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Tour of Tasmania - NE
Australia, October 2-7, 2007
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Stage 10 - October 6: Grindelwald to George town, 69.1km
England reigns supreme
Meyer closer to overall win
By Rod Morris in George Town
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West Australian teenage sensation Cameron Meyer is now just 34 kilometres away from winning his first major road race, the Jayco Tour of Tasmania. The 19 year-old holds a lead of 1'50" in the general classification with his younger brother Travis in second place and Tasmanian Bernard Sulzberger in third position, 2'02" behind.
The afternoon's 10th stage was a slightly longer – 69 kilometres – trek from Grindelwald to George Town with Jayco Victorian Institute of Sport rider Richard England winning his second race of the tour. In a hectic sprint finish, England held out Queensland duo Miles Olman and Jonathon Cantwell.
The performances of the Jayco VIS team was added to even further with a gutsy road win coming from Richard England in the ninth stage, Grindelwald to George Town. The team has won all three criteriums in this tour – Leigh Howard was successful at both Devonport and Westbury – and all week have been challenging for general classification honours.
England won the Ulverstone Criterium (stage 3) earlier this week and has been in great form on the eve of the Herald Sun Tour. "I have been using this tour in preparation for that event and I wasn't really expecting to win much, so I have been pleasantly surprised," England said. "My legs feel good and I would like to think the team might be able to win that as well."
In a short sprint finish at George Town, England made a desperate lunge at the line, stretching every muscle in his body. He edged out tall Queenslander Miles Olman, with another "banana bender" Jonathon Cantwell scoring his second minor placing of the tour.
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The final leg of the 2007 Timbercorp Cup National Cycling series will be held in Launceston on Sunday with a grand finale criterium. The Timbercorp Cup will also reach its finale in Launceston, and current leader Peter McDonald needs only to sit on Grant Irwin's rear wheel to ensure overall victory. McDonald has amassed 183 points from the Tour of Gippsland, Australian Cycling Grand Prix, Tour of the Murray River and Tour of Tasmania and is nine points clear of Irwin, whilst Victorian Patrick Shaw is third on 143.
Englishman Tom Southam wrapped up the Central Coast King of the Mountain Championship yesterday afternoon, whilst he will carry a slender two-point lead in the George Town Most Aggressive Rider award into the last house.
Another Englishman, defending Tour of Tasmania champion, Kristian House has a commanding 41-point lead in the Timbercorp Sprint Championship, whilst the Country Club Criterium Championship has Victorian Leigh Howard and NSW rider Joel Pearson locked together on 25 points. Howard leads courtesy of a count back, whilst South Australian Brett Aitken is just three points away and looming.
The inaugural Municipal Cup Challenge will go the Launceston team of Bernard Sulzberger, Suki Stone, Benjamin King, Ben Grenda and Sid Taberlay. The quintet has easily outstripped the Devonport and Burnie teams.
How it unfolded
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Riders were greeted to relatively fine conditions for the tenth stage, with a slight cross breeze only a mild hindrance. A group of 13 riders formed an escape party, but none of the GC challengers were interested in too much hard work.
SouthAustralia.com-AIS team-mates Mark Jamieson and Miles Olman threw down the gauntlet to the lead bunch but were under threat from Tom Middleton (SA), Peter Herzig (NSW), Jonathon Cantwell (Qld), Patrick Shaw (Vic), Miles Watson (NZ) and Craig McCartney (Vic), amongst others. At its best, the breakaway group opened a lead of 1'50" before the peloton decided it better get serious before it got left behind.
The lead group had worked hard but was eventually gobbled up by the bunch. In a tight and technical twist to the finish it was England who held all the aces.
The tour reaches its climax on Sunday with a 34-kilometre criterium around the Brickfields reserve in Launceston.
Photography
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Images by Shane Goss/www.licoricegallery.com
- The peloton leave Grindewald bound for Georgetown with the Eastern suburbs of Launceston in the distance
- MANN you're cool Tony! Tony Mann (right) of the Ballarat City Cycles team on the front of the tour
- An early break make their way beside the Tamar River in Northern Tasmania
- The lead group head off the highway onto the narrow roads of Mt. Direction
- Nathan Wise from Victoria in the leading group on the penultimate day of the tour
- Richard England (Jayco/VIS) was in a relaxed mood here but things would hot up for him at the finish
- Craig McCartney (Savings and Loans) drives the leading group towards Georgetown
- A determined Tom Middleton (Savings and Loans) looks for a break on the leading group
- Tom Middleton, Peter Herzig, Tony Mann and Darcy Rosenlund (r-l) open up a gap on their breakaway partners from the original lead group
- It's Peter Herzig's turn on the front of the leading quartet
- And now it's Ballarat City Cycle's Tony Mann's turn on the front
- Stage nine winner Evan Oliphant (Craig Price Cyclery) back in the peloton on stage ten
- Miles Olman (l) of the SouthAustralia.com/AIS team and Jayco/VIS's Richard England battle for stage ten honours in Georgetown
- The peloton roll into Georgetown to finish stage ten of the Tour
- Richard England (Jayco/VIS) on the podium after claiming his second stage victory of the Tour
- Queenslander Jonathan Cantwell has been riding for the Devonport team in the Municipal Cup Challenge
- The stage ten podium (l-r): Miles Olman 2nd (SouthAustralia.com/AIS) Richard England 1st (Jayco/VIS) and Jonathan Cantwell 3rd (Devonport Municipal Cup Challenge team)
- Englishman Kristian House (Devonport Municipal Cup Challenge team) remains in the lead of the Timbercorp sprint points competition
- Tour leader Cameron Meyer (SouthAustralia.com/AIS) has only to wait one more stage before popping the corks and celebrating his tour win
Results
1 Richard England (VIC) 1.38.19 (42.17 km/h) 2 Miles Olman (QLD) 3 Jonathan Cantwell (QLD) 4 Craig McCartney (VIC) 5 Ben Mather (TAS) 6 Brendan Brooks (NSW) 0.02 7 Tony Mann (QLD) 8 Jack Anderson (QLD) 9 Peter Herzig (QLD) 10 Tom Middleton (SA) 11 Miles Watson (NZ) 12 Nathan Wise (VIC) 13 Mark Jamieson (TAS) 0.11 14 Patrick Shaw (VIC) 0.15 15 Charles Howlett (TAS) 0.31 16 Travis Meyer (WA) 17 Sid Taberlay (TAS) 18 Nicholas Walker (VIC) 19 Leigh Howard (VIC) 20 Nicholas Sanderson (VIC) 21 Bernard Sulzberger (TAS) 22 Simon Brown (TAS) 23 Steven Robb (VIC) 24 Cameron Meyer (WA) 25 Peter McDonald (NSW) 26 Stuart Shaw (ACT) 27 Michael Smith (TAS) 28 Benjamin King (WA) 29 Nathan Dyke (WA) 30 Simon Price (NSW) 31 Joel Pearson (NSW) 32 Nathan Clarke (TAS) 33 Grant Irwin (QLD) 34 Tom Robinson (TAS) 35 Aaron Jones (TAS) 36 Joe Lewis (NSW) 37 Robbie Cater (NSW) 38 Chris Jory (NSW) 39 Glenn O’Shea (VIC) 40 Evan Oliphant (Sco) 41 Tom Southam (GBr) 42 Lachlan Stewart (VIC) 43 Suki Stone (QLD) 44 John Ebeling (NSW) 45 Jeremy Hills (TAS) 46 Jarrod Harman (TAS) 47 Brad Edmunds (VIC) 48 Kristian House (GBr) 49 Will Wettenhall (VIC) 50 Trent Stevenson (VIC) 51 Daniel Braunsteins (VIC) 52 Casey Munro (VIC) 53 Mathew Camilleri (NSW) 54 Shaun Higgerson (NSW) 55 Hayden Josefski (QLD) 56 Jason Hegert (VIC) 57 Andrew Ward (VIC) 58 Gilbert Gutowski (QLD) 59 Andrew Roe (SA) 60 Brett Aitken (SA) 61 David Pell (VIC) 62 Ben Grenda (TAS) 63 Matthew McDonagh (TAS) 64 Tim Elmer (TAS) 65 Cameron Hughes (QLD) 66 Jay Bourke (VIC) 67 Tim Roe (SA) 68 Simon Pearson (SA) 69 Matthew Sydes (TAS) 70 Joshua Wilson (TAS) 71 Jason Bellchambers (TAS) 72 Peter Milostic (NSW) 73 Timothy Walker (TAS) 74 Ben Grieve-Johnson (TAS) 75 Alistair Crossling (NZ) 76 Daniel Furmston (TAS) 0.46 77 Sean Finning (VIC) 78 Joshua Edwards (QLD) 79 William Ford (VIC) 80 Matt King (NT) 81 Daniel Cutting (TAS) 82 Malcolm Rudolph (QLD) 1.28 83 Adam Semple (WA) 3.09 84 Andras Nagy (TAS) 3.49 Points Mocka 9 Ninth Islan 1 Stuart Shaw (ACT) 3 pts 2 Travis Meyer (WA) 2 3 Kristian House (GBr) 1 Mocka 12 Rosevear 1 Kristian House (GBr) 3 pts 2 Travis Meyer (WA) 2 Mocka 26 Gravelly 1 Stuart Shaw (ACT) 3 pts 2 Travis Meyer (WA) 2 3 Bernard Sulzberger (TAS) 1 Mocka 36 Artisan G 1 Miles Watson (NZ) 3 pts 2 Peter Herzig (QLD) 2 3 Craig McCartney (VIC) 1 Mocka 39 Marions 1 Miles Watson (NZ) 3 pts 2 Patrick Shaw (VIC) 2 3 Peter Herzig (QLD) 1 Mocka 68 George T 1 Jonathan Cantwell (QLD) 3 pts 2 Tom Middleton (SA) 2 3 Richard England (VIC) 1 Mountains Cat 4 Mocka 48 Crest 1 Tom Middleton (SA) 3 pts 2 Nathan Wise (VIC) 2 3 Patrick Shaw (VIC) 1 Most aggressive rider 1 Peter Herzig (QLD) 2 pts General classification after stage 10 1 Cameron Meyer (WA) 13.27.12 2 Travis Meyer (WA) 1.50 3 Bernard Sulzberger (TAS) 2.02 4 Tom Southam (GBr) 2.41 5 Leigh Howard (VIC) 2.50 6 Steven Robb (VIC) 4.01 7 Benjamin King (WA) 5.00 8 Shaun Higgerson (NSW) 5.17 9 Tim Roe (SA) 5.32 10 Kristian House (GBr) 5.35 11 David Pell (VIC) 5.39 12 Joel Pearson (NSW) 6.08 13 Cameron Hughes (QLD) 6.29 14 Evan Oliphant (Sco) 8.31 15 Ben Mather (TAS) 9.06 16 Adam Semple (WA) 9.09 17 Stuart Shaw (ACT) 9.28 18 Joshua Wilson (TAS) 10.40 19 Casey Munro (VIC) 12.43 20 Patrick Shaw (VIC) 13.50 21 Hayden Josefski (QLD) 19.28 22 Daniel Braunsteins (VIC) 21.08 23 Ben Grenda (TAS) 22.14 24 Richard England (VIC) 22.25 25 Brendan Brooks (NSW) 22.47 26 Matthew McDonagh (TAS) 25.05 27 Chris Jory (NSW) 26.18 28 Peter McDonald (NSW) 30.09 29 Mark Jamieson (TAS) 30.42 30 Timothy Walker (TAS) 31.15 31 Nicholas Sanderson (VIC) 32.04 32 Jonathan Cantwell (QLD) 34.45 33 Craig McCartney (VIC) 35.14 34 Nicholas Walker (VIC) 36.36 35 Glenn O’Shea (VIC) 37.29 36 Charles Howlett (TAS) 37.44 37 Tom Middleton (SA) 38.07 38 Miles Olman (QLD) 38.16 39 Miles Watson (NZ) 38.40 40 Lachlan Stewart (VIC) 39.47 41 Trent Stevenson (VIC) 39.48 42 Jack Anderson (QLD) 40.45 43 Tony Mann (QLD) 41.08 44 Sid Taberlay (TAS) 41.48 45 Brett Aitken (SA) 41.54 46 John Ebeling (NSW) 42.02 47 Nathan Wise (VIC) 42.50 48 Joe Lewis (NSW) 44.01 49 Tim Elmer (TAS) 46.44 50 Simon Brown (TAS) 46.49 51 Simon Pearson (SA) 48.03 52 Simon Price (NSW) 50.00 53 Peter Herzig (QLD) 51.53 54 Andrew Roe (SA) 53.23 55 Peter Milostic (NSW) 53.28 56 William Ford (VIC) 55.44 57 Grant Irwin (QLD) 59.23 58 Jay Bourke (VIC) 59.41 59 Robbie Cater (NSW) 1.00.12 60 Tom Robinson (TAS) 1.03.14 61 Brad Edmunds (VIC) 1.05.14 62 Jarrod Harman (TAS) 1.06.53 63 Nathan Clarke (TAS) 1.07.11 64 Matt King (NT) 1.08.50 65 Malcolm Rudolph (QLD) 1.12.02 66 Mathew Camilleri (NSW) 1.12.07 67 Daniel Furmston (TAS) 1.12.33 68 Nathan Dyke (WA) 1.13.51 69 Aaron Jones (TAS) 1.16.17 70 Gilbert Gutowski (QLD) 1.17.22 71 Will Wettenhall (VIC) 1.17.26 72 Ben Grieve-Johnson (TAS) 1.18.14 73 Daniel Cutting (TAS) 1.18.45 74 Andrew Ward (VIC) 1.18.46 75 Alistair Crossling (NZ) 1.24.24 76 Jason Hegert (VIC) 1.25.35 77 Sean Finning (VIC) 1.27.09 78 Joshua Edwards (QLD) 1.31.37 79 Suki Stone (QLD) 1.36.51 80 Matthew Sydes (TAS) 1.37.14 81 Jason Bellchambers (TAS) 1.40.08 82 Michael Smith (TAS) 1.51.48 83 Jeremy Hills (TAS) 1.58.28 84 Andras Nagy (TAS) 2.22.30 Points classification 1 Kristian House (GBr) 65 pts 2 Tom Southam (GBr) 24 3 Travis Meyer (WA) 21 4 Stuart Shaw (ACT) 21 5 Sean Finning (VIC) 20 6 David Pell (VIC) 15 7 Patrick Shaw (VIC) 15 8 Cameron Meyer (WA) 14 9 Peter McDonald (NSW) 13 10 Craig McCartney (VIC) 13 11 Leigh Howard (VIC) 11 12 Bernard Sulzberger (TAS) 10 13 Casey Munro (VIC) 10 14 Malcolm Rudolph (QLD) 10 15 Joel Pearson (NSW) 9 16 Brett Aitken (SA) 9 17 Jonathan Cantwell (QLD) 7 18 Andrew Ward (VIC) 7 19 Trent Stevenson (VIC) 7 20 Peter Herzig (QLD) 7 21 Joshua Wilson (TAS) 6 22 Richard England (VIC) 6 23 Benjamin King (WA) 6 24 Miles Olman (QLD) 6 25 Miles Watson (NZ) 6 26 Tom Middleton (SA) 5 27 Tom Robinson (TAS) 4 28 Charles Howlett (TAS) 4 29 Gilbert Gutowski (QLD) 4 30 Cameron Hughes (QLD) 3 31 Tony Mann (QLD) 3 32 Nicholas Walker (VIC) 3 33 Steven Robb (VIC) 3 34 Ben Grenda (TAS) 3 35 Brad Edmunds (VIC) 3 36 Nathan Wise (VIC) 2 37 Chris Jory (NSW) 2 38 Nicholas Sanderson (VIC) 2 39 Shaun Higgerson (NSW) 2 40 Jack Anderson (QLD) 2 41 Jason Hegert (VIC) 1 42 Grant Irwin (QLD) 1 43 Ben Mather (TAS) 1 Mountains classification 1 Tom Southam (GBr) 32 pts 2 Cameron Meyer (WA) 23 3 Shaun Higgerson (NSW) 16 4 Joshua Wilson (TAS) 15 5 Bernard Sulzberger (TAS) 13 6 Travis Meyer (WA) 10 7 Benjamin King (WA) 8 8 Evan Oliphant (Sco) 7 9 Leigh Howard (VIC) 7 10 Sid Taberlay (TAS) 6 11 David Pell (VIC) 4 12 Patrick Shaw (VIC) 3 13 Joel Pearson (NSW) 3 14 Ben Mather (TAS) 3 15 Nicholas Sanderson (VIC) 3 16 Trent Stevenson (VIC) 3 17 Timothy Walker (TAS) 3 18 Brad Edmunds (VIC) 3 19 Tom Middleton (SA) 3 20 Nathan Wise (VIC) 2 21 Daniel Braunsteins (VIC) 2 22 Jack Anderson (QLD) 2 23 Gilbert Gutowski (QLD) 2 24 Andrew Ward (VIC) 2 25 Craig McCartney (VIC) 1 26 Malcolm Rudolph (QLD) 1 27 Peter McDonald (NSW) 1 28 Jason Hegert (VIC) 1 Criterium Championship classification 1 Leigh Howard (VIC) 25 pts 2 Joel Pearson (NSW) 25 3 Brett Aitken (SA) 22 4 Jonathan Cantwell (QLD) 16 5 Sid Taberlay (TAS) 15 6 Richard England (VIC) 10 7 Kristian House (GBr) 9 8 Bernard Sulzberger (TAS) 9 9 Miles Olman (QLD) 7 10 Nicholas Sanderson (VIC) 6 11 Miles Watson (NZ) 6 12 Peter McDonald (NSW) 4 13 Robbie Cater (NSW) 3 14 Grant Irwin (QLD) 3 15 Charles Howlett (TAS) 3 16 Tom Robinson (TAS) 1 Most aggressive rider classification 1 Tom Southam (GBr) 4 pts 2 Peter Herzig (QLD) 2 3 Joel Pearson (NSW) 2 4 Joshua Wilson (TAS) 2 5 Sean Finning (VIC) 2 6 Brett Aitken (SA) 2 7 Kristian House (GBr) 2 8 Andrew Ward (VIC) 1 9 Malcolm Rudolph (QLD) 1 10 Trent Stevenson (VIC) 1 Tasmanian Rider classification 1 Bernard Sulzberger (TAS) 13.29.14 2 Ben Mather (TAS) 7.04 3 Joshua Wilson (TAS) 8.38 4 Ben Grenda (TAS) 20.12 5 Matthew McDonagh (TAS) 23.03 6 Mark Jamieson (TAS) 28.40 7 Timothy Walker (TAS) 29.13 8 Charles Howlett (TAS) 35.42 9 Sid Taberlay (TAS) 39.46 10 Tim Elmer (TAS) 44.42 11 Simon Brown (TAS) 44.47 12 Tom Robinson (TAS) 1.01.12 13 Jarrod Harman (TAS) 1.04.51 14 Nathan Clarke (TAS) 1.05.09 15 Daniel Furmston (TAS) 1.10.31 16 Aaron Jones (TAS) 1.14.15 17 Ben Grieve-Johnson (TAS) 1.16.12 18 Daniel Cutting (TAS) 1.16.43 19 Matthew Sydes (TAS) 1.35.12 20 Jason Bellchambers (TAS) 1.38.06 21 Michael Smith (TAS) 1.49.46 22 Jeremy Hills (TAS) 1.56.26 23 Andras Nagy (TAS) 2.20.28
