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2005 Australian Senior Track Championships - CN
Adelaide, South Australia, February 7-12, 2005
Day 1 - February 7: Men 1 lap TT; U19 men 1000m; U19 women 500m; Women 500m; AWD 1000m
Olympic star Anna Meares too hot for rivals in Adelaide
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The women's 500m time trial at the 2005 Australian Track Cycling Championships was a case of Anna Meares first and daylight second but that was no surprise. After all with a pedigree that includes Olympic gold, World Championship gold and the current World Record, the 21 year-old Queenslander was the odds on favourite to defend her Australian title in Adelaide and she did it in a time of 34.897sec.
Her sister, Kerrie, 22, continuing her successful comeback from the back injury that ruled her out of Athens selection in 2004, was more than a second slower in 35.749 to claim the silver medal with West Australian Kristine Bayley third in 36.268.
The Meares sisters thrive on competing against each other but are also each other's greatest supporters. Anna took time out from her preparation for the race to snap a couple of photos of Kerrie on the start line for their website with Kerrie doing the same minutes later for Anna.
"It's good for me to have Kerrie there and it's good for Kerrie to have me there as well - a bit of extra support never goes astray," said Anna. "I'm very happy with that time because I'm not focussing on the time trial this year so much.
"I want to improve my sprint and keirin game at the World Championships this year," said Anna who tonight tried out a bigger gear for the time trial.
Kerrie, meantime improved by two tenths of a second on the time she rode to claim the Oceania crown in December. "I just had a laugh - I rode up next to her (Anna) and said 'you rode a second faster than me'," said Kerrie. "That's the best I could have done, I've got a lot of improvement to make, my personal best is 34.9 and I'm concentrating on myself and (using) Anna to chase at the moment.
"What better than to have a world and Olympic champion as a training partner and sister - I can't complain."
Kersten keeps men's 1 lap in NSW
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In the men's one lap time trial defending champion Sean Eadie did not start due to a niggling back injury but 2004 silver medallist, Ben Kersten, stepped up to keep the title in New South Wales hands. He completed the 250m distance in 18.426sec, outside the personal best of just under 18sec that he rode last year, but two tenths of a second clear of Victorian Jason Niblett (18.671) with another Victorian, Joel Leonard third in 18.859.
"It means it's time to stop strength training and go to speed," said Kersten. "Unfortunately the times weren't that quick, but I really needed to come here tonight and do that to get ready for tomorrow (men's kilometre time trial).
"I've just been long, slow training and I really need something like tonight to kick start me into gear," said Kersten who at the Manchester World Cup in January cracked the 62 second mark for the first time in the one kilometre event. "I'm a bit heavy, but the goal is the worlds (March)."
Kersten will race in six more events this week but his main goal is the March World Championships in Los Angeles and the one kilometre time trial.
Wright adds to Queensland tally in U19 500m; Rathbone takes U19 men's 1000m
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In the under 19 events Hayley Wright added another victory for Queensland winning the 500m time trial in 37.129, a time which would have placed her fifth in the elite event. Silver went to Bianca Rogers of South Australia in 37.317 and Canberra's Jennifer Loutit claimed bronze in 37.569.
The men's under 19 kilometre time trial was a hard fought affair with New South Wales rider Jackson-Leigh Rathbone clinching gold in 1:06.057 by a margin of five hundredths of a second over West Australian Scott Sunderland, 1:06.112. Queensland's Jeremy Hogg was third in 1:06.709.
Records fall in AWD events
Earlier in the day the 2005 Australian Track Cycling Championships got off to a flying start this afternoon as the multi-disability athletes set the benchmark for the event.
Triple Athens Paralympic gold medallist, Christopher Scott, (QLD), 36, took more than a second off the world record for the 1km time trial for CP Div4 men covering the distance in 1:10.058 to eclipse the previous record set by Czech rider Jiri Bouska at the Athens Paralympics of 1:11.353.
South Australian Angela Fleming then cracked the world mark for the LC2 women's 500m time trial riding 44.626. Her time smashed the mark of 46.539 set by Yuan Li Yuan (CHN) in Prague in 2003.
Jane Armstrong of Western Australia knocked four seconds of the 500m time trial mark in the LC3 division riding 46.890 to better the mark of 50.793 set in 2003 by American Alison Jones.
Glen Jarvis of Victoria set a national mark of 1:21.842 seconds in the LC3 1000m and WA's Claire McLean rode 43.124 seconds for an Australian record in the LC1 500m.
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- Joel Davis rode strongly during under 19 men's 1000m, as did all of the Queensland contingent.
- Sean Pontelandolfo winds up from the start line
- Jeremy Hogg in full flight.
- Jeremy Hogg enters the corner on his attempt to win the M19 1000m Time Trial Final.
- Jackson-Leigh Rathbone contemplates his race victory.
- Scott Sunderland powers down the front straight.
- The determination shows on the face of Joel Leonard (Vic) in the men's 1 lap TT.
- Japanese competitor Tomoharu Yara.
- Ben Kersten (NSW) putting everything into the start of his 1 lap time trial.
- Jason Niblett (Vic) rides against Ben Kersten in the 1 lap time trial final.
- Alexandra Bright (Queensland) gets some last minute advice.
- Tiffany Godfrey gives it her all off the start line.
- Kerrie Meares (Qld) in her silver medal ride.
- Western Australian Kristine Bayley rode confidently to take out 3rd place in the Women's 500m Time Trial Final.
- Anna Meares focuses on the job at hand.
- Anna Meares salutes the crowd after her win.
- Anna Meares and sister Kerrie share an amusing moment after Anna's victorious ride.
- Grace Sulzberger (Tas) was keen to set a good time.
- Bianca Rogers (SA) focusing hard during her ride which earned her the silver medal.
- New Zealand competitor Brigette Broad was a formidable opponent riding very strongly.
- Jennifer Loutit gets ready for her bronze medal ride.
- Hayley Wright (Qld) was last on the start list, but came first in the Women's U19 500m Time Trial Final.
Results
Session 2
Event 10 - Men 1 Lap Time Trial Final 1 Ben Kersten (NSW) 0.18.426 2 Jason Niblett (Vic) 0.18.671 3 Joel Leonard (Vic) 0.18.859 4 Carlo Barendilla (WA) 0.18.881 5 Damien Keirl (Vic) 0.19.190 6 Adrian Sansonetti (Vic) 0.19.209 7 Adam Simonelli (Qld) 0.19.306 8 Tomoharu Yara (JAP) 0.19.486 8 Damian Harris (Qld) 9 Sean Dwight (NSW) 0.19.496 10 Gary Ryan (ACT) 0.19.513 11 Corey Heath (NT) 0.19.571 12 Todd Wilksch (Vic) 0.19.601 13 Daniel Rynne (Qld) 0.19.621 14 Ben Price (Tas) 0.19.724 15 Mario Mazza (SA) 0.19.762 16 Steven Sansonetti (Vic) 0.19.797 17 David Miller (SA) 0.19.872 18 Luke Horjus (SA) 0.19.946 19 Dean Santoro (WA) 0.20.307 20 Ty Domin (NT) 0.20.624 21 Darren Hicks (NT) 0.21.337 Event 11 - Women 500m Time Trial Final 1 Anna Meares (Qld) 0.34.897 2 Kerrie Meares (Qld) 0.35.749 3 Kristine Bayley (WA) 0.36.268 4 Liz Williams (NZL) 0.36.855 5 Laura Mccaughey (Tas) 0.37.427 6 Elizabeth Georgouras (NSW) 0.37.815 7 Rebecca Borgo (NSW) 0.37.830 8 Tiffany Godfrey (Vic) 0.38.057 9 Deborah Lovely (Qld) 0.38.303 10 Alexandra Bright (Qld) 0.38.401 11 Jessie Maclean (ACT) 0.38.454 12 Sue Ann Woodwiss (SA) 0.38.724 13 Rikki Johnson (SA) 0.38.904 14 Apryl Eppinger (Vic) 0.38.921 15 Nicole Holt (Vic) 0.39.167 16 Kellie Louise Hards (SA) 0.41.279 Event 12 - W19 500m Time Trial Final 1 Hayley Wright (Qld) 0.37.129 2 Bianca Rogers (SA) 0.37.317 3 Jennifer Loutit (ACT) 0.37.569 4 Chloe Macpherson (Qld) 0.37.885 5 Brigette Broad (NZL) 0.38.266 6 Tess Downing (Vic) 0.38.736 7 Jessica Hume (NSW) 0.38.937 8 Jessica Tanner (Vic) 0.39.190 9 Amanda Spratt (NSW) 0.39.445 10 Skye-Lee Armstrong (NSW) 0.39.540 11 Grace Sulzberger (Tas) 0.39.931 12 Hannah Bush (Vic) 0.41.299 13 Renae Horsley (WA) 0.41.533 14 Natalie Macfarlan (SA) 0.41.577 15 Kira Mason (SA) 0.41.639 16 Aimee Howlett (Vic) 0.42.425 Event 13 - M19 1000m Time Trial Final 1 Jackson-Leigh Rathbone (NSW) 1.06.057 2 Scott Sunderland (WA) 1.06.112 3 Jeremy Hogg (Qld) 1.06.709 4 Zakkari Dempster (Vic) 1.06.833 5 Daniel Ellis (ACT) 1.07.511 6 Anthony Bennett (NSW) 1.07.666 7 Jack Rassie (Qld) 1.08.143 8 Joel Davis (Qld) 1.08.364 9 Gerard Murphy (Vic) 1.08.544 10 Hayden Josefski (Qld) 1.09.056 11 Tyler Mclachlan (NSW) 1.09.627 12 Travis Hull (Vic) 1.09.913 13 Sean Pontelandolfo (Vic) 1.10.085 14 Geoff Hopkins (NSW) 1.10.710 15 William Robinson (Tas) 1.10.979 16 Jarrod Harman (Tas) 1.11.614 17 Gareth Coffee (SA) 1.12.028 18 Ben Heylen (SA) 1.14.376 19 Daniel Robb (SA) 1.15.683 20 Benjamin Young (SA) 1.15.696
Session 1
Event 2 - Women 1000m Tandem Time Trial Final 1 Janet Shaw (WA) 1.13.728 Kerry Cohen (WA) 2 Felicity Johnson (SA) 1.17.844 Vicki Birks (SA) Event 3 - LC2 Men 1000m Time Trial Final 1 Martin Vcelka (Vic) 1.15.780 Event 4 - LC3 Men 1000m Time Trial Final 1 Glen Jarvis (Vic) 1.21.842 2 Noel Sens (Vic) 1.24.256 Event 5 - CP4 Men 1000m Time Trial Final 1 Christopher Scott (Qld) 1.10.058 (WR) Event 6 - LC1 Women 500m Time Trial Final 1 Claire Mclean (WA) 0.43.124 Event 7 - LC2 Women 500m Time Trial Final 1 Angela Fleming (SA) 0.44.626 (WR) Event 8 - LC3 Women 500m Time Trial Final 1 Jane Armstrong (WA) 0.46.890 (WR) Event 9 - CP3 Women 500m Time Trial Final 1 Barbara Buchan (USA) 0.52.110
