World Cup Shanghai: victory for Puigblanque and Vidmar

The seventh stage of the World Cup Lead 2005 took place in Shangai, China, last weekend, and was won by Ramón Julián Puigblanque and Maja Vidmar.

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October 2005

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The seventh stage of the World Cup Lead 2005 took place in Shangai, China, last weekend, and was won by RamÃ³n JuliÃ¡n Puigblanque and Maja Vidmar. The nineteen year old from Slovenia beat the invincible Angela Eiter, who maintains an enormous 200 point advantage. Flavio Crespi maintains the men's overall lead, but his sixth place in China results in his previous 116 point lead whittle down to 63 ahead of RamÃ³n JuliÃ¡n Puigblanque. With just two more competitions to go, Valence at the end of October and Krany at the end of November, Crespi will have to give it his all to resist the Spanish onslaught.

Of course, young Jorg Verhoeven and CÃ©dric Lachat will try to have their say too, and their 2nd and 3rd place in Shanghai bodes well, as does their inverted 3rd and 4th position in the 2005 provisional results, but the 99 point difference should be enough to not worry the Italian too much. Nor should the reigning world champion TomÃ¡s MrÃ¡zek: he placed 4th in China and is currently 9th overall. Alexandre Chabot did not take part in the competition because of the sponsorship problems with the French Federation, but the 4 times winner of the World Cup Lead is currently "only" 5th, 180 points behind the leader. The 2005 World Cup is going to be fought out between Flavio and RamÃ³n JuliÃ¡n: both are highly motivated and will try their best to win their first ever Cup.

Shanghai (China)
Results Men - Shanghai (CHN)
1. Puigblanque RamÃ³n JuliÃ¡n ESP 51.00
2. Verhoeven Jorg NED 40.80
3. Lachat CÃ©dric SUI 33.15
4. MrÃ¡zek TomÃ¡s CZE 28.05
5. Zardini Luca ITA 26.01
6. Crespi Flavio ITA 23.97
7. Hoppe Markus GER 21.93
8. Liu Chang-Zhong CHN 20.40
9. Anma Sachi JPN 18.87
10. Caude David FRA 17.34
10. Desgranges Romain FRA 17.34
10. Millet Sylvain FRA 17.34
10. PreuÃler Timo GER 17.34
14. Usobiaga Patxi ESP 12.24
15. Ito Hidekazu JPN 11.22

Results Men - Shanghai (CHN)
1. Vidmar Maja SLO 56.00
2. Eiter Angela AUT 44.80
3. Kobayashi Yuka JPN 36.40
4. Chereshneva Yana RUS 55.00
5. Lavarda Jenny ITA 51.00
6. Bacher Barbara AUT 26.32
7. Sarkany Muriel BEL 24.08
8. Franko Lucjia SLO 22.40
9. Gros Natalija SLO 20.72
10. Ciavaldini Caroline FRA 19.04
11. Eyer Alexandra SUI 17.36
12. Tcherechneva Venera RUS 15.68
13. Saurwein Katharina AUT 14.56
14. Korolkova Ekaterina RUS 13.44
15. Noguchi Akiyo JPN 12.32