Matter-World Inline Center winning again

Last sunday in the small city of "La Ferté Bernard" close to the well known city of "Le Mans" for its 24hours car race was the very first marathon of the season in France.The 200 skaters were ready to go on a tricky circuit after a long while without competing since the last marathon in 2006 .Lucky them the weather condition were great,15° with a full blue sky and the sun was shinning.At 3pm was the start and some world class skaters were there.Nico Wieduwielt and Pascal Ramali the two world class German skaters from the Zepto-Bont team were there after spending some weeks training in Nantes with the Matter team and Pascal Briand.Ewen Fernandez from the Matter-World inline center team and Pascal Briand from the Powerslide-Phuzion factory team were also there to catch their first victory of the season on marathon.The race was a 50 k race which is usually the best preparation for the french skaters before the 70k French National championships, that's why some other good french skaters were there like Julien Depaux World champion on the relay track in Anyang with the two member of the Matter-World Inline Center team Thomas Boucher and Yann Guyader.The race was tough, a lot of skaters were trying to brake away, especially Pascal which seemed to be in a really good shape back from the ice winter season.Unfortunatly everybody was jumping behind him and nobody wanted to relay him...Ewen tried also many times to break with Nico and Pascal both member of the Zepto-Bont but the road was really smooth and the pack was always catching them.Everyody seemed to be waiting for a bunch sprint when Pascal Ramali broke away and went for a kind of single time trial. After seeing the gap increasing Pascal briand tried again to catch the skater from the Zepto team but they were nothing to do everybody was following him,that was the moment when Ewen Fernandez and Julien Sourisseau from Loops Racing deceided to attack and try to catch the single guy ahead.After shasing for more than 5k they finally caught Pascal Ramali.They were 1 lap to go and 500 meter to the end Ewen went to the front and launched the sprint, nobody was able to overtake him and Ewen took his very first victory in senior on Marathon in front of Pascal Ramali and Julien Sourisseau after catching the silver medal in Anyang in junior.The bunch sprint was won by Nico Wieduwilt which attacked 1k to the end followed by Pascal Briand probably the strongest man in the race.

RACE RESULTS:

1st: Ewen Fernandez FRA Matter-World Inline Center

2nd:Pascal Ramali GER Zepto-Bont

3rd:Julien Sourisseau FRA Loops Racing

4th:Nico Wieduwilt GER Zepto-Bont

5th:Pascal Briand FRA Powerslide Phuzion