The second round of the 2012 UCI BMX Supercross World Cup series continued in Randaberg, Norway on Saturday with Connor Fields (Henderson, Nev./Chase BMX) winning his third consecutive supercross world cup main. Alise Post (Saint Cloud, Minn./Redline) also earned bronze with Arielle Martin (Spanaway, Wash./Intense BMX) finishing fifth in the women’s final. It came down to the closest photo finish ever in supercross history, but Fields held off the surging Australian Sam Willoughby to earn his third consecutive supercross world cup victory.
“He had a little more gas in the tank than me there at the end,” said Fields. “I felt him coming up down the last straightaway, so I gave it everything I had. He is a competitor and trains really hard and that just means I’ll have to go train even harder.”
David Herman (Wheat Ridge, Colo./Free Agent-Rockstar) and Mike Day (San Diego, Calif./GT Bicycles) finished 10th and 15th respectively after being eliminated in the semi-final round.
Connor Fields (USA) won his third UCI BMX Supercross event in a row in the closest photo finish ever in Supercross history. Sam Willoughby (AUS) and the almost 3000 fans in the Randaberg Arena thought Willoughby had pulled it of. Swiss Timing kept everybody in suspense for a few seconds but the photo finish determined Fields was 0.002 seconds clear of his Australian rival.
Connor Fields (click his name to hear what he had to say) won his third UCI BMX Supercross World Cup event in a row. The rider from Las Vegas claimed victory in the last Supercross World Cup of 2011 in Chula Vista, CA. He also claimed the gold in the 2012 opening
Elite Men results Randaberg Saturday 14 April 2012:
1 FIELDS Connor USA 1 32.063
2 WILLOUGHBY Sam AUS 3 32.065
3 OQUENDO ZABALA Carlos Mario COL 5 33.482
4 CALEYRON Quentin FRA 7 33.570
5 KIRKHAM Brian AUS 6 34.623
6 PHILLIPS Liam GBR 2 57.290
7 NYHAUG Tory CAN 4 1:01.596
8 YOUNG Khalen AUS 8 DNF
Elite Women results Randaberg, Saturday 14 April 2012:
1 BUCHANAN Caroline AUS 6 36.954
2 POTTIER Magalie FRA 3 37.093|
3 POST Alise USA 4 37.755
4 RIMSAITE Vilma LTU 8 38.555
5 MARTIN Arielle USA 2 39.158
6 MCLEOD Melinda AUS 7 1:13.280
7 LE CORGUILLE Laetitia FRA 1 1:26.960
Caroline Buchanan (AUS) and Connor Fields (USA) again claimed victory in the Superfinal Time Trials during the second round of the 2012 UCI BMX Supercross World Cup series in Randaberg, Norway. Less than a month ago this duo did exactly the same in Chula Vista California. That is remarkable considering this a small, fast, custom-build, indoor track compared to the much bigger, downhill, Beijing Olympic replica track. In other words, these two riders are unstoppable in their current form and can win anywhere.