British duo of Steve Peat and Tracy Moseley gave British mountain
biking one

of its greatest ever results, picking up both Elite Downhill titles at the

European Downhill and Dual Mountain Bike Championships in Vars, France.



British and French riders utterly dominated the Championships and there were

further British medals for Helen Gaskell – bronze in the Junior Women’s

downhill – and Peat again – silver in the Men’s Dual.



Peat was delighted to beat his arch rival and world number one, Nicolas

Vouilloz, of France. The pair are currently head and shoulders above the

rest of the world’s downhillers and, although Vouilloz looks set to pick up

the World Cup title, Peat has the satisfaction of beating the Frenchman in

both major championships this year: at the worlds, Peat picked up silver

whilst Vouilloz finished out of the top five.



Thje good news for Mountain bike fans is that Steve Peat and Tracy Moseley

will be competing on British soil this coming weekend when they tackle the

National Championships, being held at Innerleithen in the Scottish Borders.



European Championships Results



Men Downhill

Gold Steve Peat GBR 3.10.33

Silver Nic Vouilloz FRA 3.13.83

Bronze Fabien Barel FRA 3.17.01

Other Brits

7th Rob Warner

15th Nigel Page

28th Tim Ponting



Women Downhill

Gold Tracey Moseley GBR 3.43.31

Silver Seb Jonnier FRA 3.45.07

Bronze Celine Gros FRA 3.45.54



Junior Women DH

Gold Celine Gros FRA

Silver Amelie Gheroz FRA

Bronze Helen Gaskell GBR

Second GB rider, Fionn Griffiths crashed heavily and retired.



Junior Men DH

9th Jamie Tomkins (41st Overall)

11th Alan Blythe (48th Overall)

Blythe was flying in his last run and splits indicated a podium place but he

fell in the last section and broke his hand.

13th Stuart Thomson

17th Sam Furness

18th Dan Harper

23rd Dave Smith

Dan Atherton broke pelvis in practice in the rock garden at the top of the

course



Dual

Men

Gold Mickael Deldycke FRA

Silver Steve Peat GBR

Bronze Karim Amour FRA