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Timbercorp Cup Tour of the Murray River - NE

Australia, August 26-September 2, 2007

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Stage 12 - September 1: Loxton kermesse, 66 km

McDonald struts his stuff while Olman breaks through

By Rod Morris in Loxton (Sa)

Miles Olman (SouthAustralia.com/AIS) wins stage twelve
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Peter McDonald has one hand firmly on the Fishers IGA Tour of the Murray River trophy and is now also a clear leader in the Timbercorp Cup after a successful day in South Australia yesterday. McDonald (28) won Stage 11, a criterium in Loxton and then scored a top 10 in the afternoon kermes race to extend his overall lead to a comfortable 1'23" minutes with only 44 kilometres of the eight-day tour remaining. From a reluctant entrant who didn't think he could handle flat and fast tracks of the Murray River tour, McDonald has been the undoubted star after winning the Moama to Barham stage last Sunday afternoon and holding the leader's jersey ever since. "My win at Loxton has just about assured me of victory now," McDonald said. "My team-mates have done a fantastic job in defending every attack and we'll celebrate tomorrow, but there's still one race left before that happens."

Yesterday afternoon's penultimate stage, a 70-kilometre kermesse around the Loxton waterfront was arguably the tour's toughest race with many riders becoming casualties after the constant climbing – a racing discipline they have not been used to this week. The surprise result in the stage was the performance of Tasmanian Daniel Furmston, who won the Tourism Victoria King of the Mountain Championship…….and just for good measure was also presented with the MADEC Most Aggressive rider award as well. Former New Zealander Miles Watson is assured of winning the RoadSafe Mildura Sprint Championship, while Grant Irwin (Qld) needs only to finish in the top 10 in the final stage to win the WHK Thomsons Criterium Championship.

How it unfolded

Without doubt the Loxton Kermesse proved to be the toughest stage of this week's tour with the 63 riders strung out over various parts of the 3.5-kilometre circuit. Riders were asked to tackle an 800-metre climb no less than 20 times and many were simply unable to withstand the pressure. Little known Tasmanian Daniel Furmston intent was on claiming as many points in the Tourism Victoria King of the Mountain Championship as possible and recognized Queensland pair Tony Mann and Miles Olman as his biggest threats.

Tasmanian Daniel Furmston (Praties)
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Olman started the stage one point in front of Furmston in the KOM title and for the early bonuses, honours were shared. Eventually, a four man break group, including Furmston, Olman, Victorian David Pell and NSW veteran Peter Milostic settled down for their own little show of warfare. That quarter broke clear of a chasing pack of 16 riders and were able to establish a lead of just under a minute after 50 kilometres of the stage.

Once the race narrowed down, lapped riders were shunted off the course by alert commissaries, ensuring the lead protagonists had a clear run to the sprint lines. When the last of the intermediate KOM bonus sprints had been completed and Furmston had assured himself of the climbers' title, he lost contact with the other escapees and not long after that, Pell also lost his grip at the front. That left Olman and Milostic to stage a match race to the end.

The younger Olman (21) had fresher sprint legs and up the picturesque home straight on the Loxton waterfront enjoyed a 2-second winning margin over Milostic, who is racing in his ninth Tour of the Murray River (nee Tour of Sunraysia). "This feels tremendous, I didn't expect to get a stage win, particular one with a hill like that in it," Olman said. Olman is a former junior world track champion and still regards himself as a track specialist over the discipline of the road.

The chasing group with the yellow jersey
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"My goals are still based on the track instead of the road and I am really only using these tours for basic training, so getting a win is an unexpected bonus," he said. Olman, a carpenter by trade, is also one of Australia's best young cycling talents and rides for the southaustralia.com team, which in this tour has now won five of the completed 12 stages.

Outside of Olman's success yesterday, the team's other wins have come from Peter Dawson, Mark Jamieson (x2) and Sean Finning, while Nicholas Sanderson has placed three times. Tour leader Peter McDonald was safe in the bunch, finishing in ninth place behind Olman, 1'16" minutes behind, but lost no time to any of his main challengers in the afternoon. In fact, McDonald watched all of his opponents with eagle eyes and will carry a lead of 1'23" minutes into the final stage, a 44-kilometre kermesse at Waikerie in South Australia.

Photography

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Results

1 Miles Olman                                       1.47.09 (36.96 km/h)
2 Peter Milostic                                       0.02
3 David Pell                                           0.20
4 Jack Bobridge                                        1.16
5 Russell Gill                                             
6 Leigh Howard                                             
7 Patrick Shaw                                             
8 David Kemp                                               
9 Peter McDonald                                           
10 Grant Irwin                                             
11 Peter Dawson                                            
12 Cameron Hughes                                          
13 Benjamin King                                           
14 Matt Sillars                                        1.38
15 Robert Cater                                            
16 Tony Mann                                               
17 Jason Hegert                                        2.53
18 Tom Middleton                                       3.30
19 Brad Edmunds                                            
20 David Tozer                                             
21 Simon Brown                                             
22 Gavin Nicholls                                          
23 Daniel Furmston                                     4.30
24 John Ebeling                                        4.32
25 Daniel Braunsteins                                  5.22
26 Lachlan Stewart                                         
27 Brendan Jones                                           
28 Matthew Sherwin                                         
29 Ben Mather                                              
30 Craig Robertson                                         
31 Peter Smith                                        10.44
32 Daniel McCulloch                                        
33 Miles Watson                                            
34 Darcy Rosenlund                                         
35 Brendon Sharratt                                   16.06
36 Samuel Rix                                              
37 Travis Frisby                                           
38 Thomas Baxter                                           
39 Gary Mueller                                            
40 Nathan Wise                                             
41 Nigel Sullivan                                          
42 Chris Steffanoni                                        
43 Michael Stallard                                        
44 Will Dickeson                                           
45 Will Wettenhall                                         
46 Jarrod Harman                                           
47 Brendan Schultz                                         
48 Matt King                                               
49 Chris Jory                                              
50 Nicholas Sanderson                                      
51 Sean Finning                                            
52 Shaun Higgerson                                         
53 Brett Aitken                                            
54 Re Meneaud-Young                                   21.28
55 Stephen Price                                           
56 Grant Webster                                           
57 Douglas Repacholi                                       
58 Glen Peterson                                           
59 Luke Aggett                                        26.50
60 Gilbert Gutowski                                        
61 Jeremy Hills                                       32.12
DNF Vaughan Bowman                                         
DNS Hayden Josefski                
 
Sprints
 
Lap 1
1 Tony Mann                                            3 pts
2 Daniel Furmston                                      2
3 Brendon Sharratt                                     1
 
Lap 3
1 Brendon Sharratt                                     3 pts
2 Tony Mann                                            2
3 Nicholas Sanderson                                   1
 
Lap 5
1 Tony Mann                                            3 pts
2 Brendon Sharratt                                     2
3 David Pell                                           1
 
Lap 7
1 Brendon Sharratt                                     3 pts
2 David Pell                                           2
3 Tony Mann                                            1
 
Lap 9
1 Benjamin King                                        3 pts
2 Patrick Shaw                                         2
3 Robert Cater                                         1
 
Lap 11
1 Peter Milostic                                       3 pts
2 Miles Olman                                          2
3 Daniel Furmston                                      1
 
Lap 13
1 David Pell                                           3 pts
2 Peter Milostic                                       2
3 Daniel Furmston                                      1
 
Lap 15
1 Peter Milostic                                       3 pts
2 David Pell                                           2
3 Miles Olman                                          1
 
Lap 17
1 Peter Milostic                                       3 pts
2 Miles Olman                                          2
3 David Pell                                           1
 
 
Mountains 
 
Lap 2
1 Tony Mann                                            3 pts
2 Daniel Furmston                                      2
3 Brendon Sharratt                                     1
 
Lap 4
1 Brendon Sharratt                                     3 pts
2 Nicholas Sanderson                                   2
3 Tony Mann                                            1
 
Lap 6
1 Tony Mann                                            3 pts
2 Brendon Sharratt                                     2
3 Daniel Furmston                                      1
 
Lap 8
1 Tony Mann                                            3 pts
2 Daniel Furmston                                      2
3 Benjamin King                                        1
 
Lap 10
1 Daniel Furmston                                      3 pts
2 Peter Milostic                                       2
3 Miles Olman                                          1
 
Lap 12
1 Daniel Furmston                                      3 pts
2 Peter Milostic                                       2
3 Miles Olman                                          1
 
Lap 14
1 Daniel Furmston                                      3 pts
2 Peter Milostic                                       2
3 Miles Olman                                          1
 
Lap 16
1 Daniel Furmston                                      3 pts
2 Peter Milostic                                       2
3 Miles Olman                                          1
 
Lap 18
1 Miles Olman                                          3 pts
2 Peter Milostic                                       2
3 David Pell                                           1
 
Most aggressive rider
 
1  Daniel Furmston                                      
 
General classification after stage 12
 
1 Peter McDonald                                   16.44.48
2 Jack Bobridge                                        1.23
3 Grant Irwin                                          1.33
4 Patrick Shaw                                         1.38
5 Cameron Hughes                                       1.47
6 Benjamin King                                        1.55
7 David Kemp                                               
8 Leigh Howard                                         2.08
9 Tom Middleton                                        4.42
10 John Ebeling                                        5.45
11 David Pell                                         10.28
12 Brad Edmunds                                       13.22
13 Peter Dawson                                       13.27
14 Miles Watson                                       16.06
15 Tony Mann                                          16.36
16 Miles Olman                                        19.36
17 Robert Cater                                       23.32
18 Darcy Rosenlund                                    23.38
19 Gavin Nicholls                                     25.31
20 Nicholas Sanderson                                 26.31
21 Michael Stallard                                   36.40
22 David Tozer                                        37.09
23 Daniel McCulloch                                   37.40
24 Matt Sillars                                       38.42
25 Peter Milostic                                     39.10
26 Daniel Furmston                                    39.24
27 Ben Mather                                         40.20
28 Russell Gill                                       42.42
29 Jarrod Harman                                      43.16
30 Daniel Braunsteins                                 45.43
31 Chris Jory                                         45.47
32 Chris Steffanoni                                   46.29
33 Matt King                                          46.53
34 Craig Robertson                                    46.54
35 Lachlan Stewart                                    48.18
36 Brendan Schultz                                    50.19
37 Gilbert Gutowski                                   51.11
38 Jason Hegert                                       52.52
39 Will Dickeson                                      53.44
40 Matthew Sherwin                                    54.00
41 Shaun Higgerson                                    54.07
42 Brett Aitken                                       58.58
43 Peter Smith                                        59.19
44 Sean Finning                                       59.25
45 Nathan Wise                                      1.00.34
46 Samuel Rix                                       1.03.48
47 Douglas Repacholi                                1.06.30
48 Gary Mueller                                     1.12.00
49 Glen Peterson                                    1.12.17
50 Brendan Jones                                    1.12.58
51 Travis Frisby                                    1.13.09
52 Re Meneaud-Young                                 1.17.20
53 Will Wettenhall                                  1.18.22
54 Luke Aggett                                      1.20.22
55 Nigel Sullivan                                   1.24.54
56 Thomas Baxter                                    1.31.27
57 Stephen Price                                    1.41.44
58 Simon Brown                                      1.48.30
59 Grant Webster                                    1.51.22
60 Brendon Sharratt                                 1.59.45
61 Jeremy Hills                                     2.58.35

Sprints classification
 
1 Miles Watson                                       106 pts
2 Peter McDonald                                      60
3 David Pell                                          46
4 Darcy Rosenlund                                     46
5 Patrick Shaw                                        39
6 Brendon Sharratt                                    37
7 Sean Finning                                        35
8 Benjamin King                                       34
9 Peter Dawson                                        23
10 Robert Cater                                       20
11 Cameron Hughes                                     20
12 Jack Bobridge                                      17
13 Grant Irwin                                        17
14 Tony Mann                                          16
15 Chris Jory                                         14
16 Brad Edmunds                                       13
17 Peter Milostic                                     11
18 Brendan Jones                                       9
19 Nathan Wise                                         9
20 Daniel Furmston                                     9
21 Leigh Howard                                        7
22 Miles Olman                                         6
23 John Ebeling                                        5
24 Gilbert Gutowski                                    5
25 David Kemp                                          4
26 Michael Stallard                                    4
27 Lachlan Stewart                                     2
28 Matthew Sherwin                                     2
29 Gavin Nicholls                                      2
30 Vaughan Bowman                                      2
31 Shaun Higgerson                                     1
32 David Tozer                                         1
33 Tom Middleton                                       1
34 Matt Sillars                                        1
35 Nicholas Sanderson                                  1
36 Daniel McCulloch                                    1
37 Will Dickeson                                       1
38 Chris Steffanoni                                    1
 
Mountains classification
 
1 Daniel Furmston                                     25 pts
2 Miles Olman                                         16
3 Tony Mann                                           15
4 Peter Milostic                                      10
5 Brendon Sharratt                                     6
6 David Kemp                                           6
7 Gilbert Gutowski                                     3
8 Benjamin King                                        3
9 Nathan Wise                                          2
10 Daniel Braunsteins                                  2
11 Darcy Rosenlund                                     2
12 Nicholas Sanderson                                  2
13 David Pell                                          1
14 Miles Watson                                        1
15 Patrick Shaw                                        1
 
Criterium championships classification
 
1 Grant Irwin                                         34 pts
2 Nicholas Sanderson                                  25
3 Robert Cater                                        25
4 Miles Watson                                        23
5 Patrick Shaw                                        22
6 Peter McDonald                                      21
7 Peter Dawson                                        20
8 Leigh Howard                                        18
9 Sean Finning                                        18
10 Russell Gill                                       17
11 Gary Mueller                                       17
12 Brett Aitken                                       13
13 Jack Bobridge                                      12
14 Douglas Repacholi                                  12
15 Darcy Rosenlund                                    12
16 Brendon Sharratt                                   10
17 Tony Mann                                           8
18 Cameron Hughes                                      8
19 Jarrod Harman                                       7
20 David Pell                                          7
21 David Kemp                                          6
22 Matt King                                           5
23 John Ebeling                                        4
24 Michael Stallard                                    4
25 Peter Smith                                         4
26 Miles Olman                                         3
27 Tom Middleton                                       3
28 Will Dickeson                                       1
29 Daniel Braunsteins                                  1
30 Matthew Sherwin                                     1
31 Nathan Wise                                         1
 
Most aggressive rider classification
 
1 Mark Jamieson                                        4 pts
2 David Pell                                           2
3 Peter Smith                                          2
4 Brendon Sharratt                                     2
5 Daniel Furmston                                      2
6 Miles Watson                                         2
7 Cameron Hughes                                       2
8 Miles Olman                                          2
9 Sean Finning                                         2
10 Peter McDonald                                      2
11 Robert McLachlan                                    2