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By Steve Johnson
Sunday 20 January saw the Fat Tyre Flyers run round 4 of the MTBA National Cross Country Series at the Clifford Park Scout Camp in Victoria.
The event, located 30km North East of Melbourne's CBD, attracted more than 120 competitors on a day that saw temperatures rise into the mid 30s.
The 5.1km course consisted of about 60 percent tight single track with the remainder being made up of fire road and wide dirt/grass track. Two high speed descents were made up for by a very exposed five minute climb. The heat of the day made this ascent all the more challenging and necessitated a neutral water station to be situated at its peak. A second neutral water station was also needed atop the second, smaller, climb a further 2km along the track.
Sport and Novice men left the line at 9:30. With the temperature still rising, Women competitors began at 11:00. Veteran/Masters men and U19/U17/U15 men toughed out the worst of the heat starting at 12:30. By 2:00 for the start of the Elite mens race a cool change had arrived dropping the temperature about 5 degrees allowing the leaders to turn in consistent 15 minute times for each of their 6 laps.
Simon Bishop leading at each lap was the first home in a time of 1hr 29 mins. Followed by Evan Jeffery and Phil Orr.
In the Elite Women Dellys Franke won in a time of 1hr 9 minutes followed by Kim McCormack and Jane Ollerenshaw coming in at 2nd and 3rd respectively.
Elite Men 1 Simon Bishop 1.29.34 2 Evan Jeffery 0.59 3 Phil Orr 5.05 4 Russell Collett 6.09 5 Ken Allen 6.34 DNF Luc Plowman DNF Ed Holinger DNS Jesse Heron Elite Women 1 Dellys Franke 1.09.55 2 Kim McCormack 14.25 3 Jane Ollerenshaw 28.00 Expert Men 1 Nemanja Ivancevic 1.18.08 2 Alex Randall 0.52 3 Ben Randall 3.27 4 Andrew Bell 7.17 5 David Steinhauser 10.40 Masters Men 1 Warren Keys 50.54 2 Nicholas Bird 1.01 3 Kahn Franke 2.38 4 Hans Dielacher 4.11 5 Greg Chatfield 5.13 6 Rob Amos 5.44 7 Hans Werner 7.36 8 Stephen Johnson 8.45 9 Christopher Bland 11.41 10 Luff Finlay 12.56 11 Karl Fogels 13.55 12 Peter Pink 15.16 Masters Women 1 Jeanette McLaren 42.52 2 Ronice Goebel 1.43 Novice Men 1 Doug Greenall 36.04 2 Tim Chatfield 0.03 3 Grant Coulthard 1.42 4 David Oram 2.49 5 John Griffiths 3.29 6 Stuart Gersch 3.30 7 Cameron Froomes 4.02 8 Owen mitchell 6.12 9 Andrew Wigg 7.29 10 Frank Carli 7.42 11 Phillip Evans 7.55 12 Ron Lee 7.58 13 Jarrod Lambourn 8.50 14 Edgar Mercap 9.11 15 Ricky Lambourn 9.13 16 Andrew Burke 10.44 17 Mark Cooper 11.30 18 Andrew Stephen 12.27 19 Paul Golsworthy 12.59 20 Alan Franklin 13.01 21 Kingsley Churchward 15.08 22 Ben Parry-Fielder 15.50 23 Tom Robb 23.00 DNF Peter Hepworth DNS Mathew Delvers DNS Luke Madeley Novice Women 1 Libby Evans 52.41 2 Rachel Vergunst 1.42 DNF Melissa Anset Sport Men 1 Andrew Hutcheson 1.05.38 2 Billy-Joe Shearsby 0.33 3 Stephen Vandyke 1.30 4 Geoff Vietz 2.40 5 Marlon Quinn 3.26 6 Adrian Vizzari 3.49 7 David Marriott 4.23 8 Gordon Shaw 5.44 9 Simon Leighfield 8.08 10 Fin Robertson 8.54 11 Dean O'Neill 9.38 12 Roger Dudziak 13.08 13 Peter Hutchison 13.35 14 Nicholas Lanham 14.04 15 Reuben Smith 15.34 16 Scott Swalling 16.20 17 Sam Stapelton 19.10 18 Adam Hawken 20.09 19 Michael Golsworthy 22.39 20 Adrian O’Shaughnessy 25.31 DNF James Burns DNF Rob McNeill DNF Brett Kellett DNF James O'Keefe Sport Women 1 Renate Griese 1.08.07 2 Clare Cowan 6.21 3 Helen Vanderbom 7.15 Super Masters Men 1 Bruce Dickey 52.31 2 Gerry Van der Ploeg 0.46 3 Errol Shearsby 11.56 4 Alfred Blurch 22.39 Super Masters Women 1 Liz Randall 1.02.22 Under 15 Men 1 Niel Van der Ploeg 34.50 2 Joel Healy 2.11 3 Alex Swann 3.18 4 Cal Britten 5.35 Under 15 Women 1 Jaffa Withers 1.04.15 Under 17 Men 1 Jason Watts 53.40 2 Garry Millburn 4.07 DNF Grant Bluch Under 19 Men 1 Daniel Van der Ploeg 1.00.45 2 James Dickey 2.25 3 Hayden Lebbink 4.08 DNF Paul Vizzari Veteran Men 1 Rob Eva 1.03.01 2 Anthony Natoli 3.20 3 Craig McLean 3.37 4 Tim McColl 4.07 5 Mallachi Moxon 6.30 6 Jeff Williams 8.07 7 Andrew James 10.56 8 Angus Rodwell 11.25 9 Damian Auton 11.55 10 Todd Warnock 13.55 11 Denis Kane 14.17 12 Damien Jones 14.38 13 Michael Brill 17.47 14 Mick Kelly 17.54 15 Stephen Watson 18.20 16 Matthew Aldridge 18.25 17 Glenn Cortis 21.14 18 Ian Stewart 22.25 DNF Greg Morrow DNF James McCormack DNF Dean Farr DNF Sean Kierce DNF Patrick Ripley DNF John Beck