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Scody Cup Tour of Tasmania - NE
Australia, September 30-October 5, 2008
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Stage 2 - September 30: Devonport – Latrobe, 54.9km
Clarke becomes home town hero……again
By Rod Morris In Latrobe
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Riding in his home town, Latrobe's Nathan Clarke became the success story of the opening day of the Caterpillar Underground Mining Tour of Tasmania. Clarke won the second stage – a 54.9-km criterium, which started in East Devonport but finished with 30 laps of a street circuit less than 500 m from his home and from the famous Latrobe Oval – scene of the time honoured Latrobe Wheelrace, which Clarke won four years ago.
The opening two stages of the six day Tour of Tasmania was full of drama, excitement, power, tactics, classical racing and yet another unveiling of Australia's rich cycling stocks.
The afternoon stage from East Devonport to Latrobe was well out of the norm for races in this series. The riders were under "control" for the first nine km along the banks of the Mersey River before reaching the criterium line in Latrobe where the gun was re-fired signaling a hectic 30 laps of full on racing.
With 11 intermediate sprints positioned in the criterium to reward those who wanted to set the pace, stage 2 became an absolute cracker. Young Victorian Pat Shaw was chasing both sprint championship points and the all important time bonuses that went with it for General Classification honours.
Whilst Shaw didn't feature in every sprint, he made those around him aware of his presence and by the end of the stage had drawn level with previous sprint leader Bernard Sulzberger and in fact had the jersey courtesy of a countback.
Again Leigh Howard was concentrating on the "bigger" picture – GC and the yellow jersey. He wanted to win another stage, but there was a rather large imposing figure in his way – Nathan Clarke.
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Clarke wanted so much to win the stage in his home town and he wasn't go to let any "mainland upstart" get in his way. In a tremendously tight finish, Clarke held Howard out by the barest possible margin and on-course photographers who captured the finished all had differing opinions – and images - to suggest the result could have gone either way. It was Clarke's fourth victory in Scody Cup history and third this season, making him the 11th most successful rider since 1996
Third home was South Australia's mountain biker Chris Jongewaard, while Sulzberger's fifth placing, left him 3-seconds in arrears of Howard on GC.
Howard (18) started this tour with 181 points amassed from the already completed Tour of Gippsland, Australian Grand Prix (Ballarat) and Tour of the Murray River. He held an 18-point lead to Tasmanian Bernard Sulzberger and a further 4-points to Clarke.
By the end of the opening day, those margins had been stretched to 24 and 31 respectively.
The tour continues on Wednesday with a unique criterium around the sports grounds of Marist College in Burnie and an afternoon road race from Burnie to Sulphur Creek over a distance of 71.4 km. The tour will climax on Sunday in Westbury.
Photography
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Images by Shane Goss/www.licoricegallery.com
- Tour leader Bernard Sulzberger (Virgin Blue Cycling) leads Chris Jongewaard (SASI) around the 1.5 kilometre circuit during stage two in Latrobe
- Kristian House (Budget Forklifts) from Great Britian had only just stepped off a boat and straight into the most aggressive jersey on the Tour of Tasmania
- Nathan Clarke (left) of the Praties team gets over Leigh Howard (right) of Jayco/VIS by a whisker in stage two of the tour at Latrobe
- Stage two winner Nathan Clarke (Praties) had plenty of support from schoolchildren in his home-town of Latrobe
- Leigh Howard (Jayco/VIS) from Geelong in Victoria zips up his yellow jersey as the new leader of the Caterpillar Tour of Tasmania after two stages
Results
1 Nathan Clarke (Praties) 1.19.04 (41.661 km/h) 2 Leigh Howard (VIS/Jayco) 3 Chris Jongewaard (SASI) 4 Stuart Shaw (Drapac Porsche) 5 Bernard Sulzberger (Virgin Blue) 6 Nick Walker (VIS/Jayco) 7 Joel Pearson (Savings & Loans) 8 Jason Rigg (Cannondale/Praties) 9 Michael Phelan (Tarkine Forest Adventures) 10 Johnnie Walker (South Australia/AIS) 11 Pat Shaw (VIS/Jayco) 12 Kristian House (Budget Forklifts) 13 William Clarke (Praties) 14 Matthew Rice (Central Coast/Simplot) 15 Russell Gill (Savings & Loans) 16 Andrew Roe (Tarkine Forest Adventures) 17 Nathan Wise (Cycle City Ballarat) 18 Caleb Manion (DiscoverTasmania.com/TIS) 19 Benjamin King (South Australia/AIS) 20 Ben Mather (Praties) 21 James Langedyk (VIS/Jayco) 22 Tommy Nankervis (Virgin Blue) 23 Richard England (Burnie-Johnson Design/GHD) 24 Shaun Mccarthy (Central Coast/Simplot) 25 Rohan Dennis (SASI) 26 Tim Roe (Savings & Loans) 27 Peter Milostic (Budget Forklifts) 28 Cameron Hughes (Budget Forklifts) 29 Richie Porte (Praties) 30 Michael England (Budget Forklifts) 31 Jonathon Lovelock (VIS/Jayco) 32 David Kemp (Virgin Blue) 33 Luke Durbridge (Plan B Racing Team) 34 Jack Bobridge (SASI) 35 Matt King (South Australia/AIS) 36 Brad Edmunds (Savings & Loans) 37 Adam Semple (South Australia/AIS) 38 Hayden Brooks (Virgin Blue) 39 Jack Anderson (Budget Forklifts) 40 Ben Grenda (DiscoverTasmania.com/TIS) 41 Chris Jory (Panasonic) 42 Dylan Newell (Praties) 43 Abram Manion (Budget Forklifts) 44 Chris Luxton (Savings & Loans) 45 Neil Manning (Plan B Racing Team) 46 Vaughan Bowman (Hart/Ridewiser) 47 Sean Boyle (SASI) 48 Peter Mcdonald (Drapac Porsche) 49 Tim Guy (Panasonic) 50 Matt Benson (SASI) 51 Ashley Baines (Cycle City Ballarat) 52 Daniel Furmston (Praties) 53 Aaron Donnelly (Central Coast/Simplot) 54 Cameron Peterson (Tarkine Forest Adventures) 55 Charles Howlett (Cycle City Ballarat) 56 Brad Norton (Cannondale/Praties) 57 Adam Phelan (Tarkine Forest Adventures) 58 Dale Scarfe (Panasonic) 59 Peter Herzig (Panasonic) 60 Mark Jamieson (DiscoverTasmania.com/TIS) 61 William Alexander (Virgin Blue) 62 Sam Brett (DiscoverTasmania.com/TIS) 63 Glenn O’Shea (VIS/Jayco) 64 Darren Rolfe (Virgin Blue) 65 Tim Decker (Central Coast/Simplot) 66 Kane Walker (Hart/Ridewiser) 67 Daniel Mcintyre (Tarkine Forest Adventures) 68 Stefan Kirsch (Hart/Ridewiser) 69 Lauchlan Stewart (Cycle City Ballarat) 70 Gene Bates (Drapac Porsche) 71 Peter Ladd (Budget Forklifts) 72 Jason Hegert (Panasonic) 73 Ben Grieve Johnson (Praties) 74 William Ford (South Australia/AIS) 75 Mark O’Brien (Drapac Porsche) 76 Sean Finning (VIS/Jayco) 77 Chris Martin (SASI) 0.26 78 Andrew Smith (Central Coast/Simplot) 79 Jeremy Hills (Cannondale/Praties) 0.36 80 Patrick Gill (Plan B Racing Team) 0.39 81 Tim Walker (Cannondale/Praties) 1.04 82 Michael Hepburn (Virgin Blue) 2.03 83 Tom Robinson (Burnie-Johnson Design/GHD) 84 Henry Morley (Plan B Racing Team) 85 Joshua Wilson (Cannondale/Praties) 86 Mathew Camilleri (Burnie-Johnson Design/GHD) 87 Will Dickeson (Savings & Loans) 88 Aaron Jones (Burnie-Johnson Design/GHD) 89 James Ibrahim (Central Coast/Simplot) 90 Mark Isaacs (Cycle City Ballarat) 4.06 91 Matthew Mcdonagh (Burnie-Johnson Design/GHD) 92 Danny Pulbrook (Tarkine Forest Adventures) 93 Peter Howard (Hart/Ridewiser) 94 Joshua Page (Tarkine Forest Adventures) 6.09 95 Luke Ockerby (DiscoverTasmania.com/TIS) 96 Peter Loft (DiscoverTasmania.com/TIS) 8.12 97 Tony Chandler (Hart/Ridewiser) 10.15 98 Michael Verheyen (Plan B Racing Team) 99 Will Robinson (Burnie-Johnson Design/GHD) 12.18 100 Kyle Marwood (Central Coast/Simplot) 101 Scott Cronly-Dillon (Cycle City Ballarat) 14.21 DNF Reub Menard-Young (SASI) Sprints Lap 6 1 Bernard Sulzberger (Virgin Blue) 3 pts 2 Kristian House (Budget Forklifts) 2 3 Sean Finning (VIS/Jayco) 1 Lap 8 1 Leigh Howard (VIS/Jayco) 3 pts 2 Benjamin King (South Australia/AIS) 2 3 Vaughan Bowman (Hart/Ridewiser) 1 Lap 10 1 Leigh Howard (VIS/Jayco) 3 pts 2 Ben Grenda (DiscoverTasmania.com/TIS) 2 3 Michael England (Budget Forklifts) 1 Lap 12 1 Pat Shaw (VIS/Jayco) 3 pts 2 Benjamin King (South Australia/AIS) 2 3 Chris Jongewaard (SASI) 1 Lap 14 1 Adam Semple (South Australia/AIS) 3 pts 2 Pat Shaw (VIS/Jayco) 2 3 Matt King (South Australia/AIS) 1 Lap 16 1 Chris Jongewaard (SASI) 3 pts 2 Joel Pearson (Savings & Loans) 2 3 Benjamin King (South Australia/AIS) 1 Lap 18 1 Chris Jongewaard (SASI) 3 pts 2 Bernard Sulzberger (Virgin Blue) 2 3 Adam Semple (South Australia/AIS) 1 Lap 20 1 Hayden Brooks (Virgin Blue) 3 pts 2 Jack Bobridge (SASI) 2 3 James Langedyk (VIS/Jayco) 1 Lap 22 1 Pat Shaw (VIS/Jayco) 3 pts 2 Benjamin King (South Australia/AIS) 2 3 Rohan Dennis (SASI) 1 Lap 24 1 Pat Shaw (VIS/Jayco) 3 pts 2 Benjamin King (South Australia/AIS) 2 3 Kristian House (Budget Forklifts) 1 Lap 26 1 Glenn O’Shea (VIS/Jayco) 3 pts 2 Chris Jongewaard (SASI) 2 3 Bernard Sulzberger (Virgin Blue) 1 Criterium Championships 1 Nathan Clarke (Praties) 10 pts 2 Leigh Howard (VIS/Jayco) 9 3 Chris Jongewaard (SASI) 8 4 Stuart Shaw (Drapac Porsche) 7 5 Bernard Sulzberger (Virgin Blue) 6 6 Nick Walker (VIS/Jayco) 5 7 Joel Pearson (Savings & Loans) 4 8 Jason Rigg (Cannondale/Praties) 3 9 Michael Phelan (Tarkine Forest Adventures) 2 10 Johnnie Walker (South Australia/AIS) 1 Most aggressive rider 1 Pat Shaw (VIS/Jayco) Teams 1 VIS/Jayco 3.57.12 2 Praties 3 Savings & Loans 4 Virgin Blue 5 SASI 6 South Australia/AIS 7 Budget Forklifts 8 Tarkine Forest Adventures 9 Central Coast/Simplot 10 DiscoverTasmania.com/TIS 11 Drapac Porsche 12 Cycle City Ballarat 13 Panasonic 14 Hart/Ridewiser 15 Cannondale/Praties 0.36 16 Plan B Racing Team 0.39 17 Burnie-Johnson Design/GHD 4.06 General classification after stage 2 1 Leigh Howard (VIS/Jayco) 1.58.00 2 Bernard Sulzberger (Virgin Blue) 0.03 3 Chris Jongewaard (SASI) 0.04 4 Pat Shaw (VIS/Jayco) 0.09 5 Joel Pearson (Savings & Loans) 0.10 6 Benjamin King (South Australia/AIS) 0.12 7 Nathan Clarke (Praties) 0.14 8 Kristian House (Budget Forklifts) 0.16 9 Russell Gill (Savings & Loans) 0.18 10 Hayden Brooks (Virgin Blue) 11 David Kemp (Virgin Blue) 0.19 12 Stuart Shaw (Drapac Porsche) 0.20 13 Rohan Dennis (SASI) 14 Michael England (Budget Forklifts) 15 Adam Semple (South Australia/AIS) 16 Sean Finning (VIS/Jayco) 17 Glenn O’Shea (VIS/Jayco) 18 Daniel Furmston (Praties) 0.21 19 Andrew Roe (Tarkine Forest Adventures) 20 Neil Manning (Plan B Racing Team) 21 Brad Edmunds (Savings & Loans) 22 Vaughan Bowman (Hart/Ridewiser) 0.22 23 Jack Bobridge (SASI) 24 Ben Grenda (DiscoverTasmania.com/TIS) 25 Nick Walker (VIS/Jayco) 0.23 26 Ben Mather (Praties) 27 James Langedyk (VIS/Jayco) 28 Dale Scarfe (Panasonic) 29 Jack Anderson (Budget Forklifts) 30 Matt King (South Australia/AIS) 31 Dylan Newell (Praties) 32 Caleb Manion (DiscoverTasmania.com/TIS) 0.24 33 Michael Phelan (Tarkine Forest Adventures) 34 Matthew Rice (Central Coast/Simplot) 35 Richard England (Burnie-Johnson Design/GHD) 36 Jason Rigg (Cannondale/Praties) 37 Shaun Mccarthy (Central Coast/Simplot) 38 William Clarke (Praties) 39 Peter Mcdonald (Drapac Porsche) 40 Johnnie Walker (South Australia/AIS) 41 Abram Manion (Budget Forklifts) 42 Cameron Hughes (Budget Forklifts) 43 Jonathon Lovelock (VIS/Jayco) 44 Matt Benson (SASI) 45 Cameron Peterson (Tarkine Forest Adventures) 46 Aaron Donnelly (Central Coast/Simplot) 47 Gene Bates (Drapac Porsche) 48 Richie Porte (Praties) 49 Nathan Wise (Cycle City Ballarat) 50 Sean Boyle (SASI) 51 Daniel Mcintyre (Tarkine Forest Adventures) 52 Peter Milostic (Budget Forklifts) 53 Chris Jory (Panasonic) 54 Tim Guy (Panasonic) 55 Tommy Nankervis (Virgin Blue) 56 Stefan Kirsch (Hart/Ridewiser) 57 Adam Phelan (Tarkine Forest Adventures) 58 Sam Brett (DiscoverTasmania.com/TIS) 59 Luke Durbridge (Plan B Racing Team) 60 William Alexander (Virgin Blue) 61 Charles Howlett (Cycle City Ballarat) 62 Tim Roe (Savings & Loans) 63 Darren Rolfe (Virgin Blue) 64 Peter Ladd (Budget Forklifts) 65 Ashley Baines (Cycle City Ballarat) 66 Peter Herzig (Panasonic) 67 Mark Jamieson (DiscoverTasmania.com/TIS) 68 Tim Decker (Central Coast/Simplot) 69 Chris Luxton (Savings & Loans) 70 Ben Grieve Johnson (Praties) 71 Lauchlan Stewart (Cycle City Ballarat) 72 Kane Walker (Hart/Ridewiser) 73 William Ford (South Australia/AIS) 74 Brad Norton (Cannondale/Praties) 75 Jason Hegert (Panasonic) 76 Mark O’Brien (Drapac Porsche) 77 Chris Martin (SASI) 0.50 78 Andrew Smith (Central Coast/Simplot) 79 Jeremy Hills (Cannondale/Praties) 1.00 80 Patrick Gill (Plan B Racing Team) 1.03 81 Tim Walker (Cannondale/Praties) 1.28 82 Joshua Wilson (Cannondale/Praties) 2.27 83 Aaron Jones (Burnie-Johnson Design/GHD) 84 Michael Hepburn (Virgin Blue) 85 Henry Morley (Plan B Racing Team) 86 James Ibrahim (Central Coast/Simplot) 87 Mathew Camilleri (Burnie-Johnson Design/GHD) 88 Tom Robinson (Burnie-Johnson Design/GHD) 89 Will Dickeson (Savings & Loans) 90 Matthew Mcdonagh (Burnie-Johnson Design/GHD) 4.30 91 Mark Isaacs (Cycle City Ballarat) 92 Peter Howard (Hart/Ridewiser) 93 Danny Pulbrook (Tarkine Forest Adventures) 5.48 94 Joshua Page (Tarkine Forest Adventures) 6.33 95 Luke Ockerby (DiscoverTasmania.com/TIS) 7.51 96 Peter Loft (DiscoverTasmania.com/TIS) 9.54 97 Tony Chandler (Hart/Ridewiser) 10.39 98 Michael Verheyen (Plan B Racing Team) 99 Will Robinson (Burnie-Johnson Design/GHD) 12.42 100 Kyle Marwood (Central Coast/Simplot) 101 Scott Cronly-Dillon (Cycle City Ballarat) 14.45 Sprints classification 1 Pat Shaw (VIS/Jayco) 15 pts 2 Bernard Sulzberger (Virgin Blue) 15 3 Chris Jongewaard (SASI) 12 4 Benjamin King (South Australia/AIS) 12 5 Kristian House (Budget Forklifts) 8 6 Joel Pearson (Savings & Loans) 6 7 Hayden Brooks (Virgin Blue) 6 8 Leigh Howard (VIS/Jayco) 6 9 David Kemp (Virgin Blue) 5 10 Glenn O’Shea (VIS/Jayco) 4 11 Sean Finning (VIS/Jayco) 4 12 Nathan Clarke (Praties) 4 13 Rohan Dennis (SASI) 4 14 Michael England (Budget Forklifts) 4 15 Adam Semple (South Australia/AIS) 4 16 Andrew Roe (Tarkine Forest Adventures) 3 17 Daniel Furmston (Praties) 3 18 Brad Edmunds (Savings & Loans) 3 19 Neil Manning (Plan B Racing Team) 3 20 Ben Grenda (DiscoverTasmania.com/TIS) 2 21 Vaughan Bowman (Hart/Ridewiser) 2 22 Jack Bobridge (SASI) 2 23 Ben Mather (Praties) 1 24 Dylan Newell (Praties) 1 25 Jack Anderson (Budget Forklifts) 1 26 Matt King (South Australia/AIS) 1 27 James Langedyk (VIS/Jayco) 1 Criterium Championships classification 1 Leigh Howard (VIS/Jayco) 19 pts 2 Chris Jongewaard (SASI) 14 3 Bernard Sulzberger (Virgin Blue) 13 4 Joel Pearson (Savings & Loans) 13 5 Nathan Clarke (Praties) 10 6 Russell Gill (Savings & Loans) 8 7 Stuart Shaw (Drapac Porsche) 7 8 Nick Walker (VIS/Jayco) 5 9 Dale Scarfe (Panasonic) 5 10 Pat Shaw (VIS/Jayco) 4 11 Peter Mcdonald (Drapac Porsche) 3 12 Jason Rigg (Cannondale/Praties) 3 13 Michael Phelan (Tarkine Forest Adventures) 2 14 Caleb Manion (DiscoverTasmania.com/TIS) 2 15 Richard England (Burnie-Johnson Design/GHD) 1 16 Johnnie Walker (South Australia/AIS) 1 Most aggressive rider classification 1 Kristian House (Budget Forklifts) 2 pts 2 Pat Shaw (VIS/Jayco) 2 Best Tasmanian rider classification 1 Bernard Sulzberger (Virgin Blue) 1.58.03 2 Nathan Clarke (Praties) 0.11 3 Daniel Furmston (Praties) 0.18 4 Ben Grenda (DiscoverTasmania.com/TIS) 0.19 5 Ben Mather (Praties) 0.20 6 Caleb Manion (DiscoverTasmania.com/TIS) 0.21 7 Matthew Rice (Central Coast/Simplot) 8 Jason Rigg (Cannondale/Praties) 9 William Clarke (Praties) 10 Abram Manion (Budget Forklifts) 11 Richie Porte (Praties) 12 Sam Brett (DiscoverTasmania.com/TIS) 13 Mark Jamieson (DiscoverTasmania.com/TIS) 14 Ben Grieve Johnson (Praties) 15 Andrew Smith (Central Coast/Simplot) 0.47 16 Jeremy Hills (Cannondale/Praties) 0.57 17 Tim Walker (Cannondale/Praties) 1.25 18 Joshua Wilson (Cannondale/Praties) 2.24 19 Aaron Jones (Burnie-Johnson Design/GHD) 20 Tom Robinson (Burnie-Johnson Design/GHD) 21 Matthew Mcdonagh (Burnie-Johnson Design/GHD) 4.27 22 Danny Pulbrook (Tarkine Forest Adventures) 5.45 23 Luke Ockerby (DiscoverTasmania.com/TIS) 7.48 24 Peter Loft (DiscoverTasmania.com/TIS) 9.51 25 Will Robinson (Burnie-Johnson Design/GHD) 12.39 Teams classification 1 VIS/Jayco 5.55.12 2 Savings & Loans 3 SASI 4 Budget Forklifts 5 Praties 6 Virgin Blue 7 Tarkine Forest Adventures 8 Central Coast/Simplot 9 Drapac Porsche 10 South Australia/AIS 11 DiscoverTasmania.com/TIS 12 Panasonic 13 Cycle City Ballarat 14 Hart/Ridewiser 15 Cannondale/Praties 0.36 16 Plan B Racing Team 0.39 17 Burnie-Johnson Design/GHD 4.06
