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This year's Cycle Classic has 15 teams each
with five riders. There is a mixture
of Australian and international teams.
Last year's winner, Cezary Zamana of Polish
team Mróz will not be defending his title after finishing second in the
Tour
of Poland in September. Lithuanian Raimondas Rumsas, who won the last
two Poland stages to finish fourth behind teammates Zamana and Tomasz Brozyna,
will lead the team in the Australian race. Mróz includes three World
Championship RR survivers: Piotr Wadecki (16th), Rumsas (26th) and Zbigniew
Piatek (30th). The top three riders in the Slovenia team also saddled up
in the Worlds, although only Gorazd Stangelj finished.
Likely frontrunners include Marcel Wüst of Festina, and Michael Rogers
from the Casino Canberra team who won a silver medal at the U-23
Time Trial at the Worlds in Treviso. Festina also boasts Jonathan
Hall, who won the TT at the Australian
national championships. This year's Bank race also sees a return of
Scott Sunderland, who has recovered from major injuries caused in an accident
in Europe last year. He will lead the QANTAS One team, which includes
Cameron Hughes who scored a top 5 finish in the Melbourne
to Warrnambool on October 9.
| MROZ
- Poland |
1. Raimondas Rumsas
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27 yr old: 9th in 1998 World Road Championship; 1998 Sprint King
champion and winner of four other stages in the Commonwealth Bank
Classic: - 1 in 1997 and three in 1998; 1999 World Championship representative
and winner of major events in 1999; 16th World Road Time Trial 1999,
26th World Road Race |
| 2. Zbigniew Piatek |
33 yr old: 30th in 1998 World Road Championship and 31st in 1999
World Road Championship |
| 3. Piotr Wadecki |
26 yr old: 1999 World Championship representative, stage winner
Tour of Japan, (5th overall), two stage wins Peace Race, 17th in1999
World Road Championship |
4. Grzegorz Wajs
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26 yr old: 1997 stage winner Tour de Guadeloupe |
| 5. Darius Skoczras |
25 yr old: 1999 World Championship representative |
| Bosch
- Germany |
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6. Jorg Forster
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20 yr old: Member of the Telekom Under 23 team; 3rd German Meisterschaften,
1st Harzrundfahrt 1999, 1st Weltcup Buhl |
| 7. Ronny Jahn |
21 yr old: Member of the Telekom Under 23 team; 1st Hansak Criterium,
Berlin |
| 8. Tilo Schuler |
19 years Member of Telekom Under 23 team; winner of Bundesligarennen
Karbach 1999, stage winner in 1999 Schweinfurtrundfaht |
| 9. Raphael Schweda |
23 yr old: Member of Telecom Under 23, 2nd in Hamburg HEW World
Cup in 1999, stage winner in the 1999 Rheinland Pfalz tour, 1998 German
Under 23 Road Champion |
| 10. Torsten Wilhelms |
30 yr old: Winner of Laatzen and Gieben criteriums 1999 |
| Coca-Cola
- New Zealand |
11. Warren Clark
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22 yr old, Waikato: 1st Under 23 Tour de L'Amitie, 4th Oceania Championship,
represented New Zealand at Tour of Japan, Tour of Taiwan, 7th NZ Open
200k selection trial, 3rd Tour of Wellington, 35th 1998 World Championships
Under 23 |
12. Karl Moore
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20 yr old, Waikato: - Current U23 road champion, medallist at every
NZ road champs, ridden Tour of Taiwan, Tour de L'Amitie, 3rd Canadian
criterium championships |
13. Robin Reid
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23 yr old builder: Contested Tour of Hokkaido 1999, 7th Tour of
Sunraysia, 2nd NZ Open 200k selectors trial |
14. Karl Murray
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Under 23 Oceania Champion, 2nd Oceania Championship, World Championship
representative |
15. Ryan Russell
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20 yr old Hamilton: 2nd NZ Under 23 National Road Championship,
8th Tour of Hokkaido 1999, 4th 2000k NZ Selectors Trials |
| Bates
Bikes - South Africa |
16. Daniel Spence
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25 yr old: Contested 1998 Commonwealth Bank Cycle Classic |
17. Jacque Fullard
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25 yr old: Racing successfully in Europe |
18. Tiaan Kannemeyer
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20 yr old: All African champion, 4th overall in the Giro de la Regioni,
racing for Team Cologne in 2000 |
19. Ryan Cox
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20 yr old: Exceptional young talent |
20. Kosie Loubser
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23 yr old: Winner of Tour of China 1999 |
| DuPont
- United Kingdom |
21. Huw Pritchard
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23 yr old: 1999 Welsh Road Champion, 3 road wins 1999, 2nd in 20k
National Track Championships, 2nd Manx International, 2nd overall
in Tour of Lancashire, 6th Commonwealth Games |
22. Julian Winn
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26 yr old: 5 victories in 1999, stage win in Prutour, 2nd KOM in
Tour of Austraia, races for McCartney Pro Team |
23. James Griffith
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21 yr old: 4 elite wins in 1999, Junior Welsh road champion, two
years of competition in Spain and Europe |
24. Paul Esposti
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26 yr old: Stage win in Tour of Lancashire, 6 wins in 1999, 8th
overall in UK Premier calendar, 16th overall Prutour, 5th Commonwealth
Games road race |
25. Anthony Malarczyk
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24 yr old: 7 wins this season - 4 in France. 2nd in stage on Tour
of Ireland, stage win in Tour of the Kingdom premier calendar, 2nd
Welsh Road Championship |
| NSW
Institute of Sport |
26. Brent Dawson
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21 years old, Dubbo: 1996 World Junior team pusuit champion &
bronze medallist in Olympic Sprint, 1998 & 1999 Hornsby Criterium
winner, 1999 National criterium champion, 4 national title victories,
3rd Hornsby to Swansea |
27. Trent Wilson
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20 yr old: 2nd 1998 NSW Road Championship, 10th Australian Road
Championship (2nd Under 23 year), 2nd 1999 NSW Criterium Championship,
3rd 1999 NSW Road Championship, Won Tamworth Tour, Stage winner Top
End Tour |
28. Nic Brown
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20 yr old, Northmead: 1997 Australian Junior Teams Pursuit Champion,
1998 4th under 23 National Road Championship, 1998 Winner Tour of
Perth, 17th overall 1998 Sun Tour, 3rd overall sprint champion, contested
UK Prutour, 3rd KOM Hornsby to Swansea |
29. Glenn Stojanow
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20 yr old, Gwandalan: 1st 1999 Rosemount estate, 2nd Tour of Bright
prologue, winner 1st round of Tattersalls Cup, 1st stage 2 Tour of
Bright, 13th overall in 1999 Commonwealth Bank Cycle Classic |
30. Tom Brook
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33 yr old, Parramatta, 1999 NSW Time Trial Champion, 2nd Le Gym
Road Race, 2nd Muswellbrook Explorer, won stage Tamworth Tour, 10th
National Time Trial Championship |
| NSW
Sport & Recreation |
31. Henk Vaassen
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29th National Championship 1999, won 1999 Le Gym, 8th Grafton to
Inverell Classic, 6th NSW Road Championship, 2nd KOM Hornsby to Swansea
Classic |
32. Gary Heagney
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Former National Champion and state champion.3rd Coonabarabran to
Gunnedah, 7th Giunnedah to Tamworth, 3rd Overall Tamworth 2 day tour,
7th State Road Championship, 5th Hornsby to Swansea Classic |
33. David McPartland
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19 yr old: Albury NSW Competes for Wagga Cycling Club. 1st year
senior competition, 3rd NSW Junior Road Championship 1998, 3rd Tatterstall's
Cup (3rd round) and 2nd overall in the Tatterstall's Sprint King title.
7th NSW Road Championship. Member of the Riverina Academy |
34. Baden Burke
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27 yr old, Griffith: Stage winner 1999 Top End Tour, Stage winner
of Tour of Japan, Stage winner of Commonwealth Bank Cycle Classic,
5th Goulburn to Sydney |
35. Steven Wooldridge
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22 yr old, Beverly Hills: Australian Teams Pursuit Champion, 2nd
Australian 20k scratch, 4th Nyngan to Dubbo, 6th Goulburn to Camden,
1st International Track Challenge, South Africa 1999, 4th Oceania
Pursuit Championship |
| Websdale
- Netherlands |
36. Jan Koerts
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30 yr old: One of the most powerful cyclists in world cycling, Winner
of Points Jersey in 1991 Cycle Classic, 18 wins in 1999, two stages
in Sachsen Tour, won stage in Rheinland Pfalz tour, 5th Dutch National
road championship, won two stages in Rapport Tour, plus sprint and
points title, won five stages in Commonwealth Bank Classic, two in
1998. Wore yellow in last year's event and was points champion of
Holland in 1999 |
37. Max Van Heeswijk
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26 yr old: sprint sensation from Holland. Raced two years with
Motorola, two years with Rabobank and has now signed two years with
Mapei. This year a stage winner of Tour of Mediteranian, Grand Prix
Rennes, Elsloo criterium and winner of major stages including final
stage of 1997 Tour of Spain. Winner of eight stages of Commonwealth
Bank Classic and one behind Jay Sweets record of nine wins. |
38. Jan Hordijk
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23 yr old: Member of Giant Holland team, 1st in 1998 Hank and Drunen,
winner of 1999 Rond van Zuid, 2nd Wessem, 3rd omloop Bommelerwaard,
2nd Rabobank Under 25 classment |
39. Rene Post
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25 yr old: Member of AXA Cycling team, 1st Dutch National Students
Championship, 1st Ronde van Elden, 13th National time trial championship
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40. Patrick Claessens
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24 yr old: Team Nurnberger, 2nd Rund um Kempen, 3rd TTT Koln to
Longerich, 2nd Oberhausen, winner of Nelson Bay Criterium in 1998
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| QANTAS
One World |
41. Scott Sunderland
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32 yr old: Elite professional cyclist based in Belgium (formerly
Inverell) Contested 1999 World Championship, former national road
champion 1986, last raced Cycle Classic in 1989, won 1999 Vuelta a
Castilla-Leon |
| 42. Cameron Hughes |
27 yr old, Scott Head, NSW: 1998 & 1999 Queensland Road Champion,
1st Sunshine Coast race, 6th Ruta Del Azuleo, Winner sprint jersey
Vila Real, 24th in 1998 Commonwealth Bank Cycle Classic, 3rd 1999
National Road Championship, 2nd Tour of Sunraysia |
43. Franky van Haesebrouke
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29 yr old: Two stage winner of the Commonwealth Bank Cycle Classic,
won five stages in the Tour of Southland, former sprint king of the
Tour of NZ, professional with Collstrop in 1999 - 36 top ten placings |
44. Harm Jansen
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Contested 3 world championships, 1 MTB Worlds, won Ruban Granitier
Breton, 3rd overall Hessen Rundfahrt, 3rd Teleflex Tour, KOM and Sprint
king Giro Delle Regioni, 1999 winner of USA International Cycling
Classic series, 4 stage wins Tour of Ireland, 3rd US Pro championship
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| 45. Pelle Kil |
11th place in 1999 USA International Cycling Classic series, finished
9th Barcelona Olympic Team Time Trial, participated in two world championships,
KOM Tour of Tasmania, Stage win 1999 Tour of NZ, Points champion Tour
of Ireland and stage winner |
| Caravello
- Australia |
46. Bart Hickson
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28 yr old: One of the best performed cyclists in the Cycle Classic,
finished second last year after fourth in 1997, also second in 1999
National Road Championship and second in the 1997 Grafton to Inverell
Cycle Classic |
47. Brad Mills
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8th National Road Championship |
48. Ben Litchfield
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26 yr old, Neutral Bay: A top flight performer who has ridden strongly
during the past four cycle classics, winner of the 1997 Tamworth Classic |
49. Stuart Terrill
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50. Steve Williams
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26 yr old, Bundeena: 4th National Road Championship 1999, 2nd 1997
National Road Championship, 4th place getter in Commonwealth Bank
Classic in 1995, also the Under 23 champion of the race and best Australian,
1994 NSW Road Champion, Winner of Hornsby to Swansea in 1995 |
| Festina
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51. Marcel Wüst
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32 yr old: German sprint sensation, won four stages of the 1999
Tour of Spain, dual stage winner of the Tour of Aragon, winner of
Catalan Week, Stage winner of the 1996 Commonwealth Bank Classic,
winner of more than 100 professional races. |
| 52. Jonathan Hall |
27 yr old, Wollongong: 1994 Commonwealth Games representative,
1997, dual Australian Road and Time Trial Champion, Oceania Time Trial
Champion, 1997 World Duathlon Champion, 8th World Time Trial Championship
1997, triple stage winner 1997 CBCC, 14 victories in Europe 1998,
Current Australian time trial champion |
53. Andre Korff
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26 yr old, Gemany: 9th in 1998 Paris Tours, won GP Tell 1998 |
| 54. Michel Klinger |
22 yr old, Switzerland: Just started as a stagiaire with Festina,
not to be confused with David Clinger |
55. Nicolas Reynaud
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| Casino
Canberra |
56. Michael Rogers
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19 yr old, Canberra: Dual Commonwealth Games gold medallist, National
Pursuit Champion, 2nd 1999 World Under 23 time trial championship,
won Ozzano Emilia 32k time trial, won 1997 World Junior Points Champion
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57. Dennis Mungovern
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22 yr old: 2nd 1999 National Time Trial Championship, 9th National
Criterium Championship, 3rd 1998 National Criterium Championship,
3rd 1999 Canberra Tour, 2nd 1999 Penrith Road Race |
58. Heiko Szonn
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23 yr old, Germany: 6th place Olympic Games 1996, winner of four
World Cups, won London Hillingdon Circuit race, 5th place Circuit
des Mines 1999 |
59. Cameron Jennings
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20 yr old, Rockhampton, Queensland: 10th 1999 National Criterium
Championship, 15th National Road Championship, 2nd Queensland point
score, 3rd State pursuit title, fastest time Hoffy Memorial, 3rd Cardwell
to Townsville, won 1999 Darren Smith Memorial |
60. Michael Tolhurst
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25 yr old: 16th 1999 National Criterium Championship, 11th NSW
Road Championship, 1st Clarenton Le Pont Criterium (France) |
| Sportscover
- World |
61. Jeremy Hunt
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25 yr old, Devon, England: Banesto star rider from the UK, double
stage winner of the Tour of Portugal, 6th in Commonwealth Bank Classic
1997, National Road Champion 1997, winner of three stages in Commonwealth
Bank Cycle Classic and prolific second placegetter in stages, dual
stage winner Tour of Portugal, won 1999 Hornsby to Swansea Classic
and won the Sanitarium Grand Prix series in 1995 |
62. Colin Sturgess
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1989 World pursuit champion, National Pro Road Champion, silver
medallist Commonwealth Games in 1998, oustanding performer for England
in major internationals |
63. Dan Smith
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26 yr old: Former british international, won the 1999 Muswellbrook
classic and sprint king and KOM titles |
64. Kam Po Wong
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26 yr old Audio technician from Hong Kong: 2nd 1998 Tour of Taiwan,
silver medalist Asian Cycling Championship 1997, won Tour of Okinawa
in 1995, Won Tour of Philippines, Won King of the Mountain title 1998
Commonwealth Bank Cycle Classic, Winner of 1999 Whitnall Park Road
Race, USA |
65. Leung Chi Hang
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22 yr old Hong Kong cyclist: National Road Champion 1998, Champion
of Hong Kong Elite Score List 1998-99, Champion of Taipei Invitational
Tournament |
| Team
Ekono - Chile |
66. Angel Perez
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27 yr old: Winner of numerous stages of Vuelta de Chile 1995-98
& in 1999 achieved top three placings in every stage, National
Road and Track representative 1996-99 |
| 67. Pablo Gonzales |
23 yr old: Winner of Tour of South. Winner of major classics, great
climber. KOM champion of Vuelta de la Republica and Vuelta de San
Juan, Argentina, National team member 1998-99 |
| 68. Juan Fierro |
24 yr old: 5th overall Vuelta de San Juan, National team member
1997-99 |
| 69. Gonzalo Miranda |
23 yr old |
| 70. Kaime Bretti |
21 yr old: 4th overall Vuelta de San Juan, best placed Chilean rider
in Vuelta de Colombia 99, Under 23 National Road Champion 99, finished
the 1996, 98 and 99 Vuelta de Chile |
| Slovenia
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71. Martin Hvastija
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29 yr old: 18th 1998 World Road Championship, 24th 1999 World Time
Trial Championship, 12th World time trial 1998, 4th place time trial
1999 Giro d Italia, 3rd place Tour of Denmark 1999 |
| 72. Gorazd Stangelj |
26 yr old: 28th 1998 World Road Championship, 45th 1999 World Road
Championship, 11th place Tour of Romandie, 3rd place GP Kanton Aargau |
| 73. Uros Murn |
24 yr old: 1999 World Championship representative, 6th place Route
Adelie, 9th place First Union Classic |
| 74. Martin Derganc |
20 yr old: 1st place GP Jugendorf, 1st place Coppa De la Pacce,
3rd place Linz-Passau-Budwels, 10th place UCI Under 23 ranking |
| 75. Igor Kranjec |
27 yr old: 1st place GP Jugendorf |
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