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UCI World Masters Championships - CM
Sydney, Australia, October 16-21, 2007
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Race 3 - October 18: Scratch race, Team sprint
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- Keith Oliver (Aus) wins the scratch race.
- Bowen-Day (Aus) beats Jim Veal (Aus) to take the scratch race.
- Christian Jeger (Ger) was third in the scratch race.
- Dennis Bowen-Day (Aus) celebrates his win.
- Charles Gascoyne (Aus) won the 40-44 10km scratch race.
- Hugh Gray riding for Australia.
Images by Mike Gladu/www.velodrome.com
- John Arthur Kennedy (Australia) in the 50-54 7.5km Scratch Race, one of the age-based events for all riders that are new to World Masters, replacing the two traditional event-ending invitationals - The Muratti and Geldard Cups.
- Kennedy outsprints Scott Butler (USA) for Gold in the 50-54 7.5k Scratch Race Final.
- Kennedy (Australia) salutes the crowd after taking Gold in the first of the inaugural Scratch Races for all age groups at World Masters.
- Hilton McMurdo (Australia) jumps to the front of the 45-49 10k Scratch Race Final.
- Hilton McMurdo (Australia) and Roberto Mattei (Italy) were hardly ever farther apart than this in the 10k Scratch Race Final...
- ...and sometimes even closer.
- At two laps to go, the lead changes at the front to McMurdo's surpise.
- McMurdo starts the train rolling over the top as the bell rings - Mattei and another surpise on his wheel.
- Surprise! Phillipe Vernet (France) leaves them behind in the sprint to take the Gold Medal in the 45-49 10k Scratch Race Final.
- Vernet (France) celebrates the 10k 45-49 Scratch Race win.
- Charles Gascoyne (Australia) negotiates through traffic in the 40-44 10k Scratch Race Final.
- Charles Gascoyne (Australia) works to gain a lap.
- Gascoyne and David Klipper (USA) work together to take a lap.
- Gascoyne and Klipper pick up Christian Jeger (Germany) on the way to taking a lap on the field.
- Klipper and Gacoyne exchanging pulls on the way to lapping the 40-44 10k Scratch Race field.
- Gascoyne flies across the line to take the win in the 40-44 10k Scratch Race Final.
- Matt Poyner (Australia) outsprints Robert Darley (Australia) by a few inches in the 35-39 10k Scratch Race Final.
- Poyner celebrates the 35-39 10k Scratch Race win.
- Tim Decker (Australia) marked by Juan Martin Ferrari (Argentina) in the 30-34 10k Scratch Race Final.
- Decker and Juan Martin Ferrari stuck together like glue.
- Decker gets away for a moment.
- Decker goes clear with one lap to go.
- All alone - Decker celebrates the 30-34 10k Scratch Race win.
- One more wave for the crowd for Decker.
- Okay, maybe one more time for Decker.
- Roberto Mattei (Italy) checks out his kangaroo and its matching silver medal.
- Decker can't stop smiling while singing the Australian Anthem.
- Decker holds his new buddy close to his heart.
Results
Male - 35 to 39 5km scratch race heats Heat 1 1 Matt Poyner (Aus) 2 Mitchell Stock (Aus) 3 Chris Eichler (Aus) 4 Aderito Da Cruz (Fra) 5 Edgardo Giovanini (Arg) 6 Stewart Campbell (Aus) 7 Dean Heathcote (Aus) 8 Neil Skipper (Aus) 9 Andrew Fillery (Aus) 10 Jean-Philippe Meret (Fra) 11 Tony Scott (USA) 12 James Kelly (Aus) 13 Jayson Austin (Aus) 14 Andrew Herlihen (Aus) 15 Alain Bornet (Fra) 16 Adrian Mulholland (Aus) DNF Andrew Mclean (Aus) Heat 2 1 Gavin White (Aus) 2 Mario Nell (RSA) 3 Carlos Anibal Varese (Arg) 4 Paul Connor (Aus) 5 Hossein Eslami Kouhpayeh (Irn) 6 Robert Darley (Aus) 7 Paul Butler (Aus) 8 Scott Laliberte (Can) 9 Daniel Hennessy (Aus) 10 Grant Fraser (Aus) 11 Stewart Thomas (NZl) 12 Sergio Fabian Gili (Arg) 13 Nick Anskey (Aus) 14 Jonathan Guthrie (NZl) 15 Mathew Hynes (Aus) 16 David Mcmaster (Aus) DNS Matt Bazzano (Aus) Male - 40 to 44 5km scratch race heats Heat 1 1 Stephen Hill (USA) 2 Bert Glennon (USA) 3 Mike Zwingenberger (Ger) 4 Stuart Vaughan (Aus) 5 Charles Gascoyne (Aus) 6 Antony Bishop (Aus) 7 David Stevens (Aus) 8 Peter Ettles (GBr) 9 Graeme Allbon (Aus) 10 G. Leigh Foti (USA) 11 Griff Davies (Aus) 12 Garrath Styles (Aus) 13 Gary Aisbitt (Aus) 14 Scott Kasin (USA) 15 John Murray (Aus) 16 Tim Rice (Aus) DNF Mick Marshall (Aus) DNF Philip Nicholls (Aus) DNF Andrea Savini (Ita) DNF Philip Seibel (Aus) DNF Grant Wilson (NZl) DNS Peter Tutty (Aus) Heat 2 1 David Klipper (USA) 2 Alex Frame (Aus) 3 Donald Gillmore (Can) 4 Robert Veroba (Can) 5 Russell Tucker (Aus) 6 Christian Jsger (Ger) 7 Fabio Alberti (Ita) 8 Steve Carrell (USA) 9 Adam Rourke (Aus) 10 Paul Worby (Aus) 11 Tony Simonelli (Aus) 12 Andrew Nevitt (USA) 13 Anthony O'connor (Aus) 14 Owen Lloyd (RSA) 15 Tony Unicomb (Aus) 16 Andrew Kelk (Aus) 17 Michael Hawkes (Aus) 18 Jesper Schack (Den) 19 Paul Becher (Can) DNS Chris Murray (Aus) DNS David Sturt (Aus) Male - 45 to 49 5km scratch race heats Heat 1 1 Ricardo Pereyra (Arg) 2 Mark Harris (Aus) 3 Philippe Vernet (Fra) 4 Clint Mcdonell (Aus) 5 Robert Upton (Aus) 6 Warren Bennett (Aus) 7 Vicente Florio Zoric (Arg) 8 Stephane Le Beau (Can) 9 Peter Holley (Aus) 10 Geoffrey Shaw (NZl) 11 Phillip Mcneill (Aus) 12 Mark Arnold (Aus) 13 Stephen Joyce (Aus) DNS Ray Dunstan (NZl) DNS Robert Thompson (Aus) Heat 2 1 Craig Taylor (Aus) 2 Peter Verhoeven (Aus) 3 Byron Tucker (Aus) 4 Roberto Mattei (Ita) 5 Geoffrey Willmot (Aus) 6 Hilton Mcmurdo (Aus) 7 Claus Christiansen (Den) 8 Gerard Oconnell (Aus) 9 Glen Heuvel (RSA) 10 Matthew Guggisberg (Aus) Sepp Hribar (NZl) Jeff Lyall (NZl) DNS Peter Barnard (Aus) DNS Dominique Sioul (Fra) Male - 50 to 54 5km scratch race heats Heat 1 1 Didier Ramet (Fra) 2 Alan Dudderidge (Aus) 3 John Arthur Kennedy (Aus) 4 Aubrey Gordon (USA) 5 Scott Butler (USA) 6 Malcolm Hayes (Aus) 7 Rick Adams (USA) 8 Michael Thomson (RSA) 9 Graham Charlton (GBr) 10 Eduardo Daniel Grigioni Fischman (Arg) 11 David Moreland (Aus) 12 Howard Galloway (Qat) 13 David Toland (Aus) DNS Mike Lawson (Aus) Heat 2 1 Brent Emery (USA) 2 Bernardo Figueroa (Col) 3 Chris Hunt (Aus) 4 Mark Oakley-Browne (Aus) 5 Peter Ganss (Aus) 6 Claudio Scabbia (Ita) 7 Steven Moran (Aus) 8 James Gray (Aus) 9 Tim Devlin (Aus) 10 Fred Roland Landon (Aus) 11 Nestor Torres (Arg) 12 Graham Tierney (Aus) DNS Stephen Chapman (Aus) DNS Greg Haydon (Aus) Masters men 750m team sprint heats 1 Great Britain (David Le Grys, Ivor Reid, Steve Cronshaw) 0.49.22 2 Australia (John Arthur Kennedy, Andrew Burne, Ron Boyle) 0.00.26 3 Australia (Geoff Stoker, Paul Parker, Grant Law) 0.00.35 4 Australia (Peter Barnard, David Willmott, Alan Townsend) 0.00.56 5 USA (Mark Pelletier, Rich Voss, Stephen Hill) 0.00.65 6 USA (Scott Butler, Matthew Diefenbach, David Klipper) 0.00.80 7 Australia (Jim Veal, Neil Skipper, Michael Aisbitt) 0.01.72 8 Australia (Michael Popplewell, Gerard Oconnell, Paul Jackson) 0.02.20 9 Australia (Byron Tucker, Russell Tucker, Stephen Chapman) 0.02.36 10 USA (Victor Copeland, Michael Paulin, Randy Mclain) 0.02.67 11 France (Rene Grignon, Aderito Da Cruz, Philippe Vernet) 0.02.77 12 USA (Reid Schwartz, James Host, Brent Emery) 0.02.84 13 Italy (Fabio Alberti, Giuseppe Mascherpa, Graziano Pantosti) 0.02.88 14 Australia (Ian Atkin, Gary Mandy, John Colette) 0.03.40 15 South Africa (Mario Nell, Wikus Esterhuizen, Robert Wilson) 0.03.45 16 Canada (Keith Thorarinson, Stephane Le Beau, Norm Kalmanovitch) 0.03.87 17 Australia (Matt Poyner, Hilton Mcmurdo, Fred Roland Landon) 0.03.89 18 Japan (Mikihiko Hasegawa, Koji Takahashi, Yuki Kusaka) 0.04.24 19 Australia (Ross Harding, Neil Leifels, Gordon Bradshaw) 0.05.32 20 South Africa (Wayne Kreunen, Glen Heuvel, Michael Thomson) 0.05.41 21 Australia (Alex Verdi, David Mcmaster, Wal Mullany) 0.05.56 22 Italy (Claudio Scabbia, Guido Lupo, Cristian Bettinelli) 0.06.10 23 New Zealand (Kelvin Mcanulty, Grant Wilson, Stewart Thomas) 0.06.70 24 Australia (Philip Nicholls, Robert Barnes, Terry Skinner) 0.08.82 25 New Zealand (Jeff Lyall, Sepp Hribar, David Gee) 0.09.08 26 South Africa (Owen Lloyd, Abdul Quayum Davids, John Moss) 0.09.58 27 New Zealand (Geoffrey Shaw, Jonathan Guthrie, Garry Humpherson) 0.09.67 Masters men 750m team sprint final Gold medal ride off 1 Australia (John Arthur Kennedy, Andrew Burne, Ron Boyle) 0.49.08 2 Great Britain (David Le Grys, Ivor Reid, Steve Cronshaw) 0.01.60 Bronze medal ride off 3 Australia (Peter Barnard, David Willmott, Alan Townsend) 0.49.91 4 Australia (Geoff Stoker, Paul Parker, Grant Law) 0.50.14 Female - 45+ 5km scratch race final 1 Patrizia Spadaccini (Ita) 2 Donna Meehan (Aus) 3 Desrae Cameron (Aus) 4 Kim Trzebiatowsky (RSA) 5 Henao De Figueroa Olga (Col) 6 Ellen De Vries (Aus) 7 Tanya Bosch (Aus) 8 Fran Watson (Aus) DNF Gai Monahan (Aus) DNF Charlene Smith (Aus) DNS Jane Chateaubriand (USA) DNS Julie Shuttleworth (GBr) Female - 30 to 44 5km scratch race final 1 Megan Blatchford-Peck (NZl) 2 Amanda O'connor (Aus) 3 Michelle Ferris (Aus) 4 Michelle King (Aus) 5 Michelle Crawford (Aus) 6 Trudy Van Der Straaten (Aus) 7 Kerrie Howard (Aus) 8 Maddalena Cantoni (Ita) 9 Kathryn Wilder (USA) 10 Sara Laliberte (Can) 11 Linda Foti (USA) 12 Lynette Collins (Aus) 13 Sonya Keay (Aus) 14 Julie Nevitt (USA) 15 Mandy Collis (Aus) 16 Julie Barnett (Aus) DNF Lawrence Maskill (Aus) Male - 70+ 5km scratch race final 1 Otto Altweck (Ger) 2 Denis Robinson (Aus) 3 Delroy Walters (USA) 4 Alan Sandford (Aus) 5 Albert Kolybin (Rus) 6 Mark Nicholls (Aus) 7 Donald Talintyre (Aus) 8 Garry Humpherson (NZl) 9 Neil Wray (Aus) DNF Owen Duffy (NZl) DNF Brian Kennedy (Aus) DNF Patrick O'brien (Aus) DNF Derek Smith (GBr) DNS Des Kidd (Aus) DNS Bill Neville (Aus) DNS Denis Blunden (Aus) Male - 65 to 69 5km scratch race final 1 Keith Oliver (Aus) 2 Victor Copeland (USA) 3 Brian Dew (Aus) 4 Martin Peeters (Aus) 5 Guido Lupo (Ita) 6 David Gee (NZl) 7 John Lewis (Aus) 8 Colin Rossiter (Aus) 9 David South (Aus) 10 Rod Wagner (Aus) 11 Ron Grant (Aus) 12 Barry Roberts (Aus) Male - 60 to 64 5km scratch race final 1 Ron Boyle (Aus) 2 Jeff Smith (Aus) 3 Michael Goldie (Aus) 4 Geoff Cooke (GBr) 5 Graham Mcclymont (Aus) 6 Darrell Wheeler (Aus) 7 Hugh Davis (Irl) 8 Michel Briat (Fra) 9 Ferdy Hamers (Aus) 10 Angus Hume (Aus) 11 Hugh Gray (Aus) 12 Terry Skinner (Aus) 13 John Moss (RSA) 14 Kevin Mccomb (NZl) 15 Max Pendleton (GBr) 16 Robert Barnes (Aus) DNF Stephen Reed (Aus) DNF Geoffrey Worthington (Aus) Fell Stephen Spinks (Aus) Fell John Crouchley (Aus) Fell Chass Matters (Aus) Male - 55 to 59 7.5km scratch race final 1 Dennis Bowen-Day (Aus) 2 Jim Veal (Aus) 3 Patrick Gellineau (USA) 4 John Hunt (Aus) 5 Brian Radcliffe (Aus) 6 Peter Gumbley (Aus) 7 Steve Davies (GBr) 8 Leon Sims (Aus) 9 Juan Carlos Haedo (Arg) 10 Christian Muselet (Fra) 11 Rene Grignon (Fra) 12 Walter Machado (Aus) 13 Malcolm Cochrane (RSA) 14 Douglas Cameron (Can) 15 Chip Berezny (USA) 16 Christopher J. Anstey (Can) 17 Ross Hayter (Aus) 18 James Larcombe (Aus) 19 Gordon Bradshaw (Aus) 20 Alex Verdi (Aus) DNF Kelvin Mcanulty (NZl) DNS Charles Dalrymple-Hay (Aus) DNS Billy Thompson (USA) Male - 50 to 54 7.5km scratch race final 1 John Arthur Kennedy (Aus) 2 Scott Butler (USA) 3 David Moreland (Aus) 4 Bernardo Figueroa (Col) 5 Chris Hunt (Aus) 6 Brent Emery (USA) 7 Alan Dudderidge (Aus) 8 Didier Ramet (Fra) 9 Rick Adams (USA) 10 Claudio Scabbia (Ita) 11 Graham Charlton (GBr) 12 Mark Oakley-Browne (Aus) 13 Malcolm Hayes (Aus) 14 Michael Thomson (RSA) 15 James Gray (Aus) 16 Eduardo Daniel Grigioni Fischman (Arg) 17 Peter Ganss (Aus) DNF Aubrey Gordon (USA) DNF Fred Roland Landon (Aus) DNF Steven Moran (Aus) DNS Tim Devlin (Aus) Male - 45 to 49 10km scratch race final 1 Philippe Vernet (Fra) 2 Roberto Mattei (Ita) 3 Hilton Mcmurdo (Aus) 4 Byron Tucker (Aus) 5 Sepp Hribar (NZl) 6 Warren Bennett (Aus) 7 Stephane Le Beau (Can) 8 Clint Mcdonell (Aus) 9 Claus Christiansen (Den) 10 Ricardo Pereyra (Arg) 11 Mark Harris (Aus) 12 Vicente Florio Zoric (Arg) 13 Craig Taylor (Aus) 14 Jeff Lyall (NZl) 15 Robert Upton (Aus) 16 Mark Arnold (Aus) 17 Geoffrey Willmot (Aus) DNF Matthew Guggisberg (Aus) DNF Glen Heuvel (RSA) DNF Peter Holley (Aus) DNF Stephen Joyce (Aus) DNF Phillip Mcneill (Aus) DNF Geoffrey Shaw (NZl) DNF Peter Verhoeven (Aus) Male - 35 to 39 10km scratch race final 1 Matt Poyner (Aus) 2 Robert Darley (Aus) 3 Gavin White (Aus) 4 Stewart Campbell (Aus) 5 Scott Laliberte (Can) 6 Edgardo Giovanini (Arg) 7 Grant Fraser (Aus) 8 Dean Heathcote (Aus) 9 Andrew Fillery (Aus) 10 Carlos Anibal Varese (Arg) 11 Mitchell Stock (Aus) 12 Mario Nell (RSA) 13 Hossein Eslami Kouhpayeh (Irn) 14 Sergio Fabian Gili (Arg) 15 Paul Connor (Aus) 16 Chris Eichler (Aus) 17 Neil Skipper (Aus) 18 Aderito Da Cruz (Fra) 19 Tony Scott (USA) 20 James Kelly (Aus) 21 Daniel Hennessy (Aus) DNF Paul Butler (Aus) DNF Jean-Philippe Meret (Fra) DNF Stewart Thomas (NZl) Male - 40 to 44 10km scratch race final 1 Charles Gascoyne (Aus) 2 David Klipper (USA) 3 Christian Jsger (Ger) 4 Graeme Allbon (Aus) 5 Donald Gillmore (Can) 6 Stuart Vaughan (Aus) 7 Russell Tucker (Aus) 8 Robert Veroba (Can) 9 Mike Zwingenberger (Ger) 10 Adam Rourke (Aus) 11 David Stevens (Aus) 12 Stephen Hill (USA) 13 Peter Ettles (GBr) 14 Alex Frame (Aus) 15 Bert Glennon (USA) 16 Antony Bishop (Aus) 17 Tony Simonelli (Aus) 18 G. Leigh Foti (USA) 19 Paul Worby (Aus) 20 Fabio Alberti (Ita) DNF Steve Carrell (USA) DNF Griff Davies (Aus) DNF Andrew Nevitt (USA) DNF Garrath Styles (Aus) Male - 30 to 34 10km scratch race final 1 Tim Decker (Aus) 2 Juan Martfn Ferrari (Arg) 3 Marcos Sendra (Arg) 4 Randy Mclain (USA) 5 Juan Pablo Villarruel (Arg) 6 Russel Palm (RSA) 7 Keith Thorarinson (Can) 8 Giuseppe Mascherpa (Ita) 9 Andrew Mills (Aus) 10 Nosh Mistry (Aus) 11 Luke Hurdman (Aus) 12 Abdul Quayum Davids (RSA) 13 Ettiene Retief (RSA) 14 Cyrille Santerre (Fra) 15 Damian Harris (Aus) 16 Brandon Kidner (Aus) 17 David Browne (Aus) 18 Glen Elton (Aus) 19 Cristian Bettinelli (Ita) DNF Ryan Catzel (Aus) DNF Steven Sansonetti (Aus)
