While things have been a bit hectic over the past few weeks with my travels to Belgium, the holidays and training, it’s time to deliver the biggest predictions of the season. Below you will find my predicted podium of every national championship, except for Belgium and the United States. Those two countries will be featured in more detail in a post this afternoon. I apologize for not giving reasons for selecting the riders but this list is too long for me to expand with detail. Without further ado, the predictions for this weekend:
Spanish National Championships (CN)
Note: my apologies to our Spanish contingent, I have been using the wrong last name for those riders. From here on out, that has been corrected.
1. Aitor Hernandez
2. Javier Ruiz de Larrinaga
3. Isaac Suarez
Czech National Championships (CN)
1. Zdenek Stybar
2. Radomir Simunek
3. Martin Bina
French National Championships (CN)
1. Francis Mourey
2. Aurélien Duval
3. Matthieu Boulo
British National Championships (CN)
1. Ian Field
2.Oli Beckingsale
3. Paul Oldham
Polish National Championships (CN)
1. Mariusz Gil
2. Andrzej Kaiser
3. Marek Konwa
Dutch National Championships (CN)
1. Lars van der Haar
2. Lars Boom
3. Thijs van Amerongen
Italian National Championships (CN)
1. Marco Fontana
2. Enrico Franzoi
3. Elia Silvestri
German National Championships (CN)
1. Christoph Pfingsten
2. Philipp Walsleben
3. Sascha Weber
Swiss National Championships (CN)
1. Julien Taramarcaz
2. Simon Zahner
3. Marcel Wildhaber
Austrian National Championships (CN)
1. Daniel Geismayr
2. Karl Heinz Gollinger
3. Roland Morx
Croatian National Championships (CN)
1. Jasmin Becirovic
2. Igor Rudan
3. Pavao Roset
Irish National Championships (CN)
1. Robin Seymour
2. Roger Aiken
3. Johnny McCabe
Danish National Championships (CN)
1. Kenneth Hanson
2. Emil Olson
3. Jonas Pedersen
Portuguese National Championships (CN)
Note: this is the first ever championship for Portugal.
1. Vitor Santos
2. Mário Costa
3. Fábio Ribeiro
Luxembourg National Championships (CN)
1. Christian Helmig
2. Gusty Bausch
3. Claude Wolter