Brasil Ride: Hugo Prado Neto and Lukas Kaufmann (CHE) beat the favorites in the prologue

In the ladies category, Raiza Goulão and Viviane Favery complete the 20 kilometers course in first place

Mucugê, Bahia - Brazil - The crowd at Brasil Ride Village in Mucugê followed on Sunday afternoon the opening of the main MTB ultramarathon of the Americas sixth edition. With 500 cyclists from 23 countries, it was held the prologue: 20 km on a route composed of sand, stones, rivers and asphalt. While in open category Brazilian Hugo Prado Neto and Swiss Lukas Kaufmann began surprising the favorites, in ladies Brazilians Raiza Goulão and Viviane Favery were the best of the day.

In the open, the competition was fierce. Only seven seconds separated Hugo and Lukas from the 2014 champions, Dutchman Hans Becking and Czech Jiri Novak. Sherman Trezza and Frederico Mariano secured the third place of the day, with a second behind Hans and Jiri.

Three main Brazilian candidates for a place in the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Raiza Goulão, Isabella Lacerda and Erika Gramiscelli finished in the first three places, respectively. Raiza and Viviane opened 56 seconds from the second place, formed by Isabella and Nina Baum, north american that is current champion in the category. Erika and her partner, Leticia Candido, closed the prologue with a bigger distance to the rivals, six minutes after Isabella and Nina.

Leaders after the prologue in Mucugê

Open
1) Hugo Prado Neto/Lukas Kaufmann - 52min04
2) Hans Becking/Jiri Novak - 52min11
3) Sherman Treza de Paiva/Frederico dos Santos - 52min12

Ladies
1) Raiza Goulão / Viviane Favery - 1h06min30
2) Isabela Lacerda / Nina Baum - 1h07min26
3) Erika Gramiscelli / Letícia Candido - 1h13min39

Mixed
1) Simon Gegenheimer / Nathalie Schneittel - 1h00min52
2) Alan Pedreira / Ivonne Kraft - 1h05min10
3) Marcio Ravelli / Fernanda Borella Prieto - 1h07min59

Master
1) Bart Brentjens / Abraão Azevedo - 57min
2) Silvio Amorim / Paulo Borges Freitas - 59min20
3) Marcio May / Daniel Rogelin - 1h01min14

Grand master
1) Dorivaldo C. de Abreu / Denio Magalhães Franco - 1h08min38
2) Heleno C. Borges / Paulo F. Vasconcelos - 1h10min09
3) Costantino Dimon / Lincoln M. Kobachuk - 1h11min24

Nelore
1) Fabio Y. Hossaki / Gerson Muhlbauer Jr. - 1h12min58
2) Cláudio Van Damme / Marcelo de Oliveira - 1h17min25
3) Fernando P. Vieira / André Aguiar - 1h27min09

Corporative
1 Ricardo / Maurício/ Luiz - 1h14min31
2 Francisco / André / Paulo - 1h17min33
3 Alex / Antonio / Hugo - 1h17min57

Daily images for televisions around the world

The sixth edition of the main MTB Ultramarathon promises to overcome borders. Daily, video production teams from Brasil Ride will have their images available on a tune with an Uplink. Every day, between 9h e 9h45 (Brasilia time - UTC - 3:00), from Sunday (18) to 25th October, around 20 minutes of the best images from the last day and more interviews will be available in the address:
Satellite: NSS806
Transponder : 312.5E
Downlink: 3869-R
Sylbom Rate : 7200
Fec: 3/4
Modulation : DVB-S2 / 8PSK

Cross Country World Champion in 1995 and gold medal at the Atlanta Olympics in 1996, the Dutchman Bart Brentjens will also act as commentator of the competition. He is the official commentator on Red Bull TV on all stages of UCI MTB World Cup. At the trails, Bart goes in search of the third championship of the master category alongside Abraham Azevedo, one of the biggest names in Brazilian sport.

Attention: The images credit are obligatory to Célula and Marcelo Machado, Cassio Zerbinato, Gabriel Coimbra and Gabriel Tarzo.

Check out the Brasil Ride 2015 Guide - In the links below you will be able to read the guides of the sixth edition of Brasil Ride, in Portuguese and in English.

http://issuu.com/brasilride/docs/guia_brasilride_2015_baixa?e=0/30698141#search

http://www.romasportsmkt.com.br/brasilride/english/default.asp?id=guia&codigo=1

About the event - Brasil Ride’s sixth edition is going to happen between October 17th to 24th. The event gathered 500 athletes from 23 countries and 18 Brazilian States plus our Federal District. The race is now S1, after being classificated S2 in 2014, and will offer the Elite Category’s champions 120 points in the rankings of the UCI (International Cycling Union). These points are really precious for the Brazilians who are fighting for a spot at Rio Olympics 2016. In addition to the prizes offered after every concluded stage of the race, this edition will have the highest prize in money of all the prizes for this Sport in Brazil, with about R$ 70,000 in general prizes and for each fase of the competition.

Brasil Ride videos - Throughout the event, a specialised producer will provide daily images for upload. From October 18th to 25th, always at 9am, will be available the Up Link's to be downloaded in high resolution. For more informations, please contact the press office at redacao@zdl.com.br.

Check out in the links below the two videos that tell the story of the main MTB ultramarathon of the Americas from 2014:

Official video 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdKLV8Y5brw

Official video 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZDgDSsY0fA

Attention: During the event, text, photos and videos will be available to all media daily. For media enquiries and image requests, please contact redacao@zdl.com.br or +55.11.98783 7408.

Brasil Ride 2015 Stages

2nd stage: October 19 - 6h
147 km between Mucugê and Rio de Contas

3rd stage: October 20 - 10h
34,5 km in Rio de Contas

4th stage: October 21 - 8h
84,7 km in Rio de Contas

5th stage: October 22 - 7h
94,7 km in Rio de Contas

6th stage: October 23 - 6h
143,4 km between Rio de Contas and Mucugê

7th stage: October 24 - 9h
72,1 km in Mucugê

Brasil Ride 2015 its a realization of SUDESB, Bahiatursa, Governo da Bahia and Ministério do Esporte
Sponsorship: Shimano, Trek and Caixa
Co-Sponsorship: Thule, Pearl Izumi and Oakley.
Support: Continental Pneus, Red Bull, GU, Muc-Off and Prefeitura de Rio de Contas
Supervision: UCI (Union Cycliste Internationale), CBC (Confederação Brasileira de Ciclismo) and FBC (Federação Baiana de Ciclismo)
Organization: REC, Roma Comunicação and Prefeitura de Mucugê.

Website: http://www.BRASILRIDE.COM
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Twitter: https://twitter.com/brasil_ride
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Gustavo Coelho / Doro Jr. - Mtb 13209
E-mail: gustavo@zdl.com.br / dorojr@zdl.com.br
Phone: +55 11 32855911 / Cel lphone: + 55 11 9.9178-4055

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Lukas Kaufmann and Hugo Prado (Ney Evangelista / Brasil Ride)

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Jiri Novak and Hans Becking (Armin Kuestenbrueck / Brasil Ride)

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Vivi Favery and Raiza Goulão (Fabio Piva / Brasil Ride)

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Start of the prologue (Fabio Piva / Brasil Ride)

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Brasil Ride Village (Brasil Ride)

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