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Mt. Hood Cycling Classic - NE
USA, June 3-7, 2009
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Stage 4 - June 7: Full Sail Downtown Criterium, 60/45 minutes
Sparling wins final Mt. Hood stage head of Mach overall victory
By Heidi Swift in Hood River, Oregon
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Canada's Jamie Sparling bettered his escape companions to win the final stage of Mt. Hood Cycling Classic Sunday in Hood River, Oregon. Paul Mach finished 34 seconds back in the main field to safely defend the overall race lead he took on Thursday.
Mach's Bissell team rode the stage safe to keep the s 13-second classification lead over Chris Baldwin (OUCH). After a series of attacks, a group of ten got away from the field. Bissell's Omer Kem, Burke Swindlehurst, and Morgan Schmitt rode on the front of the peloton for most of the race and Graham Howard watched over his teammate in the yellow leader's jersey.
"Graham took great care of me today and with those guys on the front I felt really comfortable." Mach told Cyclingnews.
"We wanted to let a group go – it was a little bigger than we wanted, and neither one of the OUCH riders was in it so they were pretty active trying to go across," Kem said. "It was a little more work than we wanted to do, but it worked out."
Baldwin raced aggressively, but couldn't manage to escape. "Obviously, I'm a little disappointed, but Bissell did a great job today."
Up the road, the 10-man break was pared down to eight with Jamie Sparling (Truck Red Truck), Justin England (CalGiant-Specialized), Aaron Olson (Oakley/Sidi), Corey Collier (Rio Grande), Adrian Hegyvary (Hagens-Berman), Allen Krughoff (Rio Grande), Adam Switters (CalGiant-Specialized) and Erik Slack (Bobs Bicycles).
The group rode well together and stayed away for more than half of the 75-minute race, gapping the field by as much as 30 seconds. Olson, who claimed most of the primes on the day, instigated a final split in the break that eventually sent him into the sprint finish with Sparling, England and Collier.
Collier's fourth place finish was good enough to move him from sixth to third in the general classification, bumping Mike Olheiser (warp9bikes.com/tristar) out of the final podium spot.
Pitel puts stamp of domination on Mt. Hood with stage and overall win
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Edwige Pitel dominated the technical Full Sail Downtown Criterium sprint finish Sunday to take victory in the final Mt. Hood Cycling Classic stage and defend her classification lead over Leah Goldstein.
The victory by team Sorella Forte's Frenchwoman in the 50-minute race increased her lead over ValueAct's Goldstein to 18 seconds.
Despite a lively race with frequent attacks from ValueAct's Robin Farina, among others, the field was together going into the final lap. Pitel, who had stayed behind Goldstein's wheel, prepared for the sprint.
"I decided to not take any risk of losing the jersey stupidly by leaving a gap or making silly attacks," said Pitel. "In the last corner, I just went around all the girls, down the hill and then took the corner in first position. Even though there was a headwind, I just went flat out for the last 20 meters."
Robina Farina took second, beating Alison Testroete (Total Restoration) at the line.
Veloforma's Melissa McWhirter finished in the group and maintained her third place position in the general classification. She finished the race 2:22 behind Pitel.
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- Edwige Pitel (Sorella Forte) wins the final stage and the Mt. Hood Cycling Classic overall.
- France's Edwige Pitel (Sorella Forte)
- Edwige Pitel (Sorella Forte) tops the podium in Hood River, Oregon.
- Paul Mach (Bissell) defends his lead.
- Bissell leads for Paul Mach.
- Eric Anderson (Bobs-Bicycles.com) involved in a crash.
- Paul Mach (Bissell) rides in the final stage of the Mt. Hood Cycling Classic.
- Jamie Sparling (Trek Red Truck) wins the final stage in Hood River.
- Paul Mach (Bissell) tops the overall race podium
Results
Men 1 Jamie Sparling (CAN) Trek Red Truck Racing pb Mosaic Homes 1.09.19 2 Justin England (USA) California Giant -Specialized 3 Aaron Olson (USA) OAKLEY/SIDI 4 Corey Collier (USA) Team Rio Grande 5 Adrian Hegyvary (USA) Hagens Berman Cycling 0.12 6 Allen Krughoff (CAN) Team Rio Grande 0.22 7 Adam Switters (USA) California Giant -Specialized 8 Erik Slack (USA) Bobs-Bicycles.com 9 Tim Sherstobitoff (CAN) Total Restoration Cycling Team 0.34 10 Logan Garey (USA) Team Rio Grande 11 Kennett Peterson (USA) Team Oregon 12 Albert Gonzales (USA) Mt. View Cycles 13 Lucas Binder (USA) ZteaM 14 Trevor Haaheim (CAN) Total Restoration Cycling Team 15 Chris Stuart (USA) Bobs-Bicycles.com 16 Jake Macarthur (USA) Hagens Berman Cycling 17 Tyler Brandt (USA) HDR p/b Lombardi Sports 18 Brandon Lynch (USA) Bobs-Bicycles.com 19 Ryan Iddings (USA) Lenovo 20 Andrew Boone (USA) Therapeutic Associates Cycling/GENR8 21 Joshua Liberles (USA) Ten Speed Drive Racing 22 Kurt Wolfgang (USA) Canyon Bicycles/ Sienna Development 23 Nic Hamilton (CAN) Trek Red Truck Racing pb Mosaic Homes 24 Jackson Beuhler (CAN) Total Restoration Cycling Team 25 Justin Laue (USA) ZteaM 26 Benjamin King (USA) Fly V Australia 27 Paul Mach (USA) Bissell Pro Cycling 28 Eddy Kwon (USA) ZteaM 29 Owen Harrison (CAN) Total Restoration Cycling Team 30 Sean Passage (USA) Safeway/Bicycles Plus 31 Tyler Riedesel (USA) Canyon Bicycles Draper 32 Chris Baldwin (USA) OUCH Pro Cycling Team Presented by Maxxis 33 Mike Olheiser (USA) warp9bikes.com/tristar 34 Bradley Gehrig (USA) Cole Sport Racing 35 Jonathan Tower (USA) Performance Driven 36 Gabe Varela (USA) Vertical Earth 37 John Hunt (USA) California Giant -Specialized 38 Kenyon Campbell (CAN) Westwood Cycles / Cannondale 39 Tanner Putt (USA) Cole Sport Racing 40 Rob Britton (USA) Trek Red Truck Racing pb Mosaic Homes 41 Christiaan Devries (CAN) Total Restoration Cycling Team 42 Roman Kilun (USA) OUCH Pro Cycling Team Presented by Maxxis 43 Burke Swindlehurst (USA) Bissell Pro Cycling 44 Trevor Connor (USA) Therapeutic Associates Cycling/GENR8 45 Evan Pickett (USA) Metromint Cycling 46 Chris Hong (USA) Bobs-Bicycles.com 47 David Glick (USA) RideClean p/b PatentIt.com 48 Andrew Goessling (USA) HDR p/b Lombardi Sports 49 Michael Lanham (USA) warp9bikes.com/tristar 50 Eric Fischer (USA) Safeway/Bicycles Plus 51 James Mattis (USA) California Giant -Specialized 52 Kai Applequist (USA) Bobs-Bicycles.com 53 Barry Wicks (USA) Kona 54 Aaron Sander (USA) Cyclepath Racing 55 Jeff Sherstobitoff (CAN) Total Restoration Cycling Team 56 Dave Vukets (CAN) Trek Red Truck Racing pb Mosaic Homes 57 Nathaniel English (USA) ZteaM 58 Vince Owens (USA) HDR p/b Lombardi Sports 59 Seth Patla (USA) River City Bicycles 60 Corey Carlson (CAN) Team Rio Grande 61 Shannon Morgan (USA) Clean Currents p/b Don Beyer Volvo 62 James Wingert (USA) ZteaM 63 Andrew Rosette (USA) Second Ascent 64 Darrell O'Quinn (USA) warp9bikes.com/tristar 65 Kevin Rowe (USA) Bobs-Bicycles.com 66 Dan Bryant (USA) Safeway/Bicycles Plus 67 Julian Martinez (USA) California Giant -Specialized 68 Brendan Sullivan (USA) Iron Data Racing 69 Tad Hamilton (USA) Bobs-Bicycles.com 70 Ben Rhodes (USA) Second Ascent 71 Morgan Schmitt (USA) Bissell Pro Cycling 1.17 72 Dan Martin (USA) Safeway/Bicycles Plus 1.29 73 Omer Kem (USA) Bissell Pro Cycling 1.35 74 Derek Dixon (USA) HDR p/b Lombardi Sports 75 Graham Howard (USA) Bissell Pro Cycling 0.34 76 Chris Parrish (USA) Hagens Berman Cycling 2.37 77 Christopher Wingfield (USA) Hagens Berman Cycling 3.10 78 Brandon Dyer (USA) Therapeutic Associates Cycling/GENR8 79 Scott Gray (USA) Therapeutic Associates Cycling/GENR8 3.40 80 Chris Swan (USA) Team Oregon 81 Wm. Colter Young (CAN) ERTC 3.53 82 Jonathan Eropkin (USA) Safeway/Bicycles Plus 4.01 83 Austin Arguello (USA) Hammer/CMG Racing Team 84 Will Mcginnis (USA) warp9bikes.com/tristar 4.06 85 Eric Anderson (USA) Bobs-Bicycles.com 4.09 86 Hugh Trenchard (CAN) Schwalbe Cycling Club 4.18 87 Travis Sherman (USA) warp9bikes.com/tristar 5.20 88 Sean Mcbride (USA) HDR p/b Lombardi Sports 6.20 DNF Luca Ortolani (USA) ZteaM DNF Dan Macdonald (CAN) Total Restoration Cycling Team DNF Matthew Scott (USA) ico DNF Michael Wilcox (USA) Logan Race Club DNS Mark Santurbane (USA) California Giant -Specialized DNS Kevin Noiles (CAN) Trek Red Truck Racing pb Mosaic Homes DNS Rob English (USA) Midtown / Bike Friday DNS Erik Edgar (USA) Pacific Power Blue Sky Teams 1 Team Rio Grande 3.28.53 2 California Giant -Specialized 3 Trek Red Truck Racing pb Mosaic Homes 0.12 4 Bobs-Bicycles.com 0.34 5 Total Restoration Cycling Team 0.46 6 ZteaM 7 HDR p/b Lombardi Sports 8 Bissell Pro Cycling 9 Safeway/Bicycles Plus 10 warp9bikes.com/tristar 11 Hagens Berman Cycling 2.27 12 Therapeutic Associates Cycling/GENR8 3.22 Final general classification 1 Paul Mach (USA) Bissell Pro Cycling 9.54.34 2 Chris Baldwin (USA) OUCH Pro Cycling Team Presented by Maxxis 0.13 3 Corey Collier (USA) Team Rio Grande 1.59 4 Mike Olheiser (USA) warp9bikes.com/tristar 2.08 5 Rob Britton (USA) Trek Red Truck Racing pb Mosaic Homes 2.09 6 Justin England (USA) California Giant -Specialized 2.18 7 Nathaniel English (USA) ZteaM 2.38 8 Jamie Sparling (CAN) Trek Red Truck Racing pb Mosaic Homes 2.48 9 Morgan Schmitt (USA) Bissell Pro Cycling 3.11 10 Burke Swindlehurst (USA) Bissell Pro Cycling 3.22 11 Benjamin King (USA) Fly V Australia 3.42 12 Nic Hamilton (CAN) Trek Red Truck Racing pb Mosaic Homes 4.32 13 Aaron Olson (USA) OAKLEY/SIDI 4.49 14 David Glick (USA) RideClean p/b PatentIt.com 4.59 15 Kevin Rowe (USA) Bobs-Bicycles.com 5.15 16 James Mattis (USA) California Giant -Specialized 5.33 17 Justin Laue (USA) ZteaM 5.45 18 Erik Slack (USA) Bobs-Bicycles.com 5.49 19 Roman Kilun (USA) OUCH Pro Cycling Team Presented by Maxxis 5.58 20 John Hunt (USA) California Giant -Specialized 6.01 21 Vince Owens (USA) HDR p/b Lombardi Sports 6.25 22 Dave Vukets (CAN) Trek Red Truck Racing pb Mosaic Homes 6.29 23 Andrew Boone (USA) Therapeutic Associates Cycling/GENR8 6.52 24 Joshua Liberles (USA) Ten Speed Drive Racing 7.48 25 Kai Applequist (USA) Bobs-Bicycles.com 8.03 26 Bradley Gehrig (USA) Cole Sport Racing 8.26 27 Dan Bryant (USA) Safeway/Bicycles Plus 8.46 28 Eric Anderson (USA) Bobs-Bicycles.com 9.10 29 Kurt Wolfgang (USA) Canyon Bicycles/ Sienna Development 9.33 30 Eddy Kwon (USA) ZteaM 10.01 31 Evan Pickett (USA) Metromint Cycling 10.03 32 Brandon Dyer (USA) Therapeutic Associates Cycling/GENR8 10.07 33 Trevor Connor (USA) Therapeutic Associates Cycling/GENR8 10.22 34 Brendan Sullivan (USA) Iron Data Racing 10.39 35 Tanner Putt (USA) Cole Sport Racing 10.43 36 Adam Switters (USA) California Giant -Specialized 11.02 37 Barry Wicks (USA) Kona 11.03 38 Gabe Varela (USA) Vertical Earth 11.07 39 Eric Fischer (USA) Safeway/Bicycles Plus 40 Tim Sherstobitoff (CAN) Total Restoration Cycling Team 11.10 41 Brandon Lynch (USA) Bobs-Bicycles.com 11.26 42 Kennett Peterson (USA) Team Oregon 11.32 43 Adrian Hegyvary (USA) Hagens Berman Cycling 11.33 44 Albert Gonzales (USA) Mt. View Cycles 45 Kenyon Campbell (CAN) Westwood Cycles / Cannondale 11.36 46 Jeff Sherstobitoff (CAN) Total Restoration Cycling Team 11.53 47 Chris Stuart (USA) Bobs-Bicycles.com 11.58 48 Jake Macarthur (USA) Hagens Berman Cycling 11.59 49 Lucas Binder (USA) ZteaM 12.02 50 Chris Hong (USA) Bobs-Bicycles.com 12.31 51 Owen Harrison (CAN) Total Restoration Cycling Team 13.15 52 Sean Passage (USA) Safeway/Bicycles Plus 13.26 53 Dan Martin (USA) Safeway/Bicycles Plus 13.29 54 Aaron Sander (USA) Cyclepath Racing 13.41 55 Jonathan Eropkin (USA) Safeway/Bicycles Plus 14.09 56 Chris Parrish (USA) Hagens Berman Cycling 14.21 57 Corey Carlson (CAN) Team Rio Grande 15.24 58 Scott Gray (USA) Therapeutic Associates Cycling/GENR8 15.46 59 Chris Swan (USA) Team Oregon 16.16 60 Seth Patla (USA) River City Bicycles 16.49 61 Logan Garey (USA) Team Rio Grande 17.16 62 Austin Arguello (USA) Hammer/CMG Racing Team 18.17 63 Trevor Haaheim (CAN) Total Restoration Cycling Team 19.37 64 Ben Rhodes (USA) Second Ascent 20.06 65 Graham Howard (USA) Bissell Pro Cycling 20.58 66 Jackson Beuhler (CAN) Total Restoration Cycling Team 21.18 67 Allen Krughoff (CAN) Team Rio Grande 22.13 68 Ryan Iddings (USA) Lenovo 25.07 69 Christiaan Devries (CAN) Total Restoration Cycling Team 25.24 70 Omer Kem (USA) Bissell Pro Cycling 26.39 71 Andrew Goessling (USA) HDR p/b Lombardi Sports 28.20 72 Julian Martinez (USA) California Giant -Specialized 29.19 73 James Wingert (USA) ZteaM 31.51 74 Tyler Riedesel (USA) Canyon Bicycles Draper 31.54 75 Christopher Wingfield (USA) Hagens Berman Cycling 32.25 76 Shannon Morgan (USA) Clean Currents p/b Don Beyer Volvo 32.29 77 Jonathan Tower (USA) Performance Driven 33.58 78 Andrew Rosette (USA) Second Ascent 37.24 79 Hugh Trenchard (CAN) Schwalbe Cycling Club 45.36 80 Derek Dixon (USA) HDR p/b Lombardi Sports 48.23 81 Wm. Colter Young (CAN) ERTC 50.01 82 Tad Hamilton (USA) Bobs-Bicycles.com 51.12 83 Michael Lanham (USA) warp9bikes.com/tristar 53.38 84 Tyler Brandt (USA) HDR p/b Lombardi Sports 55.39 85 Darrell O'Quinn (USA) warp9bikes.com/tristar 1.00.42 86 Travis Sherman (USA) warp9bikes.com/tristar 1.08.15 87 Sean Mcbride (USA) HDR p/b Lombardi Sports 1.09.43 88 Will Mcginnis (USA) warp9bikes.com/tristar 1.27.11 Teams classification 1 Bissell Pro Cycling 29.30.36 2 Trek Red Truck Racing pb Mosaic Homes 3.10 3 California Giant -Specialized 3.44 4 Bobs-Bicycles.com 9.16 5 ZteaM 9.53 6 Team Rio Grande 16.38 7 Therapeutic Associates Cycling/GENR8 19.25 8 Total Restoration Cycling Team 19.30 9 Safeway/Bicycles Plus 21.14 10 Hagens Berman Cycling 27.48 11 HDR p/b Lombardi Sports 1.11.14 12 warp9bikes.com/tristar 1.37.41 Women 1 Edwige Pitel (FRA) Sorella Forte 49.43 2 Robin Farina (USA) ValueAct Capital Cycling Team 3 Alison Testroete (CAN) Total Restoration Cycling Team 4 Patricia Bailey (USA) Wines of Washington 5 Martina Patella (USA) ValueAct Capital Cycling Team 6 Gillian Moody (CAN) Total Restoration Cycling Team 7 Sue Butler (USA) MonavieCannondale.com 8 Leah Goldstein (CAN) ValueAct Capital Cycling Team 9 Amy Herlinveaux (CAN) Trek Red Truck 10 Alisha Welsh (USA) PCIM 11 Alice Pennington (USA) Veloforma 12 Heather Albert (USA) Riverstone Women's Racing Team 13 Jessica Hannah (CAN) Total Restoration Cycling Team 14 Melissa Mcwhirter (USA) Veloforma 15 Teri Sheasby (USA) Bend Bike N Sport 16 Heather Pryor (USA) Touchstone Climbing 17 Shari White (USA) Castelli 18 Erin Ford (USA) Veloforma 0.20 19 Marilyn Mcdonald (CAN) Specialized D4W/Bicycle Haus 20 Karey Miles (USA) Therapeutic Associates 1.55 21 Kari Studley (USA) VeloBella 22 Pamela Archer (USA) Therapeutic Associates 4.09 23 Robyn Poulson (USA) Chinock Cycling 4.58 24 Gillian Carleton (CAN) Total Restoration Cycling Team DNF Cary Steinman (USA) Bend Bike N Sport DNF Sirkit Valentin (USA) Gentle Lovers DNF Julie Robertson Zivin (USA) Hagens Berman Cycling DNF Cara Bussell (USA) DNF Kimberly Fong (USA) SugarCRM DNF Gabriela Ferrat (MEX) Mountain View Cycles DNS Sarah Barber (USA) Kristin Armstrong Cycling Academy DNS Jennifer Slawta (USA) Landshark DNS Libby Evans (USA) Sorella Forte Final general classification 1 Edwige Pitel (FRA) Sorella Forte 10.51.02 2 Leah Goldstein (CAN) ValueAct Capital Cycling Team 0.18 3 Melissa Mcwhirter (USA) Veloforma 2.22 4 Robin Farina (USA) ValueAct Capital Cycling Team 2.48 5 Patricia Bailey (USA) Wines of Washington 3.25 6 Alice Pennington (USA) Veloforma 4.31 7 Marilyn Mcdonald (CAN) Specialized D4W/Bicycle Haus 4.56 8 Sue Butler (USA) MonavieCannondale.com 5.05 9 Alisha Welsh (USA) PCIM 5.25 10 Gillian Moody (CAN) Total Restoration Cycling Team 5.43 11 Teri Sheasby (USA) Bend Bike N Sport 6.00 12 Heather Pryor (USA) Touchstone Climbing 7.00 13 Jessica Hannah (CAN) Total Restoration Cycling Team 7.56 14 Erin Ford (USA) Veloforma 8.14 15 Heather Albert (USA) Riverstone Women's Racing Team 9.25 16 Shari White (USA) Castelli 11.32 17 Kari Studley (USA) VeloBella 11.57 18 Amy Herlinveaux (CAN) Trek Red Truck 15.13 19 Martina Patella (USA) ValueAct Capital Cycling Team 20.31 20 Alison Testroete (CAN) Total Restoration Cycling Team 22.32 21 Pamela Archer (USA) Therapeutic Associates 48.58 22 Karey Miles (USA) Therapeutic Associates 51.45 23 Gillian Carleton (CAN) Total Restoration Cycling Team 56.49 24 Robyn Poulson (USA) Chinock Cycling 1.12.34
