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Tour de Delta - NE
Canada, July 15-17, 2005
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Stage 1 - July 15: Hill Climb, 700m
Going up! Farrar and Uhl climb to victory
Tyler Farrar wasn't settling for second place again.
The 21-year-old from Bellingham, Washington kicked off BC Superweek by winning the Tour de Delta's fifth annual Brenco Hill Climb Friday night with a time of one minute, 9.24 seconds, just over sixth-tenths of a second ahead of Saskatchewan's Shawn Bunnin.
Farrar's Health Net teammate _ and Canadian cycling legend _ Gord Fraser finished third with a time of one minute, 10.61 seconds.
"I've finished second two years in a row so I was thinking if I don't get it this year, I'm never going to get it," said Farrar, who won the Tour de Delta criterium and road races last year, but lost the hill climb in a too-close-to-call finish. "It was a bike throw and there was no photo at the finish so the judges picked one of us and didn't pick me."
This time, Farrar, who was also second at last year's Tour de Gastown and the reigning US Under-23 champion for criteriums and road races, barely edged out Bunnin, who surprised everyone by tearing up the lung-busting 700-metre climb up a nine per cent grade, around a 90 degree left turn, and down the 300-metre flat sprint in one minute, 9.83 seconds.
Bunnin, an unheralded 21-year-old with a background in mountain biking that includes time on the national team, posted his surprising time as the fourth group out of the gate. Then he sat back and watched some of the best riders in North America try to beat it.
Farrar was in the last group up.
"It was like a bad dream," said Bunnin, a commerce student at the University of Saskatchewan. "The hardest part of going out early was all the anxiety I had after watching."
Sarah Uhl of Quark Cycling won the women's race in one minute, 23.36 seconds, giving her all three Tour de Delta titles over the last two years. Uhl, who won both the criterium and road races but finished second in the hill climb last year, was paired with two-time Canadian Olympian Lyne Bessette of Quebec, who finished third in one minute, 27.03 seconds riding for the Sports Experts/Louis Garneau team.
"Lyne is a world class rider and one the best Canada has ever had so all you know is you have to beat her and you'll probably win the race," said Uhl, a former World Junior Match Sprint champion who was also second in Gastown last year and is recognized as one of the fastest sprinters in women's cycling.
Calgary's Allison Testroete of the Bow Cycle/Cyclemeisters team, finished second with a time of one minute, 26.97 seconds.
Uhl, 20, and Quark Cycling teammate Helen Kelly, who finished fourth, made the long trip back to BC Superweek despite the fact the rest of their team didn't include it on their schedule for the season. Both called BC Superweek one of the best-kept secrets in cycling.
"This race is just very unique," said Uhl. "There's few times in the season where there as much community support as there is here. They had 200 volunteers at the volunteer dinner last night. The world championships aren't that organized. It's an indication of the love and passion of the community for the sport."
Results
Men - Pro 1 2 1 Tyler Farrar (USA) Health Net 1.09.24 2 Shawn Bunnin (Can) Team Saskatchewan / Spoke n Sport 0.00.59 3 Gord Fraser (Can) Health Net 0.01.37 4 Dustin Macburnie (Can) Broadmark Capital 0.01.81 5 Andrew Pinfold (Can) Symmetrics Cycling 0.01.96 6 David Richter (USA) Subway 0.02.01 7 Nat Faulkner (Can) ItalPasta 0.02.02 8 Tim Sherstobitoff (Can) Kelowna Cycle 0.02.06 9 David Goosen (Can) Rocky Mountain Bicycles / Adobe 0.02.23 10 Peter Sanowar (Can) ItalPasta 0.02.52 11 Kirk OBee (USA) Navigators Insurance Cycling Team 0.02.53 12 Marsh Cooper (Can) Symmetrics Cycling 0.03.32 13 Phil Zajicek (USA) Navigators Insurance Cycling Team 0.03.43 14 Pleasure Jackson (USA) Broadmark Capital 0.03.68 15 Dan Neyens (USA) Broadmark Capital 0.03.70 16 Nicholas Rowe (Can) SG / Espoirs de Laval - TTN 0.03.75 17 Ryan McKenzie (Can) Subway 0.03.93 18 Andrew Fischer (USA) Broadmark Capital 0.04.06 19 Bradley Fairall (Can) Symmetrics Cycling 0.04.14 20 Derek McMaster (Can) Team Coastal 0.04.18 21 Scott Brown (Aus) Wentings Cycle 0.04.71 22 Tommy Nankervis (Aus) Wentings Cycle 0.04.90 23 Troy Heithecker (USA) Benaroya Research Institute 0.04.91 24 Richard Bowker (NZl) ItalPasta 25 Robert Campbell (USA) The Valley Athletic Club 0.05.00 26 Garth White (Can) TREK - Red Truck Ale 0.05.09 27 Bruno Langlois (Can) Jittery Joe's-Kalahari 0.05.19 28 Todd Cornelius (USA) Subway 0.05.40 29 Jamie Sparling (Can) Bicisport Calgary 0.05.47 30 Evan Elken (USA) Jittery Joe's-Kalahari 0.05.53 31 Nicholas Jendzjowsky (Can) Pedalhead Roadworks/Sleemans 0.05.64 32 Ian Manning (Can) BikeSports - Pfaff Racing Team 0.05.76 33 Dan Skinner (Can) Elitewave.com 0.05.77 34 Chris Issac (Can) ItalPasta 0.05.82 35 Eric Wohlberg (Can) Symmetrics Cycling 0.05.91 36 Eric Kameka (Can) Escape Velocity / DEVO 0.05.99 37 Jeff Sherstobitoff (Can) Symmetrics Cycling 0.06.01 38 Roy Pickavance (Can) CenturyTel 0.06.19 39 Brandon Crichton (Can) ItalPasta 0.06.34 40 Will Routley (Can) Symmetrics Cycling 0.06.49 41 Cameron Hughes (Aus) Subway 0.06.66 42 Siro Camponogara (Ita) Navigators Insurance Cycling Team 0.06.78 43 Mark Howard (Aus) Wentings Cycle 0.06.86 44 Cory Lange (Can) Symmetrics Cycling 0.06.91 45 Jordan Guenette (Can) Rocky Mountain Bicycles / Adobe 0.06.94 46 Luis Garcia (CRc) Costa Rica 0.07.16 47 Chris Brennan (USA) Team Rio Grande 0.07.23 48 Grabowski Zak (USA) TIAA-CREF 0.07.61 49 Jacob Erker (Can) Symmetrics Cycling 0.07.75 50 Maurice Worsfold (Can) Bayside Cycling Club 0.07.81 51 Jesse James Collins (Can) BiciSport 0.07.91 52 Murray Carter (Can) Ride With Rendall 0.08.26 53 Aaron Tuckerman (NZl) Team Rubicon 0.08.27 54 Christian Meier (Can) Symmetrics Cycling 0.08.40 55 Vassili Davidenko (Rus) Navigators Insurance Cycling Team 0.08.41 56 Matthew Hall (USA) CenturyTel / VRAD 0.08.49 57 Matthew Walker (Can) Team Sask 0.08.55 58 Justin Davis (Aus) Wentings Cycle 0.08.60 59 Craig Wilcox (USA) Jittery Joe's-Kalahari 0.08.66 60 Craig De gier (Can) Cyclesmith CC 0.08.87 61 Allen Krughoff (USA) Century Tel 0.09.23 62 Shaun Adamson (Can) United Cycle 0.09.26 63 Brian Nelson (USA) Momentum sports/Inewmed 0.09.31 64 Mark Grimmett (Can) Wenting's Cycles 0.09.39 65 Jeff Hopkins (Aus) Jittery Joe's-Kalahari 0.09.44 66 Chris Reid (Can) Team Coastal 0.09.48 67 Nick Friesen (Can) The Bike Shop 0.09.51 68 Brad Bingham (USA) CenturyTel / VRAD 69 Zack Garland (Can) 0.09.65 70 Min Van Velzen (Can) Symmetrics Cycling 0.09.70 71 Brett Boniface (Can) OrganicAthlete Victoria 72 Tim Johnson (USA) Jittery Joe's-Kalahari 0.09.81 73 Jonny Sundt (USA) Jittery Joe's-Kalahari 0.09.96 74 Chad Nikolz (USA) Benaroya Research Institiute 0.09.97 75 Owen Gue (USA) Broadmark Capital 0.10.12 76 Taylor Little (Can) Team Coastal 77 Jeff Hansen (Can) ItalPasta 0.10.37 78 Sven Sturm (Ger) Organic Athlete Victoria 0.11.13 79 Duncan Steele (Can) Escape Velocity / DEVO 0.11.22 80 Jeff Sparling (Can) Team Bow Cycle - Calgary 0.11.88 81 Andy Edwards (Aus) GS Ciao 0.12.17 82 Zachary Taylor (USA) TIAA-CREF 0.12.39 83 Tim Abercrombie (Can) Escape Velocity / DEVO 0.12.58 84 Ezra Nichols (Can) Organic Ahtlete Victoria 0.13.07 85 Matthew Bonin (Can) Whole Foods 0.13.08 86 Jesse Lawler (USA) Jittery Joe's-Kalahari 0.13.35 87 Daniel Maggiacomo (Can) ItalPasta 0.13.45 88 Harley Borlee (Can) Velocity 0.13.96 89 Joshua Smith (USA) CenturyTel / VRAD 0.14.00 90 Svein Tuft (Can) Symmetrics Cycling 0.14.60 91 Justin Morgan (USA) Broadmark Capital 0.15.80 92 Jason Fluckiger (Can) Bayside Cycling Club 0.16.83 93 Axel Bergman (Can) Team Organic Victoria 0.17.37 94 Kevin Noiles (Can) Escape Velocity 0.17.51 95 Omer Kem (USA) Subway 0.17.89 96 Damien Waugh (Can) Rocky Mountain Bicycles / Adobe 0.18.29 97 Trevor Connor (Can) Chris Cookies/Swan Cycles 0.20.60 98 Samuel Bail (Can) coachchris.ca / All Seasons Sports 0.21.47 99 Hilton Clarke (Aus) Navigators Insurance Cycling Team 0.26.24 Women 1 Sarah Uhl (USA) Quark Cycling Team 1.23.36 2 Alison Testroete (Can) Bow Cycle/Cyclemeisters 0.03.61 3 Lyne Bessette (Can) Sports Experts - Louis Garneau 0.03.67 4 Helen Kelly (Aus) Quark Cycling Team 0.05.88 5 Erinne Willock (Can) Webcor Builders Cycling Team 0.06.31 6 Gina Grain (Can) Victory Brewing 0.07.53 7 Naomi Cooper (Can) Canadian National Junior Women 0.07.70 8 Stacey Spencer (Can) Gericks Cycle 0.08.88 9 Mandy Poitras (Can) Symmetrics Cycling 0.09.48 10 Julia Farell (Can) Wheels of Bloor 0.10.08 11 Julie Hutsebaut (Can) Terry Precision 0.10.15 12 Karol-Ann Canuel (Can) Canadian National Junior Women 0.10.41 13 Mathilde Hupin Debeurme (Can) Sportif Bromont 0.10.46 14 Joelle Numainville (Can) Canadian National Junior Women 0.11.27 15 Heather Lamson (Can) N/A 0.11.66 16 Alena Radomsky (Can) Team Coastal 0.12.57 17 Alex Wrubleski (Can) Regina Cycle Club/Sask 0.12.64 18 Lee Darling (Can) Team Coastal 19 Marni Hambleton (Can) Symmetrics Cycling 0.13.00 20 Christina Briante (Can) Symmetrics Cycling 0.14.30 21 Lisa Sweeney (Can) Team Coastal 0.14.58 22 Lisa Tasa (Can) Chapman Land Surveying Racing 0.15.13 23 Jean Ann McKirdy (Can) Rocky Mountain Business Objects 0.15.53 24 Suzanne Macht (Can) Adventurebound.ca 0.15.81 25 Beth Bissell (Can) Midweek Cycling Club 0.16.69 26 Anne Guzman (Can) Terry Precision 0.17.44 27 Anna Tratnyek (Can) Terry Precision 0.17.48 28 Leslie Vice (Can) Dizzy Chicks 0.18.45 29 Barb Zimich (Can) Team Coastal 0.18.52 30 Kristine Brynjolfson (Can) Team Coastal 0.19.21 31 Helena Coney (Can) N/A 0.20.87 32 Kristin Campbell (Can) Pedalhead Roadwork's/Sleemans 0.21.73 33 Kylie Case (Can) Team Manitoba 0.24.57 34 Gill Walker (Can) Team Coastal 0.25.45
