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Overall-win to Kristof Kouble in Brezno / Slovakia
The Czech Kristof Kouble surprisingly won the second day of the second round of this year’s European Enduro Championship in Brezno, Slovakia: The previous day’s winner, Albin Elowson, have had led more than half the time, but a gearbox damage on his motorcycle caused the Swede to check out prematurely. Shortly before, his compatriot Mikael Persson, yesterday’s third overall, had retired after a crash with electrical problems.

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Albin Elowson wins first day in Brezno / Slovakia
The Swede Albin Elowson won the first day of the second round of this year’s European Enduro Championship in Brezno / Slovakia, in the overall standings: The Husqvarna rider gradually managed to get ahead of championship leader Kristof Kouble, who in the end added up to over half a minute.

Both riders also won their cubic capacity class, Elowson the four-stroke 250+cc class and Kouble the junior 2-3 class.

The junior class 1, with the smaller cubic capacity motorcycles, was won by the Finn Roni Kytönen, who had to overtake some slower riders on the track in front of him, otherwise he might have been even better than his fourth place in the overall standings.

How demanding the track and the special stages were is most evident in the women’s class: there the English rider Nieve Holmes won – although she got an additional penalty minute on the track: “I was in time at the time control in time, but I still had to refuel,” said the Sherco rider, who switched from motocross to enduro only two years ago. “I drove more cautiously and looked more closely so that I wouldn’t make any mistakes in the tests,” she revealed her secret recipe. That worked because the demanding specials offered many opportunities for mistakes.

The women also had to fight hard on the track, just three of the 13 female riders remained without penalty points.

But because bad weather is predicted for the second day, the organiser has installed some defusing measures on the stage as well as in enduro and extreme tests.

The complete results of all classes are attached.

You can find the live timing from Sunday, May 19, here:

www.casomeric.cz/enduroonline

The start takes place again from 9:00 o’clock.

The European Enduro Championship changes to the second round of the four competitions into Slovakia, next weekend on 18th and 19th of May 2019: the former mining town also has a tradition in Enduro sport. For a long time, the “Sports Training Centre for Offroad Motorcycles” was one of the largest clubs in Slovakia. Numerous competitions took place here, an just last year on round to the Slovak and Czech Championships.

The riders and teams of the European Championship move to the historical market square in the middle of the city, where the paddock and the administration centre are located.

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Brad FREEMAN holds off Danny MCCANNEY for the double in Spain!

The second day of the Spanish Grand Prix, the 3rd round of the Maxxis FIM Enduro World Championship. A beautiful summer day greeted for all the competitors and even more spectators flooded the specials. The main difficulty was to adapt to the terrain which had suffered from the passage of so many motorcycles.

Brad FREEMAN (GBR-Beta) gave a double blow to his competitors, the British rider won for the 2nd time on Iberian soil. The Beta Boano rider this time had to scrap with Danny MCCANNEY (GBR-TM) to win. FREEMAN was very disciplined all day, keeping out of trouble. He won five tests today and finished 2nd on the tests four times. This more than satisfactory result propels him to the head of EnduroGP. He pulls 5 points out on former leader Steve HOLCOMBE (GBR-Beta).

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