Willoughby Takes Tops in TT, Pajon for the Women
**UPDATED Sat 7:23AM Eastern**
With a start time of 4AM Eastern, BMX News wanted to post up the Championship (normally “Elite”) Class Time Trials results. In the 80-rider field, Australia’s Sam Willoughby was last to go. Taking his time Trial run immediately before Same was Olympic Gold Medalist, Maris Strombergs of Latvia. Sam took the top time with a 38.487, while Maris turned the second quickest lap at 38.584. Joey Bradford was third for the USA at 38.650. Team USA riders Josh Meyers and Denzel Stein qualified 19th and 23rd, respectively, and the fourth American in the mix, David Herman was between Josh and Denzel, qualifying 21st.
The ladies were going WAY fast in the Time Trials. Mariana Pajon of Columbia, who has been a force on the UCI SX circuit since bumping up to Elite this season, turned a lap time of 39.853. That time, by the way, was fast enough that she could have qualified 13th among the 80 men in the Elite class, just ahead of Marc Willers of New Zealand. Caroline Buchanan of Australia and Shanaze Reade of the UK got the second and third spots with times of 39.972 and 40.070.
Junior classes ran their time trials yesterday down in Pietermaritzburg. Some interesting star alignments on the horizon. Brooke Crain and Taylor Wolcott grabbed the top two spots in Junior Women, and Dominique Daniels made it out of time trials for the first time. In the Men, Andre Sylvain of France bested American fire breathers Connor Fields and Corben Sharrah.
Here are the comprehensive results.
First Round, Junior Women Qualifiers:
1 123 CRAIN Brooke USA 42.111
2 126 WOLCOTT Taylor USA 42.817
3 75 VAN BENTHEM Merle NED 42.869
4 103 MCLEOD Melinda AUS 43.627
5 112 TAYLOR Abbie GBR 43.747
6 102 DELLAR Kirsten AUS 43.839
7 117 O’KEEFFE Teagan RSA 44.463
8 122 QUINALHA Bianca BRA 45.132
Second Round Junior Women Qualifiers:
1 109 JEPSEN Mette DEN 45.417
2 127 SORIANO Florencia Ayelen ARG 45.814
3 6 VAN DE PERRE Tori BEL 46.354
4 115 HEREIJGERS Maartje NED 46.574
5 110 LE ROUX Enora FRA 47.033
6 105 PEREZ Mayara BRA 47.062
7 120 DANIELS Dominique USA 47.298
8 119 NICOLET Cindy SUI 49.717
All Junior Men qualified (there were six DNS entries), but here are the details anyway.
First Round Junior Men Qualifiers:
1 219 ANDRE Sylvain FRA 38.985
2 134 FIELDS Connor USA 39.803
3 207 SHARRAH Corben USA 39.823
4 195 MARTINEZ Lorin FRA 40.513
5 150 WOODCOCK Trent NZL 40.530
6 160 DALFARRA Leandro BRA 40.968
7 190 LEJINS Kristers LAT 41.042
8 157 BRETHAUER Luis GER 41.373
9 172 GANSER Maximilian GER 41.620
10 156 BIRKELAND Aleksander NOR 41.950
11 205 OSTETI Hugo BRA 42.086
12 147 TEULLET Denis FRA 42.379
13 206 FERREIRA Igor BRA 42.589
14 189 LAUSTSEN Niclas DEN 42.597
15 187 KRISTERS Taims LAT 42.598
16 197 MCCORMACK Connor CAN 42.601
17 133 CRUZ ORMENO Ignacio CHI 42.915
18 176 HENDERSON Ryan AUS 43.097
19 164 DOS REIS Rogério BRA 43.251
20 165 DUNSWORTH Matthew AUS 43.966
21 203 NILSEN Per Erik NOR 44.607
22 130 CLARKE Benjamin AUS 45.016
23 217 YOSHIMURA Jukia JPN 45.352
24 148 VAN GENDT Twan NED 45.580
Second Round Junior Men Qualifiers:
1 142 OQUENDO ZABALA David COL 41.490 Q
2 174 HARMSEN Joris NED 43.080 Q
3 125 CARNAVAL Douglas BRA 45.396 Q
4 135 FOX Nicholas NZL 46.297 Q
5 127 CARVALHO Igor BRA 46.527 Q
6 145 PALACIOS MUNOZ Nicolas ECU 47.423 Q
7 152 AGUIRRE Elias CHI 47.739 Q
8 215 VARGAS OVANDO Sebastián BOL 47.835 Q
9 208 TANNIGER Romain SUI 48.152 Q
10 162 DEMONT Jonathan SUI 48.320 Q
11 138 FRANKS Daniel NZL 48.424 Q
12 139 FURLAN Mattia ITA 48.469 Q
13 180 HLADIK Jakub CZE 48.541 Q
14 198 MENDEZ Ignacio CHI 49.022 Q
15 179 HIDALGO Benjamin AUS 49.487 Q
16 216 VIRDIS Luca ITA 49.493 Q
17 149 VILACA Scarpelli BRA 49.834 Q
18 173 GOODWIN Darryn AUS 49.920 Q
19 146 SAMPEI Takamasa JPN 50.012 Q
20 129 CARVALHO Miguel RSA 50.986 Q
21 210 TORQUATO Guilherme BRA 51.278 Q
22 132 CREIGHTON Steven CAN 52.831 Q
23 155 BENETTI Nicholas CAN 1:02.281 Q
Elite Time Trials will run at 10AM South Africa time (4AM Eastern). Freecaster will be webcasting the Championship (Elite) class qualifying rounds starting at 7:30AM Eastern.
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