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Central Australian Bike Challenge - NE
Alice Springs, NT, Australia, May 13-19, 2006
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Stage 3 - May 16: The Aurora Ultimate Ride, 39 km
Fleming sends a message to rivals at the Telegraph Station
After the grueling epic of a stage yesterday, today's 39km sprint felt like a mere warm down ride. Like yesterday there was the ever-present sand but unlike yesterday there was much less and the rocky trails were, er, rockin'! Fast singletrack was the theme for today and everyone went away smiling.
Apart from the great riding, the climbs afforded riders (who could see through the red mist) panoramic views of the majestic MacDonnell Ranges.
Men
Too quick to take it all in was the group of Matt Fleming (Trek), Aiden Lefman (Cannondale/Maxxis), Mark Frendo and Shaun Lewis (Scott/Flight Centre). Frendo went on the attack early in the stage in retaliation for being dropped early on yesterday and much like yesterday he didn't have the legs to make it stick with Fleming powering away from the group, leaving the rest to fight for the lower podium steps.
Fleming put another 1 and a half minutes into his rivals, making his lead virtually unassailable. Frendo had a second wind to take 2nd ahead of Lefman.
Women
After yesterdays hammer-fest it would be the rider who was best able to recover who would take the stage. After a losing a bunch of time and the leaders jersey to Katrin Van der Spiegel, Imogen Smith had the legs today to take the win but it wasn't enough to regain the leaders jersey.
She found the techy singletrack more to her liking while Van der Speigel was content to take it easy in preparation for tomorrows testing 49km stage.
Veterans
Gordon Garradd has left his mark on the race in more ways than one. A crash late in the stage in some rocky singletrack left him bleeding from a finger, but he remounted, leaving a trail of blood droplets as a reminder to following riders of the abrasiveness of the desert rocks. He came in 4th but will retain the lead in Vets. Ken Wilyman took the win ahead of Dielacher and Taverner-Smith. category leader Craig Peacock suffered a mechanical, handing the lead to Gordon Garradd.
No change in the womens vets with Janine Ridsdale, Sharon Prutton and Carolyn Jackson meeting up on the podium once again.
Tomorrow it's another endurance-fest with a 49km stage around the south of Alice Springs, skirting the rugged MacDonnell ranges.
Results
Open Women 1 Imogen Smith (QLD) 2.11.42 2 Kimberley Fleming (NSW) 0.35 3 Katrin Van Der Spiegel (NSW) 3.00 4 Nicole James (NT) 8.55 5 Belinda Allison (NSW) 10.44 6 Meg Chalker (ACT) 23.37 7 Dior Loveridge (NSW) 29.18 8 Gayle Connell (NT) 30.45 9 Justine Gerdsen (NT) 35.31 10 Tania Churchill (ACT) 41.22 11 Nicole Burton (NT) 48.57 12 Stacey Bitz (NT) 51.59 13 Lyndall Smythe (NT) 52.32 14 Rosanne Kwan (NSW) 1.07.03 15 Merridy Pearce (SA) 1.32.35 Veteran Women 1 Janine Ridsdale (NSW) 2.12.47 2 Sharon Prutton (NZ) 11.15 3 Carolyn Jackson (VIC) 25.41 4 Jane Ollerenshaw (VIC) 28.31 5 Katrina Roper (NT) 1.09.35 6 Kathy Hays (NT) 1.14.12 7 Debra Eason (VIC) 1.16.46 8 Jenny Anderson (NT) 1.32.22 DNS Kim Kelleher (QLD) Open Men 1 Matthew Fleming (NSW) 1.42.14 2 Mark Frendo (QLD) 1.43 3 Aiden Lefmann (NSW) 2.20 4 Shaun Lewis (ACT) 5 Adrian Jackson (VIC) 2.40 6 Alex Randall (VIC) 2.59 7 Jason Chalker (ACT) 5.25 8 Nick Both (NSW) 5.26 9 Mick Café (NT) 7.09 10 Liam O'Dea (NSW) 8.36 11 Graham Rankin (NT) 9.58 12 Straun Lamont (QLD) 10.28 13 Andrew Crawley (NSW) 11.32 14 Ashley Wass (SA) 11.36 15 David Clark (SA) 12.38 16 Corey Gerdsen (NT) 15.34 17 Jason Mansbridge (HongK) 18.35 18 Vince O'Brien (NT) 19.59 19 Chris Lander (NSW) 20.10 20 Sam Latz (NT) 20.21 21 Paul Darvodelsky (NSW) 21.23 22 Neville Bailey (HongK) 22.32 23 Jaime Burton (NT) 22.43 24 James Gardner (ACT) 23.40 25 Craig Cross (NT) 24.51 26 Richard Mountstephens 25.00 27 Aaron Caden (NT) 25.30 28 Cosmo Richards (HongK) 25.38 29 Mark Hardy (NSW) 27.02 30 Stuart Grimm (HongK) 28.09 31 Tim Hay (QLD) 28.28 32 Tavis Johannsen (NT) 29.26 33 Jimmy Goode (NSW) 32.15 34 Tony Hawke (NSW) 32.29 34 Ron Schroeder (NSW) 36 Peter Svara (NT) 33.44 37 Peter Nott (HongK) 33.48 38 Jason Sprague (QLD) 33.56 39 Joe Ward (NSW) 34.19 40 John Waddell (WA) 35.02 41 Anthony Darr (NSW) 36.10 42 Jack Dermody (WA) 36.45 43 Jonathan Cowan (VIC) 39.16 44 Ramon Gregory (NT) 39.43 45 Bert Heathwood (SA) 39.58 46 Kane Chandler (VIC) 40.09 47 Steve Munyard (VIC) 40.13 48 Ray Giddins (NSW) 41.15 49 Peter McGann (NT) 41.57 50 Neil Prosser (NSW) 42.12 51 Paul Witzerman (QLD) 42.28 52 Philip Blum (NT) 43.41 53 Kristian Bitz (NT) 44.15 54 Steve Sauerwald (NT) 44.33 55 Craig Armour (NSW) 45.23 56 Malcolm Neville (NT) 45.28 57 Kyle Bawden (NT) 45.30 58 Mike Heyburn (NT) 47.03 59 Matt Jones (NT) 47.21 60 Todd Stafford (NSW) 48.01 61 Paul Guerin (NT) 48.40 62 Rob Parbery (NSW) 49.15 63 Greg Lander (QLD) 49.59 64 Martin Pritchard (NT) 54.24 65 Rick Swanwick-Howarth (NT) 56.11 66 Matthew Barr (NSW) 58.35 67 Tony McLellan (NT) 59.30 68 Ben Scott (NSW) 1.01.15 69 Chris Jackson (QLD) 1.01.25 70 Helge Suhr (NT) 1.02.55 71 Manuel Silva 1.07.48 72 Vladimir Todorovski (VIC) 1.10.20 73 Bruce McEllister (NT) 1.11.20 74 Andrew Pettitt (NT) 1.12.31 75 Craig Wilzen (NT) 1.13.30 76 Malcolm Barrett (QLD) 1.16.13 77 Justin Dabner (QLD) 1.18.06 78 Iain Blair (VIC) 1.21.07 79 Dan Harris (NT) 1.23.08 80 Bryan Connell (NT) 1.27.07 81 Euan Buchanan (VIC) 1.40.08 82 Russell Goodwin (QLD) 1.59.32 DNS Dean Chandler (QLD) DNS Dan Johnston Veteran Men 1 Ken Wilyman (NSW) 1.59.42 2 Hans Dielacher (NSW) 0.23 3 Gwyn Tavener-Smith (NSW) 0.26 4 Gordon Garradd (NSW) 3.00 5 Kym Hansen (NT) 7.51 6 Robert Watson (NSW) 7.52 7 Laurie Berryman (NT) 8.13 8 Craig Peacock (VIC) 12.51 9 Chris Waring (NSW) 14.28 10 Graant Benett (NSW) 19.47 11 Finlay Luff (VIC) 20.57 12 Steve Bryan (NT) 23.00 13 Mark Mannering (NT) 23.32 14 Paul Verheijden (VIC) 26.55 15 Trevor Kloeden (NSW) 28.33 16 John Nutter (NT) 28.39 17 Mark Meyers (QLD) 29.10 18 David Wells (NT) 31.39 19 Adam Korab (NT) 34.17 20 Lew Marshall (QLD) 36.24 21 Alan Brockman (NT) 38.32 22 Andrew Koop (NT) 41.40 23 Leon Fisher (SA) 44.11 24 Pat Black (NT) 44.48 25 Jeff Hays (NT) 1.02.56 26 Jungle Bateman (NT) 1.07.48 27 Col Smith (NT) 1.13.55 28 Ian Johnson (NT) 1.36.20 29 Leon Malzinskas (VIC) 1.47.32 DNS Andre Gavlik (TAS) Teams 1 Damian McGrath (NT)/Michael Vroom (NT) 2.13.51 2 Matthew Guggisberg (NT)/Simon Murphy (NT) 1.23 3 Drew Robertson (NSW)/Ian Robinson (NSW) 7.45 4 Craig Trevallion (NSW)/Matt Ogilvie (ACT) 26.00 5 Nigel Blake (NSW)/Ben Goscombe (NT) 30.16 6 Malcolm Johnston (NT)/Mathew Pirani (NT) 30.53 Mixed Teams 1 Alison Whitehead (QLD)/Ron Whitehead (QLD) 3.10.26 DNS Hamish Fitzhardinge (NSW)/Kylie Henry (NSW ) DNS Virginia Ffitch (NSW)/Andrew Lloyd (NSW)
