Saturday, March 2, 2019

Nationals 2019

Japan was up first. Hiroshi Kikuchi took the men's title and Kiriko Fuchigami repeated as the women's winner.

In Korea, Kim Hyeonseung took the men's title with Seonhae Oh taking the women's title.

In Norway, Vidar Mehl beat a field of 6 men and Kristin Falck repeated in the women's race.

In Denmark, Aleksej Calmann beat a field sprint of 25 which included defending champ Soren Bay to take the men's title while Louise Houbak was another women's repeat champion.

In Sweden "Sam" won the sprint of 14 men and Cecilia Hansen was yet another repeat women's champion.

In France, Germain Omnes beat matthew Drujon and nine others to win the men's title. Audrey Laundier was the repeating women's winner.

The Dutch (Netherlands) had Niels Beverborg beating a field of 16 that included Jokim Plujmers and "Hannibal" took the women's win.

Belgium had the only men's repeat winner with Michael Apers winning with Terry Fremineur winning a very small women's field.

Poland had Lukasz Goralik win with "Sonia" winning the women's field.

Germany had men's winner Ingo Reichart and women's winner Eva Buchholz as the sixth women's defending champion.

In Switzerland, Francois Coppex took the men's title with Melanie Maurel taking the women's race.

Canada had a sprint of 27 men with Warren Mur taking the honors and Stephanie Ossenbrink took the women's race.

The United States saw Holden Corneau beat Adam Zimmerman and 23 others in the men's race. In the women's event, Angela Pitzer used an aero power-up to take the win with Claudia Behring staying with the lead group for over 40 kilometers before dropping out of the race with an apparent problem.

The British Nationals was a bit tricky. Steve Young and Illi Gardner took the race wins. However, this was only a qualifier and not the final itself. Kim Little can still repeat as champion, having finished in the top ten positions. Casey Baldi did not appear in this year's event.

The British National Final race will be announced soon.
All winners are still verifying at this time and will be officially announced Monday.
Jerseys will be presented with next week's update.

EDIT UPDATE:
wow how things changed this year. It took weeks as opposed to a few days to finalize the winners. A few races went to second, third, and even a fourth place to declare the Zwift winner. In Korea, all women did not qualify. In Poland, almost 300 men and women all were "Unqualified" as to a license. Therefor, no winners were declared. I asked the Polish cycling organization about this but still no response. Didn't really expect one.
Here's a link to official results that we published on ZI: https://zwiftinsider.com/zwift-nats-results-2019/
Brit winners were Cameron Jeffers (a 12th place finisher) and Rosamund Bradley (original winner not present)

It was an incredibly long hard race for the women, way too long imo. A lot of men's races finished as sprints (10-28 racers). This took out the best rider scenario and pushed it to most cagey sprinter (lucky). I think virtually every winner did so with an aero power-up.