Dan Atherton Wins Andorra MTX

1 Dan Atherton
2 Brian Lopes

AngelFire Top 5 Men

1 Kieran bennett
2 Kain leonard
3 eli krahenbuhl
4 lars sternberg
5 brad benedict

Kieran Bennett Wins Angelfire DH!

Kieran bennett leads by 2 hunreths

Kain leonard in hot seat

Lars sternberg into lead!

Benedict still leads

15 riders to go.
Alfonso Garcia currently 2nd

Brad Benedict in hotseat!

5.25

Buhl Wins AngelFire DH

1 Melissa Buhl 6.15.72
2 Lisa Myklak
3 Abigail Hippely
4 jackie harmony
5 darian harvy

Buhl wins by approx 37 seconds!

Houseman & Buhl National MTX Champs!

Men
1 Rich Houseman
2 Blake Carney (only 17 yrs old)
3 Chris Boice
4 Joey Backus
5 Rudy Unrau

Women
1 Melissa Buhl
2 Neven Steinmetz
3 Jess Vogt
4 Sondra Williamson
5 Jackie Baker

Official AngelFire Quali

Men
1 aaron gwin 5.32.56
2 Kieran bennett 5.33.61
3 Eli krahenguhl 5.33.63
4 Matt fisher
5 Kain leonard
6 Lars sternberg
7 Brad oien
8 Daniel weinman
9 Zach griffiths
10 Chris boice

Women
1 Melissa buhl 6.18
2 Darian harvey 6.57
3 Lisa myklak 7.09
4 Abigail hippely
5 Jacqueline harmony

Gwin takes AngelFire DH Quali

Unofficial ...waiting on print out. Apparently there is problems with timing

1 Aaron Gwin 5.32
2 Kieran Bennett 5.33?

US Open Results

Pro Men
1 Steve Smith 2.36
2 Sam Hill 2.37
3 Bryn Atkinson
4 Matti Lehikonen
5 Andre Neethling

US Open Slalom Finals

Men
1 Jared Rando
2 JD Swanguen
3 Kyle Strait
4 Bryn Atkinson

Women
1 Fionn Griffiths
2 Kathy Pruitt
3 Joanna Petterson

Angel Fire MSC MTX finals

Men
1 Petr Hanak
2 Eric Nelson
3 Houseman
4 EC

Women
1 melissa buhl
2 jess vogt
3 neven steinmentz
4 steph hatalsky

Semi Pro
1 trouy cooperman
2 james hollibaugh
3 Jake Kinney
4 jordan rupe

Angel Fire MSC MTX Quali

Men
1 Hanak
2 Boice
3 Carter
4 Houseman

Women
1 Buhl
2 Myklak
3 Steinbreker
4 Bower

Angel Fire MSC MTX Quali

Men
1 Hanak
2 Boice
3 Carter
4 Houseman

Women
1 Buhl
2 Myklak
3 Steinbreker
4 Bower

MS

Men
1 Hanak
2 Boice
3 Carter
4 Houseman

Women
1 Buhl
2 Myklak
3 Steinbreker
4 Bower

US Open Quali Results

Sam Hill 2.39
Andrew Neethling 2.42
Steve Smith
Bryn Atkinson
Filip Polk

US Open Quali Results

Sam Hill 2.39
Andrew Neethling 2.42
Steve Smith
Bryn Atkinson
Filip Polk

Angel Fire snow covered ski runs

I got as far as the pits, then saw this... Its snowing up top, the course is iced over, and mucky where its melting. Not so much fun. Sorry for the lack of updates. Internet is really crappy here for some reason this season

Snow and thunder!

Its Snowing!

Gwin's new sponsor

Aaron Gwin, along with Kevin Aiello (who isn't here this weekend) picked up a new sponsor - Monster Energy!

Snowing in Angelfire

So we woke up this morning to cold temperatures and it's SNOWING!

Brad Benedict wins his first national!

WINDY!!!!

Men
1 Brad Benedict 2.00.4
2 Eric Carter 2.01.3
3 Waylon Smith
4 Julius Sylvanen
5 logan Binggeli
6 rich houseman
7 george stevenson
8 ian odom
9 brad oien
10 tyler wilson (first pro race)

Women

1 melissa Buhl 2.08.5
2 michelle rivera 2.24.2
3 sondra williamson

Santa Ynez DH quali

Damn. It's 10:30 and I'm already melting. Finals are gonna suck!

Men
1 Waylon Smith 1.59
2 Julius Sylvanen
3 Brad Benedict
4 Ryan Condroshoff
5 Jon Wilson
6 Rich Houseman
7 brad oien
8 orlando martinez
9 ben furbee
10 cody wilderman

21 men total. Many riders coasted since everyone qualifies.

Women
1 melissa Buhl
2 darian harvey
3 christine hirst

6 women total

Santa Ynez slalom results

Men

1 Rich Houseman
2 Chris Powell
3 Eric Carter
4 Mike Haderer

Women

1 Melissa Buhl
2 Leigh Donovan

Stolen bike alert!

Stolen from the Santa Ynez parking lot.

Intense Socom with black Boxxer world cup

Was stolen off a balck Subaru WRX

Contact Ryan Cleek at MB Action

Santa Ynez Saturday update

What a waste. Organizers screwed up the schedule, so morning pro dh practice got morning got moved to 3pm.. Leaving only one hour to ride.

Apparently there are only 860 riders this weekend... TOTAL! That's dh, ds, xc - pro and amateur combined! So that's about 260.

Everyone here is serching for shade, air conditioning and water. So miserable here!

XC note: Kelli Emmett just won her first NMBS XC race! Congrats Kelli!

Santa Ynez Slalom Quali

Hot, sunny and dry... Miserable! Not too surprising that the field wasn't big. Only 16 men qualify as 20 riders participated. Slalom photos to follow this eve.

Men

1 Ec 39.94
2 Chris Powell 40.44
3 Mike Haderer
4 Rich Houseman
5 Petr hanak

Women

1 melissa Buhl
2 Leigh donovan
3 Sondra williamson
4 Darian harvey

Semi

1 Jake kinney
2 Amado stachenfeld
3 Daniel cortina

Leigh Donovan to race Santa Ynez NMBS!

In her first week of vacation, leigh decided to race slalom and super d this weekend!

Maribor WC DOWNHILL Finals

MEN

1: Sam Hill 2:47.54
2: Julien Camellini 2:50.62
3: Steve Peat 2:51.85
4: Fabien Barel 2:52.11
5: Greg Minnaar 2:52.19
6: Gee Atherton 2:52.34
7: Chris Kovarik 2:52.52
8: Justin Leov 2:52.56
9: Brendan Fairclough 2:54.23
10: Andrew Neethling 2:55.49

WOMEN

Elite Women:
1: Sabrina Jonnier 3:14.31
2:Rachel Atherton 3:14.49
3:Emmeline Ragot 3:21.80
4: Fionn Griffiths 3:23.61
5:Floraine Pugin 3:23.95

Maribor WC Downhill QUALFYING

Elite Men

1: Julien Camellini 2:52.66
2: Steve Peat 2:52.82
3: Sam Hill 2:53.21
4: Greg Minnaar 2:53.36
5: Fabien Barel
6: Florent Payet
7: Marc Beaumont
8: Chris Kovarik
9: Josh Bryceland
10: Nathan Rennie
11: Brendan Fairclough


Elite Women:

1. Rachel Atherton 3:15.46
2. Floriane Pugin 3:20.14
3. Sabrinna Jonnier 3:21.63

Maribor MTX Full Results

Women

Big Final
1. Anneke Beerten (Ned) Ms-Intense Factory-Racing
2. Anita Molcik (Aut) 4 Elements Yet
3. Fionn Griffiths (GBr) Norco World Team
4. Melissa Buhl (USA) Khs

Small Final
5. Lucia Oetjen (Sui)
6. Helene Fruhwirth (Aut)
7. Eva Castro Fernandez (Esp)
8. Diana Marggraff (Ecu)

1/4 Finals
9. Kathleen Pruitt (USA)
10. Marielle Jonker (Ned)
11. Tereza Votavova (Cze)
12. Katarina Tothova (Cze)
13. Elisa Canepa (Ita) Playbiker - Iron Horse
14. Angelika Hohenwarter (Aut)
DNF. Mio Suemasa (Jpn) Ms-Intense Factory-Racing

Men

Big Final
1. Rafael Alvarez De Lara Lu (Esp)
2. Guido Tschugg (Ger)
3. Johannes Fischbach (Ger) Team Ghost International
4. Tomas Slavik (Cze)

Small Final
5. C?dric Gracia (Fra) Commencal - Furious - Oak
6. Romain Saladini (Fra) Team Sunn
7. Mickael Deldycke (Fra)
8. Jurg Meijer (Ned)

1/4 Finals
9. Kamil Tatarkovic (Cze) Suzuki-Rb
10. Tomas Haluza (Cze)
11. Dave Wardell (GBr)
12. Sidney Gerber (Sui)
13. Filip Polc (Svk) Kenda Tomac
14. William Evans (GBr)
15. Miroslav Jirka (Cze)
16. Livio Zampieri (Ita)

1/8 Finals
17. Dan Atherton (GBr) Animal Commencal
18. Ross Milan (USA) Yeti Fox Shox Factory Rac
19. Tilen Frank (Slo) Team Scott Lactat
20. Lewis Lacey (GBr)
21. Lukas Mechura (Cze)
22. Matthew Simmonds (GBr) Chain Reaction Cycle
23. Luka Novak (Slo) Team Enduro Mulisha
24. Bernard Kerr (GBr)
25. Joost Wichman (Ned) Cannondale Factory Racing
26. Dominik Gspan (Sui)
27. Scott Beaumont (GBr) Rocky Mountain Uk
28. Nathan Rennie (Aus) Santa Cruz Syndicate
29. Radim Kvacek (Cze)
30. Premek Tejchman (Cze)
31. Markus Sedlak (Aut)
32. Federico Ravizzini (Ita)

1/16 Finals
33. Brian Lopes (USA) Gt
34. Matej Stapic (Slo) Team Enduro Mulisha
35. Mathieu Faury (Fra)
36. Michael Robert Haderer (USA)
37. Sascha Meyenborg (Ger)
38. Thomas Sch?fer (Ger)
39. Rastislav Pirman (Svk) 4 Elements Yeti
40. Jakub Pytlik (Cze)
41. Peter Prajczer (Hun)
42. Gabor Vigh-Kiss (Hun)
43. Adrian Kiener (Sui)
44. Patrick Campbell-Jenner (GBr)
45. Marek Pesko (Svk)
46. Nicolas Siedl (Aut)
47. Thomas Warmuth (Aut)
48. Federico Mattia Gemme (Ita)
49. Joey Van Veghel (Ned)
50. Daniel Prijkel (Ned)
51. Peter Novacik (Svk)
52. Adrian Weiss (Sui)
53. Sascha Vetsch (Sui)
54. Zdenek Nasinec (Cze)
55. Fr?d?ric Lange (Bel)
56. Lukasz Baran (Pol)
57. Nicolas Gspan (Sui)
58. Alejandro Lozano (Esp)
59. Hannes Slavik (Aut)
60. Peter Fernbach (Aut)
61. Matej Vitko (Svk)
62. Martin Frei (Sui)
63. Ales Rogozan (Cze)
64. Will Longden (GBr)

Maribor WC MTX Final Results!

MEN

1 Rafa Alvarez De Lara
2 Guido Tschugg
3 Johannes Fischbach
4 Tomas Slavik
5 Cedric Gracia

WOMEN

1 Anneke Beerten
2 Anita Molcik
3 Fionn Griffiths
4 Melissa Buhl

Maribor MTX Qualifying Results!

Qualifying

Women

1. Anneke Beerten (Ned) MS-Intense Factory-Racing 0:59.21
2. Fionn Griffiths (GBr) Norco World Team at 1.08
3. Melissa Buhl (USA) KHS 2.89
4. Mio Suemasa (Jpn) MS-Intense Factory-Racing 2.92
5. Lucia Oetjen (Sui) 4.07
6. Diana Marggraff (Ecu) 5.35
7. Kathleen Pruitt (USA) 6.45
8. Marielle Jonker (Ned) 6.68
9. Helene Fruhwirth (Aut) 6.95
10. Eva Castro Fernandez (Esp) 7.14
11. Elisa Canepa (Ita) 8.95
12. Anita Molcik (Aut) 9.43
13. Tereza Votavova (Cze) 10.07
14. Katarina Tothova (Cze) 15.10
15. Angelika Hohenwarter (Aut) 25.68
DNS. Joanna Petterson (RSA)

Men

1. Dan Atherton (GBr) Animal Commencal 0:52.35
2. Kamil Tatarkovic (Cze) Suzuki-Rb at 1.05
3. Romain Saladini (Fra) Team Sunn 1.25
4. Ross Milan (USA) Yeti Fox Shox Factory Rac 1.34
5. R Alvarez De Lara Luca (Esp) 1.84
6. Brian Lopes (USA) GT 1.85
6. Filip Polc (Svk) Kenda Tomac 1.85
8. Cedric Gracia (Fra) Commencal - Furious - Oakley 1.89
9. Joost Wichman (Ned) Cannondale Factory Racing 1.91
10. Mickael Deldycke (Fra) 1.95
11. Tilen Frank (Slo) Team Scott Lactat 2.35
12. Guido Tschugg (Ger) 2.36
13. Matej Vitko (Svk) 2.52
14. Johannes Fischbach (Ger) Team Ghost International 2.55
15. Tomas Slavik (Cze) 2.68
16. Livio Zampieri (Ita) 2.85
17. Jurg Meijer (Ned) 2.88
18. Dominik Gspan (Sui) 3
19. Scott Beaumont (GBr) Rocky Mountain Uk 3.09
20. Nathan Rennie (Aus) Santa Cruz Syndicate 3.13
21. Lewis Lacey (GBr) 3.16
22. Tomas Haluza (Cze) 3.32
23. Radim Kvacek (Cze) 3.33
24. Matej Stapic (Slo) Team Enduro Mulisha 3.35
25. Mathieu Faury (Fra) 3.37
26. Alejandro Lozano (Esp) Motril-Sierra Nevada Bike 3.38
27. Will Longden (GBr) Team Bike Radar 3.39
28. Michael Robert Haderer (USA) 3.4
29. Dave Wardell (GBr) 3.42
30. Lukas Mechura (Cze) 3.61
31. Sascha Meyenborg (Ger) 3.62
32. Premek Tejchman (Cze) 3.63
33. Thomas Sch?fer (Ger) 3.76
34. Matthew Simmonds (GBr) Chain Reaction Cycle 3.87
35. Rastislav Pirman (Svk) 4 Elements Yeti 3.97
36. Jakub Pytlik (Cze) 4.08
37. Markus Sedlak (Aut) 4.16
38. William Evans (GBr) 4.23
39. Peter Prajczer (Hun) 4.26
40. Sidney Gerber (Sui) 4.33
41. Luka Novak (Slo) 4.36
42. Gabor Vigh-Kiss (Hun) 4.39
43. Adrian Kiener (Sui) 4.54
44. Patric Campbell-Jenner (GBr) 4.56
45. Miroslav Jirka (Cze) 4.62
46. Marek Pesko (Svk) 4.67
47. Nicolas Siedl (Aut) 4.71
48. Thomas Warmuth (Aut) 4.72
49. Federico Mattia Gemme (Ita) 4.94
50. Joey Van Veghel (Ned) 4.95
51. Martin Frei (Sui) 4.98
52. Ales Rogozan (Cze) 5.03
53. Daniel Prijkel (Ned) 5.31
54. Peter Novacik (Svk) 5.38
55. Adrian Weiss (Sui) 5.43
56. Sascha Vetsch (Sui) 5.49
57. Zdenek Nasinec (Cze) 5.51
58. Bernard Kerr (GBr) 5.56
59. Federico Ravizzini (Ita) 5.58
60. Hannes Slavik (Aut) 5.62
61. Fr?d?ric Lange (Bel) 5.69
62. Peter Fernbach (Aut) 5.83
63. Lukasz Baran (Pol) 6.13
64. Nicolas Gspan (Sui) 6.25
65. Robert Simecek (Cze) 6.38
66. Martin Buck (Sui) 6.44
66. Ziga Knez (Slo) 6.44
68. Attila Kovacs (Hun) 6.6
69. Walter Zeidler (Aut) 6.61
70. Ludovic Gadois (Fra) 6.66
71. Thomas Krainer (Aut) 6.81
72. Jakub Koutny (Cze) 6.86
73. Krisztian Meszaros (Hun) 7.01
74. Robert Kulesza (Pol) 7.25
75. Luka Strnad Peterca (Slo) 7.86
76. Adrian Hanko (Ger) 7.9
77. Quentin Derbier (Fra) 8.01
78. Mirco Weiss (Sui) 8.99
79. Reto Schmid (Sui) 9.24
80. Peter Roschner (Aut) 9.29
81. Thomas Tokarczyk (USA) 13.00
82. Mitchell Scarr (Aus) 17.20
83. Luka Verstovsek (Slo) 44.14
DNS. Michal Marosi (Cze)
DNS. Daniel Yeomans (GBr)
DNS. Thomas Bubla (Aut)
DNS. Dario Zampieri (Ita)
DNS. Lars Peyer (Sui)
DNS. Kyle Strait (USA)
DNS. Miran Vauh (Slo)
DNS. Gabor Patay (Hun)
DNS. Milan Prischetzky (Hun)

Maribor MTX Quali - Dan Atherton & Anneke Beerten on Top

more results to follow shortly

USA Cycling Mountain Bike National Gravity Calendar Standings

The second event on the USA Cycling Mountain Bike National Gravity Calendar, the Chalk Creek Stampede, took place in Nathrop, Colo., May 2-3. Both the dual slalom and 4-cross contests were a part of the calendar, with Aaron Gwin (Morongo Valley, Calif.) taking the dual slalom crown and Petr Hanak (Winter Park, Colo.) winning the 4-cross event. The women's standings also got cranked up with Joanna Petterson (Folsom, Calif.) winning both the 4-cross and dual slalom contests. To view complete results from the Chalk Creek Stampede, click here.

The current 2008 USA Cycling Mountain Bike National Gravity Calendar standings are as follows:

Men's Standings
1. Petr Hanak (Winter Park, Colo.) 40
2. Aaron Gwin (Morongo Valley, Calif.) 36
3. Rich Houseman (Temecula, Calif.) 32
4. Ross Milan (Arvada, Colo.) 32
5. Curtis Beavers (San Jose, Calif.) 30

Women's Standings
1. Joanna Petterson (Folsom, Calif.) 60
2. Neven Steinmetz (Boulder, Colo.) 30
3. Jessica Vogt (Boulder, Colo.) 24
4. Bobbi Watt (Broomfield, Colo.) 20
5. Lisa Myklak (Boulder, Colo.) 20

MSC - Chalk Creek Stampede SLALOM WOMEN Results!

Let's not forget the women! Thanks neven for the update!

Pro Women Dual Slalom
1. Joanna Petterson
2. Lisa Myklak
3. Neven Steinmetz
4. Jessica Vogt

MSC - Chalk Creek Stampede SLALOM Results!

Rich Houseman just dropped us an update with today's Dual Slaom Results from the Chalk Creek Stampede MSC race.

Pro Men Slalom
1. Aaron Gwin
2. Rich Houseman
3. John Watt
4. Ross Milan

This is Gwiny's first pro vicotry... hell, his first victory altogether as he's ony been racing a few months!

Geritt Beytagh wins at Platekill

Kevin Aiello wins at Plattekill

Kevin Aiello wins by 5 second... Which would also have put him 2nd in pro class (1 second behind beytagh)

This qualifies kevin as an automatic spot on the jr worlds team!

Worlds Test Event DH Results!

Val di Sole, Italy.

Results Elite men:
1. Sam Hill 3.19
2. Steve Peat 3.24
3. Fabian Barel 3.26
4. Florent Payet 3.27
5. Justin Leov 3.28
6. Joshua Braceland 3.29
7. Sam Blenkinsop 3.29
8. Greg Minnaar 3.29


Results Elite Women:
1. Floriane Pugin 4.05
2. Sabrina Jonnier 4.09
3. Emmeline Ragot 4.11
4. Mio Suemasa 4.18
5. Anais Pajot 4.18
6. Fionn Griffiths 4.22

MSC - Chalk Creek Stampede MTX WOMEN Results!

neven just chewed me out for now including the women! haha j/k she just supplied me with the updates

Pro Women
1. Joanna Petterson
2. Bobbi Watt
3. Neven Steinmetz
4. Jess Vogt

MSC - Chalk Creek Stampede MTX Results!

Rich Houseman (Team Yeti Fox Shox) just sent in a text with MTX Results from the Mountain States Cup - Chalk Creek Stampede!

Pro Men
1. Peter Hanak
2. Ross Milan
3. Eric Carter
4. Rich Houseman