Laia Sanz reaches the magical figure of ten world Championships.

Kramolin (Czech Republic), 04.09.2010. - Laia Sanz (Montesa Cota 4RT) has increased her record of Women’s Trial World Championship titles to ten, after her victory this Saturday in the second scoring event of the current series. A victory that added to the previous event (July 10th in Saint Michel de Maurienne, France) has assured her of regaining the world champion title with just the third and final event to go, next Friday in Myslenice (Poland).

Laia Sanz celebrated this tenth world championship title only one week after winning her ninth European championship. If in the first event, which was very difficult, Laia Sanz had achieved an overwhelming victory (35 points less than her closest rival), this time the differences were minimum, and the victory being decided by the partial results in the sections. The reason for this was the low level of difficulty of the Czech trial and the impossibility to recover marks lost by simple mistakes. The plurichampion finished the first lap with no marks, but on the second, she broke a support for the section tape in a section and added the five marks with which she finished.

Laia Sanz: “Ten world championships is a fantastic amount and I got this last one with a lot of suffering as at the end of the first lap the differences were very small and so no mistakes could be made in the second lap. In one section I tried to avoid placing my foot on the ground and unfortunately broke the stake that held the tape. At that moment the unfortunate episode three years ago when I lost the championship in the Isle of Man, which was a case of heads or tails, came to my mind. Fortunately for me, this time the outcome was different and I have assured myself the title without having to be all week expectant about what could happen in the third event. With what I have suffered today, I want to enjoy that moment as much as possible and try to end the season, next weekend, as well as possible. And then... I’m sure I won’t take long to start to think about the eleventh”.

Laia Sanz won her first world championship title, the first of seven consecutive titles, at the age of 14. Born in Corbera de Llobregat (Barcelona) on December 11th 1985, her first competition was in 1992 and since then she has been unstoppable. This is her seventh season in the Montesa Honda team, where her colleagues are also another two world champions: Toni Bou and Takahisa Fujinami.

* Standing G.P. Czech Republic * World Championship

Results:

1: Laia Sanz (Montesa-ESP) 5; 2: Becky Cook (Sherco-GBR) 5; 3: Joanne Coles (Gas Gas-GBR) 10; 4: Sandra Gomez (Gas Gas-ESP) 13; 5: Emma Bristow (Gas Gas-GBR) 18.

Championship

1: Sanz 40; 2: Coles 32; 3: Cook 30; 4: Bristow 26; 5: Gomez 23.

Picture: Laia Sanz reaches the magical figure of ten world championships.

Credit: Mario Candellone