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New Zealand National Championships - NE

Nelson, New Zealand, February 26-March 1, 2009

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Race 4 - February 28: Cross country

Six of the best for Houltham

Lower Hutt's Stuart Houltham handled the atrocious conditions best to claim his sixth national titles at the New Zealand Mountainbike Championships in Nelson while Olympian Rosara Joseph returned from overseas to dominate the elite women's race in impressive fashion.

Houltham was ecstatic to take the elite men's cross country honours after pushing clear on the last of five gruelling laps in heavy mud and continual rain. His sixth win in 2:06:31 takes him to within one of Jon Hume's record of seven national cross country titles.

The men's race was a tight affair with a pack of four swapping the lead. New Zealand Cup winner Mike Northcott, runner-up last year, was forced out after two laps after problems with his contact lenses in the cold, wet and muddy conditions.

Clinton Avery laid down the gauntlet when he grabbed the lead on the penultimate lap, but the experience Houltham cleared out on the final lap. He won by two and a half minutes from Brendon Sharratt with Avery a further nine seconds back in third place.

Joseph, back from her base in England, will head to Wellington to compete in the UCI women's road race in the Capital on Sunday.

She dominated from the start to clear out in the women's race over four laps, winning in 2:01:07, more than 10 minutes ahead of Nic Leary with Sara MacDonald in third.

The under 23 titles went to Ash Haugh and Katherine O'Neill.

It was a family affair in the under 19 categories with Dirk Peters winning the junior men's race in 1:40:45 while his sister Alexa won the junior women's honours.

14-year-old Anton Cooper turned heads when he set the fastest average lap time of the day, followed by Dirk Peters and Houltham.

The championships conclude Sunday with the downhill titles which will prove treacherous and spectacular in the current muddy conditions.

Results

Elite men -  5 laps

Elite men

1 Stuart Houltham       2.06.31
2 Brendon Sharratt         2.37
3 Clinton Avery            2.46
4 Scott Thorne             7.56
5 Gavin McCarthy          16.23
6 Chris Kendall           18.26
7 Jon Richardson          19.24
8 Dayle McLauchlan        19.47
9 Tim Madgwick            22.35
10 Edwin Crossling        24.29
11 Oliver Whalley         27.07
12 Connor Power           29.17
13 Jeremy Inglis          33.20

Lapped

14 Justin Price                
DNF Mike Northcott             
DNF Andrew Bott                
DNF Dean Fulton                
DNF Brad Tilby                 
DNS Joshua Barley              
DNS Tony Hogg                  
DNS Craig Tolson               
DNS James Walker  
             
Elite women

1 Rosara Joseph         2.01.07
2 Nic Leary               10.14
3 Sara Macdonald          12.24
4 Susie Wood              12.34
5 Jeanette Gerrie         13.18
6 Cathy Hamer             15.23
7 Sara Taylor             19.38
8 Monique Avery           19.51
9 Erin Greene             22.15
10 Eloise Fry             33.31

Lapped

11 Nicole Swain                
DNF Karen Collins              
DNS Lisa Morgan                

Under 23 men

1 Ash Hough             2.12.10
2 Carl Jones              10.30
3 Jonathan Kalma          12.27

Lapped

4 Scott Green                  
5 Cameron Wood                 
DNF George Bennett             
DNF Andrew Wong                
DNS David Clark                

Under 23 women

1 Katherine O Neill     2.14.24
2 Samara Sheppard          3.38
3 Raewyn Morrison         12.03
4 Adrienne Hooper         19.17

Lapped

5 Michelle Bellamy             
DNS Katherine Camp             

Under 19 men

1 Dirk Peters           1.40.45
2 Richard Anderson         3.21
3 Patrick Avery            4.21
4 Bradley Hudson           5.36
5 Locky McArthur           7.51
6 Ethan Glover             8.31
7 Kieran Hambrook          9.24
8 Jamie Hawke             10.46
9 Sam Shaw                10.52
10 Logan Horn             13.16
11 Cameron Hollamby       14.17
12 Conor Corbett          16.17
13 Jeffrey McDowell       18.26
14 Josh Fitzgerald        19.59
15 Jack Chapman           21.10
16 Josh Russell-Gibbs     22.01
17 Dominic Furkert        25.43
18 Jeremy Stephens        26.42
19 Reuben Horn            28.33
20 James Gilmour          28.52
21 Jonny Brown            32.32
22 William Bowman         36.05
23 Nicholas Hanover       36.07
24 Eddie Jackson          36.35
DNF Simon Binney               
DNF Adrian Retief              
DNF Sean Gardner               

Under 19 women

1 Alexa Peters          1.51.02
2 Sasha Smith              1.06
3 Rachel Richards         13.36
4 Sarah McDonald          14.50
5 Jesse Loe               33.58

Under 15 men

1 Craig Oliver          0.54.16
2 Charlie Murray           2.10
3 Sam Gaze                 2.13
4 Kurt Standen             9.51
DNF Joel MacManus              
DNS Jonathan Clark             

Under 17 men

1 Anton Cooper          1.10.02
2 Mathew Waghorn           3.56
3 Joel MacMillan           7.01
4 Sean Hambrook           11.03
5 Kristoff Ford           11.48
6 Tayla Harrison          12.43
7 Aidan Terpstra          15.23
8 Jake Glover             16.48
9 Campbell Tannock        18.22
10 Jeremy Hamer           18.48
11 Jonty Sanders          22.40
12 Nigel McDowell         23.04
13 Nathan Waghorn         27.15
14 Tom Bradshaw           32.32
15 Elliot Pearce          32.50
16 Matthew Williams       36.19
17 Jed Findlay            45.49
18 Andrew Jeffries        58.42
DNS Nick Bygate                

Under 17 women

1 Sammy Lane            1.10.21
2 Keryn Knight             6.45
3 Hannah Lane             20.32

Senior men

1 Alistair Crossling    1.47.42
2 Alex Revell              3.18
3 Sam Thompson             7.32
4 Hamish Collie            8.23
5 David Driscole          10.54

Senior women

1 Franziska Brun        1.44.23
2 Ashley Burgess           7.32
3 Emma Newall              9.39

Masters 30+ men

1 Jason Goldie          1.43.53
2 Mark Leishman            1.40
3 Ricky Pincott            5.25
4 Nick Emery               6.12
5 Jake Stow                6.45
6 Paul McNabb              7.19
7 James Hufflett           7.26
8 Wade Jennings           10.03
9 Mark Fry                13.14
10 Tony Keith             16.47
11 Matt Amos              18.41
12 Richard Ainsworth      19.34
13 Dean Hamilton          23.44
14 Rod Harrhy             36.56

Lapped

15 Tony Owsley                 
DNF Richard Trask              
DNS Ken Feist                  

Masters 30+ women

1 Dallis Waters         1.11.56
2 Abby Owsley             17.39
DNS Nienke Oostra              

Masters 40+ men

1 Ian Paintin           1.19.55
2 Rob Kilvington           0.02
3 Chris Gaze               1.21
4 Trevor Woodward          2.36
5 Seamus Ryan              3.35
6 Wayne Pool               5.10
7 Geoffrey Notman          5.33
8 Andy MacDonald           6.52
9 Tim Bygate               7.14
10 Cliff Bowman            9.39
11 Derek Milne             9.49
12 Bruce Jenkins          13.00
13 Paul Hufflett          22.15
DNS Ian McDonald               
DNS Karl Ratahi                

Masters 40+ women

1 Sarah Beadel          1.04.35
2 Andrea Murray            1.36
3 Bridget McMillan        11.08

Masters 50+ men

1 Chris Faithfull       1.25.00
2 Andrew Scott             0.25
3 Patrick Meffan           1.37
4 Ant Bradshaw             2.21
5 Peter Lockwood           3.11
6 Martyn Pearce            6.25
7 Paul McDowell            8.07
8 Neville George           8.33
9 Peter Pigou              9.48
10 Dave Wallace           10.20
11 David King             23.49
DNF Marco Renall