Crespi and Eyer victorious in Brno!
The eigth stage of the Difficulty World Cup 2004 was won last weekend by Flavio Crespi and Alexandra Eyer.
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 The eigth stage of the Difficulty World Cup was won last weekend by Flavio Crespi and Alexandra Eyer. The two athletes produced their best competion result ever in Brno, Czech Republic, and although in the past both had eyed victory on numerous occasions, neither of them had been able to secure the top podium position up until now. Crespi beat a strong field to win his first ever WC competition, ahead of home-favourite Tomasz Mrazek and Alexandre Chabot, second and third respectively. The young Italian powered through a set of undercuts which had stopped Chabot, and came to within a few moves from the top. Mrazek exited last and climbed past Chabot's highpoint, but then fell 4 holds short of Crespi. The women's event proved to be surprising too. In a final in which 7 out of the 8 finalists fell within the short space of just 1 meter, Alexandra Eyer from Switzerland pulled off the impossible and beat all, placing first ahead of Olha Shalahina and Maja Vidmar. Angela Eiter, the only ahlete to top out in the Semifinal, placed fourth, beating closest rival Muriel Sarkany into 5th place. After these surprise results, and Sarkany and Chabot's victory in Valence (France) a fortnight ago, the World Cup 2004 will now be decided in Kranj this weekend. All podium places are up for grabs, and this final stage will prove conclusive: will Mrazek manage to beat Chabot? The Czech leads by 35 points, but the Frenchman has been winning more competitions of late... And will Angela Eiter manage to grasp overall victory from Muriel Sarkany? The Belgian has a 39 point margin, both have won 3 competitions... It's going to prove close. See you in Slovenia! Results men - Brno 1 Crespi Flavio ITA 2 Mrázek Tomás CZE 3 Chabot Alexandre FRA 4 Petrenko Maxim UKR 5 Lagni Bernardino ITA 6 Verhoeven Jorg NED 7 Millet Sylvain FRA 8 Son Sang-Won KOR 9 Zardini Luca ITA 10 Fuselier Mickael FRA 11 Kim Ja-Ha KOR 12 Droetto Fabrizio ITA 13 Ovtchinnikov Evgueni RUS 13 Repcik Juraj SVK 15 Vinokur Vadim USA 16 Bindhammer Christian GER 17 Kaourov Ivan RUS 17 Pouvreau Gérome FRA 17 Sova Matej SLO 17 Usobiaga Patxi ESP 21 Brenna Cristian ITA 22 Bindhammer Andreas GER 22 Fichtinger Reinhard AUT 22 Puigblanque Ramón Julián ESP 22 Reis Jürgen AUT 26 Valjavec Tomaz SLO Results women - Brno 1 Eyer Alexandra SUI 2 Shalahina Olha UKR 3 Vidmar Maja SLO 4 Eiter Angela AUT 5 Sarkany Muriel BEL 6 Kobayashi Yuka JPN 7 Ciavaldini Caroline FRA 8 Ostapenko Alena UKR 9 Kim Ja-In KOR 10 Iaemourd Ekaterina RUS 11 Bacher Barbara AUT 12 Martin Delphine FRA 13 Levet Sandrine FRA 14 Lavarda Jenny ITA 15 Saurwein Katharina AUT Photo: Flavio Crespi, winner in Brno (Photo by Zofin)
Results men - Valence 1 Chabot Alexandre FRA 2 Bindhammer Christian GER 3 Mrazek Tomasz CZE 4 Fuselier Michaël FRA 5 Auclair Francois FRA 6 Dugit Stephane FRA 7 Desgranges Romain FRA 8 Ovchinnikov Evgeny RUS 9 Crespi Flavio ITA 10 Lo Piccolo Cedric FRA 11 Dugit Fabien FRA 12 Legrand Yannick FRA 13 Zardini Luca ITA 13 Verhoeven Jorg NED 15 Fichtinger Reinhard AUT 16 Fischuber Kilian AUT 17 Vinokur Vadim USA 18 Pagnoux Romain FRA 19 Marin Garcia Eduar SPA 19 Becan Klemen SLO 21 Goussak Igor UKR 21 Puigblanque Ramon Julian SPA 23 Usobiaga Lakunka Patxi SPA 24 Pouvreau Gerôme FRA Results women - Valence 1 Sarkany Muriel BEL 2 Cufar Martina SLO 2 Ciavaldini Caroline FRA 4 Lavarda Jenny ITA 5 Eiter Angela AUT 6 Gros Natalija SLO 7 Schöpf Bettina AUT 8 Eyer Alexandra SUI 9 Iaemourd Ekaterina RUS 10 Ostapenko Olena UKR 11 Bacher Barbara AUT 12 Vidmar Maja SLO 13 Minoret Chloe FRA 14 Franko Lucija SLO 15 Levet Sandrine FRA 16 Shalahina Olga UKR 17 Graftiaux Chloe BEL 18 Knorr Damaris GER 19 Vidmar Katja SLO 20 Largeron Marine FRA | ||||
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