Laia Sanz won the second round of the European Women’s Trial Championship, held this Saturday in Germany. This was the Repsol rider’s 30th victory in the series, in which she has been unbeaten since August 17, 2002, nine years ago. With this new triumph, the multi-champion has taken a very important step towards achieving her tenth continental title, all consecutive. It will be enough for her to finish in the top four in the third and final scoring event, which will be held next Saturday in Tanvald (Czech Republic).
Despite what it might seem in view of the results, this victory has not been easy for Laia Sanz, as she Yesterday he had a problem that left his back totally locked, prevented him from checking the areas and raised serious doubts about whether he would be able to take the start today.
The Repsol Montesa Honda Team rider had an almost perfect race. With zero points in the first round and only one fiasco discussed in the second, the current champion of the championship has been one step away from repeating the zero points of the first round of the European Championship.
Laia Sanz will face tomorrow, Sunday, also in Grossheubach (Germany), the first of the three rounds of the Women’s Trial World Championship, a competition in which she also holds ten titles.
Laia Sanz: “The situation looked bad, so I must feel completely satisfied that I was able to compete and, even more, that I had won. I felt pain but at the same time I felt that I was going well on the bike and I put pressure on myself not to give in. Towards the end I thought I could finish without a single point penalty, but in the penultimate zone they imposed a fiasco on me that in my opinion was not. It tasted bad to me because without these five points I would have finished at zero, just as I did in the previous race, in Rome; It would have been nice.”
Source: infomotor
