News for October 17, 1999Committee to investigate Dekker affairFollowing on from his suspension from the World Championship Road Race, a special committee has been selected to investigate the case surrounding the hematocrit level of Dutch rider Erik Dekker. Professor J Marx and Mr R. Verbunt (plus a third person, to be selected by Marx and Verbunt) will form the committee for an independent investigation following a request from Rabobank. Marx is a professor at the Academic Hospital in Utrecht and Verbunt is a lawyer and member of the top of the Dutch Fieldhockey Union with aspecial task to investigate doping. Rabobank expects they will finish their job within a few weeks and the committee will report straight to the senior management of Rabobank. Dekker, who came 8th in the ITT at the world's, was not allowed to start the road race. He was tested along with 23 other riders and was the only rider to have too high a hematocrit level and was the first Dutch rider to have tested too high. It also depleted the Dutch team for the road race, as his suspension came too late for the Dutch team to replace him, and they started with 11 riders. Kiwis plan tougher tour for 2000 The final race route for New Zealand's premier stage race, the Tour of Wellington, has been released and keeping up with tradition, there are more hills, according to Race Director Jorge Sandoval. The Tour of Wellington is a seven day stage race from January 9 - 15. Licensed by the UCI, it will bring together national New Zealand composite teams and complete international teams including "major stars of the European circuit", say the organisers (although teams are still to be announced). With an extra day's racing and many of the stages expanded from the traditional past routes, resulting in the race now covering a total of 896 km throughout the greater Wellington and the Wairarapa. "Next year's tour is breaking new ground and for the first time in the 10th year's history of the event, riders will travel to Masterton via the Rimutakas and stay there for two days. This will be hard on their legs as it happens only after two days of racing," said Sandoval. "Over the seven days of racing, riders will complete a total of 84 kilometres of hill climbing up some of the region's most tortuous hills such as the Rimutakas, Wainuiomata, The Akatarawas, Paekakaeriki and Hawkins hills." The race starts wiht a criterium in Hutt City on Sunday January 9 and will finish seven days later with a circuit race around Frank Kitts Park in the middle of Wellington.
Race Route for the 2000 Tour of Wellington Stage Route Distance Sunday Hutt City - Criterium 45 km Monday Wellington - Waikanae 60 km Via the Akatarawas Waikanae - Lower Hutt 55 km Via Paekakaeriki Hill Tuesday Wellington - Palmerston North 160 km Via Rimutakas and Masterton. Wednesday Palmerston North - Wellington 150 km Via Waikanae - Akatarawa Rd. Thursday Upper Hutt Circuit. 166 km Friday Wellington - Wainuiomata 60 km Lower Hutt - Miramar - Hawkins Hill 80 km Saturday Wellington - Te Marua - Wellington 80 km Criterium Frank Kitts Park 40 km
German, Australian & Lithuanian teams dominate With the last UCI-points for 1999 having been distributed in the World Championships, the teams from Germany, Australia and Lithuania are convincingly placed as the superpowers of women's cycling. The biggest mover over the season has been the Australian team, boosted by the excellent seasons of Anna Wilson and Tracey Gaudrey, which has given the country its best ever results in both individual and country standings. Anna Wilson, with two silver medals in the World's, and overall victory in the World Cup, is second in the individual classification with 741 points, only 31 points behind top-ranked German, Hanka Kupfernagel (772), while the third-placed Lithuanian, Diana Ziliute, is a somewhat distant third with 255 fewer points (486). Another big jump was that of Australian Tracey Gaudry, who climbed to fifth place (389), behind 1999 World Race Champion Edita Pucinskaite (Lit) with 470 points and Germany's ace sprinter Petra Rossner in sixth with 330 points. In the teams standings, Germany leads with 1,492 points, Lithuania second with 1,271 and Australia close behind with 1,252 points. The dominance of these three teams is shown by the 549-point gap to fourth-placed Russia, which scored 703. An interesting fact is that the Australian National Team missed out on two spring rounds in the World cup in Europe, with a lot of ranking points at stake. But their participation in the other races was enough to secure Anna Wilson's overall victory, although she was under considerable pressure to win the last round in Embracht, Switzerland. Wilson also won the first round in Canberra, Australia's first World Cup win ever. Tracey Gaudry won the round in Montreal and also the Tour de Snowy. The Australian women's road coach James Victor told cyclingnews in an e-mail that these rankings are important for qualification in the Olympic Games next year. The 16 top nations will have three riders in the Olympic road race, while in the ITT, the 15 top nations will have a rider each and the ten top nations in the World Championships will have one extra time trialist. Victor also noted that since four Australian riders of last season's AIS program got pro contracts, the AIS was mostly a development program. Nevertheless, Kym Shirley won the Tour de la Haute in France.
UCI Rankings, October 9, 1999 1 Hanka Kupfernagel Germany 772 2 Anna Wilson Australia 741 3 Diana Ziliute Lithuania 486 4 Edita Pucinskaite Lithuania 470 5 Tracey Gaudry Australia 389 6 Petra Rossner Germany 330 7 Zoulfia Zabirova Russia 309 8 Tatiana Stiajkina Ukraine 256 9 Gunn-Rita Dahle Norway 219 10 Lyne Bessette Canada 217 11 Joane Somarriba Arrola Spain 207 12 Jeannie Longo-Ciprelli France 205 13 Judith Arndt Germany 204 14 Leontien Zijlaard-van Morrsel Netherlands 184 15 Mari Holden USA 181 16 Rasa Polikeviciute Lithuania 180 17 Valentina Polkhanova Russia 174 18 Daniela Veronesi San Marino 160 19 Susy Pryde New Zealand 159 20 Svetlana Boubnenkova Russia 155 21 Mirjam Melchers Netherlands 153 22 Heidi Van de Vijver Belgium 151 23 Chantal Beltman Netherlands 149 24 Sara Felloni Italy 147 25 Roberta Bonanomi Italy 141 26 Gabriella Pregnolato Italy 124 27 Catherine Marsal France 123 27 Yvonne Mcgregor Great Britain 123 29 Fabiana Luperini Italy 121 29 Karen Kurreck USA 121 31 Barbara Heeb Switzerland 118 32 Pia Sundstedt Finland 117 32 Lenka Ilavska Slovakia 117 34 Jolanta Polikeviciute Lithuania 101 35 Vera Hohlfeld Germany 98 36 Zinaida Stahurskaya Beloyrussia 93 37 Cindy Pieters Belgium 91 38 Vanja Vonckx Belgium 89 39 Viola Müller-Paulitz Germany 88 39 Valeria Cappellotto Italy 88 41 Rikke Sandhøj Olsen Denmark 85 41 Elisabeth Vink Netherlands 85 43 Alessandra Cappellotto Italy 78 44 Marion Clignet France 77 44 Karen Dunne USA 77 46 Ina Teutenberg Germany 75 47 Sarah Symington Great Britain 72 47 Nicole Brändli Switzerland 72 49 Kathryn Watt Australia 67 50 Susanne Ljungskog Sweden 64 51 Arenda Grimberg Netherlands 63 52 Yuliya Murenka Ukraine 59 53 Monica Valen Norway 58 54 Elizabeth Emery USA 52 55 Nada Cristofoli Italy 51 56 Tanja Schmidt-Hennes Germany 50 57 Anne Samplonius Canada 47 57 Sanna Lehtimäki Finland 47 59 Clara Hughes Canada 46 59 Géraldine Loewenguth France 46 59 Elisabeth Chevanne-Brunel France 46 62 Emily Robbins USA 45 63 Greta Zocca 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USA 6 130 Alison Wright Australia 5 130 Alena Peterkova Czechian Republic 5 130 Karine Dalmais France 5 130 Séverine Desbouys France 5 130 Susan Carter Great Britain 5 130 Olena Budovitska Ukraine 5 136 Susan Palmer Canada 4 136 Maryline Salvetat France 4 136 Alexandra Le Henaff France 4 136 Louise Jones Great Britain 4 136 Birgit Söllner Germany 4 136 Gitana Gruodyte Lithuania 4 136 Sandra Rombouts Netherlands 4 136 Wendie Kramp Netherlands 4 136 Svetlana Samokhvalova Russia 4 136 Nicole Reinhart USA 4 146 Kristy Scrymgeour Australia 3 146 Miluse Flaskova Czechian Republic 3 146 Fatima Blazquez Lozano Spain 3 146 Angela Hunter Great Britain 3 146 Antonella Bellutti Italy 3 146 Rosalind Reekie-May New Zealand 3 146 Erica Green-Groenewald South Africa 3 146 Chantal Daucourt Switzerland 3 146 Diana Rast Switzerland 3 146 Tamara Poliakova Ukraine 3 146 Tina Mayolo USA 3 146 Serena Gazzini Italy 3 158 Mary Grigson Australia 2 158 Bridget Evans Australia 2 158 Ulrike Baumgartner Austria 2 158 Tatsiana Makeyeva Beloyrussia 2 158 Annie Gariepy Canada 2 158 Karla Polivkova Czechian Republic 2 158 Lisbeth Simper Denmark 2 158 Ann Svendsgaard Mathiasen Denmark 2 158 Aline Camboulives France 2 158 Isabelle Carro France 2 158 Virginie Moinard France 2 158 Bettina Schöke Germany 2 158 Tina Liebig Germany 2 158 Sara Savino Italy 2 158 Paola Pezzo Italy 2 158 Tania Belvederesi Italy 2 158 Miho Oki Japan 2 158 Debby Mansveld Netherlands 2 158 Jorunn Kvalö Norway 2 158 Dorota Czynszak Poland 2 158 Marion Brauen Switzerland 2 158 Yevgenia Vysotska Ukraine 2 158 Andrea Graus Austria 2 181 Joanne Robinson Australia 1 181 Veronique Belleter Belgium 1 181 Evy Van Damme Belgium 1 181 Lensy Debboudt Belgium 1 181 Cybil Di Guistini Canada 1 181 Montserrat Alonso Bernal Spain 1 181 Ruth Martinez Gomez Spain 1 181 Laurence Restoin France 1 181 Ruth Ellway Great Britain 1 181 Alexandra Nohles Germany 1 181 Veronika Pare Hungary 1 181 Simona Parente Italy 1 181 Gabriela Gonzalez de Ferrat 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26 Japan 2 28 Hungary 1 28 Mexico 1 28 Uzbekistan 1
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