Enduro World Series round 3 in Finale Ligure results: back to the origins

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The Enduro World Series (EWS) concluded in suitably dramatic fashion in Italy at the Bluegrass EWS Finale Ligure.  
In a venue steeped in the history of the sport, riders took to the start line for the third and final race of the year. Featuring nearly 60km of pedalling and four challenging stages, this race was designed to push riders to the max, and it more than delivered. 

Enduro Live Results:

In the men’s race Jesse Melamed (Rocky Mountain Race Face Enduro Team) also set his stall out early, as he too put ten seconds into the rest of the field after stage one. Pietra winner Adrien Dailly (Lapierre Zipp Collective) was in second, but wasn’t to stay there after a puncture followed by a crash on stage two put him out of the running. Melamed went on to win stages two and three, cementing his lead to an unassailable 17 seconds heading into the fourth and final stage. It was Jack Moir (Canyon Collective) who won the stage, but it wasn’t enough to unseat Melamed, who sailed to the third EWS win of his career. Florian Nicolai (Trek Factory Racing) scored a second place finish as he did in Pietra last weekend, with Moir also replicating his third place. 

Italian Martino Fruet brought the Master Men win home, followed by Cedric Ravanel (Commencal Enduro Team) in second and Karim Amour in third. Daniela Michel of Switzerland won Master Women


In the women’s race Morgane Charre (Pivot Factory Racing) was in control from the very first stage, putting over ten seconds into Vittoria EWS Pietra winner Melanie Pugin in second place. A mechanical for Pugin on stage two saw Charre able to extend her lead, and despite Pugin winning the final two stages, it wasn’t enough to stop Charre taking her first EWS win. Pugin finished the day in second place, with Estelle Charles posting a career best third place. 

In the U21 Men Brady Stone (Theory Global Enduro Team) clinched the win, with Luke Meier-Smith in second and third place went to Jamie Edmondson. Harriet Harnden (Trek Factory Racing) won her third straight victory in U21 Women with Sophie Riva of Italy in second place. 

With no individual championship in 2020 it was left to the teams to battle it out, and it was Pivot Factory Racing who came out on top, followed by Trek Factory Racing in second and Rocky Mountain Race Face Enduro Team in third. 

That’s it for the 2020 Enduro World Series, all that remains is to say thank you to all the teams, riders, organisers, staff and volunteers for their support in this most difficult of years. Here’s to 2021. 

Follow this link of the video highlights of the EWS 2020 round 3 in Finale Ligure, Italy:

 

Results (first 25 of Men category):

1 Jesse Melamed CAN Rocky Mountain Race Face 00:21:21.60
2 Florian Nicolai FRA Trek Factory Racing +00:08.98
3 Jack Moir AUS Canyon Collective +00:13.11
4 Theo Galy FRA Sunn Enduro Factory Team +00:19.74
5 Edward Masters AUS Pivot Factory Racing +00:35.57
6 Charles Murray AUS Pivot Factory Racing +00:36.97
7 Jose Borges POR Miranda Factory Team +00:37.47
8 Kevin Miquel FRA Sunn Enduro Factory Team +00:37.54
9 Slawomir Lukasik POL - +00:37.92
10 Martin Maes BEL GT Factory Racing +00:40.59
11 Dimitri Tordo FRA Canyon Collective +00:41.27
12 Zakarias Blom Johansen SWE Cube Action Team +00:46.15
13 Youn Deniaud FRA Giant Factory Off-Road +00:46.33
14 Matteo Raimondi ITA - +00:47.15
15 Alex Rudeau FRA Commencal Enduro Team +00:47.56
16 Gregory Callaghan IRE Unior Devinci Factory Racing +00:49.1
17 Christian Textor GER Team BULLS +00:49.54
18 Antoine Vidal FRA Commencal Enduro Team +00:50.29
19 Guillaume Larbeyou FRA - +00:52.2
20 Joseph Nation AUS - +00:54.49
21 Cole Lucas AUS Ibis Enduro Team +00:55.71
22 Pedro Burns Contreras CUB Trek Factory Racing +01:02.01
23 Rhys Verner CAN Kona Factory Team +01:02.98
24 Stanislav Sehnal CZE - +01:03.27
25 Edgar Carballo Gonzalez ESP Orbea FOX Enduro Team +01:04.39

 

For more results see the source at this link.

Source: Enduro World Series Official Website

Jacopo Vigna

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