Graves and Horakova win Houffalize 4x Finals

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The full results from World Cup 4x round 1 at Houffalize.

Jared Graves dominated Houffalize from start to finish, looks like he plans to dominate World Cup 4x this year.
Beerten binned it while leading the womens final. Dan Atherton also went down in the semis on the first corner after having bad gates for most of the night. Scott Beaumont rode well for a number 6 spot, by taking a few of the outside lines and avoiding the carnage on the inside.
Martin Soderstrom was amazing to watch in jeans, checked shirt, flat pedals and single speed, shit gates but great riding style. He slid out on the second corner in round two, would have been great to see him progress further.

Fionn Griffiths appeared to tangle on the corner before last in the heats while Katy Curd kept it clean to get a 7th in the small final. Ragot is always fun to watch in the 4x with her aggressive style and came away with 3rd.

There also seemed to be a shed load of Czech riders doing well, apart from Atherton and Beaumont the Brits didn’t do too well.

It’s going to be hard to beat Jared Graves this year that’s for sure.

Results:

Elite Men:

1. GRAVES Jared
2. SLAVIK Tomas
3. PROKOP Michal
4. RINDERKNECHT Roger

Elite Women:

1. Jana Horakova
2. Anita Molcik
3. Emmeline Ragot
4. Anneke Beerten

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14 Responses to “Graves and Horakova win Houffalize 4x Finals”

  1. Graves made it look easy but Soderstrom made it look stylish, can’t wait to see him race again.

  2. Graves was on it! Like a true Champ… DOMINATING!
    On a track he felt was WC unworthy.
    (yes Messr. Saxena, we here ya’!!!)

    And Beerten, foolish move she took out Molcik almost with that desperate inside line.

    Corners where really loose, no Ardennes rain to be found for days.

    Funny how Rinderknecht still races his GT Lopes #55 badge engineered into a BMC, just like his GT Ultrabox in Madrid SX!

  3. yes, graves was really impressive… but i have to say soderstrom (even if he fell) was impressive too

  4. @Ralph: Roger’s bike isn’t a GT, it is a true BMC built to Roger’s needs, not available to public (yet?). Here is nice video where he talks about his bike (in German): http://videos.mtb-news.de/videos/view/5873

  5. stephenmaginn
    May 2nd, 2010 at 2:47 am

    yeah Jonas, school them boys

  6. he indeed raced a gt ultrabox in madrid, because bmc has no bmx to offer.

  7. [...] Jared Graves dominated Houffalize from start to finish, looks like he plans to dominate World Cup 4x this year. Beerten binned it while leading the womens final. Dan Atherton also went  …  Details, Results and qualifing ladder [...]

  8. Graves is a ruler, of that there is no doubt. And Soderstrom…whoa. But what happened to Fionn Griffiths, i missed that bit.
    Mike.

  9. Jonas… you stand correct!

    “Die Rahmen ißt ja Super Steif!”

    As i wasn’t able to visit Houffa this year to eyeball it 1:1.
    From the Freecaster vids it looked like a GT (lopes #55) with a TripleTriangle seatmast!

    Thanks for schooling me.

  10. The main thing I took away from last night was that one can be among the 32 fastest riders in the world on a single-speed, flat pedal, cromoly bike. In other words, it does not matter what you ride.

  11. So true Rob.
    Mike.

  12. yep. absolutely rob.

    I still want a new DH bike though.
    and a new trail bike.

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    check out Matin Söderström @ UCI 4X Houffalize 2010
    here:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XbKKK0szko
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKzPJdfE8vs

  14. Nevermind all that stuff, what about Scott Beaumont in 6th! That’s a pretty awesome result and it’s great to see a Brit right up there.

    Oh and also; Darren Berrecloth was racing 4 Cross at the Lake Garda cycling festival.

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