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51st Herald Sun Tour - 2.3
Australia, October 18-27, 2002
Stage 1 - October 18: Melbourne CBD Criterium, 31.5 km
McKenzie opens with a win
By Rod Morris in Melbourne
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With the tag of one of the most prolific stage winners of the Herald Sun Tour, Victorian David McKenzie started this year's race in tremendous fashion. McKenzie (28) won the opening 30-lap criterium, held in Melbourne's Central Business District, holding off fast finishing American Kevin Monahan, who is riding for the Ballarat*eureka team and German criterium specialist Christian Lademann, who this week is representing Latrobe City.
McKenzie is the captain of the iTeamnova.com unit, which this week is racing under the banner of Active For Life team and entered the tour's as the defending champion of the Melbourne criterium.
"Its always hard as the defender, because the other riders tend to watch you more closely," McKenzie said.
With a 20 second bonus for winning the stage and a further 5 seconds bonus coming from the intermediate sprints, McKenzie also claimed the much prized yellow jersey, which signifies the tour leader.
"This is a bit of a surprise, as I wasn't really chasing the yellow, but more importantly looking to win the stage," McKenzie said.
The iTeamnova.com outfit was developed last year and this week has a full team of five in-form riders. Allan Iacuone, a former winner of the Tour of Tasmania, recovered from a potentially nasty fall yesterday to claim fourth place, while teammates, Jamie Drew, Brett Lancaster and Trent Wilson made their presence felt at times.
Drew in particular is being watched closely by his rivals after winning last weekend's Melbourne to Warrnambool Classic. McKenzie said he was surprised that few riders chased him down in the early stages of the race.
"Our team's plan was to attack early and see what eventuated," he said. "I was surprised that very few chasers came with me, I think there was only about a dozen or so."
"This win is not just down to me, its a credit to everyone associated with the team," he added. "Nearly everyone in the team are volunteers and if we (the riders) don't succeed, the team may not survive and that would be a crying shame for the amount of work they have done."
"But a win like this is, brings so much joy to everyone involved and I would like to think may also attract the right type of sponsor that we need," McKenzie explained.
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On a tough 1050 m circuit, which included an extremely heady wind, the 80 riders were soon strung out over several hundred metres. Despite the wind, the field still managed to average a speed of almost 41 kph for the 30 lap race.
Chief Commissaire Russell Miller of Western Australia had no hesitation in withdrawing a bulk of the field when the race hit three laps to go after McKenzie and his breakaway group had lapped the peloton.
"If they can't win the race, they shouldn't be on the course," Miller said. All finishing riders admitted the course was tough because of the wind conditions.
"It wasn't easy out there, not easy at all," Tasmanian Sean Sullivan (Carlton Midstrength) - the defending Herald Sun Tour Criterium Champion said.
One of Australia's Tour de France stars, Baden Cooke (Jayco) claimed opening honours in this year's Criterium Championship. Cooke scored 14 points, including 2 wins, 3 seconds and 2 thirds from the 11 intermediate sprints on offer.
Canadian cyclist Eric Wohlberg (Ballarat*eureka) was judged most aggressive rider on the opening day, while 19-year-old Victorian Joel Pearson has taken the early lead in the Best Australian Based Rider award. Another of the associated awards on the opening day was Best Team Worker, won by Lademann (Latrobe City).
Photography
Images by Tom Balks/www.tombalks.com
- David McKenzie (Active for Life) lines up before the start of the criterium
- All lined up and somewhere to go
- Mark Renshaw (Jayco) looking confident at the start
- Baden Cooke (Jayco) claimed the sprint prize for day 1
- Baden Cooke (Jayco) wins another sprint
- Christian Lademann (Latrobe City) was one of the most active riders in stage 1
- Christian Lademann (Latrobe City) giving it some stick
- Italian Francesco Cipolletta riding for the Morey & Hurford team in the Sun Tour
- James Perry (Malaysia Airlines) takes a corner during stage 1
- Juha Paajanen (Malaysia Airlines) gets some last minute lube
- Kevin Monahan (Ballarat*Eureka) during stage 1
- The Sun Tour peloton race around Melbourne's CBD during stage 1
- The strung out peloton race around Melbourne's CBD during stage 1
- Mark Renshaw (Jayco) and Russell Van Hout break away
- Simon Gerrans (Ballarat*eureka) comes a cropper on a corner
- The remains of Simon Gerrans' bike after his crash
- David McKenzie (Active for Life) wins the first stage in Melbourne
- The first stage podium (L to R): Kevin Monahan (2nd), David McKenzie (1st) and Christian Lademann (3rd)
- David McKenzie (Active for Life) on the podium in the leader's yellow jersey
Images by Andrew Haig
- Baden Cooke's prototype ultralight seat (ouch!)
- Dave McKenzie (Active for Life/iTeam Nova) breaking away - en route to a well deserved win
- McKenzie, Iacuone and Wohlberg towards the end
- Baden Cooke and Eric Wohlberg driving the bunch
- Here comes Macca! Mckenzie, Iacuone and Wohlberg (from left)
- The bunch up close and colourful
- Henk Vogels (Bicycle S/Store) leading the pack with Baden Cooke in hot pursuit
Results
1 David McKenzie (Aus) Active For Life 46.48 (40.38 km/h) 2 Kevin Monahan (USA) Ballarat*Eureka 0.03 3 Christian Lademann (Ger) Latrobe City 4 Alan Iacuone (Aus) Active For Life 0.10 5 Hilton Clarke (Aus) Ballarat*Eureka 6 Henk Vogels (Aus) Bicycle S/Store-Vic State Home Loans 7 Baden Cooke (Aus) Jayco 8 Eric Wohlberg (Can) Ballarat*Eureka 9 Mark Renshaw (Aus) Jayco 1.00 10 Russel Van Hout (Aus) Rio Coffee 11 Joel Pearson (Aus) City Of Melbourne 1.30 12 Matthew Wilson (Aus) Jayco 13 Rodney McGee (Aus) Jayco 14 Bradley Wiggins (GBr) Jayco 15 Kjell Carlström (Fin) Malaysia Airlines 16 Jonas Ljungblad (Swe) Malaysia Airlines 17 Simon Gerrans (Aus) Ballarat*Eureka 18 Bruce McIntosh (Aus) Carlton Midstrength 19 Bart Heirewegh (Bel) Carlton Midstrength 20 Danny In't Ven (Bel) Carlton Midstrength 21 Nathan Clarke (Aus) Carlton Midstrength 22 Sean Sullivan (Aus) Carlton Midstrength 23 Petr Bencik (Cze) Latrobe City 24 Jamie Drew (Aus) Active For Life 25 Brett Lancaster (Aus) Active For Life 26 Trent Wilson (Aus) Active For Life 27 Caleb Manion (Aus) City Of Melbourne 28 Karl Menzies (Aus) City Of Melbourne 29 Simon Walker (Aus) Bicycle S/Store-Vic State Home Loan 30 Andrew Graham (Aus) Bicycle S/Store-Vic State Home Loa 31 Tim Decker (Aus) Bicycle S/Store-Vic State Home Loans 32 Tom Leaper (Aus) Bicycle S/Store-Vic State Home Loans 33 Francesco Cipolletta (Ita) Morey & Hurford 34 David Pell (Aus) Morey & Hurford 35 Garry Parsons (Aus) Morey & Hurford 36 Scott Guyton (NZl) Pelaco 37 Lee Vertongen (NZl) Pelaco 38 Heath Blackgrove (NZl) Pelaco 39 Ryan Russell (NZl) Pelaco 40 Robin Reid (NZl) Pelaco 41 Ashley Hutchinson (Aus) Vicroads 42 Aaron Kemps (Aus) Vicroads 43 Jonothan Cantwell (Aus) Vicroads 44 Bernard Sulzberger (Aus) Vicroads 45 Lee Godfrey (Aus) Vicroads 46 David Harrigan (Aus) Frf Couriers 47 Brad Mills (Aus) Frf Couriers 48 Phillip Thuaux (Aus) Frf Couriers 49 Jonathan Davis (Aus) Frf Couriers 50 Scott Dixon (Aus) Frf Couriers 51 David Betts (Aus) Fitzroy Cycles-Aust Abalone Exports 52 Ben Johnson (Aus) Fitzroy Cycles-Aust Abalone Exports 53 Christopher Carr (Aus) Fitzroy Cycles-Aust Abalone Exp 54 Andrew Torney (Aus) Fitzroy Cycles-Aust Abalone Export 55 Rhys Pollock (Aus) Fitzroy Cycles-Aust Abalone Exports 56 Tomas Buchacek (Cze) Coates Shorco Sykes 57 Klayten Smith (Aus) Coates Shorco Sykes 58 Nathan Russell (Aus) Coates Shorco Sykes 59 Glenn Stojanow (Aus) Coates Shorco Sykes 60 David McPartland (Aus) Coates Shorco Sykes 61 Jaarod Poad (NZl) Rio Coffee 62 Steve Cunningham (Aus) Rio Coffee 63 James Hannam (Aus) Rio Coffee 64 Peter Rogers (Aus) Rio Coffee 65 Tiaan Kannemeyer (RSA) Maffra Community Sports Club 66 Ryan Cox (RSA) Maffra Community Sports Club 67 Rodney Green (RSA) Maffra Community Sports Club 68 Jeremy Maartens (RSA) Maffra Community Sports Club 69 Ian McLeod (RSA) Maffra Community Sports Club 70 Luis Fernando Pinheiro (Por) Ballarat*Eureka 71 Jindlich Vana (Cze) Latrobe City 72 Juha Paajanen (Fin) Malaysia Airlines 73 Michal Precechtel (Cze) Latrobe City 74 Luca Belluomini (Ita) Morey & Hurford 75 Lubomir Kejval (Cze) Latrobe City 76 Heiko Szonn (Ger) City Of Melbourne 77 Simone Mori (Ita) Morey & Hurford 78 Thomas Grönqvist (Swe) Malaysia Airlines 79 James Perry (RSA) Malaysia Airlines DNF James Taylor (Aus) City Of Melbourne Sprints Sprint 1 - Lap 6 1 Christian Lademann (Ger) Latrobe City 3 pts 2 Baden Cooke (Aus) Jayco 2 3 Eric Wohlberg (Can) Ballarat*Eureka 1 Sprint 2 - Lap 8 1 Baden Cooke (Aus) Jayco 3 pts 2 Christian Lademann (Ger) Latrobe City 2 3 Eric Wohlberg (Can) Ballarat*Eureka 1 Sprint 3 - Lap 10 1 Eric Wohlberg (Can) Ballarat*Eureka 3 pts 2 Christian Lademann (Ger) Latrobe City 2 3 Baden Cooke (Aus) Jayco 1 Sprint 4 - Lap 12 1 Kevin Monahan (USA) Ballarat*Eureka 3 pts 2 Henk Vogels (Aus) Bicycle S/Store-Vic State Home Loans 2 3 Baden Cooke (Aus) Jayco 1 Sprint 5 - Lap 14 1 Baden Cooke (Aus) Jayco 3 pts 2 Alan Iacuone (Aus) Active For Life 2 3 Kevin Monahan (USA) Ballarat*Eureka 1 Sprint 6 - Lap 16 1 David McKenzie (Aus) Active For Life 3 pts 2 Alan Iacuone (Aus) Active For Life 2 3 Henk Vogels (Aus) Bicycle S/Store-Vic State Home Loans 1 Sprint 7 - Lap 18 1 Eric Wohlberg (Can) Ballarat*Eureka 3 pts 2 Baden Cooke (Aus) Jayco 2 3 Henk Vogels (Aus) Bicycle S/Store-Vic State Home Loans 1 Sprint 8 - Lap 20 1 Kevin Monahan (USA) Ballarat*Eureka 3 pts 2 Baden Cooke (Aus) Jayco 2 3 Henk Vogels (Aus) Bicycle S/Store-Vic State Home Loans 1 Sprint 9 - Lap 22 1 Christian Lademann (Ger) Latrobe City 3 pts 2 Henk Vogels (Aus) Bicycle S/Store-Vic State Home Loans 2 3 David McKenzie (Aus) Active For Life 1 Sprint 10 - Lap 24 1 James Perry (RSA) Malaysia Airlines 3 pts 2 Ryan Cox (RSA) Maffra Community Sports Club 2 3 Matthew Wilson (Aus) Jayco 1 Sprint 11 - Lap 26 1 James Perry (RSA) Malaysia Airlines 3 pts 2 Eric Wohlberg (Can) Ballarat*Eureka 2 3 David McKenzie (Aus) Active For Life 1 General Classification after stage 1 1 David McKenzie (Aus) Active For Life 46.23 2 Kevin Monahan (USA) Ballarat*Eureka 0.06 3 Christian Lademann (Ger) Latrobe City 0.08 4 Baden Cooke (Aus) Jayco 0.21 5 Alan Iacuone (Aus) Active For Life 0.25 6 Eric Wohlberg (Can) Ballarat*Eureka 7 Henk Vogels (Aus) Bicycle S/Store-Vic State Home Loans 0.26 8 Hilton Clarke (Aus) Ballarat*Eureka 0.31 9 Russel Van Hout (Aus) Rio Coffee 1.25 10 Mark Renshaw (Aus) Jayco 11 James Perry (RSA) Malaysia Airlines 1.49 12 Ryan Cox (RSA) Maffra Community Sports Club 1.53 13 Matthew Wilson (Aus) Jayco 1.54 14 Ian McLeod (RSA) Maffra Community Sports Club 1.55 15 Jeremy Maartens (RSA) Maffra Community Sports Club 16 Rodney Green (RSA) Maffra Community Sports Club 17 Tiaan Kannemeyer (RSA) Maffra Community Sports Club 18 Peter Rogers (Aus) Rio Coffee 19 James Hannam (Aus) Rio Coffee 20 Steve Cunningham (Aus) Rio Coffee 21 Jaarod Poad (NZl) Rio Coffee 22 David McPartland (Aus) Coates Shorco Sykes 23 Glenn Stojanow (Aus) Coates Shorco Sykes 24 Nathan Russell (Aus) Coates Shorco Sykes 25 Klayten Smith (Aus) Coates Shorco Sykes 26 Tomas Buchacek (Cze) Coates Shorco Sykes 27 Rhys Pollock (Aus) Fitzroy Cycles-Aust Abalone Exports 28 Andrew Torney (Aus) Fitzroy Cycles-Aust Abalone Export 29 Christopher Carr (Aus) Fitzroy Cycles-Aust Abalone Exp 30 Ben Johnson (Aus) Fitzroy Cycles-Aust Abalone Exports 31 David Betts (Aus) Fitzroy Cycles-Aust Abalone Exports 32 Scott Dixon (Aus) Frf Couriers 33 Jonathan Davis (Aus) Frf Couriers 34 Phillip Thuaux (Aus) Frf Couriers 35 Brad Mills (Aus) Frf Couriers 36 David Harrigan (Aus) Frf Couriers 37 Lee Godfrey (Aus) Vicroads 38 Bernard Sulzberger (Aus) Vicroads 39 Jonothan Cantwell (Aus) Vicroads 40 Aaron Kemps (Aus) Vicroads 41 Ashley Hutchinson (Aus) Vicroads 42 Robin Reid (NZl) Pelaco 43 Ryan Russell (NZl) Pelaco 44 Heath Blackgrove (NZl) Pelaco 45 Lee Vertongen (NZl) Pelaco 46 Scott Guyton (NZl) Pelaco 47 Garry Parsons (Aus) Morey & Hurford 48 David Pell (Aus) Morey & Hurford 49 Francesco Cipolletta (Ita) Morey & Hurford 50 Luca Belluomini (Ita) Morey & Hurford 51 Simone Mori (Ita) Morey & Hurford 52 Tom Leaper (Aus) Bicycle S/Store-Vic State Home Loans 53 Tim Decker (Aus) Bicycle S/Store-Vic State Home Loans 54 Andrew Graham (Aus) Bicycle S/Store-Vic State Home Loa 55 Simon Walker (Aus) Bicycle S/Store-Vic State Home Loan 57 Karl Menzies (Aus) City Of Melbourne 58 Caleb Manion (Aus) City Of Melbourne 59 Heiko Szonn (Ger) City Of Melbourne 60 Trent Wilson (Aus) Active For Life 61 Brett Lancaster (Aus) Active For Life 62 Jamie Drew (Aus) Active For Life 63 Jindlich Vana (Cze) Latrobe City 64 Lubomir Kejval (Cze) Latrobe City 65 Petr Bencik (Cze) Latrobe City 66 Michal Precechtel (Cze) Latrobe City 67 Sean Sullivan (Aus) Carlton Midstrength 68 Nathan Clarke (Aus) Carlton Midstrength 69 Danny In't Ven (Bel) Carlton Midstrength 70 Bart Heirewegh (Bel) Carlton Midstrength 71 Bruce McIntosh (Aus) Carlton Midstrength 72 Simon Gerrans (Aus) Ballarat*Eureka 73 Luis Fernando Pinheiro (Por) Ballarat*Eureka 74 Thomas Grönqvist (Swe) Malaysia Airlines 75 Jonas Ljungblad (Swe) Malaysia Airlines 76 Juha Paajanen (Fin) Malaysia Airlines 77 Kjell Carlström (Fin) Malaysia Airlines 78 Bradley Wiggins (GBr) Jayco 79 Rodney McGee (Aus) Jayco Shimano - Sprint Championship 1 Baden Cooke (Aus) Jayco 14 pts 2 Christian Lademann (Ger) Latrobe City 10 3 Eric Wohlberg (Can) Ballarat*Eureka 10 4 Kevin Monahan (USA) Ballarat*Eureka 7 5 Henk Vogels (Aus) Bicycle S/Store-Vic State Home Loans 7 6 James Perry (RSA) Malaysia Airlines 6 7 David McKenzie (Aus) Active For Life 5 8 Alan Iacuone (Aus) Active For Life 4 9 Ryan Cox (RSA) Maffra Community Sports Club 2 10 Matthew Wilson (Aus) Jayco 1 Active For Life - Criterium Championship 1 David McKenzie (Aus) Active For Life 10 pts 2 Kevin Monahan (USA) Ballarat*Eureka 9 3 Christian Lademann (Ger) Latrobe City 8 4 Alan Iacuone (Aus) Active For Life 7 5 Hilton Clarke (Aus) Ballarat*Eureka 6 6 Henk Vogels (Aus) Bicycle S/Store-Vic State Home Loans 5 7 Baden Cooke (Aus) Jayco 4 8 Eric Wohlberg (Can) Ballarat*Eureka 3 9 Mark Renshaw (Aus) Jayco 2 10 Russel Van Hout (Aus) Rio Coffee 1 Herald Sun - Australian Based Rider Award 1 Rodney McGee (Aus) Jayco 4.01 2 Bruce McIntosh (Aus) Carlton Midstrength 3 Karl Menzies (Aus) City Of Melbourne 4 James Taylor (Aus) City Of Melbourne 5 Joel Pearson (Aus) City Of Melbourne 6 Simon Walker (Aus) Bicycle S/Store-Vic State Home Loans 7 Andrew Graham (Aus) Bicycle S/Store-Vic State Home Loan 8 Tim Decker (Aus) Bicycle S/Store-Vic State Home Loans 9 Garry Parsons (Aus) Morey & Hurford 10 Ashley Hutchinson (Aus) Vicroads 11 Aaron Kemps (Aus) Vicroads 12 Jonothan Cantwell (Aus) Vicroads 13 Bernard Sulzberger (Aus) Vicroads 14 Lee Godfrey (Aus) Vicroads 15 Brad Mills (Aus) Frf Couriers 16 Phillip Thuaux (Aus) Frf Couriers 17 Jonathan Davis (Aus) Frf Couriers 18 Scott Dixon (Aus) Frf Couriers 19 Christopher Carr (Aus) Fitzroy Cycles-Aust Abalone Exp 20 Andrew Torney (Aus) Fitzroy Cycles-Aust Abalone Export 21 Nathan Russell (Aus) Coates Shorco Sykes 22 Glenn Stojanow (Aus) Coates Shorco Sykes 23 James Hannam (Aus) Rio Coffee Aggressive Rider Awards 1 Eric Wohlberg (Can) Ballarat*Eureka 2 pts Team Classification 1 Ballarat*Eureka 2.20.11 2 Active For Life 1.18 3 Jayco 2.38 4 Latrobe City 2.56 5 Bicycle S/Store-Vic State Home Loans Home Loans 3.14 6 Rio Coffee 4.13 7 Maffra Community Sports Club Club 4.41 8 Malaysia Airlines 4.43 9 Carlton Midstrength 10 City Of Melbourne 11 Morey & Hurford 12 Pelaco 13 Vicroads 14 Frf Couriers 15 Fitzroy Cycles-Aust Abalone Exports Exports 16 Coates Shorco Sykes
