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6th Jacob's Creek Tour Down Under - 2.3
Australia, January 20-25, 2004
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Stage 2: Wednesday Jan 22, Jacob's Creek Visitor Centre - Kapunda, 157 km
"Hungry dog" McPartland takes yellow
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By Gabriella Ekström in Adelaide
The first real road stage of Tour Down under was won by Team Australia's Dave McPartland, as he outsprinted Bankgiroloterij's Alain van Katwijk and UniSA's Pat Jonker after having been away with them for most of the day. McPartland, described by one of the spectators as 'one hungry dog', earned himself the lead in the sprint classification, and more importantly, the yellow leader's jersey.
UniSA rider Pat Jonker told Cyclingnews before the stage that the team's main ambition was to win a stage, but he didn't mention then that his plan was to attack from the gun. Shortly after having done that, he was joined by Alain van Katwijk and Dave McPartland, the not expecting the break to last all the way.
A helpful tailwind followed the riders as the left the city via George street on their way to the Adelaide hills, and Pat Jonker explained after the race that the wind was one of the reason the break lasted all the way. "My first main concern was to get ahead to the climb, but then the wind proved so favourable, and we worked so well together, so my initiative became successful."
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Over the beautiful rolling hills, the three riders built up an advantage of around five minutes before they came to face the wall-like Checker Hill at 27 kilometres. Behind them, the peloton, which had been rather reluctant up until this point, hit the short but steep climb at a speed that would soon ruin some riders' days. At the top, Alain van Katwijk took out the day's only KOM ahead of fellow breakaways McPartland and Jonker. Back in the peloton, Russell van Hout charged ahead of the rest to pick up some points in order to defend the jersey he had been awarded as the highest placed rider from last year's king of the mountain competition.
After 28 kilometres of racing, the gap between the leaders and the peloton had grew to six minutes, despite the fact that the peloton was now riding people off the back. Back on the flat, the main bunch split up thanks to some aggressive riding, and as the breakaway reached a maximum gap of 9.17 at 70 km, two chase groups formed.
The first chase group saw two possible stage winners in Baden Cooke and Robbie McEwen, strengthened by their teammates Thomas Lövkvist, Philippe Gilbert, Matt Wilson (FDJ) and Gert Steegmans and Hans de Clercq (Lotto-Domo). UniSa were also well represented by Luke Roberts, Gene Bates and Russell van Hout, and apart from them, another handful of riders joined forces.
They were primary chased by a second group of a dozen riders, and after a regrouping thanks to new attacks from the peloton, one large chase group with 38 riders formed. Some of the new additions were Jaan Kirsipuu, Alexandre Botcharov, Laszlo Bodrogi, Kevin Hulsmans, David McKenzie, Guiliano Figueras, Ben Day and Hilton Clarke, with the big names like Cooke and McEwen still firmly placed in the chase.
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With fifty kilometres to the finish in Kapunda, the hard chasing peloton had brought the gap to the breakaways back to 4'40. In Greenock, the peloton headed back on a lap towards Nuriootpa that would take them through the beautiful and well known scenery of palmtree alleys, before heading back to the road towards the Barossa Valley town of Kapunda.
The gap crept down to 2'30 as a determined Pat Jonker led his little break past the ten kilometre to go mark. Coming into the slightly uphill finish in Kapunda, Jonker was eager to finish off his career in great style, and started out the sprint with McPartland on his wheel. McPartland who admitted afterwards that he has been in great form for some weeks now, and out powered van Katwijk and Jonker close to the line. He was clearly excited with both his win and the jersey he will get to wear during tomorrow's stage.
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"I jumped straight into it when Pat attacked, even if I wasn't sure that the break would last, but we worked as a good team, the three of us," McPartland told Cyclingnews after the finish line. "I came into this race as an opportunist and I'd be really happy if I can hang on to this jersey for a couple of more days."
Pat Jonker held his spirits high after the race, and was clearly happy for a young rider like McPartland to take the jersey. "Personally, I wasted a lot of energy today and I'll have to see how well I recover. I'm getting a bit old as you know. I might have hurt myself for the last time, but I can tell you that it hurt a lot!
"I will keep focusing at a stage win, and also see how the other guys in the team goes and work from that." Jonker said after the stage where he was rewarded with the jersey of the most aggressive rider."
The jersey for the best climber was awarded to a rider who didn't dare to describe himself as a climber. "No, I'm more of a sprinter really," Alain van Katwijk said being presented with the blue and orange jersey. "I will most likely not hold on to this jersey. Maybe if I can get up the road over a few more climbs I can keep it for a while, but it really just came with the attack. You take what you can!"
The U23 competition saw a new leader in FDJeux.com's Philippe Gilbert who also had modest ambitions. "My job here is to work for Baden Cooke, and set him up for a stage win. This jersey is nice to wear of course, but it is really just an ‘extra' thing for me, and nothing that we can ride to defend."
Photography
Images by Mark Gunter/Cyclingnews/www.pbase.com/gunterphotograph
- Robbie McEwen heads towards the sign in area
- Brett Lancaster (Panaria) works his way through the hectic start area
- Hi girls
- Stephen Wooldridge (Team Australia) with his new bike. Things did not go to well for him today though.
- Sergiy Matveyev (Panaria) restocks his supplies
- Matt Wilson and Baden Cooke are joined by their team car
- Descending into the picturesque Barossa Valley
- Alain van Katwijk (BankGiroLoterij) finished second
- Enjoying a glass of bubbly at the Eden Valley sprint
- Irish Champ Mark Scanlon (Ag2r)
- Martin Bruijn keeping a close eye on things
- David McPartland (Team Australia) leading the break
- Patrick Jonker (UniSA) did a lot of time leading the breakaway of three
- FDJeux.com and Lotto-Domo working hard to try and bridge the gap, but it was not to be
- Nick Gates (Lotto-Domo) leads the chasing bunch
- David McPartland (Team Australia) crosses the line in triumph
- Baden Cooke should be happy to have beaten Robbie McEwen into fourth spot
- Dave McPartland and a noisy Kapunda crowd
- Dave McPartland speaking to his mum post-race
- David McPartland (Team Australia) gets a kiss only the winner gets
- David McPartland (Team Australia) salutes from the podium in yellow
Results
1 David McPartland (Aus) Team Australia 3.43.12 (42.2 km/h) 2 Alain Van Katwijk (Ned) Bankgiroloterij 0.01 3 Patrick Jonker (Aus) UniSA 4 Baden Cooke (Aus) FDJeux.com 1.41 5 Robbie McEwen (Aus) Lotto-Domo 6 Antonio Fisher Murillo (Bra) Domina Vacanze 7 Allan Davis (Aus) Team Australia 8 Massimiliano Gentili (Ita) Domina Vacanze 9 Jaan Kirsipuu (Est) Ag2r Prevoyance 10 Luke Roberts (Aus) UniSA 11 Gene Bates (Aus) UniSA 12 Giuliano Figueras (Ita) Panaria-Margres 13 Russell Van Hout (Aus) UniSA 14 Paolo Tiralongo (Ita) Panaria-Margres 15 Cedric Herve (Fra) Credit Agricole 16 Kevin Hulsmans (Bel) Quick.Step-Davitamon 17 Eric Leblacher (Fra) Credit Agricole 18 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) FDJeux.com 19 Alexandre Botcharov (Rus) Credit Agricole 20 Nicolas Portal (Fra) Ag2r Prevoyance 21 Erki Putsep (Est) Ag2r Prevoyance 22 Massimo Giunti (Ita) Domina Vacanze 23 Simon Gerrans (Aus) Team Australia 24 Aart Vierhouten (Ned) Lotto-Domo 25 Ben Day (Aus) Team Australia 26 Mark Scanlon (Irl) Ag2r Prevoyance 27 Frederic Amorison (Bel) Quick.Step-Davitamon 28 Paolo Valoti (Ita) Domina Vacanze 29 Hilton Clarke (Aus) Team Australia 30 David McKenzie (Aus) Navigators Insurance Cycling Team 31 Matthe Pronk (Ned) Bankgiroloterij 32 Matthew Wilson (Aus) FDJeux.com 1.48 33 Nicholas Vogondy (Fra) FDJeux.com 34 Philip Zajicek (USA) Navigators Insurance Cycling Team 35 Hans De Clercq (Bel) Lotto-Domo 36 Laurens Ten Dam (Ned) Bankgiroloterij 37 Thomas Lövkvist (Swe) FDJeux.com 38 Sergey Matveyev (Ukr) Panaria-Margres 39 Aurelien Clerc (Swi) Quick.Step-Davitamon 40 Nick Gates (Aus) Lotto-Domo 2.21 41 Gert Steegmans (Bel) Lotto-Domo 2.44 42 Inigo Chaurreau (Spa) Ag2r Prevoyance 28.31 43 James Hannam (Aus) UniSA 44 Matthew Rex (Aus) UniSA 28.51 45 Frank Van Dulmen (Ned) Bankgiroloterij 28.55 46 Kirk O'Bee (USA) Navigators Insurance Cycling Team 28.56 47 Steve Cunningham (Aus) UniSA 48 Geoffroy Lequatre (Fra) Credit Agricole 49 Francesco Secchiari (Ita) Domina Vacanze 50 Mads Kaggestad (Nor) Credit Agricole 51 Adrian Laidler (Aus) UniSA 52 Christophe Le Mevel (Fra) Credit Agricole 53 Richard Moffat (Aus) United Water 54 Piotr Wadecki (Pol) Lotto-Domo 55 Pedro Horrillo (Spa) Quick.Step-Davitamon 56 Lorenzo Cardellini (Ita) Domina Vacanze 57 Mikel Astarloza (Spa) Ag2r Prevoyance 58 Peter Dawson (Aus) United Water 59 Jose Pecharroman Fabian (Spa) Quick.Step-Davitamon 60 Jose Garrido Lima (Spa) Quick.Step-Davitamon 61 Jeff Louder (USA) Navigators Insurance Cycling Team 62 Laszlo Bodrogi (Hun) Quick.Step-Davitamon 63 Julian Dean (Nzl) Credit Agricole 64 Addy Engels (Ned) Bankgiroloterij 65 Allan Iacuone (Aus) Team Australia 66 Benoit Poilvet (Fra) Credit Agricole 67 Remco Van Der Ven (Ned) Bankgiroloterij 68 Mark Renshaw (Aus) FDJeux.com 69 Wim Vansevenant (Bel) Lotto-Domo 70 Glenn D'Hollander (Bel) Lotto-Domo 71 Rudi Kemna (Ned) Bankgiroloterij 72 Julien Smink (Ned) Bankgiroloterij 73 Siro Camponogara (Ita) Navigators Insurance Cycling Team 74 Burke Swindlehurst (USA) Navigators Insurance Cycling Team 75 Massimiliano Mori (Ita) Domina Vacanze 76 Ciaran Power (Irl) Navigators Insurance Cycling Team 77 Sergio Marinangeli (Ita) Domina Vacanze 78 Nicolas Inaudi (Fra) Ag2r Prevoyance 79 Fabio Gilioli (Ita) Panaria-Margres 80 Andy Flickinger (Fra) Ag2r Prevoyance 81 Bernard Sulzberger (Aus) United Water 82 Brett Lancaster (Aus) Panaria-Margres 83 Ashley Humbert (Aus) United Water 84 Mark Jamieson (Aus) United Water 85 Aaron Kemps (Aus) United Water 86 Scott Davis (Aus) Panaria-Margres 87 Guillermo Bongiorno (Arg) Panaria-Margres 88 Graeme Brown (Aus) Panaria-Margres 89 Ryan Sullivan (Aus) United Water 90 Nic Sanderson (Aus) United Water 91 Bernhard Eisel (Aut) FDJeux.com DNF Ashley Hutchinson (Aus) Team Australia DNF Stephen Wooldridge (Aus) Team Australia Sprints Melrose Street, Mount Pleasant - 50.8 km 1 Patrick Jonker (Aus) UniSA 6 pts 2 David McPartland (Aus) Team Australia 4 3 Alain Van Katwijk (Ned) Bankgiroloterij 2 Murray St, Eden Valley - 67.5 km 1 Patrick Jonker (Aus) UniSA 6 pts 2 David McPartland (Aus) Team Australia 4 3 Alain Van Katwijk (Ned) Bankgiroloterij 2 Main Street near Hill Street, Kapunda - 157 km (finish) 1 David McPartland (Aus) Team Australia 8 pts 2 Alain Van Katwijk (Ned) Bankgiroloterij 6 3 Patrick Jonker (Aus) UniSA 4 Mountains Checker Hill near Kersbrook - 27.5 km 1 Alain Van Katwijk (Ned) Bankgiroloterij 16 pts 2 Patrick Jonker (Aus) UniSA 12 3 David McPartland (Aus) Team Australia 8 4 Russell Van Hout (Aus) UniSA 6 5 Gene Bates (Aus) UniSA 4 General classification after stage 2 1 David McPartland (Aus) Team Australia 4.45.21 2 Patrick Jonker (Aus) UniSA 0.03 3 Alain Van Katwijk (Ned) Bankgiroloterij 0.05 4 Robbie McEwen (Aus) Lotto-Domo 1.51 5 Giuliano Figueras (Ita) Panaria-Margres 6 Cedric Herve (Fra) Credit Agricole 7 Nicolas Portal (Fra) Ag2r Prevoyance 8 David McKenzie (Aus) Navigators Insurance Cycling Team 9 Massimiliano Gentili (Ita) Domina Vacanze 10 Erki Putsep (Est) Ag2r Prevoyance 11 Antonio Fisher Murillo (Bra) Domina Vacanze 12 Alexandre Botcharov (Rus) Credit Agricole 13 Gene Bates (Aus) UniSA 14 Matthe Pronk (Ned) Bankgiroloterij 15 Eric Leblacher (Fra) Credit Agricole 16 Baden Cooke (Aus) FDJeux.com 17 Simon Gerrans (Aus) Team Australia 18 Paolo Tiralongo (Ita) Panaria-Margres 19 Paolo Valoti (Ita) Domina Vacanze 20 Mark Scanlon (Irl) Ag2r Prevoyance 21 Ben Day (Aus) Team Australia 22 Luke Roberts (Aus) UniSA 23 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) FDJeux.com 24 Jaan Kirsipuu (Est) Ag2r Prevoyance 25 Allan Davis (Aus) Team Australia 26 Russell Van Hout (Aus) UniSA 27 Aart Vierhouten (Ned) Lotto-Domo 28 Frederic Amorison (Bel) Quick.Step-Davitamon 29 Kevin Hulsmans (Bel) Quick.Step-Davitamon 30 Massimo Giunti (Ita) Domina Vacanze 31 Hilton Clarke (Aus) Team Australia 32 Nicholas Vogondy (Fra) FDJeux.com 1.58 33 Aurelien Clerc (Swi) Quick.Step-Davitamon 34 Sergey Matveyev (Ukr) Panaria-Margres 35 Laurens Ten Dam (Ned) Bankgiroloterij 36 Philip Zajicek (USA) Navigators Insurance Cycling Team 37 Hans De Clercq (Bel) Lotto-Domo 38 Thomas Lövkvist (Swe) FDJeux.com 39 Matthew Wilson (Aus) FDJeux.com 40 Nick Gates (Aus) Lotto-Domo 2.31 41 Gert Steegmans (Bel) Lotto-Domo 2.54 42 Inigo Chaurreau (Spa) Ag2r Prevoyance 28.41 43 James Hannam (Aus) UniSA 44 Matthew Rex (Aus) UniSA 29.01 45 Frank Van Dulmen (Ned) Bankgiroloterij 29.05 46 Mads Kaggestad (Nor) Credit Agricole 29.06 47 Geoffroy Lequatre (Fra) Credit Agricole 48 Peter Dawson (Aus) United Water 49 Mark Renshaw (Aus) FDJeux.com 50 Rudi Kemna (Ned) Bankgiroloterij 51 Mikel Astarloza (Spa) Ag2r Prevoyance 52 Remco Van Der Ven (Ned) Bankgiroloterij 53 Graeme Brown (Aus) Panaria-Margres 54 Allan Iacuone (Aus) Team Australia 55 Julien Smink (Ned) Bankgiroloterij 56 Lorenzo Cardellini (Ita) Domina Vacanze 57 Pedro Horrillo (Spa) Quick.Step-Davitamon 58 Aaron Kemps (Aus) United Water 59 Glenn D'Hollander (Bel) Lotto-Domo 60 Nicolas Inaudi (Fra) Ag2r Prevoyance 61 Andy Flickinger (Fra) Ag2r Prevoyance 62 Piotr Wadecki (Pol) Lotto-Domo 63 Jose Garrido Lima (Spa) Quick.Step-Davitamon 64 Laszlo Bodrogi (Hun) Quick.Step-Davitamon 65 Christophe Le Mevel (Fra) Credit Agricole 66 Nic Sanderson (Aus) United Water 67 Francesco Secchiari (Ita) Domina Vacanze 68 Richard Moffat (Aus) United Water 69 Steve Cunningham (Aus) UniSA 70 Bernard Sulzberger (Aus) United Water 71 Siro Camponogara (Ita) Navigators Insurance Cycling Team 72 Ciaran Power (Irl) Navigators Insurance Cycling Team 73 Guillermo Bongiorno (Arg) Panaria-Margres 74 Kirk O'Bee (USA) Navigators Insurance Cycling Team 75 Benoit Poilvet (Fra) Credit Agricole 76 Jeff Louder (USA) Navigators Insurance Cycling Team 77 Massimiliano Mori (Ita) Domina Vacanze 78 Adrian Laidler (Aus) UniSA 79 Sergio Marinangeli (Ita) Domina Vacanze 80 Mark Jamieson (Aus) United Water 81 Addy Engels (Ned) Bankgiroloterij 82 Julian Dean (Nzl) Credit Agricole 83 Bernhard Eisel (Aut) FDJeux.com 84 Burke Swindlehurst (USA) Navigators Insurance Cycling Team 85 Jose Pecharroman Fabian (Spa) Quick.Step-Davitamon 86 Brett Lancaster (Aus) Panaria-Margres 87 Wim Vansevenant (Bel) Lotto-Domo 88 Scott Davis (Aus) Panaria-Margres 89 Fabio Gilioli (Ita) Panaria-Margres 90 Ryan Sullivan (Aus) United Water 91 Ashley Humbert (Aus) United Water Points classification 1 David McPartland (Aus) Team Australia 16 pts 2 Patrick Jonker (Aus) UniSA 16 3 Mark Renshaw (Aus) FDJeux.com 10 4 Alain Van Katwijk (Ned) Bankgiroloterij 10 5 Robbie McEwen (Aus) Lotto-Domo 8 6 Aurelien Clerc (Swi) Quick.Step-Davitamon 6 7 Rudi Kemna (Ned) Bankgiroloterij 6 8 Mads Kaggestad (Nor) Credit Agricole 4 9 Bernhard Eisel (Aut) FDJeux.com 4 10 Graeme Brown (Aus) Panaria-Margres 2 11 Guillermo Bongiorno (Arg) Panaria-Margres 2 Mountains classification 1 Alain Van Katwijk (Ned) Bankgiroloterij 16 pts 2 Patrick Jonker (Aus) UniSA 12 3 David McPartland (Aus) Team Australia 8 4 Russell Van Hout (Aus) UniSA 6 5 Gene Bates (Aus) UniSA 4 U23 classification 1 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) FDJeux.com 4.47.12 2 Thomas Lövkvist (Swe) FDJeux.com 0.07 3 James Hannam (Aus) UniSA 26.50 4 Matthew Rex (Aus) UniSA 27.10 5 Peter Dawson (Aus) United Water 27.15 6 Mark Renshaw (Aus) FDJeux.com 7 Aaron Kemps (Aus) United Water 8 Nic Sanderson (Aus) United Water 9 Richard Moffat (Aus) United Water 10 Bernard Sulzberger (Aus) United Water 11 Mark Jamieson (Aus) United Water 12 Ryan Sullivan (Aus) United Water 13 Ashley Humbert (Aus) United Water Most Aggressive rider 1 Patrick Jonker (Aus) UniSA Teams classification 1 Team Australia 14.19.55 2 UniSA 0.01 3 Bankgiroloterij 0.08 4 Crédit Agricole 1.41 5 Domina Vacanze 6 Ag2R Prevoyance 7 Panaria-Margres 1.48 8 FDJeux.com 9 Lotto-Domo 10 Quick Step-Davitamon 11 Navigators Insurance Cycling Team 29.03 12 United Water 1.23.26
