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M. Donnelly Junior Tour of Ireland - NE
Ireland, August 5-10, 2003
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Stage 3 - August 7: Waterford - Thomastown, 64 miles
Reus takes another
Twenty four hours after he won the second stage of the M. Donnelly Junior Tour, Dutch rider Kai Reus posted the best possible defense of his race leader's jersey when he once again rode to victory with a storming solo display.
With six of the 65 miles remaining, the Tempo BMV cyclist attacked from the main bunch with South African Leon Nel, who had placed second behind Reus yesterday in Waterford. The speeding duo closed up to the lone leader Daniel Martin on the road from New Ross to the finish and once Martin was reeled in, Reus kicked for home.
The flying Dutchman quickly gained time on the drag to the finish in Slieve Rua and reached the line 34 seconds clear of the main field, who mopped up the two other riders in the final run-in. Second one the stage was Mark Cavandish of the English Dataphonics team, while McNally Swords rider Paul Brady and Killarney's Richard Maes was best of the Irish in sixth and eighth respectively.
The day had started on a bad note for Reus' Tempo BMV team when Frits Pellemans crashed on a corner and broke his leg. Down one rider, the danger for the Dutchmen was that they would be unable to contains the attacks of their opponents and by the halfway point, it appeared that Reus' yellow jersey was in danger. English rider Ryan Bonner (North West Division) had broken away at the 19 mile mark and twelve miles later, his lead over Reus was more than one minute, and growing.
A group of ten chasers finally succeeded in getting across to Bonner, amongst them Irishmen Eoin Concannon (Killorglin Credit Union) and Michael Mulvenna of the Cycling Ulster team. But further back, the second category climb after Graiguenamanagh acted as a springboard for Reus, who set off in another small chase group with Barry Woods and Theo Hardwick of the Ireland Stena Line team. These closed the gap by the 52 mile point but all the hard effort came to nothing when the rest of the field regrouped shortly afterwards.
Just before this junction was made, English rider Daniel Martin (Team South West RICCI) attacked and went clear, opening up a lead of over one minute and speeding through the streets of New Ross. Martin is a cousin (by marriage) of last year's race winner Nicolas Roche and for a while it looked certain that the third stage of the M. Donnelly Junior Tour would once again go to the family. However, while Martin was riding strongly, a strong headwind on the wide-open dual carriageways from New Ross made his task a very difficult one and with four miles remaining he was caught by the race leader Reus and South African Leon Nel.
That set the scene for Reus' second consecutive stage victory and, more importantly, saw his overall lead jump to two minutes and ten seconds over the USA cyclist Jesse Anthony. With three stages left to go, he is starting to look like the most dominant rider since Ireland's Mark Scanlon in 1998. Scanlon won that year and at this early stage, few are betting against the Dutchman to do the same.
'He is very, very strong', said the Ireland Stena Line manager Tom Keenan after the finish. 'He is second in the world junior rankings and, really, seems strong enough to do what he wants in the race. I think the overall classification is buried - at this point, we are now looking to get a stage win and to try to stay high up in the general classification. I think that Reus is going to win the race.'
For his part, the young Dutchman is very confident. The former speedskater has been cycling for just two years but has won the prestigious Two Days of Heuvelland and Two Days of Zeeuwsvlaanderen this season, both world-ranked races. He intends going all the way in the M. Donnelly Junior Tour. 'I feel strong and didn't really worry today, even when there were riders up the road. I had my own plan for the stage and stuck to it. I went clear with a South African rider and then with three miles to go I attacked by myself, to win the stage. I am pretty confident for the overall prize…the South Africans are strong, particularly as there are so many of them, but we have a good team. I am very happy.'
The M. Donnelly Junior Tour continues tomorrow with a tough 54 mile stage based in Carrick on Suir.
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- Race Leader Kai Reus During Stage 3
- Daniel Martin of Team South-West 9
- Kai Reus (Tempo BMV) wins Stage 3
Images by M. Donnelly Junior Tour
- The bunch heads off
- Kai Reus (Tempo BMV-Veldhoven)
- Kai Reus follows the line
- Early solo break by James Lawless
- Ryan Bonser (NorthWest Division)
- Eoin Concannon (Killorglin) and Michael Mulvenna (Cycling Ulser) in the first chase group
- Barry Woods (Ireland Stena Line) leads the second chase group
- Woods (L) and Hardwick (R), Team Ireland Stena Line
- Daniel Martin, Team South West
- Quie Ferreira (South Africa Cycling Academy A) chases Martin
- Tempo BMV lead the chase
- Tempo BMV are still leading the chase
- Kai Reus (Tempo BMV) wins stage 3
- Cooling Down; Kai Reus (TempoBMV) after stage 3
- Conte, Nel, Cavandish and Reus on the podium
Results
1 Kai Reus (Ned) Tempo BMV Veldhoven A 2.42.54 2 Mark Cavandish (GBr) Dataphonics 0.34 3 Juan Van Heerden (RSA) South Africa Academy B 4 Franck Blanchard (Fra) VC D'Annemasse A 0.36 5 Brad Viera (USA) USA 6 Paul Brady (Irl) Swords McNally 7 Ben Crawforth (GBr) London Team 8 Richard Maes (Irl) Killarney CC 9 Jesse J Anthony (USA) USA 10 Ryan Bonser (GBr) North West Division BCF 11 Roderick Muscat (Mal) Malta 12 Gwenael Conte (Fra) VC D'Annemasse A 13 Quie Ferreira (RSA) South Africa Academy A 14 Zach Taylor (USA) USA 15 Egan Tarr (RSA) South Africa Academy B 16 Imiel Visser (RSA) South Africa Academy A 17 Maarte Mandemakers (Ned) Tempo BMV Veldhoven A 18 Stephane Dubois (Fra) VC D'Annemasse B 19 Daniel Martin (GBr) Team South West RICCI 20 Pete Williams (GBr) North West Division BCF 21 Barry Woods (Irl) Stena Team Ireland 22 Theo Hardwick (Irl) Stena Team Ireland 23 Ricard Bowen (GBr) North West Division BCF 24 Eoin Concannon (Irl) Killorglin CUCC 25 Paul McMahon (Irl) Bray Wheelers 26 Derek Bourke (Irl) Swords McNally 27 Rob Partridge (GBr) Wales 28 Joe Liversidge (GBr) Dataphonics 29 Mark Nestor (Irl) Stamullen MDRC 30 Brendan Lacey (Irl) Earl of Desmond 31 Chris Opie (GBr) Team South West RICCI 32 David Watson (Irl) Cycling Ulster 33 Leon Nel (RSA) South Africa Academy A 34 Mark Cassidy (Irl) Stena Team Ireland 35 Jerome Coppel (Fra) VC D'Annemasse A 36 Michael Lucey (Irl) Killarney CC 37 Jochem Ponten (Ned) Tempo BMV Veldhoven A 38 Thomas Duggan (Irl) Bray Wheelers 39 James Stewart (GBr) North West Division BCF 40 Ben Simmons (GBr) Wales 41 Michael Mulvenna (Irl) Cycling Ulster 42 Peter Hawkins (Irl) Cycling Ulster 43 Christy Higgins (Irl) Kanturk CUCC 44 Chris Gould (GBr) Wales 45 Patrick Van Leeuwen (Ned) Tempo BMV Veldhoven A 46 Olivier Costechareyre (Fra) VC D'Annemasse A 0.57 47 Marco Rodriques (RSA) South Africa Academy B 2.07 48 Henco Vanwyk (RSA) South Africa Academy A 49 David Pomeroy (Irl) Bray Wheelers 50 Willem Jan Smits (Ned) Tempo BMV Veldhoven B 8.08 51 Zach Bolian (USA) USA 8.09 52 Bruce Edgar (GBr) Dataphonics 10.24 53 Ruan Buys (RSA) South Africa Academy C 13.04 54 Jamie Barlow (Irl) Stamullen MDRC 55 Richard Wakor (GBr) CCB 2000 56 Sam Sturgeon (GBr) London Team 14.54 57 Tim Smith (GBr) London Team 15.02 58 John O'Mahony (Irl) Swords McNally 59 Stephen McKenna (Irl) Stamullen MDRC 15.52 60 Richard Price (Irl) Bray Wheelers 61 David Dougan (Irl) NICF 62 Chris McCaughan (Irl) NICF 63 Neil Cooper (GBr) Reading 15.58 64 Aidan O'Shea (Irl) Killorglin CUCC 16.02 65 Fraser Duncan (Irl) Stena Team Ireland 16.11 66 Chris Edwards (GBr) Team South West RICCI 18.29 67 Daniel Davies (GBr) Wales 19.36 68 Colm Crawley (Irl) Stamullen MDRC 29.24 69 Ian Ormond (Irl) Kanturk CUCC 70 Andrew Hoey (Irl) NICF 71 Keith Daly (Irl) Swords McNally 72 John Opie (GBr) Team South West RICCI 38.06 73 Eddie Knowler (GBr) Dataphonics 38.26 74 Lionel Pinto (RSA) South Africa Academy C 39.06 75 Fredoe Van Niekerk (RSA) South Africa Academy B 76 Ray Cullen (Irl) Kanturk CUCC 52.06 77 James Lawless (Irl) Usher Irish Road Club 52.26 78 Gerard Carroll (Irl) Killarney CC 52.56 79 Laurens Badenhorst (RSA) South Africa Academy C 80 Danny O'Connor (Irl) Kanturk CUCC 53.11 81 Scott Milton (GBr) London Team Mountains KOM Cat 3 at 13.2 miles 1 Roderick Muscat (Mal) Malta 5 pts 2 Quie Ferreira (RSA) South Africa Academy A 3 3 Jochem Ponten (Ned) Tempo BMV Veldhoven A 1 KOM Cat 3 at 16.1 miles 1 Olivier Costechareyre (Fra) VC D'Annemasse A 5 pts 2 Jerome Coppel (Fra) VC D'Annemasse A 3 3 Kai Reus (Ned) Tempo BMV Veldhoven A 1 KOM Cat 2 at 36.8 miles 1 Gwenael Conte (Fra) VC D'Annemasse A 9 pts 2 Quie Ferreira (RSA) South Africa Academy A 7 3 Juan Van Heerden (RSA) South Africa Academy B 5 4 Franck Blanchard (Fra) VC D'Annemasse A 3 General Classification after stage 3 1 Kai Reus (Ned) Tempo BMV Veldhoven A 5.20.59 2 Jesse J Anthony (USA) USA 2.10 3 Leon Nel (RSA) South Africa Academy A 2.11 4 Mark Cavandish (GBr) Dataphonics 2.33 5 Barry Woods (Irl) Stena Team Ireland 2.35 6 Gwenael Conte (Fra) VC D'Annemasse A 2.36 7 Ben Crawforth (GBr) London Team 8 Roderick Muscat (Mal) Malta 2.37 9 Jerome Coppel (Fra) VC D'Annemasse A 10 Richard Maes (Irl) Killarney CC 11 Paul McMahon (Irl) Bray Wheelers 12 Imiel Visser (RSA) South Africa Academy A 13 Patrick Van Leeuwen (Ned) Tempo BMV Veldhoven A 14 Brad Viera (USA) USA 15 Thomas Duggan (Irl) Bray Wheelers 16 Egan Tarr (RSA) South Africa Academy B 2.38 17 Theo Hardwick (Irl) Stena Team Ireland 18 Zach Taylor (USA) USA 19 Juan Van Heerden (RSA) South Africa Academy B 20 Ricard Bowen (GBr) North West Division BCF 2.39 21 Maarte Mandemakers (Ned) Tempo BMV Veldhoven A 22 Paul Brady (Irl) Swords McNally 2.40 23 Jochem Ponten (Ned) Tempo BMV Veldhoven A 24 Rob Partridge (GBr) Wales 25 Mark Nestor (Irl) Stamullen MDRC 26 Michael Lucey (Irl) Killarney CC 27 Christy Higgins (Irl) Kanturk CUCC 28 Peter Hawkins (Irl) Cycling Ulster 2.41 29 Michael Mulvenna (Irl) Cycling Ulster 30 Quie Ferreira (RSA) South Africa Academy A 31 Pete Williams (GBr) North West Division BCF 32 David Watson (Irl) Cycling Ulster 33 Daniel Martin (GBr) Team South West RICCI 34 Ben Simmons (GBr) Wales 2.42 35 Mark Cassidy (Irl) Stena Team Ireland 36 Franck Blanchard (Fra) VC D'Annemasse A 2.43 37 Stephane Dubois (Fra) VC D'Annemasse B 38 Chris Gould (GBr) Wales 2.44 39 Ryan Bonser (GBr) North West Division BCF 40 Derek Bourke (Irl) Swords McNally 2.46 41 James Stewart (GBr) North West Division BCF 42 Brendan Lacey (Irl) Earl of Desmond 2.47 43 Joe Liversidge (GBr) Dataphonics 3.00 44 Olivier Costechareyre (Fra) VC D'Annemasse A 3.01 45 Eoin Concannon (Irl) Killorglin CUCC 3.06 46 Henco Vanwyk (RSA) South Africa Academy A 4.09 47 David Pomeroy (Irl) Bray Wheelers 4.11 48 Willem Jan Smits (Ned) Tempo BMV Veldhoven B 10.13 49 Zach Bolian (USA) USA 10.14 50 Bruce Edgar (GBr) Dataphonics 12.24 51 Marco Rodriques (RSA) South Africa Academy B 14.42 52 Ruan Buys (RSA) South Africa Academy C 15.13 53 Jamie Barlow (Irl) Stamullen MDRC 54 Neil Cooper (GBr) Reading 18.03 55 Chris Opie (GBr) Team South West RICCI 21.36 56 Daniel Davies (GBr) Wales 21.42 57 Richard Wakor (GBr) CCB 2000 23.24 58 Tim Smith (GBr) London Team 25.16 59 Richard Price (Irl) Bray Wheelers 26.14 60 Sam Sturgeon (GBr) London Team 28.27 61 Keith Daly (Irl) Swords McNally 31.30 62 Chris Edwards (GBr) Team South West RICCI 33.04 63 John O'Mahony (Irl) Swords McNally 36.04 64 Stephen McKenna (Irl) Stamullen MDRC 36.56 65 David Dougan (Irl) NICF 36.59 66 Chris McCaughan (Irl) NICF 37.00 67 Fraser Duncan (Irl) Stena Team Ireland 37.13 68 Fredoe Van Niekerk (RSA) South Africa Academy B 41.10 69 Colm Crawley (Irl) Stamullen MDRC 42.02 70 Aidan O'Shea (Irl) Killorglin CUCC 42.29 71 John Opie (GBr) Team South West RICCI 50.44 72 Andrew Hoey (Irl) NICF 54.23 73 Laurens Badenhorst (RSA) South Africa Academy C 54.57 74 Ian Ormond (Irl) Kanturk CUCC 55.50 75 Lionel Pinto (RSA) South Africa Academy C 1.03.33 76 Eddie Knowler (GBr) Dataphonics 1.04.51 77 James Lawless (Irl) Usher Irish Road Club 1.13.34 78 Ray Cullen (Irl) Kanturk CUCC 1.13.40 79 Gerard Carroll (Irl) Killarney CC 1.19.22 80 Scott Milton (GBr) London Team 1.19.41 81 Danny O'Connor (Irl) Kanturk CUCC 1.19.43 First Year Junior classification 1 Gwenael Conte (Fra) VC D'Annemasse A 5.23.35 2 Ben Crawforth (GBr) London Team 3 Roderick Muscat (Mal) Malta 0.01 4 Jerome Coppel (Fra) VC D'Annemasse A 5 Richard Maes (Irl) Killarney CC 6 Paul McMahon (Irl) Bray Wheelers 7 Zach Taylor (USA) USA 0.02 8 Juan Van Heerden (RSA) South Africa Academy B 9 Ricard Bowen (GBr) North West Division BCF 0.03 10 Mark Nestor (Irl) Stamullen MDRC 0.04 11 Michael Lucey (Irl) Killarney CC 12 Michael Mulvenna (Irl) Cycling Ulster 0.05 13 Pete Williams (GBr) North West Division BCF 14 David Watson (Irl) Cycling Ulster 15 Daniel Martin (GBr) Team South West RICCI 16 Ben Simmons (GBr) Wales 0.06 17 Stephane Dubois (Fra) VC D'Annemasse B 0.07 18 Chris Gould (GBr) Wales 0.08 19 Derek Bourke (Irl) Swords McNally 0.10 20 Joe Liversidge (GBr) Dataphonics 0.24 21 Henco Vanwyk (RSA) South Africa Academy A 1.33 22 Zach Bolian (USA) USA 7.38 23 Marco Rodriques (RSA) South Africa Academy B 12.06 24 Ruan Buys (RSA) South Africa Academy C 12.37 25 Chris Opie (GBr) Team South West RICCI 19.00 26 Daniel Davies (GBr) Wales 19.06 27 Richard Price (Irl) Bray Wheelers 23.38 28 Chris Edwards (GBr) Team South West RICCI 30.28 29 Stephen McKenna (Irl) Stamullen MDRC 34.20 30 Fredoe Van Niekerk (RSA) South Africa Academy B 38.34 31 Aidan O'Shea (Irl) Killorglin CUCC 39.53 32 John Opie (GBr) Team South West RICCI 48.08 33 Andrew Hoey (Irl) NICF 51.47 34 Lionel Pinto (RSA) South Africa Academy C 1.00.57 35 Eddie Knowler (GBr) Dataphonics 1.02.15 36 Scott Milton (GBr) London Team 1.17.05 37 Danny O'Connor (Irl) Kanturk CUCC 1.17.07 Teams 1 Tempo BMV Veldhoven A 8.09.54 2 USA 0.36 3 VC D'Annemasse A 4 North West Division BCF 5 South Africa Academy A 6 Stena Team Ireland 7 Wales 8 Cycling Ulster 9 South Africa Academy B 2.05 10 Bray Wheelers 2.07 11 Dataphonics 10.22 12 Swords McNally 15.02 13 Team South West RICCI 18.29 14 Stamullen MDRC 28.20 15 London Team 29.20 16 Killarney CC 52.56 17 NICF 59.56 18 Kanturk CUCC 1.20.54 19 South Africa Academy C 1.43.54 Points classification 1 Kai Reus (Ned) Tempo BMV Veldhoven A 42 pts 2 Mark Cavandish (GBr) Dataphonics 38 3 Jesse J Anthony (USA) USA 30 4 Ben Crawforth (GBr) London Team 29 5 Juan Van Heerden (RSA) South Africa Academy B 25 6 Leon Nel (RSA) South Africa Academy A 21 7 Gwenael Conte (Fra) VC D'Annemasse A 21 8 Brad Viera (USA) USA 19 9 Roderick Muscat (Mal) Malta 18 10 Barry Woods (Irl) Stena Team Ireland 15 11 Richard Maes (Irl) Killarney CC 15 12 Zach Taylor (USA) USA 13 13 Franck Blanchard (Fra) VC D'Annemasse A 12 14 Paul Brady (Irl) Swords McNally 10 15 Bruce Edgar (GBr) Dataphonics 9 16 Jerome Coppel (Fra) VC D'Annemasse A 8 17 David Watson (Irl) Cycling Ulster 7 18 Jochem Ponten (Ned) Tempo BMV Veldhoven A 6 19 Ryan Bonser (GBr) North West Division BCF 6 20 Laurens Badenhorst (RSA) South Africa Academy C 5 21 Paul McMahon (Irl) Bray Wheelers 3 22 Ricard Bowen (GBr) North West Division BCF 3 23 Quie Ferreira (RSA) South Africa Academy A 3 24 Imiel Visser (RSA) South Africa Academy A 2 25 Patrick Van Leeuwen (Ned) Tempo BMV Veldhoven A 1 26 Egan Tarr (RSA) South Africa Academy B 1 Mountains classification 1 Leon Nel (RSA) South Africa Academy A 15 pts 2 Quie Ferreira (RSA) South Africa Academy A 13 3 Gwenael Conte (Fra) VC D'Annemasse A 9 4 Kai Reus (Ned) Tempo BMV Veldhoven A 8 5 Juan Van Heerden (RSA) South Africa Academy B 6 6 Roderick Muscat (Mal) Malta 5 7 Olivier Costechareyre (Fra) VC D'Annemasse A 5 8 Jerome Coppel (Fra) VC D'Annemasse A 3 9 Franck Blanchard (Fra) VC D'Annemasse A 3 10 Jesse J Anthony (USA) USA 1 11 Jochem Ponten (Ned) Tempo BMV Veldhoven A 1 Teams classification 1 Tempo BMV Veldhoven A 16.08.13 2 USA 2.09 3 South Africa Academy A 2.10 4 VC D'Annemasse A 2.37 5 Stena Team Ireland 2.38 6 Cycling Ulster 2.47 7 North West Division BCF 2.48 8 Wales 9 South Africa Academy B 4.09 10 Bray Wheelers 11 Dataphonics 12.39 12 Swords McNally 17.13 13 Stamullen MDRC 41.05 14 Team South West RICCI 43.37 15 London Team 51.03 16 Killarney CC 1.19.23 17 NICF 1.58.52 18 Kanturk CUCC 2.06.13 19 South Africa Academy C 2.08.27
