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British Time Trial Championships - CN
Gloucester, Great Britain, September 7, 2008
Hutchinson and Laws win British time trial championships
By BikeRadar
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Michael Hutchinson (In Gear-Quickvit RT) and Sharon Laws (Halfords Bikehut) have been crowned the men's and women's British national time trial champions for 2008.
Hutchinson, who last won the event in 2004, justified his seeding as pre-race favourite with an impressive time of 44min 49sec for the three-lap version of the course, which had to be amended after heavy rain and flooding forced organisers to re-route parts of the course near Staunton in Gloucestershire.
Second spot went to Sigma Sport RT rider Wouter Sybrandy with 46min 11sec, while De Rosa RT's Matt Bottrill - part of the winning trio which took victory in the National Team Time Trial Championships back in July - secured another medal with third spot overall, clocking 46min 18sec.
"It's always good to win a championship, but it's good to get a UCI title which is a bit different," said Hutchinson afterwards. "It's a shame the likes of Wiggins and Millar weren't there, but you can only race against the people who are and there was plenty of quality in the field.
"I feel sorry for Phil Sykes, because he was second until the last few miles when he punctured and ended up seventh which was bad luck, but Wouter also did a good ride."
The women's event was won by Team Halfords Bikehut rider Sharon Laws, the Olympian taking victory despite being penalised ten seconds for cutting out part of the course.
Even with the penalty she covered the two-lap, 14.7-mile version in a swift 33min 26sec to win by 19 seconds from Hutchinson's In Gear-Quickvit RT team-mate Julia Shaw, while Halfords Bikehut Jessica Allen took third with 33min 47sec.
The fastest time of the day over the two-lap course went to Espoir winner Alex Dowsett, the former national junior 10 and 25-mile champion. His time of 29min 9sec was the only sub 30-minute ride, while the second fastest time for the 14.7 miles was from junior winner Joe Perrett (Glendene CC) with an impressive 30min 32sec.
In the Masters categories, Danny "finally admitting my age" Axford (Arctic Premier RT) won the A group with 30min 45sec, 38 seconds ahead of Ben Anstie (Chippenham & District Wheelers), while Ben Instone (Scientific Coaching) clocked 30-48 to win a Masters B category which was without reigning British Best All-Rounder Kevin Dawson, who chose not to ride. Instead, Anstie's teammate Jeff Jones took second with 31:45, while Scot Gary Robson (Dooleys CRT) was third, another eight seconds slower.
Other racing
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Elsewhere, Barry Charlton (Lyme Road Club) took victory in the Team Swift-Allsports 100-mileevent in North Yorkshire, clocking 3hr 32min 23sec for the Dishforth course to win by more than five minutes from National 12-Hour Champion and former British Best All-Rounder Ian Cammish (Planet X).
Cammish clocked 3hr 37min 42sec to push the promoting club's Joel Wainman into third.
Shetland Wheelers' Carlos Riise was a convincing winner of GS Corsa's 100-mileevent in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, on Sunday. He clocked 4hr 5min 31sec to win by more than 15 minutes from Kenny Anderson (Royal Albert CC) on a wet and windy morning.
Also in Scotland, Peter Ettles (Forres CC) took victory in the Kincraig 10-mile event, staged at Highland Wildlife Park as part of the Cairngorm weekend of events. He clocked 21min 1sec to win by 36 seconds from Ken Russell (Edinburgh Road Club), while Colin Duncan (Tri Changing Gear) was third with 22-19.
Reigning National Hill-Climb Champion James Dobbin underlined his form with a convincing victory in the Glossop Kinder Velo hill climb in Derbyshire on Sunday.
Aiming for a third consecutive title this year, Dobbin (Arctic Premier RT) clocked 13min 10sec for the 3.2-mile climb of the Snake Pass, while Peak Road Club's veteran Chris Myhill was second, 47 seconds slower, and fellow vet Carl Saint (Yorkshire Road Club) was third with 14:02.
Results
Espoirs 1 Alex Dowsett (100% ME) 29.09 2 Andrew Griffiths (Wielergroep-Beveren 2000) 1.00 3 Daniel Davies (KW Heist-Zuiderkempen) 1.46 4 Simon Baxter (MTS Cycle Sport) 2.13 5 Richard Meadows (Pezula) 2.14 6 Pete Vincent (Mid Devon CC) 2.30 7 James Sampson (Kinesis UK) 2.36 8 Daniel Shand (Wielerclub De Sprinters Malderen) 2.52 9 Tom Morris (Cambridge University CC) 3.16 10 Alex Wise (Sigma Sport) 3.19 11 Chris Scott (Plymouth Corinthian CC) 3.43 12 Daniel Bill (Stratford CC) 4.09 13 Dean Robson (The Bicycle Chain) 4.25 14 James Hawkins (Cambridge University CC) 4.29 15 Gyles Wingate (In Gear Cycling Development Squad) 4.45 16 Andrew Jones (Royal Dean Forest CC) 5.21 17 Rob Scott (Plymouth Corinthian CC) 5.23 18 Hefin Price (Bynea CC) 5.33 Women 1 Sharon Laws (Team Halfords Bikehut) 33.16 2 Julia Shaw (InGear-Quickvit RT) 0.29 3 Jess Allen (Team Halfords Bikehut) 0.31 4 Emma Trott (Team Halfords Bikehut) 0.43 5 Corin Simmonds (Oxford City RC) 0.56 6 Louise Dutch (Poole Wheelers) 1.36 7 Ruth Eyles (Beacon Roads CC) 2.01 8 Avril Swan (MI Racing) 2.02 9 Heather Wilson (Team QCP) 2.03 10 Jenny Lloyd-Jones (London Dynamo Cyclefit) 2.30 11 Lucinda Seymoor (Reading CC) 3.47 12 Emilie Fisher (www.elmycycles.co.uk) 4.55 13 Helen Goulding (Caesarean CC) 5.03 14 Arja Scarsbrook (Team Echelon - Spiuk) 5.31 15 Sally St Leger (a3crg) 6.38 16 Kaaren May (a3crg) 8.14 17 Alexandra Zebedee (Solihul CC) 8.38 18 Linda Stocks (Maidenhead & District CC) 9.26 19 Nicky Bardin (Caesarean CC) 10.24 20 Catherine Snell (Camel Valley C & TC) 11.22 21 Danielle Archer (a3crg) 11.57 Senior Men 1 Michael Hutchinson (In Gear-Quickvit RT) 44.49 2 Wouter Sybrandy (Sigma Sport) 1.22 3 Matthew Bottrill (De Rosa RT) 1.29 4 Mark Holton (www.probikekit.com) 2.16 5 Colin Robertson (Velo Ecosse) 2.45 6 Thomas Collier (Lifeforce) 3.09 7 Phill Sykes (VC St Raphael) 3.27 8 Jesse Elzinga (Oxford University CC) 3.31 9 James Whatling (PCA/Ciclos Uno) 3.44 10 Colin Parry (VC St Raphael) 3.58 11 David Watson (Coventry RC) 4.01 12 George Richardson (BC Private Member) 4.48 13 Chris Spence (Caesaerean CC) 5.10 14 Tristan Davenne (PCA Ciclos Uno) 5.19 15 Adrian Bird (Team Echelon - Spiuk) 5.21 16 James Harness (Boston Wheelers) 5.43 17 Mark Curling (Cambridge University CC) 7.06 18 David Gilbert (Camel Valley C&TC) 7.35 Juniors 1 Joe Perrett (Glendene CC) 30.32 2 James McLaughlin (Guernsey Velo Club) 0.40 3 Daniel Arblaster (Guernsey Velo Club) 1.10 4 Sam Harrison (Cwmcarn Paragon RC) 1.14 5 Richard Handley (MaxGear RT) 1.29 6 Alexander King (GWR Team) 2.06 7 Tom Black (Manx RC) 2.07 8 Andrew Williams (Cwmcarn Paragon RC) 2.29 9 Tom Yeatman (Glendene CC) 2.41 10 Felix English (Team Corridori) 2.46 11 Jack Green (Westmead Team '88') 3.00 12 Callum Lister (Torq - Colnago) 3.06 13 Phil Lisher (Team Welwyn) 3.21 14 Sam Allen (North Hampshire) 3.36 15 Richard Houghton (www.keswickbikes.co.uk) 3.58 16 Laurie Brooking (Buxton CC) 4.10 17 Jim Lewis (Glendene CC) 4.12 18 Matthew Woods (Stockton Wheelers CC) 4.31 19 Tom Gosbee (Team Welwyn) 5.06 20 Rob Yeatman (Oxonian CC) 5.14 21 Ethan Conlin (Stockton Wheelers CC) 5.25 22 Miss Hannah Barnes (Palmer Park Velo) 5.27 23 Miss Ella Sadler-Andrews (Leisure Lakes) 5.39 24 Rupert Denny (Gloucester City CC) 5.58 25 Joseph Magnus (Team Welwyn) 6.52 26 Jack Clark (North Norfolk Wheelers) 7.06 27 Miss Greta Junker (Somerset RC) 7.41 Master A 1 Danny Axford (Arctic Premier RT) 30.45 2 Ben Anstie (Chippenham & District Wheelers) 0.38 3 David Crawley (Fibrax-Wrexham RC) 0.48 4 Peter Kench (GWR Team) 1.21 5 Justin Hoy (Felt Racing) 2.17 6 Patrick Brennan (a3crg) 2.26 7 Bryce Dyer (a3crg) 2.29 8 Mark Heath (Echelon - Spuik) 2.37 9 Jason Streather (VC St Raphael) 2.48 10 Mark Simmons (Team Milton Keynes) 2.56 11 Greg Crosswell (Wightlink/WightMountain RT) 3.07 12 David McGaw (Arctic Premier RT) 3.27 13 Daniel Shaw (Halifax Imperial Wheelers) 3.58 14 Robin Coomber (Johns Bikes RT) 4.36 Master B 1 Ben Instone (www.scientific-coaching.com) 30.48 2 Jeff Jones (Chippenham & District Wheelers) 0.57 3 Gary Robson (Dooleys Cycles Racing Team) 1.05 4 Rob Lyne (Climb On Bikes RT) 1.18 5 Jeremy Ponting (a3crg) 1.34 6 Tim Elverson (Felt Racing) 1.39 7 Nigel Haigh (Sportscover-Spiuk-JeJames) 1.43 8 Simon Berogna (Velocity Bikes CC) 2.07 9 John Wager (Felt Racing) 2.14 10 Sean Williams (Wightlink/WightMountain RT) 2.15 11 Martin Piper (Wightlink/WightMountain RT) 2.17 12 Lee Chaplin (RT316) 2.35 13 Derek Smetham (Dursley RC) 3.05 14 Jason Varnam (Mapperley CC) 3.19 15 Jonathan Marchini (Oxford University CC) 4.11 16 Simon Osborne (Echelon - Spuik) 4.14 17 Nicholas Kershaw (Welland Valley CC) 6.03 18 Mark Roderick (Gloucester City CC) 8.04 19 Chris Udall (Gloucester City CC) 10.08 Master C 1 Richard Prebble (GS Strada) 30.53 2 Steve Walkling (Velocity Bikes CC) 0.24 3 Andrew Meilak (Odls.com Racing) 0.51 4 Alan Cook (Ross-on-Wye & District CC) 1.16 5 Adam Topham (High Wycombe CC) 1.45 6 Richard Newey (AgiskoViner) 2.16 7 David Lund (Symbol Signs RC) 2.20 8 Matthew Burbridge (Severn RC) 2.39 9 Chris Stocks (ScienceinSport.com) 2.43 10 Stefan Harrison (Stourbridge CC) 2.57 11 Gisli Jenkins (Sherwood CC) 3.22 12 Paul Verlander (MI Racing) 3.51 13 Paul Green (Westmead Team '88') 4.06 14 Richard Webster (Team Welwyn) 4.25 15 Warren King (Wyre Forest CRC) 4.51 16 Gordon Johnston (Gloucester City CC) 5.23 Master D 1 Kevin Tye (Odls.com Racing) 31.48 2 Andy Eagers (Derby Mercury RC) 0.39 3 Mick St Leger (VC St Raphael) 0.41 4 Dave Dent (Wightlink/WightMountain RT) 0.48 5 Peter Graham (Reading CC) 2.02 6 Gerard Oram (Bynea CC) 2.07 7 Peter Dickason (RT 316) 2.14 8 Guy Preece (Gloucester City CC) 2.45 9 Gary Weir (VC Frankfurt) 3.21 10 Steve Taylor (Wightlink/WightMountain RT) 3.46 11 Gary Kondor (Team Swift) 4.13 Master E 1 David Pollard (In-Gear Quickvit RT) 32.21 2 Phil Bull (VC Elan) 0.20 3 Gawie Nienaber (Farnham RC) 0.40 4 James Rutherford (SIS.com) 1.18 5 Derek Dowdeswell (Gloucester City CC) 4.33 6 Graham Denny (Gloucester City CC) 4.48 7 Robert Finch (Arctic Premier RT) 6.16 Master F 1 John Herring (Leamington C &AC) 34.06 2 Ray Robinson (DM.Cyclesport.com) 0.03 3 Robert Parry (Royal Dean Forest CC) 0.31 4 Paul Lipscombe (Caesarean CC) 2.00 5 Graham Huck (Doncaster Wheelers) 2.29 6 John Flint (Gloucester City CC) 3.21 Master G 1 Tony Farrell (Manchester & North West Vets) 34.22 2 Barrie Mitchell (MI Racing) 0.02 3 John Eames (Corsham RC) 4.36 Master H 1 Roger Iddles (Stourbridge Velo) 33.58 2 Vince Jenkins (Rugby Velo) 2.30 3 Dave Birch (Welland Valley CC) 3.05 4 Michael Ives (MI Racing) 3.28 5 Allan Miller (Caesarean CC) 3.32 6 Allan Renyard (Guernsey Velo Club) 4.00 Master I 1 Derek Hodgins (Stockport Clarion CC) 37.58 2 Hugh McGuire (Beacon Road CC) 0.03
