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Fakawi Banshee Podiums in ACC Asian MTB Championship!

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Ausanee Podiums! The Asian Cycling Confederation MTB Championships comes to Melaka, Malaysia for 2009.
This is the race on the UCI race calendar where racers in the asian continent come to compete and earn their UCI points.
The sleepy suburb of Muzaffar Heights was transformed by the organisers,Malaysian National Cycling Federation (MNCF), into a small racing arena of sorts.

Among the contestants qualifying for the race were our very own Fakawi Banshee Team riders Stanly Jalip JR riding for Malaysia in the Elite men's category and Ausanee Pradupyard flying Thailand flag in the Elite women's category.)

MORE RESULTS HERE

>> Gallery HERE <<

>>Women's Category Video HERE <<

>>Men's DH Video HERE <<

Fakawi Banshee riders Stanly and Ausanee

Represent!

MNCF organisers are no strangers to organising UCI level races in the past especially in road and xc events. However, they were like noobs when it comes down to organising downhill races at international standards.

The event was run almost half-heartedly by the organisers, with little publicity and hype in the media. Most importantly, the race track was built not according to UCI standards, with input from local downhillers being brushed aside.

The short trail(not meeting the UCI minimum distance of 1.5km) carved into Bukit Beruang (Bear Hill) required a whole lot of pedalling and even had sections of climbs on it! In the minds of the organisers,downhill bikes had 1 to 2 inches of travel..with bar ends maybe?

Our rider who has been training for months prior to the race was sending out S.O.S messages to us because it was virtually impossible to race the track on his full blown Banshee Legend DH bike. Fakawi Banshee team members were furiously building up a lightweight Banshee Rampant 4X bike for him to race on.

News of the pedally course did not escape the riders of other countries. The Japanese team even brought a hardtail to the course.

The organisers received a well-deserved kick in the saddle area on the day before the seeding race when the UCI technical delegate from the UK arrived for the trail inspection. The MNCF trail was given a big red "F" and the organisers were ordered to build a new proper downhill trail or the race was off. He did however did his part by walking the whole of Bukit Beruang with the organisers and planned out a new race route for the racers.

The army was called in (literally) and a new sweet DH track was built within hours, just in time for the race the next day.

brand new track!

There were sighs of relief from the DH riders and also frustration for other riders who have spent months training on their lines on the old track. Now everybody was competing on the same level. The local riders have lost their home ground advantage. Bikes with double crown forks were dusted off and were prepared for battle.

One thing about building new trails at this time of the year with the Monsoon rains pouring down every evening is that riders will be promised one hell of a mud fest. But heck, when you have to race, youhave to race!

Results:
Women's Junior:

1st Deekaballes Vipavee (Thailand) 3:42.402, 2nd Quyen Bui Thi (Vietnam) 4:47.868, 3rd Wu Kuan-hui (Taiwan) 5:32.783

Men's Junior:
Local junior rider Mohd Fauzi Aim did us proud in the Men's Junior by bagging the Bronze medal with a scorching time of 3:05.688!

1st Shimizu Kazuki (Japan) 2:56.011, 2nd Atosma Katana (Indonesia) 2:57.230, 3rd Mohd Fauzi Aim (Malaysia) 3:05.688.

Fakawi Banshee Team rider Ausanee "Am" Pradupyard did us proud by coming in 3rd with the time of 3.29.141 in the women's elite category in her Banshee Legend Mk1! 1st place went to Mio Suemasa 3:01.597 (Japan) and 2nd Risa Suseanty 3:16.933 (Indonesia).

Stanly was seeded 11th but finished 6th in the men's Elite finals, slowed by a brief crash during the final bit of the track.

Men's Elite results...The fastest downhillers in Asia..(drumroll...):

1st- Ario Sejati Popo (Indonesia) 2:39.498

2nd-Naoli Idegawa (Japan)2:43.617

3rd- Jarupeng "Golden Boy"Tanaphon (Thailand) 2:50.283

4th- Nagata (Japan) 2:51

5th- Tan Hong Chun (Singapore) 2:55

6th- Stanly Jalip JR (Malaysia) 2:55.575

FULL RESULTS:

Elite men

1    Popo Ario Sejati (Indonesia)    0:02:39.498
2    Naoki Idegawa (Japan)    0:00:04.119
3    Tanaphon Jarupeng (Thailand)    0:00:10.785
4    Junya Nagata (Japan)    0:00:11.782
5    Hong Chun Tan (Singapore)    0:00:15.754
6    Stanley Jalip Jr. (Malaysia)    0:00:16.077
7    Jun-Sung Park (Korea)    0:00:17.343
8    Suherlan Agus (Indonesia)    0:00:18.105
9    Ian Francis Krempl (Singapore)    0:00:20.788
10    Sitichai Ketkaewmanee (Thailand)    0:00:21.159
11    Ssu Han Chiang (Chinese Taipei)    0:00:22.696
12    Tsui King Man (Hong Kong, China)    0:00:23.530
13    Ghazali Hakiki Ali Samson (Malaysia)    0:00:25.517
14    Seyedjamal Hosseini (Islamic Republic of Iran)    0:00:25.838
15    Lau Shu Sum (Hong Kong, China)    0:00:26.196
16    Hock Cheng Seow (Malaysia)    0:00:27.823
17    Mohd Herman Mohd Arsek (Singapore)    0:00:28.023
18    Eleazar Barba Jr. (Philippines)    0:00:29.437
19    Mohd Elmi Jumari (Malaysia)    0:00:32.508
20    Hossein Rafiei (Islamic Republic of Iran)    0:00:36.784
21    Amin Takandi (Islamic Republic of Iran)    0:00:37.145
22    Cheng Yu Chiang (Chinese Taipei)    0:00:41.581
23    Mohamad Reza Nouri (Islamic Republic of Iran)    0:01:00.706
24    Mohd Raihaan Abd Aziz (Brunei Darussalam)    0:01:08.824

Elite women
1    Mio Suemasa (Japan)    0:03:01.597
2    Risa Suseanty (Indonesia)    0:00:15.336
3    Aussanee Pradupyard (Thailand)    0:00:27.544
4    Tomoko Iizuka (Japan)    0:00:30.114
5    Pei Ni Chou (Chinese Taipei)    0:00:39.298
6    Min-Hee Joo (Korea)    0:01:09.152
7    Norsyuhaini Othman (Malaysia)    0:01:10.044
8    Masziyaton Mohd Radzi (Malaysia)    0:01:22.103

Junior men
1    Kazuki Shimizu (Japan)    0:02:56.011
2    Hildan Atosma Katana (Indonesia)    0:00:01.309
3    Muhammad Aim Mohd Fauzi (Malaysia)    0:00:09.677
4    Norshahriel Ahmad Nazali (Malaysia)    0:00:13.860
5    Jae-Kyu Lee (Korea)    0:00:14.370
6    Chatchai Jarupeng (Thailand)    0:00:21.285
7    Muhamad Fareez Borhanudin (Malaysia)    0:00:32.759
8    Sina Sahihi (Islamic Republic of Iran)    0:00:39.403
9    William Chan Yue Shin (Singapore)    0:00:41.527
10    Leung Chun Yin (Hong Kong, China)    0:00:47.465
11    Wei Chin Un (Chinese Taipei)    0:00:49.865
12    Ha The Long (Vietnam)    0:01:43.513
13    Leon Harith A.Hamid (Malaysia)    0:01:43.840

Junior women
1    Vipavee Deekaballes (Thailand)    0:03:42.402
2    Bui Thi Quyen (Vietnam)    0:01:05.466
3    Kuan Hui Wu (Chinese Taipei)    0:01:50.381

XC (4km) Race results: in case you're wondering...
Men's Elite: Yamamoto Kohei (Japan) 1:45:59, 2nd Chan Chung Hing (Hong Kong) 1:46:11, 3rd Kirill Kazantsev (Kazakhstan) 1:48:00

Women's Elite: 1st Cheng Yuan Ren (China) 1:41:42, 2nd Rie Katayama (Japan) 1:44:58, 3rd Liu Ying (China) 1:51:07

Men's Junior: 1st Supachiwakun Natawat (Thailand) 1:06:17, Luk Chun Chung (Hong Kong) 1:08:39, Jerry Joeffrey Jemie (Malaysia) 1:09:02

Women's Junior: 1st Siriluck Warapiang (Thailand)1:01:38, 2nd Dinh Thi Nhu Quynh (Vietnam) 1:03:31, Yoo Da-Jeong (Korea) 1:05:24

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