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6th Jacob's Creek Tour Down Under - 2.3Australia, January 20-25, 2004Home Live report Results Previous Stage Next Stage Stage 5: Saturday Jan 25, Willunga - Willunga , 147 kmA good Day for Ben; Jonker set for dream finishBy Jeff Jones in Willunga Patrick Jonker (UniSA) survived a determined attack from Panaria's Giuliano Figueras and Paolo Tiralongo on Old Willunga Hill to hold onto his lead after the decisive fifth stage of the Jacob's Creek Tour Down Under. Jonker finished at the back of the lead group as Australian Ben Day took an opportunistic stage win after attacking with 3 kilometres to go. Jonker controlled his UniSA team perfectly today, using them to chase down a 10 man breakaway with less than 10 km to go before the final climb. Only one UniSA rider remained with Jonker on the climb: Luke Roberts, who paced his captain to the top just 15 seconds behind the dangerous Panaria pair. "I don't think I would have made it without Luke today," said a happy and relieved Jonker post-race. "The whole team was fantastic. Luke did a tremendous job on Willunga Hill and the others did a tremendous job before it. I was hurting a bit because of all the attacks in the last few days. My legs weren't real fresh and I couldn't go with Figueras. I knew he was a candidate for the overall having ridden a good Giro d'Italia in the past, so I was glad to catch Figueras." The experience of Jonker certainly counted in marshalling his UniSA team, which is composed of a mixture of professionals and amateurs. "I'm the only Tour de France rider in the team," Jonker pointed out. "I'm the captain on the road and have the experience. The others listen exactly to what I say. It's not about pedaling hard, it's about pedaling hard at the right moment." The Dutch born, South Australian raised Jonker is riding his final race as a professional, and a win in his home town race would be something special. "I've won Route du Sud, which is the last stage race before the Tour de France, but obviously a home town win is far more important. I've raced in the Pyrenees in France and even though the competition there was heavy, for me this is the greatest thing could have happened." Although it may look like a fairytale finish, Jonker's claim to the yellow jersey has been anything but a gift from his fellow competitors. No-one was afraid to attack the yellow jersey today...if they had it in them, but Jonker was able to answer everything. The lanky South Australian credited his positive approach to the race as to why he is currently in the lead. "I think aggressiveness has had a lot to do with it," said Jonker who first took the yellow jersey in stage 3. "In the past I've been within 10 seconds of the win each year, so basically my sprinting ability - as you know - isn't fantastic, so I've always been 7th or 3rd. My aggressiveness on the second day was crucial. It was a gamble I know, but it was my last race and you lay it on the line. It's all or nothing, a blaze of glory or a blaze of disappointment." Going into tomorrow's 90 kilometre circuit race in the centre of Adelaide, Jonker is confident that the race will be his. "Tomorrow isn't easy but we should be able to control it," he said. It's going to be very fast, 45 km/h average, two hours flat out racing. It'll be good for UniSA. This is a local team competing against teams with million dollar budgets. It's just really unusual for something like this to happen. I'm pretty confident now that I've seen how the team has really come up for the occasion and showed that they're able to defend the yellow jersey against world class opposition." Day shines at the right momentThe stage honours belonged to 2003 Australian time trial champion Ben Day (Team Australia, who will ride for Division I Palmans-Collstrop this season), who attacked the leading group of 15 with three kilometres to go to hold off Robbie McEwen and Baden Cooke on the long, slightly uphill finishing straight. Thus, Day found that his luck turned around after an untimely puncture on Stage 3 cost him a place at the top of the GC. "Some days it rains and it continues on pouring," said the philosophical but happy Day after the stage. "Today it went my way and here I am. It was a pretty long drag up to the finish into the headwind but I just kept my head down and I had my director in my ear cheering me on. I could hear my mechanic in the background as well. I thought if I stopped they'd probably kill me. "I think [I knew I would win] when I hit the crowd with about 100 metres to go, I looked around and through the sweat in my glasses I could see the guys were a little bit of a way off and with the crowd behind me...they just pick you up and push you to that level. The adrenaline was awesome." Like Jonker, Ben Day also profited from his aggressive riding. "You just have to take the opportunities in this sport. It's not always the strongest guy or the quickest guy who wins in cycling, that's the great thing about it. One chance in every hundred might pay off, you just have to be there." How it unfolded87 riders set out from the small own of Willunga in sunny but mild conditions to fight out the fifth stage. On the menu were three laps of a 41 km circuit, taking them via the colourfully decorated Aldinga Beach and the wine making town of McLaren Vale before heading back to the start/finish. After the third lap, the race headed up Old Willunga Hill, a 3.5 kilometre climb that got steeper as it went up. After the summit it was 20 km of downhill/flat before the finish in Willunga. After an fast, tailwind start, the day's main break was established at the 11 km mark with 10 riders establishing a steady gap over the peloton. Erki Putsep (Ag2r Prevoyance), Hans De Clercq (Lotto-Domo), Aurelien Clerc (Quick.Step-Davitamon), Nicholas Vogondy (FDJeux.com), Sergio Marinangeli (Domina Vacanze), Remco Van Der Ven and Laurens Ten Dam (Bankgiroloterij), David McPartland (Team Australia), Ryan Sullivan and Peter Dawson (United Water) swapped off turns at 60 km/h to build their lead to a maximum of 1'23 after 60 km, while UniSA, Credit Agricole and Navigators controlled the chase behind. The peloton's speed was too much for Brett Lancaster (Panaria), who suffered an asthma attack and abandoned after 23 km. The break was potentially dangerous for Jonker, as David McPartland had started the day only 2'17 off the lead, but the South Australian kept his cool and opted leave the break in front for most of the race - not an easy task when the first lap was ridden at around 50 km/h. After the peloton passed through the feed zone in Willunga with 65 km to go, the screws started to turn and the break was gobbled up with 32 km of the stage remaining. As predicted, the race blew apart on the climb when mountains leader Paolo Tiralongo (Panaria) and Philippe Gilbert (FDJeux.com) attacked hard at the bottom. Tiralongo's teammate Giuliano Figueras bridged up as Gilbert fell back and the two Panaria boys opened up a 10 second hap over Jonker and co. Tiralongo took the points on the climb, cementing his place as mountains leader, and he and Figueras pushed home their advantage. But Jonker was not far behind, sitting determinedly on the wheel of teammate Luke Roberts as a group of 11 more riders - including Baden Cooke and Robbie McEwen - collected around them. Figueras and Tiralongo gave it everything to stay clear on the run into the finish, but despite gaining 24 seconds lead over the 13 chasers, they were captured with eight kilometres to go. Then as the two sprinters McEwen and Cooke were eyeing each other off for the finale, Ben Day (Team Australia) took the opportunity to attack and jumped clear with three kilometres to go, powering away into the headwind to hold them off by four seconds. Tomorrow will see the final stage of the 2004 Jacob's Creek Tour Down Under, a 90 kilometre circuit race around Adelaide's scenic Torrens River. It should be a day for the sprinters, with Robbie McEwen, Baden Cooke, Graeme Brown and Jaan Kirsipuu fighting it out for the stage honours, while Jonker celebrates his final victory. PhotographyImages by Mark Gunter/Cyclingnews/www.pbase.com/gunterphotograph
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Results1 Ben Day (Aus) Team Australia 3.15.34 (45.1 km/h) 2 Robbie McEwen (Aus) Lotto-Domo 0.04 3 Baden Cooke (Aus) FDJeux.com 4 Allan Davis (Aus) Team Australia 5 Antonio Fisher Murillo (Bra) Domina Vacanze 6 Giuliano Figueras (Ita) Panaria-Margres 7 Luke Roberts (Aus) UniSA 8 Massimo Giunti (Ita) Domina Vacanze 9 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) FDJeux.com 10 Nicolas Portal (Fra) Ag2r Prevoyance 11 Simon Gerrans (Aus) Team Australia 12 Patrick Jonker (Aus) UniSA 13 Alexandre Botcharov (Rus) Credit Agricole 14 Massimiliano Gentili (Ita) Domina Vacanze 15 Paolo Tiralongo (Ita) Panaria-Margres 0.19 16 David McKenzie (Aus) Navigators Insurance Cycling Team 1.16 17 Kevin Hulsmans (Bel) Quick.Step-Davitamon 18 Gene Bates (Aus) UniSA 19 Matthe Pronk (Ned) Bankgiroloterij 20 Jose Pecharroman Fabian (Spa) Quick.Step-Davitamon 1.57 21 Jose Garrido Lima (Spa) Quick.Step-Davitamon 22 Matthew Wilson (Aus) FDJeux.com 23 Wim Vansevenant (Bel) Lotto-Domo 24 Laszlo Bodrogi (Hun) Quick.Step-Davitamon 25 Paolo Valoti (Ita) Domina Vacanze 26 Eric Leblacher (Fra) Credit Agricole 2.16 27 Aart Vierhouten (Ned) Lotto-Domo 28 Inigo Chaurreau (Spa) Ag2r Prevoyance 29 Alain Van Katwijk (Ned) Bankgiroloterij 30 Mark Renshaw (Aus) FDJeux.com 31 Russell Van Hout (Aus) UniSA 32 Glenn D'Hollander (Bel) Lotto-Domo 33 Benoit Poilvet (Fra) Credit Agricole 34 David McPartland (Aus) Team Australia 35 Lorenzo Cardellini (Ita) Domina Vacanze 36 Pedro Horrillo (Spa) Quick.Step-Davitamon 37 Andy Flickinger (Fra) Ag2r Prevoyance 38 Frederic Amorison (Bel) Quick.Step-Davitamon 39 Mark Scanlon (Irl) Ag2r Prevoyance 40 Mikel Astarloza (Spa) Ag2r Prevoyance 41 Nick Gates (Aus) Lotto-Domo 42 Philip Zajicek (USA) Navigators Insurance Cycling Team 43 Thomas Lövkvist (Swe) FDJeux.com 44 Ashley Humbert (Aus) United Water 45 Addy Engels (Ned) Bankgiroloterij 46 Allan Iacuone (Aus) Team Australia 2.55 47 Mark Jamieson (Aus) United Water 9.04 48 Mads Kaggestad (Nor) Credit Agricole 49 Sergio Marinangeli (Ita) Domina Vacanze 50 Julian Dean (Nzl) Credit Agricole 51 Hilton Clarke (Aus) Team Australia 52 Piotr Wadecki (Pol) Lotto-Domo 53 Frank Van Dulmen (Ned) Bankgiroloterij 54 Richard Moffat (Aus) United Water 55 Bernard Sulzberger (Aus) United Water 56 Aurelien Clerc (Swi) Quick.Step-Davitamon 57 Hans De Clercq (Bel) Lotto-Domo 58 Rudi Kemna (Ned) Bankgiroloterij 59 Remco Van Der Ven (Ned) Bankgiroloterij 60 Laurens Ten Dam (Ned) Bankgiroloterij 61 Gert Steegmans (Bel) Lotto-Domo 62 Julien Smink (Ned) Bankgiroloterij 63 Sergey Matveyev (Ukr) Panaria-Margres 64 Massimiliano Mori (Ita) Domina Vacanze 65 Francesco Secchiari (Ita) Domina Vacanze 66 Ciaran Power (Irl) Navigators Insurance Cycling Team 13.28 67 Kirk O'Bee (USA) Navigators Insurance Cycling Team 68 Burke Swindlehurst (USA) Navigators Insurance Cycling Team 69 James Hannam (Aus) UniSA 70 Adrian Laidler (Aus) UniSA 71 Jeff Louder (USA) Navigators Insurance Cycling Team 72 Graeme Brown (Aus) Panaria-Margres 73 Scott Davis (Aus) Panaria-Margres 74 Nicholas Vogondy (Fra) FDJeux.com 75 Erki Putsep (Est) Ag2r Prevoyance 76 Jaan Kirsipuu (Est) Ag2r Prevoyance 77 Steve Cunningham (Aus) UniSA 78 Siro Camponogara (Ita) Navigators Insurance Cycling Team 79 Nicolas Inaudi (Fra) Ag2r Prevoyance 80 Geoffroy Lequatre (Fra) Credit Agricole 81 Christophe Le Mevel (Fra) Credit Agricole 82 Cedric Herve (Fra) Credit Agricole 83 Bernhard Eisel (Aut) FDJeux.com 84 Peter Dawson (Aus) United Water 14.18 85 Fabio Gilioli (Ita) Panaria-Margres 16.14 86 Ryan Sullivan (Aus) United Water 19.17 DNF Brett Lancaster (Aus) Panaria-Margres Sprints The Esplanade near Butterworth Rd, Aldinga Beach - 58.8 km 1 Aurelien Clerc (Swi) Quick.Step-Davitamon 6 pts 2 Erki Putsep (Est) Ag2r Prevoyance 4 3 Remco Van Der Ven (Ned) Bankgiroloterij 2 The Esplanade near Butterworth Rd, Aldinga Beach - 100.7 km 1 Aurelien Clerc (Swi) Quick.Step-Davitamon 6 pts 2 Remco Van Der Ven (Ned) Bankgiroloterij 4 3 Erki Putsep (Est) Ag2r Prevoyance 2 Main Road at Kell Street, Willunga - 147.0 km - Finish 1 Ben Day (Aus) Team Australia 8 pts 2 Robbie McEwen (Aus) Lotto-Domo 6 3 Baden Cooke (Aus) FDJeux.com 4 Mountains Old Willunga Hill Road - Willunga - 127.4 km 1 Paolo Tiralongo (Ita) Panaria-Margres 16 pts 2 Giuliano Figueras (Ita) Panaria-Margres 12 3 Massimiliano Gentili (Ita) Domina Vacanze 8 4 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) FDJeux.com 6 5 Luke Roberts (Aus) UniSA 4 General classification after stage 5 1 Patrick Jonker (Aus) UniSA 14.48.43 2 Robbie McEwen (Aus) Lotto-Domo 1.34 3 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) FDJeux.com 1.39 4 Baden Cooke (Aus) FDJeux.com 1.44 5 Antonio Fisher Murillo (Bra) Domina Vacanze 1.46 6 Giuliano Figueras (Ita) Panaria-Margres 1.47 7 Luke Roberts (Aus) UniSA 8 Alexandre Botcharov (Rus) Credit Agricole 1.48 9 Massimo Giunti (Ita) Domina Vacanze 10 Gene Bates (Aus) UniSA 2.56 11 David McKenzie (Aus) Navigators Insurance Cycling Team 3.00 12 Kevin Hulsmans (Bel) Quick.Step-Davitamon 13 Ben Day (Aus) Team Australia 3.58 14 Simon Gerrans (Aus) Team Australia 4.06 15 Massimiliano Gentili (Ita) Domina Vacanze 4.08 16 Nicolas Portal (Fra) Ag2r Prevoyance 17 Paolo Tiralongo (Ita) Panaria-Margres 4.23 18 David McPartland (Aus) Team Australia 4.29 19 Matthe Pronk (Ned) Bankgiroloterij 5.40 20 Paolo Valoti (Ita) Domina Vacanze 6.01 21 Eric Leblacher (Fra) Credit Agricole 6.17 22 Aart Vierhouten (Ned) Lotto-Domo 6.20 23 Philip Zajicek (USA) Navigators Insurance Cycling Team 6.27 24 Frederic Amorison (Bel) Quick.Step-Davitamon 7.05 25 Aurelien Clerc (Swi) Quick.Step-Davitamon 12.55 26 Gert Steegmans (Bel) Lotto-Domo 16.47 27 Erki Putsep (Est) Ag2r Prevoyance 17.29 28 Cedric Herve (Fra) Credit Agricole 27.24 29 Laszlo Bodrogi (Hun) Quick.Step-Davitamon 33.16 30 Jose Pecharroman Fabian (Spa) Quick.Step-Davitamon 31 Wim Vansevenant (Bel) Lotto-Domo 32 Jose Garrido Lima (Spa) Quick.Step-Davitamon 33.25 33 Glenn D'Hollander (Bel) Lotto-Domo 33.35 34 Mikel Astarloza (Spa) Ag2r Prevoyance 33.44 35 Allan Davis (Aus) Team Australia 35.34 36 Alain Van Katwijk (Ned) Bankgiroloterij 36.00 37 Matthew Wilson (Aus) FDJeux.com 37.43 38 Mark Scanlon (Irl) Ag2r Prevoyance 37.46 39 Russell Van Hout (Aus) UniSA 40 Thomas Lövkvist (Swe) FDJeux.com 37.53 41 Mark Jamieson (Aus) United Water 38.08 42 Nick Gates (Aus) Lotto-Domo 39.51 43 Mads Kaggestad (Nor) Credit Agricole 40.23 44 Massimiliano Mori (Ita) Domina Vacanze 45 Ciaran Power (Irl) Navigators Insurance Cycling Team 42.54 46 Bernhard Eisel (Aut) FDJeux.com 42.55 47 Hans De Clercq (Bel) Lotto-Domo 44.41 48 Laurens Ten Dam (Ned) Bankgiroloterij 44.50 49 Kirk O'Bee (USA) Navigators Insurance Cycling Team 44.56 50 Hilton Clarke (Aus) Team Australia 45.12 51 Nicholas Vogondy (Fra) FDJeux.com 49.05 52 Jaan Kirsipuu (Est) Ag2r Prevoyance 50.14 53 Sergey Matveyev (Ukr) Panaria-Margres 54.33 54 Inigo Chaurreau (Spa) Ag2r Prevoyance 1.04.36 55 Benoit Poilvet (Fra) Credit Agricole 1.04.58 56 Mark Renshaw (Aus) FDJeux.com 1.05.01 57 Andy Flickinger (Fra) Ag2r Prevoyance 58 Lorenzo Cardellini (Ita) Domina Vacanze 59 Pedro Horrillo (Spa) Quick.Step-Davitamon 60 Ashley Humbert (Aus) United Water 61 Allan Iacuone (Aus) Team Australia 1.05.49 62 Addy Engels (Ned) Bankgiroloterij 1.05.52 63 Remco Van Der Ven (Ned) Bankgiroloterij 1.11.46 64 Rudi Kemna (Ned) Bankgiroloterij 1.11.49 65 Bernard Sulzberger (Aus) United Water 66 Piotr Wadecki (Pol) Lotto-Domo 67 Julian Dean (Nzl) Credit Agricole 68 Sergio Marinangeli (Ita) Domina Vacanze 1.11.58 69 Frank Van Dulmen (Ned) Bankgiroloterij 1.12.40 70 Julien Smink (Ned) Bankgiroloterij 1.12.59 71 Francesco Secchiari (Ita) Domina Vacanze 1.13.29 72 James Hannam (Aus) UniSA 1.15.57 73 Graeme Brown (Aus) Panaria-Margres 1.16.13 74 Christophe Le Mevel (Fra) Credit Agricole 75 Nicolas Inaudi (Fra) Ag2r Prevoyance 76 Siro Camponogara (Ita) Navigators Insurance Cycling Team 77 Steve Cunningham (Aus) UniSA 1.16.22 78 Burke Swindlehurst (USA) Navigators Insurance Cycling Team 79 Adrian Laidler (Aus) UniSA 1.16.38 80 Geoffroy Lequatre (Fra) Credit Agricole 1.16.40 81 Scott Davis (Aus) Panaria-Margres 1.17.25 82 Jeff Louder (USA) Navigators Insurance Cycling Team 1.17.38 83 Fabio Gilioli (Ita) Panaria-Margres 1.19.37 84 Richard Moffat (Aus) United Water 1.21.41 85 Peter Dawson (Aus) United Water 1.26.55 86 Ryan Sullivan (Aus) United Water 1.31.54 Points classification 1 Robbie McEwen (Aus) Lotto-Domo 30 pts 2 Aurelien Clerc (Swi) Quick.Step-Davitamon 30 3 David McPartland (Aus) Team Australia 16 4 Patrick Jonker (Aus) UniSA 16 5 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) FDJeux.com 14 6 Mark Renshaw (Aus) FDJeux.com 10 7 Alain Van Katwijk (Ned) Bankgiroloterij 10 8 Ben Day (Aus) Team Australia 8 9 Baden Cooke (Aus) FDJeux.com 8 10 Eric Leblacher (Fra) Credit Agricole 6 11 Benoit Poilvet (Fra) Credit Agricole 6 12 Gene Bates (Aus) UniSA 6 13 Erki Putsep (Est) Ag2r Prevoyance 6 14 Remco Van Der Ven (Ned) Bankgiroloterij 6 15 Rudi Kemna (Ned) Bankgiroloterij 6 16 Antonio Fisher Murillo (Bra) Domina Vacanze 4 17 Simon Gerrans (Aus) Team Australia 4 18 Mads Kaggestad (Nor) Credit Agricole 4 19 Bernhard Eisel (Aut) FDJeux.com 4 20 Geoffroy Lequatre (Fra) Credit Agricole 4 21 Giuliano Figueras (Ita) Panaria-Margres 2 22 Luke Roberts (Aus) UniSA 2 23 Frederic Amorison (Bel) Quick.Step-Davitamon 2 24 Addy Engels (Ned) Bankgiroloterij 2 25 Graeme Brown (Aus) Panaria-Margres 2 26 Guillermo Bongiorno (Arg) Panaria-Margres 2 Mountains classification 1 Paolo Tiralongo (Ita) Panaria-Margres 32 pts 2 Massimiliano Gentili (Ita) Domina Vacanze 20 3 Alain Van Katwijk (Ned) Bankgiroloterij 16 4 Lorenzo Cardellini (Ita) Domina Vacanze 16 5 Russell Van Hout (Aus) UniSA 14 6 Patrick Jonker (Aus) UniSA 12 7 Giuliano Figueras (Ita) Panaria-Margres 12 8 Nick Gates (Aus) Lotto-Domo 12 9 David McPartland (Aus) Team Australia 8 10 Hilton Clarke (Aus) Team Australia 8 11 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) FDJeux.com 6 12 Mikel Astarloza (Spa) Ag2r Prevoyance 6 13 Mads Kaggestad (Nor) Credit Agricole 6 14 Luke Roberts (Aus) UniSA 4 15 Kevin Hulsmans (Bel) Quick.Step-Davitamon 4 16 Addy Engels (Ned) Bankgiroloterij 4 17 Gene Bates (Aus) UniSA 4 U23 classification 1 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) FDJeux.com 14.50.22 2 Thomas Lövkvist (Swe) FDJeux.com 36.14 3 Mark Jamieson (Aus) United Water 36.29 4 Mark Renshaw (Aus) FDJeux.com 1.03.22 5 Ashley Humbert (Aus) United Water 6 Bernard Sulzberger (Aus) United Water 1.10.10 7 James Hannam (Aus) UniSA 1.14.18 8 Richard Moffat (Aus) United Water 1.20.02 9 Peter Dawson (Aus) United Water 1.25.16 10 Ryan Sullivan (Aus) United Water 1.30.15 Most aggressive rider 1 Laurens Ten Dam (Ned) Bankgiroloterij Teams classification 1 UniSA 44.31.05 2 FDJeux.com 2.33 3 Domina Vacanze 2.48 4 Team Australia 5.43 5 Lotto-Domo 9.20 6 Crédit Agricole 9.32 7 Quick Step-Davitamon 10.13 8 Ag2R Prevoyance 11.52 9 Panaria-Margres 45.56 10 Navigators Insurance Cycling Team 47.16 11 Bankgiroloterij 1.14.23 12 United Water 2.50.02 |
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