Results and Reports for October 26Steinmaur Cyclocross, Switzerland Elite (20 km) 1. Wim de Vos (Ned) 57.58 2. Dieter Runkel (Neuendorf) 0.58 3. Beat Wabel (Hittnau) 1.06 4. Peter Willemsens (Bel) 1.18 5. Kurt de Roose (Bel) 1.18 6. Paul Herrijgers (Bel) 2.11 7. Wim Jacobs (Bel) 2.19 8. Roland Schätti (Oetwil am See) 2.25 9. David Seco (Sp) 2.32 10. Dany de Bie (Bel) 3.00 11. Jan Ramsauer (Russikon) 3.12 12. Jan van Donincke (Bel) 3.41 13. Alexandre Moos (Miège) 3.47 14. Beat Blum (Reiden LU) 15. Vaclav Jezek (Tch) 4.29 G. P. Fouhren CC, Luxembourg 1 Pascal Quièvreux (Fra) 46.47 2 Oliver Corpus (Ger) 1.07 3 Jerome Junker (Lux) 1.11 4 Gusty Bausch (Lux) 1.32 5 Claude Degano (Lux) 2.35 Monkey Hill Cyclo-cross, USA, October 24 Courtesy of Andrew Albright Tobias Nestle, from Team Focus in Germany, attacked early on the first lap. He turned a small advantage into a much larger advantage by extracting 10-15 seconds on each lap to win. This immediately strung the group out and riders that tried to stay with him would pay the price later. Several laps into the race, after Nestle had clearly separated himself from the field, a group of 4 formed - Prenzlow from Colorado, Applegate from New Jersey, Myerson from Mass., and Justin Thompson from Avondale Pennsylvania. By just being there, with this company, Justin Thompson has proven that not only can he ride (and out ride) some of the best Masters in the country, but that he is clearly a top 20-30 Senior rider in the US, depsite being a Junior. 45 minutes into the race, Myerson succumbed to the fatigue of having raced a hard Super Cup the day before. Applegate was next, leaving Brent and Justin vying for 2nd and 3rd. Brent separated himself from Justin for the win. Hometown boy, Greg Ferguson, fresh off his junket of local Wilmington media outlets, hauled in the tiring Myerson. Myerson however, held off Ferguson. Ferguson was rewarded for his excellent barrier technique (which ended up being the best bunny-hop) by winning the inaugural Smart Fuel Barrier Competition, which was judged by announcers Joe Saling and John Verheul. The course, set-up by Dave Manhardt and the First State Velo Sport Crew was met with rave reviews by many racers. They thought it had an excellent mix of run-ups, easy grass, slow-bog grass, up and downhills. In the News Journal Monkey Hill Cyclo-Cross Women's Elite race (one of the first ever sanctioned by the UCI), Jen Dial (Independent Fabrications) walked away with the win by over two minutes, the women's BULOVA watch for first place, and the SMART FUEL Barrier competition. This was the first year for this barrier contest and it proved to be a crowd favorite, in which the rider demonstrating the most style hurdling or bunny-hopping the SMART FUEL barrier, was awarded a generous assortment of Smart Fuel energy products. Currently 5th in the Super Cup Series, Dial demonstrated why she is among the elite of the talented U.S. cyclo-cross women. 2nd place went to another nationally ranked rider, Christine Vardaros (Jamba Juice/Aegis) who flew in from California for the three east coast women's UCI races (Monkey Hill, Boston and New York Super Cup). Rounding out the top five were three talented regional riders - Julie Larson (Lateral Stress Velo), Zina Newell, and Ann Greenwood (South Mountain Velo). The Master's 30+ event saw some top national riders do battle. Current National Champion Gunnar Shogren (Allegheny) of West Virginia and Mike Yozell (Trek) of Philly broke clear of the pack early on. Working steadily, their gap grew to two minutes by the end. Since they were both racing the Elite Race later in the day, then were content to let the last lap decide who the winner was going to be. Going over the Smart Fuel Barrier the last time, one of Gunnar's fans yelled something about "Elbows! Elbows! Gunnar" as both riders had been easily clearing the Smart Fuel Barrier with bunny-hops and perhaps Yozell needed some slowing down. However, the last time over the Smart Fuel barrier, Gunnar had no need for elbows as he shut down Yozell going into the sweeping turn before the barrier. The riders dropped down to the bottom of the course, with Gunnar in the lead and the 20 second climb up the cobbles of Monkey Hill ahead of them. Yozell attacked hard up the climb and had a clear gap by the time he made the left turn to the finish stretch on the World playground. Third place went to Chris Long (Brooklyn), with Mike Ventola (Sand Hill Cycling) and Philly's Scott Wilson (Evolution) fourth and fifth. The B race was won by Gordon Watson (Bicycle Therapy) by over a minute against the largest field of the day. Junior Email sensation, Nick Atkins won the Junior race that started at 11am and then was 2nd in the Men's B race that started at noon. Look for this Bayside Velo rider in the future, both on the computer and high-up in the race results for cyclo-cross. 1 Tobias Nestle (Focus) 58.18 2 Brent Prenzlow (Bonafide) 59.59 3 Justin Thompson (Devo) 1.00.07 4 Andy Applegate (Ideal Tile) 1.00.24 5 Adam Myerson (NCC) 1.00.59 6 Greg Ferguson (Trek) 1.01.00 7 Mike Yozell (Trek) 1.01.48 8 George Mena (Bicycle Therapy) 1.02.13 9 Randall Root (Snow Valley) 1.02.49 10 James Bilodeau (Team Douglas) 1.02.59 11 Blair Saunders (Delaware) 1.03.21 12 Jason Moore (Devo) 1.04.02 13 Christopher Newell (RPM Cycling) 1.04.32 14 Gunnar Shogren (Allegheny) 1.05.03 15 Szymon Niemotko (Somerset Wheelmen) 1 lap 16 Matt Myers (Trek) 17 Brent Biddle (FSVS) 18 Phil Riggio (Pax Velo) 19 Mike Kuhn (Wendy's/AllSport) 20 Peter Hymas (Piedmont) 21 John Verheul (Somerset Wheelmen) 22 Rick Mihills (FSVS) 23 Brent Kametz (Green Mtn) 24 Rob Palachick (Bicycle Therapy) 25 Mike Tamayo (Defeet) 26 Mike Buchness (Bike Doctor) 27 Basil Moutsopoulos (Cycling Spoken) Elite Women 1 Jennifer Dial (Independent Fabrications) 2 Christine Vardaros (Jamba Juice/Aegis) 3 Julie Larson (Lateral Stress Velo) 4 Zina Newell 5 Ann Greenwood (S. Mtn Velo) 6 Tammy Ebersole (Evolution) 7 Amy Lowry (Future Champions) 8 Jeannette Rengers (Wooden Wheels) 9 Diane Vettori (Wooden Wheels) Masters 30+ 1 Mike Yozell (Trek) 46.50.0 2 Gunnar Shogrun (Allegheny) 46.55.6 3 Chris Long Brooklyn 49.14.5 4 Mike Ventola (Sa Hill Cycl.) 49.55.7 5 Scott Wilson (Evolution) 50.14.5 6 Jeff Putman (OVC) 50.35.8 7 Charles Lortz (Lateral Stress) 50.48.6 8 Mike Hebe (Team Harrisburg) 51.16.7 9 John Frey (Northampton) 52.44.3 10 Bill Allmon (Chesapeake W.) 53.04.3 40+ 1 Munzio (Dibiasi) 2 Walt Ramos (Main Line) 3 Dave Mitchell (QCW) 50+ 1 Joe Saling (Somerset Wheelmen) 2 Ber Williams Juniors 1 Nick Atkins (Bayside) 2 Jim Scolto (Mt. Airy) B Race 1 Gordon Watson (Bicycle Therapy) 45.53.0 2 Nick Atkins (Bayside Velo) 47.03.5 3 Eric Schlauch (Somerset Wheelmen) 47.12.4 4 Mike Dovin (Shirk's) 5 Jason Beaupre (Cooper Racing) 6 Andrew Dietrich (Whole Wheel) 7 Andy Neumann (Evolution) 8 John Guenter (FSVS) 9 Rob Horton (Bucks County) 10 Bill Laudien (All Sport) 11 Tom Snyder (NCVC) 12 Marc Vettori (Wooden Wheels) 13 Rob Lea (Fuji) 14 Nils Anestad (Leigh Wheelmen) 15 Chip Sovek (PVC) 16 Joe Farber (U of Penn) 17 Jordon Cross (Tri Power) 18 Sean McGinnis (CRC) 19 Jason Cimini (Dunbars) 20 Blake Tart (Bicycle Therapy) 21 Chris Faino (Evolution) 22 T.(C. Carney Avalon) 23 Todd Chewning (LSV) 24 Aaron Lee (Nat'l Capitol) 25 Steve Caffrey (FSVS) 26 Ron Hermann 27 Daryl Goss (FSVS) 28 John Hostetter (LSV) 29 Marc Galietta 1 lap down 30 Sean Matthews 31 Craig Callan (Highla Park) 32 John Hartmann (Century Road) 33 Craig Thomas 34 Donald Rucker (Avalon) 35 Kevin Tuttle (Main Line) 36 Marc Frazer (Avalon) 37 Terry Blanch (Wooden Wheels) 38 Ron Gross (All Sport) C Race 1 Jason Clark 2 Andrew Hogg (FSVS) 3 Eric Baker (ECW) 4 Henry Tremper (FSVS) 5 Paul Inglis (Dunbar) 6 Jason Jeffas (ECW) 7 Eddie Loewenstein (QCW) 8 Eric Moran 9 Malcolm Fo (Biciletta) 10 Jose Ramos 11 P. John Paulson Carnegie-Caulfield CC Criteriums, October 24 On the final day of The Herald-Sun Tour, a small combined field of 82 riders competed in the Carnegie-Caulfield Cycling Club’s criterium. Held on Glenvale Crescent Mulgrave, Victoria the fast, flat 1000-metre circuit provided a fitting environment for the days racing. A and B grades started together due to low entries, with separate results taken for each grade. As expected the A grade riders wreaked havoc upon the hapless B grade field. In the later half of the hour long race a strong group of four aces escaped achieving up to 15 seconds on the field. At three laps to go Hilton Clarke jnr. Skipped away with his mentor Stephen Pate covering the remaining escapees. Clarke won sitting up with Pate easily accounting for Chris Carr and M. Finley The ferocious pace imposed on the B graders left only five to contest the finish. Steve Martin won a tight sprint with a well-timed throw from David O’Leary, Doug Garley and Adam Bonney. C grade witnessed a long lone break by Mark Windram in the early stages absorbed by the largest field of the day mid race. The relatively intact group sprinted with the benefit of a strong tail wind with Lincoln Brown victorious, then Craig Hawke, Hugh Watson and Leo DiMartino. A rare occurrence in D grade, a successful breakaway established by two juniors before half distance reinforced by three riders crossing the gap to ride to a win by over 40 seconds. A GRADE 17 Starters 60 minutes + 3 laps 1 H Clarke jnr. 2 S Pate 3 C Carr 4 M Finley B GRADE 23 Starters 60 minutes + 3 laps 1 S Martin 2 D O’Leary 3 D Garley 4 A Bonney C GRADE 29 Starters 45 minutes + 3 laps 1 L Brown 2 C Hawke 3 H Watson 4 L DiMartino D GRADE 17 Starters 45 minutes + 3 laps 1 S Hurron 2 M Ford 3 T Beasley 4 J Maliekzewski
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