CX Worlds Results

Nice one, Niels!
(image credit: Peter Huys CC BY-SA 2.0)

Well, we really hope none of you took our advice on the likely outcome of the Elite Men's race to heart and bet your life's savings on Sven Nys. Based on his previous performance on the sand of Koksijde, we had him down for victory, but the 2005 Champion could manage no better than 7th today on a parcours that left him noticeably struggling. Defending champion Zdenek Stybar also performed worse than anticipated and in spite of enormous support from the 70,000-strong crowd - many of whom had turned out dressed in pink to match the Czech rider's bike (and pants, worn Superman-style over his kit) and must have been disappointed to see their hero right down in 13th place. He revealed on Monday that his poor performance is now explained - he's got the virus that has been doing the rounds of the CX world all season...

zdenekstybar Zdenek Stybar 

Damn it, why did i have to get sick right on the big DAY I'd been working so freaking hard for? Laying sick in bed with fever:(

In fact, of all the top-three favourites, only Kevin Pauwels delivered the goods with his third place finish exactly as expected. However, next time things may be very different. K-Pow has never ridden quite as well here as he does on other courses, but every time he does he's markedly improved on last time - give him another year or two and he may be the dominant force in cyclo cross. Niels Albert rode well for the victory, leading a Belgian team that effortlessly bulldozed its way through sand dunes and opposition alike - all seven top riders were Belgian, a record.

There were no surprises in the Elite Women's race: there never are when Dutch superstar Marianne Vos is riding. She soon took the lead from British Champion Helen Wyman and, after riding with Sanne van Paassen to the first dune, powered away to build an ever-increasing lead that left the rest fighting for the podium's lower steps. Having now been World Champion a record five times, Vos has equaled André Dufraisse and Renato Longo's  five wins in the 1950s and 1960s - making her arguably the joint second most successful cyclo cross rider of all time behind Erik de Vlaeminck (seven World Championships) and far and away the most successful in women's cyclo cross. Fans were angered following the race when a UCI official asked her if she felt she might be "killing the sport" during a post-race interview and it won't have gone unnoticed that nobody asked Albert if he thinks Belgium is killing men's cyclo cross.

(More on the women's race - and Vos' effect on women's cyclo cross - here.)


Elite Women

  1 Marianne Vos Rabobank Ladies Team 00:41:04
  2 Daphny Van Den Brand WV Schijndel 00:37
  3 Sanne Cant Boxx VeldritAcademie 00:38
  4 Sanne Van Paassen Brainwash 00:49
  5 Katherine Compton Rabobank-Giant Offroad Team 00:53
  6 Nikki Harris 01:03
  7 Sophie De Boer WV Schijndel 01:05
  8 Katerina Nash 01:11
  9 Jasmin Achermann 01:12
  10 Lucie Chainel-Lefevre 01:54
  11 Pavla Havlikova 02:43
  12 Sabrina Stultiens Brainwash ST
  13 Helen Wyman 02:45
  14 Christine Majerus Team GSD Gestion 02:46
  15 Linda Van Rijen Skil - 1t4i 02:52
  16 Arenda Grimberg 03:01
  17 Gesa Bruchmann 03:30
  18 Caroline Mani 03:36
  19. Nicole Duke 03:40
  20 Meredith Miller 03:54
  21 Olga Wasiuk 04:52
  22 Martina Mikulaskova 05:04
  23 Amy Dombroski Cranckbrothers 05:21
  24 Joyce Vanderbeken 05:34
  25 Kajsa Snihs 05:39
  26 Kaitlin Antonneau Exergy Twenty12 05:41
  27 Rocio Gamonal 05:43
  28 Sabrina Maurer 05:56
  29 Nikoline Hansen 06:19
  30 Asa Maria Erlandsson 06:34
  31 Alice Maria Arzuffi 06:55
  32 Ayako Toyooka 00:01
  33 Sakiko Miyauchi ST
  34 Lise-Marie Henzelin ST 
  35 Genevieve Whitson Asptt Dijon - Bourgogne 00:02 
  36 Madara Furmane ST

Elite Men

  1 Niels Albert BKCP-Powerplus 01:06:07
  2 Rob Peeters Telenet-Fidea Cycling Team 00:24
  3 Kevin Pauwels Sunweb - Revor 00:30
  4 Tom Meeusen Telenet-Fidea Cycling Team 00:34 
  5 Bart Aernouts Rabobank-Giant Offroad Team 00:35 
  6 Klaas Vantornout Sunweb - Revor 01:09 
  7 Sven Nys Landbouwkrediet - Euphony 01:11 
  8 Radomir Simunek BKCP-Powerplus 02:15 
  9 Philipp Walsleben BKCP-Powerplus 02:25 
  10 Simon Zahner Suisse Ekz 02:31 
  11 Steve Chainel Equipe Cycliste FDJ - BigMat 02:37 
  12 Francis Mourey Equipe Cycliste FDJ - BigMat 02:48 
  13 Zdenek Stybar Omega Pharma - Quickstep 03:17 
  14 Aurelien Duval 03:41 
  15 Niels Wubben Rabobank-Giant Offroad Team ST
  16 Julien Taramarcaz 03:42 
  17 Gerben De Knegt Rabobank-Giant Offroad Team ST
  18 Ryan Trebon 04:02 
  19 Marcel Meisen BKCP-Powerplus 04:06 
  20 Jose Ramos ST
  21 Twan Van Den Brand WV Schijndel 04:07 
  22 Mariusz Gil Baboco - Revor Cycling Team 04:22 
  23 Thijs Van Amerongen AA Cycling Team 04:40 
  24 Christoph Pfingsten Cycling Team De Rijke 05:10 
  25 Christian Heule 00:01 
  26 Jeremy Powers Jelly Belly Cycling 00:02 
  27 Marcel Wildhaber ST
  28 Enrico Franzoi Miche-Guerciotti ST
  29 John Gadret Ag2R - La Mondiale ST
  30 Jiri Polnicky PSK Whirlpool-Author ST
  31 Martin Zlamalik ST
  32 Mitchell Huenders Ruiter Dakkapellen Wielerteam 00:03 
  33 Vladimir Kyzivat ST
  34 Tim Johnson ST
  35 Isaac Suarez ST
  36 Ian Field ST (best British rider)
  37 Petr Dlask ST
  38 Clement Bourgoin Charvieu-Chavagneux IC ST
  39 Sascha Weber Team Differdange ST
  40 Marco Ponta ST
  41 Javier Ruiz De Larrinaga Ibanez ST
  42 James Driscoll Jamis/Sutter Home Pro Cycling Team ST
  43 Chris Jones UnitedHealthcare Presented By Maxxis 00:05 
  44 Mirko Tabacchi ST
  45 Yu Takenouchi ST
  46 Magnus Darvell ST
  47 Martin Haring ST
  48 Gusty Bausch ST
  49 Christian Helmig ST
  50 Christian Cominelli Team Idea ST
  51 Craig Richey 00:06 
  52 Aitor Hernandez Gutierrez ST
  53 Vaclav Metlicka ST
  54 Daniel Geismayr ST
  55 Keichi Tsujiura ST
  56 Karl Heinz Gollinger 00:07
  57 Rattray Lewis ST
  58 Robert Gehbauer ST
  59 David Andrew Quist 00:08

Lars van der Haar

Under-23

  1 Lars Van Der Haar Rabobank-Giant Offroad Team 00:49:20 
  2 Wietse Bosmans BKCP-Powerplus 00:01 
  3 Michiel Van Der Heijden Rabobank-Giant Offroad Team 00:04 
  4 Arnaud Jouffroy Telenet-Fidea Cycling Team 00:05 
  5 Laurens Sweeck 00:50 
  6 Marek Konwa 00:56 
  7 Mike Teunissen Rabobank-Giant Offroad Team 01:03 
  8 Arnaud Grand Telenet-Fidea Cycling Team 01:13 
  9 David Menut Cr4c Roanne ST
  10 Gianni Vermeersch BKCP-Powerplus 01:28 
  11 Vinnie Braet Sunweb - Revor ST
  12 Zach Mcdonald 01:48 
  13 David Van Der Poel BKCP-Powerplus 01:55 
  14 Julian Alaphilippe Armée De Terre 02:04 
  15 Stan Godrie Rabobank-Giant Offroad Team 02:07 
  16 Tomas Paprstka 02:08 
  17 Nipl Vojtech 02:17 
  18 Clément Venturini 02:30 
  19 Elia Silvestri 02:49 
  20 Jan Nesvadba 02:50 
  21 Bryan Falaschi 03:18 
  22 Karel Hnik Sunweb - Revor 03:21 
  23 Michael Schweizer 03:22 
  24 Lars Forster 03:39 
  25 Kenneth Hansen 03:42 
  26 Michael Vanthourenhout BKCP-Powerplus 04:04 
  27. Igor Smarzaro 04:07 - -
  28 Micki Van Empel Telenet-Fidea Cycling Team 04:13 
  29 Yannick Eckmann 04:14 
  30 Kenta Gallagher 04:20 
  31 Max Walsleben 04:22 
  32 Fabian Lienhard 04:41 
  33 Michael Wildhaber ST
  34 Daniele Braidot 05:44 
  35 Emil Arvid Olsen 05:50 
  36 Luca Braidot 00:01 
  37 Jonathan Lastra Grupo Hirumet Taldea ST
  38. Cody Kaiser ST
  39 Yannick Mayer Team NSP - Ghost ST
  40 Jack Clarkson ST
  41 Pablo Rodriguez Guede Grupo Hirumet Taldea ST
  42 Wojciech Malec 00:02 
  43 Jon Gomez ST
  44 Patryk Kostecki ST
  45 Iñigo Gómez 00:03
  46 Félix Côte-bouvette ST
  47 Lex Reichling ST
  48 Ludwig Söderqvist ST
  49 Bartosz Pilis ST
  50 Jaroslav Chalas Dukla Trencin - Merida ST
  51 Alexander Gehbauer ST
  52 Luke Gray ST
  53 Domas Manikas 00:04 


Juniors
  1 Mathieu Van Der Poel Boxx VeldritAcademie 00:42:36
  2 Wout Van Aert Young Telenet-fidea 00:08
  3 Quentin Jauregui Boxx VeldritAcademie 00:21
  4 Quinten Hermans Young Telenet-fidea ST
  5 Daan Soete Young Telenet-fidea ST
  6 Yorbin Van Tichelt 00:48
  7 Silvio Herklotz 01:00
  8 Daan Hoeyberghs Boxx VeldritAcademie 01:25
  9 Romain Seigle 01:32
  10 Victor Koretzky 02:11
  11 Anthony Turgis 02:23
  12 Dominic Zumstein 02:24
  13 Gioele Bertolini 02:40
  14 Andrew Dillman 03:08 (best British rider)
  15 Felix Drumm 03:11
  16 Tim Ariesen 03:12
  17 Logan Owen 03:15
  18 Martijn Budding Boxx VeldritAcademie 03:16
  19 Toki Sawada ST
  20 Marco König 03:30
  21 Andri Frischknecht 04:05
  22 Stan Wijkel Young Telenet-fidea 04:07
  23 Dylan Kowalski ST
  24 Jan Brezna ST
  25 Pjotr Van Beek 04:31
  26 Michal Paluta 04:43
  27 Jan Vastl 04:44
  28 Karel Pokorny 04:45
  29 Emil Linde 04:57
  30 Dominic Grab 05:06
  31 Koen Weijers 05:34
  32 Jose Manuel Ribera 05:37
  33 Kevin Suarez Fernandez 05:43
  34 Curtis White 05:45
  35 Piotr Konwa 05:59
  36 Nadir Colledani ST
  37 Dennis Wahlqvist ST
  38 Steffen Müller 06:28
  39 Joseph Moses 06:35
  40 Yohan Patry 06:50
  41 Kota Yokoyama 06:52
  42 Michimasa Nakai 07:08
  43 Luca De Nicola 07:10
  44 Johannes Siemermann 07:15
  45 Stosz Patryk 00:01
  46 Simon Vozar ST
  47 Riccardo Redaelli ST
  48  Tobin Ortenblad ST
  49 Jaime Campo 00:02
  50 Samuel Beaudoin ST
  51 Ondrej Glazja ST
  52 Sven Fritsch ST
  53 Mateusz Grabis ST
  54 Francesco Pedante ST
  55 Richard Gorry 00:03
  56 Tobiasz Lis ST
  57 Zigymantas Baikstys 00:04

Daily Cycling Facts 28.01.12

Abdel-Kader Zaaf
Abdel-Kader Zaaf (also spelled Abdelkader, Abdel-Kaader and various other ways) was born on this day in 1917 in Algiers, Algeria, which at the time was a French colony. Zaaf rode in the 1950 Tour de France with Marcel Molinès as a part of the French North Africa Team (this being the period on national teams, introduced by Henri Desgrange in an effort to prevent the team tactics that he hated so much among the trade teams). During Stage 13, when temperatures rose to 40C, riders were unwilling to exert themselves and the peloton settled into a slow rhythm, aiming to complete the stage with as little effort as possible. Zaaf and Molinès, however, were accustomed to the heat of Algeria and found the conditions far less hard-going than the Europeans, so they broke away from the pack early on in the race.

Abdel-Kader Zaaf found sleeping under a
tree by spectators

Continuing on their way at a high pace, the pair built a lead which reached as much as 20 minutes - sufficient to make Zaaf officially the race leader for a short while (though with the peloton being driven by the Eagle of Adiiswil Ferdy Kübler - spelled with a y because that's how the man himself spells it, rather than the usual "Ferdi" - it couldn't and didn't last). However, by the time they neared the end of the 217km stage, even they were beginning to feel the effects of the weather and stopped to accept drinks offered to them by spectators. Unfortunately for Zaaf, the drink he took was a bottle of wine and, as a Muslim, he'd never consumed alcohol before (Molinès either took a bottle of water or was more used to wine), so it rather went to his head. Before long, he found himself feeling somewhat the worse for wear and wobbling dangerously all over the road so he decided that perhaps he'd better stop for a while in the shade under a tree and see if he started feeling any better.

Some time later - nobody knows how much later - a group of spectators found him and woke him up. He grabbed his bike, leapt aboard and set off. Unfortunately, he was either so keen to make up for lost time or still drunk, so he failed to realise that he was going back the way they'd come. When organisers caught up with him, unaware that his confusion was down to alcohol, they assumed his brain had been scrambled by the heat and had him taken to hospital. The next day, he escaped and hurried to the start line where he begged to be allowed to retake the section of the previous stage that he'd missed and continue the race, but judges wouldn't allow it and upheld his disqualification.

The story sounds like one of misfortune, but in fact Zaaf did rather well out of it. As the first black rider in the Tour, he'd already achieved celebrity simply because he was a novelty. French cycling fans from days gone by seem to have been an admirably non-racist bunch (except, perhaps, towards Belgians, who had an annoying habit of winning the race; but look up "Major" Marshall Taylor, who was pleasantly surprised to find a warm welcome in France after the awful discrimination he faced in his native USA for another example) and the Algerian enjoyed enormous popularity. As a result, he was able to make a very comfortable living from the fees that organisers of criterium races were willing to pay him simply to appear at their events. Perhaps the ultimate accolade came when a wine, which became popular, was named after him; and allowed him to make even more money by appearing in the manufacturer's advertisements. He would ride  in five more Tours, remaining with North Africa in 1951 and 1952, then with Charly Gaul in 1953 and finally with Federico Bahamontes a year later.

When his cycling career came to an end, Zaaf disappeared and for nearly three decades nobody knew if he was in France or had returned to Algeria, or even whether he was alive or dead. Then, in 1982, he suddenly reappeared in Paris for an operation on his eye and revealed the real reason for his strange behaviour in the Tour all those years before.



Gustave Garrigou
Gustave Garrigou, who died on this day in 1963, won one Tour de France out of the eight in which he competed and a total of eight stages. Impressive, but not the palmares of a great, you might think. However, out of a total of 117 stages during his career, he finished in the top five in 65 and the top ten in 96 - which makes him one of the best performers in the history of the race.

He was born on the 24th of September 1884 in Vabres and was remarkably thin. Yet he was also deceptively strong, and had an ability to recover after strenuous exercise that would have the dope test doctors queuing outside the door of the team bus in a modern Tour - in other words, he was a man who could have been born to ride bikes up mountains. His talent was evident right from the start when he won Paris-Dieppe and Paris-Amiens as an amateur. In his first professional season he won Paris-Brussels and the Giro di Lombardia as well as taking two stage wins (10 and 12) and 2nd place in the Overall Classification in the 1907 Tour with no stage wins. He was 4th overall in 1908 (one stage), then 2nd again in 1909 (one stage).

His win came when he was riding with Alcyon in 1911, but like most in those days it was not without controversy. Rural France in those days was a very different place when compared to today and some of its inhabitants were almost a law unto themselves - while nowadays death threats tend to be the work of mentally unstable people who pose no real threat to anybody, many early Tourists faced real violence and several riders were savagely beaten by angry fans, so Garrigou was a very worried man. The threats stemmed from an incident in which Paul Duboc, a rider with La Française who had been successfully catching up with him, was left with crippling abdominal pain, vomiting and diarrhoea after he drank from a bidon that had been poisoned. His manager gave him an emetic and, after some time, he recovered and was able to continue, eventually finishing the race in 2nd place overall, and a man working for a third team was later shown to have been the culprit. In the meantime, Duboc's fans put two and two together and decided that since Garrigou was the man who would most benefit if Duboc abandoned, he must have been the poisoner. Hence the threats.

Duboc himself appears never to have suspected Garrigou and was horrified to learn that in Rouen, his hometown and the place where his fans would be most numerous, persons unknown had put up posters saying "Citizens of Rouen: I would have been leading this race had I not been poisoned. You know what you have to do when the race reaches your city." Each poster bore a forgery of his signature. By this point, Garrigou (at the suggestion of the organisers) had taken to wearing disguise, but the two men realised that if the angry Rouennais even suspected his true identity they were likely to become a lynch mob. Duboc offered to ride on ahead to the city and do what he could to placate them, but an equally concerned Henri Desgrange decided that extreme tactics were required. As a result, Garrigou rode through the city protected on all sides by three cars, each filled with the burliest men Desgrange could find.

The 1912 race passed without incident for Garrigou, but he was outclassed by Odile Defraye and Eugène Christophe and had to settle for 3rd place overall with no stage wins (in the same year, he finished in 2nd place at Paris-Roubaix). He did a little better the next year, winning Stage 8 and coming 2nd, then won Stage 14 and finished in 5th place at his final Tour in 1914.




Gustaaf Deloor

Gustaaf Deloor, who died on this day in 2002 at the age of 88, was a Belgian cyclist who enjoyed a successful professional career before the Second World War and won the Vuelta a Espana twice. The first time was in 1935 when he won three stages and wore the orange jersey that in those days marked out the race leader for twelve days. He wore orange for all but two of the 22 days the race lasted the following year, winning three stages once again - and, completing the course in 150h07'54", set the longest winning time in Vuelta history. He also won Stage 6 in the 1937 Tour de France.

The Grand Tour winner of today can look forward to fame and fortune, but - perhaps as a result of a general downturn in interest in the sport, perhaps as a result of the tarnished image with which it was left following the notorious doping scandals of the 1990s and early 21st Century - they receive nothing like the adulation that their ancestors got, and which sometimes proved too much for them to bear. Deloor, however, was one rider who benefited enormously from his fame. Having joined the Belgian Army when war broke out, he found himself among the 1,200 men taken prisoner after the Nazis attacked and over-ran Fort Eben-Emael on the 10th of May 1940 and was transported to Stalag II-B, which would earn infamy as the most brutal POW camp operated by the Nazis during the war. Deloor, however, was fortunate enough to be recognised by a  German officer who had been an ardent cycling fan before the conflict and arranged for him to be given a relatively easy job in the camp kitchens.

After the war, Deloor returned to what was left of Belgium. Finding his house a plundered wreck, he emigrated to New York, spending ten years there before moving on to Los Angeles where he remained for the next 21 years up until 1980, at which point he returned to Belgium where he spent the rest of his life.

Carlo Clerici
Surprisingly little is known about the Italian-born Swiss cyclist Carlo Clerici, who died on this day in 2007 when he was 72. This is all the more remarkable considering his impressive palmares - he won the GP de Suisse in 1952, a year after finishing the Tour de Suisse in 3rd place (which he did again in 1955. He also did well in National Championships, winning a bronze medal in 1954. He manged two podium places at the Tour de Romandie (3rd in 1954 and 2nd in 1956), but his greatest success was winning the overall General Classification at the 1954 Giro d'Italia when he beat riders such as Hugo Koblet (2nd), Fausto Coppi (4th) and Fiorenzo Magni (6th). He was the greatest rider you've (probably) never heard of.

Julian Dean
(image credit: Petit Brun CC BY-SA 2.0) 

Julian Dean
Julian Dean, born today in 1975 in Waihai, New Zealand, has competed in seven Tours de France and finished every one of them, though his best placing to date was 107th in 2007. His record in the other Grand Tours has been chequered - he abandoned his first Giro d'Italia during Stage 6, failed to show up at the start of Stage 19 in both 2008 and 2010, came 93rd in 2007 and 136th in 2010. He had ridden in three editions of the Vuelta a Espana, abandoning his first (2005) in Stage 15, coming 132nd in 2009 and failing to show at the start of Stage 13 in 2010.

However, Dean's performance in shorter races has been highly impressive - he won bronze at the 1993 World Track Championships in the Under-19 Team Pursuit, another in the same event at the 1994 Commonwealth Games and then went on to win stages and General Classifications at a variety of races in the Southern Hemisphere and the USA, culminating in a GC win at the 1999 Tour of Wellington. In that same year, he won two stages in the Tour of Britain, his first success in European racing, then won the Tour de Wallonie in 2003. A year later he was back in Britain, winning the Points Classification and coming 2nd overall, then he became National Road Race and Criterium Champion in 2007, retaining the road title the next year when he also finished 3rd overall at the Tour of Ireland and formed a part of the winning Time Trial team in the Giro d'Italia.

That apparently piqued his interest in the Grand Tours, because he showed a marked upturn in results from then onwards, finishing Stages 14 and 21 in 4th and 6th place respectively at the Tour de France and then 3rd in Stage 10 and 2nd in Stage 18 at the Giro and 2nd in Stages 4 and 18 and 3rd in Stage 20 at the Tour in 2010. He was once again part of a winning Tour Time Trial team in 2011, then finished Stage 3 the next day in 7th place. For 2011, he'll race with the new Australian GreenEDGE team, and though he's now at an age where many riders retire we might not have seen him realise his Grand Tour potential yet.

Other births: Kimberley Smith (USA, 1968); Bjørn Selander (USA, 1988); Gbedikpe Emmanuel Amouzou (Togo, 1954); Dirk Meier (East Germany, 1964); Howard Wing (China, 1916, died 2008); Jesús Rios (Mexico, 1964); Salvador Rios (Mexico, 1963); Valeria Cappellotto (Italy, 1970); Léon van Bon (Netherlands, 1972); Hans Bernhardt (Germany, 1906, died 1940); Erwin Jaisli (Switzerland, 1937); Jozef Žabka (Slovakia, 1975); Antonio Negrini (Italy, 1903, died 1994); Ruggero Berti (USA, 1909, died 1985).

Slipstream merges with AA Drink-Leontien nl.

It's been the subject of rumour for a day or two, but the news is now confirmed - the Slipstream Women's Team is to merge with AA Drink, the team that provided a new home for several riders when Garmin-Cervélo manager Jonathan Vaughters announced the loss of a sponsor last year. The team will be run by AA-Drinks and administered by Slipstream with all riders competing on Cervélo bikes.

Garmin was contractually obliged to continue paying the salaries of nine of its ex-riders, meaning that a merger was the obvious and most practical way ahead for all parties. With many teams hitting rough patches in 2011 the merger comes as extremely welcome news in the women's cycling world.

Vaughters said: "We are pleased to partner with AA Drink / Leontien.nl. Michael Zilaard has built a strong organization and we are excited to work with him to combine our strengths. The 2012 team looks strong and we believe it will be a great year ahead."

Emma Pooley

Press release here.

Team:

Elizabeth Armitstead (UK)
Chantal Blaak (NL)
Lucinda Brand (NL)
Jessie Daams (BEL)
Sharon Laws (UK)
Lucy Martin (UK)
Shelley Olds (USA)
Madelene Olsson (SWE)
Emma Pooley (UK)
Carla Ryan (AUS)
Isabelle Söderberg (SWE)
Marijn de Vries (NL)
Marieke van Wanroij (NL)
Kirsten Wild (NL)

Fitting a 1 1/8" stem to a 1" threaded quill steerer

Believe it or not, once in a while we have a quick look at the stats for this blog to find out what people who've wandered in were actually trying to find. Then, if we haven't got what they were after, we try to provide it (unless it's the person who keeps looking for "fabian cancellara hair care," because we really don't know anything about that). Lately, a lot of people seem to be looking for advice on modifying quill headset bikes to accept modern threadless stems - we imagine this is largely because of the current craze for modifying older bikes into fixies, either for road use or for bicycle polo.

Now, as all right-thinking road cyclists know, fixies are the chosen steed of Satan. However, it's obviously a good thing if old bikes - sometimes, rather special ones - are used for riding rather than as a place for spiders to hang webs. So here we go...

Question: Can I adapt my old quill headset bike to accept a modern 1 1/8" (28.6mm) threadless stem?

Answer. Yep. And what's more, it's both easy and cheap to do so.

The old quill-type 1" headset (left)  has now been almost entirely replaced by the modern 1 1/8" headset.
As a result, choice of stems is now limited - and 1 1/8" stems are not compatible with 1" steerers. Unless,
that is, you use an adaptor.

Preparation
All you need to do is work out what size steerer your bike uses, and the best way to find out is by measuring it with  pair of vernier calipers. First, remove the existing stem by loosening the top bolt, which is often a 5mm allen bolt but may also be a hexagonal-head (or, if the bike is really old, a square-headed bolt - in which case, you should probably offer the bike to a museum). Once done, the handlebars and stem will come away from the frame - if they don't, the wedge nut that fastens them in place is probably rusted into the steerer. Freeing it will be a simple process if you read our guide on winter-proofing headsets.

Quill system with lock nut removed to
show the steerer
(image credit: Ellywa CC BY-SA 3.0)

You will now have easy access to the lock nut, which can be removed with a quill headset spanner or, if yours is an odd size, with a big adjustable wrench. Once that's out of the way, you'll be able to see the upper end of the threaded steerer which passes through the frame's head tube to the fork - this is the bit you need to measure. It's most likely to be 1" in diameter (that's 25.4mm if you only have metric vernier calipers), in which case the internal diameter will be 7/8" (22.2mm) of an inch. However, other sizes have been used over the years; ranging from an old-fashioned French standard of 25mm (with a 22m internal diameter) to a 26mm variant used on a few old bikes from Austria (also 22mm internal) to the 1 1/4" (31.8mm) used on tandems. If you find you have either the French or Austrian size, the adaptor we'll be looking at below will probably still work provided you use a shim - but you may need to find someone with a lathe and the knowledge to use it to make one for you, as the conversion isn't common enough for bike shops to stock a suitable part. If, by some extraordinary chance your bike has a 1 1/4", you may be able to find an adaptor to fit as a threadless steerer design with the same external and internal dimensions has been used on tandems and a few old Gary Fisher mountain bikes. But like we said - it's probably going to be 1". Most are.

While you've got your spanners out, it seems silly not to take the opportunity to give the bearings a clean, replace any that are damaged or missing and relubricate the moving parts. In fact, this is especially the case if you're modifying an old bike because you may not know how long it's been since anybody last gave them any tender loving care. The winter-proofing headsets guide tells you how to do this.

Take a moment to check the internal condition of the steerer. Many are made of steel and may be rusty (especially if you had problems getting the wedge nut out): a good way to find out is to remove the front wheel and mudguard if one is fitted, then push a small piece of light-coloured rag through with a length of dowel or a broom handle - you'll be able to see rust on the rag. If it is, wrap some sandpaper around the dowel and give it a clean, then use a new piece of rag to remove bits of sand and then another to apply protective grease. Even if there is no rust, regrease the steerer anyway.

Adaptors

When the 1 1/8" headset size became the mountain bike international standard, the market was flooded with adaptors designed to allow riders to fit 1 1/8" threadless stems to 1" threaded steerers. This was partly so that owners had a wider choice of stems and partly so that people with not-very-good bikes could make them look like slightly-less-not-very-good bikes. Nowadays, the 1 1/8" size has almost completely replaced the older design which appears only on the very poorest of supermarket specials and as a result adaptors are not so easy to find.

In Britain, they can be had from Halfords for a mere twelve quid: it looks - and we're trying to be charitable here - a bit spoddy, but it'll do the job. Our experience of Halfords is that some of their stores employ very good mechanics who know their trade and will immediately understand what you're looking for, then be more than happy to order one in if they don't have one. Other stores are, shall we say, not so good; and employ people who apparently know nothing about either bikes or customer service. Fortunately, if your local example falls into the latter category, you can also buy one online and they won't charge for p&p provided you don't mind waiting four days for it. Others are available, but do be careful not to accidentally buy a 1 1/8" steerer extender - the look very similar. If you're not sure, ask your local bike shop to order one in for you.

Fitting
Clean and grease the threads of the steerer before replacing the lock nut, then adjust the system so that the steering turns easily and without any fore-and-aft or side-to-side rocking (there's more about that here). If you don't have experience in adjusting headsets, getting it just right can take a few attempts as there's a knack to be learned; but it's a simple process and you'll rapidly pick it up. Once done, you can fit the adaptor. These mimic the quill stem in having a wedge nut at the lower end, which causes the device to expand and thus locks it into the steerer - there are two types, both of which can be seen below.

Wedge nuts, also known as expansion nuts. We prefer the type on the left, simply because it looks
less of a bodge, but they work equally as well.

Insert it to your desired height, making sure that you do so to at least the minimum insertion mark to ensure it won't come free when you're riding, and bear in mind that most stems offer a degree of rise - that is, they're angled so that the handlebars will be slightly higher than the steerer tube. Fit the stem onto it - in some designs, it'll slide right on over the top but with others it may be necessary to remove the top cap first, which is done by removing the bolt that connects to the wedge (this also depends on the type of stem) - and loosely fasten the bolts to keep it in place.. It doesn't matter too much if you get the height wrong at this point because one advantage of quill stems is they're far easier to adjust for height that threadless stems. You can now tighten the bolt at the top of the adaptor to fasten the device in place, but don't bother tightening it all the way yet.

Fix the handlebar into the stem, taking care to ensure it's centrally positioned (and, if it's a straight bar, the right way up - you wouldn't be the first to have put in the wrong way up). Sit astride the bike. Does the height feel right? If not, loosen the top bolt so that you can adjust the adaptor's position in the steerer. Once the height is ideal,  tighten the top bolt to expand the wedge nut and fasten the adaptor in place. Sit astride the bike again to ensure then stem is in line with the front wheel. Once it is, fasten the bolts than pinch it onto the adaptor. Finallly, check you've tightened the handlebar clamp bolts sufficiently and the job, as they say, i a good 'un.

Daily Cycling Facts 27.01.12

Dante Coccolo

Dante Coccolo from Toulouse is all but forgotten today, but what he did and what happened as a result in the 1978 Tour de France is the stuff of legend.

The Tour, being the greatest race on the cycling calendar and having been in existence for more than a century, has given rise to numerous traditions and unspoken rules, some shared with other races and some unique to this one. Riders who ignore them do so at their peril, as Coccolo discovered when he decided that he'd grab the opportunity to attack when the peloton took what cyclists like to term a nature break. This was not the first time the rider, born on this day in 1957, had done such a thing and the peloton were not best pleased.

Later on in the same stage, Coccolo needed to take a comfort break of his own. While he was thus engaged in the roadside bushes, two riders whose names have since been forgotten (probably immediately - and deliberately, so they wouldn't be penalised by judges) sneaked up and wheeled his bike away with them before throwing it in a ditch a couple of kilometres up the road. Coccolo was forced to wait five minutes for a Jobo-Spidel team car to collect him, but by this time his managers Yves Gobert and Guy Faubert had heard what had happened. They too were not pleased with how their rider had behaved. Deciding that he hadn't been punished enough, they made him sit on the car's bonnet as they drove him to his bike. He finished the race second to last overall and left the team soon afterwards, never riding in the Tour again. (For another fun tale of Tour misadventure, check back here tomorrow!)


1996 Canadian National Road Race Champion Sue Palmer-Komar was born on this day in 1967 in Hamilton. Ontario. Sue had come 2nd in the race in 1992 and 1995, also finishing 2nd in the National Time Trial Championship race, then came 3d in 1997 before taking up mountain biking with the Haro team for a while but enjoyed little success in the discipline. She returned to road cycling with the Jane's Cosmetic team in 2001 and soon began achieving good results again, taking a silver medal at the 2002 Commonwealth Games and then a bronze at the Nationals and 2nd place at the Waalse Pijl a year later. In 2004, she won both the Circuit National Féminin de Saint-Amand-Montrond and the National Time Trial Championship, retaining the title for a second year in 2005. In 2006 she won two stages and the General Classification at the Green Mountain Stagerace before moving on to Colavita in 2007. Since then, her results have not been as impressive and, after a year with them, she left for Advil-Chapstick.

José Luis Rubiera
José Luis Rubiera, the now retired cyclist from Gijón in Spain, was born on this day in 1973. His first win as a professional was in no less a race than the 1997 Giro d'Italia when he was first over the line after Stage 19, coming a very respectable 10th overall two days later when the race drew to a close. He came 6th overall in the 1999 Vuelta a Espana, then 8th in the following year's Giro. He was 7th in the 2001 Vuelta, also winning the King of the Mountains classification at the Vuelta a Burgos, finishing the same race in 2nd place for 2002. His first taste of Tour de France success came the next year when his US Postal team won the Stage 4 Team Time Trial, a feat they would repeat the following two years. He managed 3rd in the 2006 Vuelta a Castilla y León, a stage win at the 2007 Tour of Qinghai Lake and another at the 2007 Vuelta a Murcia, then rounded off his career with 10th place at the 2009 Tour of California and 2010 Vuelta a Castilla y León.

Rubiera
(image credit: YellowMonkey/Binguyen
CC BY-SA 3.0)

Rubiera's palmares looks very much like that of a rider who could have gone further, perhaps building on his early Grand Tour success and winning one for himself; an aim towards which he would have been assisted by being that rare thing, a talented climber who could also perform well in a time trial. However, instead he spent his time as a domestique, albeit a super-domestique - he acted as lead man for none other than Lance Armstrong in five of his seven Tour de France victories, including leading him at the beginning of his legendary Alpe d'Huez ride in 2001 when the Texan recorded a time of 38'01", the fastest since Marco Pantani climbed the mountain 26" quicker in 1997 (a record which remains unbroken at the time of writing, 14 years later).

Rubiera is also unusual in professional racing on account of his education - he earned an degree in engineering in 2004 (unusual in men's professional racing at any rate, degrees and even doctorates are fairly common in the women's peloton), even though he raced three Grand Tours while studying. His skill on the bike, intelligence and likable personality ensured he was both respected and popular among other the riders who elected him as their deputy on the UCI ProTour Council.


Sprint specialist Robert Förster was born today in 1978 in Markkleeberg, Germany. He turned professional in 2001 and straight away did well in stage races, but he really made his mark in 2006 when he won Stage 21 at the Giro d'Italia and Stage 15 at the Vuelta a Espana while riding with the Gerolsteiner team. The next year, he won two stages at the Giro. He added two more stage wins in the 2008 Volta ao Algarve and another at the 2009 Tour of Turkey, then had a quieter 2010. In 2011, he won stages at the Tour of Qinghai Lake, Vuelta a Asturias, another at the Tour of Langkawi and two at the Nature Valley Grand Prix while racing with UnitedHealthcare.

Few people outside the Spanish racing scene now remember Enrique Martinez Heredia, who was born on this day in 1953 in the little town of Huesa, yet he was a name to be reckoned with during his short professional career lasting from the late 1970s to early 1980s. He first came to the world's attention by winning the 1974 Tour de l'Avenir, a race for amateurs that frequently serves to reveal future greats, then won the Volta a Catalunya and the Youth Classification at the Tour de France in 1976. . His future Tour de France results were never quite as good, the highlight of his career as a Tourist coming when he finished 29th in Stage 8 1977, but he became National Champion in 1978 and won seven more races and numerous stages before retiring at the end of the 1983 season.

Other births: Hugh Porter (Great Britain, 1940); Juris Silovs (Latvia, 1973); José Chacón (Venezuela, 1977); Inga Thompson-Benedict (USA, 1964); Gorazd Štangelj (Slovenia, 1973).

Koksijde CX World Championships Preview

Mud, rain, sand, possibly even snow:
Koksijde is unique in CX
(image credit: Alex Robbins CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)

"@FieldyCX Ian Field
Bigger crowd watching practice today than at any event in the UK. It's going to be huge!"

There's nowhere quite like Koksijde. It's got the mixture of tarmac, grass and woodland that are epected of any cyclo cross course, but it has one unique feature - sand dunes.

If you've ever tried to ride a bike in sand, you'll know difficult it is. Shift your weight too much over the front wheel and it digs in, then you fall of. Too much weight over the rear wheel and digs in, sucking the strength right out of legs as you pedal harder to overcome the sucking effect, then more often than not you fall off. Get the balance just right and the sand still sucks the strength out of your legs. Try to go round a corner and everything's fine - just kidding! You fall off. Well, that's what happens in dry sand, at any rate; it's much worse when it's wet. Which it usually is on the very westernmost tip of Belgium.

Since cycling is unique among sports in that fans aren't really happy unless they get to see their heroes suffer, this make Koksijde one of the most popular courses in cyclo cross; and that's why it's been chosen as the location of the 2012 UCI World Cyclo Cross Championships, to be held this weekend.  More good news for spectators is that it's been raining heavily for much of the week and though Friday is expected to be dry, more rain on Saturday should mean a nice, soggy parcours - and, best of all, there's a chance of snow on Sunday.

If Vos doesn't like sand, she
might only be 75% as good
as she usually is. That may
still prove too strong for
the rest.

Likely winners? As ever, it's very difficult to see any of the women getting the better of Marianne Vos. The 24-year-old Dutch champion quite literally dominated the final round of the World Cup last weekend, powering away from the start line and never looking back. However, it's the opinion of your beloved author that while Vos is a phenomenally talented rider on all terrain (including road and track), sand is not the one she likes best - she lost by 13" to Daphny van den Brand here in Round 3 of the World Cup. Whether she dislikes it enough for it to make the slightest bit of difference is as of yet unknown. Van den Brand, who won the World Cup, will undoubtedly want to do well - she's planning this season to be her last, and retiring a both World Champion and Cup holder would be a glorious end to a glorious career. Katie Compton will be worth keeping an eye on, too - she won here in 2010 and has been having a decent season.

Among the men? Sven Nys. He's won here multiple times in the past, the last time being the November World Cup round; but he also won all the World Cup rounds here from 2005 to 2007 - and took his first victory among the dunes right back in 1999. He missed out on the World Cup and could only manage sixth at the last round on a parcours that looked suited to him - finally taking the Worlds title would be more than sufficient consolation for that; but is it evidence, perhaps, that he's due to be the next victim of the virus?

Sven Nys
(image credit: DarkSideX
CC BY-SA 3.0)

Zdenek Stybar and Niels Albert look set to be his greatest challenge - Stybar won here in 2009, Albert last year. Kevin Pauwels finished just a second behind Nys on this very course in November but stormed his way through much of the rest of the World Cup. Still a relative newcomer to the upper echelons of the sport in comparison to Nys and Albert, there could be no better way of confirming himself as the new king of cyclo cross than taking both the Cup and the Championship.

Britain's best hopes
Helen Wyman and Ian Field are the best chances Britain has of a World Champion. Helen is by far our best chance: she came 6th here during the World Cup race back in November, has been British Champion for the last seven consecutive years and says that she has been working towards improving her starts - the long, straight sprint away from the start line is likely to give her an advantage in the early part of the race. Nikki Harris was seventh in November and is likely to also do well in this race. Gabby Day was tenth, but is still recovering from the respiratory virus that many cyclo cross riders have suffered this season and will not be racing. This isn't the ideal parcours for Ian - he was 22nd here in November - but he's far more experienced on this unique track that either Jody Crawforth or Paul Oldham.

The Parcours
The start line is situated on the runway just south of the hangars at 51° 5'54.20"N 2°38'38.78"E and leads into a 280m slightly downhill straight section to ensure a fast start before the first turning, to the right and onto grass. Around 150m later, riders cross a narrow track and enter the woods for the first time and, beginning to climb, turn left and right into a paved track. After 90m, they will leave the track and enter a technical forest section which, in the wet, will be very slippery.

Once out of the trees, the parcours follows the boundary of the forest for 100m before turning sharply left and arriving at the pits. Two preserved aircraft - a Hawker Hunter and a Sikorsky helicopter, both bearing Belgian insignia, can be seen from this section. A right turn then leads into a 165m sand dune section (51° 6'9.41"N 2°38'32.56"E) and onto a bridge.  Having crossed the grass on the other side, riders turn left and head over Robert Vandammestraat and into a 218m section characterised by scrubby trees and shrubs - the sort of terrain also known as puncture country - then come to a paved track and follow it as it bends to the left for around 85m. They then turn right onto short grass, cross three tracks and arrive at a smaller sandy section.

Once through the sand and over another track, they arrive back at the bridge and cross into the same 165m sandy section as earlier. They follow a similar path through it, exit where they previously entered and turn left for a second visit to the pits. After turning right to follow the edge of the forest, they turn right again past houses and come to a road where they turn right again to sprint for 90m, then left off the road and into a 100m sandy section and, having ridden through a short wooded section, arrive at another road where they can sprint for 130m before reaching more grass. They cross a ditch and, after 130m on grass, head downhill arrive back at the starting point. The entire parcours is 2.89km in length.

Please note: More than 32,000 tickets have been sold, meaning there will be none available to buy at the event. Please don't waste money by showing up if you don't already have tickets!

Races start: Juniors Saturday 11:00, Under-23 Saturday 15:00, Elite Women Sunday 11:00, Elite Men Sunday 15:00 (all times CET, GMT is -1)

Streams: Sports-Livez are providing live stream of all races, including Juniors and Under-23.

STARTERS

Elite Women

  1    GRIMBERG, Arenda NL
  2    BOER, Sophie De NL
  3    STULTIENS, Sabrina NL
  4    BRAND, Daphny Van Den NL
  5    PAASSEN, Sanne Van NL
  6    RIJEN, Linda Van NL
  7    VOS, Marianne NL
  8    BRUCHMANN, Gesa GER
  9    SCHWEIZER, Sabrina GER
  10    CHAINEL-LEFEVRE, Lucie FRA
  11    MANI, Caroline FRA
  12    HAVLIKOVA, Pavla CZE
  13    MIKULASKOVA, Martina CZE
  14    NASH, Katerina CZE
  15    DAY, Gabriella GBR
  16    HARRIS, Nikki GBR
  17    LAST, Annie GBR
  18    WYMAN, Helen GBR
  19    ANTONNEAU, Kaitlin USA
  20    COMPTON, Katherine USA
  21    DOMBROSKI, Amy USA
  22    DUKE, Nicole USA
  23    MILLER, Meredith USA
  24    GAMONAL, Rocio ESP
  25    ACHERMANN, Jasmin SWI
  26    HENZELIN, Lise-marie SWI
  27    MAURER, Sabrina SWI
  28    CANT, Sanne BEL
  29    QUINTENS, Hilde BEL
  30    VANDERBEKEN, Joyce BEL
  31    ARZUFFI, Alice Maria ITA
  32    INNERHOFER, Julia ITA
  33    LECHNER, Eva ITA
  34    ROSSI, Vania ITA
  35    SCANDOLARA, Valentina ITA
  36    ERLANDSSON, Asa Maria SVE
  37    SNIHS, Kajsa SVE
  38    MAJERUS, Christine LUX
  39    WASIUK, Olga POL
  40    WHITSON, Genevieve NZ
  41    ARDAVE, Lelde LAT
  42    FURMANE, Madara LAT
  43    HANSEN, Nikoline DEN
  44    MIYAUCHI, Sakiko JAP
  45    TOYOOKA, Ayako JAP


Elite Men

  1    DLASK, Petr CZE
  2    KYZIVAT, Vladimir CZE 
  3    POLNICKY, Jiri CZE
  4    SIMUNEK, Radomir CZE
  5    STYBAR, Zdenek CZE
  6    ZLAMALIK, Martin CZE
  7    AERNOUTS, Bart BEL
  8    ALBERT, Niels BEL
  9    MEEUSEN, Tom BEL
  10    NYS, Sven BEL
  11    PAUWELS, Kevin BEL
  12    PEETERS, Rob BEL
  13    VANTORNOUT, Klaas BEL
  14    BOULO, Matthieu FRA
  15    BOURGOIN, Clement FRA
  16    CHAINEL, Steve FRA
  17    DUVAL, Aurelien FRA
  18    GADRET, John FRA
  19    MOUREY, Francis FRA
  20    MEISEN, Marcel GER
  21    PFINGSTEN, Christoph GER
  22    WALSLEBEN, Philipp GER
  23    WEBER, Sascha GER
  24    DRISCOLL, James USA
  25    JOHNSON, Tim USA
  26    JONES, Chris USA
  27    PAGE, Jonathan USA
  28    POWERS, Jeremy USA
  29    TREBON, Ryan USA
  30    RAMOS, Jose VEN
  31    HERNANDEZ GUTIERREZ, Aitor ESP
  32    MURGOITIO, Egoitz ESP
  33    RUIZ DE LARRINAGA IBANEZ, Javier ESP
  34    SUAREZ, Isaac ESP
  35    KNEGT, Gerben De NL
  36    HUENDERS, Mitchell NL
  37    AMERONGEN, Thijs Van NL
  38    BRAND, Twan Van Den NL
  39    WUBBEN, Niels NL
  40    DARVELL, Magnus SVE
  41    CRAWFORTH, Jody GBR
  42    FIELD, Ian GBR
  43    OLDHAM, Paul GBR
  44    BARENYI, Milan SLO
  45    GAVENDA, Robert SLO
  46    HARING, Martin SLO
  47    METLICKA, Vaclav SLO
  48    HEULE, Christian SUI
  49    TARAMARCAZ, Julien SUI
  50    WILDHABER, Marcel SUI
  51    ZAHNER, Simon SUI
  52    BIANCO, Marco ITA
  53    COMINELLI, Christian ITA
  54    DAMIANI, Luca ITA
  55    FRANZOI, Enrico ITA
  56    TABACCHI, Mirko ITA
  57    GIL, Mariusz POL
  58    RICHEY, Craig CAN
  59    TAKENOUCHI, Yu JAP
  60    TSUJIURA, Keichi JAP
  61    BAUSCH, Gusty LUX
  62    HELMIG, Christian LUX
  63    GEHBAUER, Robert OST
  64    GEISMAYR, Daniel OST
  65    GOLLINGER, Karl Heinz OST
  66    LEWIS, Rattray NZ
  67    QUIST, David Andrew NOR
  68    SOROKINS, Dimitriy LAT
  69    YILDIRIM, Hakan TUR


Under-23

  1    GODRIE, Stan NL
  2    TEUNISSEN, Mike NL
  3    HAAR, Lars Van Der NL
  4    HEIJDEN, Michiel Van Der NL
  5    POEL, David Van Der NL
  6    EMPEL, Micki Van NL
  7    BOSMANS, Wietse BEL
  8    BRAET, Vinnie BEL
  9    SWEECK, Laurens BEL
  10    VANTHOURENHOUT, Michael
  11    VERMEERSCH, Gianni BEL
  12    ALAPHILIPPE, Julian FRA
  13    BOUVARD, Kevin FRA
  14    JOUFFROY, Arnaud FRA
  15    MENUT, David FRA
  16    VENTURINI, Clément FRA
  17    HNIK, Karel CZE
  18    NESVADBA, Jan CZE
  19    VOJTECH, Nipl CZE
  20    PAPRSTKA, Tomas CZE
  21    POLNICKY, Radek CZE
  22    FORSTER, Lars SUI
  23    GRAND, Arnaud SUI
  24    LIENHARD, Fabian SUI
  25    WILDHABER, Michael SUI
  26    ECKMANN, Yannick GER
  27    MAYER, Yannick GER
  28    SCHWEIZER, Michael GER
  29    WALSLEBEN, Max GER
  30    KAISER, Cody USA
  31    MCDONALD, Zach USA
  32    BRAIDOT, Daniele ITA
  33    BRAIDOT, Luca ITA
  34    FALASCHI, Bryan ITA
  35    SILVESTRI, Elia ITA
  36    SMARZARO, Igor ITA
  37    KONWA, Marek POL
  38    KOSTECKI, Patryk POL
  39    MALEC, Wojciech POL
  40    PILIS, Bartosz POL
  41    GÓMEZ, Iñigo ESP
  42    GOMEZ, Jon ESP
  43    LASTRA, Jonathan ESP
  44    RODRIGUEZ GUEDE, Pablo ESP
  45    CLARKSON, Jack GBR
  46    GALLAGHER, Kenta GBR
  47    GRAY, Luke GBR
  48    JAMES, Steven GBR
  49    SANTOS, Vincent Dias Dos LUX
  50    REICHLING, Lex LUX
  51    HANSEN, Kenneth DEN
  52    OLSEN, Emil Arvid DEN
  53    GEHBAUER, Alexander OST
  54    SÖDERQVIST, Ludwig SVE
  55    CÔTE-BOUVETTE, Félix CAN
  56    CHALAS, Jaroslav SLO
  57    MANIKAS, Domas LIT
  58    PREMANIS, Matiss LAT

Juniors

  1    JAUREGUI, Quentin FRA

  2    KORETZKY, Victor FRA

  3    KOWALSKI, Dylan FRA

  4    SEIGLE, Romain FRA

  5    TURGIS, Anthony FRA

  6    HERMANS, Quinten BEL

  7    HOEYBERGHS, Daan BEL

  8    SOETE, Daan BEL

  9    AERT, Wout Van BEL

  10    TICHELT, Yorbin Van BEL

  11    FRISCHKNECHT, Andri SUI

  12    GRAB, Dominic SUI

  13    ZUMSTEIN, Dominic SUI

  14    BREZNA, Jan CZE

  15    POKORNY, Karel CZE

  16    VASTL, Jan CZE

  17    DRUMM, Felix GER

  18    HERKLOTZ, Silvio GER

  19    KÖNIG, Marco GER

  20    MÜLLER, Steffen GER

  21    SIEMERMANN, Johannes GER

  22    ARIESEN, Tim NL

  23    BUDDING, Martijn NL

  24    BEEK, Pjotr Van NL

  25    POEL, Mathieu Van Der NL

  26    WEIJERS, Koen NL

  27    WIJKEL, Stan NL

  28    MOSES, Joseph GBR

  29    ROBINSON, Hugo GBR

  30    WELBURN, Alex GBR

  31    BERTOLINI, Gioele ITA

  32    COLLEDANI, Nadir ITA

  33    NICOLA, Luca De ITA

  34    PEDANTE, Francesco ITA

  35    REDAELLI, Riccardo ITA

  36    DILLMAN, Andrew GBR

  37    GORRY, Richard USA

  38    ORTENBLAD, Tobin USA

  39    OWEN, Logan USA

  40    WHITE, Curtis USA

  41    BEAUDOIN, Samuel CAN

  42    PATRY, Yohan CAN

  43    GRABIS, Mateusz POL

  44    KONWA, Piotr POL

  45    LIS, Tobiasz POL

  46    PALUTA, Michal POL

  47    PATRYK, Stosz POL

  48    FRITSCH, Sven POL

  49    CAMPO, Jaime ESP

  50    RIBERA, Jose Manuel ESP

  51    SUAREZ FERNANDEZ, Kevin ESP

  52    GLAZJA, Ondrej SLO

  53    VOZAR, Simon SLO

  54    NAKAI, Michimasa JAP

  55    SAWADA, Toki JAP

  56    YOKOYAMA, Kota JAP

  57    LINDE, Emil SVE

  58    WAHLQVIST, Dennis SVE

  59    BAIKSTYS, Zigymantas LIT