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Australia National MTB Series - NE

Australia, February 24-25, 2007

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Day 1 - February 24: Cross Country

Taberlay takes final round and title

Tassie devil: Sid Taberlay
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Tasmania's Sid Taberlay proved he was one of Australia's best mountain bike riders by winning the fourth and final round of the National Series in Mt Beauty. The 27 year-old Athens Olympian was one point off the series lead occupied by Sydney rider Aiden Lefmann heading into the round but his win was enough to claim Taberlay the 2007 National Series title. Sydney Olympian Paul Rowney proved his class by taking second place and even giving Taberlay a challenge in the downhill sections of the course. The 36 year-old rider finished one minute ahead of third place Dylan Cooper from Canberra.

Taberlay claimed a total of 278 points while Cooper moved into second place overall with 223 points ahead of Aiden Lefmann, who moved back to third spot with 220 points after finishing eleventh in today's race.

Tory Thomas rides to plan
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Recently crowned Australian champion Tory Thomas won again today and claimed the National Series title. The 28 year-old backed up her National Marathon win in September last year by taking the lead on the final lap. Thomas reeled in early leader Niki Fisher to win by one and a half minutes.

Third was Sydney rider Kate Potter who moved herself up in the series points to finish second overall and relegated Zoe King into third spot, after she finished fifth at the final round.

Commonwealth Games rider Emma Colson returned to form taking out a fourth place in today's race after overtaking Zoe King on the second lap.

Under 23 leader Lachlan Norris stayed ahead of other men's contenders and takes the national series title. Meanwhile, Canberra youngster Rebecca Henderson took out the overall Under 23 women's division at the age of 15.

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Results

Elite Men
 
1 Sid Taberlay               18.50
2 Paul Rowney                 1.59
3 Dylan Cooper                3.02
4 Murray Spink                8.04
5 Perren Delacour             8.09
6 Daniel McConnell            9.08
7 Shaun Lewis                13.47
8 Shinobu Noguchi            14.45
9 Ben Mather                 15.04
10 Lachlan Norris            15.07
11 Aiden Lefmann             15.08
12 James Williamson          15.10
13 Chris Winn                18.31
14 James Maebus              18.39
15 Cal Britten               20.02
16 Matthew Fleming           21.20
17 Rohin Adams               22.32
18 Ben Grieve-Johnson        23.31
19 Ben Henderson             26.30
20 Andrew Blair              28.24
21 Scott Liston              37.55
 
Two laps down
 
22 Warren Burgess                 
23 Andrew Burford                 
24 Gavin Finlay                   
25 Joseph Cram                    
 
Three laps down
 
26 Dirk Van Der Walle             
27 Adrian Jackson                 
28 Luke Graydon                   
DNF David Whitney                 
DNF Glenn Stewart                 
DNF Phillip Orr                   
DNF Shaun Lewis                   
DNF Angus Harding                 
DNF Daniel Braunsteins            
DNS Matt Ligtermoet               
DNS Stephen Van Dyke              
 
Elite Women
 
1 Tory Thomas                39.07
2 Niki Fisher                 1.36
3 Kate Potter                 2.14
4 Emma Colson                 3.41
5 Zoe King                    4.22
6 Rosemary Barnes             7.27
7 Rowena Fry                  8.34
8 Katherine O'Shea            9.13
9 Kimberley Fleming          11.06
10 Julie Blake               11.29
11 Vanessa Hentschel         12.52
12 Claire Haugh              12.53
13 Jacqui Hickey             12.53
14 Jayne Grubits             15.02
15 Alexandra Kiendl          15.03
16 Therese Rhodes            15.50
17 Kelly Bartlett            21.06
18 Rebecca Henderson         23.22
19 Rebecca Armstrong         23.58
 
One lap down
 
20 Gracie Elvin                   
DNF Caroline Jackson              
DNF Rachel Rademaker              
 
Expert Men
 
1 Jason Chalker              20.19
2 Camm Winn                   1.18
3 Tom Burford                 2.08
4 Dylan Wolsky                5.40
5 Jeremy Ross                 6.54
6 Paul Traynor                7.38
7 Simon Wright               10.40
8 Carson Tully               28.16
9 Troy Glennan                    
10 Brad Glennan                   
DNF Chris Murrell                 
DNF Andrew Sleeman                
 
 
Under 19 Men
 
1 Paul Van der Ploeg         30.35
2 Peter Braunsteins           2.18
3 Robbie Hucker               4.32
4 Nathan Haas                 7.39
5 Jarrad Burrell             10.52
6 Mark Flood                 11.38
7 Daniel Hallam              13.02
8 Kris Robinson              16.01
9 Mark Tupalski              16.10
10 James Mowatt              21.51
11 Lachlan Paton             24.30
DNF Benjamin Dyball               
DNF Tim Smyth                     
DNF David Schilg                  
DNF Daniel De Witte               
DNF Luke Knox                     
DNF Andrew Adams                  
DNF Tom Mallett                   
DNF Joshua Larsen                 
 
Super Masters Women
 
1 Ronice Goebel               4.40
2 Jeanette McLaren            0.03
 
Masters Women
 
1 Bev Anderson-Tranter        3.37
 
Veteran Women
 
1 Joanne Hall                33.56
2 Shelley McColl              2.06
3 Jane Ollerenshaw           10.28
 
Under 19 Women
 
1 Holly Tranter              13.57
 
Under 17 Women
 
1 Ainslee Bennett             5.14
2 Shelly Flood                1.35
 
 
Sport Women
 
1 Belinda Phillips            4.37
DNF Katie Ollivier                
DNS Jill Cameron                  
 
Super Masters Men
 
1 Nicholas Bird              25.27
2 Jeff Dyball                15.44
3 John Graydon               20.56
4 Leslie Paton               21.41
5 Kevin Jones                26.41
6 Hans Werner                28.50
7 Michael Watson             29.27
 
One lap down
 
8 Darryl Cram                     
 
Two laps down
 
9 Russell Baker                   
 
Masters Men
 
1 Rob Eva                    17.09
2 James Davies                5.37
3 David Olle                  8.28
4 Anthony Natoli              9.17
5 Peter Varley               16.21
6 John Henderson             21.25
DNF Chris Neenan                  
DNF Andrew Ross                   
 
Veteran Men
 
1 Tim McColl                 37.25
2 David Taylor                1.29
3 Mark Fenner                 2.23
4 Tim Retchford               2.54
5 Brett Kellett               6.18
6 Chris Lander               16.47
7 Ollie Klein                17.28
DNS Damien Jones                  
 
Under 17 Men
 
1 Phillip Bellingham         20.03
2 Michael Baker               0.26
3 Stephen Pitt                8.49
4 Brendan Johnston           11.04
5 Nathan Cantlon             22.45
6 Sean Moloney               32.55
DNF Anthony Rodgers               
 
Under 15 Men
 
1 Thomas Phillips            16.54
DNF Brendan Pitt                  
 
Sport Men
 
1 Darren Smith               19.17
2 Matthew Zagorski           10.02
3 Matthew Dixon              18.24
4 Andrew Bassingthwaighte    18.29
5 Chris Greenhaldh           20.24
6 Tom Barry                  22.15
7 Brendon Munge              23.07
8 Nick Byrne                 31.56
9 Mathew Harrington          36.17
DNF David Squillari               
DNF Hendrik Van Calcar