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into the distance to take his maiden win on the
tour by 26.28s and take second overall.
Despite pressure from older brother Mickael,
Jeremy Poret held out to take second place
and the Grand Prix victory, with Stian Schjetlein
filling the final podium slot after finishing in
fourth ahead of Morgan Poret and Raphael
Maurin.
Estelle Poret pulled off a dramatic last lap win
in Moto 2 to snatch the overall Grand Prix
victory from defending champion Emma-Nellie
Ortendahl.
Ortendahl needed four laps before stamping
her authority in the opening Moto of the year
to eventually run out a comfortable winner by
21.65s.
In a highly entertaining Moto it was Kylie
Ellmers on her new ski who grabbed the early
advantage to lead from Poret, with an unusually
slow starting Ortendahl in third.
Ortendahl moved into second spot after
a mistake by Poret on lap 2 and a lap later
overhauled Ellmers and going on to take a
comfortable victory.
Despite losing the lead Ellmers performance on
a relatively untried Ski was impressive and was
unchallenged in second and went on to take her
best result on the UIM-ABP tour.
Poret’s tumble saw her drop to fourth behind
Sofie Borgstrom but she regained the place to
secure third spot when Borgstrom also went
down momentarily, then hanging on to finish
ahead of her elder sister Jonna by just over a
second, with UIM-ABP debutant Krista Uzare
coming home in sixth.
A sensational second Moto produced two
moments of high drama andwas ultimately a tale
of two laps.
Poret made a brilliant start fromP2 to lead from
Ortendahl, but fell on lap two to hand the lead
to the defending world champion from Sweden.
Ortendahl then opened up a seemingly
unassailable leadwhen she fell at the start of the
penultimate lap allowing Poret to retake the lead
and go on to take the win and overall victory.
Ortendahl recovered to finish in fourth and
take second overall, with New Zealander Kylie
Ellmers making up for a poor start to finish third
and take the final podium slot, her best result on
the UIM-ABP tour.
JonnaBorgstromenjoyedoneof her best results
finishing second, Katriin Nilbe taking fifth with
Sofie Borgstrom coming home in sixth.
Rok Florjancic completed the clean sweep in
Freestyle, topping thepoints’ sheets inqualifying
and both heats to take his 18th GP title.
In the first he made a last minute switch of Ski,
borrowing brother Nac’s after a problem with
his new RNF Hull just moments before he was
due to start, and then proceeded to take thewin.
The brothers were evenly matched; both picked
up 30 points for quantity of tricks with Rok
grabbing the advantage in variety and style to
get the judges vote 88 to 79.
Roberto Mariani edged out Jaroslav Tirner
by just 3 points to take third, with Alberto
Camerlengo in fifth.
In heat 2 Rok was again challenged closely by
Nac, matching him in quantity of tricks but
outpointing him on variety and style. Italy’s
RobertoMariani claimed the final podium slot.
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