Race Report: Enduro Argentina Series

After more than 3 hours of competition and 4 special stages the rider from Mendoza and Panamerican 2017 medalist, Jeronimo Paez was again the fastest in a Mountain Bike competition in Cerro Catedral.

With a winter weather and snowing many times at the base of Cerro Catedral, the Shimano Enduro Argentina series competition was held.

There were 4 special stages of the 5 planned that had been changed during the previous week because of the unusual snow conditions in a large part of the mountain. On the day of the competition the almost 15cm of snow in the starts of some specials again led to change the diagram for the competition.


More than 130 participants started at 10am to go through stages 1,3,4 and then stage 2 in the face of an improvement in the climate at mid-competition.
In spite of the really difficult conditions of the weather, the riders of all Argentina, Chile and Brazil expressed their satisfaction for the conditions in which the circuits were and the "grip" that remained after the snow and rain.

In the Menores category, the first place went to San Martin de los Andes in the hands of Gonzalo Fernandez Cid, who was accompanied on the podium by another rider from that city, Nicolas Quintero. Tiago Rogier closed the top 3.


The cadets also had the top3 riders from San Martin, confirming that the work that is being developed there promises a great future.
Simon Alciati, Matias Molinaro and Juan Galvanoni were first, second and third respectively.

Matias Kennedy asserted his status as local and Argentine Downhill champion and despite running with a downhill bike he had no problems to take the Master B category relieving the well-known Enduro rider in Moto, Esteban Lopez Jove who made his debut in the modality . In the third place the Barilochense, Daniel Dominick, was occupied.


The Master A was one of the most difficult categories that until the last stage was with several candidates for the triumph that finally corresponded to Bariloche's Mariano Koszutski who for just over 5 seconds relegated the second place to the then leader of the competition, Nicolas Liberatoscioli.

In third place was another regular podium, Marcos Casella also from Bariloche.

Jaime Rojas of Chile took the Amateur category with a great advantage while Fabian Cardenas de Bariloche managed to get in second place ahead of Ignacio Bressa.

The Junior category also went to Chile in the hands of Joaquín González, while the second in La Rioja was Alejo Yañez. The podium of Mendoza Gabriel Bracelis closed.

Camila Nogueira does not leave any doubts as to why she is the best racer in Argentina and one of the best in South America, taking the first place by almost 2 minutes over Lourdes De la Orden from Tucuman. Third of San Martin de los Andes was Moira Taylor.


Elite category promised to give a great fight between one of the best riders from Argentina and Chile. The Chilean rider Milciades Jaque had the number 1 plate as he was the riders wich more EMBA points present in the competition, on the Argentine side the local Gonzalo Serenelli, Jeremias Maio and Jerónimo Paez were the candidates.


Until the last stage added because the improvement in the weather, the local and winner of Down1000 on Saturday Gonzalo Serenelli came as leader of the competition with 2 seconds over Maio and 4 over Paez. Serenelli was the first to go down, but Maio was faster and took the first position.


Paez was the to descend and although the time difference was considerable, the rider from Mendoza was really fast in the last stage and managed to recover the difference he had and take 1 second difference that allowed him to take the first position of the competition.