Australia's most successful ISDE
A remarkable International Six Day Enduro for Australia, winning the women's and junior trophies and coming second in the senior trophyAustralia has produced an irresistible performance at the 2015 International Six Day Enduro (ISDE) in Slovakia — its best ever — winning the women's and junior team trophies and completing hostilities second in the senior trophy behind France.
In the women's, it was a hat-track of wins for Australia with Jessica Gardiner, Tayla Jones and Jemma Wilson steamrolling the opposition. The trio finished a whopping 55 minutes ahead of France, with Sweden in third, and in the junior trophy Australia (Broc Grabham, Tom Mason, Daniel Sanders and Tye Simmonds) easily accounted for Sweden and Italy.
The senior trophy saw France (Marc Bourgeois, Anthony Boissiere, Loic Larrieu, Antoine Basset, Jeremy Joly, Mathias Bellino) win its fourth on the trot, and the team's cause was helped after three of its riders (Bourgeois, Boissiere and Joly) disqualified on day three for missing an intermediate course checkpoint were reinstated by an FIM tribunal, which shot them back into the lead with one day to go. Other riders reinstated were American Taylor Robert, Spanish duo Lorenzo Santolino and Cristobal Guerrero, Briton David Knight and Italian Monni.
Despite winning day six, Australia (Joshua Green, Daniel Milner, Matthew Phillips, Beau Ralston, Lachlan Stanford and Glen Kearney) was unable to gain enough of an advantage on their French rivals and claimed the runner-up result. Spain was third from Italy and Great Britain.
UPDATE: The FIM subsequently reversed the decision and awarded Australia the win retrospectively.
On the individual front, Sanders (E3) and Jones (women's) won their classes convincingly, and the others to finish in the top 10 were:
E1
5th Green
E2
2nd Milner
5th Phillips
9th Ralston
10th Simmonds
E3
6th Stanford
Milner also finished second overall in the outright standings (best times across all the classes), with Sanders in fourth. The outright winner was American Ryan Sipes, who rode in E2.
"It's been a good week. I managed to win a day outright while also consistently challenge for the overall victory," said Milner. "Of course I'd love to have taken the win but to end six days of racing just 45 seconds behind isn't really a bad thing.
"Overall I can't fault how things have gone. My bike was flawless and aside from swapping handlebars and suspension I pretty much rode my bike as it came out of the crate. To deliver this level of result on it is fantastic."
With the 90th edition of the ISDE complete, Spain now looks forward to hosting the 2016 ISDE.
World Trophy
1. France: 21:08:30.76 (Marc Bourgeois, Anthony Boissiere, Loic Larrieu, Antoine Basset, Jeremy Joly, Mathias Bellino)
2. Australia, +1:00.38 (Joshua Green, Daniel Milner, Matthew Phillips, Beau Ralston, Lachlan Stanford, Glen Kearney)
3. Spain, +10:26.76 (Jonathan Barragan, Jaume Betriu, Josep Garcia, Victor Guerrero, Lorenzo Santolino, Cristobal Guerrero)
Junior Trophy
1. Australia, 12:56:33.09 (Broc Grabham, Tom Mason, Daniel Sanders, Tye Simmonds)
2. Sweden, +15:26.84 (Jesper Borjesson, Michael Persson, John Ramstrom, Tommy Sjostrom)
3. Italy, +26:44.08 (Nicolo Bruschi, Matteo Pavoni, Mirko Spandre, Michele Marchelli)
Women’s Trophy
1. Australia, 10:15:02.6 (Jessica Gardiner, Tayla Jones, Jemma Wilson)
2. France, +55:53.73 (Blandine Dufrene, Geraldine Fournel, Audrey Rossat)
3. Sweden, +1:15:20.98 (Jessica Jonsson, Emelie Karlsson, Emmily Smalsjo)
For full results, including individual classes, click here.
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