{"id":24454,"date":"2019-05-12T10:56:22","date_gmt":"2019-05-12T08:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uniordownhillcup.com\/2019\/letosnji-zmagovalec-losinja-je-zabjek\/"},"modified":"2019-05-12T11:04:54","modified_gmt":"2019-05-12T09:04:54","slug":"zabjek-wins-on-losinj-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sloveniadownhillcup.si\/en\/2019\/zabjek-wins-on-losinj-island\/","title":{"rendered":"\u017dabjek Wins on Lo\u0161inj Island"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jure \u017dabjek<\/strong> of Unior\/Devinci Factory Racing is the winner in men\u2019s UCI category of Unior Downhill Cup<\/strong> opening race on the island of Lo\u0161inj<\/strong> in Croatia. With storm forecast for Sunday, the race on the modified World Cup track was held on Saturday.
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\u017dabjek was fastest in both the early afternoon seeding run and late afternoon final run where the Slovenian gained over two seconds compared to his earlier run to win with a gap of more than 7 seconds over second placed German Felix Bauer<\/strong>. French Romain Payet<\/strong> (ACPR) finished third just a tenth of a second behind Bauer. 2017 iXS European DH Cup Junior overall champion Rudi Pintar<\/strong> of Slovenia (Sinter Brakes Team) in 4th and French rider Anthony Chirossel<\/strong> (LachtouTeam Race) in 5th place round out the five-man podium.<\/p>\n

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Jure \u017dabjek<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Australia\u2019s World Cup podium finisher from 18 years ago Sean McCarroll<\/strong> (Rotorua MTB Club) finished 6th as part of his Euro trip and European Championships silver medallist from a week ago in Portugal \u017dak Gomil\u0161\u010dek<\/strong> of Slovenia (Sinter Brakes Team) was the faster junior in 8th place.<\/p>\n

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Felix Bauer<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This was also the Croatian National Championships race where the first-year elite rider Noa Radolovi\u0107 (BK TNT Pazin) in 7th place edged out his teammate and defending champion Ivan Ba\u0161i\u0107 by just .8 of a second to take the title.<\/p>\n

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Naja Stipani\u010d<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Slovenian junior Naja Stipani\u010d<\/strong> (Blackthorn) was the only female in attendance in a small field of riders from nine countries and three continents who took the trip to the island for the UCI Class 1 event after three consecutive weekends of international racing in Slovenia.<\/p>\n

Compared to the 2018 World Cup opening race the track was shorter this time since the final urban part was left out to make the event logistics easier. The hard working organization crew of AK Lo\u0161inj and MTB Trbovlje<\/strong> added two new sections mid-track. \u017dabjek won with the time of 1 minute and 52.426 seconds and the top three men made it to the finish in under two minutes compared to Aaron Gwin\u2019s winning time of 2:19,19 from just over a year ago.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is no doubt, this track is still very demanding even if it\u2019s really short,\u201d explained Jure \u017dabjek. \u201cIt\u2019s a rock garden from start to finish so you really need to have a clean run to do well. Sure, I made some mistakes, some big ones in my final run too, but it would be really hard not to. It\u2019s a good result, I\u2019m happy with my riding this season so far, it looks like it\u2019s going to be a fast one for me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Full results<\/a><\/h3>\n

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The third season of Unior Downhill Cup series which unites events from the calendars of National Federations of Slovenia in Croatia will see four more rounds<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

May 18\/19 \u2013 Maribor (Slo)<\/p>\n

June 22\/23 \u2013 Trbovlje (Slo), National Championships<\/p>\n

August 24\/25 \u2013 Sori\u0161ka planina (Slo)<\/p>\n

September 14\/15 \u2013 Cerkno (Slo)<\/p>\n

So, racing continues already next weekend on another World Cup track, the one in Maribor, Slovenia<\/strong> which hosted the opening race of the 2019 Mercedes-Benz UCI Mountain Bike World Cup just two weeks ago.<\/p>\n

More info on Downhill Visit Pohorje Maribor<\/a><\/h3>\n

Photos by\u00a0Urban Cerjak\/Monster Energy<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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