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2003 Jayco Geelong Bay Series
Victoria, Australia, January 8-12, 2003
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Race 2 - Thursday, January 9: Portarlington
McEwen snatches second to retain Yellow Jersey
By Norman Fay in Portarlington
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Crown rider Robbie McEwen and Skilled's No. 1 team rider Stuart O’Grady failed to chase down breakaway Jayco rider Simon Gerrans at the Portarlington leg of the five-day Jayco Geelong Bay Cycling Classic today.
McEwen managed to snatch second place from his arch rival, leaving the spoils of victory to Gerrans, who described his victory as equal to his Australian Under 23 title of 12 months ago.
"Standing between such great two riders up on the podium was a buzz," said Gerrans, who heads for a Norwegian Category III team (Team Krone) based in France later this month.
Gerrans made his bold bid 10 laps out on the hilly circuit, and got to within half a lap lead, making it all but impossible to be picked up.
The unluckiest of riders was sprint leader New Zealander Gregg Henderson (SBR-Colnago) who slipped on the final corner and crashed. However he is confident he will ride tomorrow in the third round at Geelong's Eastern reach.
Baden Cooke, who fell heavily on day one, missed today's racing, but is hopeful to return to the saddle tomorrow.
Bates into yellow as Wood takes solo win
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In the women's event Kate Bates from NSW took over the leader's mantle with a strong third behind ACT rider Oenone Wood and Hayley Rutherford (NSW). The day one victor Rochelle Gilmore retired feeling unwell half way through the race.
Wood described the win as her best yet and is confident that she can continue her good form into day three.
Bates said that now she has the Yellow Jersey she aims to make it tough for Gilmore and the other challengers to grab it back.
Photography
Images by James Victor
- Mens winner Simon Gerrans (Jayco-VIS)
- Early breakaway Katie Mactier (VIS)
- Early aggression in the women's race Natalie Bates (NSWIS) obscured, Rutherford (WAIS) and leader Hemsley (NSWIS)
- Women's winner Oenone Wood (Cooma-ACTAS) attacks towards the end of the race, looking for the gap back to the bunch
- Oenone Wood (Team Cooma-ACTAS) solos to victory
- The bunch sprint for 2nd (L to R) Rutherford (W.A., 2nd), Wright (Cooma, 4th), Williams (Vic, 6th), and Kate Bates
- Team Cooma-ACTAS (L to R): Belinda Goss, Kim Palmer, stage winner Oenone Wood, Margaret Hemsley, Alison Wright
- The women's Podium Kate Bates (series leader), Hayley Rutherford (2nd in stage) and Oenone Wood (2nd overall)
Images by Norman Fay
- The men's podium (L to R): Stuart O'Grady (3rd), Simon Gerrans (1st) and Robbie McEwen (2nd)
- The women's podium (L to R): Kate Bates (series leader), Hayley Rutherford (2nd in stage) and Oenone Wood (2nd overall)
Results
Elite Men
1 Simon Gerrans (Vic) Jayco 12 pts 2 Robbie Mcewen (Qld) Crown 10 3 Stuart O’Grady (SA) Skilled 8 4 Brett Aitken (SA) Drapac Properties-Beasley Cycle 7 5 Hilton Clarke (Vic) SBR-Colnago 6 6 Henk Vogels (WA) Bicycle Superstore-Victorian State Home Loans 5 7 Matt Goold (Vic) Promotion Cycles-Carnegie Caulfield 4 8 Jeremy Hunt (GBR) SBR-Colnago 3 9 Chris Sutton (NSW) FDJ-NSW 2 10 Peter Milostic (Vic) Fitzroy Cycles 1 Sprints 1 Gregg Henderson (NZ) SBR-Colnago 6 pts 2 Robert Tighello (Vic) Promotion Cycles-Carnegie Caulfield 3 3 Jeremy Hunt (GBR) SBR-Colnago 3 4 Paul Reddenbach (Vic) Skilled 2 5 Simon Garrens (Vic) Jayco-VIS 2 6 Dave Mckenzie (Vic) Flanders iteamNova.com 1 7 David Tanner (Vic) Jayco-VIS 1 Standings after race 2 1 Robbie Mcewen (Qld) Crown 22 pts 2 Hilton Clarke (Vic) SBR-Colnago 16 3 Brett Aitken (SA) Drapac Properties-Beasley Cycles 14 4 Simon Gerrans (Vic) Jaco-VIS 12 5 Gregg Henderson (NZ) SBR-Colnago 8 6 Stuart O’Grady (SA) Skilled 8 7 David Mckenzie (Vic) Flanders iteamNova 6 8 Henk Vogels (WA) Bicycle Superstore-Victorian State Home Loans 6 9 Mark Renshaw (NSW) FDJ-NSW 5 10 Chris Sutton (NSW) 5 11 Kristian House (GBR) Hundred Tree Hills Wines 4 12 Matt Goold (Vic) Promotion Cycles-Carnegie Caulfield 4 13 Jeremy Hunt (GBR) SBR-Colnago 3 14 Peter Milostic (Vic) Fitzroy Cycles 2 Sprints classification 1 Gregg Henderson (NZ) SBR-Colnago 15 pts 2 Simon Gerrans (Vic) Jayco-VIS 4 3 Robert Tighello (Vic) Promotion Cycles-Carnegie Caulfield 3 4 Jeremy Hunt (GBR) SBR-Colnago 3 5 Paul Reddenbach (Vic) Skilled 2 6 Kristian House (GBR) Hundred Tree Hill Wines 2 7 David Mckenzie (Vic) Flanders iteamNova.com 1 8 David Tanner (Vic) Jayco-VIS 1 9 Rob Wilson (Vic) TAC-Victoria Police 1 10 Chris Carr (Vic) 1 11 Mark Renshaw (NSW) FDJ-NSW 1 Teams classification 1 SBR-Colgano 27 pts 2 Crown 22 3 Drapac Properties-Beasley Cycles 14 4 FDJ-NSWIS 10 5 Skilled 8 6 Flanders Iteamnova.Com 6 7 Bicycle Superstore-Victorian State Home Loans 6 8 Hundred Tree Hill Wines-Gbr 4 9 Promotion Cycles-Carnegie Caulfield 4 10 Fitzroy Cycles 3
Elite Women
1 Oenone Wood (ACT) Cycle Cooma-ACTAS 12 pts 2 Hayley Rutherford (NSW) WAIS 10 3 Katie Bates (NSW) NSWIS 8 4 Alison Wright (ACT) Cycle Cooma-ACTAS 7 5 Katie Mactier (Vic) Jayco-VIS 6 6 Elizabeth Williams (Vic) 5 7 Olivia Gollan (NSW) 4 8 Sara Carrigan (Qld) 3 9 Jessica Ridder (NSW) 2 10 Helen Kelly (Vic) 1 Sprints 1 Katie Bates (NSW) NSWIS 5 2 Oenone Wood (ACT) Cycle Cooma-ACTAS 3 3 Olivia Gollan (NSW) 2 4 Sara Carrigan (Qld) 2 Standings after race 2 1 Katie Bates (NSW) NSWIS 18 pts 2 Hayley Rutherford (NSW) WAIS 16 3 Alison Wright (ACT) Cycle Cooma-ACTAS 15 4 Oenone Wood (ACT) 15 5 Rochelle Gilmore (NSW) NSWIS 12 6 Katie Mactier (Vic) Jayco-VIS 11 7 Elizabeth Williams (Vic) 9 8 Belinda Goss (Tas) 7 9 Olivia Gollan (NSW) 4 10 Sara Carrigan (Qld) 3 11 Jessica Ridder (NSW) 3 12 Helen Kelly (Vic) 3 13 Jessica Ridder (NSW) 2 14 Emma Rickards (Vic) 1 Sprints classification 1 Katie Bates (NSW) NSWIS 11 pts 2 Oeone Wood (ACT) Cycle Cooma-ACTAS 4 3 Olivia Gollan (NSW) 3 4 Narelle Peters (Vic) 2 5 Elizabeth Williams (Vic) 2 6 Sara Carrigan (Qld) 2
B Grade Men
1 Sean Finning (Vic) 12 pts 2 Julian Paynter (Vic) 10 3 Klayten Smith (NSW) 8 4 Anthony Comino (Vic) 7 5 Ric Steele (Vic) 6 6 Shayne Kirby (Vic) 5 7 Shaun Lewis (Vic) 4 8 Joshua Rix (ic) 3 9 Alexander James (Vic) 2 10 Chris Wilding (Tas) 1 Sprints 1 Nic Sanderson (Vic) 3 pts 2 Sean Finning (Vic) 3 3 Shayne Kirby (Vic) 2 4 J. Paynter (Vic) 2 5 Eugene Moriarty (Ire) 1 6 Ben Smith (NSW) 1 Standings after race 2 1 Sean Finning (Vic) 18 pts 2 Klayten Smith (NSW) 15 3 Shayne Kirby (Vic) 15 4 Alexander James (Vic) 13 5 Scott Dixon (Vic) 8 6 Anthony Comino (Vic) 8 7 Ric Steele (Vic) 6 8 Eugene Moriarty (Ire) 5 9 Dean Johnstone (Vic) 4 10 Shaun Lewis (Vic) 4 11 Joshua Rix (Vic) 4 12 Nathan Wise (Vic) 3 13 Paul Kenny (Vic) 2 14 Chris Wilding (Tas) 1 Sprints classification 1 S. Finning (Vic) 5 pts 2 Eugene Moriarty (Ire) 4 3 Nic Sanderson (Vic) 3 4 Ben Smith (NSW) 3 5 C Wilding (Tas) 3 6 J. Paynter (Vic) 2 7 Shane Kirby (Vic) 2 8 Simon (Ross) 1 9 Dean Johnstone (Vic) 1
