Mrázek and Levet win Master Serre Chevalier

Tomas Mrázek and Sandrine Levet win the Master Serre Chevalier 2003

July 2003

Those who thought that the "levelling off" and "emerging athletes" were a one-off affair need think again. It is true that super TomÃ¡s MrÃ¡zek, winner of the World Championships in Chamonix a fortnight ago, won in Serre Chevalier last weekend, as did Sandrine Levet, who piped to the post World Champion Muriel Sarkany in the Superfinal.

But the true novelty is the arrival of fresh faces, with the likes of Patxi Usobiaga who, just like in Chamonix, placed second behind MrÃ¡zek. And was followed in third place by eighteen year old Eduard Marin Garcia and Alexandre Chabot, by now somewhat more "human" than in the past. This freshness is reflected, admittedly to a slightly lesser extent, in the women's event, with well-known Emilie Pouget third, ahead of Alexandra Eyer fourth.

TomÃ¡s MrÃ¡zek dominated the men's after-work route, finishing 17 holds from the top but an impressive 5 moves higher than Usobiaga and another four or five higher than Marin Garcia and Chabot. Almost all other finalists finished beneath the large roof: Millet, Ovtchinnikov, Auclair, C. Bindhammer, Sova and Pouvreau, fifth to tenth respectively.

First place in the women's event was an exclusive Levet - Sarkany affair. The two were the only athletes to top out in the Final, and in the ensuing Superfinal Sarkany fell at half height, while Sandrine climbed higher, calling Serre her own.

results men
1	TomÃ¡s MrÃ¡zek	CZE
2	Patxi Usobiaga	ESP
3	Alexandre Chabot	FRA
3	Eduard Marin Garcia	ESP
5	Sylvain Millet	FRA
6	Evgueni Ovtchinnikov	RUS
7	FranÃ§ois Auclair	FRA
8	Christian Bindhammer	GER
9	Matej Sova	SLO
10	GÃ©rome Pouvreau	FRA
11	RamÃ³n JuliÃ¡n Puigblanque	ESP
12	Peter Bosma	SWE
12	David Caude	FRA
14	Iouri Douloub	RUS
15	Cristian Brenna	ITA
16	Flavio Crespi	ITA
17	FranÃ§ois Petit	FRA
18	CÃ©dric Lachat	SUI
18	Daniel Winkler	SUI
20	Andreas Bindhammer	GER
21	Vadim Vinokur	USA
22	Evgeni Krivocheicev	UKR
23	Igor Goussak	UKR
23	Donato Lella	ITA
25	Fabien Dugit	FRA
26	Kilian Fischhuber	AUT
27	Maxim Petrenko	UKR
28	Mikhail Pekarev	RUS
29	Casper Ten Sijthoff	NED
30	Anthony Sapey	SUI
31	FranÃ§ois Legrand	FRA

results women
1	Sandrine Levet	FRA
2	Muriel Sarkany	BEL
3	Emilie Pouget	FRA
4	Alexandra Eyer	SUI
5	Jenny Lavarda	ITA
6	Maja Vidmar	SLO
7	Venera Tcherechneva	RUS
8	Martina Cufar	SLO
9	ChloÃ© Minoret	FRA
10	Caroline Ciavaldini	FRA
11	Barbara Bacher	AUT
12	Olga Yakovleva	RUS
13	Damaris Knorr	GER
14	AlizÃ©e Dufraisse	FRA
15	StÃ©phanie Crouvisier	FRA
16	Yuka Kobayashi	JPN
16	Liv Sansoz	FRA
18	Ioulia Abramtchouk	RUS
18	Elizabeth Asher	USA
20	Katja Vidmar	SLO
21	Delphine Martin	FRA
21	Laure Mathieu	FRA
23	Olga Bibik	RUS
24	Gerda Raffetseder	AUT
25	Ingela Nilsson	SWE
26	Rie Kimura	JPN
27	Alena Ostapenko	UKR