July 24/23 12:27 pm - Pivot Cycles-OTE Takes Team Relay National Title
Posted by Editoress on 07/24/23
The 2023 National Mountain Bike Championships concluded on Sunday in Kentville, Nova Scotia, with the Team Relay. A strong field of 14 team signed up, including both provincial composite squads and trade teams. A further nine teams raced in the Challenge class. Each riders did two laps of a modified XCC course.
The Pivot-OTE team of Vincent Thiboutot, Mathis Duval, Rafaelle Carrier, Peter Disera won a tight battle with defending champions Team Ontario (Tyler Clark, Owen Clark, Elli Clark, Cole Punchard). Team Alberta 1 (Logan Sadesky (did two turns), Nico Knoll, Francis Graham) took third.
Ontario opened very strongly, taking a good lead with their first two riders. However, Pivot-OTE began to battle back with the third rider, and the two teams went into the final neck-and-neck, Disera for Pivot-OTE and Punchard for Ontario. It came down to the final 75 metres, with Disera able to get to the front in the final corner and outkick his rival to the line.
"They [Relays] aren't a high pressure event, and I wanted to have a good day today after not doing well yesterday [in the XCO]," said Disera. "There's a lot of single track, and I figured it would be just easier to lead, and if I saw any weakness, just go full in. In the seven minutes that we raced we traded the lead probably seven times, so it was super exciting. Apparently he hadn't hit the finish jump all week; I had, but not at speed. Raph Auclair [his team mate] went from fourth to second in the XCC by launching it at the finish, so I did that and was able to get around Cole on the outside."
Results from the final races from the Canadian Mountain Bike Championships in Kentville, NS
| Championship Relay | |
| 1 Pivot Cycles-OTE (Vincent Thiboutot/Mathis Duval/Rafaelle Carrier/Peter Disera) | 0:29:26.1 |
| 2 Team Ontario #1 (Tyler Clark/Owen Clark/Elli Clark/Cole Punchard) | 0:29:27.0 |
| 3 Team Alberta #1 (Logan Sadesky/Logan2 Sadesky2/Nico Knoll/Francis Graham) | 0:30:01.2 |
| 4 Siboire QuiRoule #1 (Felix-Antoine Leclair/Catryana Marcotte/Tristan Taillefer/Emilien Belzile) | 0:30:13.9 |
| 5 Cycling BC Eh (Cody Scott/Marin Lowe/Maddox Johnson/Noah Rubuliak) | 0:30:14.3 |
| 6 Eq Quebec #1 (William Cote/Marc-Andre Genest/Anabelle Drouin/Mika Comaniuk) | 0:30:25.7 |
| 7 Siboire QuiRoule #2 (Alix Brunelle/Alexia Harel/Arnaud Belzile/Zack Brunelle) | 0:30:40.3 |
| 8 Project Dialed In (Edward Walsh/Jocelyn Stel/Dana Gilligan/Anthony Arseneau) | 0:31:37.5 |
| 9 Team NB #1 (Cody Cooper/Antoine Lacombe/Emilie Chloe McIntyre/Rein Jones) | 0:32:44.6 |
| 10 Team Alberta #2 (Ella Myers/Luke Pulford/Aida Boonstra/Ella Myers) | 0:33:57.4 |
| 11 Eq Quebec #2 (Charles-Antoine Cote/Lea Drouin/Emma Olson/Charles-Antoine Cote) | 0:34:00.6 |
| 12 Cycling BC Bee (Ellie Winchell/Kelan Wells/Geza Rodgers/Tara Mowat) | 0:34:52.7 |
| 13 Team Alberta #3 (Eva Poidevin/Larix Hallett/Richelle Love/Eva Poidevin) | 0:35:17.8 |
| 14 Team NB #2 (Abby Manson/Liam Moores/Laurence Olivia Arseneau/Pascal LeBlanc) | 0:35:57.1 |
| Challenge Relay | |
| 1 Shredders 1 (Tyler Orshel/Nathan Hauber/Alexa Haviland/Tyler2 Orshel) | 0:31:02.4 |
| 2 Sigma 1 (Philippe Thiboutot/Maude Ruelland/Maxime Merlin/Fabrice Dufresne) | 0:31:47.6 |
| 3 VPDH 2 (Felix Renaud/Amelie Leclair/Arnaud Lajoie/Thomas Deniger) | 0:32:21.3 |
| 4 VPDH 1 (Samuel Courcelles/Eliot Courcelles/Ulric Doyon/Mia De Martin) | 0:33:02.9 |
| 5 Sigma 2 (Remi Belzile/Lyli-Rose Marois /Eve-Marie Belzile/Adam Duval) | 0:33:14.2 |
| 6 Shredders 2 (Sam Bliss/Alex McCabe/Clare Hauber/Josh Tyers) | 0:33:25.2 |
| 7 Collingwood Collective (Evan Moore/Julia Lehmann/Ronin Riddell/Elly Moore) | 0:33:25.5 |
| 8 Annapolis Valley (Brandon Curry/Jonah Pashley/Carolyn Benvie/Eric Maclean) | 0:34:34.8 |
| 9 Valley Devo (Ian King/Noah Delorey/April Muirhead/Lorenzo Caterini) | 0:58:28.9 |
| DNS Charge BC (Cam McCallum/Oskar Stack Michasin/Ella MacPhee/Cam McCallum) |
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