Results and Reports for February 7GP della Costa EtruschiDonoratico, Italy, February 6, 2000 Courtesy of Stepháne David Results - 171 km 1 Mario Cipollini (Ita) Saeco 4.05.00 2 Endrio Leoni (Ita) Alessio SGM 3 Mauro Zinetti (Ita) Colpack 4 Marco Zanotti (Ita) Liquigas 5 Luca Paolini (Ita) Mapei 6 Matteo Tosatto (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 7 Crescenzo D'Amore (Ita) Mapei 8 Zoran Klemencic (Slo) Vini Caldirola 9 Igor Astarloa (Spa) Mercatone Uno 10 Fabio Zandarin (Ita) Alessio SGM RDP AlgarvePortugal, February 6, 2000 Courtesy of Stepháne David Results 1 Manuel Liberato (Por) Barbot/Gondomar 3.46.32 2 Angel Edo (Spa) Maia/MSS 3 Pedro Cardoso (Por) Maia/MSS 4 Helder Alves (Por) Cantanhede 5 Serguei Smetanine (Rus) Benfica 6 Saulius Sarkauskas (Lit) LA Pecol 7 Pedro Costa (Por) Barbot/Gondomar) 8 Jorge Carvalho (Spa) Paredes 9 David Martinez Moras (Por) Barbot/Gondomar 10 Paulo Ferreira (Por) Barbot/Gondomar Trans Tasman Challenge Track Cycling SeriesWanganui, New Zealand, February 3-4, 2000 Courtesy of Bryan Simmonds Wanganui triple national champion Anthony Peden claimed his second former world champion scalp in as many nights when he scored a dramatic sprint victory over Darryn Hill on the second and final night of the Trans-Tasman Challenge track cycling series at Cooks Gardens tonight. Peden, ranked No 2 in the world in the motor paced keirin, beat 1993 world and 1990-94 Commonwealth Games sprint titleholder Gary Neiwand on the first night of the Grand Hotel sponsored meeting in a final that went to three ride Tonight Peden added the scalp of 1995 world, 1996 Olympic and 1998 Commonwealth Games sprint champion Darryn Hill to his credit with the judges needed to separate the two riders as they flashed over the line together. For a second successive night Peden took the opening sprint, lost the second and was forced to ride wide to beat a former Australian team-mate. The Australians gained revenge in the 500m scratch sprint final with Neiwand holding off team-mates Hill and Danny Day after sweeping past the Kiwis on the last lap. The fate of the six-race series hung on the last race of the night, the keirin, with Hill finishing strongly to beat Neiwand and Aucklander Gavin Lee to give Australia a 4-2 overall victory. Results NIGHT ONE - February 3 Trans-Tasman events Sprint - round 1 Race 1: 1 Anthony Peden (NZ) 11.926 2 Paul Burns (Auck) 3 Richard Bowker (Auck) Race 2: 1 Darryn Hill (Aus) 11.606 2 Gavin Lee (NZ) 3 Jono Hamlin (Wang) Race 3: 1 Gary Neiwand (Aus) 12.606 2 Daniel Beatson (Feild) Race 4: 1 Danny Day (Aus) 2 Matthew Anderson (Wang) 11.622 Semi-finals Race 1: 1 Anthony Peden (NZ) 12.223 2 Danny Day (Aus) Race 2: 1 Gary Neiwand (Aus) 12.070 2 Darryn Hill (Aus) Final Race 1: 1 Anthony Peden (NZ) 11.963 2 Gary Neiwand (Aus) Race 2: 1 Gary Neiwand (Aus) 2 Anthony Peden (NZ) no time (placings reversed) Race 3: 1 Anthony Peden (NZ) 12.055 2 Gary Neiwand (Aus) For third and fourth Race 1: 1 Darryn Hill (Aus) 12.080 2 Danny Day (Aus) Race 2: 1 Darryn Hill (Aus) 11.802 2 Danny Day (Aus) Final placings: 1 Anthony Peden (NZ) 2 Gary Neiwand (Aus) 3 Darryn Hill (Aus) Olympic sprint: 1 Australia (Neiwand, Hill, Day) 49.90 2 New Zealand (Peden, Lee, Carswell) 50.08 Keirin: 1 Danny Day (Aus) 2 Gary Neiwand (Aus) 3 Darryn Hill (Aus) Trans-Tasman points (after first night). Australia 2 New Zealand 1 Supporting events Open 3000m 1 Tod Wilksch (Victoria) 3.28.285 2 Tim Bennett (Victoria) 3 Adrian Sansonetti (Victoria) Australian pursuit Race 1: 1 Greg Henderson (Otago) 2.30.037 2 Tim Carswell (Cant) 2.36.540 Race 2: 1 Gary Anderson (Wang) 2.26.90 2 Brendon Cameron (Waik) 2.31.59 Final: 1 Tim Carswell (Cant) 2.17.11 2 Greg Henderson (Otago) 2.21.34 3 Brendon Cameron (Waik) 2.24.98 4 Gary Anderson (Wang) 2.28.34 Miss and out: 1 Tim Bennett (Victoria) 3.28.285 2 Robert Wilson (Victoria) 3 Glen Thompson (Otago) Points Race (60 laps): 1 Greg Henderson (Otago) 33 pts 2 Glen Thompson (Otago) 18 3 Dayle Cheatley (Wang) 12 Keirin Race: 1 Paul Burns (Auck) 2 Richard Bowker (Auck) 3 Aaron Rusden (PN) Women 500m: 1 Liz Williams (Auck) 38.533 2 Fiona Ramage (Cant) 3 Kate Mullarkey (Auck) Points Race (20 laps): 1 Fiona Ramage (Cant) 23 pts 2 Sarah Ulmer (Auck) 12 3 Brei Gudsell (Wang) 8 Under-17 Miss and out: 1 Saul Gudsell (Wang) 2 Adam Curry (PN) 3 Joshua Smith (Levin) 1000m handicap: 1 Saul Gudsell (Wang) 1.33.53 2 Joshua Smith (Levin) 3 Adam Curry (PN) NIGHT TWO - February 4 Trans-Tasman events Sprint Semi-finals Race 1: 1 Darryn Hill (Aus) 11.51 2 Gary Neiwand (Aus) 3 Gavin Lee (NZ) Race 2: 1 Anthony Peden (NZ) 11.46 2 Danny Day (Aus) 3 Matt Sinton (NZ) Final Race 1: 1 Anthony Peden (NZ) 11.91 2 Darryn Hill (Aus) Race 2: 1 Darryn Hill (Aus) 11.757 2 Anthony Peden (NZ) Race 3: 1 Anthony Peden (NZ) 12.47 2 Darryn Hill (Aus) 500m sprint Semi-finals Race 1 1 Gavin Lee (NZ) 37.77 2 Danny Day (Aus) 3 Gary Neiwand (Aus) Race 2 1 Darryn Hill (Aus) 37.137 2 Matt Sinton (NZ) 3 Anthony Peden (NZ) Final 1 Gary Neiwand (Aus) 37.39 2 Darryn Hill (Aus) 3 Danny Day (Aus) Keirin Semi-finals Race 1: 1 Gavin Lee (NZ) 12.119 2 Darryn Hill (Aus) 3 Danny Day (Aus) Race 2 1 Anthony Peden (NZ) 12.152 2 Paul Burns (Auck) 3 Gary Neiwand (Aus) Final 1 Darryn Hill (Aus) 11.632 2 Gary Neiwand (Aus) 3 Gavin Lee (NZ) Final Trans-Tasman points 1 Australia 4 pts 2 New Zealand 2 Open events: River City WheelRace handicap Race 1 1 Tim Bennett (Victoria - Scr) 1.47.72 2 Tim Carswell (Cant - Scr) 3 Robert Wilson (Victoria - Scr) Race 2 1 Richard Bowker (Auck - 70m) 1.42.28 2 Julian Hoogland (Waik - 80m) 3 Dayle Cheatley (Wang - 50m) Final 1 Tod Wilksch (Victoria - scr) 1.42.90 2 Tim Carswell (Cant - Scr) 3 Tim Bennett (Victoria - Scr) Madison 3000m pursuit Race 1 1 Julian Dean (Rotorua) - Tim Carswell 3.30.979 2 Robert Wilson - Adrian Sansonetti (Victoria) 3.47.74 Race 2 1 Greg Henderson (Otago) - Gary Anderson (Wang) 3.28.825 2 Tim Bennett - Todd Wilksch (Victoria) 3.32.02 Final 1 Greg Henderson (Otago) - Gary Anderson (Wang) 3.33.826 2 Julian Dean (Rotorua) - Tim Carswell 3.34.100 500m sprint handicap: 1 Matthew Anderson (Wang - 40m) 33.655 2 Richard Bowker (30m) 2 3 Daniel Beatson (Feilding - 20m) 8000m 1 Brendon Cameron (Waik) 9.54.661 2 Tim Carswell (Cant) 3 Greg Henderson (Otago) Women: 1500m handicap 1 Catherine Sell (Wang - 70m) 1.55.74. 2 Brei Gudsell (Wang - 120m) 3 Fiona Ramage (Cant - 20m) Keirin 1 Fiona Ramage (Cant) 30.25 2 Liz Williams (Auck) 3 Kate Mullarkey (Auck) Under-17 500m handicap 1 Ben Stevens (Feilding - 25m) 38.038 2 Michael Rowan (Wang - 65m) 3 Adam Curry (PN - 20m) 1500m handicap 1 Hayden Silby (NP - 40m) 2 Adam Curry (PN - 50m) 3 Ben Stevens (Fielding - 75m) 1.54.73 Combined Women and under-17 3000m points Race 1 Saul Gudsell (Wang) 20 pts 2 Hayden Silby 8 3 Catherine Sell (Wang) 7 Tasmanian MTBA classicHobart, Australia, February 6, 2000 Courtesy of Sue Spencer Results Expert Men 1 Paul Rowney 2.13.23 2 Sid Taberlay 2.20.27 3 Simon Bishop 2.22.27 4 Paul Rodenbach 2.25.05 5 John Claxton 2.39.35 6 Mark Leis 2.43.40 7 Simon van der Aa 1 lap 8 Tim Dangerfield 9 Drew Edwards 10 Richard Quinn 11 Andrew Molan 2 laps 12 Trevor Innes Veteran Men 1 Rob Eva 1.39.23 2 Warren Key 1.40.25 3 John Cover 1.49.44 4 Marck Piotrowski 2.02.08 5 David Olle 2.07.07 6 Peter Oliver 2.07.14 7 Richard Medhurst 2.11.23 Masters Men 1 Ala Mumford 1.24.40 2 Kahn Franke 1.25.44 3 Bruce Dickey 1.28.03 4 Hans Weaver 1.36.54 5 Christopher Bland 1.43.33 Junior Men 1 Paul Werner 1.35.10 2 Andrew Fellows 1.42.00 3 Nick McDonald 1.42.40 4 Nick Winter 1.59.28 5 Ryan Sommerville 2.00.00 6 Jai Crawford DNF Sub-Junior Men 1 James Atkinson 1.14.54 2 Matt Molan 1.19.19 3 Mark Cover 1.41.12 4 Robert Whittle 2.11.54 Sport Men 1 Stuart Keep 1.16.45 2 Chris Ringk 1.20.02 3 Simon Sharp 1.22.58 4 Peter Horch 1.24.42 5 Patrick Badger 1.24.56 6 Simon Whitlock 1.26.02 7 Shane Bayes 1.26.57 8 Peter Gaull 1.30.03 9 Scott Headlam 1.30.57 10 Trent Forbes 1.31.34 11 Paul Liggins 1.47.28 12 Bryan Powell 1.49.47 13 Greg Nelson 1 lap 14 Leon Morse 15 Cameron Crawford Expert Women 1 Eleanor Patterson 1.30.01 2 Cara Smith 1.40.15 3 Nicole Werner 1.59.29 Sport Women 1 Jayne Watkins 2 Jenny Sheridan 3 Lee Adamson 4 Jennifer Quinn Carnegie-Caulfield CriteriumMulgrave, Australia, February 6, 2000 Courtesy of Mark Chadwick A good field of 164 assembled at Glenvale Crescent in Mulgrave for the regular Sunday crit’s. Most of the trackies were absent, the Warragul/Leongatha weekend carnival offering greater delights, leaving the hard core roadies to fight it out. A grade started with 49 riders, one of the largest fields so far this season. An attack in the first lap by VIS teammates BJ McIntosh and Brad Davidson escaped, quickly joined by Sth. Africa’s U23 champ Jeremy Martens and James Taylor the lead group swelled to seven before riders began falling by the wayside. One by one the lead group thinned until three remained including McIntosh and Martens. A chase group formed behind including Matt Tuck, Simon Gerrans (VIS), James Taylor and the Giramondo teammates of Martens Graeme Carlson and American Michael "Seppo" Yarski. The leading trio took a lap by the 40 minute mark and sat among the wheels with the chasing group 35 seconds adrift. As B grade were also using the course at the same time, the Commissaire decided the combination of lapped riders and a joint field of 110 was less than safe and the lapped A graders were retired with ten minutes remaining, much to their distress. The later fall in B grade could have resulted in disaster and the decision was seen to be wise. With the loss of the shelter of the bunch the leading trio’s advantage started to wane. The group behind pressed on, working even, hard turns. At three to go the gap was gone and the sprint was looming. The Giramondo boys had the advantage with three in the group, Graeme Carlson being the better sprinter took shelter and waited. As the bell rang "Seppo" Yarski blew off the front and held a solid gap for the last lap to record a solid win. Known as "Seppo" from a contraction of the rhyming slang - Septic Tank = Yank, Yarski who is a Ph.D. biochemist took the victory in his stride saying on the recovery ride afterwards that "I don’t take it too seriously, it’s a bit of fun"! Training only 400-500 km/wk he shows that genetics are a great advantage! VIS stand out Simon Gerrans took second place ahead of James Taylor and Graeme Carlson who had blocked for "Seppo" during the final lap. A good result for the Giramondo boys. B grade had a hard race with repeated attacks lining the 58 riders out the length of the shorter straights. The group managing to keep pace with the storming A grade bunch for a few laps on the occasions that they were passed. Strong groups broke off the front, only to be reabsorbed within a few laps as there were further counter attacks when the capture was effected. The final lap was a hectic affair with the dreaded second corner fall resulting from risks being taken to make position and someone overcooked it. Six down but nothing serious, then disaster as Sophie Freshwater of the Giramondo team was struck from behind by a rider chasing head-down. Taking the brunt of the blow in the lower back Sophie then fell heavily on both knees. The damage to the right knee was significant and strong pain in the low back saw Sophie off to hospital in the back of an ambulance. The sprint to the line was won convincingly by D Bate, the minor placings fought out shoulder to shoulder and Glenn Harvey had a small margin over Chris "Snake" Salisbury and Thomas Campagna who returns to Europe this week. That most rare of occurrences in C grade - an unclaimed place! With 37 at the start the C graders rode the 45 minutes flat out, flying past D grade with alarming frequency. The all out sprint saw J Vincent cross first, M Dowling second and R England claiming fourth with third totally missed. D grade’s 20 starters again enjoyed a ten minute neutral allowing the five first timers in the group to receive a bit of advice and settle in. Once released the pace lifted and a good attacking race ensued. About twelve riders came to the bell together, and A Camino bolted, succeeding in winning by perhaps a length from M Keith, K Murphy and J Agostini. Results A GRADE 49 Starters 60 minutes + 3 laps 1 Michael Yarski 2 Simon Gerrans 3 James Taylor 4 Graeme Carlson B GRADE 58 Starters 60 minutes + 3 laps 1 D Bate 2 Glenn Harvey 3 Chris Salisbury 4 Thomas Campagna C GRADE 37 Starters 40 minutes + 3 laps 1 J Vincent 2 M Dowling 3 ????? 4 R England D GRADE 20 Starters 35 minutes + 3 laps 1 A Camino 2 M Keith 3 K Murphy 4 J Agostini |