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Tour de Vineyards - NE
New Zealand, January 2-5, 2008
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Stage 2 - January 3: Richmond - Nelson Lakes District, 90 km
Roulston takes stage as classification changes hands
By Malcolm Saunders
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The heat continued with another sweltering day (stage 2) of action in all four divisions of the Tour de Vineyards. Heath Blackgrove and Jeremy Yates were able to wrangle the overall lead from overnight leader Paul Odlin, while the stage was won by Hayden Roulston over Yates.
A ninety strong field lined up for the Senior, U23, U19 90-kilometre race. On tap were included two early sprints, the major hill climb over Spooners Saddle, then onto the rugged Kikawa area for the second hill climb and feed station, all the way climbing to finish into the National Park Lakes District of the Alpine Village of Lake Rotoiti, an altitude 720 metres.
The first two sprints at Brightwater and Wakefield resulted in a clean sweep for Hayden Godfrey (Subway), who now heads the Sprint Ace classification with 17 points from Paul Odlin (Star & Garter Tasman), eight points, and Scott Wilder (Benchmark), six points.
The warm Nor'wester kicked-in, coming right at the front of the peloton and making life really hard for the riders as they were approaching the four-kilometre long 420m Spooners Hill climb. Hayden Roulston was the first rider to attack, and he held a 50m lead approaching the summit, but a really strong ride by Josh Barley U19 PNP, who seemed to come from nowhere, saw him take the 15 points on offer. The points propelled him into the mountains classification contention for his efforts.
The field was spread out during the fast downhill section, with Gordon McCauley leading the attacks and getting away in a break, as the riders approached Korere he was joined by Kieran Hambrook, Joseph Cooper and Greg Scott. Unfortunately, tour leader Paul Odlin punctured just as the chasing bunch were about to catch the break. The hammer went down through the Rainey River uphill grind section, and a break of eight riders went clear as the race approached the Kikawa Incline climb. Jeremy Yates took the ascent and then went clear through the feed-zone with Roulston, Blackgrove and Gordon McCauley.
A short time and the escape was down to three riders as the early workload put in by McCauley started to tell and he went back to join the chasing group. The threesome stayed clear through to the finish at St. Arnaud. Roulston was too strong for Yates and Blackgrove, and he took the well-deserved win.
The result saw Yates and Blackgrove tied on time with the yellow jersey, which will be worn by Yates for the start of the third stage. Tomorrow's stage from Richmond features Raey Saddle and Stanley Brook hill climbs, and finishes 16 kilometres up the infamous 'Marble Mountain' Takaka Hill.
Race 3 the Masters 1/2 class also saw a change in the overall leader. Local Chris Charles (Star & Garter Tasman) had another great ride and took second place in the stage and now leads by 13 seconds from Brad McFarlane (Pegasus).
Brian Fowler held onto his leader’s jersey, winning the M3-6 grade, and he now leads Brent Harris by eight seconds with the 2007 tour winner Grant Stirling at 34 seconds in third place.
In the women's race Serena Sheridan holds on to a comfortable 33-second lead over Sarah Murdoch (Counties Manukau) with Jeanne Kuhajek in third place at 3'19".
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- Stage 2 winner Hayden Roulston finishes ahead of Jeremey Yates and Heath Blackgrove.
Results
Men 1 Hayden Roulston 2.27.36 (35.8 km/h) 2 Jeremy Yates 3 Heath Blackgrove 4 James Williamson 1.44 5 Samuel Eadie 6 Chris Sanson 7 Robin Reid 8 Brad Carter 9 Joseph Cooper 10 Justin Kerr 11 Sam Horgan 2.04 12 Daniel Barry 3.09 13 Sam Steele 14 James Dobson 15 Jason Allen 16 Andrew Widdup 17 Kieran Hambrook 18 George Bennett 19 Shem Rodger 20 Tom Findlay 21 Roman Van Uden 22 Patrick Williamson 23 Michael Vink 24 Josh Brannigan 25 Jonathan Hailstone 26 Michael Torckler 27 Gordon Mccauley 28 Shane Archbold 29 Josh Page 30 Thomas Hanover 31 Brett Dawber 32 James Gibson 33 Andrew Williams 34 Matt Dewes 35 Josh Barley 36 Alex Meenhorst 37 Jason Blake 38 Ruaraidh Mcleod 39 Ashley Whitehead 40 Jonathan Coates 41 Wade Mongham 42 Thomas Libby 43 Patrick Bevan 44 Michael Naylor 3.14 45 Mike Northey 4.24 46 Nicholas Hextall 47 Simon Honour 48 Nigel Godfrey 6.25 49 Matt Hinton 50 Leon Hextall 51 Marc Prutton 52 Marcus Roy 53 Alex Mcgregor 7.14 54 Dayle Cheatley 7.29 55 Edward Barrett 56 Brad Tilby 8.12 57 Al Dempsey 58 Greg Scott 59 Will Alexander 60 Johnathon Gee 61 Paul Odlin 62 Jon Richardson 9.32 63 Jack Bauer 10.44 64 Angus Jennings 65 Matt Gilbert 12.54 66 Chad Adair 67 Hayden Godfrey 68 Ryan Kiesanowski 69 Chris Burr 17.40 70 Nathan Dahlberg 71 Justin Price 19.09 72 Joshua England 73 Carl Jones 74 Josh Brown 75 Timothy Hargrave 25.14 76 Andy Hughson 77 Oliver Whalley 27.01 78 Dean Fulton 79 David Ayre 80 Jamie Kidd 27.54 81 Ross Metajetski 40.36 82 Aaron Tuckerman 7.32.23 83 Scott Wilder 84 Oliver Pearce 85 Ryan Wills 86 Jason Christie 87 Simon Finucane 88 Taylor Gunman 89 Cameron Karwowski 90 James Mccoy Women 1 Jeanne Kuhajek 2.55.01 2 Karen Fulton 3 Serena Sheridan 4 Sarah Murdoch 5 Britta Martin 6 Bronwyn Fraser 15.44 7 Michelle Bellamy 8 Liz Williamson 9 Tracy Clark DNF Chelsea Wills General classification after stage 2 Men 1 Heath Blackgrove 3.39.10 2 Jeremy Yates 3 Hayden Roulston 1.06 4 Joseph Cooper 2.30 5 James Williamson 2.59 6 Samuel Eadie 3.02 7 Justin Kerr 3.05 8 Brad Carter 9 Robin Reid 10 Chris Sanson 11 Gordon Mccauley 3.15 12 Sam Horgan 3.25 13 Patrick Bevan 4.30 14 Thomas Libby 15 Wade Mongham 16 Jonathan Coates 17 Ashley Whitehead 18 Ruaraidh Mcleod 19 Jason Blake 20 Alex Meenhorst 21 Josh Barley 22 Matt Dewes 23 Andrew Williams 24 James Gibson 25 Brett Dawber 26 Thomas Hanover 27 Josh Page 28 Shane Archbold 29 Michael Torckler 30 Jonathan Hailstone 31 Josh Brannigan 32 Michael Vink 33 Patrick Williamson 34 Roman Van Uden 35 Tom Findlay 36 Shem Rodger 37 George Bennett 38 Kieran Hambrook 39 Andrew Widdup 40 Jason Allen 41 James Dobson 42 Sam Steele 43 Daniel Barry 44 Michael Naylor 4.35 45 Simon Honour 5.45 46 Nicholas Hextall 47 Mike Northey 48 Marcus Roy 7.46 49 Marc Prutton 50 Leon Hextall 51 Matt Hinton 52 Nigel Godfrey 53 Paul Odlin 8.14 54 Alex Mcgregor 8.35 55 Edward Barrett 8.50 56 Dayle Cheatley 57 Johnathon Gee 9.33 58 Will Alexander 59 Greg Scott 60 Al Dempsey 61 Brad Tilby 62 Jon Richardson 10.53 63 Angus Jennings 12.05 64 Jack Bauer 65 Ryan Kiesanowski 14.15 66 Hayden Godfrey 67 Chad Adair 68 Matt Gilbert 69 Nathan Dahlberg 19.01 70 Chris Burr 71 Josh Brown 20.30 72 Carl Jones 73 Joshua England 74 Justin Price 75 Andy Hughson 26.35 76 Timothy Hargrave 77 David Ayre 28.22 78 Dean Fulton 79 Oliver Whalley 80 Ross Metajetski 41.57 81 Jamie Kidd 44.15 82 James Mccoy 7.33.44 83 Cameron Karwowski 84 Taylor Gunman 85 Simon Finucane 86 Jason Christie 87 Ryan Wills 88 Oliver Pearce 89 Scott Wilder 90 Aaron Tuckerman Women 1 Serena Sheridan 3.52.36 2 Sarah Murdoch 0.33 3 Jeanne Kuhajek 3.19 4 Karen Fulton 3.59 5 Britta Martin 4.10 6 Tracy Clark 19.51 7 Liz Williamson 19.53 8 Michelle Bellamy 19.57 9 Bronwyn Fraser DNF Chelsea Wills Sprint classification Men 1 Hayden Godfrey 17 pts 2 Paul Odlin 8 3 Scott Wilder 6 4 Patrick Bevan 6 5 Samuel Eadie 3 6 Hayden Roulston 2 7 Marc Prutton 1 8 Roman Van Uden 1 9 Tom Findlay 1 Women 1 Karen Fulton 18 pts 2 Bronwyn Fraser 11 3 Jeanne Kuhajek 6 4 Serena Sheridan 5 5 Sarah Murdoch 2 6 Tracy Clark 2 Mountains classification Men 1 Joseph Cooper 16 pts 2 Josh Barley 15 3 Chris Sanson 12 4 Jeremy Yates 11 5 James Williamson 8 6 Justin Kerr 5 7 Paul Odlin 2 8 Sam Horgan 2 9 Heath Blackgrove 1 Women 1 Serena Sheridan 23 pts 2 Sarah Murdoch 22 3 Jeanne Kuhajek 14 4 Karen Fulton 8 5 Britta Martin 4 6 Liz Williamson 1
