Road results for cross riders - 2011

[Echoes]

Here I'm starting a thread to keep this section active in summer and gathering the road results for riders who are used to racing on the muddy courses of winter.

I'll be essentially busy with Euro riders but I'm inviting Americans to put us in the picture about the likes of Jonathan Page, Tim Johnson, etc.

For me, you're classified as crosser if you race 7 crosses in winter.


I'll start with Arnold Jeannesson :

40th Paris-Nice (GC)
12th final stage of Paris-Nice
16th Stage 1 of Paris-Nice
19th Stage 3 of Paris-Nice

 

[Buffalo Soldier]

Great idea!

 

[DirtyWorks]

Obligatory KfC Post

Katie Compton just has to show up at U.S. Nationals for a Top-3 on the mountain bike. Her palmares get rather long outside of World Cup-level racing.

FYI, it's my understanding Tim Johnson's not doing a road season on a domestic team to prepare for CX full-time. He'll likely crush the competition regionally.

So, maybe set an arbitrary UCI minimum level the event has to be to get some consistency to the results? For example, a race category 1 or above? See here for an explanation of race categories. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UCI_race_classifications

 

[Echoes]

Thank you both.

I've also read last year that Johnson wanted to focus mainly on cross but I can't imagine he won't race at all in summer. They're all forced to race if they want to keep up in winter.

Even the smallest races do interest me.


Anyway,

Steve Chainel is 34th at the Nokere Koerse.

 

[Buffalo Soldier]

Which other CX-riders will race MTB this summer?
Nys, ofcourse. Thijs Al? De Kneght? Heule? Fontana?
And the 2nd tier CX'er Hermida might do some races too

edit: and how about Tom Meeusen?

 

[Echoes]

Most of them usually race some mtb here and there but rarely at Nys standard. In Belgium I would say the second best at cross + mtb combo might be Bart Aernouts.

Eddy van IJzendoorn has planned to race the Nieuwkuijk mtb on April 24.

Stybar raced mtb events these last two years. He was in Houffalize 2 years ago. But with Quick Step, his schedule might change.



Tom Meeusen is flying tomorrow to Senegal, as I said in the Nacht van Woerden thread. He's riding 400km across the country for the charity "Bonjour-Afrique", for the building of a school in a suburb of Dakar.

http://www.nieuwsblad.be/article/detail.aspx?articleid=GTM36HCQT&subsection=132

Edit: He'll also be present at the first World Cup event in Dalby Forest, among other races:

# 18-27/3
Vélo Afrique (Senegal) MTB
# 14/5
Stoumont MTB
# 18/5
Puivelde Koerse ROAD
# 22/5
WB Dalby Forest (UK) MTB
# 28-29/5
WB Offenburg (DUI) MTB

 

[Echoes]

Stevie Chainel 31st in Milan Sanremo after attacking on the Via Aurelia at the bottom of the Cipressa descent, joined by Van Avermaet, teammate Offredo and O'Grady.

Offredo was the leader of the FdJeux duet and Steve gave it all for him and first of the quartet to drop out on the Poggio after Van Avermaet's attack. However he fought very hard to keep Nibali's wheel when the latter caught him. Impressive display by the Frenchman.


On another note, Christoph Pfingsten is 39th at the Handzame Classic !

 

[DirtyWorks]

Stevie Chainel 31st in Milan Sanremo after attacking on the Via Aurelia at the bottom of the Cipressa descent, joined by Van Avermaet, teammate Offredo and O'Grady.

Offredo was the leader of the FdJeux duet and Steve gave it all for him and first of the quartet to drop out on the Poggio after Van Avermaet's attack. However he fought very hard to keep Nibali's wheel when the latter caught him. Impressive display by the Frenchman.


On another note, Christoph Pfingsten is 39th at the Handzame Classic !

exactly what I saw. Let's hope more 'crossers see the front like that at 'selection time' in the spring classics.

 

[Echoes]

I'm just wondering if Stybar will manage it next year. Chainel skipped post-Worlds crosses.


Florian Le Corre finished the Cholet race, last Sunday: 101st.

I forgot to mention that Jempy Drucker finished 67th in the Three Days of West Flanders and also finished the Nokere Koerse.
Chainel started his road season at the Omloop Ghent-Ghent/Het Volk/Het Nieuwsblad.

 

[Echoes]

GP E3 Harelbeke


Chainel finished 15th.

He could catch the Haussler group before the Old Kwaremont but dropped out on that climb but still caught the train driven by locomotive Cancellara.

On the côte de Trieux, he was at a moment the last of the group and two Belgian riders were dropping before him, hence he made the effort to bridge the small gap that separated him from the Cancellara group while the two Belgians were really dropped out. In the final k's I still saw him making the job for Bonnet, I think but then suddenly he completely stood still (cramps, probably) and finished alone a bit more than 2' after Cancellara.

Tour of Normandy 2.2

Christoph Pfingsten finished 13th in the Final General Classification. He was long in the top10 but got out of it in the very last stage. Was 14th in the 3rd stage and 17th in the prologue.


Arnold Jeannesson finished the International Criterium and Luca Damiani is currently riding San Dimas Stage Race (Nat. Event) in the US.

 

[Echoes]

Three Days of De Panne:

Chainel was in the crash with Devolder in the second stage. I hope he'll be OK for Sunday. In the first stage he tried to break away from the peloton in the final 2km and to bridge the gap with the Greipel group. But to no avail.


Jempy Drucker was 19th in the second stage but outside time limits in the 3A stage. If anyone knows what happened?

Very bad race for me. All my faves have gone down.

 

[Echoes]

Tour of Flanders:

Steve Chainel is 86th.

But he was not 100% and far from it, according to this article: http://www.cyclismactu.net/news-t_des_flandres_chainel_pas_a_100_loin_de_la-14029.html
Still burnt on the right buttock and elbow and left shoulder. Two heavy crashes in a fortnight while in four years, he only crashed once. Under these conditions, finishing the race is already good, I think

Jempy Drucker finished 102nd. Great for his standard!

GP Indurain:

48. Arnold Jeannesson
49. Francis Mourey


Bertholet is 50th in the Tryptique Monts et Chateaux. Le Corre 44th in the Flèche d'Emeraude. Morgan Chedhomme raced the Boucle de l'Artois.

That's about it. I might have dropped one or two results but there are so many.

 

[DirtyWorks]

Lars Boom

Lars Boom put in a good dig over the Eikenburg to finish in the second group at the Tour of Flanders

 

[Echoes]

You're right, DW, Boom has been doing a very good season so far and a great Roubaix, yesterday. But I can hardly call him a crosser at this point. At least not a full time crosser.

Edit: And I forgot to mention that Boom made it on his cross bike just like Franzoi used to do. Wondering if Chainel did the same.

So ...

Scheldeprijs

88. Jempy Drucker
111. Steve Chainel


Paris-Roubaix

Chainel 33rd. "Chainelletje", as Michel Wuyts affectionately p) called him at one point, was still the Cancellara group in the section of Auchy (Chemin des abattoirs).

You can also notice him on this YT clip about Arenberg at 0.34, in his distinctive style (Boom passing first by): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvFb4SA2t88

Boom finished 12th

Edit one day after: to both, it was there first Paris-Roubaix finished. Congrats guys !!

Tour of the Basque Country

Gadret is 92nd and 3rd of the aforelast stage after Freire's disqualification.

Circuit des Ardennes (2.2)

10. Matthieu Boulo
24. Florian Le Corre
93. Francis Mourey
95. Romain Villa (still a crosser?)


Chris Pfingsten also finished 19th in the Cinturon a Mallorca (2.2).

 

[Buffalo Soldier]

Next month we'll see what Stybar is worth on the road. (Tour of California or Tour of Belgium)

 

[DirtyWorks]

Boom Again! at Paris Roubaix

I got around to watching P-R and who got a *monster* gap in the Arenburg sector? Lars Boom. http://www.cyclingnews.com/races/paris-roubaix-his/elite-men/photos/168340 He finished 12th at P-R. Excellent!!!

My Boom comments are starting to look like a man crush.

More Paris Roubaix...
Steve Chainel did well. I believe he had an incident or two on course.

 

[Echoes]

There was a thread on the PRR section: http://forum.cyclingnews.com/showthread.php?t=13065

His first race actually seems to be the 4 Days of Dunkirk and he chose the Tour of Belgium rather than California, apparently.


I forgot to mention that Cristian Heule did the Cinturon, as well but finished far behind Pfingsten.


Paris-Camembert

33. Mathieu Boulo
34. Florian Le Corre

Brabant Arrow

61. Francis Mourey (only 68 riders finished )

Edit:

There was an itw of Arnold Jeannesson on another site: http://www.velo-club.net/article?sid=62287

At my request, the interviewer asked him two question on cyclocross:

Tu as commencé ta saison en Cyclo-cross, certains le délaissent, d’autres y reviennent. Penses- tu toujours continuer dans cette voie dans le futur ?

Cela dépend de la date à laquelle je finirai ma saison, on en parlera avec Marc Madiot qui prendra la décision. Moi j’aimerai y prendre part comme cette saison mais de toute façon je ne ferai pas beaucoup de Cyclo-cross, m’arrêtant aux Championnats de France sans prendre part aux épreuves Coupe du Monde ou autres épreuves Belges qui sont d’un niveau trop élevé.

Do you think you'll keep racing cyclocross in the future?

It depends on when I finish my season. We're gonna talk about it with Marc Madiot who'll take the decision. Personally, I'd like to, like this season, but in any case, I won't do a lot of cyclocross, stopping at the French Nats, without World Cup and other Belgian events whose standard is too high.

Tu composes avec Chainel et Mourey un solide trio au sein de la FDJ. Est-ce que la stratégie de course se fait collectivement ou bien chacun joue sa carte personnelle ?

Il est difficile de mettre une stratégie collective sur une course Cyclo-cross mais nous possèdons en Francis Mourey le meilleur Français et l’un des meilleurs Mondiaux donc il est légitimement leader. Ensuite la course décide, nous ne courrons pas dessus, le plus important est qu’un FDJ gagne à la fin.

You have a solid trio within the FdJ. Is the race strategy collective or every man for himself?

It's difficult to build up a team strategy on a cyclocross race but with Francis Mourey, we have the best French rider and one of the best in the World, hence he is a legit leader. Then, the race decides, we won't race against each other, the most important being that in the end, an FdJ wins.

(an echo to a debate we've had on team strategy and cyclocross, last winter)

Also Chainel, gave his impression of Flanders (before the race) here: http://www.lefigaro.fr/flash-sport/2011/04/02/97003-20110402FILSPO00407-chainel-de-la-folie.php

(no time to translate right now. Might come back to it, if you're interested)

 

[Buffalo Soldier]

There was a thread on the PRR section: http://forum.cyclingnews.com/showthread.php?t=13065

His first race actually seems to be the 4 Days of Dunkirk and he chose the Tour of Belgium rather than California, apparently.

Thanks. Tour De Suisse is a real 'big' race. Very curious to see him in action there...

 

[Echoes]

GP Denain

37. Steve Chainel
72. Nicolas Bazin

Tour of Drenthe

29. Christoph Pfingsten (GC)

Liège Bastogne Liège (U23)

14. Émilien Viennet (He's barely 19, nice job Emi )

Tour of Finistère

11. Jempy Drucker

Tro Bro Leon

3. Arnold Jeannesson
4. Steve Chainel
21. Nicolas Bazin
25. Francis Mourey
37. Arnaud Labbe
41. Mathieu Boulo

Nice race by our crossers. Jeannesson was ahead in the section of Kerouartz with Hurel but with 18km to go, Hurel punctured and Arnie could not resist alone. Vincent Jérome and Chainel bridged the gap. You could see however that Jérôme was fresher than the two Fdjeux crossers. The Canadian Routley bridged the gap alone and then the two Fdjeux dropped out on asphalt.

Steve needs some rest now, I think. He's been on the run since October, almost non-stop.

Other crossers like Bazin or Mourey could be seen in the front for a while, while Arnaud Labbe had a small incident.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFXpg4JUQgw

 

[Echoes]

Paris-Mantes en Yvelines (1.2)

5 Nicolas Bazin
16 Julian Alaphilippe
27 Quentin Bertholet

Tour of Cologne

87 Christoph Pfingsten

Walloon Arrow

37 Arnold Jeannesson
74 John Gadret

Liège Bastogne Liège

36 Arnold Jeannesson
82 John Gadret

Tour of Turkey

23 Francis Mourey (4th in stage 6)
118 Jempy Drucker (was in the breakaway in the last stage but caught with 11km to go)

Tour of Romandy

26 John Gadret

Tour of Brittany 2.2

9 Mathieu Boulo (3rd in the Young Rider Classification)
23 Florian Le Corre

Hainaut Provincial Championship

10 Quentin Bertholet (I'm just wondering if Quentin is still racing cyclocross on a regular basis, and what about Drucker by the way ??)

Antwerp Provincial Championship

29 Kevin Cant

Tour of the Gila

41 Jamey Driscoll


And for Buffalo who asked about MTB:

Houffalize

5 Marco Aurelio Fontana
10 Geoff Kabush

Marek Konwa 4th of the U23 race

I'm sad that Houffalize is no longer a World Cup event. It's a classic MTB race.

 

[Buffalo Soldier]

And for Buffalo who asked about MTB:

Houffalize

5 Marco Aurelio Fontana
10 Geoff Kabush

Marek Konwa 4th of the U23 race

I'm sad that Houffalize is no longer a World Cup event. It's a classic MTB race.

Thanks. Nys en Meeusen will start their MTB season in 2 weeks in Stoumont, and will both ride the next world cup (Dalby Forest)
(Meeusen already did the charity ride Vélo afrique end of March http://www.facebook.com/pages/Vélo-Afrique/193544030658114)

Sad thing about Houffalize indeed, it was due to financial problems. I was hoping me joining this facebook group would solve all their problems, but no luck http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=220034524155&v=info


For the next three weeks, it will be all John Gadret on this thread, I suppose

 

[Buffalo Soldier]

Stybar made his debut on the road yesterday at the four days of dunkirk:
http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/sty...-about-road-debut-at-the-four-days-of-dunkirk

ended 55th, in the main group.

http://sporza.be/cm/sporza/wielrennen/110504_Duinkerke_Stybar
"really suffered the first 2 hours, this is something completely different. He's only there to gain form"

 

[Echoes]

I'm not that much into mtb but I really hope that Houffalize will be saved. I went there a couple of times in retreat with the school and it's a great place to do sport.

A whole thread on this section is dedicated to Meeusen and Vélo Afrique.

Lol about the Giro, I'm not gonna note every stage results , only if Gadret is performing + his final ranking if he doesn't retire.


Expected interview from Styby. I hope he'll do something in the upcoming races.

He was on the attack, yesterday. Cought by the peloton with 3.5km to go.

Here he is on the cobble section (which doesn't look as bad as Roubaix cobbles, at first glance, but I may be mistaken):

 

[L'arriviste]

Just want to let you know that I'm a fan of this thread, Echoes, so please keep it up if you can!

I'm watching Stybar's progress quite closely. This is because I followed the CX season every week over winter and it's really kind of interesting to see how he goes because I missed the Boompje transition.

 

[royalpig180]

Stybar finishes on the podium (3rd overall) in his first road race with Quick Step! Did a good job of getting into the group which produced the winner on the decisive stage yesterday. Impressive!