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CK BB and Debnár won bronze at Team time trial nationals, Rusina overall winner of the Merida Road Cup

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Last two sets of national championship medals were awarded in September, the final month of Slovak road race calendar.

First, on Saturday, 13th of September, the climbers fought for the medals in the uphill time trial at Martinské hole. MartinWachs performed surprisingly well, becoming new national champion. Just as last year, Miroslav Debnár finished third, losing only few seconds to second Juraj Lajcha. In the end, even this performance secured him fifth spot in the overall classification of the “major” Slovak cup, which he shares with teammate Jozef Palčák with 53 points, behind quartet of Dukla Trenčín. In the team classification, CK Banská Bystrica finished second, behind victorious Dukla Trenčín and ahead of PŠK Reprogas, Janom Greenway Dohňany and Inter Bratislava.

Finally, the team time trial titles were last to be decided, on a rainy day. CK BB defended the title, but it was clear it wouldn`t be an easy job. The pre race favorites Dukla Trenčín with Broniš, Tybor, Kováč and Jurčo won convincingly, covering the 51 km course in 1:01:49. CK BB and Epic Janom Greenway fought fiercely for silver. This time, Epic riders paid back for last year`s beating and won silver, losing 2:11 min, CK BB with Palčák, Bátora, Harag and Fraňo finished third, further sixteen seconds back.

The rainy weather cost us. We improved last year`s performance in terms of speed, however, it was good only for bronze this year. We literally fell apart several times on a slick and slippery course. With seven laps with four turns in each, this makes for huge time loss. On the flat, we paced ourselves well, no one stood out, the performance was comparable to last year`s. Young Harag replaced Zrelica on the team and he has no experience with TTT. In terms of performance, I have no reproaches, everyone did his best, on the other hand, we fell behind technically and our inability to keep formation in wet turns proved decisive, we lost a second or two in every corner. We wanted to ride conservatively, since there were quite a few crashes on the course before, but this approach cost us silver in the end, which is kind of sad, since we lost it by mere 16 seconds. Of course, congratulations to the winners, they performed superbly”. Martin Fraňo

When I analyse this time trial, we truly performed at our limit, maybe we could have gain a few seconds with higher power. We had a solid, machine like pace on the flats, but we paid for the lack of skills in the corners. For the shortage of time, we couldn`t rehearse the TTT, however, the pace was solid, also the execution of turns, but the cornering was disastrous. In the end, the rain hurt us, even if we thought the opposite.Lukáš Bátora

With this competition, we didn`t have it for the win. The silver was possible, gap small. We failed in cornering, but that`s sport so we had to settle for bronze. We`ll try to step up next year”. Jozef Palčák

The second team of CKBB with Rusina, Viglaský, Debnár and guest Gajdošík (Bike Pro BB) finiched fourth, losing 4:05 min.


Resuls of  Slovakian cup.

On the paralel with “major”Slovak cup, the series of races had been run under the patronage of the age group division, the Merida Road Cup, having also the elite men category. The 21 round series cumulated in Banská Bystrica, where CK BB hosted the final round, uphill TT to Šachtička, on the last September weekend. As it`s became customary, Ladislav Longauer won his category masters D. In the elite category, Miroslav Debnár climbed to gold, ahead of Martin Wachs and Rudolf Rusina. Also, Rudolf Rusina became overall winner of the Merida Road Cup first time in his career. Ladislav Longauer placed second in the overall Top Ten classification across the age groups, thanks to good results in Merida Road Cup as well as international age group races.

“I considered the victory in masters D group a compulsion. In other words, I fulfilled the expectations. Unfortunately, I wasn`t able to win the gold medal at the World Championship, so my goals for the next season are to move to the top of the Top Ten classification and to medal at WCH. If I manage to do it, I may decease finally, if not, I will have to race until I`m hundred years old”. Summed up Ladislav Longauer with his trademark sense of humor.

“I didn`t expect the overall win in Merida Road Cup. I skipped a lot of rounds, since we raced a lot abroad, especially in the early season. However, after the victory at the stage race in Martin, where the team did perfect job, I started to believe it`s possible. Then, with the help of teammates, we could control the little margin of lead until the end and despite a plenty of missed rounds, I could win the overall classification”. Rudolf Rusina


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