Land Rover G4 Challenge
Dreyer Wins!
20.05.2006
The culmination of the month-long Challenge using Land Rovers, kayaks, mountain bikes, abseiling, jumaring and orienteering was a punishing 25 minute Challenge Final staged in a river bed on the Bolivia/Argentina border.
Only the top four scorers - calculated after four hellishly hard stages in Thailand, Laos, Brazil and Bolivia – made it into the Challenge Final. Of those narrowly missing the cut were two of the three women in the Challenge; Alina McMaster of Australia and Eleonora Audra of Brazil.
“If you had told me a month ago I would have been fifth in the Land Rover G4 Challenge then I would not have believed you,� said Nora as the siren to signal the start of the Challenge Final blew. “I am proud to have done this for me and Brazil and for the girls. Now let’s see who will win the big prize.�
The four finalists, in order of points scored, were Martin Dreyer (749), Kris Janssens of Belgium (709), Dmitry Timokhin of Russia (694) and Frenchman Jean-Baptiste Calais (643).
With a second a point issued as a penalty, the gap between Dreyer’s start time and Calais' start time was 1 minute 46 seconds – potentially 10% of the total time expected for the multi-discipline test.
“It’ll be hard to make that up, but I’ll try,� said J-B.
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