Mountain bike world championships 2002

The 15th Mountain Bike World Championships took place from August 28 to September 1, 2002 in the Austrian town of Kaprun . They were promoted together with the nearby town of Zell am See as part of the European Sports Region Kaprun – Zell am See .

A total of 17 decisions were made in the disciplines of Cross Country , Downhill , Four Cross and Trials . The slope was the Maiskogel , with the infrastructure of the Kaprun – Maiskogel ski area .

The investments amounted to about 60 million schillings . The event was a success, the International Cycling Association UCI awarded the World Cup finals 2003-2005 to Kaprun immediately after the event. But only that 2003 was held there.

Cross country

Men (33.6 km)

space	country	athlete	time
1	CAN	Roland Green	2:19:02 hrs.
2	BEL	Filip Meirhaeghe	2:19:21 hrs.
3	SUI	Thomas Frischknecht	2:20:47 hrs.

Women (28.8 km)

space	country	Athlete	time
1	NOR	Gunn-Rita Dahle	2:14:05 hrs.
2	POLE	Anna Szafraniec	2:15:28 hrs.
3	GER	Sabine Spitz	2:16:53 hrs.

Men U23 (28.8 km)

space	country	athlete	time
1	FRA	Julien Absalon	1:59:01 hrs.
2	SUI	Ralph Näf	2:01:33 hours
3	CAN	Ryder Hesjedal	2:02:34 hours

Juniors

space	country	athlete	time
1	OUT	Trent Lowe	1:17:14 hrs.
2	RUS	Yuri Trofimov	1:19:12 hrs.
3	ITA	Tony Longo	1:19:27 hrs.

Juniors

space	country	Athlete	time
1	OUT	Lisa Mathison	1:14:08 hrs.
2	AUT	Elisabeth Osl	1:16:39 hrs.
3	CZE	Petra Bublová	1:17:43 hrs.

Season

space	country	Athletes	time
1	CAN	Ryder Hesjedal , Roland Green , Alison Sydor , Plaxton	1:43:36 hrs.
2	FRA	Laurence Leboucher , Absalon, Demaret, Ravanel	1:44:29 hrs.
3	SUI	Florian Vogel , Thomas Frischknecht , Henzi, Flückiger	1:45:00 hrs.

Downhill

Men

space	country	athlete	time
1	FRA	Nicolas Vouilloz	5: 08.53 min
2	GBR	Steve Peat	5: 09.07 min
3	OUT	Chris Kovarik	5: 13.88 min

Women

space	country	athlete	time
1	FRA	Anne-Caroline Chausson	5: 45.58 min
2	GBR	Fionn Griffiths	5: 52.18 min
3	United States	Missy Giove	5: 56.14 min

Juniors

space	country	athlete	time
1	OUT	Samuel Hill	5: 22.01 min
2	GBR	George Atherton	5: 23.62 min
3	OUT	Justin Havukainen	5: 24.62 min

Juniors

space	country	Athlete	time
1	NZL	Emmeline Ragot	6: 27.4 min
2	GBR	Claire Bauchet	6: 34.9 min
3	ECU	Diana Marggraff	6: 38.3 min

Four Cross

Men

space	country	athlete
1	United States	Brian Lopes
2	FRA	Cédric Gracia
3	United States	Eric Carter

Women

space	country	Athlete
1	FRA	Anne-Caroline Chausson
2	OUT	Katrina Miller
3	FRA	Sabrina Jonnier

Trials

Men 26 "

space	country	athlete	Points
1	BEL	Kenny Belaey	8th
2	FRA	Marc Vinco	9
3	FRA	Marc Caisso	10

Men 20 "

space	country	athlete	Points
1	GER	Marco Hösel	11
2	ESP	Juan Antonio Linares	12
3	SLK	Peter Barták	13

Women

space	country	Athlete	Points
1	SUI	Karin Moor	10
2	FRA	Lucie Miramond	28
3	FRA	Floriane Combe	36

Juniors 26 "

space	country	athlete	Points
1	FRA	Giacomo Coustellier	0
2	FRA	Gilles Coustellier	1
3	FRA	Marc Soulas	7th

Juniors 20 "

space	country	athlete	Points
1	FRA	Gilles Coustellier	9
2	ESP	Diego Barrio Roa	11
3	FRA	Giacomo Coustellier	13

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Mountain Bike World Cup 2002 . In: Salzburger Nachrichten : Salzburgwiki .
2. ↑ Undated article 1999 in the Salzburger Nachrichten, quoted in Hannes S .: Zell am See / Kaprun - Mountain Bike World Cup 2002. (Form article) (No longer available online.) In: Downhill News. Downhill Rangers, October 4, 1999, archived from the original January 14, 2010 ; Retrieved January 10, 2011 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.