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FBD Milk Rás - 2.5
Ireland, May 18-25, 2003
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Stage 7 - May 24: Donegal – Oldcastle, 180km
Power wins, Newton on verge of overall victory
By Shane Stokes, Irishcycling.com
The Irish team today took its third stage win of this year's FBD Milk Rás when Ciarán Power put in a dominant performance to win the penultimate leg of the race. Power went on the attack just one mile into the 112 mile stage from Donegal to Oldcastle, joining up with Jaaron Poad (Team Down Under - Australia), Patrick Kohler (RG Gutersloh/Neheim - Germany) and Wales' Yanto Barker in a four-man move. Showing great strength, the Team Ireland rider drove the group along and, despite a mechanical problem and a puncture, helped them to open up a near five-minute lead. With ten kilometres to go he went clear with Kohler and had little trouble in shedding the German before the finish, freewheeling across the line some sixteen seconds clear. The victory was Power's second in the race and the third professional win of his career.
Poad took third on the stage, just over a minute and a half back, while the race leader Chris Newton came home as part of the main bunch and so remains at the head of the general classification with just tomorrow's one hour circuit race to come.
The stage-long breakaway was initiated by Poad, who kicked clear of the bunch immediately after the drop of the flag and quickly built a fifteen seconds advantage. Power seized the moment to race clear and tore across the gap, with Kohler and Barker making the junction shortly afterwards and getting a determined collaboration underway.
Earlier in the week the escape would have prompted a strong reaction from the bunch, but several factors helped the quartet's efforts to build a decent lead. Barker was best placed overall, but his deficit of thirteen minutes and fifteen seconds meant that the move was not going to cause any serious panic within the ranks of the Great Britain riders, whose job it was to counter dangerous moves. Their reluctance to close down the quartet was echoed by the passivity of other teams, who were compromised by tiring riders and perhaps too a degree of defeatism.
One the initial gap was made, however, there was another major reason why the escape gained time so quickly. Two days ago Ciarán Power seemed poised to make a strong challenge for what would be his third FBD Milk Rás title. He was just thirty seconds off the yellow jersey of his Ireland - Irish Sports Council team-mate Tommy Evans, and had been in great form during the preceding four stages. However, a major break went clear on the stage to Buncrana and with both Irishmen missing out, their Rás hopes evaporated. That disappointment meant that the focus turned towards other goals, with the squad vowing to try to win the final three stages; while Evans was denied yesterday when his foot slipped out of the pedal, Power was highly motivated to succeed today.
Boosted by the high output of the Navigators professional, the break quickly gained time. Fifteen miles into the stage, they had over a minute. By the twenty-three mile point, this lead had doubled and by the time the group reached the start of the second category Bellavalley Gap, their advantage had gone out to four and a half minutes over the Great Britain-led bunch. Two hiccups were to follow, though; Barker lost contact on the climb and packed the race, while Power was delayed twice with a mechanical problem and a puncture. Poad and Kohler elected to wait for the Irishman, recognising that there were fifty miles to go and that he was the driving force in the break.
The delays cost the break some of their lead and with a splinter group going clear at the front of the bunch, their advantage dropped to two minutes and 45 seconds. Power regained contact and the trio knuckled down again, aided by the merging of the yellow jersey group and the rest of the main bunch, and a subsequent stall in the peloton.
The lead began to grow once more, and with twelve miles to go it was over five minutes. With the group now sure to stay clear, the tone changed up front; the stage was now up for grabs, and the gloves were off.
As expected, it was Power who started the moves, and drew clear on a slight uphill drag. Kohler led the chase and pulled him back, but the Irishman's effort seemed to be more about softening up the group rather than pulling away then and there. Another kick saw off Poad, leaving two up front, and when a confident, clinical Power turned on the effort again in the last mile the German rider had nothing left to give, losing time rapidly on the final straight run into the finish.
Power crossed the line to huge cheers, taking his second win of the week, while a tired Kohler finished sixteen seconds down and Poad 1'34 behind. His Team Down Under team-mate Cody Stevenson won the bunch gallop to take fourth, four minutes and nine seconds after Power, with points leader Jonas Holmkvist fifth and Eugene Moriarty sixth, best county rider yet again. Fellow Irishmen Eddie O'Donoghue (seventh) and Brian Ahern (eighth) also placed in the top ten, while Newton came home fourteenth and so maintained his overall lead.
"It is fantastic to get this", said Power after the stage. "I came into the race hoping for a stage win and perhaps the overall...the overall didn't work out as I missed that move the other day, but to get two stages is great."
"When we went clear I just focussed on getting as big a gap as was possible. Once we got clear we built time well. I had a bit of trouble with a mechanical problem and a puncture, but I had been doing a lot of work in the break and so the other riders waited for me. We built up our lead again after that. Towards the end I attacked and got rid of one rider, and then I went again with a kilometre to go and gave it one hundred percent."
"Taking a second stage is great. I was a bit worried the other day when I missed the break...I had a puncture early on and when I got back up, I didn't have the legs to go with that move. I had felt a bit tired that day and so was a bit worried about my form. But I felt 110 percent yesterday and even better today. Now the team will concentrate on tomorrow's stage...we want to take that as well."
Ireland manager Frankie Campbell echoed this ambition. "We were very disappointed to lose the jersey the other day as the team were in exceptional form. We knew we couldn't go from being a very good team to a bad one overnight, and so decided to show people how strong we were. We planned to go for the last three stages...Tommy went close yesterday, but had problems with his pedal in the sprint. Ciarán won today and we will try to do it again tomorrow...it should come down to a sprint and that will suit us well."
Another looking forward to the final stage is race leader Chris Newton, who today went a step closer to emulating team-mate Paul Manning's 2001 win. "My chances are a bit better than they were this morning," he told the crowd after the stage. "I was a little nervous today as I have just five seconds lead. But the team rode very well for me, keeping it together. There is just an hour of racing left so hopefully all will go well for us."
Photos
Images by Gerry McManus
- Ciarán Power (Ireland - Irish Sports Council) wins the stage after going on the attack just one mile into the 112 mile stage from Donegal to Oldcastle.
- With the top three places filled on stage 7, the rest of the main contenders sprint for the minor placings.
- Second placed Patrick Kohler (Rg Gutersloh/Neheim) finished 16 seconds down on Ciarán Power (Ireland - Irish Sports Council).
- Australian Jaaron Poad (Team Down Under) took third on the stage, just over a minute and a half back.
Results
1 Ciarán Power (Irl) Ireland - Irish Sports Council 4.01.54 (40.72 km/h) 2 Patrick Kohler (Ger) Rg Gutersloh/Neheim 0.16 3 Jaaron Poad (Aus) Team Down Under 1.34 4 Cody Stevenson (Aus) Team Down Under 4.09 5 Jonas Holmkvist (Swe) Bianchi Scandinavia 6 Eugene Moriaty (Irl) Meath Lee Strand Cycleways 7 Edward O'Donoghue (Irl) Dublin Usher Insulations 8 Brian Ahern (Irl) Kildare HirEquip 9 Maxim Iglinskiv (Kaz) Kazakhstan 10 Adam Hodges Myerson (USA) Sportsbook.com 11 Malcolm Elliott (GBr) London Irish Team Sdeals/Jbc 12 Derek Finnegan (Irl) Meath Donnelly Avonmore 13 Simon Kelly (Irl) Mayo Galway Bay 14 Chris Newton (GBr) Great Britain 15 Aidan Crowley (Irl) Meath Lee Strand Cycleways 16 John Tanner (GBr) Life Repair Group 17 Dave Worthington (GBr) Team gbcycles.co.uk 18 Tobias Lergard (Swe) Bianchi Scandinavia 19 Philip Finegan (Irl) Meath Lee Strand Cycleways 20 Ian McLeod (RSA) Team HSBC 21 Andrey Medyannikov (Kaz) Kazakhstan 22 Vadin Gorbachevskiy (Kaz) Kazakhstan 23 Raymond Clarke (Irl) Meath Lee Strand Cycleways 24 Jamie Norfolk (GBr) Stena Line 25 Thomas Evans (Irl) Ireland - Irish Sports Council 26 Jonas Ljungblad (Swe) Bianchi Scandinavia 27 Roger Morgan (GBr) Team gbcycles.co.uk 28 Scott McDonald (Irl) Dublin Orwell 29 Thomas Lovkvist (Swe) Bianchi Scandinavia 30 Tom Barras (GBr) Team Down Under 31 Mikael Segarsall (Swe) Bianchi Scandinavia 32 Ari Hojgaard (Den) Jylland-Fyn 33 Joe Fenlon (Irl) Tipperary Dan Morrissey 34 Craig Sweetman (Irl) Meath Donnelly Avonmore 35 Paul Griffin (Irl) Dublin Iarnród Eireann 36 Mark Lovatt (GBr) Life Repair Group 37 Hamish Haynes (GBr) North West Division 38 Matt Svatek (USA) Sportsbook.com 39 Vincent Gleeson (Irl) Ireland - Irish Sports Council 40 Feargal Kelly (Irl) Wicklow Sahara 41 Ritchie Cahill (Irl) Tipperary Dan Morrissey 42 John Charlesworth (GBr) primera-bournemouth 43 Michael Mulcahy (Irl) Dublin Usher Insulations 44 Tim Barry (Irl) Tipperary Dan Morrissey 45 Paul Manning (GBr) Great Britain 46 Andrew Donnellan (Irl) Ireland - Irish Sports Council 47 Lawrence Perera (USA) Sportsbook.com 48 Patrick Moriaty (Irl) Dublin Skip 49 Gary Dodd (GBr) Team gbcycles.co.uk 50 David Berkeley (NZl) Team gbcycles.co.uk 51 David Peelo (Irl) Dublin Usher Insulations 52 Richard Eastham (GBr) primera-bournemouth 53 Daniel Spence (RSA) Team HSBC 54 Stephen O'Sullivan (Irl) Meath Lee Strand Cycleways 55 Gareth Jones (GBr) Energy Cycles Principia 56 Neil Smith (GBr) Lincoln 57 Jeff Howes (RSA) Team HSBC 58 John Peppard (Irl) Dublin Iarnród Eireann 59 Laurent Estadieu (Fra) Cambridge Team Dataphonics 60 Laurence Roche (Irl) Kildare North 61 Nick Kenwright (GBr) Bici Imports-CSN-Rudy Proj 62 Paul Sheppard (GBr) Stena Line 63 Matt Melville (GBr) Cambridge Team Dataphonics 64 Rob Enslin (RSA) Cambridge Team Dataphonics 65 Josh Beck (USA) Sportsbook.com 66 Carl Henning Brondberg (Den) Jylland-Fyn 4.32 67 John Horgan (Irl) Dublin Skip 4.45 68 Matthew Yates (NZl) Team Down Under 4.59 69 Tony Brady (Irl) Meath Donnelly Avonmore 5.03 70 Mark McLeavey (Irl) Dublin Skip 5.05 71 Kieran McMahon (Irl) Dublin Iarnród Eireann 72 Brian Kenneally (Irl) Tipperary Dan Morrissey 7.07 73 Kieran Page (GBr) Great Britain 8.29 74 Brian Larsen (Den) Jylland-Fyn 8.42 75 Michael Larsen (Den) Jylland-Fyn 10.09 76 Steve Cummings (GBr) Great Britain 18.47 77 Christopher Belsham (GBr) primera-bournemouth 26.08 78 Justin Hoy (GBr) Team gbcycles.co.uk 28.41 79 Graham Briggs (GBr) Life Repair Group 80 Ben Greenwood (GBr) Life Repair Group 81 Brian Stewart (GBr) Dublin Usher Insulations 82 Frank O'Leary (Irl) Dublin Usher Insulations 83 John Paul Hillard (Irl) Dublin Skip 84 John Dempsey (Irl) Dublin Iarnród Eireann 85 Colm Bracken (Irl) Dublin Iarnród Eireann 86 David Tansey (Irl) Dublin Orwell 87 Eamon Finn (Irl) Dublin Orwell 88 Gary Sheehan (Irl) Kildare North 89 Fintan McCormack (Irl) Kildare Newbridge 90 Padraig Marrey (Irl) Mayo Galway Bay 91 Aidan Reade (Irl) Mayo Galway Bay 92 Michael Devins (Irl) Mayo Galway Bay 93 Brian Harris (Irl) Wicklow Sahara 94 Keith O'Sullivan (Irl) Wicklow Sahara 95 Adrian Hedderman (Irl) Dublin Skip 96 John Wall (Irl) Kildare North 55.25 97 Isaiah Adams (USA) Bici Imports-CSN-Rudy Proj 58.34 98 Sean Furley (Irl) London Irish Team Sdeals/Jbc 99 Martin Caddow (Irl) Dublin Orwell 100 Brian Lynch (Irl) Dublin Orwell 101 Cathal Keane (Irl) Mayo Galway Bay 102 Assan Bazayev (Kaz) Kazakhstan DNF Yanto Barker (GBr) Stena Line DNF Greg Roche (GBr) Energy Cycles Principia DNF Tom Greene (Irl) Kildare Newbridge DNF Derek Cunningham (Irl) Wicklow Sahara DNS Kevin Dawson (GBr) Life Repair Group DNS Stephen Gibson (GBr) primera-bournemouth DNS Keith Gallagher (Irl) Kildare North Points 1 Ciarán Power (Irl) Ireland - Irish Sports Council 15 pts 2 Patrick Kohler (Ger) Rg Gutersloh/Neheim 14 3 Jaaron Poad (Aus) Team Down Under 13 4 Cody Stevenson (Aus) Team Down Under 12 5 Jonas Holmkvist (Swe) Bianchi Scandinavia 11 6 Eugene Moriaty (Irl) Meath Lee Strand Cycleways 10 7 Edward O'Donoghue (Irl) Dublin Usher Insulations 9 8 Brian Ahern (Irl) Kildare HirEquip 8 9 Maxim Iglinskiv (Kaz) Kazakhstan 7 10 Adam Hodges Myerson (USA) Sportsbook.com 6 11 Malcolm Elliott (GBr) London Irish Team Sdeals/Jbc 5 12 Derek Finnegan (Irl) Meath Donnelly Avonmore 4 13 Simon Kelly (Irl) Mayo Galway Bay 3 14 Chris Newton (GBr) Great Britain 2 15 Aidan Crowley (Irl) Meath Lee Strand Cycleways 1 Mountains KOM Cat 3 at Oggal 1 Ciarán Power (Irl) Ireland - Irish Sports Council 5 pts 2 Yanto Barker (GBr) Stena Line 4 3 Patrick Kohler (Ger) Rg Gutersloh/Neheim 3 4 Jaaron Poad (Aus) Team Down Under 2 KOM Cat 2 at Bellavalley 1 Ciarán Power (Irl) Ireland - Irish Sports Council 10 pts 2 Jaaron Poad (Aus) Team Down Under 8 3 Patrick Kohler (Ger) Rg Gutersloh/Neheim 6 4 Yanto Barker (GBr) Stena Line 4 5 Thomas Lovkvist (Swe) Bianchi Scandinavia 3 6 Tobias Lergard (Swe) Bianchi Scandinavia 1 County rider 1 Eugene Moriaty (Irl) Meath Lee Strand Cycleways 4.06.03 2 Edward O'Donoghue (Irl) Dublin Usher Insulations 3 Brian Ahern (Irl) Kildare HirEquip 4 Derek Finnegan (Irl) Meath Donnelly Avonmore 5 Simon Kelly (Irl) Mayo Galway Bay 6 Aidan Crowley (Irl) Meath Lee Strand Cycleways 7 Philip Finegan (Irl) Meath Lee Strand Cycleways 8 Raymond Clarke (Irl) Meath Lee Strand Cycleways 9 Scott McDonald (Irl) Dublin Orwell 10 Joe Fenlon (Irl) Tipperary Dan Morrissey 11 Craig Sweetman (Irl) Meath Donnelly Avonmore 12 Paul Griffin (Irl) Dublin Iarnród Eireann 13 Vincent Gleeson (Irl) Ireland - Irish Sports Council 14 Feargal Kelly (Irl) Wicklow Sahara 15 Ritchie Cahill (Irl) Tipperary Dan Morrissey 16 Michael Mulcahy (Irl) Dublin Usher Insulations 17 Tim Barry (Irl) Tipperary Dan Morrissey 18 Patrick Moriaty (Irl) Dublin Skip 19 David Peelo (Irl) Dublin Usher Insulations 20 Stephen O'Sullivan (Irl) Meath Lee Strand Cycleways 21 John Peppard (Irl) Dublin Iarnród Eireann 22 Laurence Roche (Irl) Kildare North 23 John Horgan (Irl) Dublin Skip 0.36 24 Tony Brady (Irl) Meath Donnelly Avonmore 0.54 25 Mark McLeavey (Irl) Dublin Skip 0.56 26 Kieran McMahon (Irl) Dublin Iarnród Eireann 27 Brian Kenneally (Irl) Tipperary Dan Morrissey 2.58 28 Brian Stewart (GBr) Dublin Usher Insulations 24.32 29 Frank O'Leary (Irl) Dublin Usher Insulations 30 John Paul Hillard (Irl) Dublin Skip 31 John Dempsey (Irl) Dublin Iarnród Eireann 32 Colm Bracken (Irl) Dublin Iarnród Eireann 33 David Tansey (Irl) Dublin Orwell 34 Eamon Finn (Irl) Dublin Orwell 35 Gary Sheehan (Irl) Kildare North 36 Fintan McCormack (Irl) Kildare Newbridge 37 Padraig Marrey (Irl) Mayo Galway Bay 38 Aidan Reade (Irl) Mayo Galway Bay 39 Michael Devins (Irl) Mayo Galway Bay 40 Brian Harris (Irl) Wicklow Sahara 41 Keith O'Sullivan (Irl) Wicklow Sahara 42 Adrian Hedderman (Irl) Dublin Skip 43 John Wall (Irl) Kildare North 51.16 44 Martin Caddow (Irl) Dublin Orwell 54.25 45 Brian Lynch (Irl) Dublin Orwell 46 Cathal Keane (Irl) Mayo Galway Bay Teams 1 Ireland - Irish Sports Council 12.14.00 2 Australia Team Down Under 1.34 3 Sweden Bianchi Scandinavia 4.09 4 Kazakhstan 5 Surrey Team gbcycles.co.uk 6 USA Team Sportsbook.com 7 South Africa Team HSBC 8 Cambridge Team Dataphonics 9 Great Britain 8.29 10 Denmark Jylland-Fyn 9.05 11 England primera-bournemouth 26.08 12 Lancaster Life Repair Group 28.41 County Teams 1 Meath Lee Strand Cycleways 12.18.09 2 Dublin Usher Insulations 3 Tipperary Dan Morrissey 4 Meath Donnelly Avonmore 0.54 5 Dublin Iarnród Eireann 0.56 6 Dublin Skip 1.32 7 Mayo Galway Bay 49.04 8 Dublin Orwell 9 Wicklow Sahara 10 Kildare North 1.15.48 General classification after stage 7 1 Chris Newton (GBr) Great Britain 27.58.12 2 Tobias Lergard (Swe) Bianchi Scandinavia 0.05 3 Ari Hojgaard (Den) Jylland-Fyn 0.12 4 Mark Lovatt (GBr) Life Repair Group 0.34 5 John Tanner (GBr) Life Repair Group 1.15 6 Hamish Haynes (GBr) North West Division 7 Ian McLeod (RSA) Team HSBC 2.09 8 Thomas Evans (Irl) Ireland - Irish Sports Council 5.05 9 Thomas Lovkvist (Swe) Bianchi Scandinavia 5.35 10 Patrick Moriaty (Irl) Dublin Skip 6.03 11 Jonas Holmkvist (Swe) Bianchi Scandinavia 6.59 12 Andrey Medyannikov (Kaz) Kazakhstan 7.12 13 Paul Griffin (Irl) Dublin Iarnród Eireann 7.24 14 Paul Manning (GBr) Great Britain 7.49 15 Ciarán Power (Irl) Ireland - Irish Sports Council 12.39 16 Eugene Moriaty (Irl) Meath Lee Strand Cycleways 14.32 17 Andrew Donnellan (Irl) Ireland - Irish Sports Council 17.22 18 Dave Worthington (GBr) Team gbcycles.co.uk 18.03 19 Daniel Spence (RSA) Team HSBC 20.22 20 Malcolm Elliott (GBr) London Irish Team Sdeals/Jbc 20.51 21 Neil Smith (GBr) Lincoln 21.54 22 Roger Morgan (GBr) Team gbcycles.co.uk 22.02 23 Brian Ahern (Irl) Kildare HirEquip 22.47 24 Maxim Iglinskiv (Kaz) Kazakhstan 23.55 25 Patrick Kohler (Ger) Rg Gutersloh/Neheim 23.56 26 Vadin Gorbachevskiy (Kaz) Kazakhstan 24.46 27 John Charlesworth (GBr) primera-bournemouth 25.04 28 Raymond Clarke (Irl) Meath Lee Strand Cycleways 25.20 29 Ritchie Cahill (Irl) Tipperary Dan Morrissey 26.42 30 Joe Fenlon (Irl) Tipperary Dan Morrissey 29.30 31 Kieran Page (GBr) Great Britain 30.18 32 Richard Eastham (GBr) primera-bournemouth 32.11 33 David Peelo (Irl) Dublin Usher Insulations 32.12 34 Michael Mulcahy (Irl) Dublin Usher Insulations 32.53 35 Steve Cummings (GBr) Great Britain 32.57 36 David Berkeley (NZl) Team gbcycles.co.uk 36.57 37 Mikael Segarsall (Swe) Bianchi Scandinavia 37.22 38 Laurent Estadieu (Fra) Cambridge Team Dataphonics 37.36 39 Carl Henning Brondberg (Den) Jylland-Fyn 37.40 40 Jeff Howes (RSA) Team HSBC 38.17 41 Jonas Ljungblad (Swe) Bianchi Scandinavia 39.25 42 Brian Larsen (Den) Jylland-Fyn 40.50 43 Gary Dodd (GBr) Team gbcycles.co.uk 44.14 44 Gareth Jones (GBr) Energy Cycles Principia 45.41 45 Cody Stevenson (Aus) Team Down Under 54.03 46 Jamie Norfolk (GBr) Stena Line 54.23 47 Philip Finegan (Irl) Meath Lee Strand Cycleways 55.41 48 John Dempsey (Irl) Dublin Iarnród Eireann 56.15 49 Rob Enslin (RSA) Cambridge Team Dataphonics 59.09 50 Michael Larsen (Den) Jylland-Fyn 59.36 51 Tim Barry (Irl) Tipperary Dan Morrissey 59.49 52 Stephen O'Sullivan (Irl) Meath Lee Strand Cycleways 1.00.21 53 Assan Bazayev (Kaz) Kazakhstan 1.00.28 54 John Horgan (Irl) Dublin Skip 1.02.25 55 Edward O'Donoghue (Irl) Dublin Usher Insulations 1.04.05 56 Christopher Belsham (GBr) primera-bournemouth 1.06.25 57 John Peppard (Irl) Dublin Iarnród Eireann 1.08.17 58 Josh Beck (USA) Sportsbook.com 1.13.42 59 Brian Kenneally (Irl) Tipperary Dan Morrissey 1.14.47 60 Lawrence Perera (USA) Sportsbook.com 1.15.36 61 Matt Melville (GBr) Cambridge Team Dataphonics 1.17.11 62 Matt Svatek (USA) Sportsbook.com 1.18.39 63 Jaaron Poad (Aus) Team Down Under 1.19.34 64 Simon Kelly (Irl) Mayo Galway Bay 1.23.38 65 Scott McDonald (Irl) Dublin Orwell 1.24.04 66 Kieran McMahon (Irl) Dublin Iarnród Eireann 1.27.21 67 Tom Barras (GBr) Team Down Under 1.31.29 68 Nick Kenwright (GBr) Bici Imports-CSN-Rudy Proj 1.33.44 69 Brian Stewart (GBr) Dublin Usher Insulations 1.33.46 70 Paul Sheppard (GBr) Stena Line 1.39.57 71 Graham Briggs (GBr) Life Repair Group 1.43.04 72 Vincent Gleeson (Irl) Ireland - Irish Sports Council 1.48.28 73 Laurence Roche (Irl) Kildare North 1.48.56 74 Derek Finnegan (Irl) Meath Donnelly Avonmore 1.49.30 75 Tony Brady (Irl) Meath Donnelly Avonmore 1.51.30 76 Justin Hoy (GBr) Team gbcycles.co.uk 1.53.41 77 Aidan Crowley (Irl) Meath Lee Strand Cycleways 1.55.03 78 Adam Hodges Myerson (USA) Sportsbook.com 1.56.54 79 Adrian Hedderman (Irl) Dublin Skip 1.57.59 80 Ben Greenwood (GBr) Life Repair Group 1.58.32 81 Mark McLeavey (Irl) Dublin Skip 1.59.44 82 Craig Sweetman (Irl) Meath Donnelly Avonmore 2.00.34 83 Matthew Yates (NZl) Team Down Under 2.00.35 84 Feargal Kelly (Irl) Wicklow Sahara 2.08.08 85 Frank O'Leary (Irl) Dublin Usher Insulations 2.09.05 86 Colm Bracken (Irl) Dublin Iarnród Eireann 2.11.43 87 John Paul Hillard (Irl) Dublin Skip 2.22.44 88 Padraig Marrey (Irl) Mayo Galway Bay 2.26.37 89 Michael Devins (Irl) Mayo Galway Bay 2.32.21 90 Gary Sheehan (Irl) Kildare North 2.51.16 91 Fintan McCormack (Irl) Kildare Newbridge 3.07.23 92 Brian Lynch (Irl) Dublin Orwell 3.10.13 93 Brian Harris (Irl) Wicklow Sahara 3.11.50 94 David Tansey (Irl) Dublin Orwell 3.16.18 95 Aidan Reade (Irl) Mayo Galway Bay 3.18.13 96 Keith O'Sullivan (Irl) Wicklow Sahara 3.30.17 97 Eamon Finn (Irl) Dublin Orwell 3.36.02 98 Isaiah Adams (USA) Bici Imports-CSN-Rudy Proj 4.31.45 99 John Wall (Irl) Kildare North 4.32.24 100 Cathal Keane (Irl) Mayo Galway Bay 4.46.52 101 Martin Caddow (Irl) Dublin Orwell 4.53.08 102 Sean Furley (Irl) London Irish Team Sdeals/Jbc 5.25.32 Points classification 1 Jonas Holmkvist (Swe) Bianchi Scandinavia 71 pts 2 Eugene Moriaty (Irl) Meath Lee Strand Cycleways 53 3 Ciarán Power (Irl) Ireland - Irish Sports Council 51 4 Maxim Iglinskiv (Kaz) Kazakhstan 47 5 Assan Bazayev (Kaz) Kazakhstan 40 6 Chris Newton (GBr) Great Britain 39 7 Thomas Evans (Irl) Ireland - Irish Sports Council 35 8 Cody Stevenson (Aus) Team Down Under 35 9 Ari Hojgaard (Den) Jylland-Fyn 31 10 Andrey Medyannikov (Kaz) Kazakhstan 29 11 Patrick Kohler (Ger) Rg Gutersloh/Neheim 28 12 Malcolm Elliott (GBr) London Irish Team Sdeals/Jbc 26 13 Mark Lovatt (GBr) Life Repair Group 23 14 Brian Ahern (Irl) Kildare HirEquip 22 15 Paul Manning (GBr) Great Britain 21 16 Tobias Lergard (Swe) Bianchi Scandinavia 19 17 Ian McLeod (RSA) Team HSBC 18 18 Thomas Lovkvist (Swe) Bianchi Scandinavia 18 19 Paul Griffin (Irl) Dublin Iarnród Eireann 16 20 John Tanner (GBr) Life Repair Group 15 21 Hamish Haynes (GBr) North West Division 15 22 Edward O'Donoghue (Irl) Dublin Usher Insulations 14 23 Jaaron Poad (Aus) Team Down Under 13 24 Simon Kelly (Irl) Mayo Galway Bay 13 25 Adam Hodges Myerson (USA) Sportsbook.com 13 26 Daniel Spence (RSA) Team HSBC 11 27 Derek Finnegan (Irl) Meath Donnelly Avonmore 11 28 Matthew Yates (NZl) Team Down Under 10 29 Dave Worthington (GBr) Team gbcycles.co.uk 6 30 Jonas Ljungblad (Swe) Bianchi Scandinavia 6 31 Patrick Moriaty (Irl) Dublin Skip 4 32 Roger Morgan (GBr) Team gbcycles.co.uk 4 33 Michael Larsen (Den) Jylland-Fyn 3 34 Tom Barras (GBr) Team Down Under 3 35 Gary Dodd (GBr) Team gbcycles.co.uk 2 36 Josh Beck (USA) Sportsbook.com 2 37 Raymond Clarke (Irl) Meath Lee Strand Cycleways 1 38 Aidan Crowley (Irl) Meath Lee Strand Cycleways 1 Mountains classification 1 Maxim Iglinskiv (Kaz) Kazakhstan 45 pts 2 Assan Bazayev (Kaz) Kazakhstan 43 3 Andrey Medyannikov (Kaz) Kazakhstan 39 4 Thomas Lovkvist (Swe) Bianchi Scandinavia 39 5 Thomas Evans (Irl) Ireland - Irish Sports Council 34 6 Chris Newton (GBr) Great Britain 19 7 Jonas Holmkvist (Swe) Bianchi Scandinavia 19 8 Eugene Moriaty (Irl) Meath Lee Strand Cycleways 19 9 Josh Beck (USA) Sportsbook.com 18 10 Ciarán Power (Irl) Ireland - Irish Sports Council 15 11 Jaaron Poad (Aus) Team Down Under 15 12 Mark Lovatt (GBr) Life Repair Group 14 13 Ari Hojgaard (Den) Jylland-Fyn 14 14 Tobias Lergard (Swe) Bianchi Scandinavia 11 15 Patrick Kohler (Ger) Rg Gutersloh/Neheim 9 16 Hamish Haynes (GBr) North West Division 8 17 Daniel Spence (RSA) Team HSBC 6 18 Raymond Clarke (Irl) Meath Lee Strand Cycleways 4 19 Ian McLeod (RSA) Team HSBC 3 20 Brian Ahern (Irl) Kildare HirEquip 3 21 Michael Larsen (Den) Jylland-Fyn 3 22 Adam Hodges Myerson (USA) Sportsbook.com 2 U23 classification 1 Thomas Lovkvist (Swe) Bianchi Scandinavia 28.03.47 2 Jonas Holmkvist (Swe) Bianchi Scandinavia 1.24 3 Andrey Medyannikov (Kaz) Kazakhstan 1.37 4 Brian Ahern (Irl) Kildare HirEquip 17.12 5 Maxim Iglinskiv (Kaz) Kazakhstan 18.20 6 Vadin Gorbachevskiy (Kaz) Kazakhstan 19.11 7 Kieran Page (GBr) Great Britain 24.43 8 Steve Cummings (GBr) Great Britain 27.22 9 Mikael Segarsall (Swe) Bianchi Scandinavia 31.47 10 Assan Bazayev (Kaz) Kazakhstan 54.53 11 Graham Briggs (GBr) Life Repair Group 1.37.29 12 Ben Greenwood (GBr) Life Repair Group 1.52.57 13 Gary Sheehan (Irl) Kildare North 2.45.41 CI Category 2 classification 1 Tony Brady (Irl) Meath Donnelly Avonmore 29.49.42 2 Mark McLeavey (Irl) Dublin Skip 8.14 3 Feargal Kelly (Irl) Wicklow Sahara 16.38 4 Brian Harris (Irl) Wicklow Sahara 1.20.20 5 David Tansey (Irl) Dublin Orwell 1.24.48 6 Aidan Reade (Irl) Mayo Galway Bay 1.26.43 7 Keith O'Sullivan (Irl) Wicklow Sahara 1.38.47 8 Eamon Finn (Irl) Dublin Orwell 1.44.32 9 Cathal Keane (Irl) Mayo Galway Bay 2.55.22 10 Martin Caddow (Irl) Dublin Orwell 3.01.38 County rider classification 1 Patrick Moriaty (Irl) Dublin Skip 28.04.15 2 Paul Griffin (Irl) Dublin Iarnród Eireann 1.21 3 Eugene Moriaty (Irl) Meath Lee Strand Cycleways 8.29 4 Brian Ahern (Irl) Kildare HirEquip 16.44 5 Raymond Clarke (Irl) Meath Lee Strand Cycleways 19.17 6 Ritchie Cahill (Irl) Tipperary Dan Morrissey 20.39 7 Joe Fenlon (Irl) Tipperary Dan Morrissey 23.27 8 David Peelo (Irl) Dublin Usher Insulations 26.09 9 Michael Mulcahy (Irl) Dublin Usher Insulations 26.50 10 Philip Finegan (Irl) Meath Lee Strand Cycleways 49.38 11 John Dempsey (Irl) Dublin Iarnród Eireann 50.12 12 Tim Barry (Irl) Tipperary Dan Morrissey 53.46 13 Stephen O'Sullivan (Irl) Meath Lee Strand Cycleways 54.18 14 John Horgan (Irl) Dublin Skip 56.22 15 Edward O'Donoghue (Irl) Dublin Usher Insulations 58.02 16 John Peppard (Irl) Dublin Iarnród Eireann 1.02.14 17 Brian Kenneally (Irl) Tipperary Dan Morrissey 1.08.44 18 Simon Kelly (Irl) Mayo Galway Bay 1.17.35 19 Scott McDonald (Irl) Dublin Orwell 1.18.01 20 Kieran McMahon (Irl) Dublin Iarnród Eireann 1.21.18 21 Brian Stewart (GBr) Dublin Usher Insulations 1.27.43 22 Vincent Gleeson (Irl) Ireland - Irish Sports Council 1.42.25 23 Laurence Roche (Irl) Kildare North 1.42.53 24 Derek Finnegan (Irl) Meath Donnelly Avonmore 1.43.27 25 Tony Brady (Irl) Meath Donnelly Avonmore 1.45.27 26 Aidan Crowley (Irl) Meath Lee Strand Cycleways 1.49.00 27 Adrian Hedderman (Irl) Dublin Skip 1.51.56 28 Mark McLeavey (Irl) Dublin Skip 1.53.41 29 Craig Sweetman (Irl) Meath Donnelly Avonmore 1.54.31 30 Feargal Kelly (Irl) Wicklow Sahara 2.02.05 31 Frank O'Leary (Irl) Dublin Usher Insulations 2.03.02 32 Colm Bracken (Irl) Dublin Iarnród Eireann 2.05.40 33 John Paul Hillard (Irl) Dublin Skip 2.16.41 34 Padraig Marrey (Irl) Mayo Galway Bay 2.20.34 35 Michael Devins (Irl) Mayo Galway Bay 2.26.18 36 Gary Sheehan (Irl) Kildare North 2.45.13 37 Fintan McCormack (Irl) Kildare Newbridge 3.01.20 38 Brian Lynch (Irl) Dublin Orwell 3.04.10 39 Brian Harris (Irl) Wicklow Sahara 3.05.47 40 David Tansey (Irl) Dublin Orwell 3.10.15 41 Aidan Reade (Irl) Mayo Galway Bay 3.12.10 42 Keith O'Sullivan (Irl) Wicklow Sahara 3.24.14 43 Eamon Finn (Irl) Dublin Orwell 3.29.59 44 John Wall (Irl) Kildare North 4.26.21 45 Cathal Keane (Irl) Mayo Galway Bay 4.40.49 46 Martin Caddow (Irl) Dublin Orwell 4.47.05 Teams classification 1 Sweden Bianchi Scandinavia 84.07.19 2 Kazakhstan 9.47 3 Ireland - Irish Sports Council 13.19 4 Great Britain 16.26 5 South Africa Team HSBC 33.17 6 Denmark Jylland-Fyn 34.57 7 Surrey Team gbcycles.co.uk 43.21 8 Lancaster Life Repair Group 44.01 9 England primera-bournemouth 1.50.57 10 Cambridge Team Dataphonics 2.23.11 11 Australia Team Down Under 2.27.27 12 USA Team Sportsbook.com 3.23.58 County team classification 1 Meath Lee Strand Cycleways 85.06.11 2 Dublin Iarnród Eireann 27.44 3 Tipperary Dan Morrissey 29.57 4 Dublin Usher Insulations 45.25 5 Dublin Skip 1.21.03 6 Meath Donnelly Avonmore 3.49.20 7 Mayo Galway Bay 4.14.24 8 Kildare North 4.31.15 9 Dublin Orwell 5.30.38 10 Wicklow Sahara 7.13.06 Courtesy of fbdmilkras.com
