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Tattersall's Cup Tour of the Murray River - NE
Australia, August 29-September 3, 2006
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Stage 4 - August 30: Kerang To Cohuna, 74.7 km
Kemp leads after McLachlan takes another
By Rob Morris
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A flat fast afternoon stage from Kerang to Cohuna offered nothing for the hill climbers in the tour, but instead gave the sprinters another chance to put time on the leaderboard.
Again attempted breaks were nullified almost before they began, although South Australian Chris Jongewaard and Victorian Patrick Shaw did manage to skip away by 15 seconds about half way through the stage.
Neither Jongewaard or Shaw are real dangers to the GC leaders, so in a way
it was surprising the peloton bothered about them all that much.
Four intermediate sprints along the way to Cohuna were shared between Echuca's
Brad Edmunds, Marden who claimed outright lead in the Sprint Championship, Patrick
Shaw and Zakkari Dempster.
The last of those four sprints was 12 km from the finish line and Canberra's Stuart Shaw and Tasmanian Wesley Sulzberger, who is the outright leader of the Tattersall's Cup, made a last ditch effort to break away.
Their effort last less than 2 km and only got to about 4 seconds before the peloton sensed the finish line was not far away.
In a picturesque, although somewhat technical finish in Cohuna, McLachlan just managed to get the right sprinter's line ahead of Aitken, with Egan down the outside in a wheel length third place.
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"I don't think I'm sprinting all that well, I just managed to get a great lead out from Zak Dempster and was in the right place at the right time and got some luck," McLachlan.
The big Canberra rider is the defending champion in the Tattersall's Cup and hell bent on making up leeway on Sulzberger.
McLachlan missed the recent Australian Cycling Grand Prix at Ballarat after an indifferent Tour of Gippsland in the opening event of the series.
McLahlan started this week languishing in 15th place and 84 points behind Sulzberger.
On provisional results, he has jumped his way into fourth position and a "gettable" 59-points adrift of the young Tasmanian.
The tour continues on Thursday with its only sole stage day - a 52 km criterium in Euston, a small town just out of Robinvale over the NSW border.
Photography
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- On the startline in Kerang for stage four of the Subaru Tour of the Murray River
- Stuart Shaw (L) keeps an eye on Michael Ford's wheel on the front of the peloton
- The peloton saddle up for another day on the roads of North West Victoria
- At Murrabit golf course the greens are - brown! The tour passes by local golfers
- What a peach of a peloton!
- Peter Smith of Victoria drives the peloton on stage four
- The yellow jersey of the tour leader David Kemp, in the thick of it in the peloton
- Patrick Shaw of Victoria attempted a break with Chris Jongewaard about twenty kilometres from the finish
- South Australian Chris Jongewaard and Patrick Shaw had the biggest break of the day when it go to fifteen seconds
- Benjamin Juzwin of Victoria in action during the 74.7km stage from Kerang to Cohuna
- Robert Cater from New South Wales was in 38th place overall going into stage four
- Gilbert Gutowski from Queensland in 56th place overall, 2.08 minutes behind tour leader and fellow Queenslander David Kemp
- The sprint is on into Cohuna and Robert McLachlan (L) is looking the goods
- McLachlan gets the goods… narrowly ahead of Brett Aitken in orange
- The stage four podium (L-R): Brett Aitken (2nd), Robert McLachlan (1st), and Leigh Egan (3rd)
- Robert McLachlan from the A.C.T takes a well earned drink after his stage four victory in Cohuna
- David Kemp puts on another Subaru Tour of the Murray River yellow leader's jersey in Cohuna
Results
1 Robert McLachlan 1.41.07 (44.33 Km/Hr) 2 Brett Aitken 3 Leigh Egan 4 Jeremy Bates 5 David Kemp 6 Brendan Brooks 7 Johnnie Walker 8 Zakkari Dempster 9 Matthew Davis 10 Fabio Calabria 11 Darren Harry 12 James Hannam 13 Joshua Marden 14 Nick Culvenor 15 Marcus Wettenhall 16 Peter Smith 17 Robert Cater 18 Daniel Burtt 19 Peter Milostic 20 Luke Pledger 21 Craig McCartney 22 Scott Peoples 23 Joe McDonnell 24 Adrian Hanson 25 Peter McDonald 26 Craig Mackie 27 Adam Murchie 28 Andrew Ward 29 Chris Jongewaard 30 Mark O'Brien 31 Michael Ford 32 Will Dickeson 33 Casey Munro 34 Sean Finning 35 Jacob Sutherland 36 Peter Herzig 37 Stephen Cunningham 38 Jai Crawford 39 Stuart Shaw 40 Patrick Shaw 41 Nicholas Sanderson 42 Richie Porte 43 Gary Mueller 44 Kyle Marwood 45 David Hiley 46 Brad Edmunds 47 Timothy Decker 48 Damien Turner 49 Cameron Peterson 50 Simon Pearson 51 Wesley Sulzberger 52 Jack Anderson 53 Peter Barnett 54 Thomas Baxter 55 Bradley Clark 56 Damon De Angelis 57 Matthew Delahunty 58 James Fitzgerald 59 Brett Franklin 60 Daniel Furmston 61 Joshua Gundry 62 Gilbert Gutowski 63 Jarrod Harman 64 Malcolm Hart 65 Brendan Hill 66 Kym Howard 67 Tim Hucker 68 Cameron Irwin 69 Matthew Jensen 70 Matthew Kennett 71 Peter Ladd 72 Hamish Mackirdy 73 Daniel Newnham 74 Ricky Peoples 75 Tremain Permewan 76 Glen Peterson 77 Samuel Rix 78 James Robinson 79 Brendan Rowbotham 80 Matthew Sherwin 81 Chris Steffanoni 82 Phillip Stokes 83 Nigel Sullivan 84 David Tozer 85 Simon Van Der Aa 86 Nicholas Walker 87 Jason Hegert 88 Grant Webster 89 Will Wettenhall 90 Christopher Wilding 91 Matthew Wood 92 Steven Pilson 93 Benjamin Juzwin 1.20 94 Jamie Kelly 1.54 95 Tom Middleton 3.54 96 James Kelly 11.15 97 William Murray 16.45 Sprints Archards on Murrabit Rd (Green Shed) 1 Brad Edmunds 3 pts 2 Joe McDonnell 2 3 Scott Peoples 1 Murrabit Primary School 1 Joshua Marden 3 pts 2 Adrian Hanson 2 3 James Hannam 1 Royal Hotel and Thomson Street 1 Patrick Shaw 3 pts 2 Chris Jongewaard 2 3 Peter Barnett 1 Gannawarra Region Sign 1 Zakkari Dempster 3 pts 2 Kyle Marwood 2 3 Joshua Marden 1 General classification after stage 4 1 David Kemp 5.28.25 2 Joshua Marden 0.03 3 Robert McLachlan 4 Casey Munro 0.12 5 Brad Edmunds 0.27 6 Stephen Cunningham 0.33 7 Brendan Brooks 8 Sean Finning 0.34 9 Peter Ladd 0.40 10 Kym Howard 11 Matthew Wood 0.41 12 Adam Murchie 0.47 13 Brett Aitken 1.42 14 Leigh Egan 1.50 15 Zakkari Dempster 1.57 16 Chris Jongewaard 17 Patrick Shaw 1.58 18 Scott Peoples 2.00 19 Joe McDonnell 2.01 20 Gary Mueller 21 Wesley Sulzberger 2.02 22 Jeremy Bates 2.03 23 Johnnie Walker 2.04 24 Peter McDonald 25 Peter Barnett 2.05 26 Craig McCartney 2.06 27 Marcus Wettenhall 2.07 28 Samuel Rix 29 Kyle Marwood 30 Adrian Hanson 2.08 31 Michael Ford 32 James Hannam 2.09 33 David Hiley 34 Nicholas Walker 35 Chris Steffanoni 36 Joshua Gundry 37 Daniel Furmston 38 Nicholas Sanderson 39 Stuart Shaw 40 Robert Cater 41 Steven Pilson 2.10 42 Christopher Wilding 43 Andrew Ward 44 Jason Hegert 45 David Tozer 46 Nigel Sullivan 47 Peter Smith 48 Matthew Sherwin 49 Brendan Rowbotham 50 Ricky Peoples 51 Daniel Newnham 52 Matthew Jensen 53 Tim Hucker 54 Brendan Hill 55 Jarrod Harman 56 Gilbert Gutowski 57 Matthew Delahunty 58 Matthew Davis 59 Nick Culvenor 60 Jack Anderson 61 Cameron Peterson 62 Timothy Decker 63 Richie Porte 64 Jai Crawford 65 Jacob Sutherland 66 Fabio Calabria 67 Will Dickeson 68 Mark O'Brien 69 Peter Milostic 70 Craig Mackie 2.23 71 Grant Webster 2.26 72 Bradley Clark 73 Daniel Burtt 74 Phillip Stokes 3.20 75 Luke Pledger 76 Glen Peterson 77 Matthew Kennett 78 Darren Harry 79 Brett Franklin 80 Thomas Baxter 81 Simon Pearson 82 Damien Turner 3.41 83 Will Wettenhall 4.30 84 Tremain Permewan 85 Cameron Irwin 86 Damon De Angelis 87 Jamie Kelly 5.14 88 James Fitzgerald 5.40 89 Tom Middleton 6.04 90 Hamish Mackirdy 6.15 91 Benjamin Juzwin 7.00 92 James Robinson 10.34 93 Malcolm Hart 11.44 94 Peter Herzig 20.15 95 Simon Van Der Aa 20.54 96 James Kelly 21.28 97 William Murray 22.25 SUBARU AUSTRALIA Aggressive Rider Awards 1 Wesley Sulzberger 100 pts 2 Zakkari Dempster 100 3 Brad Edmunds 50 4 Peter Barnett 50 Sprint classification 1 Joshua Marden 27 pts 2 David Kemp 23 3 Casey Munro 17 4 Brad Edmunds 14 5 Zakkari Dempster 13 6 Chris Jongewaard 13 7 Patrick Shaw 12 8 Scott Peoples 10 9 Joe McDonnell 9 10 Sean Finning 6 11 Peter McDonald 6 12 Johnnie Walker 6 13 Gary Mueller 5 14 Peter Barnett 5 15 Craig McCartney 4 16 Wesley Sulzberger 4 17 Marcus Wettenhall 3 18 Jeremy Bates 3 19 Samuel Rix 3 20 Craig Mackie 3 21 Kyle Marwood 3 22 Adrian Hanson 2 23 Michael Ford 2 24 Nicholas Walker 1 25 Chris Steffanoni 1 26 Joshua Gundry 1 27 Nicholas Sanderson 1 28 Robert Cater 1 29 Stuart Shaw 1 30 James Hannam 1 31 David Hiley 1 32 Brendan Brooks 1 Mountains classification 1 Casey Munro 6 pts 2 Brad Edmunds 4 3 Matthew Wood 1 4 Brendan Brooks 1 Criterium classification 1 Brett Aitken 20 pts 2 Leigh Egan 17 3 Robert McLachlan 17 4 Wesley Sulzberger 12 5 David Kemp 11 6 Joshua Marden 7 7 Gary Mueller 7 8 Daniel Furmston 5 9 Robert Cater 4 10 Brendan Rowbotham 3 11 Jeremy Bates 3 12 Nicholas Sanderson 2 13 Darren Harry 1 14 Brad Edmunds 1
