Geismayr and Kaess win the longest stage and reduce the gap in Brasil Ride

The fifth stage had 134 Km between Guaratinga and Arraial d'Ajuda, in Porto Seguro, with Tiago Ferreira and Roel Paulissen finishing in second, and Fabian Rabensteiner and Alexey Medvedev completing the podium

Arraial d'Ajuda (BA) - The fastest mountain bikers of the world are back to Bahia's South shore this Thursday (20), riding the longest stage in Brasil Ride 2016. The ride was 134 Km long, with 2,027 meters of climbing between Guaratinga and Arraial d'Ajuda, in Porto Seguro, the city that supports the event's seventh edition through the Convention & Visitors Bureau. This time Centurion Vaude duo Daniel Geismayr (AUT) and Jochen Kaess (GER) had a perfect day, making no mistakes at all. They won the stage in 5h00min34, with a five minute gap ahead of Tiago Ferreira (POR) and Roel Paulissen (BEL), and seven minutes ahead of the leaders in the Open category, Fabian Rabensteiner (ITA) and Alexey Medvedev (RUS).

With the result on the fifth day of the race, the gap between leaders Rabensteiner and Medvedev and runners-up Geismayr and Kaess, which was 16min43, dropped to less than ten minutes. There are still two stages to go: Olympic Cross Country (XCO), next Friday (21), starting at 10 a.m., and the final Marathon stage (XCM) in Brasil Ride, when another 1,000 athletes from all over Brazil have the opportunity to compete side by side with the stars of the sport, starting at 9 a.m.

"It was a nice stage after all we'd been through yesterday, when we had bad luck. So it was a big deal for me to win the return to Arraial d'Ajuda. I knew that we could win this stage if we finished first in the last single track. We made the right choice, got a good lead and I'm really happy with this result. We still have two more days, and everything can happen when we talk about Brasil Ride. Let's see", analyzed Daniel Geismayr.

Despite having had a bad day, San Marco Trek II duo, Rabensteiner and Medvedev, could maintain a good lead. "It was a very hard day today, very hot and a really long distance. Centurion Vaude athletes were very strong today and we had a bad day. We lost more than six minutes. It's ok, though", said Medvedev. "The day was very hard and windy, with short, but steep climbs. Kaess attacked many times, and we could keep up with them. But at some point they passed", told Fabian Rabensteiner.

For Tiago Ferreira, current world champion, and Roel Paulissen, World Champion in 2008 and 2009, it was a day for recovery, after having a bad fourth stage when they had difficulties on Guaratinga's climbs. "We tried hard to win the stage, after the horrible day we had yesterday (Wednesday), when I felt sick and ran out of water in decisive moments. I almost passed out on the trail. The strategy now is to recover some time and win stages. That's all we got for now, because we are out of the fight for the top", told Tiago Ferreira.

American Men - In the Open category, the lead is almost ten minutes, nevertheless, in the American Men category, there is a tough fight between the cyclists from the American continent. After Brazilian riders Sherman Trezza and Wolfgang Soares won the first three stages and held on to the leadership on Wednesday, on Thursday the first place of the category stayed with Ricardo Pscheid (BRA) and José Montoya (CRI), who finished in sixth overall, while Trezza and Soares finished in ninth. This way, the near two-minute gap dropped to around 50 seconds.

5th Stage results:

Open
1- Daniel Geismayr (AUT) / Jochen Kaess (GER) - 5h00min34
2- Tiago Ferreira (POR) / Roel Paulissen (BEL) - 5h05min33
3- Fabian Rabensteiner (ITA) / Alexey Medvedev (RUS) - 5h07min22
4- Jiri Novak (CZE) / Hans Becking (NED) - 5h09min33
5- Ricardo Pscheidt (BRA) /Jose Alfredo Montoya (CRI) - 5h14min16

Ladies
1-Celina Carpinteiro (POR) / Ivonne Kraft (GER) - 6h47min31
2-Isabela Lacerda (BRA) / Leticia Candido (BRA) - 7h02min29
3 62 Janet Correia (BRA) / Joana Nobrega (BRA) - 7h59min13

Mixed
1-Piero Pellegrini (ITA) / Annabella Stropparo (ITA) - 6h15min30
2-Valmor Hausmann (BRA) / Tania Pickler (BRA) - 6h35min07
3-Marcelo Moser (BRA) / Ana Luisa Korc Panini (BRA) - 7h15min17

Master
1- Bart Brentjens (NED) /Abraao Azevedo (BRA) - 5h34min40
2- Javier Lopez (USA) / Jaime Lopez (USA) - 6h13min48
3- Pierre Bourquenoud (SWI) /Serge Robadey (SWI)- 6h18min36

Gran Master
1- Heleno Caetano Borges (BRA) / Paulo Felpe Vasconcelos (BRA) - 6h55min16
2- Fabricio Bezerra (BRA) /Dirceu Silva (BRA) - 7h24min09
3- Hermes Santana (BRA) / Dorivaldo Abreu (BRA) - 7h27min41

Nelore
1- Gerson Junior (BRA) /Marcelo De Oliveira (BRA) - 7h42min39
2- Jorge Sousa (BRA) /Fabio Yukio Hossaki (BRA) - 8h02min08
3- Marciu Friedrich (BRA) /Jose Emilio Menegatti (BRA) - 8h27min14

Corporative
1- Diego/Edson/Robson (BRA) - 6h14min39
2- Luiz/Igor/Albert (BRA) - 6h16min27
3- Juliano/Joao/Diego (BRA) - 6h24min00

Overall:

Open
1- Fabian Rabensteiner (ITA) /Alexey Medvedev (RUS) - 20h01min52
2- Daniel Geismayr (AUT) /Joachen Kaess (GER) - 9min55 behind
3- Hugo Prado (BRA) / Lukas Kaufmann (SWI) - 45min20 behind
4- Tiago Ferreira (POR) /Roel Paulissen (BEL) - 52min23 behind
5- Jiri Novak (CZE) / Hans Becking (NED) - 59min01 behind

Ladies
1- Celina Carpinteiro (POR) / Ivonne Kraft (GER) - 27h54min59
2- Isabela Lacerda (BRA) / Leticia Candido (BRA) - 33min51 behind
3- Janet Correia (BRA) /Joana Nobrega (BRA) - 5h11min51 behind

Mixed
1- Piero Pellegrini (ITA) /Annabella Stropparo (ITA) - 25h22min42
2- Valmor Hausmann (BRA) /Tania Clair Pickler Negherbon (BRA) - 1h22min58 behind
3- Marcelo Moser (BRA) /Ana Luisa Korc Panini (BRA) - 4h01min50 behind

Master
1- Bart Brentjens (NED) / Abraao Azevedo (BRA) - 22h38min08
2- Pierre Bourquenoud (SWI) / Serge Robadey (SWI) - 3h10min26 behind
3- Weimar Pettengill (BRA) / Andre Guimaraes (BRA) - 4h44min40 behind

Gran Master
1- Heleno Caetano Borges (BRA) / Paulo Felpe Vasconcelos (BRA) - 27h55min46
2- Hermes Santana (BRA) / Dorivaldo Abreu (BRA) - 1h52min50 behind
3- Jose Antonio Filho (BRA) / Sergio Albernaz (BRA) - 3h54min25 behind

Nelore
1- Gerson Junior (BRA) / Marcelo De Oliveira (BRA) - 32h00min24
2- Jorge Silva Sousa (BRA) / Fabio Yukio Hossaki (BRA) - 1h53min21 behind
3- Marciu Friedrich (BRA) / Jose Emilio Menegatti (BRA) - 3h42min23 behind

Corporative
1- Diego/Edson/Robson (BRA) - 26h23min53
2- Mauricio/Luiz/Ricardo (BRA) - 22min28 behind
3- Juliano/Joao/Diego (BRA) - 1h09min57 behind

Atention - The complete results and general classification will be avaiable on the official website: http://www.romasportsmkt.com.br/brasilride/live/

Brasil Ride Schedule - 567,4 km - 11.810 meters of altitude
21/10 - Friday - Stage 6 in the XCO course in Arraial d'Ajuda (31.8 km and 548 m altitude)
22/10 - Saturday -Stage 7, the final race in Arraial d'Ajuda and Brasil Ride Marathon (75 km e 1.105 m altitude)

Official videos:
Stage 1 - Prólogo de 21 km em Arraial d’Ajuda:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NgrasQBgU0

Stage 2 - 128 km - entre Arraial d’Ajuda e Gauratinga :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9eBT-dVqlY

Stage 3 - 92 km - Guaratinga : https://youtu.be/oC4-DNHTSSc

Stage 4 - 85 km - Guaratinga:https://youtu.be/TCofffVArKk

About Brasil Ride - Brasil Ride’s 7th edition will have 250 teams from 23 countries. Brasil Ride Marathon will mark as the opening event for the 2016 edition and will feature 1000 riders. The event is a UCI Class S1 race and champions for the Open and Ladies categories are awarded 120 points in the world rankings.

In 2015, 500 athletes from 23 countries competed in the 6th edition in the old Chapada Diamantina route. The opening event, the Marathon, had 600 bikers. Brasil Ride is made by Roma Comunicação and Instituto Brasil Ride.

Brasil Ride: More than a race, a stage in your life.

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Podium 5th Stage (Cordeiro Neto /ASCOM Porto Seguro)

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Portuguese Celina Carpinteiro (Armin Kuestenbrueck / Brasil Ride)

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Pscheidt (BRA) and Montoya (CRI) (Cordeiro Neto /ASCOM Porto Seguro)

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Bridge at Avatar (Armin Kuestenbrueck / Brasil Ride)

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Route crossed one rubber plantation (Armin Kuestenbrueck / Brasil Ride)

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Latex extraction (Armin Kuestenbrueck / Brasil Ride)

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Guaratinga's landscape (Armin Kuestenbrueck / Brasil Ride)

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Beautiful mountains in Guaratinga (Armin Kuestenbrueck / Brasil Ride)

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Aerial view of Brasil Ride Village in Guaratinga (Armin Kuestenbrueck / Brasil Ride)

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