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M. Donnelly Junior Tour of Ireland - NE
Ireland, August 5-10, 2003
Stage 1 - August 5: Wateford ITT , 1 mile
Woods takes first yellow jersey
The Ireland Stena Line team started off the M. Donnelly Junior Tour this evening in fine style with a strong performance from Kerry rider Barry Woods in the stage one time trial. Woods paced himself perfectly in the short, hilly effort, starting steadily on the flat section along the Wateford city quays, but then picking up the pace on the tough climb to the line.
He completed the flat-out test in a time fractionally over one minute, which was good enough to overtake Team Dataphonics rider Mark Cavandish by two hundreths of a second and take the first yellow jersey of the six day event. Third place went to the Frenchman Gwenael Conte, who was just over a second further back from the leading duo.
Killorgan cyclist Woods will hold the yellow jersey going into tomorrow's 60 mile second stage, which sees the riders cover an undulating course from Waterford to Dungarvan and back. Although it is early days in this hard-fought international race, the Ireland Stena Line team intend to defend the race lead. "There are a lot of good teams in the race but we have a strong squad," said manager Tom Keenan. "The stages are quite short and so we will go out there to defend the jersey."
Woods is motivated to hold onto the race lead, coming into the event with good form. "I spent the past three weeks racing in Belgium and am going pretty well", he said. "It was ideal preparation for the Junior Tour. To tell you the truth, I was aiming for a top ten place on the stage, as I had no idea what the foreign riders were like. To go out and take yellow is fantastic... I am very happy."
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- Barry Woods of the Ireland - Stena Line team, on his way to winning the opening stage of the M. Donnelly Junior Tour
Results
1 Barry Woods (Stena Team Ireland) 1.00.12 (48.15 kph / 29.94 mph) 2 Mark Cavandish (Dataphonics) 0.02 3 Gwenael Conte (VC D'Annemasse A) 1.34 4 Kai Reus (Tempo BMV Veldhoven A) 1.41 5 Ben Crawforth (London Team) 1.63 6 Jesse J Anthony (USA) 1.65 7 Bruce Edgar (Dataphonics) 1.84 8 Roderick Muscat (Malta) 2.09 9 Jerome Coppel (VC D'Annemasse A) 2.11 10 Leon Nel (South Africa Academy A) 2.11 11 Laurens Badenhorst (South Africa Academy C) 2.24 12 Richard Maes (Killarney CC) 2.24 13 Paul McMahon (Bray Wheelers) 2.27 14 Imiel Visser (South Africa Academy A) 2.52 15 Patrick Van Leeuwen (Tempo BMV Veldhoven A) 2.68 16 Brad Viera (USA) 2.80 17 Thomas Duggan (Bray Wheelers) 2.87 18 Egan Tarr (South Africa Academy B) 2.92 19 Theo Hardwick (Stena Team Ireland) 3.01 20 Henco Vanwyk (South Africa Academy A) 3.04 21 Zach Taylor (USA) 3.20 22 Tim Smith (London Team) 3.36 23 Frits Pellemans (Tempo BMV Veldhoven B) 3.76 24 Marco Rodriques (South Africa Academy B) 3.77 25 Lionel Pinto (South Africa Academy C) 4.16 26 Ricard Bowen (North West Division BCF) 4.19 27 Maarte Mandemakers (Tempo BMV Veldhoven A) 4.55 28 Chris Opie (Team South West RICCI) 4.74 29 Olivier Costechareyre (VC D'Annemasse A) 4.88 30 Paul Brady (Swords McNally) 5.03 31 Jochem Ponten (Tempo BMV Veldhoven A) 5.38 32 Rob Partridge (Wales) 5.38 33 Mark Nestor (Stamullen MDRC) 5.45 34 Michael Lucey (Killarney CC) 5.45 35 Fredoe Van Niekerk (South Africa Academy B) 5.54 36 David Pomeroy (Bray Wheelers) 5.58 37 Christy Higgins (Kanturk CUCC) 5.81 38 Juan Van Heerden (South Africa Academy B) 5.84 39 Colm Crawley (Stamullen MDRC) 5.91 40 John O'Mahony (Swords McNally) 5.96 41 Peter Hawkins (Cycling Ulster) 6.09 42 Willem Jan Smits (Tempo BMV Veldhoven B) 6.11 43 Michael Mulvenna (Cycling Ulster) 6.19 44 Zach Bolian (USA) 6.28 45 John Opie (Team South West RICCI) 6.40 46 Eddie Knowler (Dataphonics) 6.43 47 Quie Ferreira (South Africa Academy A) 6.45 48 Kyle Cromie (NICF) 6.46 49 Fraser Duncan (Stena Team Ireland) 6.60 50 Pete Williams (North West Division BCF) 6.60 51 David Watson (Cycling Ulster) 6.69 52 Daniel Martin (Team South West RICCI) 6.75 53 Neil Cooper (Reading) 6.75 54 Keith Daly (Swords McNally) 6.88 55 Sam Sturgeon (London Team) 7.16 56 Daniel Davies (Wales) 7.20 57 Gerard Carroll (Killarney CC) 7.22 58 Ben Simmons (Wales) 7.54 59 Ian Ormond (Kanturk CUCC) 7.69 60 Mark Cassidy (Stena Team Ireland) 7.82 61 Franck Blanchard (VC D'Annemasse A) 8.18 62 Stephane Dubois (VC D'Annemasse B) 8.19 63 Aidan O'Shea (Killorglin CUCC) 8.26 64 Joe Liversidge (Dataphonics) 8.27 65 Stephen McKenna (Stamullen MDRC) 8.29 66 Richard Wakor (CCB 2000) 9.03 67 Chris Gould (Wales) 9.40 68 Ryan Bonser (North West Division BCF) 9.58 69 Ruan Buys (South Africa Academy C) 10.21 70 Chris Edwards (Team South West RICCI) 10.44 71 Jamie Barlow (Stamullen MDRC) 10.67 72 Scott Milton (London Team) 10.92 73 David Dougan (NICF) 11.04 74 Andrew Hoey (NICF) 11.05 75 Derek Bourke (Swords McNally) 11.08 76 Richard Price (Bray Wheelers) 11.63 77 James Stewart (North West Division BCF) 11.83 78 Brendan Lacey (Earl of Desmond) 11.88 79 Chris McCaughan (NICF) 12.19 80 James Lawless (Usher Irish Road Club) 12.53 81 Danny O'Connor (Kanturk CUCC) 13.52 82 Eoin Concannon (Killorglin CUCC) 31.23 83 Ray Cullen (Kanturk CUCC) 54.60 Points classification 1 B Woods 15 pts 2 M Cavandish 14 3 G Conte 13 4 K Reus 12 5 B Crawforth 11 6 J Anthony 10 7 B Edgar 9 8 R Muscat 8 9 J Coppel 7 9 L Nel 7 11 L Badenhorst 5 11 R Maes 5 13 P McMahon 3 14 I Visser 2 15 P Van Leeuwen 1 Team classification 1 USA 3.06 2 South Africa Academy A 0.01 3 Tempo BMV Veldhoven A 4 Dataphonics 5 VC D'Annemasse A 0.02 6 Bray Wheelers 0.03 7 Stena Team Ireland 8 South Africa Academy B 0.05 9 London Team 10 Killarney CC 0.08 11 South Africa Academy C 0.10 12 Team South West RICCI 13 Swords McNally 0.12 14 Cycling Ulster 15 Stamullen MDRC 0.13 16 North West Division BCF 17 Wales 18 Kanturk CUCC 0.19 19 NICF 0.22 First year junior classification 1 G Conte 1.01 2 B Crawforth 3 R Muscat 0.01 4 J Coppel 5 R Maes 6 P McMahon 7 H Vanwyk 0.02 8 Z Taylor 9 M Rodriques 10 L Pinto 0.03 11 R Bowen 12 C Opie 13 M Nestor 0.04 13 M Lucey 15 F Van Niekerk 16 J Van Heerden 17 M Mulvenna 0.05 18 Z Bolian 19 J Opie 20 E Knowler 21 K Cromie 22 P Williams 23 D Watson 24 D Martin 25 D Davies 0.06 26 B Simmons 27 S Dubois 0.07 28 A O'Shea 29 J Liversidge 30 S McKenna 31 C Gould 0.08 32 R Buys 0.09 33 C Edwards 34 S Milton 0.10 35 A Hoey 36 D Bourke 37 R Price 38 D O'Connor 0.12 0.12
