IAU 100KM EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIP
 June 16th 2006 TORHOUT (BEL)
"Live Coverage"

 

By Jan Vandendriessche

  
06:30 Finish:

Jose Maria Gonzales is the new European Champion 100Km, his winning time 6:23:44 is also a new Spanish Record, the previous was on the name of Jorge Aubeso (6h26'). Silver in the mens individual race was surprisingly Dmitry Bula (BLR), a couple of weeks ago already winner of the "50km of Flanders" (2:59:43) and now second after a sprint of 20km ! Yannick Djouadi was a little bit faster than his teammate Pascal Fetizon, both from France.

By the women surprised Birgit Schonherr Helser (GER) everybody to come back from far behind. After first Cassiraghi (60-65km) and then Savoskina (+65km) left the course for different reasons the French team took the lead with 3 women in front of all the rest. In the last 7km the German runner overtook everybody to finish as the new European Champion in 7h58', also the second placed Laurence Fricotteaux  (GER) finished under 8h in front of Christine Lelan (Fra)

  
01:30 Still 20km to go !

A lot of changes in the last hour !
Gonzales increased his lead to more than 9’
Now Fetionz and Djouadi, both FRA, running second
Fourth is Bula, 2’ behind the French duo
5th Tyazkorob who is running very strong
Jimenez (ESP) stay close behind Tyazkorob, only 25’ separates them, and that already for a couple of km’s
Izmailov is 7th, about 3’ in front of the suffering Marc Papanikitas (BEL)who just passed Visnyagov (RUS). But very close behind is the surprising Zabari (HUN) and Barcza who makes a come-back during the last 10K. Martinez (ESP) fell back but is running good again in 12 th position before another surprise the Finish runner Saavalaiinen.
The situation by the women remains the same: Cassiraghi 2’ ahead of Savoskina.
 

  
00:00 Monica Casiraghi leads the women race about 2' in front of Svetlana Savoskina. A group of 5 women (3 from France) are following a couple of minutes later..   
23:26 Gonzales is still running extremely strong... 3h07' at 50Km.  Ardemagni, who followed as second at 50km left the race 2km further due to stomac problems... Now, the Russians Vishnyagov and Izmaylov running together in second position, 6' behind the leader, two other spanish runners Firmin and Martinez are about 1' behind, followed by Fetizon, Djouadi, Bula, Tyazkorob and Zalybin. The Belgian Papanikitas is 11th.

The positions at 54km :

GONZALES JOSE MARIA 19/03/1965 ESP 3h26
IZMAYLOV ALEXEY 17/12/1970 RUS 0:06:00
VISHNYAGOV ALEXANDER 09/08/1976 RUS 0:06:00
JIMENEZ MIGUEL ANGEL 09/09/1970 ESP 0:07:00
MARTINEZ FERMIN 11/12/1961 ESP 0:07:00
BULA DZMITRY 05/11/1972 BLR 0:07:30
DJOUADI YANNICK 06/04/1973 FRA 0:07:30
FETIZON PASCAL 30/08/1962 FRA 0:07:30
TYZHKOROB IGOR 04/12/1967 RUS 0:07:30
ZHALYBIN DENIS 30/06/1980 RUS 0:07:30
PAPANIKITAS MARC 11/05/1967 BEL 0:07:45
SPIKIDONOV VASILIY 12/10/1972 RUS 0:08:30
HOLOVNYTSKYY OLEKSANDR 29/06/1975 UKR 0:10:35
BARCZA SANDOR 15/01/1967 FRA 0:11:10
SAAVALAINEN PETRI 28/06/1971 FIN 0:11:15
ZABARI JANOS 23/02/1968 HUN 0:13:50
LINDVAI SLAVOMIR 19/05/1971 SVK 0:15:20
ARDEMAGNI MARIO 02/04/1963 ITA 0:21:18
BOFFO MARCO 21/01/1975 ITA 0:21:45
COLLINS MICHAEL 04/06/1964 IRL 0:22:40
BACHELIER CHRISTOPHE 21/08/1966 FRA 0:22:45
RICKLEFS CHAD 12/06/1967 USA 0:23:30
       
 
22:00

The spanish runner Gonzales (winner of 100K of Madrid earlier this year) took the lead from the early beginning of the race. The Russian  Vishnyagov tried to follow in the first km's but drew back after 10K.  A cfirst chasing group was led by the Italian Ardemagni, toether with him Martinez and Jimenez (ESP) and the Russian Izmaylov and Zhalybin. One minute later an elite group with most of the other favourites like Bracza, Fetizon, Djouadi (FRA), Papanikitas (BEL), Spiridonov, Thyazkorob (RUS), Lindvai (SVK), Bula (BLR), Holovnytski (UKR) and Aivar (EST). In Handzame they passed the 30.7km in 1h53'40" (Gonzales), 2' later Ardemagni followed by the two Spanish runners, all three less than 1' in front of the elite group.

 

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19:30 Perfect weather conditions for the IAU 100km European Championships. At 19:30 it was still about 20°C, sunny, nearly no wind. The best candidates to win this European title should be found in this list :
1061 ARDEMAGNI MARIO 02/04/1963
1026 GONZALES JOSE MARIA 19/03/1965
1028 MARTINEZ FERMIN 11/12/1961
1092 HOLOVNYTSKYY OLEKSANDR 29/06/1975
1008 BULA DZMITRY 05/11/1972
1047 SOMMER MICHAEL 02/03/1984
1082 TYZHKOROB IGOR 04/12/1967
1025 AUBESO JORGE 05/12/1966
1040 FETIZON PASCAL 30/08/1962
1081 SPIRIDONOV VASILIY 12/10/1972
1080 NETREBA VLADIMIR 21/10/1967
1038 BARCZA SANDOR 15/01/1967
1084 ZHALYBIN DENIS 30/06/1980
1066 TRINCHERI LORENZO 02/05/1970
1327 COLE BRIAN 03/10/1971

With the Belgians Papanikitas, Hostens and Vermeesh as outsiders

  
June 12th The list of participants is available on the IAU website (see IAU-competitions)  
  The dossier of the Technical Meeting with all the technical details, maps and the time schedule of the shuttleservice during the race can be found under the IAU-competitions menu.