European Mountain Bike Championships 2013

The 2013 European Mountain Bike and Trials Championships took place from June 20 to 23, 2013 in Bern , Switzerland . The races in the Olympic discipline Cross Country were held on Bern's local mountain, Gurten . The Swiss Bike Trophy has been held there since 2004. The team race and the eliminator were held in the middle of the city of Bern, right in front of the Bundeshaus , the seat of the Swiss government. The trial sections were also spectacular . These were integrated into the old town of Bern. The highlight was the final section in the old Bernese bear pit .

The organizer of the European championships was the Association Mountain Bike & Trial European Championship 2013. The chairmen were Thomas Binggeli (CEO of the Swiss bike manufacturer BMC) and René Walker (long-time organizer of the MTB Swiss Cup, former Vice-President of Swiss Cycling and manager of MTB world champion Ralph Näf ). Binggeli was responsible for the financing and Walker for the organization. A total of over 250 volunteers were on duty.

A total of over 500 athletes from 31 European nations took part in the European championships. 40,000 visitors attended the races in the city and on the Gurten. Never before has a mountain bike event in Switzerland been attended by so many fans. The budget for the event was just under 1 million Swiss francs.

The European Championship opened on June 20th at 7 p.m. with the team race. Followed by the official opening address by Government Councilor Andreas Rickenbacher.

The Switzerland indeed took six medals, but remained without a gold medal.

The feedback on the organization of the European Championships was very positive. Thomas Frischknecht spoke of the best mountain bike race ever held in Switzerland. The specialist and daily press were also full of praise.

The MTB & Trial EM 2013 in Bern was also the first climate-neutral championship in Switzerland. The green button with the inscription "Climate Minded" is prominently placed in the EM logo.

Cross country

Men

space	country	athlete	time
1	FRA	Julien Absalon	1:32:21 h
2	SUI	Nino Schurter	+ 1:53 min
3	ITA	Marco Aurelio Fontana	+ 2:06 min
4th	SUI	Lukas Flückiger	+ 2:18 min
5	ESP	Jose Antonio Hermida	+ 2:20 min
6th	BEL	Sven Nys	+ 2:27 min
7th	CZE	Ondřej Cink	+ 2:27 min
8th	AUT	Alexander Gehbauer	+ 2:50 min
9	CZE	Jan Skarnitzl	+ 2:59 min
10	SLO	Michal Lami	+ 3:05 min

Award ceremony of the men's race

Date: June 23, 2013, 2:00 p.m.
Length: 3 starting laps of 400 meters and 7 laps of 4.5km
Nino Schurter and Julien Absalon were able to break away early. Only the Italian Marco Fontana was able to follow the duo in the initial phase. In the end, the French double Olympic champion clearly prevailed and gave the Swiss team a bitter defeat in front of the home crowd who had traveled up the Gurten in Schaaren.

Women

space	country	sportswoman	time
1	SLO	Tanja Žakelj	1:34:33 h
2	ITA	Eva Lechner	+ 0:38 min
3	POLE	Maja Włoszczowska	+ 1:35 min
4th	CZE	Kateřina Nash	+ 1:56 min
5	SUI	Katrin Leumann	+ 2:10 min
6th	SUI	Esther Süss	+ 3:16 min
7th	FRA	Julie Bresset	+ 3:22 min
8th	AUT	Elisabeth Osl	+ 4:19 min
9	POLE	Katarzyna Solus-Miskowicz	+ 4:43 min
10	RUS	Irina Kalentieva	+ 5:19 min

Date: June 23, 2013, 11:00 am
Length: 1 starting lap of 400 meters and 6 laps of 4.5 km
Unfortunately, there were no training sessions in the women's race. Adelheid Morath , Tereza Hurikova and Anja Gradl fell during the inspection and had to forego a start.

Men U23

space	country	athlete	time
1	FRA	Jordan Sarrou	1:25:13 h
2	BEL	Jens Schuermans	+ 0:12 min
3	FRA	Hugo Drechou	+ 0:14 min
4th	NED	Michiel Van der Heijden	+ 0:16 min
5	ITA	Nicholas Pettina	+ 0:27 min

Date: June 23, 2013, 8:30 a.m.
Length: 3 starting laps of 400 meters and 6 laps of 4.5 km

Women U23

space	country	sportswoman	time
1	UKR	Yana Belomoyna	1:20:38 h
2	SWE	Jenny Rissveds	+ 1:13 min
3	GER	Helen Grobert	+ 1:41 min
4th	SUI	Jolanda Neff	+ 2:26 min
5	SUI	Andrea Waldis	+ 3:12 min

Date: June 22, 2013, 2:30 p.m.
Length: 1 starting lap of 400 meters and 5 laps of 4.5 km

Juniors

space	country	athlete	time
1	GER	Lukas Baum	1:12:45 h
2	ITA	Gioele Bertolini	+ 1:21 min
3	THE	Niels Rasmussen	+ 1:33 min
4th	FRA	Romain Boutet	+ 1:33 min
5	THE	Louis Bendixen	+ 1:46 min

Date: June 22, 2013, 11 a.m.
Length: 1 starting lap of 400 meters and 5 laps of 4.5 km

Juniors

space	country	sportswoman	time
1	THE	Malene Degn	0:54:15 h
2	GER	Sofia Wiedenroth	+ 0:41 min
3	SUI	Alessandra Keller	+ 0:57 min
4th	ITA	Emilie Collomb	+ 1:22 min
5	GER	Sarah Bauer	+ 3:46 min

Date: June 22, 2013, 9 a.m.
Length: 1 starting lap of 400 meters and 3 laps of 4.5km

Season

space	country	athlete	time
1	ITA	Marco Aurelio Fontana Gioele Bertolini Eva Lechner Gerhard Kerschbaumer	32:44 min
2	SUI	Reto Indergand Dominic grave Jolanda Neff Nino Schurter	+ 0:18 min
3	CZE	Jan Nesvadba Jan Vastl Kateřina Nash Ondřej Cink	+ 0:30 min
4th	FRA	Maxime quirk Jordan Sarrou Neilo Perrin Ganier Julie Bresset	+ 0:53 min
5	GER	Markus Schulte Lukas Baum Nadine Rieder Moritz Milatz	+ 1:09 min

Date: June 20, 2013, 7:00 p.m.
Length: each driver completed 2 laps of 1.8 km each
World premiere in team races: for the first time, the drivers completed two laps in a row. The short & spectacular route in the center of the city of Bern started right in front of the Federal Palace.

Cross Country Eliminator

Men

space	country	athlete
1	AUT	Daniel Federspiel
2	SLO	Miha Halzer
3	SUI	Sepp Freiburghaus
4th	SUI	Stefan Peter
5	GBR	Kenta Gallagher
6th	GER	Simon Gegenheimer
7th	SUI	Marcel Wildhaber
8th	SUI	Patrick Lüthi

Date: June 21, 2013, 7:00 p.m.
For the first time in the history of the European Championship, a title was awarded in the Eliminator. The Eliminator had its World Cup premiere in Saalfelden in 2012 . The course in Bern was 1.2 km long and characterized by a technical middle section and a more than 200 m long home straight. Thousands of fans stood along the route. Never before have so many spectators been to an Eliminator race.

Women

space	country	sportswoman
1	SWE	Jenny Rissveds
2	SUI	Kathrin Stirnemann
3	SUI	Ramona Forchini
4th	FRA	Cecile Ravanel
5	NOR	Ingrid Sofie Jacobsen
6th	UKR	Iryna Popova
7th	NED	Anne Perpstra
8th	RUS	Elvira Khairullina

Date: June 21, 2013, 7:00 p.m.

Trials

Men 26 "

space	country	athlete	Points
1	FRA	Gilles Coustellier	20th
2	FRA	Vincent Hermance	35
3	FRA	Aurélien Fontenoy	46
4th	GBR	Andrei Burton	58
5	FRA	Guillaume Dunand	49, without SF

Semi-finals: June 21, 2013, 1 p.m.
Final: June 22, 2013, 4:30 p.m.
Super-finals: June 22, 2013, 8 p.m.

Men 20 "

space	country	athlete	Points
1	ESP	Abel Mustieles	26th
2	ESP	Ion Areitio Agirre	36
3	NED	Rick Koekoek	42
4th	CZE	Vaclav Kolar	50
5	GER	Raphael Pils	45 without SF

Semi-finals: June 21, 2013, 1 p.m.
Final: June 22, 2013, 2 p.m.
Super-finals: June 22, 2013, 7 p.m.

Women

space	country	sportswoman	Points
1	ESP	Gemma Abant Condal	3
2	SVK	Tatiana Janíčková	10
3	ESP	Mireia Abant Condal	17th
4th	SVK	Kristína Sýkorová	19th
5	GER	Romina Fix	26th

Final: June 21, 2013, 5:30 p.m.

Juniors 26 "

space	country	athlete	Points
1	GBR	Jack Carthy	6th
2	FRA	Jeremy Descloux	23
3	GER	Jonathan Sandritter	38
4th	ESP	Sergi Llongeras	38
5	FRA	Gabriel Berge	42

Semi-finals: June 21, 2013, 9 a.m.
Final: June 22, 2013, 11:30 a.m.

Juniors 20 "

space	country	athlete	Points
1	GER	Dominik Oswald	7th
2	GER	Lucas Krell	11
3	ESP	Bernat Seuba Romeu	21st
4th	THE	Jonas Kristiansen	30th
5	AUT	Thomas Pechhacker	35

Semi-finals: June 21, 2013, 9 a.m.
Final: June 22, 2013, 9 a.m.

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