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51st Herald Sun Tour - 2.3
Australia, October 18-27, 2002
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Stage 9 - October 25: Sale Criterium, 36 km
Cooke strengthens lead, Clarke wins criterium
By Rod Morris in Moe
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The strong Jayco team described it as "A dream day" as the VicRoads Herald Sun Tour rolled into the Gippsland area of country Victoria. Jayco's gun rider, Baden Cooke strengthened his hold on the prized yellow jersey and teammate Matt Wilson won the tour's 10th stage, a 99.8 km journey from Sale to Moe.
Today was a dual stage hit out for the tour riders, which in numbers has now been reduced from the original 80 to just 64 - and with more withdrawals expected during today's arduous climb from Warragul to Mt Baw Baw.
The day started with a 36 km criterium around the streets of Sale and while Hilton Clarke (Ballarat*eureka) took line honours in a bunch sprint, it was Baden Cooke who did all of the attacking. Cooke featured in all 11 of the intermediate sprints, winning nine of them and second in the other two to earn a gigantic 31 seconds bonus. Coupled with the extra 15 seconds for finishing runner-up to Clarke. With no real dramas for Cooke in the afternoon stage to Moe, the Benalla star will now take a lead of 2.01 minutes into the weekend's final two stages.
Cooke took the yellow jersey from previous leader Henk Vogels (Bicycle Superstore/Vic State Home Loans) after Thursday's climb over Mt Hotham, but to Vogels' credit, he produced a third placing in today's criterium to stay within the top 20 positions in General Classification standings. Swedish rider Jonas Ljungblad (Malaysia Airlines) remains in second position, 2.01 minutes behind Cooke, while ace Victorian David McKenzie (Active For Life) is third at 2.07 mins.
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Realistically any of the top 15 riders, who are within 10.27 minutes of each other are still with a chance to win the tour, although that number will be reduced dramatically after today's climb. There are still seven Australians in that top 15, heightening the distinct possibility of the first Aussie victory in the tour since the "Canberra Cannonball" - Neil Stephens was successful in 1986. The morning criterium was action packed with Cooke, Michal Precechtel of the Czech Republic riding for Latrobe City and Victorian Andrew Torney (Fitzroy Cycles/Australian Abalone Exports) making a solid early break.
"Attack was the best form of defence for me," Cooke explained later.
That trio took 1-2-3 in 10 of the 11 intermediate sprints and were only caught by the chasing peloton in the closing 3-laps. But to Cooke's credit, he still had enough sprint energy left in him to take third.
Photos
Images by Tom Balks/www.tombalks.com
- The setup crew working in the rain before the start
- The Peloton rides past an old Victorian water tower
- Baden Cooke in the break away from the start
- Breck away with around 30 sec up on the peloton
- Scott Guyton corners
- Seven laps to go
- Riders lean through the corner
- Hilton Clarke & Baden Cooke in the peloton
- Hilton Clarke with Baden Cooke 2nd and Henk Vogels 3rd
- Clarke talks to reporters
Results
1 Hilton Clarke (Aus) Ballarat*Eureka 49.51 (43.33 km/h) 2 Baden Cooke (Aus) Jayco 3 Henk Vogels (Aus) Bicycle S/Store-Vic State Home Loans 4 Bart Heirewegh (Bel) Carlton Midstrength 5 Peter Rogers (Aus) Rio Coffee 6 Jaarod Poad (NZl) Rio Coffee 7 Kevin Monahan (USA) Ballarat*Eureka 8 Joel Pearson (Aus) City Of Melbourne 9 David McKenzie (Aus) Active For Life 10 Jonothan Cantwell (Aus) Vicroads 11 David Betts (Aus) Fitzroy Cycles-Aust Abalone Exports 12 Kjell Carlström (Fin) Malaysia Airlines 13 Thomas Grönqvist (Swe) Malaysia Airlines 14 Jonas Ljungblad (Swe) Malaysia Airlines 0.03 15 Tomas Buchacek (Cze) Coates Shorco Sykes 16 Tom Leaper (Aus) Bicycle S/Store-Vic State Home Loans 17 Alan Iacuone (Aus) Active For Life 18 Heiko Szonn (Ger) City Of Melbourne 19 Nathan Russell (Aus) Coates Shorco Sykes 20 Eric Wohlberg (Can) Ballarat*Eureka 21 Andrew Graham (Aus) Bicycle S/Store-Vic State Home Loan 0.06 22 Rhys Pollock (Aus) Fitzroy Cycles-Aust Abalone Exports 23 Steve Cunningham (Aus) Rio Coffee 0.09 24 Trent Wilson (Aus) Active For Life 25 Jamie Drew (Aus) Active For Life 26 Phillip Thuaux (Aus) Frf Couriers 27 Jindlich Vana (Cze) Latrobe City 28 David McPartland (Aus) Coates Shorco Sykes 29 Michal Precechtel (Cze) Latrobe City 30 Danny In't Ven (Bel) Carlton Midstrength 31 Mark Renshaw (Aus) Jayco 32 Simon Gerrans (Aus) Ballarat*Eureka 33 Ryan Cox (RSA) Maffra Community Sports Club 34 Jeremy Maartens (RSA) Maffra Community Sports Club 35 Petr Bencik (Cze) Latrobe City 36 Garry Parsons (Aus) Morey & Hurford 37 Bernard Sulzberger (Aus) Vicroads 0.15 38 Aaron Kemps (Aus) Vicroads 39 Heath Blackgrove (NZl) Pelaco 40 Glenn Stojanow (Aus) Coates Shorco Sykes 41 Andrew Torney (Aus) Fitzroy Cycles-Aust Abalone Exports 42 Karl Menzies (Aus) City Of Melbourne 43 Ben Johnson (Aus) Fitzroy Cycles-Aust Abalone Exports 44 Christopher Carr (Aus) Fitzroy Cycles-Aust Abalone Expo 45 Russel Van Hout (Aus) Rio Coffee 46 Luis Fernando Pinheiro (Por) Ballarat*Eureka 47 Ryan Russell (NZl) Pelaco 48 Lubomir Kejval (Cze) Latrobe City 49 Simon Walker (Aus) Bicycle S/Store-Vic State Home Loans 50 James Perry (RSA) Malaysia Airlines 51 Klayten Smith (Aus) Coates Shorco Sykes 52 Tiaan Kannemeyer (RSA) Maffra Community Sports Club 53 Lee Vertongen (NZl) Pelaco 0.29 54 Nathan Clarke (Aus) Carlton Midstrength 0.31 55 Rodney Green (RSA) Maffra Community Sports Club 0.36 56 Rodney McGee (Aus) Jayco 0.54 57 Christian Lademann (Ger) Latrobe City 1.00 58 Sean Sullivan (Aus) Carlton Midstrength 1.03 59 Matthew Wilson (Aus) Jayco 1.07 60 Caleb Manion (Aus) City Of Melbourne 61 Scott Guyton (NZl) Pelaco 3.30 62 James Hannam (Aus) Rio Coffee 63 Bruce McIntosh (Aus) Carlton Midstrength 3.35 64 Robin Reid (NZl) Pelaco 6.04 65 Simone Mori (Ita) Morey & Hurford 6.49 66 Juha Paajanen (Fin) Malaysia Airlines 8.50 Sprints Sprint 1 - Lap 6 1 Baden Cooke (Aus) Jayco 3 pts 2 Michal Precechtel (Cze) Latrobe City 2 3 Matthew Wilson (Aus) Jayco 1 Sprint 2 - Lap 8 1 Baden Cooke (Aus) Jayco 3 pts 2 Michal Precechtel (Cze) Latrobe City 2 3 Andrew Torney (Aus) Fitzroy Cycles-Aust Abalone Exports 1 Sprint 3 - Lap 10 1 Baden Cooke (Aus) Jayco 3 pts 2 Andrew Torney (Aus) Fitzroy Cycles-Aust Abalone Exports 2 3 Michal Precechtel (Cze) Latrobe City 1 Sprint 4 - Lap 12 1 Michal Precechtel (Cze) Latrobe City 3 pts 2 Baden Cooke (Aus) Jayco 2 3 Andrew Torney (Aus) Fitzroy Cycles-Aust Abalone Exports 1 Sprint 5 - Lap 14 1 Baden Cooke (Aus) Jayco 3 pts 2 Andrew Torney (Aus) Fitzroy Cycles-Aust Abalone Exports 2 3 Michal Precechtel (Cze) Latrobe City 1 Sprint 6 - Lap 16 1 Michal Precechtel (Cze) Latrobe City 3 pts 2 Baden Cooke (Aus) Jayco 2 3 Andrew Torney (Aus) Fitzroy Cycles-Aust Abalone Exports 1 Sprint 7 - Lap 18 1 Baden Cooke (Aus) Jayco 3 pts 2 Michal Precechtel (Cze) Latrobe City 2 3 Andrew Torney (Aus) Fitzroy Cycles-Aust Abalone Exports 1 Sprint 8 - Lap 20 1 Baden Cooke (Aus) Jayco 3 pts 2 Andrew Torney (Aus) Fitzroy Cycles-Aust Abalone Exports 2 3 Michal Precechtel (Cze) Latrobe City 1 Sprint 9 - Lap 22 College of Commissaires: 1 Baden Cooke (Aus) Jayco 3 pts 2 Michal Precechtel (Cze) Latrobe City 2 3 Andrew Torney (Aus) Fitzroy Cycles-Aust Abalone Exports 1 Sprint 10 - Lap 24 1 Baden Cooke (Aus) Jayco 3 pts 2 Michal Precechtel (Cze) Latrobe City 2 3 Andrew Torney (Aus) Fitzroy Cycles-Aust Abalone Exports 1 Sprint 11 - Lap 26 1 Baden Cooke (Aus) Jayco 3 pts 2 Michal Precechtel (Cze) Latrobe City 2 3 Andrew Torney (Aus) Fitzroy Cycles-Aust Abalone Exports 1 General classification after stage 9 1 Baden Cooke (Aus) Jayco 19.42.05 2 Jonas Ljungblad (Swe) Malaysia Airlines 1.59 3 David McKenzie (Aus) Active For Life 2.05 4 Eric Wohlberg (Can) Ballarat*Eureka 2.58 5 Alan Iacuone (Aus) Active For Life 3.02 6 Thomas Grönqvist (Swe) Malaysia Airlines 3.05 7 Heiko Szonn (Ger) City Of Melbourne 3.26 8 Trent Wilson (Aus) Active For Life 3.32 9 Tiaan Kannemeyer (RSA) Maffra Community Sports Club 3.36 10 Kjell Carlström (Fin) Malaysia Airlines 4.28 11 Ryan Cox (RSA) Maffra Community Sports Club 4.47 12 Jeremy Maartens (RSA) Maffra Community Sports Club 4.57 13 Tomas Buchacek (Cze) Coates Shorco Sykes 6.24 14 Matthew Wilson (Aus) Jayco 7.36 15 Phillip Thuaux (Aus) Frf Couriers 10.26 16 Bart Heirewegh (Bel) Carlton Midstrength 10.54 17 David McPartland (Aus) Coates Shorco Sykes 13.34 18 Danny In't Ven (Bel) Carlton Midstrength 17.26 19 David Betts (Aus) Fitzroy Cycles-Aust Abalone Exports 17.32 20 James Perry (RSA) Malaysia Airlines 18.27 21 Jindlich Vana (Cze) Latrobe City 18.47 22 Henk Vogels (Aus) Bicycle S/Store-Vic State Home Loans 23 Luis Fernando Pinheiro (Por) Ballarat*Eureka 19.01 24 Heath Blackgrove (NZl) Pelaco 19.08 25 Petr Bencik (Cze) Latrobe City 19.46 26 Jamie Drew (Aus) Active For Life 20.24 27 Simon Gerrans (Aus) Ballarat*Eureka 22.31 28 Rhys Pollock (Aus) Fitzroy Cycles-Aust Abalone Exports 24.29 29 Garry Parsons (Aus) Morey & Hurford 26.25 30 Karl Menzies (Aus) City Of Melbourne 26.39 31 Ryan Russell (NZl) Pelaco 29.35 32 Glenn Stojanow (Aus) Coates Shorco Sykes 30.22 33 Scott Guyton (NZl) Pelaco 32.56 34 Christopher Carr (Aus) Fitzroy Cycles-Aust Abalone Expo 33.13 35 Jonothan Cantwell (Aus) Vicroads 35.28 36 Michal Precechtel (Cze) Latrobe City 36.06 37 Ben Johnson (Aus) Fitzroy Cycles-Aust Abalone Exports 37.26 38 Rodney McGee (Aus) Jayco 40.19 39 Lubomir Kejval (Cze) Latrobe City 41.10 40 Andrew Torney (Aus) Fitzroy Cycles-Aust Abalone Exports 43.07 41 Joel Pearson (Aus) City Of Melbourne 43.20 42 Nathan Russell (Aus) Coates Shorco Sykes 44.52 43 Peter Rogers (Aus) Rio Coffee 47.57 44 Russel Van Hout (Aus) Rio Coffee 49.01 45 Juha Paajanen (Fin) Malaysia Airlines 49.43 46 Simone Mori (Ita) Morey & Hurford 53.06 47 Christian Lademann (Ger) Latrobe City 55.41 48 Steve Cunningham (Aus) Rio Coffee 56.40 49 Rodney Green (RSA) Maffra Community Sports Club 57.23 50 Mark Renshaw (Aus) Jayco 57.48 51 Kevin Monahan (USA) Ballarat*Eureka 57.56 52 Caleb Manion (Aus) City Of Melbourne 59.11 53 Bernard Sulzberger (Aus) Vicroads 1.00.04 54 James Hannam (Aus) Rio Coffee 1.02.20 55 Aaron Kemps (Aus) Vicroads 1.03.21 56 Lee Vertongen (NZl) Pelaco 1.05.21 57 Klayten Smith (Aus) Coates Shorco Sykes 1.05.36 58 Sean Sullivan (Aus) Carlton Midstrength 1.08.41 59 Nathan Clarke (Aus) Carlton Midstrength 1.12.17 60 Jaarod Poad (NZl) Rio Coffee 1.14.58 61 Tom Leaper (Aus) Bicycle S/Store-Vic State Home Loans 1.15.03 62 Robin Reid (NZl) Pelaco 1.15.09 63 Hilton Clarke (Aus) Ballarat*Eureka 1.17.00 64 Bruce McIntosh (Aus) Carlton Midstrength 1.28.46 65 Andrew Graham (Aus) Bicycle S/Store-Vic State Home Loan 1.33.01 66 Simon Walker (Aus) Bicycle S/Store-Vic State Home Loans 2.15.52 Shimano Sprint Championship 1 Scott Guyton (NZl) Pelaco 74 pts 2 Baden Cooke (Aus) Jayco 52 3 Lee Vertongen (NZl) Pelaco 32 4 Michal Precechtel (Cze) Latrobe City 26 5 Eric Wohlberg (Can) Ballarat*Eureka 23 6 David McPartland (Aus) Coates Shorco Sykes 19 7 Andrew Torney (Aus) Fitzroy Cycles-Aust Abalone Exports 16 8 Kevin Monahan (USA) Ballarat*Eureka 13 9 Phillip Thuaux (Aus) Frf Couriers 13 10 Henk Vogels (Aus) Bicycle S/Store-Vic State Home Loans 13 11 Christian Lademann (Ger) Latrobe City 10 12 David Betts (Aus) Fitzroy Cycles-Aust Abalone Exports 10 13 Bart Heirewegh (Bel) Carlton Midstrength 9 14 Trent Wilson (Aus) Active For Life 8 15 Jonas Ljungblad (Swe) Malaysia Airlines 7 16 David McKenzie (Aus) Active For Life 7 17 Alan Iacuone (Aus) Active For Life 7 18 Ryan Russell (NZl) Pelaco 6 19 James Perry (RSA) Malaysia Airlines 6 20 Jamie Drew (Aus) Active For Life 6 21 Danny In't Ven (Bel) Carlton Midstrength 6 22 Tiaan Kannemeyer (RSA) Maffra Community Sports Club 6 23 Ryan Cox (RSA) Maffra Community Sports Club 6 24 Steve Cunningham (Aus) Rio Coffee 6 25 Christopher Carr (Aus) Fitzroy Cycles-Aust Abalone Expo 5 26 Thomas Grönqvist (Swe) Malaysia Airlines 5 27 Kjell Carlström (Fin) Malaysia Airlines 4 28 Peter Rogers (Aus) Rio Coffee 4 29 Klayten Smith (Aus) Coates Shorco Sykes 4 30 Jonothan Cantwell (Aus) Vicroads 4 31 Heiko Szonn (Ger) City Of Melbourne 3 32 Jaarod Poad (NZl) Rio Coffee 3 33 Joel Pearson (Aus) City Of Melbourne 3 34 Matthew Wilson (Aus) Jayco 2 35 Rodney McGee (Aus) Jayco 2 36 Simon Gerrans (Aus) Ballarat*Eureka 2 37 Sean Sullivan (Aus) Carlton Midstrength 2 38 Heath Blackgrove (NZl) Pelaco 2 39 Lubomir Kejval (Cze) Latrobe City 2 40 Russel Van Hout (Aus) Rio Coffee 2 41 Hilton Clarke (Aus) Ballarat*Eureka 1 42 Petr Bencik (Cze) Latrobe City 1 43 Tomas Buchacek (Cze) Coates Shorco Sykes 1 East Gippsland Shire King Of The Mountain Championship 1 Trent Wilson (Aus) Active For Life 36 pts 2 Thomas Grönqvist (Swe) Malaysia Airlines 26 3 Tiaan Kannemeyer (RSA) Maffra Community Sports Club 24 4 Danny In't Ven (Bel) Carlton Midstrength 20 5 Baden Cooke (Aus) Jayco 17 6 Phillip Thuaux (Aus) Frf Couriers 11 7 Scott Guyton (NZl) Pelaco 8 8 Ryan Cox (RSA) Maffra Community Sports Club 8 9 David McKenzie (Aus) Active For Life 6 10 Heiko Szonn (Ger) City Of Melbourne 6 11 Klayten Smith (Aus) Coates Shorco Sykes 4 12 Kjell Carlström (Fin) Malaysia Airlines 4 13 Jamie Drew (Aus) Active For Life 3 14 Henk Vogels (Aus) Bicycle S/Store-Vic State Home Loans 2 15 Bart Heirewegh (Bel) Carlton Midstrength 1 16 Eric Wohlberg (Can) Ballarat*Eureka 1 17 Jonas Ljungblad (Swe) Malaysia Airlines 1 18 Matthew Wilson (Aus) Jayco 1 19 Alan Iacuone (Aus) Active For Life 1 Active For Life - Criterium Championship 1 Baden Cooke (Aus) Jayco 33 pts 2 Hilton Clarke (Aus) Ballarat*Eureka 32 3 Henk Vogels (Aus) Bicycle S/Store-Vic State Home Loans 22 4 David McKenzie (Aus) Active For Life 18 5 Kevin Monahan (USA) Ballarat*Eureka 13 6 Mark Renshaw (Aus) Jayco 11 7 Bart Heirewegh (Bel) Carlton Midstrength 11 8 Jamie Drew (Aus) Active For Life 9 9 Christian Lademann (Ger) Latrobe City 8 10 Heiko Szonn (Ger) City Of Melbourne 7 11 Peter Rogers (Aus) Rio Coffee 7 12 Alan Iacuone (Aus) Active For Life 7 13 Joel Pearson (Aus) City Of Melbourne 6 14 David McPartland (Aus) Coates Shorco Sykes 6 15 Jaarod Poad (NZl) Rio Coffee 5 16 Sean Sullivan (Aus) Carlton Midstrength 5 17 Michal Precechtel (Cze) Latrobe City 5 18 Trent Wilson (Aus) Active For Life 4 19 Jonothan Cantwell (Aus) Vicroads 3 20 Eric Wohlberg (Can) Ballarat*Eureka 3 21 Phillip Thuaux (Aus) Frf Couriers 3 22 Caleb Manion (Aus) City Of Melbourne 1 23 Simon Gerrans (Aus) Ballarat*Eureka 1 24 Russel Van Hout (Aus) Rio Coffee 1 Herald Sun - Australian Based Rider Award 1 Phillip Thuaux (Aus) Frf Couriers 19.05.03 2 Garry Parsons (Aus) Morey & Hurford 15.59 3 Karl Menzies (Aus) City Of Melbourne 16.13 4 Glenn Stojanow (Aus) Coates Shorco Sykes 19.56 5 Christopher Carr (Aus) Fitzroy Cycles-Aust Abalone Expor 22.47 6 Jonothan Cantwell (Aus) Vicroads 25.02 7 Rodney McGee (Aus) Jayco 29.53 8 Andrew Torney (Aus) Fitzroy Cycles-Aust Abalone Exports 32.41 9 Joel Pearson (Aus) City Of Melbourne 32.54 10 Nathan Russell (Aus) Coates Shorco Sykes 34.26 11 Bernard Sulzberger (Aus) Vicroads 49.38 12 James Hannam (Aus) Rio Coffee 51.54 13 Aaron Kemps (Aus) Vicroads 52.55 14 Bruce McIntosh (Aus) Carlton Midstrength 1.18.20 15 Andrew Graham (Aus) Bicycle S/Store-Vic State Home Loan 1.22.35 16 Simon Walker (Aus) Bicycle S/Store-Vic State Home Loans 2.05.26 Don Porter Regional Challenge 1 Ballarat*Eureka 59.38.30 2 City Of Melbourne 34.14 3 Latrobe City 38.33 Victorian Transport Association Aggressive Rider Awards 1 Danny In't Ven (Bel) Carlton Midstrength 6 pts 2 Trent Wilson (Aus) Active For Life 6 3 Bart Heirewegh (Bel) Carlton Midstrength 5 4 Jaarod Poad (NZl) Rio Coffee 4 5 Henk Vogels (Aus) Bicycle S/Store-Vic State Home Loans 3 6 Thomas Grönqvist (Swe) Malaysia Airlines 3 7 Tiaan Kannemeyer (RSA) Maffra Community Sports Club 3 8 Eric Wohlberg (Can) Ballarat*Eureka 2 9 Scott Guyton (NZl) Pelaco 2 10 Lee Vertongen (NZl) Pelaco 2 11 Baden Cooke (Aus) Jayco 2 12 Michal Precechtel (Cze) Latrobe City 2 13 Andrew Torney (Aus) Fitzroy Cycles-Aust Abalone Exports 2 Team Classification 1 Active For Life 59.10.48 2 Malaysia Airlines 4.43 3 Maffra Community Sports Club 8.49 4 Jayco 23.49 5 Ballarat*Eureka 27.42 6 Coates Shorco Sykes 43.25 7 City Of Melbourne 1.01.56 8 Fitzroy Cycles-Aust Abalone Exports 1.02.19 9 Pelaco 1.03.37 10 Latrobe City 1.06.15 11 Carlton Midstrength 1.28.23 12 Rio Coffee 1.59.05 13 Vicroads 2.34.20 14 Bicycle S/Store-Vic State Home Loans 2.54.22
