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1999 Stage 6 winner: Anna Wilson

PHOTOS

Stage 1    Stage 2    Stage 3    Stage 4    Stage 5     Stage 6     Stage 7     Stage 8     Stage 9

Stage 1

• Mirjam Melchers - On her way to winning
• Mirjam Melchers - Arms raised
• Main bunch - Tackling the drag
• Main bunch - Control by a Dutch rider
• Susy Pryde - Saturn, leads early
• Alison Wright - AIS, takes the first prime
• Anna Wilson - Saturn, attacking hard
• The podium - Holden, Wilson, Melchers, Wright, Gaudry

Stage 2

• Karen Kurreck - In trouble on stage 2
• Mari Holden and Sanna Lehtimaki - Drama with 10 km to go
• Anna Wilson - Stage winner, happy to talk
• The podium - (l. - r.) Holden, Wilson, Melchers, Gaudry, Ulmer

Stage 3

• Sigrid Corneo - Italy, Master team
• Fjelda Lee - NSWIS, nearing the finish
• Karen Kurreck - Not her day, but still twelfth
• Geneviève Jeanson - Canada, towards fifth placing
• Susy Pryde - New Zealand, Saturn, focusses on a corner
• Anna Wilson - Powers to the finish
• Tracey Gaudry - Feeling the pinch
• Kristy Scrymgeour - At the start of her winning ride
• Kristy Scrymgeour - Arms raised on the podium

Stage 4

• Margaret Hemsley - NSWIS, a hard day out
• Kim Shirley - AIS, a fine third place
• Tracey Gaudry - The tour is not over
• Geneviève Jeanson - Exhausted by the end
• Podium - Wilson, Jeanson, Gaudry, Shirley

Stage 5

• Adaminaby - A cold, wet, start
• The Big Trout - An icon of the Snowy Mountains
• Team issue Cannondale - Ridden by Kim Smith, Timex
• The break - Smith leads Coleman and Rutherford
• Naomi Williams - Didn't have the strength to stay with them
• Kim Smith - Leads the break through Berridale
• Mirjam Melchers - Triumphs at the end
• The bunch sprint - Led home by Mirella Van Melis
• The podium - Rutherford, Pryde, Melchers, Gaudry, Jeanson
• Autograph hunting - You're looking at the wrong person!

Stage 6

• Susy Pryde's Lemond - Saturn team issue, about to get filthy
• Susy Pryde - Now with dirty bike
• The sprint - Jeanson, Gaudry, and Wilson
• Anna Wilson - The first of two

Stage 7

• View from the top - The riders climbed this each lap
• First lap - Kristy Scrymgeour leads the bunch
• The main group - Round the second hairpin
• The break - The same corner
• A lone chaser - On the rough stuff
• Geneviève Jeanson - Leads the bunch
• Mirjam Melchers - In front of Demet on the climb
• Ouch - Enough said
• Juanita Feldhahn - During her attempt
• Anna Wilson - Leading the break on the final lap
• Juanita Feldhahn - Consoled at the end

Stage 8

• Sara Carrigan - Winning in the rain
• Sara Carrigan - All smiles

Stage 9

• Early on - Alison Wright in second wheel
• Anna Wilson - Leading Tracey Gaudry in the bunch
• Odessa Gunn - Her turn to lead
• Marielle van Scheppingen - In front
• Marielle van Scheppingen - In front again
• Geneviève Jeanson - At the head of the bunch
• The AIS and Dutch teams - Slowing the peloton
• The breakaway - In the twilight
• Alison Wright - Powering the break
• Elizabeth Tadich - One lap to go
• One to go - The big lead out
• Wright and Van Melis - Nowhere to go
• Alison Wright - Not impressed
• Geneviève Jeanson - The strain lifts
• Geneviève Jeanson - Finished at last

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