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INTRODUCTION
The first event in the Eurocup 2009 has gone, and it seems it has been a good start. The feeling is that everyone had a good time there. Thanks to the location, a nice track in the mountains, with snow still up there. Thanks to the races, 10 km and relay on Saturday, marathon on Sunday, on a very nice and fast track. Thanks to the cooks, that always do their best to make us get back energy after the races (and also before). Thanks to Elidio Viglio, great head of the Sport Group AVIS Ivrea. Thanks to all people who helped some way to make everything go well. But especially thanks to everyone who took part in this nice weekend, making it a wonderful one.
Over than 50 athletes came from all Europe to enjoy the event, some from France, first time in Eurocup, from Switzerland, from Germany, from the Netherlands, from Finland and from Czech Republic. New italian record, and probably in the world, in marathon race has been established. Electronic system has been used to timing the race.
This large numbers of athletes at the event is a positive sign that scooter sport is growing, and at the same time that the IKSA and GS AVIS IVREA associations are doing a good work. The sport group of AVIS IVREA, organizes scooter races and events to promote first of all the blood donation, and then the scooter sport. But this little group of friends and maniacs of the scooter, works seriously and well, and it is enthusiastic and honored to organize the next World Scooter Championship in Ivrea, Italy, in 2010.
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STARS OF THE EVENT
Stars of the event are: the finnish man Kai Immonen winner of both individual races, and two young dutch sisters Rosanne e Maxime Reijne, 2 of the most stronger kickers in the world. Rosanne was 5° in the last looooong Elfstedentocht, her father Mario was the winner and, with the time in the marathon race, is candidated to the new world record in veteran class. Maxime, born in 1994, ran the marathon in 1h 45'38" it is not a world record??
The list of the stars continue with Igor Ricci, 2 second places and 1 first in the relay, best male athlet on all races of the event, who after last races, gains the 2nd place in the top world ranking.
Kai Immonen, team Kickbike Finland - winner of both individual races
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SCOOTER, BCS EVO AND CARBON PG.
Many news about scooter models that we saw in races. Most important news are about the new BCS model called "EVO" with aluminium frame and best quality design. Incredible news is about the 2 carbon scooters made by PG, Peter Groeneveld, realized exclusively for and based on Rosanne's and Maxime's weight and height.
OFFICIAL TIME KEEPING
In the races, for the first time in Italy, time measurement was done by AMB-it.com (chip-x) chip timing system, coordinated by Thijza (NAF), that we would like to thank for her job, extraordinary as always. The system makes time keeping more professional and allows to have in real time all information about race and time of each athlete, quickly print results and classifications, so every one, people watchin the race too, can know exactly what's happening. With this system each athlete taking part at the race, can watch his results visiting a specific web page. Times taken by this system can be considered official, so we can start with the records measurement. Of course we’re going to use the system again in the next World Championship to timing official new "records" (we hope!!)
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RESULTS
This year distances of races in Rapy have been modified and based exactly on IKSA rules: short race is exactly 10 km (last year was 9,6 km), and long distance is 42,195 km (was 42 km) exactly the marathon distance. So distances and time keeping are official and conform to IKSA rules, so race results might be candidate to estabilish new records.
10 km race web page results
42,195 km race web page results
Relay race web page results
Kids race
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See detailed datas about chip results following this link: http://www.mylaps.com/results/showevent.jsp?id=431583
RECORDS
It also seems it has been a weekend of records in both races, for men and for women. Let’s wait for the official response, but in the meantime we can say that:
In marathon race on distance of 42,195 km:
Rosanne Reijne: is candidated to new marathon world record in the Senior class with a 1h 42'37" time; prev. Hermien Koers in 1h 46'04" WC 2008
Maxime Reijne: is candidated to new marathon world record in the Junior and Cadet classes with a 1h 45'38" time;
Mario Reijne: is candidated to new marathon world record in the Veteran class with a 1h 31'04" time, prev. Wolfgang Seibel in 1h 35'06" WC 2008
Igor Ricci: estabilshed the new marathon italian record with a 1h 26'08 time
In 10 km race, times of all classes could be probably convalidate as new world records because it is the first time in wich there are official conditions to convalidate record results in this distance, then
Kai Immonen: is candidate to the 10km world record in the Senior class with a 19:02.421 time;
Marco Cecchetti: is candidate to the 10km world record in the Veteran class with a 20:32.298 time;
Rosanne Reijne: is candidate to the 10km world record in the Women Senior class with a 23:20.074 time;
Maxime Reijne: is candidate to the 10km world record in the Women Cadet class with a 23:48.511 time;
Ivana Dvorakova: is candidate to the 10km world record in the Women Veteran class with a 25:55.911 time;
Michele Rigoni: is candidate to the 10km world record in the Men Cadet class with a 27:59.313 time;
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10 KM RACE
Results of 10 km race
Kai Immonen from Finland doesn’t seem to have any problem in winning the race in 19’02”, before our best Italian Igor Ricci and a faster than expected - after his injury in last season - Dani Niederberger from Switzerland (welcome back!). Among the women, the Reijne girls dominate: first Rosanne, second Maxime, that is also first in cadets category. Behind them, Janine Knol, also from the Netherlands.
10 km podium men senior - from the left: 2nd I.Ricci (ITA), 1st K.Immonen (FIN), 3rd D.Niederberg (SWI) /photo by Joachim
10 km podium women senior - from the left: 3rd J. Knol (NED), 1st R. Reijne (NED), 2nd M. Reijne (NED) /photo by Joachim
10 km podium men veteran - from the left: 2nd M. Reijne (NED), 1st M. Cecchetti (ITA), 3rd E. Viglio (ITA) /photo by Joachim
10 km podium women veteran - from the left: 1st I. Dvorakova (CZE) 2nd A. Stojanik (ITA) /photo by Joachim
10 km podium men cadette - from the left: 1st M. Rigoni (ITA) 2nd G. Bona (ITA) /photo by Joachim
10 km podium women cadette - from the left: 2nd G. Binfa, 1st M. Reijne (NED) 3rd M. Kwint (NED) /photo by Joachim
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KIDS'S RACES
While relaxing after the 10 km, races for kids: 400 m for the youngest, 1 km for other boys and girls. Age from 2 to 9, nice show for us, let’s hope the guys will go on kicking and make our beautiful sport go on.
The start of the 1km kids srace / photo by Step Team High Level
The start of the 1km kids srace / photo by Visscher
The lead of the race, Lorenzo Ricci and Mirco Cullaz, 1 km race / photo by Step Team High Level
Mathis Funke, look at him, the future is coming! 1 km kids race / photo by Visscher
Mirko Cullaz wins the 1km race / photo by Elena
Paolo Deamicis e Carina Funke al traguardo, gara 1 km / foto di Elena
The start of the 400 mts kids srace / photo by Elena
The lead of the race in 400 mts kids race / photo by Visscher
Last meters in 400 mt kids race / photo by Visscher
Lorenzo Ricci wins the 400 mts race / photo by Elena
RELAY RACE
Results of 6x1,5 km relay race
Just the time to build up the teams, and it’s time for the relay. Six laps, each about 1.5 km long. 19 teams take part in the race, mostly from Italy and the Netherlands, but also from Germany and France. AVIS Ivrea 1 (M. Cecchetti, I. Ricci, F. Torti) wins before Netherlands 3 (H. Korbee, R. van der Velde, A. Visscher) and AVIS Strambino (M. Binfa, R. Cullaz, M. Natale). Among women, Netherlands 1 (J. Knol, M. Reijne, R. Reijne) ends before AVIS Ivrea (G. Binfa, A. Stojanik, E. Viglio) and Netherlands 4 (C. de Mol, M. Kwint).
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Relay race podium men: 1st place - AVIS IVREA, from the left: I. Ricci, F. Torti, M. Cecchetti /photo by Joachim
Relay race podium men: 2nd place - NETHERLANDS 3, from the left: A. Visscher, H. Korbee, R. van der Velde /photo by Joachim
Relay race podium men: 3rd place - AVIS STRAMBINO, from the left: M.Natale, R.Cullaz, M.Binfa /photo by Joachim
Relay race podium women: 1st place - NETHERLANDS 1, from the left: R. Reijne, M. Reijne, J. Knol /photo by Joachim
Relay race podium women: 2nd place - AVIS IVREA, from the left: E. Viglio, G. Binfa, A. Stojanik /photo by Joachim
Relay race podium women: 3rd place - NETHERLANDS 4, from the left: M. Kwint, C. de Mol /photo by Joachim
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LONG RACE 42,195 KM
Results of 42,195 km race
On Sunday morning, up at 7, breakfast all together, then ready for the marathon.
This time we kick the track clockwise, so it seems to be less hard, and very fast anyway. Saturday night brandy cannot stop Kai Immonen, that ends first in 1h21’58”, time very close to the official world record estabilished by Alpo Kuusisto in 1999 with the time of 1.20.03, before Igor Ricci 1h 26'08" (new italian record) and Joachim Sternal 1h 28'27" from Germany. In women’s race, the Reijne sisters, Rosanne and Maxime are first, 1h 42'37" and candidated to the new official world record in senior class, and second again, in the time of 1h 45'38" candidated to the new official world record in cadet class, followed by Ivana Dvorakova 1h 53'09" from Czech Repulic, also first in the veterans’ classification. After two hours and a half, nearly everyone has finished the race, and congratulations also to young boys and girl who made a great job.
Some interviews for television, then in the dining room again. After lunch, prize-giving ceremony, then the worst part of the event: goodbye time. But everybody seems to be satisfied with the weekend, and that makes organizers happy. It’s always nice to work for wonderful people as all of our kick-friends are, each one his/her way.
In the races, for the first time we had the chip timing system, coordinated by Thijza, that we would like to thank for her job, extraordinary as always. So of course we’re going to use the system again in the next World Championship, to timing official new "record".
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42 km podium men senior - from the left: 3rd Sternal (GER), 1st Immonen (FIN), 2nd Ricci (ITA) /photo by Joachim
42 km podium men veteran - from the left: 3rd E. Viglio (ITA), 1st M. Reijne (NED), 2nd M.Cecchetti (ITA) /photo by Joachim
42 km podium women - from the left: 3rd Dvorakova (CZE) , 1st Reijne Rosanne (NED), 2nd Reijne Maxime (NED)
42 km podium women veteran -from the left: 2nd Stojanik (ITA) 1st Dvorakova (CZE) /photo by Joachim
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PHOTOS
I don't know how many pictures was taken during this event, to see some of them visit the follows links:
http://picasaweb.google.com/monoitalia/2009EurocupMonoRapyITAByElena131406091355?feat=directlink (Elena)
http://picasaweb.google.com/monoitalia/20090614EurocupMonoRapyITAByVickie13140609?feat=directlink (Fede)
http://picasaweb.google.com/monoitalia/2009EurocupMonoRapyITAByJoachim131406091355?feat=directlink (Joachim Sternal)
http://picasaweb.google.com/Andreetje001/2009Italie (André Visscher)
http://www.stepteamhighlevel.nl/fotoboek.php?mode=album&a=90 (Mario Reijne)
http://picasaweb.google.nl/iamstphn/Picasa?authkey=Gv1sRgCLf17sDrjcT-Sg# (Stephan)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abq-7ief7WU (Video by Cyclologique)
SEE YOU!
If it was a test for next year, then we can say everything has worked well. So everyone’s invited to take part in the World Championship in Italy. It’s a big responsibility, but we are sure we can do a good job. In the meantime, thanks to everybody who took part in the event, athletes, supporters, helpers, and… see you soon in Czech Republic!
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