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Australian National MTB Championships - CN
Mount Stromlo, Australia, January 26-28, 2007
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Race 13 - January 28: Downhill: Group A
Graves claims first Downhill crown
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Jared Graves found two seconds was enough to win the 2007 Australian Downhill Champion title in Canberra on Sunday. Riding against some of the world's best riders, the 24 year-old from Toowoomba had a clean run to finish in 3.19.86. Graves, the 2005 world silver medallist, has been focused on his specialty of mountain cross but that didn't stop him from winning his first national downhill title.
"I was pretty disappointed with my mountain cross race so this makes it better," he said.
Defending national champion, Nathan Rennie could not repeat last year's win but claimed second with 3.22.05. Despite failing to repeat his sensational 2006 victory, the Gold Coast rider, currently ranked third in the world, was too fast for Canberra based Jared Rando who finished a creditable third with a 3.24.21.
World Downhill Champion Sam Hill was unlucky when a slide in the final section put paid to the Perth rider's chances, forcing him to settle for a top 10 finish in eighth position. Brisbane's Chris Kovarik qualified second fastest behind Hill in the seeding run but a flat tyre in the final run took away his chance of a podium.
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The fastest time in the Elite Women's category was posted by 'local' Julia Boer. Unfortunately for Boer, she was unable to claim the champions jersey as the Hungarian citizen is not eligible for a national placing. The citizenship technicality meant that second fastest on the day Joanne Fox took out the Elite Women's Australian Downhill Championship with a superb 4.13. The Sydney-based rider claimed the national jersey some 51 seconds behind her Hungarian counterpart.
Behind 34 year-old Fox were two local riders, Claire Whiteman and Cara Smith, who took second and third respectively.
The Under 19 Women's class was convincingly won by Caroline Buchanan with a time of 4.18.09, aided by the fact she was the only entrant in her class and simply had to cross the finish line. That fact didn't prevent the young-gun from giving it her all, with the time good enough to have claimed her a podium placing in the Elite Women's category, marking Buchanan as future national champion.
Mitchell Delfs dominated the Under 19 Men's category in style with his 3.12.77 enough to take the win, and equivilant of a top 10 Elite Men's placing. The West Australian won the event from Will Rischbieth and Joshua Button.
Photography
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Images by Mark Gunter/www.pbase.com/gunterphotograph
- Jared Gill in action in the Downhill.
- David Maud racing in Canberra's Stromlo Forest.
- Callan Ridge in action.
- the large crowd was there to see some action.
- Todd Robertson races in front of a huge crowd.
- Nice view but there wasn't time to look.
- Tom Brodie gets a bit loose on a turn.
- James Brodie rode to sixth in U19 men.
- Tom Patton holds it together for a fifth place in the U19 men.
- Damien Bogatek catches some air.
- Lincoln Verass gets some big air.
- Tim Richmond in action.
- Andrew Maxwell gets some support from an excited fan.
- Adam Smithson in number 007 shows James Bond how its done.
- Darren Pokoj catches some air in front of the crowd.
- Amiel Cavalier riding to fifth place.
- Benjamin Bell nearing the bottom of the course.
- Jared Rando finished in third.
- Timothy Eaton on the descent.
- Nathan Rennie finished in second.
- Ben Cory finished in sixth place.
- Jared Graves on his way to first place.
- Jared Graves won by two seconds.
- Bryn Atkinson had everyone watching him.
- Chris Kovarik got a flat, ending any chance he had.
- Sam Hill was last out, but could only manage 8th.
- The huge crowd make there way down the dusty hill.
Results
Elite Men 1 Jared Graves 3.20.26 2 Nathan Rennie 1.39 3 Jared Rando 3.55 4 Filip Polc 4.30 5 Amiel Cavalier 5.07 6 Ben Cory 4.49 7 Dave West 5.47 8 Sam Hill 6.38 9 Ivan Oulego Moreno 7.36 10 Adam Smithson 7.48 11 Brad Kelly 9.04 12 Timothy Eaton 9.02 13 Ryan Norton 9.07 14 Darren Pokoj 9.30 15 Adam Dossetor 9.45 16 Benjamin Bell 10.17 17 Deon Baker 10.25 18 Ricky Lee 10.36 19 Brock Newling 10.55 20 Rick Boyer 10.43 21 Gareth Paton 11.19 22 Jon Odams 12.04 23 Michael Kearton 11.43 24 Lindsay Klein 12.29 25 Lincoln Verass 12.41 26 Cody Eichhorn 12.49 27 Alan Crisp 13.27 28 Evan Winton 13.42 29 Stephen Foley 13.35 30 Steve Marsh 14.38 31 Alex Swann 14.34 32 Dennis Beare 14.40 33 Christophe Poupon 14.53 34 Tim Nelson 16.12 35 Bryn Atkinson 15.55 36 Rhys Atkinson 16.06 37 Ayden Eves 16.10 38 Ryan Walsch 17.35 39 Harry Armstrong 17.41 40 Dean Robson 17.59 41 Tim Richmond 18.39 42 Miles Mead 18.46 43 Glen Adams 20.44 44 Andrew Maxwell 20.51 45 Ken Ballhause 21.23 46 David Bowden 21.29 47 Trevwah Burke 21.37 48 Cillian Kennedy 21.47 49 Ben Goff 22.51 50 Ben Morrison 23.02 51 Jason Blackmore 23.07 52 Jamie Green 23.43 53 Ben Tregoweth 23.54 54 Michael Manning 24.06 55 Tom Richards 24.26 56 James French 24.57 57 Hamish Armstrong 24.43 58 Ben Mundy 25.26 59 Timothy McCullough 25.43 60 Andrew Eckett 26.04 61 Adam Kessler 26.07 62 Scott Grundy 25.42 63 Kaine Cannan 27.00 64 James McMillan 27.17 65 Murray Dickson 27.59 66 Thomas Kerney 27.41 67 Geoff Grennan 28.14 68 Reece Kyte 29.19 69 Regan Arthur 29.43 70 Shane Gayton 29.44 71 John Campbell 31.03 72 Craig Fisher 32.04 73 Joe Mullan 32.01 74 Dwayne Purdy 32.55 75 Damien Bogatek 33.58 76 Nick Rudzki 33.35 77 Simon Ballard 34.23 78 Thomas Rose 34.39 79 Daniel Sprague 35.42 80 Matthew Wilson 35.49 81 Tim Cox 35.55 82 Jay Taylor 36.03 83 Dean Davies 36.16 84 Brenden Wood 37.57 85 Jake Pendleton 39.50 86 William Cookesley 40.07 87 Thomas Cranston 40.08 88 Clement Jente 42.02 89 Stewart Bruce 42.21 90 Kye Hore 59.02 91 Angus Coombe 1.00.43 92 Dan McEwan 1.11.29 93 Martin FLANAGAN 1.11.59 94 Matt Swann 1.14.08 95 Chris Kovarik 1.28.47 96 Shane Wode 1.47.08 97 James Bashford 2.31.43 98 Llewellyn Cameron 3.46.35 99 Christopher Panozzo 4.19.12 DNF Craig Yates DNS Liam Panozzo DNS Ryan Lennox DNS David Howse DNS Luke Gowen DNS John Farrow DNS Oliver Kristevic DNS Scott Graham DNS Aaron Bashford DNS Brett Pengelley Elite Women 1 Julia Boer 4.12.23 2 Joanne Fox 0.51 3 Claire Whiteman 5.49 4 Cara Smith 6.16 5 Julia Martin 16.57 6 Jayne Randall 22.58 7 Sheryl Field 2.02.14 DNS Sarsha Huntington DNS Sarah Booth DNS Emma McNaughton Under 19 Women 1 Caroline Buchanan 4.18.09 Under 19 Men 1 Mitchell Delfs 3.26.17 2 Will Rischbieth 2.23 3 Joshua Button 4.16 4 James Maltman 6.21 5 Tom Patton 6.40 6 James Brodie 7.44 7 Samuel Ward 9.46 8 David Hetherington 12.20 9 Murray Stephens 12.43 10 Cameron Allonby 11 James Taormina 13.02 12 Michael Jobson 13.58 13 Chris Coombe 14.00 14 Lee Wallace 15.09 15 Clark Hawke 15.29 16 Dale Grixti 17.06 17 David Maud 17.16 18 Todd Robertson 19 Oscar Buckle 17.19 20 Tom Brodie 18.04 21 Liam Paiaro 18.08 22 Lucas Kuncewicz 17.57 23 Llewellyn Griffith 19.05 24 David Habicht 19.07 25 Mark Beeksma 19.49 26 Jack Bellotti 25.47 27 Brenton Gowen 26.43 28 David Gnany 29.49 29 Jack Wilson 29.58 30 Patrick Young 30.14 31 Charlie Barratt 33.06 32 Ben Thomas 33.22 33 Alex Wruck 34.16 34 Callan Ridge 36.09 35 Tom Mallett 38.17 36 Jared Blay 38.30 37 Andrew Karas 38 Tyson Jones 39.18 39 Michael Dart 40.21 40 Mitchell McKinlay 40.39 41 Branden Taylor 41.17 42 Rhys Collins 43.36 43 Jonathan Archibald 45.56 44 Jared Gill 47.51 45 Adam Rostron 49.42 46 Mitchell Boyd 49.55 47 Rowan Saunders 52.51 48 Scott Parsons 53.52 49 Tom Lewis 55.57 50 Timothy Harrington 59.12 51 Jake Pamment 1.00.55 52 Thomas Osborne 1.01.19 53 Toby Breheny 1.28.15 54 Tim Windshuttle 1.30.01 DNF Lachlan Paton DNS Matthew Vincent DNS Hugh Jackson DNS Brodie Sturgess DNS Lachlan Gardiner DNS Travis Phillips-Johnson DNS Ben Leaper DNS Dylan Prohm DNS Jake Lecluse DNS Ryan Meader
