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Scody Cup Cycling Series Tour of Gippsland - NE
Australia, July 30-August 3, 2008
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Stage 4 - July 31: Orbost Four'N Twenty road race, 113.7km
Tasmanian takes tour lead
By Rod Morris
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Nuggety little Tasmanian rider Daniel Furmston moved into the outright lead of the Lakes Oil Tour of Gippsland after a day of dramatic racing.
Furmston, 24, finished third in the afternoon stage from Orbost to Lakes Entrance, but was able to reel in the 23 second deficit he faced to South Australian Will Dickeson at the start of the 113.7-kilometre fourth stage.
Riding for the Tasmanian fast food company, Praties, Furmston is one of the most improved riders in the country.
Furmston won the King of the Mountain Championship in last year's Tour of the Murray River and started yesterday's stages holding the KOM jersey in this tour.
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Whilst disappointed to have relinquished the polka dot jersey to Leigh Howard, Furmston now has bigger fish to fry.
He is the first Tasmanian to lead a major Australian multi-stage road race since his Praties team-mate Tim Walker held yellow after the second stage of the 2006 Tour of Tasmania.
Furmston now has an 11 second advantage over fellow Tasmanian Bernard Sulzberger and a further two seconds to Timothy Roe, winner of yesterday's afternoon Orbost to Lakes Entrance mountain stage.
Today's other stage was won by David Kemp in the Orbost criterium.
How it unfolded
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Seven hill climbs from Orbost to Lakes Entrance took its toll on the legs of many of the riders still remaining in the tour as general classification underwent a major overhaul.
Will Dickeson surrendered his lead after missing both the early break and the eventual winning breakaway, 35 kilometres from the finish. Victorian Leigh Howard (Jayco/VIS) jumped away with Kyle Marwood (Lakes Oil Cycling Team), Michael England (GD Triple Play) and Craig McCartney (Savings & Loans) and between controlled the major part of the race. Howard won six of the seven hill climbs, to claim important bonus seconds and improve his tour ranking of 14th into a top 10 spot and become a contender for overall honours.
At one stage, Howard and his co-escapees had established a gap of more than 90 seconds on the road and with his bonuses was the virtual tour leader.
McCartney lost his place in the break group after puncturing 40 kilometres into the race and was soon back with the peloton. Howard, Marwood and England boxed on gamely before the peloton chased down just after the Nowa Nowa intermediate sprint.
Another hill climb hurt many riders before a group of 16 re-settled at the head of the race.
South Australian youngster Timothy Roe, riding for the Savings and Loans team made his move about eight kilometres from home and was able to establish a winning break, a gap of 48 seconds when he crossed the finish line in Lakes Entrance. Roe had enough time to sit up and salute the crowd as he enjoyed his first Scody Cup road race success.
Earlier this year, Roe announced to the cycling world that he was ready to showcase his wares when he won the Mersey Valley Tour in Tasmania.
Queensland veteran Cameron Hughes led the chasers home and was far from disgraced finishing second. There was a further three-second gap to the third placegetter, Daniel Furmston, who took over as the new leader. Another veteran, Peter Milostic, finished in fourth less than a minute behind Roe, while Roe's team-mate Chris Luxton was next across the line.
The tour continues on Friday with another dual stage day, Dargo to Lindenow (73.6 kilometres) in the morning and a Bairnsdale criterium (33 kilometres) in the afternoon.
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- Craig McCartney (Savings and Loans) was in a four man break before puncturing on a descent early into stage four
- Leigh Howard (Jayco/VIS) was gathering King of the Mountain points whilst in the lead group and became the virtual Tour leader on the road
- Michael England (GO Investments) from Queensland was in the lead group of three
- Victorian Kyle Marwood (Lakes Oil Cycling Team) in the leading trio during the early part of stage four from Orbost to Lakes Entrance
- SBS TV will show a documentary on the Tour on August 31 and will follow the remainder of the Scody Cup Cycling Series
- Riders struggle across a bridge in search of the leading trio
- Riders had to show caution on a bridge where carpet was laid for their crossing, some chose to test their handling skills instead
- Travis Meyer (South Australia.com/AIS) gets over the bridge safely ,his brother Cameron will be in action at the Beijing Olympics in a fortnight
- Looking for the right line across a dodgy bridge at 52 kilometres into the 113.7 kilometre stage
- Closing the gap: The leading trio will soon be caught near the half-way mark of the stage
- The peloton were closing the gap and the yellow jersey was well back in the field
- Will Dickeson (Savings and Loans) failed to make another breakaway group that formed after the original trio were caught
- Pip Grinter (Drapac Porsche) made a lead group of around twenty riders that formed some thirty kilometres from the finish
- Jonathon Lovelock (Jayco/VIS) gets a taste for the Tour of Gippsland whilst in the leading group
- The lead group make their way towards the finish in Lakes Entrance some twenty kilometres away
- Riders begin to play the cat and mouse game approaching the finish
- Pratie's Dylan Newell looks back to see if anyone from the group is trying to bridge the gap he opened up heading to the finish
- Timothy Roe (Savings and Loans) takes out stage four into Lakes Entrance
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- Hard work but it was worth it: Pratie's Daniel Furmston crosses the line an exhausted man but into the yellow jersey of the Tour leader
- A hard day at the office: Savings and Loans riders recover after the difficult stage from Orbost to Lakes Entrance
- Cameron Hughes (left) shows Timothy Roe (centre) and Daniel Furmston how to release the cork on the champers for the podium spray
- Well I'll have a go: Stage winner Timothy Roe (Savings and Loans) prepares for his champers spray
- Your not supposed to close your eyes though Timothy: The podium (L-R) Cameron Hughes (2nd, GO Investments), Timothy Roe (1st, Savings and Loans), and Daniel Furmston (1st, Praties)
- Michael England (GO Investments) was awarded the Bairnsdale Dealership Most Aggressive rider's jersey on stage four
- Leigh Howard (Jayco/VIS) is the new leader of the Tourism Victoria King of the Mountains competition
- Tasmanian Daniel Furmston (Praties) awaits his call up to accept the Lakes Oil Tour leader's yellow jersey
- Daniel Furmston (Praties) feels comfortable in the yellow jersey as the new leader of the Tour of Gippsland
- You can have a pie at the footy and now you can have a pie at the cycling thanks to Patties in Lakes Entrance
Results
1 Timothy Roe (Savings & Loans) 2.55.10 (38.95 km/h) 2 Cameron Hughes (GD Investments) 0.48 3 Daniel Furmston (Praties Cycling Team) 0.51 4 Peter Milostic (GD Investments) 0.57 5 Christopher Luxton (Savings & Loans) 0.59 6 Benjamin King (South Australia/AIS) 1.01 7 Dylan Newell (Praties Cycling Team) 8 Chris Jory (South Australia/AIS) 9 Pip Grinter (Drapac-Porsche) 10 Jonathon Lovelock (Jayco/VIS) 11 Bernard Sulzberger (Virgin Blue Cycling) 1.08 12 Travis Meyer (South Australia/AIS) 1.13 13 Chris Pryor (GD Investments) 14 Leigh Howard (Jayco/VIS) 1.15 15 Michael England (GD Investments) 7.01 16 Joseph Lewis (South Australia/AIS) 7.58 17 Jason Rigg (Praties Cycling Team) 7.59 18 Brett Tivers (Drapac-Porsche) 8.09 19 Kyle Marwood (Lakes Oil Cycling Team) 8.26 20 Craig McCartney (Savings & Loans) 21 Shaun Mccarthy (Lakes Oil Cycling Team) 9.06 22 Reece Stephens (Credit Collect) 11.05 23 Graeme Allbon (Gold 1242) 13.05 24 Elliott Wells (Drapac-Porsche) 25 Charles Howlett (Gold 1242) 26 Grieve-Johnson (Praties Cycling Team) 27 Luis Trueba (Drapac-Porsche) 28 Henry Morley (Drapac-Porsche) 29 David Kemp (Virgin Blue Cycling) 30 William Clarke (Praties Cycling Team) 31 Peter Smith (Credit Collect) 32 Scott Kilmartin (GD Investments) 33 Will Dickeson (Savings & Loans) 34 Jay Bourke (Budget Forklifts) 35 Casey Munro (Drapac-Porsche) 36 Tim Guy (South Australia/AIS) 37 Nathan Clarke (Praties Cycling Team) 38 Darren Rolfe (Virgin Blue Cycling) 39 Stefan Kirsch (Hart-Ridewiser) 40 Nathan Wise (Credit Collect) 41 Patrick Lane (Jayco/VIS) 42 Damien Turner (Budget Forklifts) 43 Kyle Bateson (GD Investments) 13.20 44 Malcolm Rudolph (GD Investments) 13.22 45 Peter Herzig (Virgin Blue Cycling) 46 Stuart Payne (Credit Collect) 22.31 47 Ashley Baines (Cycle City) 22.42 48 Adrian Hanson (Lakes Oil Cycling Team) 49 James Henry (Gold 1242) 50 Harry Rassie (Lakes Oil Cycling Team) 51 Jay Callaghan (Lakes Oil Cycling Team) 52 Russell Gill (Savings & Loans) 53 Brad Edmunds (Savings & Loans) 54 Joel Pearson (Savings & Loans) 55 Joel Fahy (Drapac-Porsche) 56 James Langedyk (Jayco/VIS) 23.18 57 Anthony Chandler (Hart-Ridewiser) 22.42 58 David Shanahan (Gold 1242) 29.47 59 Sam Moorhouse (Budget Forklifts) 31.56 60 Mark Isaacs (Cycle City) 32.00 61 Ian Coker (Gold 1242) 32.02 62 Steven Pilson (Gold 1242) 63 Samuel Rix (Credit Collect) 64 Guy Green (Hart-Ridewiser) 65 William Alexander (Virgin Blue Cycling) 66 Brock Roberts (Budget Forklifts) 67 Timothy Walker (Praties Cycling Team) 32.21 68 Gregory Campbell (Virgin Blue Cycling) 32.24 69 Abram Manion (Budget Forklifts) 70 Bradley Clark (Cycle City) 71 Robert Crowe (Hart-Ridewiser) 36.00 72 Malcolm Hart (Hart-Ridewiser) 36.03 73 Craig Gibbs (Cycle City) 74 Jamie Kelly (Hart-Ridewiser) 36.15 75 Damian Harris (Lakes Oil Cycling Team) 56.07 76 Blair Windsor (Budget Forklifts) 1.04.23 77 Peter Shanahan (Gold 1242) 1.04.44 Sprints Mocka 58 Buchan 1 Kyle Marwood (Lakes Oil Cycling Team) 3 pts 2 Leigh Howard (Jayco/VIS) 2 3 Michael England (GD Investments) 1 Mocka 94 Nowa 1 Dylan Newell (Praties Cycling Team) 3 pts 2 Benjamin King (South Australia/AIS) 2 3 Michael England (GD Investments) 1 Mountains Cat 3 Mocka 23 Bu 1 Leigh Howard (Jayco/VIS) 5 pts 2 Michael England (GD Investments) 3 3 Kyle Marwood (Lakes Oil Cycling Team) 2 Cat 3 Mocka 31 Pa 1 Leigh Howard (Jayco/VIS) 5 pts 2 Michael England (GD Investments) 3 3 Kyle Marwood (Lakes Oil Cycling Team) 2 Cat 3 Mocka 36 Pa 1 Leigh Howard (Jayco/VIS) 5 pts 2 Kyle Marwood (Lakes Oil Cycling Team) 3 3 Michael England (GD Investments) 2 Cat 2 Mocka 41 Cle 1 Leigh Howard (Jayco/VIS) 7 pts 2 Michael England (GD Investments) 5 3 Kyle Marwood (Lakes Oil Cycling Team) 3 Cat 3 Mocka 45 Su 1 Leigh Howard (Jayco/VIS) 5 pts 2 Michael England (GD Investments) 3 3 Kyle Marwood (Lakes Oil Cycling Team) 2 Cat 3 Mocka 49 Cut 1 Leigh Howard (Jayco/VIS) 5 pts 2 Michael England (GD Investments) 3 3 Kyle Marwood (Lakes Oil Cycling Team) 2 Cat 3 Mocka 63 Ho 1 Bernard Sulzberger (Virgin Blue Cycling) 5 pts 2 Benjamin King (South Australia/AIS) 3 3 Dylan Newell (Praties Cycling Team) 2 Teams 1 GD Investments 8.48.28 2 South Australia/AIS 0.17 3 Savings & Loans 6.27 4 Praties Cycling Team 6.53 5 Jayco/VIS 12.23 6 Drapac-Porsche 19.17 7 Virgin Blue Cycling 24.20 8 Credit Collect 34.17 9 Lakes Oil Cycling Team 37.16 10 Gold 1242 45.54 11 Budget Forklifts 55.08 12 Hart-Ridewiser 1.04.51 13 Cycle City 1.24.08 General classification after stage 4 1 Daniel Furmston (Praties Cycling Team) 7.18.36 2 Bernard Sulzberger (Virgin Blue Cycling) 0.11 3 Timothy Roe (Savings & Loans) 0.13 4 Cameron Hughes (GD Investments) 0.19 5 Benjamin King (South Australia/AIS) 0.21 6 Pip Grinter (Drapac-Porsche) 0.34 7 Leigh Howard (Jayco/VIS) 0.44 8 Chris Pryor (GD Investments) 9 Peter Milostic (GD Investments) 1.08 10 Christopher Luxton (Savings & Loans) 1.17 11 Dylan Newell (Praties Cycling Team) 1.19 12 Jonathon Lovelock (Jayco/VIS) 1.24 13 Chris Jory (South Australia/AIS) 14 Travis Meyer (South Australia/AIS) 1.25 15 Michael England (GD Investments) 7.03 16 Jason Rigg (Praties Cycling Team) 8.21 17 Brett Tivers (Drapac-Porsche) 8.32 18 Craig McCartney (Savings & Loans) 8.45 19 Shaun Mccarthy (Lakes Oil Cycling Team) 9.26 20 Reece Stephens (Credit Collect) 11.28 21 Will Dickeson (Savings & Loans) 11.57 22 Nathan Clarke (Praties Cycling Team) 12.16 23 Malcolm Rudolph (GD Investments) 12.22 24 Darren Rolfe (Virgin Blue Cycling) 12.27 25 Charles Howlett (Gold 1242) 12.34 26 David Kemp (Virgin Blue Cycling) 12.45 27 Jay Bourke (Budget Forklifts) 13.07 28 Casey Munro (Drapac-Porsche) 13.16 29 Tim Guy (South Australia/AIS) 13.23 30 Damien Turner (Budget Forklifts) 13.28 31 William Clarke (Praties Cycling Team) 32 Nathan Wise (Credit Collect) 33 Grieve-Johnson (Praties Cycling Team) 34 Graeme Allbon (Gold 1242) 35 Scott Kilmartin (GD Investments) 36 Henry Morley (Drapac-Porsche) 14.46 37 Peter Smith (Credit Collect) 15.20 38 Patrick Lane (Jayco/VIS) 16.24 39 Kyle Marwood (Lakes Oil Cycling Team) 16.27 40 Elliott Wells (Drapac-Porsche) 16.47 41 Joseph Lewis (South Australia/AIS) 17.19 42 Luis Trueba (Drapac-Porsche) 21.23 43 Peter Herzig (Virgin Blue Cycling) 21.37 44 Adrian Hanson (Lakes Oil Cycling Team) 23.01 45 Russell Gill (Savings & Loans) 23.04 46 Harry Rassie (Lakes Oil Cycling Team) 23.05 47 Stuart Payne (Credit Collect) 23.06 48 Brad Edmunds (Savings & Loans) 24.22 49 Stefan Kirsch (Hart-Ridewiser) 25.37 50 Kyle Bateson (GD Investments) 25.48 51 James Langedyk (Jayco/VIS) 30.56 52 Ashley Baines (Cycle City) 31.25 53 Joel Pearson (Savings & Loans) 32.10 54 Brock Roberts (Budget Forklifts) 32.37 55 Timothy Walker (Praties Cycling Team) 32.41 56 Steven Pilson (Gold 1242) 32.59 57 Anthony Chandler (Hart-Ridewiser) 34.15 58 Joel Fahy (Drapac-Porsche) 35.02 59 James Henry (Gold 1242) 35.14 60 Jay Callaghan (Lakes Oil Cycling Team) 38.21 61 Guy Green (Hart-Ridewiser) 40.25 62 Samuel Rix (Credit Collect) 63 Sam Moorhouse (Budget Forklifts) 40.31 64 Abram Manion (Budget Forklifts) 41.55 65 Bradley Clark (Cycle City) 43.57 66 Gregory Campbell (Virgin Blue Cycling) 44.44 67 Mark Isaacs (Cycle City) 45.38 68 David Shanahan (Gold 1242) 54.16 69 Ian Coker (Gold 1242) 56.31 70 Craig Gibbs (Cycle City) 58.31 71 Blair Windsor (Budget Forklifts) 1.13.05 72 William Alexander (Virgin Blue Cycling) 1.24.07 73 Robert Crowe (Hart-Ridewiser) 1.31.15 74 Jamie Kelly (Hart-Ridewiser) 1.33.35 75 Malcolm Hart (Hart-Ridewiser) 1.39.30 76 Damian Harris (Lakes Oil Cycling Team) 2.01.35 77 Peter Shanahan (Gold 1242) 2.31.48 Sprints classification 1 Malcolm Rudolph (GD Investments) 38 pts 2 David Kemp (Virgin Blue Cycling) 20 3 Will Dickeson (Savings & Loans) 17 4 Benjamin King (South Australia/AIS) 15 5 Kyle Marwood (Lakes Oil Cycling Team) 12 6 Nathan Clarke (Praties Cycling Team) 8 7 Leigh Howard (Jayco/VIS) 7 8 Bernard Sulzberger (Virgin Blue Cycling) 7 9 Pip Grinter (Drapac-Porsche) 6 10 Charles Howlett (Gold 1242) 5 11 James Langedyk (Jayco/VIS) 4 12 Cameron Hughes (GD Investments) 4 13 Craig McCartney (Savings & Loans) 4 14 Christopher Luxton (Savings & Loans) 3 15 Peter Herzig (Virgin Blue Cycling) 3 16 Shaun Mccarthy (Lakes Oil Cycling Team) 3 17 Dylan Newell (Praties Cycling Team) 3 18 Timothy Walker (Praties Cycling Team) 3 19 Darren Rolfe (Virgin Blue Cycling) 3 20 Abram Manion (Budget Forklifts) 3 21 Daniel Furmston (Praties Cycling Team) 3 22 Casey Munro (Drapac-Porsche) 2 23 Michael England (GD Investments) 2 24 Bradley Clark (Cycle City) 2 25 Jay Bourke (Budget Forklifts) 2 26 Blair Windsor (Budget Forklifts) 2 27 Russell Gill (Savings & Loans) 1 28 Brad Edmunds (Savings & Loans) 1 29 Jason Rigg (Praties Cycling Team) 1 30 Chris Pryor (GD Investments) 1 31 Luis Trueba (Drapac-Porsche) 1 Mountains classification 1 Leigh Howard (Jayco/VIS) 32 pts 2 Daniel Furmston (Praties Cycling Team) 23 3 Michael England (GD Investments) 19 4 Darren Rolfe (Virgin Blue Cycling) 18 5 Kyle Marwood (Lakes Oil Cycling Team) 14 6 Benjamin King (South Australia/AIS) 12 7 Bernard Sulzberger (Virgin Blue Cycling) 11 8 Charles Howlett (Gold 1242) 5 9 Chris Pryor (GD Investments) 5 10 Tim Guy (South Australia/AIS) 5 11 Peter Herzig (Virgin Blue Cycling) 5 12 Dylan Newell (Praties Cycling Team) 2 13 Will Dickeson (Savings & Loans) 2 14 Joseph Lewis (South Australia/AIS) 2 Criterium championship classification 1 Nathan Clarke (Praties Cycling Team) 17 pts 2 Bernard Sulzberger (Virgin Blue Cycling) 16 3 Leigh Howard (Jayco/VIS) 11 4 David Kemp (Virgin Blue Cycling) 10 5 James Langedyk (Jayco/VIS) 8 6 Joel Pearson (Savings & Loans) 7 7 Travis Meyer (South Australia/AIS) 7 8 Malcolm Rudolph (GD Investments) 6 9 Peter Milostic (GD Investments) 5 10 Pip Grinter (Drapac-Porsche) 5 11 Casey Munro (Drapac-Porsche) 4 12 Cameron Hughes (GD Investments) 4 13 Abram Manion (Budget Forklifts) 3 14 Will Dickeson (Savings & Loans) 3 15 Luis Trueba (Drapac-Porsche) 2 16 Adrian Hanson (Lakes Oil Cycling Team) 1 17 Kyle Marwood (Lakes Oil Cycling Team) 1 Teams classification 1 GD Investments 21.57.49 2 South Australia/AIS 1.43 3 Savings & Loans 6.39 4 Praties Cycling Team 7.33 5 Jayco/VIS 16.23 6 Drapac-Porsche 20.26 7 Virgin Blue Cycling 24.47 8 Credit Collect 36.23 9 Lakes Oil Cycling Team 39.14 10 Gold 1242 55.58 11 Budget Forklifts 56.48 12 Hart-Ridewiser 1.36.11 13 Cycle City 1.56.56
