2020 Swiss National Championship - Elite Men
Predictions Round Up
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January Predictions Round Up

February 20, 2020

Another month, another predictions round up. This month has the most predictions we have ever made, as we predicted the Elite Men’s and Women’s podium of all the European National Championships. As usual, we predicted other European races, but our success for January relied heavily on Nationals.

If you need a reminder of our points system, you can refer to September’s round up. The bottom line is that we can get a maximum of 12 points per race (the men’s and women’s are each worth six).

Here’s how we did:

DVV Trofee: Baal

Elite Men

Prediction
Result
Points
  1. Mathieu van der Poel
    1
    2
  2. Eli Iserbyt
    2
    2
  3. Corne van Kessel
    4
    0

Elite Women

Prediction
Result
Points
  1. Ceylin del Carmen Alvarado
    1
    2
  2. Annemare Worst
    3
    1
  3. Lucinda Brand
    2
    1

Total Points: 8

DVV Trofee: Brussels

Elite Men

Prediction
Result
Points
  1. Mathieu van der Poel
    1
    2
  2. Eli Iserbyt
    2
    2
  3. Quinten Hermans
    0
    0

Elite Women

Prediction
Result
Points
  1. Annemarie Worst
    2
    1
  2. Ceylin del Carmen Alvarado
    1
    1
  3. Sanne Cant
    3
    2

Total Points: 8

Austrian National Championships – Weiz

Elite Women

Prediction
Result
Points
  1. Nadja Heigl
    2
    1
  2. Anna Hofman
    4
    0
  3. Sophie Schober
    5
    0

Elite Men

Prediction
Result
Points
  1. Philipp Heigl
    2
    1
  2. Manfred Zoger
    5
    0
  3. Fabian Costa
    3
    1

Total Points: 3

Belgian National Championships – Antwerp

Elite Women

Prediction
Result
Points
  1. Sanne Cant
    1
    1
  2. Loes Sels
    4
    0
  3. Ellen van Loy
    3
    1

Elite Men

Prediction
Result
Points
  1. Eli Iserbyt
    2
    1
  2. Toon Aerts
    3
    1
  3. Wout van Aert
    5
    0

Total Points: 4

British National Championships – Shrewsbury

Elit Women

Prediction
Result
Points
  1. Anna Kay
    3
    1
  2. Ffion James
    7
    0
  3. Beth Crumpton
    2
    1

Elite Men

Prediction
Result
Points
  1. Tom Pidcock
    1
    2
  2. Ian Field
    8
    0
  3. Thomas Mein
    5
    0

Total Points: 4

Croatian National Championships – Donja Voca

Elite Women

Prediction
Result
Points
  1. Maja Perinovic
    0
    0
  2. Mia Radotic
    2
    2
  3. Maja Bonacic
    3
    2

Elite Men

Prediction
Result
Points
  1. Matija Mestric
    2
    1
  2. Bruno Radotic
    0
    0
  3. Josip Mestric
    0
    0

Total Points: 5

Czech National Championships – Jicin

Elite Women

Prediction
Result
Points
  1. Pavla Havlikova
    1
    2
  2. Tereza Svihalkova
    2
    2
  3. Nikola Bajgerova
    3
    2

Elite Men

Prediction
Result
Points
  1. Michael Boros
    3
    1
  2. Tomas Paprstka
    7
    0
  3. Tomas Kopecky
    2
    1

Total Points: 8

Danish National Championships – Slagelse

Elite Women

Prediction
Result
Points
  1. Caroline Bohé
    1
    2
  2. Signe Koch
    8
    0
  3. Anna-sofie Nørgaard
    2
    1

Elite Men

Prediction
Result
Points
  1. Sebastian Fini Carstensen
    1
    2
  2. Tommy Moberg Nielsen
    8
    0
  3. Frederik Thue Andersen
    0
    0

Total Points: 5

Dutch National Championships – Rucphen

Elite Women

Prediction
Result
Points
  1. Ceylin del Carmen Alvarado
    1
    2
  2. Annemarie Worst
    2
    2
  3. Lucinda Brand
    3
    2

Elite Men

Prediction
Result
Points
  1. Mathieu van der Poel
    1
    2
  2. Corne van Kessel
    4
    0
  3. Lars van der Haar
    2
    1

Total Points: 9

French National Championships – Flamanville

Elite Women

Prediction
Result
Points
  1. Caroline Mani
    2
    1
  2. Marlene Petit
    4
    0
  3. Marlene Morel Petitgirard
    6
    0

Elite Men

Prediction
Result
Points
  1. Steve Chaniel
    7
    0
  2. Matthieu Boulo
    5
    0
  3. Valentin Guillaud
    15
    0

Total Points: 1

German National Championships – Albstadt

Elite Women

Prediction
Result
Points
  1. Elisabeth Brandau
    1
    2
  2. Janine Schneider
    4
    0
  3. Stefanie Paul
    3
    2

Elite Men

Prediction
Result
Points
  1. Marcel Meisen
    1
    2
  2. Sascha Weber
    2
    2
  3. Manuel Muller
    3
    2

Total Points: 10

Hungarian National Championships – Kecskemét

Elite Women

Prediction
Result
Points
  1. Kata Vas
    1
    2
  2. Veronica Cseh
    0
    0
  3. Kinga Kovacs
    0
    0

Elite Men

Prediction
Result
Points
  1. Zsolt Bur
    2
    1
  2. Balazs Vas
    1
    1
  3. Zoltan Vigh
    0
    0

Total Points: 4

Irish National Championships – Enniscrone

Elite Women

Prediction
Result
Points
  1. Maria Larkin
    1
    2
  2. Lucy O’Donnell
    3
    1
  3. Lara Gillespie
    0
    0

Elite Men

Prediction
Result
Points
  1. David Conroy
    1
    2
  2. Christopher McGlinchey
    2
    2
  3. Thomas Creighton
    3
    2

Total Points: 9

Italian National Championships – Schio

Elite Women

Prediction
Result
Points
  1. Maria Arzuffi
    2
    1
  2. Eva Lechner
    1
    1
  3. Alessia Bulleri
    3
    2

Elite Men

Prediction
Result
Points
  1. Jakob Dorigoni
    1
    2
  2. Nicolas Samparisi
    3
    1
  3. Cristian Cominelli
    4
    0

Total Points: 6

Luxembourg National Championships – Dippach

Elite Women

Prediction
Result
Points
  1. Christine Majerus
    1
    2
  2. Nina Berton
    0
    0
  3. Marie Schreiber
    0
    0

Prediction
Result
Points
  1. Lex Reichling
    1
    2
  2. Scott Thiltges
    2
    2
  3. Loic Bettendorf
    0
    0

Total Points: 6

Polish National Championships – Szczekociny

Elite Women

Prediction
Result
Points
  1. Zuzanna Krzystala
    1
    2
  2. Barbara Borowiecka
    2
    2
  3. Gabriela Wojtyla
    3
    2

Elite Men

Prediction
Result
Points
  1. Marek Konwa
    1
    2
  2. Patryk Kostecki
    2
    2
  3. Bartosz Mikler
    3
    2

Total Points: 12

Portugese National Championships – Vila Real

Elite Women

Prediction
Result
Points
  1. Joana Oliveira
    2
    1
  2. Ana Santos
    1
    1
  3. Melissa Oliveira
    3
    1

Elite Men

Prediction
Result
Points
  1. Marcio Barbosa
    1
    2
  2. Luis Costa
    3
    1
  3. Vitor Santos
    2
    1

Total Points: 7

Spanish National Championships – Pontevedra

Elite Women

Prediction
Result
Points
  1. Lucia Gonzalez
    1
    2
  2. Aida Nuno
    2
    2
  3. Paula Lopez
    3
    2

Elite Men

Prediction
Result
Points
  1. Felipe Orts
    1
    2
  2. Kevin Fernandez
    2
    2
  3. Ismael Esteban
    4
    0

Total Points: 10

Swedish National Championships – Varberg

Elite Women

Prediction
Result
Points
  1. Asa Erlandsson
    1
    2
  2. Frida Eriksson
    4
    0
  3. Anna Eriksmo
    3
    1

Prediction
Result
Points
  1. David Eriksson
    2
    1
  2. Erik Karlsson
    4
    0
  3. Felix Petersson
    12
    0

Total Points: 4

Swiss National Championships – Baden

Elite Women

Prediction
Result
Points
  1. Nicole Koller
    0
    0
  2. Zina Barhoumi
    2
    2
  3. Chrystelle Baumann
    2
    1

Elite Men

Prediction
Result
Points
  1. Lars Forester
    1
    2
  2. Timon Ruegg
    2
    2
  3. Andri Frischknecht
    5
    0

Total Points: 7

Nommay World Cup

Elite Men

Prediction
Result
Points
  1. Eli Iserbyt
    1
    2
  2. Laurens Sweeck
    3
    1
  3. Toon Aerts
    2
    1

Elite Women

Prediction
Result
Points
  1. Ceylian del Carmen Alvarado
    2
    1
  2. Annemarie Worst
    1
    1
  3. Caroline Mani
    7
    0

Total Points: 6

Hoogerheide World Cup

Elite Men

Prediction
Result
Points
  1. Mathieu van der Poel
    1
    2
  2. Eli Iserbyt
    3
    1
  3. Toon Aerts
    2
    1

Elite Women

Prediction
Result
Points
  1. Annemarie Worst
    2
    1
  2. Ceylian del Carmen Alvarado
    6
    0
  3. Lucinda Brand
    1
    1

Total Points: 6

Results

Obviously, predicting 18 National Championships skews the results and the amount of points for January. The trickiest part is figuring out predictions for the smaller nations. Overall, we did quite well, mostly because for some of those smaller nations there were very few riders to choose from.

There were a total of 264 points on offer for this month. We managed to get 142 points which is 54%. That still gives us an improvement over last month where we got 53%.

In terms of predictions, this was our best month ever. We predicted seven podiums correctly, all of which were National Championships: Czech women, Dutch women, German men, Irish Men, Polish men and Women, and the Spanish women. You may have noticed that for the first time ever, we had a “perfect race,” with the Polish National Championships.

For the first time since October, we missed one podium entirely; the French men. In fact, that was our worst race, scoring one point.

While we had seven correct podium predictions, we narrowly missed out on five more. For the Italian National Championship we had all three women on the podium, just in the wrong order. The same goes for both the Portuguese men and women. We also came close for the Elite Men’s races at the final two rounds of the World Cup.

We will see a drastic reduction in races in February, but we are aiming for a 60+ percent.

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