CadoMotus) Mick Byrne and Desly Hill (Coach), left Holland Friday morning to arrive around 6pm in Sursee. The race wasn’t until 5.40pm the next day, which gave us plenty of time to rest after the long drive.

Bianca and me at the start line
(Click on pictures to enlarge)

The start of both the Mens and Ladies race was neutralized for the first 2km, in order for the public to get a good look at the skaters as they past by. During the race, attacks were made by Nicole Begg (NZ - Ssang Yong), Tamara Llorens (ARG - Sportvital RB) and sometimes the Alessi girls. It was quite a hard course to break away on, as the speed of the group was moving fast, and anyone that broke away off the front, was skating into the wind. As we came through the finish with one lap to go, Sportvital’s skater Tamara Llorens attacked off the front through the 500mts of the tight snaked section, with Nicole Begg and me chasing. As we made our way back on to the open road, the group soon caught.

Ladies Field sprint- Top Right picture. From Left - Laura Lardani, Sandra Gomez, Giovanna Turchiarelli, Nicole Begg, Bianca Roosenboom (behind Nicole), Angeline Thomas in middle of road, Nadine Gloor, Jana Gegner, Natalia Artero, Catherine Penan.

The group stayed together until the end, with all the teams organizing themselves for the finish from as early as 10km out. The Alessi team led, followed by Ssang Yong, Atheticum, World Inline Centre, CadoMotus and so on. As we made our way down the final hill, through the last tight right hand turn and towards a traffic island, the group split into two. I followed 6 other girls to the right of the road with my team on my wheel, where we then came over the top of a roundabout. The Alessi train began wasting their lead out girls and as we came through the last slight left hand turn there was 150mt to the finish. I somehow was now on the left hand side of the road, and weaving in and out of girls who had finished their lead. The two Alessi girls Giovanna Turchiarelli (ITA) and Sandra Gomez (ESP) both started sprinting from the right of the road, with Natalia Artero (ARG - World Inline Centre), Nicole Begg and me on the left. It was a close finish with Sandra Gomez taking the victory, her team mate Giovanna Turchiarelli for 2nd, a close lunge for Nicole Begg in 3rd and myself 4th.

Sandra Gomez 1st, Giovanna Turchiarelli 2nd, Nicole Begg 3rd, Angeline Thomas 4th Natalia Artero 5th.

Our team was so happy to get another podium (5 on the podium for the Ladies and 7 for the men), with Hilde Goovaerts placing 4th in Rennes a few weeks before. Bianca Roosenboom had a great race also placing 12th in the finish after doing a lot of work early in the race.

Sursee World Inline Cup Ladies Results

1. Sandra Gomez (ESP) - Alessi Powerslide World
2. Giovanna Turchiarelli (ITA) - Alessi Powerslide World
3. Nicole Begg (NZ) - Ssany Yong Jesa Bont
4. Angeline Thomas (AUS) - CadoMotus World

5. Natalia Artero (ARG) - World Inline Centre

6. Laura Lardani (ITA) - Sportvital RB

7. Ghizlane Samir (FRA) - SsangYong Jesa Bont

8. Catherine Penan (CHI) - Sportvital RB

9. Nadine Gloor (SUI) - Athleticum

10. Jana Gegner (GER) - Zepto

12. Bianca Roosenboom (NED) - CadoMotus World

19. Jannitta Spigt (NED) - CadoMotus World

21. Hilde Goovaerts (BEL) - CadoMotus World

For full Ladies results visit DATASPORT

For utube video of Ladies 42km click - http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=n1k1ok

In the mens, it was down to a sprint finish once again with Luiginos Joey Mantia (USA) taking the victory for the second week in a row, with no team mates. He won the sprint very easy with the group meters behind.

Sursee World Inline Cup Mens Results

1. Joey Mantia (USA) - Luigino USA

2. Luca Saggiorato (ITA) - Hyper Bont

3. Massi Presti - (ITA) - Hyper Bont

4. Nelson Garzon (COL) - Matter World Inline Centre

5. Francesco Zangarini (ITA) - Hyper Bont

6. Raphael Pfulg (SUI) - Athleticum Rollerblade

7. Yann Guyader (FRA) - Matter World Inline Centre

8. Luca Presti (ITA) - Hyper Bont

9. Stefano Galliazo (ITA) - Alessi Powerslide World

10. Fabio Francolini (ITA) - Powerslide Phuzion

For Full Mens Results visit DATASPORT

Leimuiden Open Competition

On Tuesday night was the Leimuiden Criterion race, held on a 700mt smooth asphalt course. This is one of the nicest criterion races of the year, with a nice party after. After a long weekend of racing, and doing strength training that morning, racing again two days later was quite hard. The ladies, C grade Men and Veteran Men were on the one podium, with only the prize money being separate for the ladies. Hilde and I were the only ones from CadoMotus to race as Jannitta and Bianca had National training.

Our race got off to a fast start, with a break away of me and two other C Men going after 3 laps. It was soon caught, with more attacks going off the front. As I returned to the group, my shins blew up and all I could do was sit in the group, try and recover and wait for the end sprint. There was still 20min and 3laps to go and I was hurting. Poor Hilde was at the front taking all the leaders laps and trying to follow the other breaks. As we got down to the final 5 minutes and 3 laps, a group of 3 went off the front again and held the gap to the finish. In the field sprint, I managed to make my way to Hilde and we came 2nd and 3rd across the line, and 1st, 2nd in the ladies.

Leimuiden CDV Open Competition

1.Nick Roetman - C Men
2.Ben van Ham - C Men
3.Hans Peschier - C Men
4.Nick Uithoven - C Men
5.Hilde Goovaerts - Dames
6.Angeline Thomas - Dames

For Full results

Leimuiden AB Open Competition

1. Ingmar Berga - A Men (break away)
2. Willem Hut - A Men (break away)
3. Arjan Mombarg - A Men (break away)
4. Michael Byrne - A Men

For Full results.

Mens report to follow…

Triple Header Weekend - Weinfelden T Track, Weinfelden Marathon, Almere World on Wheels

Friday Night
Weinfelden T Track

This past weekend was one of the toughest weeks for racing, with a triple header, Friday night the Team Relays, Saturday the WIC Marathon and Sunday the Dutch competition in Almere, Holland. Desly Hill, Bianca Roosenboom, Elma De Vries and I left Thursday lunch time for Weinfelden, Switzerland and arrived around 7pm. We checked into our rooms, and then wasted no time getting to the track to test wheels and have a roll. The Weinfelden track will also be where the World Championships will be in 2009

Friday night we began with the new T Track team relays. It was 5km, so very fast from the start. In the ladies there was two heats with the first 3 teams from each heat making it through to the final and one wild card to whomever the judges decided needed it. In our heat were World Inline Centre, Zepto, Athleticum and Alessie National. We would have made it through to the final comfortably, when in one change, I went to tag Hilde and she slipped and crashed. We went from 2nd to 5th and had no chance after that of catching 3rd. All we could do was hope that we got the Wild Card. World Inline Centre, Zepto and Athleticum made it through from our heat and from the other heat were Rollerblade, Alessie World and Ssang Yong Jesa. As we were the ONLY team to crash, they gave us the wild card, so we were very lucky.

Hilde Goovaerts was the starter from our team, with Bianca Roosenboom going out second and me going out 3rd and finishing. We got off the start in 4th and were going between 4th and 5th for the duration of the race. Our tags were quite shocking as we could never get a clear run from all the traffic and could never tag as hard as we wanted to. On the last corner and the last tag, I managed to pass one other team to come in 5th with the win going to Rollerblade skaters Laura Lardani, Catherine Penan and Tamara Llorens, 2nd Ssang Yong’s Nicole Begg, Tina Struver, and Andrea Gonzalez, 3rd World Inline Centre’s Melissa Bonnet, Nachi Shinozuka and Natalia Artero. It would have been nice to place on the podium, but we are happy with what we could do.

T Track Relay Weinfelden

1st Sportvital Rollerblade World (Lardani, Llorens, Penan)
2nd Ssanyong Jesa Bont (Begg, Struver, Gonzalez)
3rd World Inline Centre (Bonnet,Artero, Shinozuka)
4th Athleticum Rollerblade (Gloor, Khun, Stampfli)
5th Cado Motus World (Thomas, Goovaerts, Roosenboom)
6th Alessi Powerslide (Turcharelli, Gomez, Ponzetti)
7th Zepto (Gegnar, Armee, Van Praet)



Saturday
Weinfelden Marathon

The marathon was on Saturday night at 7pm, just around the corner from the Weinfelden T Track. It was a 21km lap with winding hills and then two very big hills, but when you go up, you must come down, so the downhill was nice. They started the ladies first with the men 2min behind (which was crazy as the men came flying past us not long after, causing a mass pile up on a downhill turn, very hairy). Bianca fell off the group after 8km, she did not enjoy the hills and being a sprinter, this made it difficult to recover quick. Many of the girls suffered going uphill and after the 1st uphill, we were left with 10 in the group. As we made our way into the second loop, the girls that had fallen off the leading group had caught up after having had a nice tow on the back of the mens pack. At the end of the race, 3 skaters were disqualified, but if rules were followed properly, they would have had to disqualify more than half the girls’ peleton for being towed up to the lead group.

There was 6km left in the race when all the teams started fighting to get behind the fast teams. Hilde tried to move up in the group to get a good position and in doing so; we ended up getting fought out and pushed into the grass. We lost a lot of speed and then had to start all over again. Hilde was tired from fighting and could not make the speed anymore, so Jannitta came to the front and led me back to the group. As I arrived at the group, the pace went up after Tochstone’s team memeber and Dutch rival Elma De Vries broke away solo off the front. The peleton panicked and quickly gave chase, as a huge gap of 200mt was opening up. Elma was caught about 200mts from the line with the group moving quite fast. I didn’t have a good position in the group for the field sprint and had no choice but to take off before the group got wound up. As I did that, the Alessi train of 5 skaters hit the front with the rest of the peleton following. I ended up placing 11th in the sprint with the win going to Laura Lardani (Sportvital), 2nd Giovanna Turchiarelli (Alessi Powerslide) 3rd Sandra Gomez (Alessi Powerslide).

Weinfelden Ladies Marathon

1. Laura Lardani (ITA) Sportvital
2. Giovanna Turchiarelli (ITA) Alessi Powerslide
3. Sandra Gomez (ESP) Alessi Powerslide
4. Nadine Gloor (SUI) Athleticum
5. Natalia Artero (ARG) World Inline Centre

11. Angeline Thomas
21. Hilde Goovaerts
22. Jannitta Spigt
Bianca Roosenboon DNF

For full Ladies results.
For full Mens results.

After the race, we went back to the hotel, had a shower and then started our drive back to Holland. Jannitta stayed on with our team manage Diederik Hol and drove to Dijon, France the next day to race in the WIC class 2 marathon, along with Jessica Gaudesaboos, Margo Van de Merwe and Sabrina Gaudesaboos. Hilde drove back to Belgium (as she had to work the next morning for 4hrs) and Desly, Elma, Bianca and I, drove back to Holland to so we could race the Almere World on Wheels competition the next day.

The Mens team raced in Gronigen NL, with a podium win by Michael Byrne.

Gronigen World on Wheels Mens Results

1. Sjoerd Huisman (NED) - Nefit
2. Michael Byrne (AUS) - Unive/Stouwdam - CadoMotus
3. Roy Boeve (NED) - Habovo

8. Christijn Groeneveld (NED) - Hyper/CadoMotus
13. Josh Lose (AUS) - Hyper/CadoMotus

Full results Mens A

Sunday
Almere World on Wheels

After leaving Weinfelden at 10pm the night before, we arrived in Holland at 5.30am. We couldn’t really sleep that well in the car, so by the time we got home it was goodnight world. The race wasn’t until 3.30pm so we could sleep till 12pm. The ladies peleton was not so big as some girls had raced the previous day in another World on Wheels competition in Gronigen and others had made the trip to Dijon. Hilde and I were the only ones from CadoMotus today but we were both leading the classement so needed to race in order to keep our points. Poor Hilde had crashed on Friday night, done two relays, raced a hard 42km hilly marathon, drove home late, worked the next day and then came to Holland to race her 3 day in a row. My weekend was pretty much the same minus the crash and work hehe!!

The race was very hard with many girls fresh from having a less tiresome weekend. Team Time Out kept on attacking along with Elma De Vries. Eventually a break away group went with two girls from Time Out, Elma De Vries and myself. Time Out kept on sending one skater off the front so Elma and I had to keep chasing, and every time we caught, the other Time Out would go. In the final lap, it came down to a cat and mouse game with Time Out in 1 and 2 followed by me then Elma. Elma took off first and I quickly jumped out to go as well. Whoever made it to the corner first came off with the most speed. Elma just got in front me and then drove it home on the long 100mt straight. I had nothing left and had to be happy with 2nd. Hilde won the field sprint placing 5th.

Almere World on Wheels Ladies

1. Elma De Vries (NED) - DSB
2. Angeline Thomas (AUS) - CadoMotus World
3. Maaike Polspoel (BEL) - Time Out
4. Anniek Ter Haar (NED) - Time Out
5. Hilde Goovaerts (BEL) - CadoMotus World

Full results Ladies A


Almere World on Wheels Mens Results

1. Sjoerd Huisman (NED) -Nefit
2. Michael Byrne (AUS) - Unive/Stouwdam - CadoMotus
3. Roy Boeve (NED) - Habovo

5. Christijn Groeneveld (NED) - Hyper/CadoMotus
7. Josh Lose (AUS) - Hyper/CadoMotus

Full results Mens A


The Unive/Stouwdam - CadoMotus and Hyper CadoMotus mens team races in Gronigen on Saturday and Almere on Sunday. Their report is to follow. But just so you know now - Michael Byrne was 2nd in Groningen and 2nd in Almere.
Report to follow...
(Its 1.15am here after we just finished racing in Leimuiden so I must get to bed)