Downhill Rock n’ Roll

An appro­pri­ate theme for a music pho­to­grapher at this years MTB World Cup — for some reason they themed everything as if it were some kind of music tour, and appar­ently they had live bands and what­not going on at the bot­tom of the course to keep the lazy gits in the grand­stand enter­tained while there was noth­ing hap­pen­ing on the big screen.

Not that I noticed, and not that it really mat­ters. It’s the rid­ing that counts, and what a down­hill final in the mens event! Event favour­ite Steve Peat just wasn’t on form at all; with a time of 4:44.27, he’d have done very well any other year, but the com­pet­i­tion this year was very fierce, espe­cially from some of the rookie riders. The Brits’s were on form in the women’s down­hill though, with Ather­ton and Mosely tak­ing 2^nd and 4^th respect­ively. 4X wasn’t quite as excit­ing this year, with Jared Graves and Jana Horakova tak­ing the victories.

Res­ults

Men’s Down­hill

1. Gee Ather­ton (GBR) — 4:35.70

2. Cam Cole (NZL) — 4:36.18

3. Greg Min­aar (RSA) — 4:36.91

Woman’s Down­hill

1. Sab­rina Jon­nier (FRA) — 5:11.37

2. Rachel Ather­ton (GBR) — 5:12.68

3. Flori­ane Pugin (FRA) — 5:16.44

Men’s 4X

1. Jared Graves (AUS)

2. Joost Wich­man (NED)

3. Michal Prokop (CZE)

4. Romain Saladini (FRA)

Woman’s 4X

1. Jana Horakova (CZE)

2. Anita Mol­cik (AUT)

3. Romana Labounkova (CZE)

4. Anneke Beer­ten (NED)

That’s it for another year then. Thanks again to all the mar­shals (espe­cially the one that gave us a lift right back down to the arena to save us walk­ing) and to Single­track Magazine, who live-tweeted all the down­hill res­ults keep­ing me (and a few oth­ers) bang up-to-date with what was happening.

Remem­ber, there’s always more shots on my Flickr pho­to­stream as well!

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