Trust House Classic/Tour of Wellington - 2.5

New Zealand, January 28-February 1, 2004

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The Stages

Stage 1 - January 28: Lower Hutt team time trial, 7km
Stage 2a - January 29: Featherson to Masterton, 120km
Stage 2b - January 29: Masterton criterium, 40km
Stage 3 - January 30: Masterton Circuit, 160km
Stage 4 - January 31: Masterton - Lake Ferry - Masterton, 166km
Stage 5a - February 1: City of Lower Hutt ITT, 17km
Stage 5b - February 1: Petone Criterium, 40km (cancelled in interests of riders' safety)

International field for 17th Trust House Cycle Classic

New Zealand's 17th Trust House Cycle Classic, a five day UCI 2.5 stage race, will start on Wednesday, January 28 with a team time trial in Avalon, Lower Hutt at 2.30pm and finish with a street circuit race around Jackson St - Petone at 2.30pm on Sunday, February 1. Over the five days, riders will complete a total of 564 kilometres of racing. The hardest stage in this year's tour is stage 5, a hilly 125 km race around the Masterton area, finishing with a 16 km climb to the top of Admiral Hill at 535 meters above sea level.

Twenty teams of five riders will make up the 100 rider peloton, including international riders from New Zealand, Australia, The Netherlands, Canada, Japan, Mongolia and Uruguay. [Ed: is five an auspicious number in this race?]. Favourites to win the 2004 event are defending champion Matthew Yates from New Zealand, riding for the Subway team, Canadian Eric Wohlberg, current New Zealand road champion Heath Blackgrove, riding for the NZ Samsung team, and Hector Morales from Uruguay, one of the in form South American riders at the moment. Other top New Zealand riders in the event are current road double NZ road champion Gordon McCauley and 2002 Junior World Champion Jeremy Yates.

Start list

Subway                        Works Infrastructure Team
 
1 Matthew Yates (NZl)         6 Hector Morales (Uru)
2 Jeremy Yates (NZl)          7 Jorge Libonatti (Uru)
3 Jaaron Poad (NZl)           8 Daniel Newham (Aus)
4 Jason Allen (NZl)           9 Graham Rutter (Aus)
5 Gordon Bearman (NZl)        10 Greg Gordon (Aus)
 
Trust House - Canada          Japan Shimano
 
11 Eric Wohlberg (Can)        16 Imanishi Hisafuni (Jpn)
12 Charles Dionne (Can)       17 Suzuki Shinri (Jpn)
13 Dominique Perras (Can)     18 Nodera Hidenori (Jpn)
14 Corey Lange (Can)          19 Ouchi Kaoru (Jpn)
15 Peter Wedge (Can)          20 Yamamoto Masamichi (Jpn)
 
BRC Kennermerland             Samsung New Zealand
 
21 Pim Keetmam (Ned)          26 Marc Ryan (NZl)
22 Ivor Bruin (Ned)           27 Tim Gudsell (NZl)
23 Rudi Vriend (Ned)          28 Heath Blackgrove (NZl)
24 Francis De Jager (Ned)     29 Peter Latham (NZl)
25 Jeremy Vennell (NZl)       30 Matt Randall (NZl)
 
Hot Cycles                    Cafe L'Affre
 
36 Craig Pitt (NZl)           41 Geoff Shaw (NZl)
37 Paul Bishop (NZl)          42 Chris Carson (NZl)
38 Adam Gosney (NZl)          43 Hayden Godfrey (NZl)
39 Kieran Turner (NZl)        44 Andrew Small (NZl)
40 Stephen Elden (NZl)        45 Walker Starr (NZl)
 
IBike Team                    Handy Rentals
 
46 Paul Sumich (NZl)          51 William Thompson (NZl)
47 Matt Gilbert (NZl)         52 Luke McCarthy (NZl)
48 Blair Taylor (NZl)         53 Caneron Holt (NZl)
49 Jianni Koutsos (NZl)       54 David Berkeley (NZl)
50 Jon Bridges (NZl)          55 Dane Macky (NZl)
 
Meridian Energy               Avery Ford
 
56 Steve O'Connor (NZl)       61 David Bowden (NZl)
57 Ben Copsey (NZl)           62 Adam Curry (NZl)
58 Chris Hewson (NZl)         63 Don Oakley (NZl)
59 Gary Milbanke (NZl)        64 Saul Gudsell (NZl)
60 Matt Gerstenberge (NZl)    65 Nick Eliadis (NZl)
 
Solway Park Team              Team Serio Cafe
 
66 Peter James (NZl)          71 Andrew Hawley (NZl)
67 Scott Lyttle (NZl)         72 Jason Clement (NZl)
68 Paul Galbraith (NZl)       73 Graeme Stone (NZl)
69 Al Crossling (NZl)         74 Stephen Collins (NZl)
70 Matt Harvey (NZl)          75 Gordon McCauley (NZl)
 
Penny Cycles Team             Team MGZT
 
76 Darren Gordon (NZl)        81 Joel Pearson (Aus)
77 Jeff Lyall (NZl)           82 Paul Richards (Aus)
78 Stephen Bale (NZl)         83 Will Walker (Aus)
79 Stephen Blair (NZl)        84 Casey Munro (Aus)
80 Joseph Cooper (NZl)        85 Karl Menzies (Aus)
 
Mizone                        TNL Freighting
 
86 Teunis Schoneveld (NZl)    91 Robin Reid (NZl)
87 Troy Klink (NZl)           92 Tim Wilson (Aus)
88 Ryan Hoogenberg (NZl)      93 Scott Allen (NZl)
89 Sam Horn (NZl)             94 Lester Settle (NZl)
90 Roger Gray (NZl)           95 Mike Willacy (NZl)
 
VIC Cycles                    
 
96 Marc Mackay (NZl)
97 Anthony Chapman (NZl)
98 Joseph Chapman (NZl)
99 Hilton Clark (Aus)
100 Jonathan Clarke (Aus)

Past winners

2003 Matthew Yates (NZl) Subway
2002 Robin Reid (Avanti Cycles)
2001 Chris Jenner (NZl) Fuji Xerox-New Zealand
2000 Brendan Vesty (NZl)
1999 Julian Dean (NZl)
1998 Hayden Bradbury (Aus)
1997 Corey Sweet (Aus)
1996 Ric Reid (NZl)
1995 Robbie McEwen (Aus)
1994 Ric Reid (NZl)
1993 Clark Richards (NZl)
1992 Brian Fowler (NZl)
1991 Brian Fowler (NZl)
1990 Brian Fowler (NZl)
1989 Brian Fowler (NZl)
1988 Darien Rush (NZl)

 
Past winners by Mario Stiehl, www.world-of-cycling.com