2011 Crocodile Trophy

November 2019 November 2011 2011 Crocodile Trophy 18 – 27 October 10 1211 km Jeroen Boelen NED Milka-Trek Wolfgang Krenn AUT Josef Benedseder AUT Jeroen Boelen NED Milka-Trek 2010 2012 The 2011 Crocodile Trophy was the 17th edition of the Crocodile trophy Mountain Bike stage race. The race was held from 18 October to 27 October. The race covered 1211 km 0 divided over 10 stages. Pre race favourites were the winner of last two events: Urs Huber, runner-up of the last two events and former olympic champion: Bart Brentjens and number three of the last two events: Mike Mulkens. Huber aimed to be the first rider in history to win the trophy three times in a row. Race Overview Only two of the pre race favourites would eventually start the race. Bart Brentjens pulled out of the event before the first stage due to an illness.http://www.cyclingnews.com/races/crocodile-trophy-sr-3/stage-1/results Crocodile Trophy 2011: Stage 1 Results 18 October 2011 On the first day of the Trophy it started to rain in North Queensland. The organisation decided that it was not safe for the riders to race in the heavy rain and decided to neutralize the stage. One rider, Danish cyclist Jakob Steen-Petersen, broke his collarbone because took risks in a descent despite the neutralization of the stage. The rain hadn't stopped but the race started on the second day. Swiss Marathon champion en defending champion Urs Huber took the stage with an advantage of 4 minutes to Brentjens' team-mate Jeroen Boelen to become the first race leader. During the third stage it became clear that Huber and Boelen would be the riders for the overall victory. Huber won the stage, but the gap to the Dutchman was much smaller than on stage two. Boelen then took three consecutive stages, the first by winning the sprint of a four-man break away. Boelen outsprinted Huber on stage 5 for the second stage win. The Dutchman took both the stage and the leaders jersey on the next day. Huber punctured but also ran out of energy on the longest stage of the 2011 event, resulting in a loss of more than ten minutes to Boelen. Huber managed to take a few seconds back on the seventh stage, a stage which was compared to Paris–Roubaix by former Austrian road race champion René Haselbacher: "Today was really like a Paris–Roubaix stage. Relatively flat but hard, and you just needed to keep on going."http://www.cyclingnews.com/races/crocodile-trophy-sr-3/stage-7/results Crocodile Trophy 2011: Stage 7 Results 24 October 2011 His fellow Austrian road race cyclist Christoph Sokoll won the seventh stage after his break-away companion Mike Mulkens punctured in the last kilometer. Dutch road race cyclist Huub Duyn claimed the eight stage while only riding the Crocodile Trophy for the fun. Urs Huber withdrew from the race before the start of stage 9. Huber, second overall at that moment, got ill during the night between stage 8 and 9 and was not able to continue the event.Huber withdraws from Crocodile Trophy Boelen won both the 9th and 10th stage and sealed the overall victory. Stages StageRouteDistanceDateWinnerRace Leader MenRace Leader Women 1Cairns - Lake Tinaroo98 km 18 OctoberStage NeutralizedStage NeutralizedStage Neutralized 2Lake Tinaroo - Koombooloomba106 km 19 OctoberSUI Urs Huber SUI Urs Huber AUS Jessica Douglas 3Koombooloomba - Irvinebank115 km 20 OctoberSUI Urs Huber 4Gunnawarra Lagoon - Irvinebank 106 km 21 OctoberNetherlands Jeroen Boelen 5Irvinebank - Mt. Mulligan110 km 22 OctoberNetherlands Jeroen Boelen 6Mt. Mulligan - Mt. Mulgrave189 km 23 OctoberNetherlands Jeroen BoelenNetherlands Jeroen Boelen 7Mt. Mulgrave - Laura151 km 24 OctoberAUT Christoph Sokoll 8 Laura - Kalpowar 89 km 25 OctoberNetherlands Huub Duyn 9 Kalpowar - Munburra 148 km 26 OctoberNetherlands Jeroen Boelen 10 Munburra - Cooktown 99 km 27 OctoberNetherlands Jeroen Boelen References 2 Category:Mountain biking events in Australia Crocodile Trophy Crocodile Trophy Category:Cycle racing in Australia