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2003 Motocross Des Nations (MXDN)


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MXDN CHAMPIONS:

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2003 MX DES NATIONS, Oct 5, 2003, Zolder, Belgium

57th MX DES NATIONS

  • Home team Belgium will field 3 reigning world champions:
    Stefan Everts (MXGP champion)
    Joel Smets (650 champion)
    Steve Ramon (125 champion)
  • Team USA will be headed by Ricky Carmichael - current AMA Motocross and Supercross champion

TEAM BELGIUM WINS (Everts, Smets, Ramon)

  • their 13th MXDN win
  • STEFAN EVERTS: "... This is an incredible day and it has been an amazing year .. To win the Motocross des Nations, in Belgium and in front of the king is a dream come true. I didn’t have any problems with my riding in the final. I made the holeshot and rode at my own pace. I’m so happy, but maybe a little bit of me is disappointed that I didn’t win the race. It has been great to have the Americans here today. They bring prestige to the event and that is important for European motocross. Ricky (Carmichael) was faster than me today – hopefully he will return for a rematch next year”

OVERALL RESULT:

  • 1 BELGIUM (Everts, Smets, Ramon), 5 pts
  • 2 USA (Carmichael, Ferry, Hughes), 10 pts
  • 3 FINLAND (Vehvilainen, Aaltonen, Pyrhonen), 16 pts
  • 4 NEW ZEALAND (King, Coppins, Townley), 19 pts
  • 5 GREAT BRITAIN
  • 6 JAPAN
  • 7 IRELAND
  • 8 ESTONIA
  • 9 FRANCE
  • 10 CZECH REPUBLIC
  • 11 Sth Africa 12 Denmark 13 Sweden 14 Australia 15 Norway 16 Slovenia 17 Italy 18 Latvia 19 Germany 20 Netherlands 21 Russia 22 Switzerland 23 Portugal 24 Spain

A-FINAL RESULT:

  • 1 Ricky Carmichael (US), Honda, 30 min + 2 laps
  • 2 Stefan Everts (BEL) Yamaha +11s
  • 3 Joel Smets (BEL) KTM

LAST YEAR'S RESULT (2002)

  • 1 TEAM ITALY
    Andrea BARTOLINI, HONDA (finished 2nd)
    Alessio CHIODI, YAMAHA (finished 3rd)
    Alessandro PUZAR, HUSQVARNA (finished 9th)
  • 2 TEAM BELGIUM
    Danny THEYBERS, Peter IVEN, Manuel PRIEM
  • 3 TEAM FINLAND
    VEHVILAINEN, PYRHONEN,
    KOVALAINEN

2003 TEAMS

RIDERS MISSING:

  • AUS - Chad Reed, Michael Byrne
  • USA - James Stewart, Kevin Windham

ITALY (2002 champion)

1 BARTOLINI Andrea YAMAHA 450cc
2 CHIODI Alessio YAMAHA 450cc
3 MONNI Manuel HONDA 650cc
Team manager: Pietro MICCHELI

BELGIUM

4 EVERTS Stefan YAMAHA 450cc *** 2003 world MXGP champion ***
5 SMETS Joël KTM 450cc *** 2003 world 650cc champion ***
6 RAMON Steve KTM 250cc *** 2003 world 125cc champion ***
Joël ROBERT

FINLAND

7 VEHVILAINEN Jussi-Pekka HONDA 450cc
8 PYRHONEN Antti YAMAHA 480cc
9 AALTONEN Miska KTM 538cc
Sauli MAKELA

SPAIN

10 BARREDA Joan TM 250cc
11 BARRAGAN Jonathan KTM 250cc
12 GARCIA VICO Javier KTM 650cc
Rafaël VALLE

SWEDEN

13 KARLSSON Joakim HUSABERG 550cc
14 NILSSON André KTM 520cc
15 ANDERSSON Stefan YAMAHA 450cc
Peter JOHANSSON

FRANCE

16 SEGUY Luigi YAMAHA 250cc
17 MASCHIO Mickaël KAWASAKI 250cc
18 AUBERT Johnny YAMAHA 450cc
Robert OLIVIER

ESTONIA

19 LEOK Tanel KTM **cc
20 LEOK Avo HONDA 520cc
21 LEOK Aigar KTM 125cc
Kalev KURG

CZECH REPUBLIC

22 DOBES Josef YAMAHA 250cc
23 Kadlecek Michal YAMAHA 450cc
24 ZERAVA Martin KTM 520cc
Jiri CHURAVY

IRELAND

25 CROCKARD Gordon HONDA 450cc
26 LYONS Adam YAMAHA 250cc
27 STEELE Brian HONDA 450cc
Stephen RUSSELL

SWITZERLAND

28 NICOLET Marc SUZUKI 250cc
29 NÄPFLIN Harry YAMAHA 500cc
30 WALTHER Patrick YAMAHA 450cc
Rolf DUPASQUIER

SLOVENIA

31 JELEN ROMAN HONDA 480cc
32 KRAGELJ Saso YAMAHA 450cc
33 MOZE Jaka HONDA 450cc
Slavko RUS

DENMARK

34 JORGENSEN Brian HONDA 450cc
35 NIELSEN Kim YAMAHA 450cc
36 VANG JENSEN Bo KTM 520cc
Bjarne SJOHOLM

LATVIA

37 FREIBERGS Lauris HONDA **cc
38 BOBKOVS Aigars HUSABERG 650cc
39 ALEKSANDROVICS Martins YAMAHA 125cc
Gatis FREIBERGS

PORTUGAL

40 RODRIGUES Joaquim KTM **cc
41 GONCALVES Rui YAMAHA **cc
42 SANTOS Hugo HONDA 450cc
Rui ASSUNCAO

GERMANY

46 VOLZ Markus KTM 450cc
47 SCHRÖTER Dennis YAMAHA 450cc
48 ECKENBACH Bernd KTM 450cc
Olaf NOACK

AUSTRALIA

52 McFARLANE Andrew KAWASAKI 250cc
53 ANDERSON Craig YAMAHA 450cc
54 BROOMFIELD Paul YAMAHA 450cc
Gary BENN

BULGARIA

55 TOTEV Teodor YAMAHA 125cc
56 KOUMANOV Nikolay YAMAHA 250cc
57 BALINOV Radoslav KTM **cc
Kouman KOUMANOV

CROATIA

58 LELJAK Marko SUZUKI 125cc
59 SIPEK Nenad YAMAHA 450cc
60 GORICKI Goran YAMAHA 450cc
Nikola BUCAR

GREAT BRITAIN

61 COOPER Paul HONDA 250cc
62 SWORD Stephen KTM 450cc
63 NOBLE James HONDA 450cc
Rob HERRING

JAPAN

64 NARITA Akira SUZUKI 249cc
65 MASUDA Kazumasa SUZUKI 249cc
66 ATSUTA Yoshitaka HONDA 449cc
Yoshito BABA

NETHERLANDS

67 EGGENS Erik KTM 450cc
68 VAN REES Remy KTM 525cc
69 VROMANS Oscar YAMAHA 450cc
John VAN DEN BERK

NEW ZEALAND

70 COPPINS Joshua HONDA 250cc
71 TOWNLEY Benjamin KTM 450cc
72 KING Shayne HONDA 450cc
Michael McLEOD

NORWAY

73 FUGLERUD Jan Rune YAMAHA 450cc
74 GUNDERSEN Kenneth KAWASAKI 250cc
75 VANGSBAKKEN Kristen YAMAHA 450cc
Roy SNELLINGEN

RUSSIA

76 SAFRONOV Andrei HONDA 250cc
77 IVANUTIN Alexandre YAMAHA 250cc
78 TONKOV Vitaly YAMAHA 450cc
Evgueny PARSHIN

SLOVAKIA

79 BUCENEC Tomas KTM 125cc
80 KULHAVY Josef KAWASAKI **cc
81 RIHO Erik HONDA 480cc
Peter MARGETIAK

SOUTH AFRICA

82 RATTRAY Tyla KTM 250cc
83 SWANEPOEL Gareth YAMAHA **cc
84 LANGSTON Grant ** cc
Glen CRICK

UNITED STATES

85 CARMICHAEL Ricky HONDA **cc *** 2003 AMA MX & SX champion ***
86 FERRY Tim YAMAHA 450cc
87 HUGHES Ryan KTM **cc
Roger DE COSTER

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