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Oceania Track Championships - CC
Melbourne, Australia, November 23-26, 2006
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Day 4 - November 26
Henderson dominates scratch and points races; Kerrie Meares claims women's keirin
By Amy McCann
The crowd was seeing double at the Joe Ciavola Velodrome with New Zealand's Greg Henderson claiming the men's 15km scratch race in the morning session and then backing it up with gold in the men's 30km points race only six hours later.
The 2004 world scratch champion defeated Zap Dempster (Bendigo CC) and Hayden Josfeski (QLD) in the scratch final, whilst he also dominated the points race with 85 points, 32 ahead of Dempster and Josfeski again. In the men's team sprint final, Shane Perkins, Scott Sunderland and Joel Leonard narrowly defeated Mark French, Jason Niblett and Daniel Ellis by only 0.070.
Kerrie Meares claimed her second medal of the championships, but this time it was gold in the women's keirin. Kerrie edged out Chloe Macpherson and women's time trial champion Kristine Bayley for gold.
In other events, Queensland's Phillippa Hindmarsh was too quick for her opponents in the junior women's time trial, claiming gold in a time nearly two seconds ahead of Courtney Le Lay and Chloe Hosking's. In the men's 4000m team pursuit final, Philip Thuax, Zak Dempster, Hayden Josfeski and Stephen Rossendell caught the New Zealand team after 11 laps to claim gold and Byron Davis beat Mark Glowacki in the junior men's sprint final in straight sets.
Photography
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Images by Amy McCann
- The Australian team on their way to victory in the men's team pursuit
- Full gas in the team pursuit final.
- Australia caught New Zealand after 11 laps.
- The New Zealand team couldn't hold off the Australian onslaught
Images by Gary Newvine
- Sprinting for the line.
- A close final lap.
- Kristine Bayley wins a keirin heat.
- One to go in the keirin heats
- Kerrie Meares vs Elizebeth Georgouras
- Philippa Hindmarsh wins the junior women's 500M TT in 37.7 seconds.
- What about Bob? can anybody lend a hand? for the silver.
- Courtney Lelay wins the points race.
- Australian men's team starts the team pursuit.
- Australian men's team catches the New Zealand team for the win.
- Philip Thaux wins the men's 4000m pursuit in 4.24.340 at 54.475kph.
- Leigh Howard concentrates during his 3000m individual pursuit.
- Getting psyched before 1000m ride
- Edward Dawkins at speed in 1000 meters
- Women watch each other at the start of their fourth place ride.
- New Zelander Elijah May begins his ride.
- Pete Murray comes out of turn three full on!
- Mohd Hafiz Suffian flies in the 1000m TT.
- Aussie junior men ride a friendly race against the Malaysians.
- But the Malaysians are a bit too strong and win the race.
- Junior men's 3000m pursuit podium: #1 Jack Bobridge, #2 Leigh Howard, #3 James Langedyk
- Jack Bobridge tells about his ride.
- Greg Henderson rides a smart points race.
- Greg Henderson tells about his ride.
- Junior women pull past the pits.
- Junior women start another keirin heat.
- Greg Henderson leads a two-man break away with 35 laps to go.
- Greg Henderson wins the 15km scratch race.
Results
Junior Women 500m Time Trial Final 1 Philippa Hindmarsh (Australia) 37.666 2 Courtney Le Lay (Australia) 39.503 3 Chloe Hosking (Australia) 39.640 4 Lauren Hooper (Australia) 40.296 5 Esther Pugh-U'ren (Australia) 40.843 6 Cathy Jordan (New Zealand) 40.957 7 Natesha Pearse (Australia) 41.666 8 Philippa Swain (New Zealand) 41.749 Men Team Sprint Final Gold & Silver Medals 1 Shane Perkins (Australia) 45.620 Scott Sunderland (Australia) Joel Leonard (Australia) 2 Mark French (Australia) 45.690 Daniel Ellis (Australia) Jason Niblett (Australia) Bronze Medal 3 Adam Stewart (New Zealand) 47.259 Nathan Seddon (New Zealand) Neil Campbell (New Zealand) Men 15km Scratch Race Final 1 Greg Henderson (New Zealand) 2 Zac Dempster (Australia) 3 Hayden Josefski (Australia) 4 Mark Jamieson (Australia) 5 Adam Coker (New Zealand) 6 Mohd Jasmin Ruslan (Malaysia) 7 Akmal Amron (Malaysia) 8 Amir Mustapa Rusli (Malaysia) DNF Stephen Rossendell (Australia) DNF Tim Bennett (New Zealand) DNF Alex James (Australia) DNF Damien Semmler (Australia) DNF Steve Martin (Australia) DNF Martin Tobin (Australia) DNF Thum Weng Kin (Malaysia) DNF Hariff Salleh (Malaysia) DNS Philip Thaux (Australia) DNS Wade Cosgrove (Australia) DNS Jeremy Hogg (Australia) DNS Tyler Wright (Australia) DNS Cam Mackinnon (Can) DNS Travis Smith (Can) Men 30km Points Race Final 1 Greg Henderson (New Zealand) 85 2 Zac Dempster (Australia) 53 3 Hayden Josefski (Australia) 46 4 Tim Bennett (New Zealand) 8 5 Hariff Salleh (Malaysia) 7 6 Adam Coker (New Zealand) 4 7 Mark Jamieson (Australia) 2 8 Mohd Jasmin Ruslan (Malaysia) 1 9 Amir Mustapa Rusli (Malaysia) 0 DNS Philip Thaux (Australia) 0 DNF Alex James (Australia) 0 DNF Steve Martin (Australia) -18 DNF Martin Tobin (Australia) -20 DNF Thum Weng Kin (Malaysia) 1 DNF Akmal Amron (Malaysia) 3 Junior Men Sprint Final Gold & Silver Medals 1 Byron Davis (Australia) 11.834 11.527 2 Mark Glowacki (Australia) Bronze Medal 1 Edward Dawkins (New Zealand) 11.379 11.291 2 Jason Holloway (Australia) 11.326 Open Women Keirin Final 1 Kerrie Meares (Australia) 2 Chloe Macpherson (Australia) 3 Kristine Bayley (Australia) 4 Elizabeth Georgouras (Australia) 5 Kaarle Mcculloch (Australia) 6 Laura Mccaughey (Australia) Men 1000m Time Trial Final 1 Scott Sunderland (Australia) 1.03.729 2 Pete Murray (New Zealand) 1.05.510 3 Neil Campbell (New Zealand) 1.05.567 4 Mohd Hafiz Suffian (Malaysia) 1.05.924 5 Elijah May (New Zealand) 1.06.129 6 Mohd Faizal Mohd Noh (Malaysia) 1.06.195 7 Glenn Rewi (New Zealand) 1.08.178 8 Ian Densie (New Zealand) 1.08.314 9 Steve Martin (Australia) 1.10.951 10 Martin Tobin (Australia) 1.14.232 11 Damien Semmler (Australia) 1.17.060 DNS Jeremy Hogg (Australia) DNS Tyler Wright (Australia) DNS Alex Bird (Australia) DNS Gary Ryan (Australia) DNS Daniel Ellis (Australia) Men 4000m Team Pursuit Final Gold & Silver Medals 1 Philip Thaux (Australia) Caught after 11 laps Zac Dempster (Australia) Hayden Josefski (Australia) Stephen Rossendell (Australia) 2 Neil Campbell (New Zealand) Damian Wiseman (New Zealand) Tim Bennett (New Zealand) Ian Densie (New Zealand)
