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3rd GP Feminas Castilla y Leon - CDM
Spain, March 28, 2004
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Brotka surprises to win round 3
Wood increases World Cup lead
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Angela Brotka (German National Team) won the third round of the women's World Cup in Salamanca, Castilla y Leon, with a powerful sprint finish to head home Oenone Wood (Australian National Team) and Mirjam Melchers (Team Farm Frites-Hartol). The German thus put herself into third position in the World Cup standings behind leader Wood, who extended her advantage today to 75 points over Melchers.
The race was held in very cold conditions, and it was -1 and snowing on the start line in Salamanca. The riders had to complete 12 laps of a very technical circuit measuring 10.1 km, with a couple of fairly gentle climbs each lap. A high pace was set from the outset, with the Australian National Team and Farm Frites-Hartol chiefly responsible. This made it nearly impossible for any breaks to succeed, although several were tried in the early stages, including one from Neben (T-Mobile), Brotka (Germany) and Corneo (Rubinetterie).
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The big surprise on lap 5 was when pre-race favourite Regina Schleicher (Safi) abandoned, and there was one less sprinter in the field. Farm Frites and the Australians continued to ride a strong tempo, and an attack on lap 7 by Neben, Vink (Farm Frites) and Worrack (Nürnberger) gained 12 seconds before it was neutralised by the Australian team.
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The attacking increased in the final four laps, with the Australians and Farm Frites-Hartol a little more active in getting in the breaks, sending Vink, Oki and Van der Zee (Farm Frites) and Gollan (Australia) up the road. In addition, Luperini (Let's go Finland), Peters (T-Mobile), Chevanne (France), Senf (Germany, Parietti (Italy), Pucinskaite (Michela Fanini), Wright and Corneo (Rubinetterie) all tried, but no-one could get more than 10 seconds.
The last lap saw the Australians click into top gear to lead out Oenone Wood, with Olivia Gollan's big turns on the final false flat helping to cause a split in the peloton leaving seven riders in front: Gollan, Wood (Australia), Gilmore, Ljungskog (SATS), Bronzini (Safi), Brotka and Melchers all made the split, while the rest of the peloton led by Nürnberger tried to close the gap. It was almost successful, but Petra Rossner (Nürnberger) was only able to take eighth at the tail end of the leaders. In the end, Brotka proved to be too quick for Wood and Melchers to take the win.
"The team just worked so hard for me the whole race that I would have felt really bad if I hadn't come through with a result," said Wood who described the feeling of again receiving the Series leader's jersey as "awesome".
"Natalie Bates was on the front for the first half of the race to stop attacks going and in the second half of the race Sara [Carrigan] and Liv [Gollan] were basically getting on everything, " said Wood of the team's strategy. "Mirjam [Melchers] and Zoulfia [Zabirova] were launching a lot of attacks and their teams were pushing the pace but eventually it all came back to a bunch heading into the last kilometres."
Wood credited Gollan's last-lap efforts with breaking up the field. "She really split it up and in the last 200m Liv was in front with Mirjam on her wheel and me on Mirjam's on the last corner," said Wood. " Mirjam and I were so busy watching each other in the final sprint for the line that Angela (Brodtka) managed to come round both of us."
Results - 121.2 km
1 Angela Brotka (Ger) German National Team 3.09.44 2 Oenone Wood (Aus) Australia National Team 3 Mirjam Melchers (Ned) Team Farm Frites-Hartol 4 Rochelle Gilmore (Aus) Team S.A.T.S. 5 Giorgia Bronzini (Ita) Safi-Pasta Zara Manhattan 6 Susanne Ljungskog (Swe) Team S.A.T.S. 7 Olivia Gollan (Aus) Australia National Team 8 Petra Rossner (Ger) Nürnberger Versicherung 9 Joanne Kiesanowski (NZl) New Zeland Team 10 Alison Wright (Aus) Nobili Rubinetterie 11 Katia Longhin (Ita) S.C. Michela Fanini 12 Debby Mansveld (Ned) Vlaanderen-T-Interin 13 Sara Carrian (Aus) Australia National Team 14 Priska Doppmann (Swi) Swiss National Team 15 Arenda Grimberg (Ned) Netherlands National Team 16 Loes Gunnewijk (Ned) Vrienden van het Platteland 17 Annette Beutler (Swi) Lietzsport Cycling 18 Jaccolien Wallaard (Ned) Ton Van Bemmelen Sport 19 Bertina Spikerman (Ned) Netherlands National Team 20 Sharon Van Dromme (Bel) Vlaanderen-T-Interin 21 Barbara Heeb (Swi) Lietzsport Cycling 22 Anita Valen (Nor) Team S.A.T.S. 23 Elisabeth Vink (Ned) Team Farm Frites-Hartol 24 Tanja Hennes (Ger) Team Next 125 25 Liane Bahler (Ger) German National Team 26 Edita Pucinskaite (Ltu) S.C. Michela Fanini 27 Rosa Maria Bravo (Spa) Tinlohi-Eia-Mauco 28 Dori Ruano (Spa) Spanish National Team 29 Veronique Belleter (Bel) Vlaanderen-T-Interin 30 Catherine Marsal (Fra) Nobili Rubinetterie 31 Miho Oki (Jpn) Team Farm Frites-Hartol 32 Delphine Guille (Fra) France National Team 33 Chantal Beltman (Ned) Vrienden van het Platteland 34 Anna Zugno (Ita) Safi-Pasta Zara Manhattan 35 Suzanne De Goede (Ned) Ton Van Bemmelen Sport 36 Tatiana Guderzo (Ita) Italy National Team 37 Joane Somarriba (Spa) Bizkaia-Panda Software 38 Olga Zabelinskaya (Rus) Nürnberger Versicherung 39 Hayley Rutherford (Aus) S.C. Michela Fanini 40 Trixi Worrack (Ger) Nürnberger Versicherung 41 Nicole Freedman (Isr) Basis- Aude 42 Zoulfia Zabirova (Rus) Team Let's Go Finlan 43 Theresa Senff (Ger) German National Team 44 Sarah Duster (Ger) German National Team 45 Deirdre Demet-Barry (USA) T-Mobile Professiona 46 Emma James (Aus) Team S.A.T.S. 47 Eun Gu Sung (Kor) Int. Composite Tea 48 Fabiana Luperini (Ita) Team Let's Go Finlan 49 Zita Urbonaite (Ltu) Safi-Pasta Zara Manhattan 50 Iosune Murillo (Spa) Sabeco 51 Stacey Peters (USA) T-Mobile Professiona 52 Adrie Visser (Ned) Team Farm Frites-Hartol 53 Janneke Vos (Ned) Netherlands National Team 54 Mirella Van Melis (Ned) Vlaanderen-T-Interin 55 Elena Babikova (Rus) Russia National Team 0.16 56 Rosalind Reekie-May (NZl) New Zeland Team 57 Kimberly Bruckner (USA) T-Mobile Professiona 58 Rachel Heal (GBr) Team Farm Frites-Hartol 59 Sonia Huguet (Fra) France National Team 60 Josephine Groenveld (Ned) Ton Van Bemmelen Sport 61 Frances Newstead (GBr) Great Britain National Team 62 Elisabeth Chevanne (Fra) France National Team 63 Bettina Kuhn (Swi) Swiss National Team 64 Locs Markerink (Ned) Netherlands National Team 65 Marion Clignet (Fra) Basis- Aude 66 Amber Neben (USA) T-Mobile Professiona 67 Kirsten Wild (Ned) Netherlands National Team 68 Joland Cools-V.Dongen (Ned) Ton Van Bemmelen Sport 69 Barbara Cazzaniga (Ita) S.C. Michela Fanini 70 Sharon Van Essen (Ned) Vrienden van het Platteland 71 Michelle Hylande (NZl) New Zeland Team 72 Véronique Coene (Bel) Ton Van Bemmelen Sport 73 Tania Belvederesi (Ita) Italy National Team 74 Lorian Graham (Aus) Australia National Team 75 Anouska Van Derzee (Ned) Team Farm Frites-Hartol 76 Sigrid Corneo (Ita) Nobili Rubinetterie 77 Olga Slyusareva (Rus) Nobili Rubinetterie 78 Natalia Bayarskaya (Rus) Russia National Team 79 Melisa Holt (NZl) New Zeland Team 80 Dreke Hassink (Ned) Netherlands National Team 81 Kym Shirley (Aus) Nobili Rubinetterie 82 Karin Thurig (Swi) Swiss National Team 83 Leah Goldstein (Isr) Basis- Aude 84 Judith Arndt (Ger) Nürnberger Versicherung 85 Maribel Moreno (Spa) Spanish National Team 0.46 86 Madeleine Lindberg (Swe) Nürnberger Versicherung 0.54 87 Silvia Parietti (Ita) Italy National Team 1.02 88 Alessandra D'ettorre (Ita) Italy National Team 89 Azuzena Sanchez (Spa) Spanish National Team 3.43 90 Arantzazu Azpiroz (Spa) Bizkaia-Panda Software 91 Anna Ramirez (Spa) Spanish National Team 4.19 92 Juliette V.Dekerckove (Fra) France National Team 4.23 93 Kristy Miggels (Ned) Vrienden van het Platteland 4.26 94 Emma Davies (GBr) Great Britain National Team 5.09 95 Monia Baccaille (Ita) Italy National Team
World Cup standings after round 3
1 Oenone Wood (Aus) 160 pts 2 Mirjam Melcers (Ned) Team Farm Frites-Hartol 85 3 Angela Brodtka (Ger) 79 4 Zoulfia Zavirova (Rus) Team Let's Go Finland 75 5 Petra Rossner (Ger) Equipe Nürnberger Versicherung 68 6 Rochelle Gilmore (Aus) Team S.A.T.S. 57 7 Priska Doppmann (Swi) 49 8 Alison Wright (Aus) Nobili Rubinetterie-Guerciotti 47 9 Joanne Kiesanowski (NZl) 43 10 Miho Oki (Jpn) Team Farm Frites-Hartol 38 11 Anita Valen (Nor) Team S.A.T.S. 27 12 Giorgia Broncini (Ita) 27 13 Katia Longhin (Ita) S.C. Michela Fanini Record Rox 25 14 Olivia Gollan (Aus) 25 15 Hayley Rutherford (Aus) S.C. Michela Fanini Record Rox 24 16 Susanne Ljungskog (Swe) 24 17 Sara Carrigan (Aus) 23 18 Rachel Heal (GBr) Team Farm Frites-Hartol 21 19 Olga Slyusareva (Rus) MGR 21 20 Arenda Grimberg (Ned) 15 21 Tanja Schmidt-Hennes (Ger) Team Next 125 11 22 Liane Bahler (Ger) 11 23 Sharron Vandromme (Bel) Vlaanderen-T-Interim Univega 11 24 Sara Symington (GBr) Team S.A.T.S. 9 25 Debby Mansveld (Ned) 9 26 Nicole Freedman (Isr) Basis Aude 8 27 Eneritz Iturriaga (Spa) Team Let's Go Finland 8 28 Catherine Marsal (Fra) Nobili Rubinetterie-Guerciotti 7 29 Svetiana Boubnenkova (Rus) 7 30 Priska Doppmann (Swi) 7 31 Tina Mayolo (USA) 6 32 Katie Mactier (Aus) 5 33 Modesta Vzezniauskaite (Ltu) Safi-Pasta Zara Manhattan 5 34 Loes Gunnewijk (Ned) 5 35 Annette Beutler (Swi) 4 36 Tatiana Stiajkina (Ukr) 3 37 Jaccolien Wallaard (Ned) 3 38 Frances Newstead (GBr) 2 39 Rosa Maria Bravo (Spa) 2 40 Bertina Spikerman (Ned) 2 41 Deirdre Demet-Barry (USA) T-Mobile Professional Cycling 1
