Telekom Local Support Dirt Challenge report

Feb 21, 2011

Written by Bart de Jong

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On Saturday, 19th of February, Mainz got quite a show: the Telekom Local Support Dirt Challenge attracted over 100 riders as well as tons of spectators who visited the Halle 5 in Mainz/Germany! The Halle 5 is most probably Europe’s only indoor dirt jump location and offers the exclusive chance to get some dirt under ones tires even in winter. Not only riders from Germany used that one-off chance to get dirty but cars with number plates from France, the Czech Republic, Poland, Belgium and the Netherlands were parked in front of the venue!

Despite the freezing temperatures in- and outside the hall, the atmosphere heated up pretty quickly as the first amateurs started with frontflips and super clean superman whips. Within BMX am class it was Jan Mihaly from Darmstadt who convinced the judges and came first before Alexander Stinshoff and Adrian Müller-Roth.

He left the Halle 5 with tons of new stuff from Monster Energy,

Pro-tec, the The Local Face Store, Felt Bikes and ODI. But that’s not all. He also qualified for the Telekom Extreme Playgrounds on the 17th of April in Duisburg where he will be up against some of the best international riders like Brett „Mad Do

g“ Banasiewicz and Corey Bohan.

After the amateurs raising the bars quite high, it was the pros‘ turn to step up to get a part of the prize money to be won. It was Simon Moratz, one of Germany’s best dirt riders who secured his win by doing Flipwhips, Barrel Rolls and Decades, well before Daniel Wedemeijer from the Netherlands and Janek Wentzky from Essen.

These three also qualified for the Telekom Extreme Playgrounds and will certainly play a major role at the Kraftzentrale!

Results Pro:
1. Simon Moratz
2. Daniel Wedemeijer
3. Janek Wentzky
4. Daniel Tünte
5. Markus Braumann

6. Sergej Geier
7. Stefan Pauli
8. Sven Lehmann
9. Daniel Juchatz
10. Desmond Tessemaker

Results Amateur:
1. Jan Mihaly
2. Alexander Stinshoff
3. Adrian Müller-Roth
4. Steven Göllner 5. Max Bergmann
6. Fjonn Dutzmann
7. Timothy Pesth
8. Dominik Schäfer

Photos by Kay Clauberg/Martin Donat