Australian National XC Series #6 - NE

Beaudesert, Queensland, March 29, 2003

Results

Rowney proves his point

By Sharon Payne

Olympic mountain biker, Paul Rowney was spurred on by a large field of much younger riders to a major win in the final round of the National Mountain Bike Series today in Beaudesert. Ninety riders from all states of Australia headed out on the new cross country course. The fiercest competition came in the elite men and U/23 division with Rowney, 33, dominating the seven lap race.

"The young guys give me a bit of 'stick' out training but it was good to come out and give them a bit of a hiding," said Rowney. Rowney took the fastest lap of the day with a 15.49 in the third of seven laps. A sprint for second place saw Perren Delacour narrowly beat Peter Hatton, 19 who had secured ample points in the 5 earlier races to take out the Overall Series win. Murray Spinks from Manly came into the final in second place but his withdrawal allowed Rowney's teammate, Aiden Lefmann to swap series positions and finish second overall.

Mountain bike's glamour girl and series leader Niki Gudex won the won the elite women's race in 1.27.09. She led Gold Coast's Sharon Heap by eight minutes with Lynne Robinson from Bowral in third. The overall standings saw Gudex , Robinson in second and Maria Papadopolous in third.

Local Gold Coast riders faired well with Jack Weitenberg winning Masters 3 and 4, Alan Mumford, taking the Masters 5 win but without enough points to secure a series win. The U/15 Series win went to Gold Coast's Zac McAnally with teammate Daniel Hallam third.

Results

Elite Men
 
1 Paul Rowney                        1.54.37
2 Perren Delacour                       3.42
3 Peter Hatton                          3.43
4 Chris Jongewaard                      9.21
5 Jai Crawford                         10.17
6 Aiden Lefmann                        10.34
7 Shaun Lewis                          14.50
8 Andrew Wegener                    at 1 lap
9 Peter McLean
10 Scott Finlay
11 Stephen Perry                   at 2 laps
DNF Murray Spink
DNF Jordan Vogel
DNF Brendan Kay
 
Expert Men
 
1 Jared Dwyer                        1.59.08
2 David Kenney                          4.18
3 Patrick Galbraith-Robertson          14.24
4 Justin Bagge                         18.54
 
Sport Men
 
1 Nathan Lorkin                        56.59
2 Andrew Mallet                         1.59
3 Darren Mimica                         6.36
4 Simon Pateman                         7.48
5 Shawn Garraway                       10.22
6 Chris Walker                         12.21
7 James Douglas                        12.55
8 Darren Perry                         13.28
9 Evan Broughton                       17.01
10 Nathan Campbell                     21.52
11 Chris Byron                         25.26
12 Andrew Paton                        27.02
13 Tim Grover                          27.13
14 Won Jae Lee                         27.58
15 David Grupe                      at 1 lap
DNF Brendon Gittins
DNF Mark Evans
DNS Nicholas Marentis
DNS Graeme Mitchem
 
Elite Women
 
1 Niki Gudex                         1.27.09
2 Sharon Heap                           7.52
3 Lynne Robinson                       13.27
4 Maria Papadopolous                   15.43
5 Joanne Fox                           19.02
DNF Sian Pugh
 
Sport Women
 
1 Lee Schulz                           48.12
2 Donna Hamlin                          1.46
3 Mary Young                           19.08
 
Master 1 & 2 Men
 
1 Sean Kierce                        1.35.02
2 Wes Samson                           12.14
DNF Darren Eckhold
DNF John Solah
DNF David Booth
 
Master 1 & 2 Women
 
1 Gillian Duncan                       57.04
2 Jeni Watson                          20.15
DNS Melinda Syman
 
Master 3 & 4 Men
 
1 Brett Stevens                      1.17.56
2 Jack Weitenberg                       4.41
3 Howard Duhs                           4.42
4 Garron Buckland                       6.10
5 Ole Hanson                            7.05
6 Keith Jarrott                        30.09
7 Kevin Jones                       at 1 lap
8 Brenton Michael
DNF Les Heap
DNF Garry Brenton
DNS Mark Meyers
 
Master 5 Men
 
1 Alan Mumford                       1.05.43
2 Brian Case                            3.00
3 Greg Carr                             5.34
4 Ken Mullaly                       at 1 lap
 
U19 Men
 
1 Alistair Farley                    1.26.14
2 Shaun Lewis                           0.02
3 Daniel McConnell                      2.21
4 James Maebus                          2.48
5 Mark Frendo                           3.35
6 Justin Case                           6.02
7 Matthew Molan                         7.11
8 Bret Townsend                         8.40
9 Josh Keep                            13.16
DNF Peter Thompson
 
U17 Men
 
1 Cal Britten                          56.34
2 Garry Millburn                        0.48
3 Ryan Gittins                          1.12
4 Aden Walker                          14.15
5 Ryan Cooling                         45.16
 
U17 Women
 
1 Erica Oldfield                       47.44
 
U15 Boys
 
1 James Maltman                        42.07
2 Daniel Hallam                        47.18
3 Zac MacAnally                        49.21
4 Matt Britten                         58.32