BIKE MARATHON GARDA TRENTINO 2023

2024/05/02 - 2024/05/05

At the beginning of May the whole MTB-scene meets again for the traditional season opener at Lake Garda, northern Italy. The Mountain bike season 2021 does start again in May as usually with the FSA BIKE Festival Garda Trentino in Riva del Garda (April 28th to May, 1st, 2022). At the last edition (27th anniversary) more than 45.000 visitors and 3000 participants have been in Garda. The focus of the season opener in Riva del Garda is the huge Expo are with more than 160 exhibitors and 300 brands of the bike scene. Our partners offer the opportunity to test products and bikes as well as special fair prices, lotteries and even more. Therefore, each visitor has the chance to get informed about the latest products of the bike scene. An absolute Must for every visitor is the Open Night on Saturday from 7pm to 10:30pm at the Expo area. Exciting side events also provide additional adrenaline kicks. For example, the fastest riders will be determined on 3 different routes at the 'SCOTT BIKE Marathon' on Saturday. In the 'Bosch eMTB Challenge supported by Trek', all motorised athletes can prove their handling between battery conservation, speed and technology. The enduro specialists will show their downhill and jumping skills on Sunday in the ‘Enduro Challenge’: Here is a adrenaline rush guaranteed. Of course, the youngsters will not be forgotten: The little bikers will have the opportunity to show what they can already do and amaze their parents in the 'Junior Trophy' on Sunday. Don´t miss it.

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Results

Over 1,300 participants at the Scott BIKE Marathon 2023

At this year's sporting highlight on Saturday, the Scott BIKE Marathon, a total of 1,340 participants took part in three different categories. The Scott BIKE Marathon is a race specially designed for mountain bikes, which takes place every year as part of the BIKE Festival Garda Trentino. There are three distances to choose from, which differ in length, metres in altitude and technical demands. In the highest discipline, the Ronda Extrema, numerous familiar faces started in the first rows, including last year's winner and German champion Andreas Seewald. The starting signal was given at 7.30 a.m. local time in the middle of the old town of Riva to the applause of numerous spectators. The special feature this year: Licensed riders could collect valuable UCI points for the world ranking list on the Ronda Extrema of the Scott BIKE Marathon, because with the "Horse Category" the marathon was listed in the highest race category of the UCI.

In the most demanding race, the Ronda Extrema, which covers frequently changing surfaces, 82.77 kilometres and 3,484 metres of altitude, the riders had to master several steep climbs and technical descents. In the tough fight for the podium, the Colombian Héctor Leonardo Páez León (SOUDAL LEECOUGAN Int.) finally won the race with a lead of 52.2 seconds over Marc Stutzmann (Canyon Northwave) and Andreas Seewald (Canyon Northwave), who delivered a thrilling sprint finish in the final metres. Páez León beat last year's winning time by more than a minute and crossed the finish line after 3:51.16 hours. Stutzmann's time was 3:52.09.0 hours, Seewald's 3:52.09.4. Páez León summarized: "I’m extremely happy with my result at my first participation here, the technical and long course suited me very well."

Last year's winner in the women's race was Adelheid Morath (Team Mount7) with a time of 4:42:44, followed by Janina Wust (BUFF Megamo Team) in 4:54:05 and Katazina Sosna (Torpado Factory Team) in 4:55:10. Morath also praised the "tough as nails" course and the beautiful trails. "I was very happy to be able to participate here again and had a very good day."

The middle category of the Ronda Grande was won by Andrea Zamboni. This course involved 59.56 kilometres and 2,406 metres of altitude. The Italian crossed the finish line more than 40 seconds ahead of the runner -up after 2:54.41 hours. His pursuers Christoph Wachter and Hannes Riegger finished in 2:55.23 and 2:57.20 respectivel y. The women's ranking at the Ronda Grande is led by Rebecca Fondermann with a time of 3:55.29, followed by Nina Gunther with 4:02.55 and Viktoria Erber with 4:22.46. Gusti Wildhaber from Switzerland won the Ronda Piccola, the smallest lap of this year's Scott BIKE Marathon. Here, the participants* covered 30.67 kilometres and 1,065 metres of altitude. For the winner, the race was a close call after 1:18.39 hours with an exciting final sprint and a lead of only 2 seconds. His pursuer Jakob Duckeck finished in 1:18.41. Third place went to Mathias Hesse with 1:18.46. In the women's race, Paulina Lange took first place with 1:38.20. Second was Pia Vogt with 1:42.15,
followed by Melina Mäckle in third place with a time of 1:47.46.

All results can be found at https://riva.bike-festival.de/en/results/results-2023/