VENEK – HUNGARY
21st -23rd november 2014
FISTC  European Championships Cart

Day 2 – 22nd November 2014

Today the weather was excellent for the dogs, cloudy and cold. Trails were even better than yesterday and all mushers, as well as their dogs, enjoyed the race.
In middle distance categories it seems that Czech mushers are the masters of this discipline. The four different classes are led by Czech mushers !
In Category O, Jana Henychova increased the gap between her and the second in the class, Gerald Schinzel (A). In A class, Roman Habasko is first but Lukas Mikulic (A) was less than 1mn slower than him today. In B1, Romana Guregova must be careful as Filippo Piccinini (I), second, is coming very close to her, the difference between the two being now of only 18 seconds. In C1 also Martin Brzek is followed by another Italian musher Claudio Driussi.
In sprint categories, the first teams in many categories are very close to each other: In the A class, the leader, Jean-Claude Peru (F), has only an advantage of 15 seconds on the second Zsofia Verla from Hungary, and the third Knud Schmolz is also following them very closely. The Slovak Maros Litvaj is first in B1 before two French mushers, Stephane Poublanc and Lionel Duprat. The B2 class is dominated by Bernd Sauerhőfer and his flying Greenland dogs.
In C1 nobody can say who will be winning the category as the first three are within 30 seconds... Jana Zemcakova  (Sk) is first but Pascal Gerard (F) follows her at 7 ˝ and Jaroslav Charouz (Cz) is also  very close. In C2, two Czech mushers are also fighting for the first place, Vladimir Vrastil followed by Zdenek Piskac. In D1 Igor Pribula (SK) is first as is Samuel Horbal (SK, junior) in D2.
The competition is very tough also in the other categories. In Bike 2 dogs men Thomas Reuter (A) is 3 seconds in front of Andrej Drabik (SK) who is very closely followed by Oleg Tarazanov (RUS)... In bike 2 dogs women, while Elisabeth Smejkal-Hayn is first, Sabine Wohlfart (I) overtook today Tompay Böjtösne for the second place. In bike 1 dog men 1, Igor Stefan is first, Roman Reistetter second and Patrik Lukanski third, these first three mushers being Slovaks. In Bike 1 dog men 2, Salvatore Fogliano (I) is leading with his Malamute but Szilveszter Tulipan  (Hun) is chasing him with a beautiful Samoyed.  Bike 1 dog women is led by the nice French girl Sixtine Roussel, but two Russian young ladies, Evgeniya Bogdanova and Evgeniia Silicheva will try to pass her tomorrow.
In the Scooter 2 dogs class the first six competitors may go on the podium tomorrow. Jiri Kubelka (SK) is first, Sebastian Astelbauer (A) is second and Didier Fleury (F) is third. The Scooter 2 dogs Junior class is led by Alexey Tarazanov (RUS). Juliette Fouarge (F) is the solid leader of the Scooter 1 dog class while Gabor Rosner (HUN) is leading the Scooter 1 dog 2 class with his superb Greenlanddog.

In Canicross 2 dogs women, Sylvia Perl (A) is leading the category in front of Blanka Csizmadia (HUN) and Rebecca Sordje (SRB).
We all know that Slovak athletes are very good and we have one further demonstration with the Canicross 1 dog men category where the first four places belong to Slovak Competitors, the fastest one being Michal Ivanco. Canicross 1 dog women  is led by Edina Koris (HUN) and Canicross Junior by Tonda Smaus (CZ).
Tomorrow these canicross categories will be very animated as the participants will start with the real time difference so that the first on the finish line will be the winner.
This wonderful race is one of the best FISTC Championships and tomorrow we will have exceptional competitions.
Everybody underlined the quqlity of the organisation and the strong friendship established with local inhabitants. What a pleasure to be here ! 

RESULTS AFTER 2ND DAY