Sunday, October 22, 2006

2006 T-Mobile Ranking: 4 ECB riders in top 100

Four ECB Cyclosports Team members finished the season in the top 100 of the first T-Mobile Cyclo Tour. Unable to race in Münster, Elin Amundsen just missed out on the top 15 in the women's final ranking, won by Team Agapedia's Annika Grüber. In her first racing season, Elin scored 1284 points in only four races on the Tour: two wins (Wiesbaden and the 80km event in Bad Tölz), one second-place (Frankfurt, 75km) and one fourth (Seefeld). An impressive debut!

Catherine Lane - unfortunately sidelined for the main part of the season - still kept her place in the top 100: 93th with 511 points, courtesy of her solid performances in Göttingen and Frankfurt.

Kris Van de Velde ended 27th in the men's with 1265 points out of five events, the best result being 14th in the Henninger Turm. Morten Hansen got himself up in the top 100 after the Wiesbaden race, where he closed his busy season in style (57th). Morten totalled 774 points in seven races.

The men's circuit has been won by fellow-Frankfurer Torsten Roell (RSC Mars-Rotweiss). His advantage over the second-placed rider is over 500 points. On the circuit, Roell secured podium finishes in Bochum and Dresden (3rd in both races) and narrowly missed it in Frankfurt (4th).

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