Cam Zink Wins Chatel Mountain Style
July 4th, 2011
For the first time the weather didn’t play a part in the Châtel Mountain Style competition, held annually at the Pré de la Joux bike park, 10 minutes from Châtel, France. Sunny skies for all three days greeted the riders with only a cool breeze at the top of the course to worry about.
The Freeride World Mountain Bike Tour arrived for it’s only ‘mountain’ event of the year on this mini rampage event held on the bike parks ‘Face’ course. All the top riders were in attendance including Bearclaw back from his recent injury and sporting a new Leatt Brace. He did his classic 360 off the top drop.
Overall winner and current champion, Cam Zink, was the first to backflip and on his first run! Closely following by others he flipped the all new carbon Evil Undead off the penultimate Red Bull Jump. Geoff Gulevich had a sweet run too, followed by Semenuk and Sorge taking the lead after the first round.
After a classic French delay of 2 hours the riders started the second runs, Antoine Bizet looked like he might upset the superstars with his 2nd run but Zink’s speed and style won out.
FULL RESULTS
1. ZINK Cameron 93.14
2. BIZET Antoine 92.00
3. SORGE Kurt 91.14
4. SEMENUK Brandon 89.29
5. STRAIT Kyle 84.57
6. GULLEVICH Geoffrey 84.14
7. BERRECLOTH Darren 83.71
8. McGARRY Kelly 82.86
9. PILGRIM Sam 80.57
10. LACONDEGUY Andreu 77.57
11. FERRY Pierre-Edouard 77.29
12. HUNZIKER Ramon 75.57
13. KABANI Amir 74.71
14. DUBOURGNON Antoine 70.57
15. LEITNER Niki 69.14
16. CHUBEY Mitch 69.00
17. HENKE Peter 68.57
18. BUELHER Gareth 67.86
19. LAWRENUK Eric 65.43
20. KIRCHMANN Simon 62.86
21. SIMCIK Nick 62.57
22. REUILLER 59.00
23. THEVENARD Pierre 58.00
24. JANSSEN Jonas 48.71
25. TAFEL Hendrik 47.00.
26. HUNZIKER Jerome 35.00