New Zealand National Championships - CN

Te Amawutu, New Zealand, January 9-11, 2009

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Stage 1 - January 9: Elite Men/Women/Under 23 TT

Vennell, Holt claim time trial titles

Hawkes Bay professional Jeremy Vennell has taken out the time trial honours at the RaboPlus national road cycling championships in Te Awamutu today. Vennell, who races for Team Bissell in Europe, edged out Atlanta Olympian Robin Reid to take the men's honours.

He clocked 57:25 on the 40km undulating terrain to win by 22 seconds from Reid (Star and Garter Tasman), with his fellow Nelson clubmate Chris Nicholson, the former Olympic speed skater, third in an impressive 59:19.

Cambridge rider Melissa Holt successfully defended her title in a top ride in the 25km elite women's race.

Holt, who will defend her road race title tomorrow, has been concentrating on Ironman triathlon in 2008 where she qualified and raced the world championship in Hawaii.

She clocked 38:34 to win the time trial by nearly a minute from fellow Waikato rider Sonia Waddell, the former Olympic rower, who greatly impressed in her first national championships. Southland's Dale Tye was third.

Taranaki's Michael Torckler took out the under-23 men's honours by just four seconds from Waikato's Ryan Wills.

Results

Elite Men - 40km

1 Jeremy Vennell (ECNI)                    57.26 (41.788 km/h)
2 Robin Reid (Star & Garter-Tasman)         0.21
3 Chris Nicholson (Star & Garter-Tasman)    1.53
4 Paul Odlin (Star & Garter-Tasman)         2.40
5 Aaron Strong (Auckland)                   3.42
6 Justin Kerr (Waikato/BoP)                 4.18
7 Eric Drower (Subway-Avanti)               4.59
8 Peter Rennie (Waikato/BoP)                5.01
9 Josh Page (ECNI)                          5.50
10 Simon Croom (Southland)                  7.35
11 Sam King(-Turner Wellington)             7.46
12 Cameron Holt (Waikato/BoP)               8.44
13 Ashley Paice (Auckland)                  9.10
14 Scott Wilder (Canterbury)                9.43
DNF Joseph Cooper (Subway-Avanti DNF)           
DNF Dean Fulton (Star & Garter-Tasman DNF)      
DNF Gordon McCauley (Subway-Avanti DNF)         
 
U23

1 Michael Torckler (WCNI)                  59.55 (40.056 km/h)
2 Ryan Wills (Waikato/BoP)                  0.04
3 Matthew Sillars (Auckland)                1.15
4 Logan Hunn (Auckland)                     1.56
5 Mike Northey (Auckland)                   2.21
6 Shem Rodger (Waikato/BoP)                 2.25
7 Mathew Marshall (Southland)               2.39
8 Sam Horgan (Subway-Avanti)                2.56
9 Alex McGregor (Otago)                     3.26
10 Brad Carter (Waikato/BoP)                3.29
11 Mark Langlands (Waikato/BoP)             3.40
12 Roman van (Uden Auckland)                4.29
13 Aaron Gate (Auckland)                    5.13
14 Alex Cull (Auckland)                     6.46
 
 
Elite Women - 25km

1 Melissa Holt (Waikato/BoP)               38.35 (38.877 km/h)
2 Sonia Waddell (Waikato/BoP)               0.57
3 Dale Tye (Southland)                      1.17
4 Britta Martin (Star & Garter-Tasman)      1.38
5 Bronwen Frazer (Star & Garter-Tasman)     1.52
6 Rachel Mercer (Team Cyclosport)           2.08
7 Marina Duvnjak (Auckland)                 2.19
8 Gabrielle Vermunt (Southland)             2.33
9 Serena Sheridan (ECNI)                    2.48
10 Toni Bradshaw (Auckland)                 3.03
11 Emma Hutchings (Otago)                   3.09
12 Stacy Simms (Otago)                      3.15
13 Kerri-(Anne Torckler WCNI)               3.48
14 Nicola Bowden (Waikato/BoP)              3.51
15 Emma Petersen (Waikato/BoP)              4.01
16 Rachel Bartells (Auckland)               4.30