Essent Cup 8 Utrecht Annoucement

Saturday is the 8th Essent Cup race held for the second time in Utrecht. Tomorrow night Shane Dobbin from DSB Bank will be taking the start in the A grade division marathon starting at 19:30. Shane will be racing the A grade marathon with his team mates Jan Maarten Heideman who has had a few weeks off marathon racing, Arjan Smit and Jens Zwister. Ingmar Berga received his second yellow card of the season last weekend in Amsterdam so has to sit out of this weekend's race but will be back and ready to race next weekend for the 9th Essent Cup race in Assen.

Dj Nation from New Zealand will be starting at 20:45 in the first division marathon which starts directly after the ice cleaning of the men's A grade race. Don't forget that this weekend's marathon can be viewed online live. See below for link

http://www.sbs6.nl/web/show/id=258646/langid=43

http://www.knsb.nl/content/marathon/livevideo.asp

Saturday nights event program is as follows:

18:30 Ladies Marathon

19:30 A Grade Mens Marathon
20:45 First Division Mens Marathon

Keep posted for photos and results to be online soon!

Prestige Cup 1 Biddinghuizen Results

Yesterday was the first Prestige Cup held in Biddinghuizen on the FlevOnice. After racing sixty kilometers the men's race came down to a sprint finish. The sprint was so close in the top ten places with splits in the times of only .01 seconds.

Mens 60 kilometer Results
1st Roy Boeve (Safan) Time - 1:23.08
2nd Sjoerd Huisman (Nefit)
3rd Sandor Stutt (Vlasman)
4th Jochmen Uithoven (BCT)
5th Hermen van der Wal (Kooyenga)
6th Jan Maarten Heidemen (DSB Bank)
7th Lars Hoogenboom (TNT Express)
8th Peter van de Pol (Kooyenga)
9th Roy Polmans (Foekens)
10th Bob de Vries (BAM)

Ladies 40 kilometer Results
1st Chris Witty (Landjuweel) Time- 1:04.51
2nd Elma de Vries (DSB Bank)
3rd Mariska Huisman (Viks)
4th Carla Zielmann (Hoolwerf Heiwerken)
5th Danielle Bekkering (Frisia)

For more Photos go to: http://www.fotohdeboer.nl
For more results go to: http://www.knsb.nl/content/marathon/wedkal_detail.asp?id=326

Mid Week News Update

Written by T Dobbin

Late last night Shane Dobbin's 5 kilometer long track event from the Challengers Cup last Sunday was uploaded to the internet. It has been uploaded onto the internet each lap at a time and to view the start of this race go to: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meV2JPLgRW0

Not only is there the video of Shane's 5 kilometer but also uploaded is New Zealander Wayne Begg's Sunday night 500 meter http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3q9j_VMpgd8 and coming online soon will be New Zealand's Dj Nation 5 kilometer. All races that are recently uploaded are from the Kiwi's racing the Challengers Cup last Sunday in Hoorn, Netherlands. To view all footage go to that is online from Shane Dobbin go to: http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=shane+dobbin&search_type=&aq=f or view the home page side toolbar.

Biddinghuizen Prestige Cup 1 Announcement

Tonight is the first race of the new Prestige series natural ice races held in Bigginhuizen on the new five kilometer ice baan at the FlevOnice. This the first natural ice race for 2008-2009 ice season and will now be held every Wednesday at FlevOnice http://www.flevonice.nl/flevonice with the race distances being 60 kilometers. This is a good way for those that will be focusing on the National Natural Ice Championship Race to get into good shape to race in Austria & throughout the Winter Countries in early February.

The race starts today at 12:00 (EST). Like the races in the KNSB & Essent Cup events only four members from each team can start the Biddinghuizen races. Shane Dobbin from DSB Bank won't be starting today in this race, starting for DSB Bank are Jan Maarten Heideman, Jens Zwitster, Jeron de Vries and Ingmar Berga.

Shane Dobbin will be racing this weekend in the A division Essent Cup marathon held in Utrecht, Netherlands. Keep posted for more news & results coming soon!