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Timbercorp Cup Tour of the Murray River - NE

Australia, August 26-September 2, 2007

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Stage 4 - August 27: Kerang To Cohuna, 74.7 km

Pell takes over in close decision

By Rod Morris in Cohuna

Victorian 27 year-old David Pell took over as the new leader of the Fishers IGA Tour of the Murray River yesterday, but not before he sent judges and timekeepers scurrying for the records. Pell was sixth home in the Kerang to Cohuna fourth stage and along the way picked up enough intermediate time bonuses to draw level with previous leader Peter McDonald.

Although technically McDonald probably should still be the leader – courtesy of his Stage 2 win at Barham – officials recognized Pell after his consistent performances. The pair are locked on a total race time of 5 hours, 53 minutes and 55 seconds, after four stages and 246 kilometres of hard racing. Whilst the second day of the 13-stage Tour of the Murray River gave Pell plenty of satisfaction, double glory belonged to Queenslander' Grant Irwin.

Irwin won the morning criterium in Kerang and then repeated the performance in the 74.7 kilometre road stage in the afternoon. Irwin has now pushed his way back up into third place and cut his losses to 7-seconds, while Patrick Shaw is well placed at 21 seconds. The Timbercorp Cup series – formerly known as the Tattersall’s Cup – has developed a short history of riders winning dual stages in the same day.

Tasmanian Wes Sulzberger won a double stage in last year's Ouyen day in the Tour of the Murray River and Victorian Cody Stevenson did likewise in the 2006 Tour of Gippsland. Canberra's Robbie McLachlan also scored double success in the 2005 Tour of Gippsland. Ten riders are under a minute behind Pell and McDonald and realistically are the only possible winners with the 13th placed Miles Watson more than 9 minutes adrift.

How it unfolded

Like the previous day, the afternoon's road race was held under a blazing hot sun and strong cross and tail winds. A 74.7-kilometre journey from Kerang to Cohuna took its toll on many riders as the pace in the morning's criterium had been at a cracker pace. Within the first ten kilometres the peloton broke up into five distinct groups, but the majority of the challengers for General Classification honours were all safely tucked away in the lead bunch.

As riders headed towards Murrabit and Koondrook the gaps continued to grow as several attacks and counter attacks were aimed at Tour leader Peter McDonald. Four intermediate sprints along the way were shared between Miles Watson (NZ), Grant Irwin (Qld) and David Pell (Vic). Pell, who was also second in two intermediate sprints, was on his way to bigger glory.

Once the lead group crossed the 10 kilometre to go sign, McDonald decided to make his move, as he did so successfully on day one. But this time, the talented group of chasers proved too good for him, reeling him in relatively quickly. Into the Cohuna township, McLachlan punched his way to the lead and in the final 500-metre sprint to the line looked every inch the winner.

But the powerful sprinting style of Irwin ruined McLachlan's day out. It was a tremendous finish to the stage with Irwin winning by the barest possible margin. Third home – for the second time this week – was Victorian Nicholas Sanderson, followed by Robbie Cater (NSW) and in-form Victorian teenager Leigh Howard. Pell was sixth home, thus earning a further one second bonus towards his overall time. Coupled with his intermediate sprint bonuses, Pell found himself awarded the leader's yellow jersey, on a countback from McDonald.

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Results

1 Grant Irwin                                      1.38.03 (45.711 km/h)
2 Robert McLachlan                                        
3 Nicholas Sanderson                                      
4 Robert Cater                                        0.01
5 Leigh Howard                                            
6 David Pell                                              
7 Brad Edmunds                                            
8 Patrick Shaw                                            
9 Miles Watson                                            
10 Benjamin King                                          
11 Jack Bobridge                                          
12 Timothy Decker                                         
13 Tom Middleton                                          
14 Steven Robb                                            
15 Peter McDonald                                         
16 Cameron Hughes                                         
17 Michael Stallard                                       
18 John Ebeling                                           
19 Darcy Rosenlund                                        
20 David Kemp                                         0.07
21 Gilbert Gutowski                                   0.11
22 Miles Olman                                        0.14
23 Gavin Nicholls                                         
24 Tony Mann                                          0.15
25 Daniel McCulloch                                   0.19
26 Hayden Josefski                                    0.22
27 Mark Jamieson                                          
28 Peter Dawson                                       0.29
29 Luke Aggett                                        9.35
30 Re Meneaud-Young                                       
31 Travis Frisby                                          
32 Stephen Price                                          
33 Jamie Crass                                            
34 Chris Steffanoni                                       
35 Brendon Sharratt                                       
36 Evan Corry                                             
37 Jacob Lea                                              
38 Jason Hegert                                           
39 Chris Jory                                             
40 Daniel Braunsteins                                     
41 Brendan Schultz                                        
42 Lachlan Stewart                                        
43 Ben Mather                                             
44 Jarrod Harman                                          
45 Douglas Repacholi                                      
46 Nathan Wise                                        9.39
47 Matt King                                              
48 Russell Gill                                           
49 Will Dickeson                                          
50 Daniel Furmston                                        
51 Peter Milostic                                         
52 Glen Peterson                                     12.59
53 Matthew Sherwin                                        
54 Thomas Baxter                                          
55 Craig Robertson                                        
56 Will Wettenhall                                        
57 David Tozer                                            
58 Samuel Rix                                             
59 Malcolm Rudolph                                        
60 Vaughan Bowman                                         
61 Matt Sillars                                           
62 Nigel Sullivan                                         
63 Peter Smith                                            
64 Shaun Higgerson                                        
65 Jeremy Hills                                      20.31
66 Simon Brown                                            
67 Brett Aitken                                      20.33
68 Grant Webster                                     26.22
69 Brendan Jones                                          
70 Gary Mueller                                           
71 Sean Finning                                      27.49
 
Sprints
 
Archards
1 Miles Watson                                           3 pts
2 Benjamin King                                          2
3 Tony Mann                                              1
 
Murrabit
1 Miles Watson                                           3 pts
2 David Pell                                             2
3 Patrick Shaw                                           1
 
Royal Hot
1 Grant Irwin                                            3 pts
2 David Pell                                             2
3 Patrick Shaw                                           1
 
Gannawa
1 David Pell                                             3 pts
2 Miles Watson                                           2
3 Robert Cater                                           1
 
Most aggressive rider
 
1 Peter McDonald                                         2 pts
 
General classification after stage 4
 
1 Peter McDonald                                   5.53.55
2 David Pell                                              
3 Grant Irwin                                         0.07
4 Patrick Shaw                                        0.21
5 Robert McLachlan                                    0.24
6 Leigh Howard                                        0.32
7 John Ebeling                                        0.44
8 Benjamin King                                       0.45
9 Tom Middleton                                           
10 Jack Bobridge                                      0.48
11 Cameron Hughes                                     0.49
12 David Kemp                                         0.53
13 Miles Watson                                       9.01
14 Brad Edmunds                                       9.22
15 Darcy Rosenlund                                    9.40
16 Tony Mann                                          9.47
17 Nicholas Sanderson                                 9.55
18 Peter Dawson                                      10.23
19 Mark Jamieson                                     10.33
20 Gavin Nicholls                                    11.28
21 Robert Cater                                      15.43
22 Michael Stallard                                  15.55
23 Steven Robb                                       15.58
24 Timothy Decker                                    15.59
25 Gilbert Gutowski                                  16.05
26 Daniel McCulloch                                  16.17
27 Hayden Josefski                                   16.20
28 Miles Olman                                       17.08
29 Jarrod Harman                                     19.47
30 Re Meneaud-Young                                  20.50
31 Russell Gill                                      25.28
32 Ben Mather                                        25.31
33 Douglas Repacholi                                      
34 Will Dickeson                                     25.32
35 Travis Frisby                                     25.33
36 Jacob Lea                                              
37 Brendan Schultz                                        
38 Chris Steffanoni                                       
39 Evan Corry                                             
40 Chris Jory                                             
41 Matt King                                         25.37
42 Peter Milostic                                         
43 Lachlan Stewart                                   26.04
44 Jamie Crass                                       26.09
45 Daniel Furmston                                   26.58
46 David Tozer                                       28.57
47 Craig Robertson                                        
48 Matt Sillars                                           
49 Shaun Higgerson                                   29.14
50 Brett Aitken                                      30.59
51 Luke Aggett                                       31.18
52 Will Wettenhall                                   32.22
53 Glen Peterson                                     34.42
54 Samuel Rix                                        37.15
55 Daniel Braunsteins                                39.30
56 Jason Hegert                                      40.24
57 Nathan Wise                                       41.45
58 Gary Mueller                                      42.10
59 Matthew Sherwin                                   42.49
60 Brendan Jones                                     43.20
61 Sean Finning                                      43.31
62 Nigel Sullivan                                    43.59
63 Brendon Sharratt                                  44.19
64 Vaughan Bowman                                    44.33
65 Peter Smith                                       44.38
66 Malcolm Rudolph                                   46.47
67 Thomas Baxter                                     48.39
68 Stephen Price                                     50.00
69 Simon Brown                                       54.35
70 Grant Webster                                   1.03.00
71 Jeremy Hills                                    1.03.16
 
Sprints classification
 
1 Miles Watson                                          38 pts
2 David Pell                                            26
3 Patrick Shaw                                          19
4 Sean Finning                                          16
5 Peter McDonald                                        15
6 Peter Dawson                                          13
7 Brad Edmunds                                          10
8 Grant Irwin                                            9
9 Brendon Sharratt                                       8
10 Darcy Rosenlund                                       6
11 Robert Cater                                          6
12 Tony Mann                                             4
13 Gilbert Gutowski                                      4
14 Leigh Howard                                          4
15 Michael Stallard                                      4
16 David Kemp                                            3
17 Benjamin King                                         3
18 Jack Bobridge                                         2
19 Vaughan Bowman                                        2
20 John Ebeling                                          1
21 Miles Olman                                           1
22 Brendan Jones                                         1
23 Mark Jamieson                                         1
24 Gavin Nicholls                                        1
25 Cameron Hughes                                        1
 
Criterium championships classification
 
1 Grant Irwin                                           19 pts
2 Brett Aitken                                          13
3 Robert McLachlan                                      13
4 Nicholas Sanderson                                    12
5 Gary Mueller                                           9
6 Russell Gill                                           7
7 Leigh Howard                                           7
8 Douglas Repacholi                                      6
9 Patrick Shaw                                           6
10 Robert Cater                                          5
11 Darcy Rosenlund                                       4
12 Peter Dawson                                          3
13 John Ebeling                                          2
14 Tom Middleton                                         2
15 Will Dickeson                                         1
16 Matthew Sherwin                                       1
 
Most aggressive rider classification
 
1 David Pell                                             2 pts
2 Sean Finning                                           2
3 Peter McDonald                                         2
4 Robert McLachlan                                       2