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Australian Youth Olympic Festival
Sydney, Australia, January 9-12, 2003
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Day 2 - January 10
Borgo claims sprint win as Australia and Japan battle to top the gold medal count
Wollongong's Rebecca Borgo has upset top seed Lucy Stewart of Canberra to take out the women's sprint on day two of cycling competition at the Dunc Gray Velodrome.
Borgo defeated Stewart in straight heats in the best of three (12.923, 13.045) to decide the gold and silver medals and the result was a repeat of last year's U/19 Australian Championships where Borgo claimed the crown.
"Lucy and I are the best of friends and we ride against each other all the time so we know each other's strengths and weaknesses inside out," said Borgo after her win. "The advantage I have over her is that I have a big kick (ability to accelerate quickly) and I used that in the first match up."
"In the second race I saw I had a gap and just went for it."
Both are 17 years old and represented Australia at last year's Junior World Titles in Melbourne as first year juniors. They hope to again pair up for Australia in the USA at this year's junior worlds.
"We were really the babies of the field last year but we hope that we can push each other all the way to a one-two finish in the sprint at this year's junior worlds," said Borgo. "We don't care which of us gets which but we want an Aussie gold and silver."
That plan has been helped by this week's competition which Borgo says has given the pair more experience to help them achieve their goal.
"It's a big international competition and it gives us another taste of independence which can only help us to prepare for overseas," Borgo explained.
Japan's Masumi Shinozaki proved too strong for Tasmanian Kirby Piscioneri defeating her Australian rival in two straight heats (13.320, 12.602) to claim the bronze medal.
The men's sprint finals were an all Japanese affair. Tsubasa Kitatsura out rode his team mate Yudai Nitta to win gold in straight heats (12.043, 11.896). The race for bronze went to a third heat decider after Yuichi Matsuda took the first heat in 12.043 but Shugo Hayasaka fought back to take the second heat in 12.061. Matsuda recovered in the third to secure bronze in 11.592.
Kitatsura, whose nickname is ‘Wing" certainly flew in today's racing claiming another gold in the afternoon session where he posted a time of 1min06.721sec to win the 1 kilometre time trial. But the Fuluoka native says he was a little disappointed with his time.
"I had hoped to better my personal best time of 1:06.05 which I rode on an outdoor track in Japan last June," he said. "But the conditions were too cold today for me to fly faster."
Matsuda had to again settle for second behind his team mate covering the kilometre in 1:07.954 for silver. West Australian Leigh Sunderland ensured the Australian flag flew by claiming bronze in 1:08.058.
The women's 500m time trial event went to Shinozaki, who holds the U/19 Japanese record for the distance. She posted a time of 37.848sec to edge out Borgo in 37.931 with Piscioneri third in 38.914.
Japan might have only sent ten cyclists to the AYOF but they have made sure they're in top form. After two days of competition the Japanese have claimed three gold, two silver and two bronze, a total of seven, of the 24 medals awarded.
Australia with 73 competitors has five gold, six silver and five bronze, a total of 16 while New Zealand, who sent a team of five, has one bronze medal.
In the scratch racing the Australians dominated both the men's and women's events to put them back on top of the gold medal tally (Australia five gold - Japan three gold after eight events).
South Australian Renee Braithwaite put in a very strong ride to claim the 7.5km women's scratch race ahead of last night's individual pursuit gold medallist Stephanie Williams of Tasmania. Alice King claimed the bronze to give New Zealand its first cycling medal of the AYOF.
In the men's 10 kilometre event it was an Australian podium clean sweep. Everyone's race tactics were disrupted when Takahiko Fujino (Jap) and Dean Windsor of Bathhurst crashed with seven of the 40 laps remaining. Both remounted their bikes unscathed but too late to rejoin the race.
The rest of the field reorganised and it was larrikin Bexley boy, Warren Scott, who sped to the front in the final metres to clinch gold ahead of Dubbo's Andrew Taylor with Michael Ford of Melbourne third.
"It was a mistake," said a deadpan Scott. "I was supposed to be leading out Andrew and when I came round he got on my wheel but couldn't get past me."
Scott, affectionately called ‘The Mouth' by his mother and Wazza by the rest of the cycling fraternity who all seem to know the outgoing 17 year old, had in fact set his sights on a win in the kilometre time trial.
"I really wanted that one and I had the fastest time on the board with half a lapo (125 metres) to go," said Scott who finished just out of the medals in fourth. "But I blew up towards the end."
Tomorrow the fast men will be in action for the team sprint competition with Japan favourites after their impressive sprint performances. Japan will also be favourites in the men's keirin heats coming from a country where keirin racing (a sport the Japanese gamble billions of Yen on each year) is as popular the popularity as horse racing is in Australia.
The women's keirin will see Borgo and Stewart line up again in the hope they can both make the final and continue their ‘one-two' finish.
The endurance riders will contest the points races with the women's final being raced over 20km and the men's 25km. Saturday's racing starts at 1.00pm.
Tomorrow is the final day of racing on the track. On Sunday (9.30am) the riders will move outside to the Criterium Circuit adjacent to the Dunc Gray Velodrome to contest the final two medals of the cycling competition.
Results
Women's 500m (2 laps) Time Trial
1 Masumi Shinozaki (Japan) 37.848 2 Rebecca Borgo (NSW) 37.931 3 Kirby Piscioneri (Tas) 38.914 4 Lucy Stewart (ACT) 39.050 5 Alice King (NZl) 39.637 6 Lauren Carroll (ACT) 39.778 7 Kristin Gilbert (Qld) 40.142 8 Brigid Farrell (Vic) 40.589 9 Elizabeth Wishart (SA) 40.849 10 Rachael Powell (NZl) 40.939 11 Ami Matsuo (Japan) 41.394 12 Melissa Moffatt (NSW) 41.775 13 Melinda Harris (NSW) 42.400 14 Alison Barbour (SA) 42.575 15 Samantha Ward (NSW) 43.649
Men's 1000m (4 laps) Time Trial
1 Tsubasa Kitatsura (Japan) 1.06.721 2 Yuichi Matsuda (Japan) 1.07.954 3 Leigh Sunderland (WA) 1.08.058 4 Warren Scott (NSW) 1.08.215 5 Shane Perkins (Vic) 1.08.671 6 Kazumichi Sugata (Japan) 1.08.739 7 Yudai Nitta (Japan) 1.08.951 8 Shugo Hayasaka (Japan) 1.09.552 9 Shirya Sasakura (Japan) 1.09.560 10 Ryuji Kanazawa (Japan) 1.09.829 11 Ben Rix (Vic) 1.10.464 12 Phillip Stokes (NSW) 1.10.531 13 Takahiko Fujino (Japan) 1.10.598 14 Joshua England (NZl) 1.11.113 15 Clint Johnson (Qld) 1.11.757 16 Corey Heath (NT) 1.11.890 17 Brenton Crawley (NSW) 1.13.156 18 Peter Spencer (Qld) 1.13.315 19 Adam Coker (NZl) 1.13.836 20 Brad Wright (NSW) 1.15.850 21 Alex Bird (ACT) 1.17.925
Women's 5km (20 laps) Scratch Race
Heats (First 10 to Final) Heat 1 1 Jessie Maclean (ACT) 6.37.71 2 Genna Crean (SA) 3 Melissa Moffatt (NSW) 4 Alison Barbour (SA) 5 Eve Hood (NSW) 6 Stephanie Williams (Tas) 7 Tori Freeland (Vic) 8 Amy Kirk (WA) 9 Meg Windsor (NSW) 10 Hannah Banks (Qld) 11 Samantha Ward (NSW) 12 Rachael Powell (NZl) 13 Jessica Armstrong (ACT) 14 Naomi Adams (NSW) 15 Amelia Hallam (Qld) DNS Masumi Shinozaki (Japan) DNS Rebecca Borgo (NSW) Heat 2 1 Renee Braithwaite (SA) 6.56.62 2 Alice King (NZl) 3 Jessica Tanner (Vic) 4 Nicole Hanssen (Qld) 5 Kirby Piscioneri (Tas) 6 Brigid Farrell (Vic) 7 Amanda Spratt (NSW) 8 Kristin Gilbert (Qld) 9 Jackie Kejda (NSW) 10 Melinda Harris (NSW) 11 Skye-Lee Armstrong (NSW) 12 Elizabeth Wishart (SA) 13 Belinda Wild (NSW) 14 Lauren Carroll (ACT) 15 Ami Matsuo (Japan) Women's 4km (16 laps) Scratch Race Non Championship - for those who missed final 1 Elizabeth Wishart (SA) 5.37.03 2 Rachael Powell (NZl) 3 Skye-Lee Armstrong (NSW) 4 Naomi Adams (NSW) 5 Belinda Wild (NSW) 6 Amelia Hallam (Qld) 7 Jessica Armstrong (ACT) DNF Lauren Carroll (ACT) DNF Samantha Ward (NSW) DNS Ami Matsuo (Japan) Women's 7.5km (30 laps) Scratch Race final 1 Renee Braithwaite (SA) 10.52.28 2 Stephanie Williams (Tas) 3 Alice King (NZl) 4 Meg Windsor (NSW) 5 Brigid Farrell (Vic) 6 Jackie Kejda (NSW) 7 Jessie Maclean (ACT) 8 Eve Hood (NSW) 9 Amanda Spratt (NSW) 10 Genna Crean (SA) 11 Hannah Banks (Qld) 12 Tori Freeland (Vic) 13 Melinda Harris (NSW) 14 Amy Kirk (WA) 15 Melissa Moffatt (NSW) 16 Alison Barbour (SA) 17 Kristin Gilbert (Qld) 18 Kirby Piscioneri (Tas) DNF Nicole Hanssen (Qld) DNS Jessica Tanner (Vic)
Men's 7.5km (30 laps) Scratch Race
Heat 1 (First 12 to Final) 1 Michael Ford (Vic) 9.07.17 2 Miles Olman (Qld) 3 Andrew Taylor (NSW) 4 Clint Johnson (Qld) 5 Christopher Young (NSW) 6 Simon Clarke (Vic) 7 Warren Scott (NSW) 8 Ben Fraser (NSW) 9 Ben Miles (WA) 10 Mathew Rex (SA) 11 Takahiko Fujino (Japan) 12 Callan Taylor (SA) Shirya Sasakura (Japan) Chris O'Connor (NZl) Corey Heath (NT) David Klyne (Tas) Brendan Jones (NSW) Mark Bergamin (SA) Michael Teggelove (Vic) Thomas Atkinson (NSW) Mitchell Bruce (NSW) Luke Warren (NSW) Brad Wright (NSW) DNS Yudai Nitta (Japan) Heat 2 1 Kazumichi Sugata (Japan) 9.11.10 2 Adam Coker (NZl) 3 Steven Evans (WA) 4 Adam Tully (Qld) 5 Mitchell Docker (Vic) 6 Kane Brennan (NSW) 7 Cameron Hope (NSW) 8 Phillip Stokes (NSW) 9 Josh Wall (NSW) 10 Dean Windsor (NSW) 11 Andrew Wyper (NSW) 12 Joshua England (NZl) Ryuji Kanazawa (Japan) Shugo Hayasaka (Japan) Sean Anderson (NT) Matthew Goss (Tas) Joseph Depasquale (SA) Nicholas Scaife (SA) Christopher Wood (SA) Casey Munro (Vic) DNF Ben Mockridge (Qld) DNF Peter Spencer (Qld) DNF Keith Rose (NSW) DNS Yuichi Matsuda (Japan) DNS Bradley Payne (Qld) Men's 4km (16 laps) Scratch Race Non Championship - for those who missed final 1 Mark Bergamin (SA) 5.04.78 2 Joseph Depasquale (SA) 3 Casey Munro (Vic) 4 Chris O'Connor (NZl) 5 Michael Teggelove (Vic) 6 Mitchell Bruce (NSW) 7 Thomas Atkinson (NSW) 8 Sean Anderson (NT) 9 Brendan Jones (NSW) 10 Luke Warren (NSW) 11 Christopher Wood (SA) 12 Nicholas Scaife (SA) DNS Shirya Sasakura (Japan) DNS Corey Heath (NT) DNS David Klyne (Tas) DNS Ryuji Kanazawa (Japan) DNS Shugo Hayasaka (Japan) DNS Matthew Goss (Tas) DNS Ben Mockridge (Qld) DNS Peter Spencer (Qld) DNS Keith Rose (NSW) DNF Brad Wright (NSW) Men's 10km (40 laps) Scratch Race final 1 Warren Scott (NSW) 12.24.42 2 Andrew Taylor (NSW) 3 Michael Ford (Vic) 4 Phillip Stokes (NSW) 5 Steven Evans (WA) 6 Mitchell Docker (Vic) 7 Cameron Hope (NSW) 8 Adam Tully (Qld) 9 Mathew Rex (SA) 10 Ben Miles (WA) 11 Adam Coker (NZl) 12 Callan Taylor (SA) 13 Andrew Wyper (NSW) 14 Simon Clarke (Vic) 15 Joshua England (NZl) 16 Ben Fraser (NSW) 17 Kazumichi Sugata (Japan) 18 Clint Johnson (Qld) 19 Christopher Young (NSW) 20 Kane Brennan (NSW) DNF Miles Olman (Qld) DNF Takahiko Fujino (Japan) DNF Josh Wall (NSW) DNF Dean Windsor (NSW)
Women's Sprint
Semi Finals Heat 1 1 Lucy Stewart (ACT) 13.222 13.334 2 Kirby Piscioneri (Tas) Heat 2 1 Rebecca Borgo (NSW) 13.078 13.018 2 Masumi Shinozaki (Japan) Ride off for 5th - 8th 5 Alice King (NZl) 13.753 6 Elizabeth Wishart (SA) 7 Lauren Carroll (ACT) 8 Kristin Gilbert (Qld) Final Ride off for Bronze Medal 3 Masumi Shinozaki (Japan) 12.602 13.320 4 Kirby Piscioneri (Tas) Ride off for Gold and Silver Medals 1 Rebecca Borgo (NSW) 12.923 13.045 2 Lucy Stewart (ACT) Final ranking 1 Rebecca Borgo (NSW) 2 Lucy Stewart (ACT) 3 Masumi Shinozaki (Japan) 4 Kirby Piscioneri (Tas) 5 Alice King (NZl) 6 Elizabeth Wishart (SA) 7 Lauren Carroll (ACT) 8 Kristin Gilbert (Qld)
Men's Sprint
Semi Finals Heat 1 1 Yudai Nitta (Japan) 11.745 11.504 2 Yuichi Matsuda (Japan) Heat 2 1 Tsubasa Kitatsura (Japan) 12.344 12.042 2 Shugo Hayasaka (Japan) Final Ride off for Bronze Medal 3 Yuichi Matsuda (Japan) 12.043 11.592 4 Shugo Hayasaka (Japan) 12.061 Ride off for Gold and Silver Medals 1 Tsubasa Kitatsura (Japan) 12.043 11.896 2 Yudai Nitta (Japan) Final ranking 1 Tsubasa Kitatsura (Japan) 12.051 2 Yudai Nitta (Japan) 3 Yuichi Matsuda (Japan) 4 Shugo Hayasaka (Japan) 5 Clint Johnson (Qld) 6 Andrew Taylor (NSW) 7 Shane Perkins (Vic) 8 Kazumichi Sugata (Japan)
