Жюльен Абсалон — победитель 5-го этапа Кубка Мира
( http://www.xcnews.ru/news/data/upimages/julien-absalon.jpg )Абсалон всегда показывал хорошие результаты на трассе в Mont Sainte Anne, начиная ещё с его первой победы на Кубке мира в юниорской категории в далеком 1998 году. «Я был обеспокоен началом гонки» — сказал Жюльен. «На первых двух поворотах после старта мне не удалось занять хорошую позицию, и весь первый круг я работал для повышения своей позиции. Нёф был очень силен в начале гонки, но постепенно стал проваливаться, и мне удалось захватить лидерство.»
К концу первого круга Ральф Нёф продолжал удерживать лидерство, опережая Джеффа Кабуша (Team Maxxis-Rocky Mountain Bicycles), идущего вторым, на 32 секунды. Чуть дальше расположилась небольшая группа во главе с Абсалоном, которому Нёф вез 41 секунду. Помимо него в составе группы преследователей были Nino Schurter (Scott-Swisspower) и Jose Hermida (Multivan Merida).
На втором круге Абсалон приспособился тому состоянию, в котором находилась трасса, и обошел Кабуша, начав добирать Нёфа. К концу третьего круга Жюльен фактически сел на колесо Ральфу — разрыв между ними сократился до одной секунды. После этого Абсалону не потребовалось много времени для того, чтобы выйти на первую позицию. Отставание Нёфа увеличивалось, и к концу четвертого круга он откатился до четвертого места.
Результаты:
| 1 | Julien Absalon (Fra) Orbea | 2:06:05 | |
| 2 | José Antonio Hermida Ramos (Spa) Multivan Merida Biking Team | 0:00:32 | |
| 3 | Geoff Kabush (Can) Team Maxxis-Rocky Mountain Bicycles | 0:02:48 | |
| 4 | Ralph Naef (Swi) Multivan Merida Biking Team | 0:04:50 | |
| 5 | Burry Stander* (RSA) Specialized Factory Racing | 0:05:42 | |
| 6 | Florian Vogel (Swi) Scott-Swisspower MTB-Racing | 0:07:11 | |
| 7 | Lukas Flückiger (Swi) Trek World Racing | 0:07:16 | |
| 8 | Ivan Alvarez Gutierrez (Spa) Giant Italia Team | 0:07:21 | |
| 9 | Martin Gujan (Swi) Cannondale Factory Racing | 0:07:45 | |
| 10 | Stéphane Tempier (Fra) TX Active Bianchi | 0:07:48 | |
| 11 | Sergio Mantecon Gutierrez (Spa) Cemelorca-Trek-Lorca Taller Del Tiempo | 0:08:16 | |
| 12 | Adam Craig (USA) Giant Mountain Bike Team | 0:08:20 | |
| 13 | Nino Schurter (Swi) Scott-Swisspower MTB-Racing | 0:08:43 | |
| 14 | Cédric Ravanel (Fra) Lapierre International | 0:08:47 | |
| 15 | Todd Wells (USA) Specialized Factory Racing | 0:08:53 | |
| 16 | Jaroslav Kulhavy (Cze) | 0:09:05 | |
| 17 | Moritz Milatz (Ger) Multivan Merida Biking Team | 0:09:20 | |
| 18 | Jiri Friedl (Cze) Merida Biking Team | 0:09:36 | |
| 19 | Alexis Vuillermoz* (Fra) Lapierre International | 0:09:43 | |
| 20 | Martin Fanger* (Swi) Giant Mountain Bike Team | 0:10:16 | |
| 21 | Christoph Sauser (Swi) Specialized Factory Racing | 0:10:45 | |
| 22 | Chris Jongewaard (Aus) Trek-Brentjens Mountainbike Racing Team | 0:10:49 | |
| 23 | Rudi Van Houts (Ned) Multivan Merida Biking Team | 0:11:19 | |
| 24 | Samuel Schultz (USA) Subaru-Gary Fisher | ||
| 25 | Seamus Mcgrath (Can) | 0:12:13 | |
| 26 | Jeremy Horgan-Kobelski (USA) Subaru-Gary Fisher | 0:12:44 | |
| 27 | Lukas Kaufmann* (Swi) | 0:12:53 | |
| 28 | Pierre Geoffroy Plantet (Fra) Lapierre International | 0:13:13 | |
| 29 | Jan Skarnitzl (Cze) Giant Mountain Bike Team | 0:13:31 | |
| 30 | Derek Zandstra (Can) | 0:13:39 | |
| 31 | François Bailly Maitre (Fra) Team Scott Valloire Galibier | 0:14:05 | |
| 32 | Ludovic Dubau (Fra) | 0:14:20 | |
| 33 | Raphael Gagne* (Can) Team Maxxis-Rocky Mountain Bicycles | 0:14:26 | |
| 34 | Christof Bischof (Swi) ISD Cycling Team | 0:14:53 | |
| 35 | Roel Paulissen (Bel) Cannondale Factory Racing | 0:15:06 | |
| 36 | Guillaume Vinit* (Fra) Team Scott Valloire Galibier | 0:15:17 | |
| 37 | Wolfram Kurschat (Ger) Topeak Ergon Racing Team | 0:15:42 | |
| 38 | Irjan Luttenberg* (Ned) | 0:15:56 | |
| 39 | Maxime Marotte (Fra) BH-Suntour | 0:16:25 | |
| 40 | Bjorn Brems (Bel) Team Saeco | 0:17:12 | |
| 41 | Christoph Soukup (Aut) Merida Biking Team | 0:17:34 | |
| 42 | Giuseppe Lamastra (Ita) | 0:17:50 | |
| 43 | Michael Broderick (USA) | 0:17:59 | |
| 44 | Bas Peters (Ned) | ||
| 45 | Matous Ulman (Cze) Scott & Hagget MTB Team | 0:18:31 | |
| 46 | Stefan Widmer (Can) | 0:19:17 | |
| 47 | Marc Colom (Fra) | 0:19:59 | |
| 48 | Milan Spesny (Cze) Ceska Sporitelna MTB | 0:20:20 | |
| 49 | Josef Kamler* (Cze) Ceska Sporitelna MTB | 0:20:35 | |
| 50 | Fabien Canal* (Fra) Lapierre International | 0:22:06 | |
| -1lap | Renay Groustra (RSA) | ||
| -1lap | Kris Sneddon (Can) Kona | ||
| -1lap | Carl Decker (USA) Giant Mountain Bike Team | ||
| -1lap | Robert Mennen (Ger) | ||
| -1lap | Robbie Squire* (USA) | ||
| -1lap | Matthew Hadley (Can) | ||
| -1lap | Rotem Ishai (Isr) | ||
| -1lap | Barry Wicks (USA) Kona | ||
| -1lap | Lachlan Norris* (Aus) Discovertasmania.com | ||
| -1lap | Colin Cares* (USA) | ||
| -1lap | Martin Lazarski (Can) | ||
| -1lap | Julien Fillion (Can) | ||
| -1lap | Adam Snyder (USA) | ||
| -1lap | Cristobal Silva Ibaceta (Chi) | ||
| -1lap | Andrew Watson (Can) | ||
| -2laps | Manuel Prado Gutierrez (CRc) | ||
| -2laps | Pierre Lebreton (Fra) BH-Suntour | ||
| -2laps | Jiri Hudecek (Cze) Scott & Hagget MTB Team | ||
| -2laps | Andrew Blair (Aus) | ||
| -2laps | Leni Trudel* (Can) | ||
| -2laps | Craig Richey (Can) | ||
| -2laps | Eric Batty (Can) | ||
| -2laps | Patxi Cia Apezteguia (Spa) Conor — Camping La Siesta | ||
| -2laps | Cal Britten* (Aus) Torq Performance Nutrition | ||
| -2laps | Charlton Durie* (Aus) Discovertasmania.com | ||
| -2laps | Andrew Freye (USA) | ||
| -2laps | Mark Leishman (NZl) | ||
| -2laps | Paul Van Der Ploeg* (Aus) Discovertasmania.com | ||
| -2laps | Juan Pedro Trujillo Hernandez (Spa) Cemelorca-Trek-Lorca Taller Del Tiempo | ||
| -2laps | Ryan Atkins* (Can) | ||
| -2laps | Travis Livermon* (USA) | ||
| -2laps | Niels Wubben* (Ned) | ||
| -2laps | Nick Both (Aus) | ||
| -2laps | Mike Garrigan (Can) | ||
| -2laps | Ethan Gilmour* (USA) | ||
| -2laps | Cameron Jette* (Can) | ||
| -2laps | Stephen Ettinger* (USA) | ||
| -2laps | Peter Glassford (Can) | ||
| -3laps | Daniel Sessford (Can) | ||
| -3laps | Victor Galvez Perez (Chi) | ||
| -3laps | Aaron Snyder* (USA) | ||
| DNF | Jean-Christophe Peraud (Fra) Massi | ||
| DNF | Umberto Corti (Ita) Team Cbe Tecnoimpianti A.S.D. | ||
| DNF | Marco Aurelio Fontana (Ita) Cannondale Factory Racing | ||
| DNF | Oliver Beckingsale (GBr) Giant Mountain Bike Team Gmt | ||
| DNF | Max Plaxton (Can) | ||
| DNF | Benoit Simard (Can) | ||
| DNF | Connor Mcconvey* (Irl) De Brink-Ten Tusscher | ||
| DNF | Nathan Haas* (Aus) Discovertasmania.Com | ||
| DNF | Daniel Mcconnell (Aus) Torq Performance Nutrition | ||
| DNF | Carlos Coloma Nicolas (Spa) MSC Bikes | ||
| DNF | Liam Killeen (GBr) Trek World Racing | ||
| DNF | Troy Wells (USA) | ||
| DNF | Brian Bain (Can) | ||
| DNS | Jochen Kass (Ger) Multivan Merida Biking Team |
| 1 | Multivan Merida Biking Team | 87 | pts |
| 2 | Specialized Factory Racing | 54 | |
| 3 | Scott-Swisspower MTB-Racing | 44 | |
| 4 | Orbea | 40 | |
| 5 | Team Maxxis-Rocky Mountain Bicycles | 32 | |
| 6 | Giant Mountain Bike Team | 32 | |
| 7 | Lapierre International | 32 | |
| 8 | Trek World Racing | 24 | |
| 9 | Giant Italia Team | 23 | |
| 10 | Cannondale Factory Racing | 22 | |
| 11 | TX Active Bianchi | 21 | |
| 12 | Cemelorca-Trek-Lorca Taller Del Tiempo | 20 | |
| 13 | Merida Biking Team | 13 | |
| 14 | Subaru-Gary Fisher | 12 | |
| 15 | Trek-Brentjens Mountainbike Racing Team | 9 |
| 1 | Julien Absalon (Fra) Orbea | 1200 | pts |
| 2 | Burry Stander* (RSA) Specialized Factory Racing | 720 | |
| 3 | José Antonio Hermida Ramos (Spa) Multivan Merida Biking Team | 660 | |
| 4 | Wolfram Kurschat (Ger) Topeak Ergon Racing Team | 657 | |
| 5 | Ralph Naef (Swi) Multivan Merida Biking Team | 650 | |
| 6 | Jean-Christophe Peraud (Fra) Massi | 550 | |
| 7 | Nino Schurter (Swi) Scott-Swisspower MTB-Racing | 525 | |
| 8 | Moritz Milatz (Ger) Multivan Merida Biking Team | 448 | |
| 9 | Roel Paulissen (Bel) Cannondale Factory Racing | 446 | |
| 10 | Lukas Flückiger (Swi) Trek World Racing | 424 | |
| 11 | Stéphane Tempier (Fra) TX Active Bianchi | 414 | |
| 12 | Christoph Sauser (Swi) Specialized Factory Racing | 394 | |
| 13 | Marco Aurelio Fontana (Ita) Cannondale Factory Racing | 370 | |
| 14 | Geoff Kabush (Can) Team Maxxis-Rocky Mountain Bicycles | 367 | |
| 15 | Sergio Mantecon Gutierrez (Spa) Cemelorca-Trek-Lorca Taller Del Tiempo | 348 | |
| 16 | Martin Gujan (Swi) Cannondale Factory Racing | 336 | |
| 17 | Florian Vogel (Swi) Scott-Swisspower MTB-Racing | 331 | |
| 18 | Ivan Alvarez Gutierrez (Spa) Giant Italia Team | 313 | |
| 19 | Alexis Vuillermoz* (Fra) Lapierre International | 310 | |
| 20 | Jaroslav Kulhavy (Cze) | 304 | |
| 21 | Inaki Lejarreta Errasti (Spa) Orbea | 290 | |
| 22 | Rudi Van Houts (Ned) Multivan Merida Biking Team | 290 | |
| 23 | Chris Jongewaard (Aus) Trek-Brentjens Mountainbike Racing Team | 276 | |
| 24 | Cédric Ravanel (Fra) Lapierre International | 272 | |
| 25 | Manuel Fumic (Ger) Fumic.Brothers.International | 261 | |
| 26 | Jochen Kass (Ger) Multivan Merida Biking Team | 237 | |
| 27 | Jiri Friedl (Cze) Merida Biking Team | 236 | |
| 28 | Adam Craig (USA) Giant Mountain Bike Team | 230 | |
| 29 | Ruben Ruzafa Cueto (Spa) Orbea | 222 | |
| 30 | Todd Wells (USA) Specialized Factory Racing | 210 | |
| 31 | Mathias Flückiger* (Swi) Trek World Racing | 207 | |
| 32 | Samuel Schultz (USA) Subaru-Gary Fisher | 205 | |
| 33 | Hector Leonardo Paez Leon (Col) TX Active Bianchi | 202 | |
| 34 | Oliver Beckingsale (GBr) Giant Mountain Bike Team | 168 | |
| 35 | Pierre Geoffroy Plantet (Fra) Lapierre International | 165 | |
| 36 | Christoph Soukup (Aut) Merida Biking Team | 161 | |
| 37 | Milan Spesny (Cze) Ceska Sporitelna MTB | 159 | |
| 38 | Carlos Coloma Nicolas (Spa) MSC Bikes | 156 | |
| 39 | Ludovic Dubau (Fra) | 154 | |
| 40 | Liam Killeen (GBr) Trek World Racing | 134 | |
| 41 | Marc Colom (Fra) | 131 | |
| 42 | Umberto Corti (Ita) Team CBE Tecnoimpianti A.S.D. | 123 | |
| 43 | Christof Bischof (Swi) ISD Cycling Team | 121 | |
| 44 | Bas Peters (Ned) | 110 | |
| 45 | Jan Skarnitzl (Cze) Giant Mountain Bike Team | 109 | |
| 46 | Daniel Mcconnell (Aus) Torq Performance Nutrition | 105 | |
| 47 | Jeremy Horgan-Kobelski (USA) Subaru-Gary Fisher | 100 | |
| 48 | Lukas Kaufmann* (Swi) | 96 | |
| 49 | Andrea Tiberi (Ita) TX Active Bianchi | 94 | |
| 50 | Martin Fanger* (Swi) Giant Mountain Bike Team | 92 | |
| 51 | Guillaume Vinit* (Fra) Team Scott Valloire Galibier | 90 | |
| 52 | Derek Zandstra (Can) | 85 | |
| 53 | Emil Lindgren (Swe) De Brink-Ten Tusscher | 84 | |
| 54 | Cristian Cominelli* (Ita) TX Active Bianchi | 84 | |
| 55 | Sergiy Rusenko (Ukr) ISD Cycling Team | 83 | |
| 56 | Hannes Metzler (Aut) | 77 | |
| 57 | Bjorn Brems (Bel) Team Saeco | 75 | |
| 58 | Jürg Graf (Swi) | 71 | |
| 59 | Robert Mennen (Ger) | 66 | |
| 60 | Giuseppe Lamastra (Ita) | 64 | |
| 61 | François Bailly Maitre (Fra) Team Scott Valloire Galibier | 63 | |
| 62 | Sven Nys (Bel) | 62 | |
| 63 | Thomas Litscher* (Swi) SKS M.I.G. Team | 61 | |
| 64 | Anders Hovdenes* (Nor) Team Etto Hoydahl | 61 | |
| 65 | Fabian Giger* (Swi) SKS M.I.G. Team | 58 | |
| 66 | Irjan Luttenberg* (Ned) | 58 | |
| 67 | Karl Markt (Aut) SRM Stevens Team | 58 | |
| 68 | Seamus Mcgrath (Can) | 56 | |
| 69 | Lachlan Norris* (Aus) Discovertasmania.com | 56 | |
| 70 | Lado Fumic (Ger) Fumic.Brothers.International | 55 | |
| 71 | Filip Eberl (Cze) | 55 | |
| 72 | Maxime Marotte (Fra) BH-Suntour | 53 | |
| 73 | Balz Weber (Swi) DS-Rennsport | 51 | |
| 74 | Raphael Gagne* (Can) Team Maxxis-Rocky Mountain Bicycles | 40 | |
| 75 | Johnny Cattaneo (Ita) | 38 | |
| 76 | Jelmer Pietersma (Ned) Trek-Brentjens Mountainbike Racing Team | 38 | |
| 77 | Connor Mcconvey* (Irl) De Brink-Ten Tusscher | 34 | |
| 78 | Nicola Rohrbach (Swi) Central Ghost Pro Team | 31 | |
| 79 | Periklis Ilias (Gre) ISD Cycling Team | 29 | |
| 80 | Dries Govaerts* (Bel) Lingier-Versluys Team | 29 | |
| 81 | Silvio Bundi (Swi) Giant Mountain Bike Team | 29 | |
| 82 | Marek Galinski (Pol) JBG-2 Professional MTB Team | 26 | |
| 83 | Michael Broderick (USA) | 25 | |
| 84 | Yader Zoli (Ita) Torpado-4US | 25 | |
| 85 | Matous Ulman (Cze) Scott & Hagget MTB Team | 23 | |
| 86 | Stefan Widmer (Can) | 22 | |
| 87 | Pascal Meyer* (Swi) SKS M.I.G. Team | 21 | |
| 88 | Severin Disch* (Swi) Giant Mountain Bike Team | 21 | |
| 89 | Josef Kamler* (Cze) Ceska Sporitelna MTB | 19 | |
| 90 | Frank Schotman (Ned) | 19 | |
| 91 | Fabien Canal* (Fra) Lapierre International | 18 | |
| 92 | Alban Lakata (Aut) Topeak Ergon Racing Team | 18 | |
| 93 | Paolo Cesar Montoya Cantillo (CRc) Giant Italia Team | 18 | |
| 94 | Renay Groustra (RSA) | 17 | |
| 95 | Kris Sneddon (Can) Kona | 16 | |
| 96 | Carl Decker (USA) Giant Mountain Bike Team | 15 | |
| 97 | Kohei Yamamoto (Jpn) | 14 | |
| 98 | Robbie Squire* (USA) | 13 | |
| 99 | Peter Sagan* (Svk) | 13 | |
| 100 | Juan Pedro Trujillo Hernandez (Spa) Cemelorca-Trek-Lorca Taller Del Tiempo | 13 | |
| 101 | Matthew Hadley (Can) | 12 | |
| 102 | Sebastien Carabin* (Bel) Lingier-Versluys Team | 12 | |
| 103 | Roan Exelby (RSA) | 12 | |
| 104 | Rotem Ishai (Isr) | 11 | |
| 105 | Barry Wicks (USA) Kona | 10 | |
| 106 | Nicolas Vermeulen (Bel) Lingier-Versluys Team | 10 | |
| 107 | Torsten Marx (Ger) DS-Rennsport | 9 | |
| 108 | Klaus Nielsen (Den) | 9 | |
| 109 | Andrew Blair (Aus) | 9 | |
| 110 | Colin Cares* (USA) | 8 |
| 1 | Multivan Merida Biking Team | 402 | pts |
| 2 | Orbea | 265 | |
| 3 | Specialized Factory Racing | 263 | |
| 4 | Cannondale Factory Racing | 216 | |
| 5 | Scott-Swisspower MTB-Racing | 171 | |
| 6 | Trek World Racing | 129 | |
| 7 | TX Active Bianchi | 120 | |
| 8 | Topeak Ergon Racing Team | 117 | |
| 9 | Massi | 110 | |
| 10 | Lapierre International | 101 | |
| 11 | Giant Mountain Bike Team | 69 | |
| 12 | Cemelorca-Trek-Lorca Taller Del Tiempo | 69 | |
| 13 | Fumic.Brothers.International | 57 | |
| 14 | Team Maxxis-Rocky Mountain Bicycles | 55 | |
| 15 | Giant Italia Team | 50 | |
| 16 | Trek-Brentjens Mountainbike Racing Team | 50 | |
| 17 | Merida Biking Team | 49 | |
| 18 | Subaru-Gary Fisher | 29 | |
| 19 | MSC Bikes | 18 | |
| 20 | Team CBE Tecnoimpianti A.S.D. | 10 | |
| 21 | Felt International MTB Team | 6 | |
| 22 | Ceska Sporitelna MTB | 6 |