Oceania Championships

New Zealand, November 30-December 6, 1997

Day 5, Thursday, December 4

MTB Downhill

Open men: 

 1. G Sisarich (NZ) 		3.21.61
 2. J Kirkcaldie (NZ) 		3:28.84
 3. N Lambert (NZ) 		3:29.92
 4. D Rogers (NZ) 		3:33.27
 5. J Yalden (NZ) 		3:35.57

Open women: 

 1. V Quin (NZ) 		4:08.12
 2. E Campbell (NZ) 		4:40.85 
 3. Chelsey Zucker (Aus) 	4:54.27 

Under-19 men: 

 1. N Rennie (Aus) 		3:25.62
 2. N Rankin (NZ) 		3:32.91 
 3. K Paterson (NZ) 		3:38.33
 4. A Chronis (NZ) 		3:43.05
 5. B Fraser (NZ) 		3:54.51

Veteran men: 

 1. S Blackley (NZ) 		3:36.37
 2. R Bardsley (NZ) 		3:45.84 
 3. D Matheson (NZ) 		3:46.56
 5. G Morgan (NZ)		3:48.62

Olympic sprint Qualifying and Final

The event features a rider from each team dropping out at the end of each lap.

Australia dominated the Olympic sprints competition. The Open Men's team of Sean Eadie, Anthony Peden and Graham Sharman clocked 47.818 seconds. John Rastrick, Jason Craig and Matthew Sinton of New Zealand were 1.48sec behind the speedy Australians.

In the Under-19s, Australia also dominated

Open Men Qualifying: 

 1. Australia 		49.870
 2. New Zealand 	50.022
 3. New Caledonia 	51.374

Under-19 Men Qualifying: 

 1. Australia 		50.536
 2. New Zealand 	51.453
 3. New Caledonia 	52.567

Open men Final: 

 1. Australia 		47.818
 2. New Zealand 	 1.48
 3. New Caledonia 	

Under-19 Men Final: 

 1. Australia 		50.590
 2. New Zealand 	 1.112
 3. New Caledonia

Teams pursuit qualifying

Under-19 men: 

 1. New Zealand 	4:37.845
 2. Australia 		4:51.893 
 3. New Caledonia 	5:00.599

200m Time Trial

Open Men:
 
 1. Anthony Peden     	10.875
 2. Sean Eadie      	11.020
 3. G Sharman      	11.166
 4. M Sinton           	11.294
 5. O Haas             	11.500
 6. T Kelly         	11.596
 7. J Craig        	11.602
 8. F Harblout        	12.075

Womans

 1. F Ramage        	12.601
 2. F Myers          	12.689
 3. R DeMarte        	13.098
 4. K Meares          	13.249

Vet Men

 1. C Ryan          	12.103
 2. M McRedmond  	12.366
 3. P Barnard        	12.684
 4. R Richdale         	12.836
 5. K Young       	13.223

U19 Men

 1. B Kerston       	11.409
 2. S Hosking   	11.542
 3. J Dakja     	11.621
 4. M Anderson        	11.634
 5. J Tejada     	12.025
 6. S Soloman         	12.406

Women's Sprint Final

 1. Fiona Ramage (NZ) beat 2. Felicity Myers (Aus) 2-0

Veteran's Sprint Final

 1. Colin Ryan (NZ) beat 2. Kevin Young (Aus) 2-0

Men's Points Race, 24 kms

 1. Glen Thomson (NZ)
 2. Julian Dean (NZ)

Under-19 Points Race

 1. Gordon Bearman (NZ)		31 (won in final sprint)
 2. David Pell (Aus)		28