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Men's Individual Time Trial, 42 kms:Canadian cyclist Eric Wohlberg beat Stuart O'Grady after the Credit Agricole rider came down badly and lost more than 2 minutes. He crashed into a fence at the 29 kms mark and was forced to swap bikes. He had extensive abrasions but restarted and finished only 15 seconds down. Clearly, he would have slaughtered Wohlberg had he not crashed.He told the press: "I virtually got all the way around the corner and then at the last minute the tire went from under me. Obviously, when you come off at 60 km an hour, not wearing a lot of clothes, you've always got a lot of bruises and a lot of skin off. I think I would have been 2.5 minutes faster if I didn't have the crash and it's pretty unfortunate."
1. Eric Wohlberg (Canada) 53.15 2. Stuart O'Grady (Australia) 53.30 0.15 3. David George (South Africa) 53.56 0.41 4. Matthew White (Australia) 54.05 0.50 5. James Perry (South Africa) 54.09 0.54 6. Stuart Dangerfield (England) 54.13 0.58 7. Chris Newton (England) 54.16 1.01 8. Mat Anand (Canada) 55.08 1.53 9. Peter Rogers (Australia) 55.17 2.02 10. Robert Hunter (South Africa) 55.23 2.08 11. James Gladwell (Scotland) 55.27 2.12 12. David McCann (Northern Ireland) 55.52 2.37 13. Lee Vertongen (New Zealand) 56.17 3.02 14. Patrick Haberland (Mauritius) 56.24 3.09 15. Samuel Firby (Jersey) 56.32 3.17 16. Mannie Heymans (Namibia) 56.46 3.31 17. Matthew Postle (Wales) 57.02 3.47 18. Elliot Hubbard (Bermuda) 57.13 3.58 19. Robert Holden (Isle of Man) 57.30 4.15 20. Shahrulneeza Razali (Malaysia) 57.36 4.21 21. David Njau (Kenya) 57.59 4.44 22. Richard Moore (Scotland) 58.30 5.15 23. Duke Merren (Cayman Islands) 58.55 5.40 24. Mahadzir Hamad (Malaysia) 58.58 5.43 25. Frank Bombosch (Namibia) 59.44 6.29 26. Scot Hamilton (Northern Ireland) 59.56 6.41 27. Jacques Celliers (Namibia) 1.00.22 7.07 28. John Boone (Northern Ireland) 1.01.08 7.53 29. Crispine Omondi (Kenya) 1.01.26 8.11 30. Colin Mayer (Mauritius) 1.01.34 8.19 31. David Hobson (Guernsey) 1.01.38 8.23 32. Maurice Waweru (Kenya) 1.02.11 8.56 33. Gerard L'Introuvable (Mauritius) 1.02.30 9.15 34. Manny Helmot (Guernsey) 1.02.44 9.29 35. Ernest Meighan (Belize) 1.03.22 10.07 36. Owono Owono (Cameroon) 1.03.53 10.38 37. Simon Ngopang (Cameroon) 1.04.42 11.27 38. Ngankouan Nzenkeu (Cameroon) 1.04.51 11.36 39. Alpoin Jullies (Zambia) 1.06.34 13.19 40. Jean-Piere Guiseppin (Zambia) 1.06.39 13.24 41. Muhammad Iqbal (Pakistan) 1.06.50 13.35 42. Amjad Ali (Pakistan) 1.07.11 13.56 43. Peter Ram (Fiji) 1.11.37 18.22 44. Ken Jackson (Antigua and Barbuda) 1.11.53 18.38 45. Percy Navolo (Fiji) 1.12.09 18.54 46. William Rusia (Fiji) 1.13.56 20.41 Women's Individual Time Trial, 28 kms:Australia's best women's rider Anna Wilson won the Women's ITT in a fast time of 37.24. It made up, partly, for the disapppointment she experienced at the weekend when she pulled her foot in the sprint and had to settle for the bronze in the road race. Her average speed was 44.44 km/h for the first 14 kms and then improved marginally to finish with an average for the 28 kms of 44.72. Linda Jackson - 38.34 - who took the bronze rode a slower second half (44.25 km/h for first 14, then 43.56 km/h for the second 14).Anna told Australian radio that she had not slept very much last night because she was so nervous. She said there was only one way to cope with the nerves and that was to pedal harder. She said: "It was the hardest I have dug and the most I have hurt in a time trial. It's awesome and I'm still getting cramps from all the smiling. I was really, really, nervous this morning, sick with nerves, and I really badly wanted to have a great ride and put Sunday behind me." Australia's Kathy Watt took the bronze at 1.05 but missed the start by 29 seconds with a broken shoe strap. Her manager, Carey Hall was forced to tape the shoe at the starting line. It was a typically gutzy effort from Kathy to take third after being disadvantaged from the start. Meanwhile, Australian Cycling continued its "internal destruction of our sport" with more controversy. Allegations against Kathy Watt by senior administrators have received more attention on national media (TV and Radio) tonight than Anna's great win. CA President Ray Godkin attacked Watt and said she was disorganised and faced being left out of the team if she didn't conform. Another CA official Mike Flynn accused Kathy of failing to do the best by Australia in the road race on Sunday. Ray Godkin told the press that: "I am absolutely disgusted and it's a good example of what happens when we allow people to do their own thing outside the team management. I will assure you it won't ever happen again. It was a B-grade effort, they messed it." He was referring to Carey Hall and Kathy Watt. Watt was quoted on Australian radio as saying that women had to be treated like the men and be allowed to ride for professional teams in Europe and not be forced to ride with the national squad all the time.
1. Anna Wilson (Australia) 37.34 2. Linda Jackson (Canada) 38.34 1.00 3. Kathy Watt (Australia) 38.39 1.05 4. Yvonne McGregor (England) 39.45 2.11 5. Megan Hughes (Wales) 39.49 2.15 6. Anne Samplonius (Canada) 39.54 2.20 7. Juanita Feldhahan (Australia) 39.55 2.21 8. Maria Lawrence (England) 40.48 3.14 9. Andrea Hannos (Canada) 41.56 4.22 10. Louise Jones (Wales) 41.58 4.24 11. Claire Greenwood (Wales) 42.39 5.05 12. Ceris Gilfillan (England) 42.41 5.07 13. Bianca Netzler (Samoa) 42.50 5.16 14. Ronel Van Wyk (South Africa) 43.10 5.36 15. Zoe Anderson (Scotland) 43.43 6.09 16. Susanne Munns (Jersey) 45.12 7.38 17. Conny Kleynhans (Namibia) 45.13 7.39 18. Noor Asrina Sulaiman (Malaysia) 46.30 8.56 19. Sisilia Gravelle (Fiji) 52.47 15.13 20. Claire Thoms (Fiji) 54.55 17.21 |