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Results and Reports for April 20-21, 2002

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Ready Hire 24 Hour Mountain Bike Team Challenge

Kooralbyn, April 21, 2002

Gold Coast's Michael Skroblin helped his team to a comfortable lead in the Ready Hire 24 Hour Mountain Bike Challenge this weekend at Kooralbyn, April 20-21, 2002. The four man team completed 83 laps over the 24 hour period riding through the night to beat Brisbane's six man team containing Holland's Runar Broste. The fastest lap of 15.41 was ridden by Michael Skroblin during the first lap of the race on Saturday. He bettered his brother Mark's record time in last year's event. The youngest member of a four person team which included his brother Mark, Jordan Vogel and Jody Waters. Skroblin has proved his berth in the Australian mountain bike team for the World Championships was warranted. He placed in the National Titles in Thredbo and heads overseas in August to race in France followed by the Worlds in Austria.

They compete alongside two hundred other cyclists making it the biggest Queensland mountain biking event. Teams of two, four or six people from New Zealand, Sydney and as far north as Bundaberg were all vying for the trophy.

Six individual riders contested the event including one female Belinda McIntyre who completed 32 laps. Winner was Simon Bowen from Brisbane who completed 42 laps just five laps ahead of Finnish rider Jukka Yunen from Coffs Harbour. Gold Coast's, Brad Connor found it difficult backing up after completing the Forster Ironman just two weeks prior and finished fourth on 36 laps ahead of Sydney's Dave Shailer on 22 laps.

The Ready Hire 24 Hour Mountain Bike Challenge is in its second year and has a large number of corporate and social teams competing alongside hardened mountain bikers. The next event is a 12 hour Mountain Bike Challenge in August.

Results

Solo Men
 
1 Simon Bowen             42 laps
2 Jukka Ylinen            37
3 Brad Connor             36
5 Dave Shailer            22
 
Solo Women
 
1 Belinda Mcintyre        32 laps
 
Overall Teams
 
1 Nerang Cycles                                                    83 laps
 (Jordan Vogel, Mark Skroblin,
 Jody Waters, Michael Skroblin)
 
2 P-Co Train                                                       83
 (Jeromy Claridge, Peter Herzig, Mike Maloneu, 
 David Penhaligon, Andrew Penhaligon, Runar Broste)
 
3 Spartans                                                         82
 (Peter Janssen, Aubrey Clarke, Mat Smith,
 Tim Polson, John Forbes, Cam Rogers)
 
Two Man Teams
 
1 Trek (I Stewart, J Spackman)                                     71 laps
2 Uncomfortably Numb (P Haywood, R Gibbons)                        35
3 K & T (T Pursey, K Prior)                                        25
 
Four Person Teams
 
1 Nerang Cycles (J Vogel, M Skroblin, J Waters, M Skroblin)        83 laps
2 Team Toitoise Three (G Mcintyre, J Rowe, M Huggers, A Wegener)   74
3 We Just Want The Sox (S Wode, A Bale, B Davis, A Mallet)         73
 
Six Person Teams
 
1 P-Co Train                                                       83 laps
 (J Claridge, P Herzig, M Maloney, 
 D Penhaligon, A Penhaligon, R Broste)
 
2 Spartans                                                         82
 (P Janssen, A Clarke, M Smith,
 T Polson, J Forbes, C Rogers)
 
3 Teenage Dirtbags Except Two                                      78
 (J Keep, R Brand, N Federicks,
 A Brown, S Tate, D Pursey)