Street Skills Women's Cycle Classic, Cat 2.9

Hamilton, New Zealand, March 17-21, 1997


As usual women's cycling does not get much reporting. So I have had little information on this race. Here is the first news I have received. Stage 4. Better late than never.

Stage four, Hamilton to Otorohanga, 65km:

 1. J Young (US) 	     1. 41.05
 2. K Kurreck (US)
 3. A Samplonius (Canada)
 4. K Bliss-Livingston (US)
 5. P Schuster (US)
 6. A Wilson (Aust)

Stage five, Otorohanga to Te Awamutu, 64km:

 
 1. N Freedman (US) 	     1:56.48
 2. T Clark (Christchurch)
 3. Schuster
 4. Wilson
 5. Young 

General classification after Stage 5

 1. Wilson 		    10:15.08 
 2. Schuster 			0.06
 3. J Coleman (NZ) 		1:35 
 4. L Robinson (Aust) 		2:28
 5. C White (Aust) 		2:37
 6. Clark 			2:39
 7. Kurreck 			2:42
 8. Young 			2:47
 9. Samplonius 			3:32 
10. S Palmer (US) 		3:42

Queen of the Mountains: 

=1. Schuster
=1. Wilson 		39 points
 3. Kurreck 		25 

Sprint Ace: 
 
 1. Wilson 		44 points
 2. Freedman 		22
 3. Schuster 		22

Teams classification: 

 1. USA
 2. New Zealand 			4:28 down
 3. Victoria Institute of Sport 	5:29