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Timbercorp Cup Tour of the Murray River - NE
Australia, August 26-September 2, 2007
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Stage 10 - August 31: Merbein To Wentworth , 80.4 km
Kemp takes afternoon in style
By Rod Morris in Ouyen
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Queenslander David Kemp took the afternoon stage in Wentworth, winning the sprint from a breakaway which was safely ahead of several bad crashes on the stage ten road race. Tasmanian Mark Jamieson, winner of the morning stage, crashed badly 20 km from the finish and ended his tour.
A ten rider crash 1100 metres from the finish of Stage 10, caused some chaos for chasing riders and forced judges and commissaries to closely read the rule books, whilst race winner David Kemp was safely out of harm's way. Kemp and fellow Queenslander Miles Olman had broken clear of the chasing bunch some 8 km from home and had established what proved to be handy 22 second gap. That margin allowed them to steer clear of the crash on the third last corner just as the bunch reached the Ouyen townsign.
The worst affected was Queensland rider Hayden Josefski, who – whilst trying to avoid the crash – ended up over a fence and in a local resident's frontyard. Earlier in the race, three riders crashed out on the open road, with the biggest casualty, dual stage winner Mark Jamieson. Jamieson suffered severe cuts and bruises to his hands and elbows and endured the absolute highs and lows the sport can offer.
After winning the morning stage in Ouyen, Jamieson then crossed the afternoon finish line in the back of an ambulance and his tour is now over. The other riders in the fall with Jamieson were Russell Gill (SA) and David Tozer (Vic), but neither were badly injured.
How it unfolded
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A group of eight riders, including Sean Finning (Vic), Olman, Darcy Rosenlund (Qld), Daniel Furmston (Tas), Daniel Braunsteins (Vic), Chris Steffanoni (Vic), Leigh Jacob (Vic) and Nathan Wise (Vic) had established the early break as riders left Ouyen on the outward journey to Patchewollock and the strong winds had a severe impact on the field as riders were scattered over many kilometers.
That octet shared the early king of the mountain points before the peloton – or at least what remained of the field to be tagged a peloton – lifted their workrate and reeled them in. That was at about 18 km to race and then Kemp and Olman hit the field hard, quickly scoring a 70 m lead. Into the township and Kemp and Olman looked safe and it was only a matter of who had the best sprint left in them. Kemp is a renowned sprinter and up the home straight had Olman's measure, winning by a wheel length.
Photography
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- Now what's going on here? Chris Jory (19) gets the undivided attention of a couple of riders on the startline in Ouyen
- (L-R): WHK Thomsons Criterium leader Grant Irwin (Ord Minnett/Triple Play) Mildura RoadSafe Sprint leader Miles Watson (Specialized) and Tour leader Peter McDonald (NSWIS/FRF) on the startline for stage ten
- Fishers IGA Tour leader, Peter McDonald (NSWIS/FRF), has a nice buffer of 27 seconds heading into stage ten
- The Tour leaves Ouyen before a good crowd on their 86.5km stage ten journey
- David Kemp (Jayco/VIS) takes out stage ten from Miles Olman (SouthAustralia.com/AIS)
- You’re the man… David Kemp broke clear with Miles Olman in the closing kilometres of stage ten and sprinted clear for victory
- David Kemp (Jayco/VIS); Kemp a former Queenslander now resides in Elwood, a bay-side suburb of Melbourne
- Miles Olman (L) shares a joke with David Kemp while commentator Lindsay Hill chats with Peter Dawson on the podium
- The stage ten podium (L-R): Miles Olman 2nd (SouthAustralia.com/AIS), David Kemp 1st (Jayco/VIS), and Peter Dawson 3rd (SouthAustralia.com/AIS)
- Miles Olman (SouthAustralia.com/AIS) tries on his Tourism Victoria King of the Mountains jersey
- Oh yeah baby! Miles Olman (SouthAustralia.com/AIS) zips up his MADEC Most Aggressive rider's jersey from stage ten
- Hands up the Fishers IGA Tour leader… Peter McDonald (NSWIS/FRF) from New South Wales
Results
1 David Kemp 1.59.28 (43.44 km/h) 2 Miles Olman 3 Peter Dawson 0.22 4 Grant Irwin 0.25 5 Peter McDonald 6 Patrick Shaw 7 Brad Edmunds 8 Leigh Howard 9 Daniel Braunsteins 10 Tom Middleton 11 Timothy Decker 12 Jacob Lea 13 Cameron Hughes 14 John Ebeling 15 Nicholas Sanderson 16 Peter Milostic 17 Gavin Nicholls 18 Steven Robb 19 Jason Hegert 20 Benjamin King 21 Daniel Furmston 22 Brett Aitken 23 Miles Watson 24 Craig Robertson 25 Sean Finning 26 Jack Bobridge 27 Michael Stallard 28 Chris Steffanoni 29 Nathan Wise 0.27 30 Darcy Rosenlund 31 Hayden Josefski 3.46 32 Brendan Schultz 3.54 33 David Tozer 34 Lachlan Stewart 35 Glen Peterson 36 Shaun Higgerson 37 Tony Mann 38 Will Wettenhall 39 Brendan Jones 40 Travis Frisby 41 Matthew Sherwin 42 Luke Aggett 43 Gilbert Gutowski 44 Matt King 45 Samuel Rix 46 Ben Mather 47 Matt Sillars 48 Chris Jory 49 Gary Mueller 50 Jarrod Harman 51 Daniel McCulloch 52 Douglas Repacholi 53 Evan Corry 54 Robert Cater 55 Peter Smith 56 David Pell 4.24 57 Vaughan Bowman 5.00 58 Will Dickeson 5.25 59 Russell Gill 15.31 60 Simon Brown 61 Nigel Sullivan 17.27 62 Stephen Price 63 Grant Webster 64 Jeremy Hills 65 Thomas Baxter 66 Re Meneaud-Young 17.36 67 Brendon Sharratt 41.50 Sprints Racetrac 1 Nathan Wise 3 pts 2 Daniel Furmston 2 3 Chris Steffanoni 1 Barnes St 1 Daniel Furmston 3 pts 2 Sean Finning 2 3 Darcy Rosenlund 1 Mountains Yellow sign (Cat 4) 1 Miles Olman 3 pts 2 Tony Mann 2 3 Miles Watson 1 White Posts (Cat 4) 1 Tony Mann 3 pts 2 Miles Olman 2 3 Darcy Rosenlund 1 Yellow sign (Cat 4) 1 Gilbert Gutowski 3 pts 2 Benjamin King 2 3 Daniel Furmston 1 White Posts (Cat 4) 1 Daniel Furmston 3 pts 2 Daniel Braunsteins 2 3 Darcy Rosenlund 1 Merrett Road 1 Daniel Furmston 3 pts 2 Nathan Wise 2 3 Jacob Lea 1 Yellumjip Co 1 David Kemp 3 pts 2 Miles Olman 2 3 Daniel Furmston 1 White Posts (Cat 4) 1 David Kemp 3 pts 2 Miles Olman 2 3 Patrick Shaw 1 Most aggressive rider 1 Miles Olman 2 pts General classification after stage 10 1 Peter McDonald 13.52.46 2 Grant Irwin 0.25 3 Patrick Shaw 0.32 4 Cameron Hughes 0.39 5 David Kemp 0.48 6 Benjamin King 0.51 7 Leigh Howard 1.01 8 Jack Bobridge 1.19 9 Tom Middleton 1.20 10 John Ebeling 1.21 11 David Pell 4.28 12 Miles Watson 5.30 13 Brad Edmunds 10.00 14 Nicholas Sanderson 10.36 15 Peter Dawson 12.00 16 Darcy Rosenlund 13.02 17 Tony Mann 15.25 18 Timothy Decker 15.26 19 Gavin Nicholls 16.02 20 Michael Stallard 16.44 21 Steven Robb 16.50 22 Miles Olman 18.17 23 Gilbert Gutowski 20.31 24 Daniel McCulloch 20.57 25 Hayden Josefski 21.31 26 Robert Cater 22.05 27 Chris Steffanoni 26.33 28 Jacob Lea 26.45 29 Jarrod Harman 27.18 30 Daniel Furmston 29.16 31 Peter Milostic 29.20 32 Chris Jory 30.03 33 Evan Corry 30.15 34 Matt King 30.30 35 Brendan Schultz 30.31 36 Ben Mather 31.08 37 Will Dickeson 31.47 38 David Tozer 33.26 39 Shaun Higgerson 36.20 40 Brett Aitken 36.53 41 Lachlan Stewart 36.57 42 Matt Sillars 37.12 43 Craig Robertson 37.42 44 Douglas Repacholi 39.03 45 Daniel Braunsteins 40.29 46 Russell Gill 41.37 47 Samuel Rix 41.43 48 Nathan Wise 42.49 49 Sean Finning 44.22 50 Luke Aggett 45.24 51 Jason Hegert 46.09 52 Matthew Sherwin 46.57 53 Glen Peterson 46.59 54 Gary Mueller 47.46 55 Peter Smith 48.43 56 Re Meneaud-Young 49.53 57 Travis Frisby 55.22 58 Will Wettenhall 56.17 59 Nigel Sullivan 1.04.58 60 Brendan Jones 1.07.27 61 Thomas Baxter 1.09.22 62 Vaughan Bowman 1.13.20 63 Stephen Price 1.14.17 64 Grant Webster 1.23.55 65 Simon Brown 1.39.01 66 Brendon Sharratt 1.45.03 67 Jeremy Hills 2.18.15 Sprint classification 1 Miles Watson 106 pts 2 Darcy Rosenlund 46 3 Peter McDonald 46 4 Patrick Shaw 37 5 David Pell 34 6 Benjamin King 31 7 Sean Finning 30 8 Mark Jamieson 30 9 Peter Dawson 23 10 Cameron Hughes 20 11 Robert Cater 19 12 Grant Irwin 17 13 Brendon Sharratt 15 14 Brad Edmunds 13 15 Steven Robb 9 16 Jack Bobridge 9 17 Nathan Wise 9 18 Leigh Howard 7 19 Tony Mann 7 20 John Ebeling 5 21 Daniel Furmston 5 22 Gilbert Gutowski 5 23 Michael Stallard 4 24 David Kemp 3 25 Timothy Decker 2 26 Matthew Sherwin 2 27 Gavin Nicholls 2 28 Vaughan Bowman 2 29 Lachlan Stewart 2 30 Shaun Higgerson 1 31 David Tozer 1 32 Miles Olman 1 33 Tom Middleton 1 34 Chris Steffanoni 1 35 Daniel McCulloch 1 36 Will Dickeson 1 37 Brendan Jones 1 38 Matt Sillars 1 Mountains classification 1 Miles Olman 9 pts 2 Daniel Furmston 8 3 David Kemp 6 4 Tony Mann 5 5 Gilbert Gutowski 3 6 Nathan Wise 2 7 Daniel Braunsteins 2 8 Benjamin King 2 9 Darcy Rosenlund 2 10 Jacob Lea 1 11 Miles Watson 1 12 Patrick Shaw 1 Criteruim classification 1 Grant Irwin 34 pts 2 Nicholas Sanderson 21 3 Patrick Shaw 20 4 Peter Dawson 20 5 Miles Watson 20 6 Robert Cater 19 7 Leigh Howard 18 8 Gary Mueller 17 9 Brett Aitken 13 10 Douglas Repacholi 12 11 Darcy Rosenlund 12 12 Russell Gill 12 13 Peter McDonald 11 14 Mark Jamieson 10 15 Sean Finning 10 16 Tony Mann 8 17 Cameron Hughes 8 18 Jarrod Harman 7 19 David Pell 7 20 David Kemp 6 21 Matt King 5 22 John Ebeling 4 23 Michael Stallard 4 24 Peter Smith 4 25 Miles Olman 3 26 Jack Bobridge 3 27 Brendon Sharratt 3 28 Tom Middleton 3 29 Will Dickeson 1 30 Matthew Sherwin 1 31 Nathan Wise Most aggressive classification 1 Mark Jamieson 4 pts 2 David Pell 2 3 Peter Smith 2 4 Miles Watson 2 5 Cameron Hughes 2 6 Miles Olman 2 7 Sean Finning 2 8 Peter McDonald 2
