Photo: Darren Goddard\/Gameplan Media<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nThe rocks and logs section proved to be the undoing of a number of the junior riders as they could not quite get to grips with the steep jumps and uneven surfaces. Many of them registered five\u2019s on that section that set them back in their quest to qualify.<\/p>\n
The consistency of the Austrian meant that he would gain the least amount of points throughout his round as he ended with a respectable score of 16 points \u2013 five points clear of the second placed Italian.<\/p>\n
The Austrian was asked about his experience on the course and how he handled the unusually hot weather conditions for August. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe sections of the course are really good and it is so different \u2013 but a good different,\u201d the front-runner said. \u201cThe weather isn\u2019t too much of an issue because we have some hot days back home, just not as many as here!\u201d<\/p>\n
In the men\u2019s 20\u201d Trials qualifying round it was the two Spaniards that came through and sounded a significant warning to the rest of the field with first and second. <\/p>\n
Current world number one Abel Mustieles Garcia came out on top with only 10 points and his compatriot Benito Ross Charrel came in a close second with 14 points.<\/p>\n
It was only a two point gap to fellow Spaniard Daniel Comas Riera in third position. <\/p>\n
The three Spaniards are joined by five other riders in the semi-finals which includes British rider Andrei Burton \u2013 who is the only rider to have seen the Cascades Trials course before the event. <\/p>\n
It is going to be an interesting semi-final with the two Spaniards fighting it out for the top spot in the 20\u201d division. Ros Charrel is the defending World Champion but has been sidelined for a while with a wrist injury that has seen him miss out on a number of the World Cup events this year. <\/p>\n
The defending world champion had the better of the days riding after he registered 15 clean runs in his three sections whereas his counterpart Garcia ended with a total of 11 clean runs but his consistency was what gave him the edge at the end of the qualifying round. <\/p>\n
SUMMARY OF RESULTS \u2013 UCI MTB AND TRIALS WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS <\/strong><\/p>\nTRIALS JUNIOR MEN 20\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n1. Thomas Pechhacker (AUT) 16 points<\/p>\n
2. Alession Povolo (ITA) 21 points<\/p>\n
3. Bernat Seuba Roeu (ESP) 23 points<\/p>\n
4. Alex Rudeau (FRA) 24 points<\/p>\n
5. Lucas Krell (GER) 32 points<\/p>\n
6. Johan Buchwalder (SUI) 45 points<\/p>\n
7. Jonas Boritz Kristiansen (DEN) 46 points<\/p>\n
8. Martin Behro (SVK) 47 points<\/p>\n
MEN\u2019S 20\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n1. Abel Mustieles Garcia (ESP) 10 points<\/p>\n
2. Benito Ros Charral (ESP) 14 points<\/p>\n
3. Daniel Comas Riera (ESP) 16 points<\/p>\n
4. Kazuki Terai (JPN) 18 points<\/p>\n
5. Vaclav Kolar (CZE) 26.5 points<\/p>\n
6. Aurelien Fontenoy (FRA) 28 points<\/p>\n
7. Andrei Burton (GBR) 28 points<\/p>\n
8. Theau Courtes (FRA) 28 points<\/p>\n
The UCI Mountain Bike and Trials World Championships takes place at Cascades MTB Park in Pietermaritzburg from 26 August to 1 September 2013. More info can be found at www.mtbworldchamps.co.za<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The time finally arrived for the Cascades MTB Park\u2019s Trials course to invite its first riders on Wednesday as the juniors and the men\u2019s 20\u201d took on the challenging course as they went through qualifying phases ahead of their respective semi-finals that will take place on Friday afternoon and evening. Slovakian representative Martin Behro makes […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":53028,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[950,975,2795],"featured_location":[],"class_list":["post-21613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","tag-cascades","tag-mtb-world-champs","tag-trials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21613"},{"taxonomy":"featured_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/featured_location?post=21613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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