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Timbercorp Cup Series Tour of Gippsland - NE
Australia, August 1-5, 2007
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Stage 6 - August 4: Paynesville, 33km
National underage riders continue gippsland dominance
From Rod Morris In Dargo
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The Australian under 23 cycling squad – better known as southaustralia.com – continued its stunning dominance of the Timbercorp Tour of Gippsland on the penultimate day. Saturday belonged to the southaustralia.com with Sean Finning claiming the criterium in Paynseville before the Paynseville to Dargo stage in the afternoon.
Their success followed on from Cameron Meyer (Stage 3), William Ford (Stage 4) and Dempster (Stage 5). And the team may not be finished yet! "Everything has clicked for us so far with all riders doing their part," Sanderson said.
Whilst the Tour of Gippsland is not effectively a team's event, there are a number of Australian trades teams represented by a large number of riders and working well together. It may make things difficult for riders not affiliated to teams, but it makes for some exciting racing. Finning was part of a hard working breakaway group in the 33km criterium around the streets of picturesque Paynesville, raced however in very windy conditions. He held off Victorian teenager Nathan Wise with national water polo league player Tim Middleton in third place.
How it unfolded
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Sean Finning's reputation as a criterium specialist continued in the sixth stage with a hard working display at Paynseville. Finning (22) won his third career race of this national series, following victory in the Mallacoota criterium in last year's Tour of Gippsland and the Westbury Criterium in the 2006 Tour of Tasmania.
On a wind swept course at Paynesville, Finning had enough sprint power in reserve to out muscle fellow Victorian Nathan Wise and South Australian Tom Middleton, who is new to cycling at the finish line. Fellow escapee riders, Chris Pryor (Qld), Brad Edmunds (Vic) and Hayden Josefski (Qld) filled the next positions before the sprinting bunch was led home by Nick Sanderson.
Tour leader Zak Dempster (Vic) was safely tucked away in the peloton with his main challengers, Chris Jory (NSW) and Ben Mather (Tas) not far from his back wheel. Finning said the wind had made things tough for all riders, but it also helped spur him on to victory. "Because the wind was hard for the break group, I knew it would also be tough for the chasers, so it was just a matter of putting the head down and going for it," Finning said.
Finning has a solid reputation as specialist sprinter, particularly in criterium races, but that didn't guarantee him victory. "Everyone in that break group had been riding so well, so I had to watch them all, I wasn't sure who had the best sprint," he said. "Thankfully I was able to get to the front at the right time and hold on to win."
The big story emerging from the stage was the injury forced withdrawal of Darwin based rider Matt King. King, winner of Stage 2 and an early tour leader suffered a nasty crash in Thursday's Stage 4, suffering mild concussion. But a nagging calf injury took over on Saturday and King withdrew. At the time he was second in the King of the Mountain Championship behind Tasmanian Sid Taberlay.
Photography
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Images by Shane Goss/www.licoricegallery.com
- Cycling computer technology on the start line for stage six in Paynesville
- The Tour's leading jersey wearers (L-R): Cameron Meyer (Victoria the place top be sprint points leader), Zak Dempster (Timbercorp Tour leader), and Sid Taberlay (Tourism Victoria King of the Mountains leader)
- They were serving up the Tour of Gippsland in Paynesville on stage six!
- Grant Irwin (Ord Minnett/Triple Play) drives the peloton during stage six in Paynesville
- Tour leader Zak Dempster (L) takes out an intermediate sprint during stage six
- Mark O'Brien (Drapac Porsche) in action during the 33km criterium in Paynesville
- The peloton in search of a leading group of five riders that got away on stage six
- Jack Hudson from Queensland would be feeling the cold down in Victoria at this time of the year
- Mark Jamieson (South Australia.com) drives the peloton in the concluding laps of stage six
- Tom Middleton (Savings & Loans) powers up the home straight in the leading group of five
- Sean Finning (L)(South Australia.com) takes out stage six from Nathan Wise and Tom Middleton
- Sean Finning (South Australia.com) wins his first stage of the 2007 Timbercorp Tour of Gippsland
- The stage six podium (L-R): Nathan Wise (2nd), Sean Finning (1st), and Tom Middleton (3rd)
- I'll take the campers and you can stick to OJ... Tom Middleton (L) and his dad depart the scene on stage six
Results
1 Sean Finning (Vic) 47.29 2 Nathan Wise (Vic) 3 Tom Middleton (SA) 4 Chris Pryor (Qld) 5 Brad Edmunds (Vic) 6 Hayden Josefski (Qld) 0.04 7 Nicholas Sanderson (Vic) 0.17 8 Grant Irwin (Qld) 9 Patrick Shaw (Vic) 10 Marcus Wettenhall (Vic) 11 Darcy Rosenlund (Qld) 12 Jarrod Harman (Tas) 13 Miles Watson (Vic) 14 Brendan Jones (NSW) 15 Zakkari Dempster (Vic) 16 Joe Mcdonnell (NSW) 17 Chris Jory (NSW) 18 Ben Mather (Tas) 19 Robbie Cater (NSW) 20 Cameron Meyer (WA) 21 Christopher D'Amelio (Vic) 22 Daniel Furmston (Tas) 23 Peter Herzig (NSW) 24 Craig Mccartney (Vic) 25 Peter Smith (Vic) 26 Cameron Hughes (Qld) 27 Damien Turner (Vic) 28 Peter Mcdonald (NSW) 29 Mathew Camilleri (NSW) 30 Scott Kilmartin (Qld) 31 Sid Taberlay (Tas) 32 Andrew Ward (Vic) 33 Glen Peterson (Vic) 34 Simon Pearson (SA) 35 Mark Jamieson (Tas) 36 William Ford (Vic) 37 Grant Webster (Vic) 38 Jack Hudson (Qld) 39 Nicholas Walker (Vic) 40 Steven Robb (Vic) 41 Vaughan Bowman (Vic) 42 Mark O'brien (Vic) 43 Daniel Braunsteins (Vic) 44 Peter Milostic (NSW) 45 Samuel Rix (Vic) 0.29 46 Luke Cridland (NSW) 47 Danny Kah (Vic) 48 Alexander Machin (Vic) 49 Will Dickeson (SA) 50 Bradley Clark (NSW) 0.35 51 Tony Mann (Qld) 0.37 52 Brendan Schultz (Vic) 53 Gary Mueller (Vic) 54 James Henry (Vic) 9.30 DNF Matt King (NT) DNS Gilbert Gutowski (Qld) Sprints 1 1 Sean Finning (Vic) 3 pts 2 Patrick Shaw (Vic) 2 3 Darcy Rosenlund (Qld) 1 2 1 Nicholas Sanderson (Vic) 3 pts 2 Patrick Shaw (Vic) 2 3 Zakkari Dempster (Vic) 1 3 1 Mark Jamieson (Tas) 3 pts 2 Miles Watson (Vic) 2 3 Vaughan Bowman (Vic) 1 4 1 Miles Watson (Vic) 3 pts 2 Chris Pryor (Qld) 2 3 Brendan Jones (NSW) 1 5 1 Zakkari Dempster (Vic) 3 pts 2 Nicholas Walker (Vic) 2 3 Chris Jory (NSW) 1 6 1 Zakkari Dempster (Vic) 3 pts 2 Nicholas Sanderson (Vic) 2 3 Darcy Rosenlund (Qld) 1 7 1 Hayden Josefski (Qld) 3 pts 2 Brad Edmunds (Vic) 2 3 Nathan Wise (Vic) 1 8 1 Sean Finning (Vic) 3 pts 2 Brad Edmunds (Vic) 2 3 Chris Pryor (Qld) 1 9 1 Chris Pryor (Qld) 3 pts 2 Brad Edmunds (Vic) 2 3 Sean Finning (Vic) 1 10 1 Chris Pryor (Qld) 3 pts 2 Brad Edmunds (Vic) 2 3 Tom Middleton (SA) 1 11 1 Chris Pryor (Qld) 3 pts 2 Hayden Josefski (Qld) 2 3 Tom Middleton (SA) 1 Criteriums 1 Sean Finning (Vic) 10 pts 2 Nathan Wise (Vic) 9 3 Tom Middleton (SA) 8 4 Chris Pryor (Qld) 7 5 Brad Edmunds (Vic) 6 6 Hayden Josefski (Qld) 5 7 Nicholas Sanderson (Vic) 4 8 Grant Irwin (Qld) 3 9 Patrick Shaw (Vic) 2 10 Marcus Wettenhall (Vic) 1 Most aggressive 1 Sean Finning (Vic) 2 pts General Classification after stage 6 1 Zakkari Dempster (Vic) 11.44.41 2 Chris Jory (NSW) 0.14 3 Ben Mather (Tas) 0.54 4 Peter Herzig (NSW) 2.12 5 Patrick Shaw (Vic) 2.59 6 Chris Pryor (Qld) 3.21 7 Grant Irwin (Qld) 3.52 8 Cameron Meyer (WA) 4.23 9 Steven Robb (Vic) 4.30 10 Cameron Hughes (Qld) 4.34 11 Peter Mcdonald (NSW) 7.19 12 Sid Taberlay (Tas) 9.21 13 Peter Milostic (NSW) 10.07 14 Daniel Braunsteins (Vic) 10.34 15 William Ford (Vic) 10.38 16 Mark O'brien (Vic) 10.55 17 Simon Pearson (SA) 12.16 18 Nicholas Sanderson (Vic) 15.25 19 Darcy Rosenlund (Qld) 17.59 20 Jarrod Harman (Tas) 25.41 21 Damien Turner (Vic) 27.32 22 Christopher D'Amelio (Vic) 23 Tom Middleton (SA) 31.05 24 Danny Kah (Vic) 33.04 25 Brendan Schultz (Vic) 34.34 26 Miles Watson (Vic) 34.43 27 Robbie Cater (NSW) 35.00 28 Nicholas Walker (Vic) 35.07 29 Craig Mccartney (Vic) 35.20 30 Brendan Jones (NSW) 37.01 31 Joe Mcdonnell (NSW) 38.12 32 Daniel Furmston (Tas) 38.55 33 Andrew Ward (Vic) 39.22 34 Sean Finning (Vic) 40.57 35 Hayden Josefski (Qld) 42.49 36 Brad Edmunds (Vic) 37 Vaughan Bowman (Vic) 43.41 38 Tony Mann (Qld) 44.21 39 Mark Jamieson (Tas) 45.20 40 Peter Smith (Vic) 47.28 41 Scott Kilmartin (Qld) 49.25 42 Nathan Wise (Vic) 50.39 43 Alexander Machin (Vic) 55.24 44 Will Dickeson (SA) 56.11 45 Glen Peterson (Vic) 56.52 46 Jack Hudson (Qld) 59.30 47 Bradley Clark (NSW) 1.02.42 48 Luke Cridland (NSW) 1.05.51 49 James Henry (Vic) 1.20.13 50 Samuel Rix (Vic) 1.42.20 51 Marcus Wettenhall (Vic) 1.51.51 52 Gary Mueller (Vic) 2.09.33 53 Mathew Camilleri (NSW) 2.17.16 54 Grant Webster (Vic) 2.45.50 Sprint classification 1 Cameron Meyer (WA) 50 pts 2 Darcy Rosenlund (Qld) 40 3 Chris Pryor (Qld) 20 4 Patrick Shaw (Vic) 20 5 Brad Edmunds (Vic) 19 6 Peter Mcdonald (NSW) 17 7 Zakkari Dempster (Vic) 16 8 Grant Irwin (Qld) 15 9 Sean Finning (Vic) 14 10 Joe Mcdonnell (NSW) 10 11 Matt King (NT) 9 12 Peter Herzig (NSW) 7 13 Nicholas Sanderson (Vic) 6 14 Robbie Cater (NSW) 6 15 Miles Watson (Vic) 5 16 Nicholas Walker (Vic) 5 17 Hayden Josefski (Qld) 5 18 Marcus Wettenhall (Vic) 4 19 Mark Jamieson (Tas) 3 20 Craig Mccartney (Vic) 3 21 Tom Middleton (SA) 2 22 Tony Mann (Qld) 2 23 Chris Jory (NSW) 2 24 Daniel Furmston (Tas) 2 25 Vaughan Bowman (Vic) 1 26 Cameron Hughes (Qld) 1 27 Brendan Schultz (Vic) 1 28 Nathan Wise (Vic) 1 29 Brendan Jones (NSW) 1 Mountains classification 1 Sid Taberlay (Tas) 48 pts 2 Matt King (NT) 28 3 Chris Jory (NSW) 23 4 Peter Herzig (NSW) 17 5 Peter Mcdonald (NSW) 9 6 Cameron Meyer (WA) 8 7 Zakkari Dempster (Vic) 7 8 Daniel Furmston (Tas) 6 9 Simon Pearson (SA) 6 10 Chris Pryor (Qld) 5 11 Darcy Rosenlund (Qld) 4 12 Alexander Machin (Vic) 4 13 William Ford (Vic) 3 14 Steven Robb (Vic) 3 15 Joe Mcdonnell (NSW) 3 16 Will Dickeson (SA) 2 17 Brad Edmunds (Vic) 2 18 Brendan Jones (NSW) 1 Criterium classification 1 Cameron Meyer (WA) 19 pts 2 Peter Mcdonald (NSW) 17 3 Grant Irwin (Qld) 16 4 Sean Finning (Vic) 13 5 Robbie Cater (NSW) 12 6 Nicholas Sanderson (Vic) 10 7 Darcy Rosenlund (Qld) 10 8 Patrick Shaw (Vic) 10 9 Nathan Wise (Vic) 9 10 Tom Middleton (SA) 8 11 Joe Mcdonnell (NSW) 7 12 Chris Pryor (Qld) 7 13 Brad Edmunds (Vic) 6 14 Hayden Josefski (Qld) 5 15 Zakkari Dempster (Vic) 5 16 Nicholas Walker (Vic) 4 17 Marcus Wettenhall (Vic) 3 18 Sid Taberlay (Tas) 2 19 Daniel Braunsteins (Vic) 2 Most aggressive rider 1 Cameron Meyer (WA) 4 pts 2 Sid Taberlay (Tas) 2 3 Darcy Rosenlund (Qld) 2 4 Matt King (NT) 2 5 Peter Mcdonald (NSW) 2 6 Sean Finning (Vic) 2
