July 08, 2012 (Mont-Sainte-Anne, QC) – Matt Beer and Casey Brown are the newest Mountain Bike Downhill Canadian Champions as they both won their respective races at the 2012 Canadian Mountain Bike Downhill Championships in Mont-Sainte-Anne, near Québec city. Beer became the first cyclist from Newfoundland to win a National title

On a gorgeous day, Brown stopped the clock at 5:12.016, the fastest time in the Elite women category. Lauren Rosser, the 2010 Junior World Champion, came in second, while former Canadian Champion Micayla Gatto posted the third fastest time to round up the podium.

“It went really good. Pulled it off with the win today. The track conditions were great, and dried up quite a bit so I was able to run with a higher tire pressure,” said Brown who received her first Canadian Champion jersey. “I am gonna go to Crankworx to do a couple of races and then to World Champs.”

In the men’s race, Matt Beer of Newfoundland was the fastest of the day, completing the course in 4:30.267. Beer also takes his first Canadian title.

“It feels pretty good [to be Canadian Downhill Champion]. My run was pretty hectic, so I tried to keep it calm, and pedal lots. The course was super long. Mont-Sainte-Anne is a tough course, and a great venue to host a Canadian Championships,” said Beer.

In winning the title, Beer became the first Newfoundland rider to ever win a Canadian championship title: “No one will get me mixed up with New Brunswick now!”

Kyle Sangers, last year’s Junior Canadian Champions came in second place of the men’s elite race in his first elite race at Canadian Championships, 2.117 seconds behind the winning time. Rob Fraser took the bronze medalResults

Results

Junior Expert Women
1. Holly Feniak (BC) 05:13.8

Junior Expert Men
1. Mark Wallace (BC) 04:34.8
2. Hugo Langevin (QC) 00:13.9
3. Mckay Vézina (CA) 00:14.7
4. Forrest Riesco (BC) 00:14.8
5. Philippe Ricard (QC) 00:16.4
6. Louis Brochu Marier (QC) 00:18.1
7. Jordan Lapointe (QC) 00:20.6
8. Étienne Heyburn (QC) 00:25.4
9. Jordan Hodder (NL) 00:28.1
10. Graeme Duff (ON) 00:28.8
11. Kip Shortreed (BC) 00:30.2
12. Alexandre Carbonneau (QC) 00:31.2
13. Alexander Geddes (BC) 00:31.3
14. Simon Chapdelaine (QC) Cycles Performance/Niquet 00:35.7
15. Benjamin Després-Morin (QC) 00:38.0
16. Grant Lestock-Kay (BC) 00:43.1
17. Patrick Gauci (ON) 00:43.1
18. Jamie Tice (ON) 00:49.0
19. Mark Fagnan (ON) 00:50.5
20. Cédrick Poulson (QC) 00:56.7
21. Pierre-Luc Lévesque (QC) 01:04.0
22. Philippe Leclerc (QC) 01:22.0
DNF Bas van Steenbergen (BC)
DNS Graham Taylor (BC)
DNS Carter Faulkner (ON)

Senior Elite Women
1. Casey Brown (BC) PerformX Young Guns 05:12.0
2. Lauren Rosser (BC) Mojo Wheels North/Team Squamish 00:04.5
3. Micayla Gatto (BC) PerformX Young Guns 00:05.7
4. Vaea Verbeeck (QC) Intense/Fox Racing Shox 00:10.0
5. Miranda Miller (BC) Cycling BC/SRAM/Santa Cruz 00:11.1
6. Danice Uyesugi (BC) CCN/Intense 00:19.2
7. Jaime Hill (BC) 00:20.5
8. Kristen Courtney (ON) 00:28.8
9. Lindsay Trimble (BC) Rocky Mountain/ProCycle 00:53.8
10. Audrée Vaillancourt (QC) 01:27.0
DNS Claudia Paquin (QC)

Senior Elite Men
1. Matthew Beer (NL)  Intense/Fox Shox/Easton 04:30.3
2. Kyle Sangers (ON) Pivot Cycles/Kenda 00:02.1
3. Rob Fraser (ON) Lapierre-POC 00:03.3
4. Remi Gauvin (BC) PerformX Young Guns 00:03.7
5. Tyler Allison (BC) 00:06.0
6. Hans Lambert (QC) Xprezo-Borsao 00:06.0
7. Nicholas Geddes (BC) Norco 00:08.6
8. Chris Del Bosco (QC) 00:08.9
9. Yann Gauvin (QC) 00:10.6
10. Philippe Cyrenne Blanchard (QC) Sports aux Puces 00:11.1
11. Kirk McDowall (BC) 00:12.0
12. Riley Suhan (BC) 00:12.9
13. Sidney Slotegraaf (ON) Lapierre-POC 00:13.3
14. Jonathan Lefrançois (QC) 00:15.0
15. Samuel Thibault (QC) Cycles Performance/Niquet 00:15.6
16. Chayse Marshall (BC) 00:15.6
17. James Biluk (BC) Rocky Mountain/ProCycle 00:16.9
18. Ryan Vanderham (BC) Rocky Mountain Bicycles 00:19.5
19. Charles-Alexandre Dubé (QC) On the Edge Canada 00:19.6
20. Benoit Rioux (QC) Xprezo-Borsao 00:19.8
21. Matt Nielsen (ON) 00:19.8
22. William Viens (QC) 00:19.8
23. Ken Faubert (BC) 00:19.8
24. Adam Mantle (BC) 00:20.7
25. Simon Dallain (QC) 00:21.7
26. Julien Laramée (QC) 00:21.8
27. Mathieu Lagrange (QC) Rocky Mountain/Procycle 00:23.0
28. Nicolas Konow (QC) Lama Cycles 00:23.3
29. Harold Woolnough (ON) 00:25.3
30. Guillaume Labrie (QC) 00:25.4
31. Justin Dale (BC) 00:26.4
32. Jacob Reeves (QC) 00:26.5
33. Robert Venables (BC) 00:28.5
34. Samuel Vallée (QC) 00:30.3
35. Bryden Rigets (BC) 00:31.3
36. Drew Paulter (ON) 00:31.4
37. Ben Porteous (BC) 00:32.1
38. James Jeannet (QC) 00:32.1
39. David Charbonneau (QC) Sports aux Puces 00:32.4
40. Devlin Montana (BC) 00:32.8
41. Justin Macknish (QC) 0:33.7
42. Matthew Woods (QC) 00:34.0
43. Taylor Rowlands (ON) 00:34.1
44. Joey Jenkins (ON) 00:35.5
45. Andy Thibodeau (QC) Cycles Performance/Niquet 00:35.8
46. Simon Poirier Giroux (QC) 00:36.5
47. Dobie Aaron (BC) 00:36.9
48. Cody Ratte (AB) 00:37.2
49. Jeff Faulds (ON) 00:37.2
50. Félix-Antoine Lessard (QC) Sports aux Puces 00:38.2
51. Alexandre Lachetta (QC) 00:41.6
52. Mike Trickett (NL) 00:44.0
53. Marc Poirier (QC) Sports aux Puces 00:45.4
54. Tylers Maass (ON) 00:48.6
55. Nathan Friesen (AB) 00:49.0
56. Steve Gauci (ON) 00:53.4
57. Vincent Tremblay (QC) Devinci/Lessard Bicycles 00:55.9
58. Guillaume Lafleur-Smith (QC) Trek-Bontrager 00:56.7
59. Brad Zdriluk (ON) 00:57.7
60. Barry MacInnis (NS) 00:58.6
61. Vincent Poliseno (QC) Sports aux Puces 01:05.4
62. Guillaume Laramée (QC) 01:09.2
63. Luke Stevens (AB) 01:35.2
DNF Dean Tennant (BC)
DNF Maxime Fortin Faubert (QC)
DNF Michael Oosterveld (ON)
DNF Jason Maxwelh (NS)
DNS James Frost (ON)
DNS Francis Gagnon-Paquin (QC)
DQ Jeffery Bryson (BC)

Full results HERE.