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Results in Australia - ClarificationThe other day I wrote:I discovered this week that Cycling Australia and the Australian Sports Commission have their own internal email list and they were receiving daily updates throughout the day for each of the stages. They did not see fit to release these details to us so that their enjoyment could be shared by all of us via my service. After contact with Cycling Australia I now refine the comment to indicate that while they both have an internal email list, it seems that the updates sent on the Women's Tour of the Snowy were exclusively for the Australian Sports Commission part of the list and Cycling Australia was excluded from this information. So the "privatisation" of cycling information seems to be even more exclusive than I first reported. Rudy Dhaenens deadFormer Belgian world pro champion (Utsonomiya 1990) Rudy Dhaenens died in hospital at 20.00 CET on Monday 6th of April. He had a car accident in Aalst on the E40 motorway sunday morning when he was on his way to Meerbeke to report the RVV for Eurosport TV. Rudy Dhaenens was 36 years old. He quit the pro cycling circuit in 1992 after a heart disease was discovered during a routine check up.Johan Museeuw on the RVVJohan Museeuw said after the race that he had pain after his fall in the RVV but he admitted having very good information about the last part of the parcours. A cyclist (Patrick de Clercq) was the winner of the RVV for cyclosportives on Saturday. Patrick told Johan Museeuw on Saturday night about the wind-situation in the final kms."He told me that after the Bosberg you had the wind in the back. Patrick told me it was very easy to ride at 50 km/ph. When a cycle tourist can make that speed, a professional like me has to be able to ride at 55, I thought." Beaconsfield, England, GP Archer, Premier Race, 170 kms, April 51. Jon Clay (UK) Brite RT 4.11.15 2. Chris Newton (UK) Brite RT 0.42 3. Matt Beckett (UK) North Wirral Velo s.t. 4. Scott Gamble (UK) Linda McCartney RT 1.05 5. Drew Wilson (UK) Clarke Contracts s.t. 6. David Rand (UK) PDM Sports s.t. 7. David Oakley (UK) West Drayton MBC 1.15 8. Lee Davies (UK) Terry Wright Cycles s.t. 9. Mark McKay (UK) Harrods-Giant 1.20 10. Nick Craig (UK) Diamond Back 1.24From Paul Curran Blackburn Cycling Club, Lang Lang 150, April 4A cool and overcast day welcomed the second running of this tough 150 kilometre event held in the picturesque hills around the Gippsland town of Lang Lang. Run by the Blackburn Cycling Club, this mass start A, B and C grade race featured a tough hilly course and $1000 in prizemoney.Last year saw 100 bike riders fight out the inaugural event, with junior worlds rider Andrew Stalder taking the race from Herald-Sun Tour star Robert Tighello. Stalder was back in 1998 to defend his title. This year he faced a very tough field, including Tighello, Tour of Tasmania stage winner Tom Leaper, comeback kid Matt Goold, VIS boys Jamie Drew and Wayne Kestle, Luke Weir, Jerome Walters and Hayden Bradbury in sensational form. These were the names to watch in a strong field of 108. The race was under pressure after only 20 k?s as they hit the hills. A breakaway went, including danger man Luke Weir. When the big names saw he was gone, the hammer went down and the race was blown apart in the hills to Poowong. Enthusiastic locals were treated to the sight of a strung out field as Bradbury drove a lead bunch of 15 up to the break. A war of attrition followed as riders gradually fell back in the hills. A final lead group of 6 formed, including Drew, Kestle, Stalder, Leaper, Walters and Murray Fenwick. Bradbury punctured and lost the lead group. A chase group behind included the lead B graders, with former World Champion Rob Santagada driving. A third group formed, including promising under 19 riders Michael Knoff and Chris Rossi. The lead group kept attacking each other , but it all come together for a sprint finish. Jamie Drew put in a fine sprint to pip Tom Leaper by half a wheel with Luke Weir third and defending champion Andrew Stalder fourth. Santagada took the B grade, while youngster Chris Rossi put in the ride of his life to be the only C grader to finish the race, showing great promise for the future. Western Australian MastersThe Annual Age race was held on Saturday, April 5 on a course south of Perth, quite close to Jandakot Airport.35-49 Alan Tindale 1, Mike Lawrence 2, Attila Nagy 3. 18 riders started the race of ten laps of a 5km circuit.We had a Lady racing today, Janelle Parke who aquitted herself very well in the event, finishing 10th. Three quaters of the way through the race a bunch of five riders broke away to stay away to the end. 50-59 Steff Ratcliffe 1, Wayne Lally 2, Bob Stephens 3. This was over 50km's also but no big breaks just hard riding. 60+ Larry Ross 1, Stan Baker 2, Ron Knowles 3. This was definitely a race for the young end of the 60 year olds. Larry Ross and Stan Baker put the hammer down from the start. The bunch stayed intact for the first 20kms of the 40km race, and then the pressure went on and five riders opened up a gap and built on it, staying together to the sprint with Larry Ross getting the verdict by the narrowest of margins. Weisbaden, Söhnlein-Rheingold, Cat 1.51. Uwe Hardter (Ger) Elite 2. Torsten Nitsche (Ger) Elite 3. Andreas Riedel (Ger) Elite 4. Christian Schrot (Ger) Elite 5. Jonas Owczarek (Ger) Elite Omloop van noord-west Overijssel, Netherlands1 Van Leeuwen 2 Orvano 3 Lenferink EDS Track Cup, Olympic Velodrome, California, Round 1, April 3-5After two rain-delay filled days of racing at the Olympic Velodrome, the skies finally cleared, allowing the EDS Track Cup ’98 to conclude with six final events.Double winners on the day included Shawn Wallace (Harlow CC) of Great Britain and Marty Nothstein (Team EDS), Trexlertown, Pa. The action finished the three-day event at the site of the 1984 Olympic Games. It was the first major event to come to the track since 1989 as it is hoped that it signals a new era of racing at the facility, which is set to move under the direction of the newly-formed Southern California Velodrome Association, which will operate this track, along with velodromes in San Diego and Encino. Nothstein took advantage of a strong lead-out from his Team EDS teammates to win the keirin, a sprint event in which competitors are paced by a motorcycle until two laps remain in the race. Nothstein then sprinted past Paul Swift (Peloton Fitness) for the win. His teammates Gil Hatton, Alburtis, Pa., and Mark Garrett, Arcadia, Calif., were third and fourth, respectively. Nothstein, Garrett and Trey Gannon, Plano, Texas, won the 1,000-meter Olympic sprint in one minute, 4.650 seconds, over a second faster than the second-place Cox Atlanta Velo team. Wallace won in two team events, combining with Sheldon Serrao of Trinidad and Tobago to win the Madison prior to joining a composite squad of Adam Laurent, Shell Beach, Calif.; Ben Sharp, Indianapolis, Ind.; and Chris Carlson, Dallas, Texas, to win the team pursuit event. The composite squad’s team pursuit time was four minutes, 43.791 seconds. A junior team of Andrew Wilkes, Will Frischkorn, Michael Creed and Ryan Miller -- all of Colorado Springs, Colo. -- finished second with a time of 4:45.978. In other action, Marisa Vande Velde (BMC-WalMart), Lemont, Ill., earned her first major senior-level win in the women’s 3km individual pursuit. Vande Velde’s time of three minutes, 56. 658 seconds was over three seconds faster than any other rider in the field. Women’s sprint champion Jennie Reed (Ikon- Lexus), Issaquah, Wash., was second in 4:00.344. Adam Payne (Cox Atlanta Velo), Conifer, Colo., won the men’s points race by capturing the final, double-point sprint at the end of the 30km race. Payne’s win in the final sprint gave him a single point edge over Wallace, 26 points to 25. The EDS Track Cup ’98 is a five-event, national series designed to enhance track racing in the United States. Close to 200 athletes competed in the event at the Olympic Velodrome. The next round is May 29-31 at the Major Taylor Velodrome in Indianapolis, Ind.
Men’s Points Race, 30km 1. ADAM PAYNE (COX ATLANTA VELO), Conifer, Colo., 26 pts (2 sprint wins); 2. Shaun Wallace (Harlow CC), Southampton, England, 25 (5); 3. Dylan Casey (Shaklee), Mountain View, Calif., 18 (3); 4. Ryan Oelkers (Team EDS), New Tripoli, Pa., 17 (0); 5. Chris Carlson (Team EDS), Dallas, Texas, 14 (1); 6. Ben Sharp (unattached), Indianapolis, Ind., 13 (1); 7. Adam Laurent (Navigators), Shell Beach, Calif., 8 (1); 8. Matt Koschara (Shaklee), Carrboro, N.C., 7 (0); 9. John Walrod (unattached), Macungie, Pa., 5 (0); 10. Steve Hegg (Shaklee), Cardiff, Calif., 5 (0). Men’s Olympic Sprint, 1km 1. TEAM EDS 1 (TREY GANNON, Plano, Texas; MARTY NOTHSTEIN, Trexlertown, Pa.; MARK GARRETT, Arcadia, Calif.), one min, 4.650 secs; 2. Cox Atlanta Velo (Garth Blackburn, Houston, Texas; Adam Payne, Conifer, Colo.; Sky Christopherson, Tucson, Ariz.), 1:05.755; 3. Ikon-Lexus 2 (John Bairos, Redlands, Calif.; Billy Clay, Gurnee, Ill.; Jason Garner, Newport Beach, Calif.), 1:06.116; 4. No Name 2 (Roger Farrell, Trinidad and Tobago; Willie Zegers, Davie, Fla.; Michael Phillips, Trinidad and Tobago), 1:07.816; 5. Team EDS 2 (Nick Chenowth, Plano, Texas; Gil Hatton, Alburtis, Pa.; Ryan Oelkers, New Tripoli, Pa.), 1:08.849; 6. Tri State Velo 1 (Bob Schuler, Breiningsville, Pa.; Nathan Rogut, Tampa, Fla.; Sam Baker, Ventura, Calif.), 1:09.038; 7. Ikon-Lexus 1 (Danny Reid, Redlands, Calif.; Steve Alfred, Trinidad and Tobago; Mark Rosenthal, San Diego, Calif.), 1:09.061; 8. Tri State Velo 2 (Giddeon Massie, Zion Hill, Pa.; Jason Orowitz, Bethlehem, Pa.; Kyle Wamsley, Chadds Ford, Pa.), 1:10.126; 9. Celo Pacific (Bruce Smith, Yucaipa, Calif.; Josiah Ng, Loma Linda, Calif.; Oliver Schulz, Valley Village, Calif.), 1:11.254; 10. Ikon-Lexus 3 (Derek Witte, Oakland, Calif.; Stan Bunn, San Diego, Calif.; Doug Kyle, Temecula, Calif.), 1:12.815. Women’s Individual Pursuit, 3km 1. MARISA VANDE VELDE (BMC-WALMART), Lemont, Ill., three mins, 56.658 secs; 2. Jennie Reed (Ikon-Lexus), Issaquah, Wash., 4:00.344; 3. Erin Veenstra (BMC- WalMart), Colorado Springs, Colo., 4:02.446; 4. Ryan Kelly (Team EDS), Portland, Ore., 4:02.671; 5. Jennifer Evans (Team EDS), Austin, Texas, 4:03.361; 6. Megan Troxell (Stanford-NationsBank), Palo Alto, Calif., 4:04.846; 7. Terry Roach (Landis-Scott Toyota), Phoenix, Ariz., 4:09.292; 8. Karen Dunne (Team EDS), Colorado Springs, Colo., 4:13.916; 9. Nina Strika (unattached), Conyers, Ga., 4:15.815; 10. Lisa Merrell (Puget Sound), Seattle, Wash., 4:16.685. Men’s Keirin 1. MARTY NOTHSTEIN (TEAM EDS), Trexlertown, Pa.; 2. Paul Swift (Peleton Fitness), Kenosha, Wis.; 3. Gil Hatton (Team EDS), Alburtis, Pa.; 4. Jason Garner (Ikon-Lexus), Newport Beach, Calif.; 5. Mark Garrett (Team EDS), Arcadia, Calif.; 6. Mike McMahon (Team Velocity), Fullerton, Calif.; 7. Roger Farrell (New Jersey BC), Trinidad and Tobago; 8. Trey Gannon (Team EDS), Plano, Texas; 9. Billy Clay (Ikon-Lexus, Gurnee, Ill.; 10. Butch Stinton (Circle Cycle-Cannondale), Simi Valley, Calif. Madison, 33km 1. SOUTHAMPTON WHEELERS (SHAUN WALLACE, Southampton, England, and SHELDON SERRAO, Trinidad and Tobago), 23 pts (3 sprint wins); 2. Team EDS (Chris Carlson, Dallas, Texas, and Ryan Oelkers, New Tripoli, Pa.), 11 (0); 3. Shaklee 1 (Jonas Carney, Boulder, Colo., and Mike Tillman, Santa Monica, Calif.), 10 (1); 4. Shaklee 2 (Jame Carney, Durango, Colo., and Steve Hegg, Cardiff, Calif.), 10 (0); 5. No Name 2 (Ben Sharp, Indianapolis, Ind., and John Walrod, Macungie, Pa.), 6 (1); 6. Mongoose (Curtis Tolson, Louisville, Ky., and Andy Carlson, Indianapolis, Ind.), 6 (0); 7. Velocity (Steve Horstmeyer, El Segundo, Calif., and Mike McMahon, Fullerton, Calif.), - 2 laps, 0; 8. Ikon-Lexus 2 (Doug Kyle, Temecula, Calif., and Stan Bunn, San Diego, Calif.), -2, 0. Men’s 4km Team Pursuit 1. EDS COMPOSITE (CHRIS CARLSON, Dallas, Texas; BEN SHARP, Indianapolis, Ind.; SHAUN WALLACE, Southampton, England; ADAM LAURENT, Shell Beach, Calif.), four mins, 43.791 secs; 2. Hot Tubes (Andrew Wilkes, Colorado Springs, Colo.; Will Frischkorn, Colorado Springs; Michael Creed, Colorado Springs; Ryan Miller, Colorado Springs), 4:45.978; 3. Shaklee (Jame Carney, Durango, Colo.; Dylan Casey (Mountain View, Calif.; Mike Tillman, Santa Monica, Calif.; Steve Hegg, Cardiff, Calif.), 4:51.896; 4. Team T-Town (True Brown, Manchester, Vt.; Kyle Wamsley, Chadds Ford, Pa.; Ryan Stoner, Jacksonville, Fla.; Giddeon Massie, Zion Hill, Pa.), 4:53.365; 5. Jane’s Cosmetics (Ian Bettinger, San Diego, Calif.; Erik Wochna, Winnettea, Calif.; Butch Stinton, Simi Valley, Calif.; Scott Evans, Tarzana, Calif.), 5:03.804; 6. Celo Pacific (Oliver Schulz, Valley Village, Calif.; Josiah Ng, Loma Linda, Calif.; Bruce Smith, Yucaipa, Calif.; Mike Seely, Westminster, Calif.), 5:04.634; 7. Ikon-Lexus (Derek Witte, Oakland, Calif.; Dan Reid, Redlands, Calif.; Stan Bunn, San Diego, Calif.; Doug Kyle (Temecula, Calif.), 5:09.944. Minnesota Cyclo Cross, April 4The race went off with out a hitch this past Saturday, 4/4/98. 55 riders took part in what was called by spectators and participants "a true Eureopan style event." Weather in the mid sixties made for excellent racing conditions and participants were truly tested by the course. The course led the riders over fast gravel and tarmac, lawn and prairie grass and a dreaded ankle deep mud run through. The revenue from the race went to the Salvation Army for the Southern Minnesota Tornado Relief Fund to assist those in need after terrible storms tore through the state the previous weekend.
C Race Women - 30 minutes 1. Chris Kane SPBRC 2. Diana Phillips GIS 3. Jean Zeh GIS C Race Men - 30 minutes 1. Robert Yorga 2. Gary Sjoquist 3. Todd Sorlie B Race Men - 45 minutes 1. Brian Mohrlant 2. Walt Huemmer 3. Kevin Nolen SPBRC 4. Keith Kowalsky GIS 5. Thomas MacDonald SPBRC 6. Mark Ambrose Freewheel 7. Ben Bodenhammer Habanero 8. Wallace Hay GIS 9. Jim McCarvill GIS 10. Bryan Korb 11. John Pugh SPBRC 12. Chris Hammer 13. Greg Torp Habaneros 14. Matt Huron GIS 15. Steve Pippin Park Tool 16. Kurt Lange Velo Duluth 17. Kent Green Pedros B Race Masters - 45 minutes 1. Walt Huemmer 2. Jim Mccarvill GIS 3. John Pugh SPBRC A Race Women - 60 minutes 1. Tracey Horner GIS A Race Men - 60 minutes 1. Jason MacDonald Bennets/VW 2. Jeff Roy 3. Aaron Voreis Loon State 4. Ezra Taylor Urban Bike Squad 5. Arik Holm Como Wheelers 6. Jay Henderson Flanders 7. Scott Robertson GIS 8. Mike Pederson GIS 9. Jason Snider Urban Bike Squad 10. Jeff Bailey Uptown 11. Scott Ralston Flat City 12. Banning Ostrow SPBRC 13. Mike Benno SPBRC 14. Josh Holst Habaneros 15. Bob Boyd Maximum Velo A Race Masters - 60 minutes 1. Bill O'Reilley |