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2009 UCI Mountain Bike World Championshi

September 1, 2009 - September 6, 2009 • Canberra, Australia Coverage created by Colt McElwaine

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dad 3 years ago

http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converted.html?month=9&day=5&year=2009&hour=14&min=0&sec=0&p1=57&p2=179

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Colt McElwaine 3 years ago

Results from Team Relay are in: (Geoff Kabush had the fastest lap time of the day at 17:22)

American squad rides to 12th as Mountain Bike Worlds open with team relay

Canberra, AUS (September 1, 2009) The 2009 UCI Mountain Bike World Championships got underway on Tuesday with the team relay event in which the U.S. placed 12th.

In the team relay, each nation entered a team comprised of an elite male, elite female, U23 male, and junior male. Each rider contested one lap of the 6.47-kilometer Stromlo Forest Cross Country course and at the end of their lap, tagged the next rider on their team.

The U.S. foursome was made up of Heather Irmiger (Boulder, Colo./Subaru-Gary Fisher), Russell Finsterwald (Colorado Springs, Colo./Pro Cycling-SRM), Colin Cares (Boulder, Colo./Kenda-Tomac-Hayes), and Jeremy Horgan-Kobelski (Boulder, Colo./Subaru-Gary Fisher)

Completing the four laps with a final time of 1:17:54, the American squad was 3:52 off the winning pace set by the Italians. The Canadian and French teams earned the silver and bronze medals.

Next up in Canberra are the Junior Womens and U23 Womens cross country events. Jill Behlen (Boulder, Colo./Tokyo Joes) and Essence Barton (Thousand Oaks, Calif.) will toe the line for the junior womens event Wednesday morning while Amy Dombrowski (Boulder, Colo./Webcor Builders) and Chloe Forsman (Tuscon, Ariz./Luna) will represent the U.S. in the U23 womens contest in the afternoon.

1 Italy (Marco Aurelio Fontana/Gerhard Kerschbaumer/Eva Lechner/Cristian Cominelli) 1:14:02
2 Canada (Raphael Gagne/Geoff Kabush/Evan Guthrie/Catharine Pendrel) 0:00:06
3 France (Alexis Vuillermoz/Cédric Ravanel/Hugo Drechou/Cécile Rode Ravanel) 0:00:08
4 Sweden (Emil Lindgren/Tobias Ludvigsson/Alexandra Engen/Mattias Wengelin) 0:00:54
5 Switzerland (Florian Vogel/Matthias Stirnemann/Nathalie Schneitter/Fabian Giger) 0:01:00
6 Netherlands (Irjan Luttenberg/Michiel Van Der Heijden/Laura Turpijn/Jelmer Pietersma) 0:03:00
7 Germany (Moritz Milatz/Martin Gluth/Markus Bauer/Sabine Spitz) 0:03:04
8 Czech Republic (Jaroslav Kulhavy/Jan Nesvadba/Pavla Havlikova/Lukas Sablik) 0:03:24
9 Great Britain (Liam Killeen/Kenta Gallagher/Annie Last/David Fletcher) 0:03:25
10 Belgium (Sven Nys/Tom Meeusen/Ruben Scheire/Sanne Cant) 0:03:29
11 Poland (Marcin Karczynski/Marek Konwa/Maja Wloszczowska/Maciej Adamczyk) 0:03:51
12 United States Of America (Heather Irmiger/Russell Finsterwald/Colin Cares/Jeremy Horgan-Kobelski) 0:03:52
13 Slovakia (Peter Sagan/Daniel Hula/Janka Stevkova/Michal Lami) 0:04:16
14 Australia (Chris Jongewaard/Lachlan Norris/Michael Baker/Rowena Fry) 0:04:52
15 Austria (Hannes Metzler/Simon Scheiber/Maria Osl/Gregor Raggl) 0:04:57
16 Slovenia (Luka Mezgec/Urban Ferencak/Blaza Klemencic/Vid Tancer) 0:05:01
17 Russian Federation (Maxim Gogolev/Evgeniy Nikolaev/Irina Kalentieva/Ivan Smirnov) 0:06:18
18 New Zealand (Michael Northcott/Nicola Leary/Brad Hudson/Ashley Hough) 0:07:57
19 Japan (Kohei Yamamoto/Seiya Hirano/Rie Katayama/Idomu Yamamoto) 0:09:19

Colt McElwaine 3 years ago

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Karen 3 years ago

So just to confirm and get my timing right...the womens race will start at 9pm Friday (EST) and the mens race will be at 1am Saturday (EST).

They are 14hrs ahead?

Can anybody help me with this?

go to timezoneconverter.com, put in race time and convert it to where you are

Jeff Kerton 3 years ago

So just to confirm and get my timing right...the womens race will start at 9pm Friday (EST) and the mens race will be at 1am Saturday (EST).

They are 14hrs ahead?

Can anybody help me with this?