Strombergs
& Le Corguillé victorious in Copenhagen UCI BMX Supercross World
Cup presented by Swatch
Date:
08.05.2010
Description: With this victory the current Olympic Champion also leads the
2010 World Cup standing after two events. Laëtitia le Corguillé
(FRA) was the best in the women’s event. With this top performance
the French rider wins her second World Cup in a row, an impressive performance
by the 2008 Olympic silver medallist.
Picture Maris Strombergs, photo Getty Images
In a build up to the 2012 Olympic Games the UCI BMX
Supercross World Cups are growing in importance and popularity. 161 elite
riders from 29 countries started in Copenhagen on Europe’s only
permanent BMX Supercross track. The event kicked off with a qualifying
individual time trial. The best 64 men and 32 women continued. The men
continued to race in eight mottos and the women in four.
Maris Stromberg warned his competition with an impressive
individual time trial result on Copenhagen’s challenging BMX track
in 35.298 seconds. Australian Sam Willoughby was just a few hundreds of
a second short to beat his Latvian rival in 35.536 seconds. Those time
trial results promised another great battle between the two favourites
Strombergs and Willoughby.
But BMX racing is hard to predict and anything can
happen in an explosive 30 seconds adrenaline pumped race. Strombergs confirmed
his winning form with overall victory and the strong muscular Latvian
won the final in style. But Liam Phillips (GBR) was the surprise runner
up in the men’s final as was third place finisher Corben Sharrah
(USA). Australian Sam Willoughby and American Connor Fields did not make
the podium as they did in the last two Supercross World Cups.
Shanaze Reade from Great Britain was one of the female
favourites for the title in Copenhagen as was 2009 World Champion Sarah
Walker (NZL). Walker looked strong and determined after being out for
such a long time but Le Corguillé outperformed all in Copenhagen.
Aneta Hladíková (CZE) was third.
