Cycle News Staff | September 21, 2021
Toni Bou was crowned World Champion twice over the September 18-19 weekend in Portugal.
Toni Bou wrapped up the 2021 FIM TrialGP Championship in Portugal and the very next day helped Team Spain win the Trials des Nations for the 27th time.
The first crowning came on Saturday when the Spaniard wrapped up the 2021 FIM TrialGP with the day’s victory.
“This year has been very special for me because at the beginning things were very complicated with the injury just a month before the start of the championship,” said Bou. “There will come a year when I will not be able to win—I’ve won for 15 consecutive years—but the fact that I got injured just before the start of the world championship made it special, and I didn’t want to lose a championship in this way. Once again, we battled 100 percent, I tried to get into shape as the championship progressed and the fact that I had a very good work rate before I got injured also helped me to recover faster.”
Toni Bou lined up as part of the Spanish RFME team alongside fellow-countrymen Adam Raga and Jaime Busto.
The very next day at the same location, Bou was a member of the winning Spanish team at the Trial des Nations. Bou, Adam Raga and Jaime Busto gave Spain its 27th victory in the TdN. The team dominated in Portugal, collecting just one penalty point on the day.
France was second and Italy third.
Women’s Trial des Nations
One day after clinching the TrialGP Women World Championship, Laia Sanz wins again with Team Spain.
Laia Sanz rounds out a perfect season as individual and team world champion.
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Never one to rest on her laurels, Laia Sanz was back in action today, representing Spain’s Women’s Trial des Nations team less than 12 hours after winning the 2021 TrialGP Women’s World Championship title. And guess what, riding together with Berta Abellan and Sandra Gomez she rounded-out her first season of international trial competition in eight years as a member of Spain’s winning team.
Squeezing one more podium topping performance out of her 2021 trial season, Laia Sanz made it a double winning weekend in Portugal as she added the Women’s Trial des Nations title to her TrialGP Women World Championship victory. Delivering an all-important performance as part of Spain’s three-rider team, despite constant pressure from Great Britain’s trio of riders, Laia and Spain completed the one-day event with just five marks lost, securing an eventual winning margin of seven marks and rounding out the year just as she started it, with victory.
Joining Laia on the podium in the Women’s Trial des Nations competition was Huldeborg Barkved, who placed third for team Norway.
Representing Italy in the Trial des Nations World Championship competition, Gianluca Tournour placed third competing alongside Matteo Grattarola, and Lorenzo Grandola.
