European BikeTrial Championship 2013 took place in a beautiful Spanish town Valderrobres. It was just one year ago when we had there European Cup 2012 as a test of international event.
106 riders from 14 countries took part in EBC 2013. We had complete team from Scandinavia for the first time - Sweden, Finland, Norway, Denmark. Anna Hult did a good job in collection of this Northern team and EBC was also first international event in delegate and Jury member role for Anna. There was also one rider from Australia because we made EBC opened to non European riders as well.
Jury members:
Libor Musil - EBU
Antonio Gaibar Martinez - host country
Josep Abant - Catalonia
Radim Kakac - Czech Republic
Lubos Janoska - Slovakia
Anna Hult - Sweden
Many thanks to all Jury members for their good and responsible work.
Saturday 13/7/2013:
Jury checking section - well prepared by Mr. Mario.
Opening ceremony - short and nice with all national teams, flags and children in a local folk costume, BikeTrial evening festival with a good prices for all winners.
Sunday 14/7/2013:
A very good competition, good sections with experienced observers ( 3 in every section), Refreshment in the area of sections was free, Results of all categories were finished within 30 minutes after last rider took part, Simple and nice award ceremony, event was closed according to time schedule.
Mr. Pere Pi as founder of our sport Biketrial was actively involved in the event.
Many thanks to all organizational teams - Club Trial Matarrana! I would propose to come back to Valderrobres again with EBC or WBC event again.
Libor Musil
President of E.B.U.