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2003 Jayco Geelong Bay Series
Victoria, Australia, January 8-12, 2003
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Race 4 - Saturday, January 11: Geelong - Botanic Gardens
Schoolboy makes his dream come true
By Norman Fay in Geelong
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Melbourne 17-year-old schoolboy William Walker took on the cream of Australian road cyclists on day four of the Jayco Geelong Bay Cycling Classic and won.
Riding for Giant-CBD Cycles, Walker broke away just after the first sprint and teamed up with Englishman Kristian House (One Hundred Tree Hill Wines) in the final 15 minutes to create a commanding lead.
But an amazing push by Bay Series leader Robbie McEwen (Crown), aided by Brett Aitken (Drapac Properties-Beasley Cycles) saw the peloton almost catch them at the finish.
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House tried to break away on the last corner but Walker said he was confident he had the finish - though admitted afterwards he didn't realise how close the peloton had got to pulling them back.
He described the race as his toughest and best, after winning the Victorian junior road title last year.
The final day's racing, starting at Crown Entertainment Complex in Melbourne at 9am Sunday has McEwen holding a four point lead over Aitken. McEwen has won the Classic four times and Aitken twice, so it's anyone's guess who will cross the line first to win the overall title.
Goss takes one for Tassie
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Belinda Goss became the first Tasmanian to ever win a stage of the Classic, riding a textbook breakaway race with two Victorians Helen Kelly and Lorian Graham.
Just 10 minutes into the race the three staged a major push that grew to almost half a lap by the end, making the sprints a three-way contest on each occasion. Goss proved the stronger to take victory race by several lengths from Kelly, with Graham about 40 metres further back.
The minor places were shared by a number of the overnight leaders, with Katie Bates from NSW now amassing 33 points from Hayley Rutherford (NSW) now on 28, Elizabeth Williams (Victoria) on 27 and Alison Wright (ACT) on 25.
Last year's winner Rochelle Gilmore (NSW) managed only two points to move to 21, equal with Katie Mactier (Vic).
Photography
Images by Norman Fay
- Belinda Goss being interviewed by Phil Anderson
- The big guns get ready for Day 4. Sprint leader, far right, Gregg Henderson beside Stuart O'Grady. Robbie McEwen is in the leader's yellow jersey.
Images by James Victor
- Womens podium, left to right: Helen Kelly 2nd, Kate Bates Series leader, Belinda Goss Race winner, and Olivia Gollan in the Sprint jersey.
- 18 year old Victorian Willy Walker takes an impressive win in the Men's A Grade.
- Early aggression in the women's race paid off for Belinda Goss, Lorian Graham and Helen Kelly.
- Great Britain's Kristian House was the only successful attacker that reached race winner Willy Walker.
- Helen Kelly (VIS) negotiating the corners through the Botanical Gardens of Geelong.
- Lorian Graham (QAS) placed third in the Women's race.
- Eventual men's winner Willy Walker leads the race.
- Olivia Gollan (NSWIS) Womens Sprint classification leader.
- Race winner Belinda Goss (Cycle Cooma-ACTAS) leads second placer Helen Kelly (VIS) at one lap to go.
- Successful Womens breakaway group, left to right: Helen Kelly (VIS) Belinda Goss (Cycle Cooma-ACTAS) Lorian Graham.
- The women's peloton heading up the finish straight.
- The women's bunch sprint for 4th, left to right: Elizabeth Williams (5th), Kate Bates (6th) Hayley Rutherford (4th).
Results
Elite Men
1 William Walker (Vic) Giant-CBD Cycles 12 pts 2 Kritain House (GBR) Hundred Tree Hill Wines 10 3 Robbie Mcewen (Qld) Crown 8 4 Brett Aitken (SA) Drapac Properties-Beasley Cycles 7 5 Gregg Henderson (NZ) SBR-Colnago 6 6 Stuart O’Grady (SA) Skilled 5 7 Simon Gerrans (Vic ) Jayco-VIS 4 8 Chris Sutton (NSW) FDJ-NSW 3 9 Jonathon Cantwell (Qld) Giant-SBR 2 10 Simon Walker (Vic) Bicycle Superstore-Victoria State Home Lo 1 Sprints 1 William Walker (Vic) Giant-CBD Cycles 6 pts 2 Gregg Henderson (NZ) SBR-Colnago 3 3 Robbie Mcewen (Qld) Crown 2 4 Chris Carr (Vic) TAC-Victoria Police 2 5 Brent Dawson (NSW) Drapac Properties-Beasley Cycles 2 6 Paul Reddenbach (Vic) Skilled 1 7 Chris Pascoe (NSW) FDJ-NSW 1 8 Brett Aitken (Cycles) Drapac Properties-Beasley 1 General classification after Race 4 1 Robbie Mcewen (Qld) Crown 37 pts 2 Brett Aitken (SA) Drapac Properties-Beasley Cycles 33 3 Henk Vogels (WA) Bicycle Superstore-Victorian State Home Loans 16 4 Hilton Clarke (Vic) SBR-Colnago 21 5 Stuart O’Grady (SA) Skilled 21 6 Simon Gerrans (Vic) Jaco-VIS 20 7 William Walker (Vic) Giant-CBD Cycles 15 8 Kristian House (GBR) Hundred Tree Hills Wines 14 9 Gregg Henderson (NZ) SBR-Colnago 14 10 Chris Sutton (NSW) FDJ-NSW 13 11 David Mckenzie (Vic) Flanders iteamNova.com 6 12 Ben Brooks (NSW) Drapac Properties-Beasley Cycles 6 13 Mark Renshaw (NSW) FDJ-NSW 5 14 Matt Goold (Vic) Promotion Cycles-Carnegie Caulfield 4 15 Jeremy Hunt (GBR) SBR-Colnago 3 16 Peter Milostic (Vic) Fitzroy Cycles 3 17 Chris Tymmns (Vic) Promotion Cycles-Carnegie Caulfield 2 18 Jonathon Cantwell (Qld) Giant-SBR 2 19 Simon Walker (Vic) Bicycle Superstore-Victoria State Home Loans 1 20 Andrew Torney (Vic) Fitzroy Cycles 1 Sprints classification 1 Gregg Henderson (NZ) SBR-Colnago 24 pts 2 Robert Tighello (Vic) Promotion Cycles-Carnegie Caulfield 10 3 William Walker (Vic) Giant-CBD Cycles 6 4 Simon Gerrans (Vic) Jayco-VIS 4 5 Jeremy Hunt (GBR) SBR-Colnago 4 6 Paul Reddenbach (Vic) Skilled 3 7 Chris Carr (Vic) TAC-Victoria Police 3 8 Kristian House (GBR) Hundred Tree Hill Wines 2 9 Robbie Mcewen (Qld) Crown 2 10 Jonathon Cantwell (Qld) Giant-CBD Cycles 2 11 Chris Sutton (NSW) NSWIS 2 12 Brent Dawson (NSW) Drapac Properties-Beasley Cycles 2 13 David Mckenzie (Vic) Flanders iteamNova.com 1 14 David Tanner (Vic) Jayco-VIS 1 15 Rob Wilson (Vic) TAC-Victoria Police 1 16 Mark Renshaw (NSW) FDJ-NSW 1 17 Chris Pascoe (NSW) 1 18 Trent Wilson (NSW) Flanders iteamNova.com 1 19 Brett Aitken (SA) Drapac Properties-Beasley Cycles 1 Teams classification 1 Drapac Properties-Beasley Cycles 39 pts 2 Crown 37 3 Sbr-Conago 33 4 Skilled 21 5 Jayco-Vis 20 6 Fdj-Nsw 18 7 Giant-Cbd Cycles 17 8 Bicycle Superstore-Victorian State Home Loans 17 9 Hundred Tree Hill Wines-Gbr 14 10 Flanders Iteamnova.Com 6 11 Promotion Cycles-Carnegie Caulfield 6 12 Fitzroy Cycles 4
Elite Women
1 Belinda Goss (Tas) 12 pts 2 Helen Kelly (Vic) 10 3 Lorian Graham (Vic) 8 4 Hayley Rutherford (NSW) 7 5 Elizabeth Williams (Vic) 6 6 Katie Bates (NSW) 5 7 Alison Wright (ACT) 4 8 Katie Mactier (Vic) 3 9 Rochelle Gilmore (NSW) 2 10 Oenone Wood (ACT) 1 Sprints 1 Lorian Graham (Vic) 5 pts 2 Helen Kelly (Vic) 4 3 Belinda Goss (Tas) 3 General classification after Race 4 1 Katie Bates (NSW) 33 pts 2 Hayley Rutherford (NSW) 28 3 Elizabeth Williams (Vic) 27 4 Alison Wright (ACT) 25 5 Rochelle Gilmore (NSW) 21 6 Katie Mactier (Vic) 21 7 Belinda Goss (Tas) 19 8 Oenone Wood Act 1 (ACT) 17.5 9 Helen Kelly 13 10 Lorian Graham (Vic) 8 11 Jessica Ridder (NSW) 5 12 Sara Carrigan Qld 4.5 13 Olivia Gollan (NSW) 4 14 Emma Rickards (Vic) 1 Sprints classification 1 Katie Bates (NSW) 12 pts 2 Olivia Gollan (NSW) 9 3 Sara Carrigan (Qld) 6 4 Lorian Graham (Vic) 5 5 Helen Kelly (Vic) 4 6 Oenone Wood (ACT) 4 7 Belinda Goss (Tas) 3 8 Narelle Peters (Vic) 2 9 Elizabeth Williams (Vic) 2 10 Rochelle Gilmore (NSW) 1
B Grade Men
1 Shayne Kirby (Vic) 12 pts 2 Julian Paynter (Vic) 10 3 Klayten Smith (NSW) 8 4 Cain Pasque (Vic) 7 5 Sean Finning (Vic) 6 6 Ric Steele (Vic) 5 7 David Newton (ACT) 4 8 Jason Benny-Morris (Vic) 3 9 Shaun Lewis (Vic) 2 10 Grany Gaston (Vic) 1 Sprints 1 Nic Sanderson (Vic) 3 pts 2 Cain Pasque (Vic) 3 3 Kharne Hammersley (Tas) 2 4 Julian Paytner (Vic) 2 5 Richard England (Vic) 1 6 Sean Finning (Vic) 1 General classification after Race 4 1 Shayne Kirby (Vic) 34 pts 2 Sean Finning (Vic) 32 3 Julian Paynter (Vic) 25 4 Alexander James (Vic) 24 5 Klayten Smith (NSW) 23 6 Nic Sanderson (Vic) 12 7 Ric Steele (Vic) 11 8 Shaun Lewis (Vic) 9 9 Scott Dixon (Vic) 8 10 Anthony Comino (Vic) 8 11 Kevin Nichols (NSW) 6 12 Eugene Moriarty (Ire) 5 13 Chris Wilding (Tas) 5 14 Dean Johnstone (Vic) 3 15 Joshua Rix (Vic) 3 16 Nathan Wise (Vic) 3 17 Paul Kenny (Vic) 2 18 Simon Ross (NSW) 2 19 Samuel Rix (Vic) 1 20 Grany Gaston (Vic) 1 Sprints classification 1 Nic Sanderson (Vic) 12 pts 2 Eugene Moriarty (Ire) 6 3 S. Finning (Vic) 6 4 J.Paynter (Vic) 5 5 Ben Smith (NSW) 3 6 Cain Pasque (Vic) 3 7 C Wilding (Tas) 3 8 Shane Kirby (Vic) 4 9 David Newton (ACT) 2 10 Richard England (Vic) 2 11 Simon Ross (Vic) 1 12 Dean Johnstone (Vic) 1
