2018 TRIAL2 WOMEN'S WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP
Once again, since its first year in 2017, this championship is proving the ideal stepping stone to encourage the female riders into the sport of trials at the world championship level. It’s producing a good sensible level of riding and no doubt the support will grow and grow.
Making it three wins from three starts we have a new star in the young Italian Alex Brancati on the Beta. The parting of a single mark in qualifying pushed her well away from the top spot as Great Britain’s Hannah Styles had the flags waving, as the crowd encouraged her all the way round the qualifying hazards as she edged out America’s Maddie Hoover.
It went from bad to worse though for Brancati as she opened the championship competition on the second day of the event with a five on section one. A five on section seven, two three-mark penalties and a single mark on section 14 left her way off the winning pace as both eventual second- and third-place finishers from Germany, Rosita Leotta and Sophia Ter Jung, recorded single scores. Looking very determined Brancati let her riding do the talking on the second lap to come storming back up the results to post the only second lap single-figure score and with this she took the win, much to her clear delight. The icing on the cake was the world championship title; she was happy.
ROUND 3, GREAT BRITAIN
QUALIFYING: 1: Hannah Styles (Vertigo-GBR) 34.00; 2: Madeleine Hoover (Gas Gas-USA) 34.81; 3: Hanne Haga (TRRS-NOR) 39.10; 4: Rosita Leotta (BetaDEU) 39.59; 5: Gabby Whitham (Beta-GBR) 39.69; 6: Marine Aurieres (Gas Gas-FRA) 40.97; 7: Lenna Volpe (Sherco-FRA) 41.07; 8: Sophia Ter Jung (TRRS-DEU) 41.72; 9: Mona Pekarek (Sherco-DEU) 43.04; 10: Alicia Robinson (Beta-GBR) 44.37; 11: Daniela Baeuml (Beta-DEU) 44.64; 12: Erika Melchior (Sherco-NOR) 30.70 + 1; 13: Alex Brancati (Beta-ITA) 34.74 + 1; 14: Caroline Moreon (Sherco-FRA) 36.84 + 1; 15: Victoria Payne (Sherco-GBR) 42.15 + 1.
RESULTS: Alex Brancati (Beta-ITA) 23; 2: Rosita Leotta (Beta-DEU) 23; 3: Sophia Ter Jung (TRRS-DEU) 23; 4: Erika Melchior (Sherco-NOR) 27; 5: Hannah Styles (Vertigo-GBR) 38; 6: Madeleine Hoover (Gas Gas-USA) 42; 7: Alicia Robinson (Beta-GBR) 48; 8: Victoria Payne (Sherco-GBR) 53; 9: Lenna Volpe (Sherco-FRA) 54; 10: Gabby Whitham (Beta-GBR) 56; 11: Marine Aurieres (Gas Gas-FRA) 58; 12: Martina Gallieni (TRRS-ITA) 61; 13: Caroline Moreon (Sherco-FRA) 64; 14: Mona Pekarek (Sherco-DEU) 67; 15: Hanne Haga (TRRS-NOR) 81.
2018 TRIAL2 WOMEN’S WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP
POSITIONS: 1: Alex Brancati (Beta-ITA) 80; 2: Madeleine Hoover (Gas GasUSA) 59; 3: Sophia Ter Jung (TRRS-DEU) 53; 4: Erika Melchior (Sherco-NOR) 52; 5: Mona Pekarek (Sherco-DEU) 38; 6: Marine Aurieres (Gas Gas-FRA) 35; 7: Alicia Robinson (Beta-GBR) 31; 8: Victoria Payne (Sherco-GBR) 30; 9: Caroline Moreon (Sherco-FRA) 28; 10: Martina Gallieni (TRRS-ITA) 24; 11: Hanne Haga (TRRS-NOR) 23; 12: Rosita Leotta (Beta-DEU) 17; 13: Hannah Styles (Vertigo-GBR) 11; 14: Lenna Volpe (Sherco-FRA) 11; 15: Maria Eck (Beta-DEU) 8.