Report from the BAON extreme race, which took place in the Caucasus from June 23-25 2005.
Article by Konstantin "Doctor" Vasin
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This year the event was organized on the
Chegem river (Northern Caucasus ). The race was
sponsored by BAON company and also by the Men's Health
magazine and Red Bull.
30 participants, including the Red Bull
athelete Tao Berman and the Liquid Logic team members John
Grace, Fred Coriell, Tanya Faux and Nikki Kelly, who came to
Russia supported by The Northface, entered the race.
The non-Russian atheletes dominated in the qualification.
However in the kayak-cross with head-to -head start of 4, a
serious struggle started from the 1/8 final. In the final run
Tao Berman, John Grace, Konstantin Vasin (Doctor) and Dmitry
Danilov (Mit... сам переk 4; 086;ди) were competing for the
main $1000 prize. Tao demonstrated some excellent acceleration
and left the pursuit behind right from the start. The fight
for the 2nd and 3rd places was vicious.
Doctor and Mitiay were lucky enough to flip John right on the
start, so he was the last. Despite John's being faster than
Mitiay in the qualification, he could not catch up with him
because Doctor was always in his way... The final results are:
1. Tao Berman (Red Bull)
2. Dmitry Danilov (ABV)
3.
John Grace (Liquid Logic)
4. Konstantin Vasin (ABV)
The results of the extreme run were:
| №
| Participant
| Start number
| Team
| Country
| Result
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| 1
| Berman Tao
| 5
| Red Bull
| USA
| 0:00:56:83
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| 2
| Coryell Fred
| 32
| Liquid Logic
| USA
| 0:00:59:98
|
| 3
| Grace John
| 27
| Liquid Logic
| USA
| 0:01:01:26
|
| 4
| Faux Tanya
| 30
| Liquid Logic
| Australia
| 0:01:02:51
|
| 5
| Kelly Nikki
| 29
| Liquid Logic
| New Zeland
| 0:01:03:91
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| 6
| Porsev Vasily
| 23
|
| Russia
| 0:01:04:60
|
| 7
| Seliverstov Alex
| 29
|
| Russia
| 0:01:05:85
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| 8
| Anufrikov Maxim
| 11
|
| Russia
| 0:01:06:82
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| 9
| Golovkin Oleg
| 13
|
| Russia
| 0:01:07:55
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| 10
| Danilov Dmitry
| 3
| ABV
| Russia
| 0:01:07:57
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| 11
| Vasin Konstantin
| 7
| ABV
| Russia
| 0:01:09:89
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| 12
| Ogoreltsev Anton
| 16
|
| Russia
| 0:01:11:13
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| 13
| Anan'ev Sergey
| 1
| "Three elements"
| Russia
| 0:01:11:89
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We were very pleased to see atheletes from
other countries at our race. We invite everybody to
participate in the next event which will be held in the
Nothern Caucasus in June-July next year.
The main organiser,
Konstantin Vasin
June 2005, Caucasus, Russia
http://extreme.whitewater.ru/enindex.html
