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Good Friday International Track Meeting - IM
Herne Hill Velodrome, Great Britain, March 21, 2008
Gibb does the double at Herne Hill
By Gerry McManus
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The Good Friday International track meeting managed to miss out on the rain and snow that swept through the rest of Great Britain this Friday as over 100 riders braved the blustery day in South East London with the wind biting hard to produce a chilling breeze down the home straight on the former Olympic track.
Tony Gibb (Plowman Craven) ended the day £1000 richer after winning the big prize of the Golden Wheel scratch race to round off a fine day of racing. There were no appearances by Bradley Wiggins or Victoria Pendleton this year as they were both in Manchester going through their final preparations for the World Track Championships starting next Wednesday.
Riders from Slovakia, Germany, Switzerland, France, Belgium and South Africa gave the event a true international flavour and the big motor pace race proved to be the big winner with the crowd on the day.
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Luc Jones (New Tredegar Nomads CC) showed his prodigious sprinting talent when the 16 year-old Welshman won the opening White Hope sprint 200m time trial in 11.870 seconds in tough conditions. British team sprinter Christian Lyte (Sport City Velo) managed 11.238 when he won the senior Neovite 200m time trial.
Jones went on to win his way through to the sprint final where he held off the challenges from Kian Emadi (Tunstall Wheelers) and Jamie Bremner (Discovery Junior CC) to win the event that he was second in last year. Jones also showed he can ride in endurance events when he outsprinted fellow Welshman Dave Percival (Cardiff Ajax) to win the 12-lap Ron Beckett scratch race.
Lyte was pitched against South African Gadi Chait (Team Tekron Kitchens) and Peter Mitchell (Team Terminator) in the final of the Neovite Sprint and a delighted Chait crossed the line first ahead of Lyte.
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The crowd really got behind Plowman Craven's Simon Gaywood after he was involved in a battle with European champion Timo Sholz (Leipzig) in the Dallmer Motor Paced Grand Prix. Spectators were treated to a high speed race where the lead changed hands a number of times. Scholz was leading with ten laps to go when Gaywood started a charge from behind. Scholz put the hammer down and held on to win with Gaywood leaving his pacer Derek Marlowe in a last gasp sprint for the line. This was a fine result for Gaywood who was riding the specialist discipline for the first time.
Gaywood's team-mate Tony Gibb was full of confidence after winning the elimination race earlier in the day. The 2008 Eddie Soens Memorial race winner looked comfortable starting the Golden Wheel scratch race with Stefan Steinweg (Germany) as his main rival for top honours. Steinweg had earlier won the points race when he had escaped from the main field with Simon Gaywood.
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Chait and Johannes Roux (Climb on Bikes) were the first to make an attacking move in the Golden Wheel race but were forced into submission as the alarm bells rang in the bunch and the chase started in earnest. German Florian Fernow was the next to make his move and Gaywood headed off in pursuit. The Anglo-German pair shared the pace and their leading margin grew until Steinweg attacked from the bunch with Gibb on his wheel and the move was doomed The German kept his pace going and forged clear as the rest hesitated behind.
A number of key riders finally recognised the danger and gradually jumped across to the leader until a group of six formed the racing winning break. Luke Rowe (Rapha Condor Recycling.co.uk) Dominic Jelfs (MJS Racing), Mike Webb (Cardiff Ajax), Martin Freeman (Team Corley Cycles) and Gibb had all made it to the front group and steadily pulled clear.
Gibb made his winning move with three laps to go and quickly gained ground on Steinweg who was in hot pursuit. Gibb's pace was very quick and he managed to catch the main field in the process and crossed the line in the middle of the bunch to win the £1000 first prize.
A good day for the Plowman Craven team who immediately headed for the airport to travel to Scotland for the Girvan stage race.
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- Gadi Chait draped in the South African flag with his sprint trophy
- Simon Gaywood and Stefan Steinweg go clear in the points race
- Luc Jones wins the White Hope Sprint final
- Timo Scholz on his way to victory
- The White Sprint podium: (l-r) Kian Emadi (Tunstall Wheelers), Luc Jones (New Tredegar Nomads CC) and Jamie Bremner (Discovery Junior CC).
- The Adept handicap sprint podium: (l-r) Rebecca James, Peter Mitchell and Laura Trott
- Gadi Chait on his victory lap
- Too cold for some riders
- On the charge in the Ron Beckett scratch race
- Luc Jones wins the Ron Beckett scratch race
- More flowers for Jones's mum
- Simon Gaywood leads
- Tony Gibb on the attack
- Stefan Steinweg in good form
- Stefan Steinweg goes on his own in the Golden Wheel race
- The magnificent six
- Tony Gibb makes his winning move
- Tony Gibb takes the applause on his victory lap after winning the Golden Wheel race
- Tony Gibb with his Golden Wheel trophy
Results
Event A White Hope Sprint 200m Time Trial 1 Luc Jones (New Tredegar Nomads Cc) 11.870 2 Kian Emadi (Tunstall Wheelers) 11.884 3 Jamie Bremner (Discovery Junior Cc) 11.986 4 Kevin Stewart (Discovery Junior Cc) 12.123 5 Wim Beirnaert (Belgium) 12.211 6 Felix English (Lifeforce Cervelo) 12.429 7 Toby Sherwood (City Of Edinburgh Rc) 12.434 8 Thomas Gregory (Halesowen C & Ac) 12.443 9 Rebecca James (Abergavenny Rc) 12.654 10 Mark Burgess (Lewes Wanderers) 12.714 11 Stephen Bradbury P (Almer Park Velo) 12.814 12 Matt Gittings (Palmer Park Velo) 12.825 13 Robert Drinkwater (Twickenham Cc) 13.034 14 Laura Trott (Vc Londres) 13.106 15 Oliver Rossi (Glendene Cc) 13.213 16 Kyleigh Manners (Vc St Raphael) 13.233 17 Jim Lewis (Lea Valley Youth Cc) 13.273 18 Helen Scott (Halesowen C & Ac) 13.804 19 Gavin Mitchell (Twickenham Cc) 13.806 20 Brock Duncumbe Rogers (Preston Park Youth Cc ) 14.000 21 Claudio Scabbia (Italy Kia Motors Ct) 14.081 22 Josh Adgar (Go Sports Spex Rt) 14.133 Event B Neovite Sprint 200m Time Trial 1 Christian Lyte (Sportcity Velo) 11.238 2 Gadi Chait (South Africa Team Tekron Kitchens) 11.286 3 Peter Mitchell (Team Terminator) 11.289 4 Matej Slivovsky (Slovakia) 11.738 5 Andrea Prati (Italy) 11.801 6 Josh Hargreaves (Sportcity Velo) 11.841 7 Michael Partridge (Cc Cardiff) 12.050 8 Lee Povey (Team Terminator) 12.248 9 Anthony Stirrat (City Of Edinburgh Rc) 12.492 10 Michal Rohon (Slovakia) 12.582 11 Cristian Bettinelli (Italy Kia Motors Ct) 12.632 12 Steven Hill (Brooks Cycles) 12.668 13 Mosies De Gracia (Panama) 12.696 14 David Dentus (Team Quest) 12.737 15 Giovanni Alaia (Italy Kia Motors Ct) 12.808 16 Richard Kennedy (Chesterfield Coureurs) 12.887 17 Marlon Moncrieffe A (Giskoviner.Com) 13.117 Event C Adept Handicap Sprint Heat 1 1 Lee Povey (Team Terminator) 2 Helen Scott (Halesowen C & Ac) 3 Christian Lyte (Sportcity Velo) Heat 2 1 Robert Drinkwater (Twickenham Cc) 2 Michael Partridge (Cc Cardiff) Heat 3 1 Rebecca James (Abergavenny Rc) 2 Steven Hill (Brooks Cycles) 3 Josh Hargreaves (Sportcity Velo) Heat 4 1 Peter Mitchell (Team Terminator) 2 Luc Jones (New Tredegar Nomads Cc) 3 Thomas Gregory (Halesowen C & Ac) Heat 5 1 Laura Trott (Vc Londres) 2 Kian Emadi (Tunstall Wheelers) 3 Jamie Bremner (Discovery Junior Cc) Event 1 Adept Handicap Sprint Final 1 Peter Mitchell (Team Terminator) 2 Rebecca James (Abergavenny Rc) 3 Laura Trott (Vc Londres) Event 2 Ed Taylor Points Race 1 Stefan Steinweg (Germany) 40 pts 2 Simon Gaywood (Plowman Craven -Evans) 35 3 Chris Legg (A W Cycles.Co.Uk) 17 4 Martin Freeman (Team Corley Cycles) 12 Event 3 Johnnie Dennis White Hope Sprint Heat 1 1 Luc Jones (New Tredegar Nomads Cc) 2 Thomas Gregory (Halesowen C & Ac) Heat 2 1 Kian Emadi (Tunstall Wheelers) 2 Toby Sherwood (City Of Edinburgh Rc) Heat 3 1 Jamie Bremner (Discovery Junior Cc) 2 Felix English (Lifeforce Cervelo) Heat 4 1 Kevin Stewart (Discovery Junior Cc) 2 Neil Cooper (A W Cycles.Co.Uk) Event 4 Neovite Sprint Heat 1 1 Christian Lyte (Sportcity Velo) 11.847 2 Marlon Moncrieffe (Agiskoviner.Com) Heat 2 1 Gadi Chait (South Africa Team Tekron Kitchens) 11.826 2 Michal Rohon (Slovakia) Heat 3 1 Peter Mitchell (Team Terminator) 12.431 2 Anthony Stirrat (City Of Edinburgh Rc) Heat 4 1 Steven Hill (Brooks Cycles) 12.767 2 Lee Povey (Team Terminator) Heat 5 1 Matej Slivovsky (Slovakia) 12.891 2 Michael Partridge (Cc Cardiff) Heat 6 1 Andrea Prati (Italy) 11.385 2 Josh Hargreaves (Sportcity Velo) Event 5 Catford CC Devil 1 Chris Legg (A W Cycles.Co.Uk) 2 Mark Baxter (West Drayton Mtb) 3 Thomas Gregory (Halesowen C & Ac) Event 6 Neovite Sprint Repechage Rep 1 1 Josh Hargreaves (Sportcity Velo) 2 Marlon Moncrieffe (Agiskoviner.Com) Rep 2 1 Michal Rohon (Slovakia) 2 Michael Partridge (Cc Cardiff) Rep 3 1 Lee Povey (Team Terminator) 2 Cristian Bettinelli (Italy Kia Motors Ct) Event 7 Johnnie Dennis White Hope Sprint Final 1 Luc Jones (New Tredegar Nomads Cc) 12.255 2 Kian Emadi (Tunstall Wheelers) 3 Jamie Bremner (Discovery Junior Cc) 4 Kevin Stewart (Discovery Junior Cc) Event 8 Dallmer Motor Paced Grand Prix 1 Timo Scholz (Germany Liepzig) - Peter Bauerlein (Pacer) 2 Simon Gaywood (Plowman CravenPinnacle) - Derek Marlowe (Pacer) 3 Raymond Roll (France) - Sam Mooij (Pacer) 4 Florian Fernow (Germany Berlin) - Karsten Podlesch (Pacer) 5 Patrick Besterman (Holland) - Cees Stam (Pacer) 6 Antoine Gaudillat (France Checy) - Alain Gaudillat (Pacer) 7 James Holland-Leader (Agiskoviner.Com) - Colin Denman (Pacer) Event 9 Neovite Sprint Semi Finals SF 1 1 Christian Lyte (Sportcity Velo) 11.827 2 Andrea Prati (Italy) 3 Lee Povey (Team Terminator) SF 2 1 Gadi Chait (South Africa Team Tekron Kitchens) 11.603 2 Matej Slivovsky (Slovakia) 3 Josh Hargreaves (Sportcity Velo) SF 3 1 Peter Mitchell (Team Terminator) 12.180 2 Steven Hill (Brooks Cycles) 3 Michal Rohon (Slovakia) Event 10 Women's Keirin 1 Rebecca James (Abergavenny Rc) 2 Helen Scott (Halesowen C & Ac) 3 Laura Trott (Vc Londres) Event 11 Elimination Race 1 Tony Gibb (Plowman Craven -Pinnacle) 2 Martin Freeman (Team Corley Cycles) 3 Event 12a Neovire Sprint Minor Final 1 Andrea Prati (Italy) 2 Matej Slivovsky (Slovakia) Event 12b Neovire Sprint Final 1 Gadi Chait (South Africa Team Tekron Kitchens) 2 Christian Lyte (Sportcity Velo) 3 Peter Mitchell (Team Terminator) Event 13 Ron Beckett Scratch Race 1 Luc Jones (New Tredegar Nomads Cc) 2 Dave Percival (Cardiff Ajax Cc) 3 Thomas Gregory (Halesowen C & Ac) Event 14 Golden Wheel Scratch Race 1 Tony Gibb (Plowman Craven - Pinnacle) 2 Stefan Steinweg (Germany) 3 Martin Freeman (Team Corley Cycles) 4 Luke Rowe (Rapha Condor Recycling.Co.Uk) 5 Mike Webb (Cardiff Ajax Cc) 6 Dominic Jelfs (Mjs Racing) 7 Christian Lyte (Sportcity Velo) 8 Josh Hargreaves (Sportcity Velo)
