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beat his twelve-time World Champion teammate.
Amazingly, Italy’s Matteo Grattarola - Honda re-
corded the same time as Busto, but his team-mate
Luca Pettrela - TRRS finished behind Bou which
dropped them to third ahead of France and Nor-
way with Great Britain and Germany rounding out
the top seven.
Victory in the Women’s World Championship
class went to Great Britain led by Emma Bristow -
Sherco with Donna Fox - Montesa riding shotgun.
Demonstrating complete mastery of the huge
rock slabs, Bristow - who sewed-up her fifth con-
secutive TrialGP Women World title at the start of
the month - recorded a feet-up time of 0:28.80 to
push defending champions Spain into second as
Sandra Gomez - Gas Gas and Berta Abellan - Ver-
tigo struggled to live with her pace.
Germany’s Theresa Bauml - Montesa and Vivian
Wachs - Gas Gas were third ahead of the Italian and
Norwegian teams with the United States finishing
sixth.
In the Men’s International Trophy it was the Swiss
pairing of Noe Pretalli - Gas Gas and Steve Erzer -
Montesa who came out on top with Pretalli’s clean
ride in a time of 0:28.93 giving them the nod by
over a second ahead of the United States’ Patrick
Smage - Sherco and Daniel Blanc Gonnet - Gas Gas.
Defending champions Australia represented by
Chris Bayles - Gas Gas and Kyle Middleton - Gas Gas
came in third almost a full second further back.
The scene is now perfectly set for the main event
when the best riders in the World will scrap it out
to determine the ruling nations of Trial.
DANIEL BLANC-GONNET NAVIGATES
HIS WAY THROUGH THE SLIPPERY,
MOSS COVERED ROCKS
TRIAL DES NATIONS
With the best two scores through each section