European nations will meet in Kiev for MXoEN

By Youthstream | 12 Oct 2012

KIEV (Ukraine), 11. October 2012 – Kiev, the city of many shiny churches roof is about to welcome the UEM Motocross of European Nations. Just two weeks after „the big nations” in Lommel the 14 European teams will meet in the capital city of Ukraine. On the well prepared “Pyrogovo” circuit the Federation of motorcycling of Ukraine expect approximately up to 30 000 spectators. Last year we met for the MXoEN in Sevlievo in Bulgaria and now it´s Ukrainian’s turn. Last year´s winner, the Nederland´s team is not going to attend the event as well as the second team from France. On the other hand Slovak riders are coming to defend the third place from 2011 or reach even better step of the rostrum because their team is strengthtened by presence of Štefan Svitko, rider who reached the fifth place on Rally Dakar 2012. For sure teams such as Italy, Slovenia, Estonia, Ukraina or Slovakia will be serious contenders for 2012 European title. We can´t miss the chance to see European nations together on the one track.

The Federation of motorcycling of Ukraine is celebrating 20th anniversary and members are more than pleased to remember this special year also by having the MXoEN in their country. For that purpose the table of most important event´s on the Kiev´s circuit is enclose below.

History of “Pyrogovo” circuit
2012	UEM - MXoEN
2012	UEM - OPEN Championship
2011	UEM - OPEN Championship
2007	European MX games
2003	UEM - MX125 Championship

14 teams are going to be presented to crowd on the Independent square in the city centre of Kiev on Saturday evening. There will be 13 nations taking part on it and one team extra which belong to Ukraine, because they built up two teams. First, the stronger one includes two MX3 riders, Roman Morozov who is current vice champion of UEM MX OPEN class and Mykola Paschynskiy the third on UEM MX Open class in 2011. Andriy Burenko is completing them as he will try to be useful part of this strong Ukrainian’s team. Their ambitions are at least repeat the result from 2009 when Ukrainians reached the MXoEN podium as third. For sure they dream about victory on home soil. Second team on is made up of Andriy Krychfalushiy, Vlodymyr Tarasov and the youngest member Dmytro Asmanov, who is just 15 years old. He will prove his talent in front of the home crowd because they know his as succesfull rider as he achieved the first places on national Ukrainian Championships of Supercross, MX2 and MXJunior, too.

Hot title contenders are Italians. Strong riders´ composition is a sign of big ambitions of the Italian team. They count on the MX1 rider Davide Guarneri, who ends on the 12. place on the MX1 FIM Motocross World Championship. Moreover in the team there are Manuel Monni who were riding in MX1 as well and Samuele Bernardini. From Sevlievo they took the fifth place and now, for the 2012 edition of MXoEN they replaced Simone Zecchina for Davide Guarneri in order to reach as good result as possible.

Another strong team comes from Slovenia as each of three riders is well known because of good seasonal results in World Championships. Tim Gaiser has the Junior 125 World Title, Klemen Gerčar and Matevz Irt are in top ten of the MX3 FIM Motocross World Championship 2012 standings, so we can consider them as a strong rival for another European national teams. Last year they end as fourth and instead of Matevz Irt, Toni Mulec was riding for Slovenia.

The only one team present from last year´s top three comes from Slovakia. They changed composition and replaced two riders so Tomáš Šimko will be accompanied by Štefan Svitko and Jakub Huška and they will try to do their best to defend the third step of the rostrum from Bulgaria.

This event will be last opportunity for riders to race in European competition before winter time begins moreover they could reach title as honour for their countries. Follow teams and enjoy the UEM Motocross of European Nations 2012 in Kiev.

MXoEN in Kiev – QUICK FACTS:
Circuit length: 1875 m
Type of ground: hard pack and sand
Temperature: 8°C
Weather conditions: partly cloudy, rain showers

To obtain the complete entry list, click here.

TIMETABLE
Saturday: 9:00 Balloting; Riders´ briefing 9.30; Free Practice class EMX1 10:00; Free Practice class EMX2 11:00; Free Practice class EMX Open 12:00; Qualifying Heat class EMX1 14:30; Qualifying Heat class EMX2 15:30; Qualifying Heat class EMX Open16:30; Team presentation in city centre of Kiev (Independence square) 19:00;

Sunday: Warm-up 10:00; Race1 EMX1+ EMX2 13:00; Race 2 EMX2 + EMX Open 14:30; Race 3 EMX1 + EMX Open 16:00;

LINKS
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Photo: track “Pyrogovo” in Kiev, Ukraine