British rider Toby Martyn is the new European Champion in the Youth Class – Photo by Mario Candellone
Theresa Baeuml (Ossa) and Toby Martyn (Beta) conquered today the title of European champions after winning respectively the last round of the FIM Europe Trial Women and Youth championship, held today in Grimmialp, Switzerland.
Surrounded by a wonderful mountain scenery and in a brilliant sunny day, there were twelve sections – to repeat twice.
Theresa won easily in the Women class, confirming her great improvements in the latest months, that is from the first round held in Pietramurata (Italy), when she was beaten by Sara Trentini (Sherco), today in second place, after an incredible recovery from the fifth position. The German rider managed to show the same superiority as one week ago in Belgium. She led from the beginning and her final score is less than half the points made by the runner-up. Sara Trentini kept safe her second place in championship, seriously compromised by her disastrous first lap (31 points), after which she was preceded by Bianca Huber (Gas Gas), Jule Steinert (Beta) and Ingved Hakonsen (Beta). In the second lap she scored 14 marks, overtaking all this group. Third in the championship and fourth today Bianca Huber.
Toby Martyn clinched the Youth title, but he had hard time in this challenge.
He was chasing Jack Price (Beta) and was tied with Sergio Piardi (Beta) at the turning point. Price was simply superlative in the first part of the competition: he let on the sections just one dab and one “2” to totalize 3 points! Both Piardi and Martyn scored 7. Then Jarmo Robrahn (Beta) made 10 mistakes. In the second lap, Martyn came up scoring just one point, and at the same time, Peace was not able to reply his great performance and lost 15 points. The second lap of Robrahn was amazing (2 points) which gave him the second place behind Martyn. In third Piardi, while the leader of the first half of the seruesm Peace, finished only in fourth position. In the final standings behind the champion, Piardi and Peace.
Many riders, as usual, in the Youth International class. Emil Mattheeuws (Sherco) won recovering in the second lap, after a very strong start of Marco Gautiero (Scorpa), who arrived at the last section of the first lap with just one point. Then he fived it, but his 6 mark-score gave him the leadership with four points of gap on Mikkel Brade (Beta). Mattheeuws was third with 11. Gautiero worsened a lot in the second lap, delivering his card with 16 errors. The same was for Brade. On the contrary Mattheeuws did his best equalling the score of Gautuero’s first lap: 6. He overtook the other two riders gaining the victory.
Alicia Robinson (Beta) dominated the Women International class, ahead of Gabby Wintham (Jotagas) and Chantal De Raaf (Ossa).
Theresa Baueml, from Germany, won the European Women title – Photo by Mario Candellone
