Weekend Racing

This weekend with no World Inline Cup race scheduled our team split up to compete in two different events held on the same day. Cecilia and Tamara went to Germany to race in the Mittelrhein Marathon, part of the German Inline Cup series. Alexandra and myself stayed here in Switzerland to race the Swiss Open Championships held on the Weinfelden bank track. Our team had another successful week with Cecilia winning the marathon in Germany and myself winning all the events at the Swiss Champs. Tamara was 4th in the marathon and Alexandra who was feeling ill over the weekend still managed to pick up a 2nd and 3rd place at the Swiss Champs.

Here are a few pictures from the Mittelrhein Marathon thanks to Jorg Dietrich. You can view more images on the Team Bont Wheels website.






Swiss Open Championships

I was very surprised on Saturday when I turned up for racing and saw the program. I was expecting something that resembled a Worlds program as far as the distance of the races but instead saw we were racing events that my mother once raced. The sprint events which included a 300m time trial, 500m and 1500m were all held on Saturday. The long distance event were all held the next day, this included a 5000m points race, 3000m straight race and a 10,000m elimination.

I won the overall sprint title and overall distance title after winning all six races. Nadine Gloor was the first Swiss skater in all events and finished third overall in both the sprint and distance races. Shaneen Howard (Colombia) was second overall in the sprint and Martha Ramirez (Colombia) second overall in the distance. Alexandra was a little ill over the weekend so she sat out a few races but was second in the 500m and third in the 5000m points race.