Theresa Baeuml, from Germany, won in the Women Class – Photo by Mario Candellone
Theresa Baeuml (Ossa) and Toby Martyn (Beta) topped the podium of the main classes in the second round of the FIM Europe Trial Women and Youth championship, held in the famous venue of Bilstain, North-East of Belgium.
On the sections quite slippery due to the rain dropped during the night before, all the riders’ scores were higher than usual. The competition consisted in two loops with 12 sections each, according to what the rules ratify in these championships, reserved to the very young riders and to the women. Today it was the second but also the penultimate round. Indeed these series will end next Saturday in Grimmialp, Switzerland.
In the Youth class, Martyn reinforced his leadership putting a serious option on his possible crown, but he had hard time in defending himself from other brilliant riders. At the turning point he was chasing Sergio Piardi (Beta) able to score 22 marks, against his 24 point score. In third position, Jack Peace (Gas Gas) and Sondre Haga (Beta) made 27 mistakes. Martyn’s second loop was simply a masterpiece: only 13 points lost. On the contrary Piardi worsened a bit (25) his previous performance and he did not only lose the primate, but slid to the third place, overtaken by Peace, too.
In the overall standings Martyn has now 200 points, followed by Piardi and Peace with 155.
More uncertain the situation in the Women class. The previous winner Sara Trentini (Sherco) was able to stay barely on the podium, beaten by an oberwhelming Theresa Baeuml (Ossa) who literally thrashed all her rivals, scoring less than half points of Bianca Huber (Gas Gas), who finished runner-up. Baeuml started soon very well, delivering her card at the end of first loop with just 17 marks. Huber in second place scored 29, while Trentini 37. This advantage gave her more confidence to complete her second loop with even 10 errors. Her win was more than deserved. In the overall standings, she is now leading with 185 points, while Trentini and Huber are behind with 170.
Besides the categories valid for the championships, there were other two ones called International, one level lower, which grouped many riders almost ready to jump to the more quoted ones.
In the Youth class, the win went to Marco Gautiero (Scorpa) who put finished before Linus Almthen (Ossa) and Mikkel Brade (Beta). It was good to see 21 riders attending this class.
Selin Meling (Beta) won the International Women class, preceeding Alicia Robinson (Beta) and Susan Dohmen (Gas Gas).
