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Tour of the Southern Grampians - NE
Australia, April 14-15, 2007
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Stage 4 - April 15: Coleraine (Criterium), 46km
Overall to Shaw, final stage to Gill
By Paul Logan
The race entered the final stage with only one second separating VIS rider Pat Shaw, who had held the yellow jersey since the opening stage and the ever gallant Mark O'Brien who burst onto the scene as a J19 superstar of the future in 2005 by winning the Tour. In third place sat Nathan Wise, with Middleton (Savings & Loans and 2006 B grade winner), Ward (Ballarat City Cycles) and Walker only a few more seconds back. Nick Walker, brother of Rabobank professional, Will has had a great history with this Tour by being D grade victor in 2004, B grade victor in 2005, a nail biting third in A grade in 2006 and now sitting only seconds off another podium place in 2007.
At the beginning of the criterium there was an air of expectation hanging in the cool and overcast air. The criterium was held on a 1.85km super fast street circuit with wide sweeping bends and a huge crowd lining the front straight. With a total of 55 seconds of time bonuses up for grabs GC could still be turned right around. O'Brien would be desperate to grab just a few seconds back from Shaw to put himself in the lead. Shaw was no doubt relying on his VIS team to control things and keep himself safe. To O'Brien's detriment he had now lost all but one team mate which would make life difficult for him.
The race headed off at 3.45pm and straight away Marcus Wettenhall seemed to have had instructions to go off the front by his Ballarat City Cycles team to protect Ward's fifth place on GC. However, it wasn't long until the peloton were back together. At the first sprint after five laps the bunch were still together and in a frantic dash to the line McCartney (Savings & Loans) grabbed the 10 second bonus, followed closely by Shaw and O'Brien in third. This now put Shaw three seconds up on O'Brien. Even without any team mates O'Brien would show a never say die attitude. With this sprint McCartney lifted himself from eighth to seventh on GC.
Shortly after the sprint a break of seven managed to get a gap on the peloton and with no-one out in front in danger to the GC the pace slackened, while the break opened up the gap and the peloton looked at each other with the odd attack going but being closed down almost straight away.
One rider in the break was Hamilton's own Brendan Schultz, who has had a fantastic year on the track and was now getting some airtime out in front for his Hamilton cycling club. Meanwhile back in the peloton Marcus Wettenhall once again decided that he would try and bridge the gap to the break and he took the ever consistent David Tozer, who has finished every tour since 2004 riding A grade with the best result being a ninth in 2004. These two riders pushed the pace for a number of laps until Tozer blew and then shortly after with no support Wettenhall was back in the peloton.
The break now at only five laps to go had blown out to 39 seconds and were nearly out of sight in the long, wide McConochie Street finishing straight. However, the peloton had now decided that they still wanted to have a go at the win and give the crowd some final entertainment. The gap within only a couple of laps was reduced to 29 seconds, then 16 seconds with two laps to go. At the bell it was all back together again and looked like a furious final sprint that could decide first and second on GC. In the dash to the line Gill (Team O'Grady) won it convincingly, followed by Hegert and in third place a jubilant Shaw followed by O'Brien and Finning. Shaw managed to hang onto the win by a mere five seconds over O'Brien and Wise.
Results
1 Russell Gill (Norwood CC) 1.03.26 2 Jason Hegert (Ballarat-Sebastopol CC) 3 Patrick Shaw (Ballarat-Sebastopol CC) 4 Mark O'Brien (Horsham CC) 5 Sean Finning (Castlemaine CC) 6 Craig McCartney (Geelong CC) 7 Nicholas Walker (Brunswick CC) 8 Lachlan Stewart (Ararat & Districts CC) 9 Marcus Wettenhall (Geelong CC) 10 Simon Pearson (Norwood CC) 11 Bradley Norton (Shepparton CC) 12 Jay Phillpotts (Hawthorn CC) 13 Trent Stevenson (Shepparton CC) 14 Andrew Ward (Ballarat-Sebastopol CC) 15 Will Wettenhall (Ballarat-Sebastopol CC) 16 Matthew Sherwin (Caulfield-Carnegie CC) 17 Brendan Schultz (Hamilton CC) 18 Damien Turner (Ballarat-Sebastopol CC) 19 Kyle Marwood (Bendigo & District CC) 20 Jacob Lea (Bendigo & District CC) 21 Chris Steffanoni (Sunbury & Hume Districts CC) 22 Michael Gallagher (Caulfield-Carnegie CC) 23 Jonathan Lovelock (Hawthorn CC) 24 David Tozer (Port Fairy CC) 25 Trent Stevenson (Shepparton CC) 26 Aidan McInerney (Caulfield-Carnegie CC) 27 Peter Smith (Caulfield-Carnegie CC) 28 Nathan Wise (Caulfield-Carnegie CC) 29 Danny Kah (Caulfield-Carnegie CC) 30 Ryan Moody (Geelong CC) 31 Tom Middleton (Norwood CC) 32 Kym Howard (Adelaide CC) 33 Alexander Machin (Wangaratta CC) 34 Brett Perez (St Kilda CC) 35 Benjamin Juzwin (St Kilda CC) 36 Will Dickeson (Sturt Holdfast Marion CC) 0.49 37 Pip Grinter (Bendigo & District CC) 3.00 DNS Peter Braunsteins (Hawthorn CC) DNS Reece Stephens (St Kilda CC) Final General classification 1 Patrick Shaw (Ballarat-Sebastopol CC) 6.52.48 2 Mark O'Brien (Horsham CC) 0.05 3 Nathan Wise (Caulfield-Carnegie CC) 1.01 4 Tom Middleton (Norwood CC) 1.25 5 Andrew Ward (Ballarat-Sebastopol CC) 1.40 6 Nicholas Walker (Brunswick CC) 1.45 7 Craig McCartney (Geelong CC) 2.26 8 Jonathan Lovelock (Hawthorn CC) 2.30 9 Michael Gallagher (Caulfield-Carnegie CC) 3.02 10 Lachlan Stewart (Ararat & Districts CC) 3.50 11 Danny Kah (Caulfield-Carnegie CC) 7.44 12 Sean Finning (Castlemaine CC) 13.43 13 Jason Hegert (Ballarat-Sebastopol CC) 13.56 14 Damien Turner (Ballarat-Sebastopol CC) 14.12 15 Jay Phillpotts (Hawthorn CC) 14.27 16 Kyle Marwood (Bendigo & District CC) 14.36 17 Aidan McInerney (Caulfield-Carnegie CC) 14.42 18 Ryan Moody (Geelong CC) 15.17 19 Trent Stevenson (Shepparton CC) 15.18 20 Brendan Schultz (Hamilton CC) 17.09 21 Chris Steffanoni (Sunbury & Hume Districts CC) 17.21 22 Jacob Lea (Bendigo & District CC) 17.35 23 Benjamin Juzwin (St Kilda CC) 17.38 24 David Tozer (Port Fairy CC) 20.28 25 Alexander Machin (Wangaratta CC) 21.51 26 Peter Smith (Caulfield-Carnegie CC) 24.14 27 Brett Perez (St Kilda CC) 24.15 28 Will Wettenhall (Ballarat-Sebastopol CC) 26.39 29 Matthew Sherwin (Caulfield-Carnegie CC) 27.37 31 Simon Pearson (Norwood CC) 32.48 32 Russell Gill (Norwood CC) 34.02 33 Will Dickeson (Sturt Holdfast Marion CC) 34.33 34 Kym Howard (Adelaide CC) 42.31 35 Pip Grinter (Bendigo & District CC) 1.04.31 36 Marcus Wettenhall (Geelong CC) 1.07.22 37 Bradley Norton (Shepparton CC) 1.11.16 Women 1 Peta Mullens (Caulfield-Carnegie CC) 5.05.12 2 Lisa Friend (Caulfield-Carnegie CC) 0.31 3 Sharon Laws (St Kilda CC) 1.24 4 Deborah Fagg (Albury-Wodonga CC) 2.35 5 Kathryn Watt (Blackburn CC) 2.48 6 Christine Foster (St Kilda CC) 3.25 7 Kerryn Charman (Geelong CC) 3.54 8 Stephanie Frawley (Mildura-Coomealla CC) 9.41 9 Veronica Dudderidge (Albury-Wodonga CC) 11.24 10 Lorraine Meinke (Brunswick CC) 11.31 11 Radele Berriman (Caulfield-Carnegie CC) 17.02 12 Clare Vlahopoulos (Caulfield-Carnegie CC) 17.30 13 Tara Stewart (St Kilda CC) 28.25 14 Irene Whennen (Hamilton CC) 36.30 15 Peta Stewart (Albury-Wodonga CC) 39.59 16 Trudy Stevenson (Shepparton CC) 40.03 17 Tahlia Clayton (Hamilton CC) 40.07 B Grade 1 Jamie Crass (Bendigo & District CC) 6.14.23 2 Wade Wallace (St Kilda CC) 0.31 3 Cameron Bowden (Norwood CC) 0.37 4 Craig Johnson (St Kilda CC) 0.40 5 Stefan Kirsch (Blackburn CC) 0.50 6 Josh Hawkes (Ballarat / Sebastopol CC) 0.53 7 Brian McNamara (Warrnambool CC) 1.04 8 Rowan Dever (Hawthorn CC) 1.25 9 Aaron Christiansen (Hawthorn CC) 1.54 10 Ben Conroy (Norwood CC) 1.55 11 Brett Hickford (Footscray CC) 2.10 12 Dion Blair (ADF Cycling) 2.14 13 Peter Howard (Caulfield-Carnegie CC) 2.15 14 James Fitzgerald (Geelong CC) 2.30 15 Alan Adams (Broadford-Seymour CC) 2.50 16 David Moreland (Bendigo & District CC) 3.30 17 Roy Clark (Caulfield-Carnegie CC) 5.36 18 Mark Winnen (Port Fairy CC) 7.16 19 Andrew Curtain (Caulfield-Carnegie CC) 8.45 20 Robert Croft (St Kilda CC) 11.49 21 Bruce Tallon (St Kilda CC) 11.52 22 Tim Turrini-Rochford (Adelaide CC) 12.38 23 Steven Martin (MTBA) 13.07 24 Guy Green (Blackburn CC) 13.38 25 James Mowatt (MTBA) 15.00 26 Byron Davy (Blackburn CC) 16.12 27 Anthony Peacock (Blackburn CC) 17.26 28 Peter Johnstone (Chelsea & Peninsula CC) 18.33 29 Mark Kelly (Caulfield-Carnegie CC) 19.01 30 Adam Davis (Noarlunga South Coast CC) 21.27 31 Christopher Teakle (St Kilda CC) 22.21 32 Luke Mackenzie (St Kilda CC) 25.19 33 Cameron McKenzie (Melbourne University CC) 27.12 34 Paul Munro (Brunswick CC) 29.34 35 John Cipriano (Caulfield-Carnegie CC) 37.56 36 Cameron McDonald (St Kilda CC) 39.09 37 Simon Frost (Blackburn CC) 41.47 38 Sebastian Guiney (Caulfield-Carnegie CC) 53.38 39 Stewart Denmead (Hawthorn CC) 54.43 C Grade 1 Daniel McIntyre (Albury-Wodonga CC) 5.22.43 2 Luke Aggett (Port Fairy CC) 0.10 3 Sean Carruthers (Caulfield-Carnegie CC) 0.24 4 Alister Stuart (Caulfield-Carnegie CC) 0.54 5 Sam Ward (Cobram-Barooga CC) 2.26 6 Gary Polack (Hamilton CC) 3.10 7 Simon Crispie (Warrnambool CC) 3.31 8 Jason Costin (Brunswick CC) 3.59 9 Pete Knight (St Kilda CC) 5.25 10 Rohan Creed (Warrnambool CC) 5.50 11 Andrew Pike (St Kilda CC) 6.25 12 Peter Hamilton (Sutherland Shire CC) 6.46 13 Dallas Jones (Warrnambool CC) 7.01 14 James Ibrahim (Bendigo & District CC) 7.07 15 Mark Wallace (Blackburn CC) 7.15 16 Scott Blurton (Geelong CC) 8.16 17 Matt Corderoy (St Kilda CC) 8.23 18 Cameron Gillies (Port Fairy CC) 8.51 19 David Heatley (Caulfield-Carnegie CC) 9.44 20 Paul Carnibella (Caulfield-Carnegie CC) 10.53 21 Mark Horner (Sunbury & Hume Districts CC) 11.09 22 David Short (St Kilda CC) 11.29 23 Daniel Hull (Ararat & Districts CC) 12.21 24 Joel Fahy (Bendigo & District CC) 12.47 25 Michael Hartman (Preston CC) 14.28 26 Julien Fleurus (Hawthorn CC) 14.29 27 John Marcan (Sunbury & Hume Districts CC) 14.54 28 Michael Vogt (Caulfield-Carnegie CC) 14.57 29 Nicholas McEniry (Caulfield-Carnegie CC) 15.33 30 Benjamin Koops (St Kilda CC) 15.42 31 Robert Gaggini (Adelaide CC) 16.22 32 John McDonald (Hawthorn CC) 16.23 33 Chris Cheney (Warrnambool CC) 16.32 34 Andrew McGrath (Hawthorn CC) 18.46 35 Brent Tomlinson (Caulfield-Carnegie CC) 19.27 36 Kurt Jensen (Chelsea & Peninsula CC) 19.58 37 Roland Evans (Hamilton CC) 20.03 38 Mark Ukotic (Sunbury & Hume Districts CC) 20.09 39 Peter McDonough (Geelong CC) 20.24 40 Nathan Gardiner (Ararat & Districts CC) 21.14 41 Alex Lockie (Caulfield-Carnegie CC) 24.57 42 Warren Osborne (Broadford-Seymour CC) 26.05 43 Nicholas Farley (St Kilda CC) 26.40 44 Stuart Verrier (St Kilda CC) 26.43 45 Andrew Mackinnon (Brunswick CC) 26.49 46 Matthew Bishop (Caulfield-Carnegie CC) 27.25 47 Errol Schmidt (Mildura-Coomealla CC) 30.12 48 James Herd (Brunswick CC) 30.45 49 Cam Woolcock (Hawthorn CC) 32.32 50 Olof Szymczak (Caulfield-Carnegie CC) 33.22 51 Peter Bice (Norwood CC) 36.35 52 Michael Jeffs (Brunswick CC) 37.19 53 Shane Edwards (Broadford-Seymour CC) 42.01 54 Luke Burns (Warrnambool CC) 42.29 55 Eammon Feely (Leongatha CC) 44.06 56 Ed Knowles (Sutherland Shire CC) 48.52 57 Ben Tatti (Caulfield-Carnegie CC) 50.26 58 Tim Farley (St Kilda CC) 58.37 59 Ashley Duncan (Caulfield-Carnegie CC) 58.48 60 Leigh Murphy (Bendigo & District CC) 1.07.34 61 Ashraf Murad (Coburg CC) 1.52.39 D Grade 1 Rudolf Schmidt (Geelong CC) 4.47.14 2 Adrian Sinatt (Blackburn CC) 0.12 3 John Guerin (Albury-Wodonga CC) 0.31 4 Travis Greening (Warrnambool CC) 1.13 5 Douglas Reynolds (Blackburn CC) 1.15 6 Anthony Fewster (St Kilda CC) 1.31 7 John Murazak (Footscray CC) 1.34 8 Troy Sait (Bendigo & District CC) 2.10 9 Neil Duncan (Port Fairy CC) 2.15 10 Darren Pearce (Port Fairy CC) 2.28 11 Neale Adams (Caulfield-Carnegie CC) 2.45 12 Robert Wilson (Albury-Wodonga CC) 3.49 13 Tim Donehue (Mt Gambier CC) 4.02 14 Paul Bosch (Hamilton CC) 4.23 15 Laurie Lovelock (Hawthorn CC) 4.40 16 Les Tokolyi (St Kilda CC) 4.44 17 Michael Mehonoshen (Cairns CC) 5.00 18 Adam King (Caulfield-Carnegie CC) 19 Dean McLaren (Hamilton CC) 5.09 20 Richard McClelland (Albury-Wodonga CC) 6.14 21 Brad Hazell (Albury-Wodonga CC) 6.23 22 Richard Carnibella (Caulfield-Carnegie CC) 7.35 23 Paul Ambry (Hawthorn CC) 9.23 24 Tom Barry (MTBA) 9.52 25 Jeffrey McLean (Port Fairy CC) 10.42 26 Nicholas Bird (Blackburn CC) 12.55 27 Dale Cumming (Hamilton CC) 13.04 28 Robert Moore (St Kilda CC) 13.15 29 Peter Radcliffe (Port Fairy CC) 13.41 30 Rhys Melville (Broadford-Seymour CC) 15.41 31 Ray Bilney (Mt Gambier CC) 15.44 32 Matthew Reynolds (Blackburn CC) 16.34 33 Rob Akerrmans (Mildura-Coomealla CC) 17.03 34 Gerard O'Brien (Horsham CC) 17.58 35 Ian McGinley (Coburg CC) 18.30 36 Richard McIntosh (Bendigo & District CC) 18.54 37 Arthur Anderson (Mildura-Coomealla CC) 27.01 38 Adrian Grech (Caulfield-Carnegie CC) 29.40 39 Clive Madder (Brunswick CC) 30.08 40 Jason Baughurst (Albury-Wodonga CC) 30.22 41 John Argue (Sunbury & Hume Districts CC) 38.25 42 Tom Probert (Sunbury & Hume Districts CC) 1.08.07 43 Anthony Poisson (Caulfield-Carnegie CC) 1.45.46
