SloEnduro 2014 season has started last weekend with Enduro 3 Camini race in Trieste, Italy. Race started on saturday evening with the prologue above paddock area, where Kristjan Medvescek was the fastest man and Ana Zupan was the fastest among ladies competition.

Beautiful panorama from the stages.
Beautiful panorama from the stages.

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On sunday the 42km long race course led the riders to slovenian side of the border, for the first and longest stage of the day with a finish in the national park of Val Rosandra.
After the first stage, there were four more stages to do for the riders. After 17minutes and 47seconds of total stage time, the best man of the day was Vid Persak (Orbea Geax) with only 5sec ahead of Kristjan Medvescek (KK Crn Trn) and 11sec ahead of Nejc Rutar (Unior Tools Team).

Deep in the Italian woods.
Deep in the Italian woods.

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Ana Zupan (Energijateam.com) managed to hold the lead from prologue during the whole race on sunday, while Nina Rupnik(Orbea Geax) managed to recover from the mistake in the saturdays prologue and came from last place to the second position with 1:12 minutes behind Ana. Last spot on the podium went to Prisca Castlunger (ASD RideAway).

The female podium.
The female podium.
The male podium.
The male podium.

Full results

The further dates are:

  • 9. – 10. Mai – Enduro Cerkno, Cerkno (SLO)
  • 7. – 8. Juni – Kamplc Enduro, Javornik (SLO)
  • 6. Juli – Enduro Tolmin, Tolmin (SLO)
  • 18. – 20. Juli – Black Hole Enduro, Koroška (SLO)
  • 6. – 7. September – Enduro Kamnik, Kamnik (SLO)
  • 28. – 29. September – Čelešnk Enduro, Blagovica (SLO)
  • 11. – 12. Oktober – Enduro Grožnjan, Grožnjan (CRO)

Find the registration and more information on www.sloenduro.com.

Words: Jaka Tancik | Pictures: Nejc Bole


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