FISTC Cart European Championships 2011 Smlednik (SLO)


17 - 20 november 2011


DAY 3 - Sunday 20 november

Here we are, the third heat came to an and. Once again the weather was perfect for the dogs – cold (-3C) and cloudy. Trails remained in perfect conditions and this race gave 100% satisfaction to all participants and their dogs.
Of course Austria is the big winner with 5 gold medals and a total of 17 medals.
France takes the second place with also 5 gold medals but only 10 medals as a whole and final the excellent surprise is the third place taken by Belgium with 4 gold medals.
This race will remain in all our memories because not only it was perfectly organized and a total success but also for the friendship and great hospitality we received from our Slovenian friends.
So, goodbye Slovenia and thank you.
We will come back for sure!

MEDALS
GOLD
SILVER
BRONZE
TOTAL
1
AUSTRIA
5
8
4
17
2
FRANCE
5
3
3
11
3
BELGIUM
4
-
-
4
4
SLOVAKIA
3
1
1
5
5
CZECH REPUBLIC
2
1
3
6
6
ITALY
1
4
5
10
7
DENMARK
1
-
-
1
8
HUNGARY
-
2
1
3
9
SLOVENIA
-
1
2
3
10
GERMANY
-
1
-
1

 

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DAY 2 - Saturday 19 november

Cold (-3) and cloudy weather, perfect for the race and the dogs. This second day of race was at least as good as yesterday and probably even better. All dogs and their mushers enjoyed once again the beautiful trails.
We were also very impressed by the media coverage of this event with several national and local televisions and the organizer Matjaž Ovsenek on the front page of the biggest national newspaper.
In most categories this second day confirmed and often reinforced the result from the first day. In Middle distance, Gerald Schinzel (A), Roman Habasko (CZ), Alexandre Rullier (F) and Harry Braeckmans (B) are still leading their respective categories, as do Jan Pederson (DK), Pascal Gerard (F), Alexander Serdjukov (A), Laurent Blot (F), Andrej Drabik (SK) and Bernd Kirstein (D) in Cart.
The same situation takes place for the bike men classes while in bike women the Austrian Eva Pfannhauser took the first place from the Belgian Virginie Brice and we can expect an exciting third day with less than 5 s difference.
In category Scooter class 2/1 dog, Sepp Brugger (A) with 1 Greenland dog won two places and is now leader .
Tomorrow the canicross classes will no more have a mass start but instead a »chasing« start as they will start at the real time difference.
So more exciting!
This FISTC Cart Championship is really an almost perfect race.

Result list of the second day

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DAY 1 - Friday 18 november

Smlednik a small and very nice community close to Ljubljana is succeeding in organizing and almost perfect European Championship Cart with the FISTC. Yesterday, Thursday, an excellent team of 3 vets have been checking most of the 114 teams that reached the place with a cold and foggy but dry weather.
Today, they had to send back home a team whose dogs vaccinations were not up to date.
Then the race started at 9.30 am still with a cold and foggy weather with the middle distance classes.
All trails for MD and Sprint are perfectly prepared. In MD A, Gerald Schinzel (A) is leading the category after the first day. In MD B the leader is Roman Habasko (CZ). MD C1 and C2 are leaded respectively by Alexandre Rullier (F) and Harry Braeckmans (B2 – Malamutes).
In sprint Jan Pedersen (DK) is first but closely followed by Karl Rachbauer (A). In B1 the French Pascal Gerard is followed by Lajos Koffer (H). In C1 Alexander Serdjukov (A) is first closely followed by three Italian teams. The C2 class is leaded by Laurent Blot (F) and his 4 Greenland dogs. The first place in D1 belongs to Andrej Drabik (SK) and in D2 to Bernd Kirstein (D).
Many concurrents are starting in the bike and scooter classes as well as in canicross. We just want to underline the outstanding performance in canicross junior of the young French girl Maylis Gerard, first in junior A ( 13 years old ) as she would also be first in the senior woman canicross.
Here are the first today in these classes:

Bike 1 men - 2 dogs: Ludovic Brasseur (B)
Bike 1 women - 1 dog: Roman Reistetter (SK)
Bike 1 women - 1 dog: Virginie Brice ( B)
Bike 2 men - 1 dog: Jean Michel Hoog (F)
Scooter 1 / 2 dogs: Sebastian Astelbauer (A)
Scooter 1 dog: Klaus Baumel (A)
Scooter 2 / 1 dog: Manuel Haslacher (A)
Canicross 2 dogs: Diego Buranello (ITA)
Canicross 1 dog: Michal Ivanco (SK)
Canicross 1 dog: Zdenka Duškova (CZ)
Canicross junior : Maylis Gerard (F)


Result list of the first day of race

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