Mountain Bike & Trials World Championships

Downhill seeding run: - km

Minaar and Atherton best in DH seeding

South Africa's Greg Minaar was the quickest of the elite men in the downhill seeding run, which was held on Friday in Fort William. Minaar was just 6 hundredths of a second quicker than Britain's Gee Atherton, with Frenchman Julien Camellini third at 3.88 seconds.

In the women's seeding, British pair Rachel Atherton and Tracy Moseley were the top two qualifiers, ahead of France's Emmeline Ragot. A fairly hefty 13.22 seconds separated the top three.

The downhill finals will be held on Sunday.

DOWNHILL SEEDING RUN RESULTS

Elite Men  
   
1 Greg Minnaar (South Africa)0:04:53.30 
2 Gee Atherton (Great Britain)0:00:00.06 
3 Julien Camellini (France)0:00:03.88 
4 Michael Hannah (Australia)0:00:04.86 
5 Florent Payet (France)0:00:06.68 
6 Nathan Rennie (Australia)0:00:07.50 
7 Samuel Blenkinsop (New Zealand)0:00:07.84 
8 Mickael Pascal (France)0:00:09.21 
9 Dan Stanbridge (Great Britain)0:00:10.09 
10 Marc Beaumont (Great Britain)0:00:11.05 
11 Fabien Pedemanaud (France)0:00:11.37 
12 David Vazquez Lopez (Spain)0:00:11.62 
13 Steve Peat (Great Britain)0:00:11.71 
14 Ben Reid (Ireland)0:00:11.73 
15 Neil Donoghue (Great Britain)0:00:11.75 
16 Matti Lehikoinen (Finland)0:00:11.80 
17 Amiel Cavalier (Australia)0:00:12.11 
18 Fabien Barel (France)0:00:12.19 
19 Luke Strobel (USA)0:00:12.35 
20 Damien Spagnolo (France)0:00:12.51 
21 Nathan Rankin (New Zealand)0:00:13.17 
22 Dan Atherton (Great Britain)0:00:13.20 
23 Filip Polc (Slovakia)0:00:13.48 
24 Samuel Hill (Australia)0:00:13.77 
25 Marcus Klausmann (Germany)0:00:13.92 
26 Bernat Guardia Pascual (Spain)0:00:15.39 
27 Cédric Gracia (France)0:00:16.01 
28 Andrew Neethling (South Africa)0:00:16.98 
29 Chris Kovarik (Australia)0:00:17.40 
30 Glenn Haden (New Zealand)0:00:18.37 
31 Jared Graves (Australia)0:00:18.56 
32 Jared Rando (Australia)0:00:18.75 
33 Duncan Riffle (USA)0:00:19.93 
34 Dominik Gspan (Switzerland)0:00:20.34 
35 Kieran Bennett (New Zealand)0:00:22.54 
36 Jurgen Beneke (Germany)0:00:22.83 
37 R. Leiva Figueroa (Chile)0:00:22.96 
38 Nick Beer (Switzerland)0:00:23.42 
39 Mike Skinner (New Zealand)0:00:24.28 
40 Claudio Caluori (Switzerland)0:00:24.50 
41 Herman Olund (Sweden)0:00:24.73 
42 Cole Bangert (USA)0:00:25.33 
43 Marco Milivinti (Italy)0:00:25.41 
44 Alan Beggin (Italy)0:00:26.46 
45 Frank Schneider (Germany)0:00:27.15 
46 Matej Charvat (Czech Republic)0:00:27.87 
47 Samuel Zbinden (Switzerland)0:00:27.92 
48 Carlo Gambirasio (Italy)0:00:29.01 
49 Jonas Westmann (Sweden)0:00:29.57 
50 Daniel Wolfe (Ireland)0:00:30.68 
51 Kamil Tatarkovic (Czech Republic)0:00:30.96 
52 Espen Johnsen (Norway)0:00:31.84 
53 Ivan Oulego Moreno (Spain)0:00:33.12 
54 Jeff Beatty (Canada)0:00:33.39 
55 M. Estrada Pulgarin (Colombia)0:00:34.09 
56 Markus Pekoll (Austria)0:00:34.11 
57 Livio Zampieri (Italy)0:00:35.06 
58 Brendan Fairclough (Great Britain)0:00:36.15 
59 Elias Somvi (Italy)0:00:36.39 
60 Claudio Cozzi (Italy)0:00:36.49 
61 Christopher Herndon (USA)0:00:38.37 
62 Emanuel Pombo (Portugal)0:00:38.75 
63 Steve Chan (Canada)0:00:38.85 
64 Claudio Loureiro (Portugal)0:00:39.03 
65 D. Klaassenvanoorscht (USA)0:00:39.64 
66 Robin Wallner (Sweden)0:00:39.98 
67 Santiago De Santiago (Argentina)0:00:40.45 
68 Gerard Wolfe (Ireland)0:00:40.78 
69 Erik Irmisch (Germany)0:00:41.77 
70 Jonty Neethling (South Africa)0:00:41.87 
71 Tyler Morland (Canada)0:00:42.01 
72 Gundars Osis (Lativia)0:00:45.87 
73 Mario Sieder (Austria)0:00:47.16 
74 Tim Sharp (USA)0:00:48.36 
75 Adam Vagner (Czech Republic)0:00:49.29 
76 Franco Emanuel Riva (Argentina)0:00:51.31 
77 Karlis Kisuro (Lativia)0:00:51.47 
78 Mathias Haas (Austria)0:00:55.64 
79 Sven Martin (South Africa)0:00:57.45 
80 Darren Quille (Ireland)0:00:59.85 
81 Gregorz Zielinski (Poland)0:01:00.87 
82 A. Barilaro Caparros (Andorra)0:01:05.74 
83 Martins Sprogis (Lativia)0:01:06.28 
84 Ninoslav Ruzicka (Croatia)0:01:19.88 
85 Ivan Brajkovic (Croatia)0:01:21.61 
86 Krisztian Halasz (Hungary)0:01:22.11 
87 Laur Samlik (Estonia)0:01:25.04 
88 Mario Hohnjec (Croatia)0:01:39.76 
89 Chris Van Dine (USA)0:01:47.06 
90 Viljar Teppo (Estonia)0:01:48.50 
91 Gergely Veres (Hungary)0:01:56.06 
92 Greg Okeefe (Ireland)0:02:02.75 
93 Ricard Ferreira Campos (Andorra)0:02:08.16 
94 Pasqual Canals Flix (Spain)0:05:05.82 
DNS Markolf Berchtold (Brazil)  
DNS Nathaniel Giacomozzi (Brazil)  
DNS Stephen Beattie (Ireland)  
DNS Nimrod Hemmo (Israel)  
DNS Tonis Talv (Estonia)  
   
Elite Women  
   
1 Rachel Atherton (Great Britain)0:05:30.20 
2 Tracy Moseley (Great Britain)0:00:08.49 
3 Emmeline Ragot (France)0:00:13.22 
4 Tracey Hannah (Australia)0:00:13.71 
5 Sabrina Jonnier (France)0:00:15.98 
6 Helen Gaskell (Great Britain)0:00:18.79 
7 Céline Gros (France)0:00:20.29 
8 Marielle Saner (Switzerland)0:00:23.44 
9 Mio Suemasa (Japan)0:00:23.86 
10 Fionn Griffiths (Great Britain)0:00:26.35 
11 Melissa Buhl (USA)0:00:29.25 
12 Claire Buchar (Canada)0:00:33.14 
13 Vanessa Quin (New Zealand)0:00:34.23 
14 Jennifer Makgill (New Zealand)0:00:34.95 
15 Petra Bernhard (Austria)0:00:38.75 
16 Lisa Myklak (USA)0:00:39.80 
17 Scarlett Hagen (New Zealand)0:00:43.69 
18 Daniela Bossard (Switzerland)0:00:44.18 
19 Amy Laird (New Zealand)0:00:46.38 
20 Anita Molcik (Austria)0:00:47.22 
21 Amelia Colasurdo (USA)0:00:48.98 
22 Darian Harvey (USA)0:00:57.67 
23 Anja Rees Jones (Great Britain)0:00:57.71 
24 Anita Ager-Wick (Norway)0:00:58.17 
25 Rika Olivier (South Africa)0:01:00.99 
26 Miriam Ruchti (Switzerland)0:01:01.25 
27 Joanna Petterson (South Africa)0:01:07.20 
28 Anka Martin (South Africa)0:01:09.23 
29 Micayla Gatto (Canada)0:01:15.36 
30 Antje Kramer (Germany)0:01:18.06 
31 Olivia Johnston (New Zealand)0:01:19.03 
32 Elisa Canepa (Italy)0:01:22.84 
33 Kathleen Pruitt (USA)0:01:30.73 
34 Jaymie Mart (Barbados)0:01:31.04 
35 Harriet Rucknagel (Germany)0:01:46.71 
36 Jessica Vogt (USA)0:01:55.32 
37 Diana Marggraff (Ecuador)0:02:24.08 
   
Junior Men  
   
1 Ruaridh Cunningham (Great Britain)0:05:05.10 
2 Josh Bryceland (Great Britain)0:00:01.29 
3 Steve Smith (Canada)0:00:04.14 
4 Mitchell Delfs (Australia)0:00:05.15 
5 Chris Hutchens (Great Britain)0:00:06.71 
6 Joris Bigoni (France)0:00:09.48 
7 Matthew Scoles (New Zealand)0:00:11.20 
8 Joel Bain (Australia)0:00:12.18 
9 Joshua Button (Australia)0:00:13.82 
10 David Hetherington (Australia)0:00:14.85 
11 John Swanguen (USA)0:00:15.66 
12 Will Rischbieth (Australia)0:00:15.98 
13 Joseph Smith (Great Britain)0:00:16.06 
14 Hans Lambert (Canada)0:00:19.29 
15 Marcelo Gutierrez (Colombia)0:00:22.01 
16 Georg Sieder (Austria)0:00:22.35 
17 Patrick Meyer (Switzerland)0:00:23.03 
18 Seanan O'riordan (Ireland)0:00:23.57 
19 Tyler Mc Caul (USA)0:00:23.84 
20 Nicola Casadei (San Marino)0:00:24.41 
21 Arnaud Delente (France)0:00:25.34 
22 Dennis Dertell (Sweden)0:00:26.34 
23 Maximilian Bender (Germany)0:00:26.59 
24 Ewan Doherty (Ireland)0:00:27.83 
25 Logan Binggeli (USA)0:00:27.94 
26 Jan Savr (Czech Republic)0:00:30.28 
27 Michael Langford (New Zealand)0:00:30.73 
28 Rémi Thirion (France)0:00:31.04 
29 Tim Price (USA)0:00:33.25 
30 Joey Schulsler (USA)0:00:33.27 
31 Marcus Williams (Great Britain)0:00:34.12 
32 Anssi Koskinen (Finland)0:00:34.75 
33 Benny Strasser (Germany)0:00:36.08 
34 Scott Mears (Great Britain)0:00:36.63 
35 Greg Saharin (South Africa)0:00:37.61 
36 Boris Tetzlaff (Austria)0:00:39.20 
37 Karl O'sullivan (Ireland)0:00:39.29 
38 Matias Cuevas (Argentina)0:00:40.71 
39 Tom Patton (Australia)0:00:40.83 
40 Jeremias Maio (Argentina)0:00:41.03 
41 Justin Novella (South Africa)0:00:41.73 
42 Johannes Sutter (Germany)0:00:43.53 
43 Joel Ferreira (Portugal)0:00:44.03 
44 Markus Olkkonen (Finland)0:00:45.13 
45 David Scandrett (New Zealand)0:00:45.72 
46 Brad Oien (USA)0:00:46.18 
47 Samuele Aicardi (Italy)0:00:48.10 
48 Matteo Milliery (Italy)0:00:48.74 
49 Marco Bugnone (Italy)0:00:49.16 
50 Niklas Wallner (Sweden)0:00:52.19 
51 Edoardo Franco (Italy)0:00:52.46 
52 Patrik Zolei (Hungary)0:00:55.66 
53 Travis Browning (South Africa)0:00:57.22 
54 Jason Murphy (Ireland)0:00:57.55 
55 Sho Kadowaki (Japan)0:00:57.71 
56 James Maltman (Australia)0:01:02.20 
57 Ryno Fourie (South Africa)0:01:04.02 
58 Gernot Ruppert (Germany)0:01:06.22 
59 Kruger Breed (South Africa)0:01:11.08 
60 Yousuke Miki (Japan)0:01:36.39 
61 Hayden Brown (South Africa)0:04:11.08 
62 Peter Cooper (New Zealand)0:05:31.98 
63 Nejc Rutar (Slovenia)0:07:51.16 
DNF Sam Dale (Great Britain)  
DNS Aviad Izrael (Israel)  
   
Junior Women  
   
1 Floriane Pugin (France)0:05:48.10 
2 Myriam Nicole (France)0:00:08.83 
3 Katy Curd (Great Britain)0:00:25.97 
4 Caroline Buchanan (Australia)0:00:40.89 
5 Miranda Miller (Canada)0:00:48.16 
6 Anne Laplante (Canada)0:01:06.94 
7 Aurea Agostinho (Portugal)0:01:11.32 
8 Holly Kernohan-Smith (New Zealand)0:01:12.22 
9 Christina Pinney (USA)0:02:40.10 

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