Perth International Track Cycling Grand Prix - NE

Midvale Speed Dome, Perth, Australia, November 22 & 24, 2002

Day 1 - November 22, 2002
Day 2 - November 24, 2002

Day 1 - November 22, 2002

Australia vs Japan show-down at the Speed Dome

By Dave Budge

It was a great night of racing with Perth cycling fans being treated to an exciting display of Keirin and endurance events. The last international event held at the Speed Dome was the 97 World Championships, so an event of this nature was long overdue.

The evening kicked off with the men's 20k scratch race, Graeme Brown timing his run to the line with absolute perfection to edge out local boy and crowd favourite Peter Dawson and the evergreen Paul Dobson taking third.

Then it was time for the big boys to step on the track. The format of the Keirin racing for the program was a teams challenge between the "rainbow train" Australian Team featuring Sean Eadie, Jobie Dajka, Ryan Bayley and Ben Kersten, the Japanese with Toshiyuki Ono, Akihiro Isezaki, Takasi Kaneko and Yuichiro Maesori and the Speed Dome Allstars - Greg McFarlane, Jason Niblett, Mark French and Darren Harry.

The Australian team gave the crowd just what they wanted to see in the first race with Dajka and Eadie taking out the quinella. Ryan Bayley racing in front of his home crowd for the first time since winning the 2001 World Keirin title showed hadn't lost any speed from his post 2002 World's break when he rode off the front to comfortably take out race two.

Dajka and Eadie showed no ill effects from jet lag from the thirty hour flight from Boudreaux taking out races four and five, putting the Australian team in a strong position to take out the Teams award.

Not to be outdone by the Aussie the Japanese stepped up in race 5 with Toshiyuki Ono and Yuichiro Maesori getting a fly from a lap and a half out to go over the line first and second.

In the final Keirin race the reigning World Keirin Champion Jobie Dajka made it three in a row by edging out Mark French and Greg McFarlane.

The second part of the event continues on Sunday afternoon with a combination of Keirin, Derby and endurance events.

Results

Senior 20 Lap Scratch Race
 
1 Graeme Brown (NSW)
2 Peter Dawson (WA)
3 Paul Dobson (Tas)
4 Leigh Sunderland (WA)
5
6 Mark Jamison (Tas)
 
Team Keirin Aust 1&2 vs Japan 2&3 vs All Stars 1&3
 
1 Jobie Dajka (SA)
2 Sean Eadie (NSW)
3 Toshiyuki Ono (Japan)
4 Greg McFarlane (Italy)
5 A Isezaki (Japan)
6 Jason Niblett (Vic)
 
Team Keirin Aust 3&4 vs Japan 1&4 vs All Stars 2&4
 
1 Ryan Bayley
2 Darren Harry
3 Mark French
4 Takasi Kaneko (Japan)
5 Ben Kersten
6 Yuichiro Maesori (Japan)
 
Women's 15 lap Motor Pace
 
1 Kristine Bayley
2 Tanya Bailey
3 Sandra Miller
 
Junior 4 lap Handicap
 
1 Scott Sunderland
2 Adam O'Connor
3 Duane Johansen
 
Senior Elimination
 
1 Peter Dawson
2 Graeme Brown
3 Eddie Hollands
4 Paul Dobson
5 Ric Steele
6 Mark Jamieson
 
Team Keirin aust 2&3 vs Japan 1&2 vs All Stars 1&4
 
1 Jobie Dajka
2 Ryan Bayley
3 Toshiyuki Ono
4 Greg McFarlane
5 Darren Harry
6 Takasi Kaneko
 
Team Keirin Aust 1&4 vs Japan 3&4 vs All Stars 2&3
 
1 Sean Eadie
2 Mark French
3 Yuichiro Maesori
4 Ben Kersten
5 Jason Niblett
6 Akihiro Isezaki
 
Women's 16 Lap Points Score
 
1 Amy Kirk
2 Kerry Cohen
3 Kristine Bayley
 
Junior 10 Lap Group Scratch
 
1 Cameron Meyer
2 Duane Johansen
3 Tod Francis
 
Senior 40 Lap Points Score
 
1 Peter Dawson
2 Paul Dobson
3 Graeme Brown
4 Carlo Barendilla
 
Women's 6 Lap Handicap
 
1 Tanya Bailey
2 Kristine Bayley
3 Amy Kirk
 
Junior Elimination
 
1 Cameron Meyer
2 Scott Sunderland
3 Duane Johansen
 
Senior 40 Lap Motor pace Invitation
 
1 Graeme Brown
2 Peter Dawson
3 Eddie Hollands
4 Ric Steele
5 Mark Jamieson
 
Team Keirin Aust 1&3 vs Japan 2&4 vs All Stars 3&4
 
1 Toshiyuki Ono
2 Yuichiro Maesori
3 Darren Harry
4 Sean Eadie
5 Ryan Bayley
6 Jason Niblett
 
Team Keirin Aust 2&4 vs Japan 1&3 vs All Stars 1&2
 
1 Jobie Dajka
2 Mark French
3 Greg McFarlane
4 Ben Kersten
5 Takasi Kaneko
6 Akihiro Isezaki
 
Overall Keirin Team
 
1 Australia (Sean Eadie (NSW)/Jobie Dajka (SA)/          106 pts
             Ryan Bayley (WA)/Ben Kersten (NSW))
2 All Stars (Greg McFarlane (Italy), Mark French (Vic)    78
             Jason Niblett (Vic), Darren Harry (WA))
3 Japan (Takasi Kaneko, Toshiyuki Ono                     68
         Akihiro Isezaki, Yuichiro Maesori)

Day 2 - November 24, 2002

Results

8 Lap Keirin Rnd 1 Heat 1
 
1 Ryan Bayley
2 Sean Eadie
3 Takasi Kaneko
4 Akihiro Isezaki
5 Greg McFarlane
6 Jason Niblett
 
8 Lap Keirin Rnd 1 Heat 2
 
1 Jobie Dajka
2 Toshiyuki Ono
3 Ben Kersten
4 Yuichiro Maesori
5 Darren Harry
6 Mark French
 
Senior 20 Lap Motor pace
 
1 Peter Dawson
2 Graeme Brown
3 Paul Dobson
4 Ric Steele
5 Carlo Barendilla
6 Mark Jamieson
 
Women's 4 Lap Handicap
 
1 Tanya Bailey
2 Mandy Collis
3 Kristine Bayley
 
Junior 6 Lap Group Handicap
 
1 Cameron Meyer
2 Duane Johansen
3 Travis Meyer
 
Keirin Rnd 2 B Final
 
1 Mark French
2 Greg McFarlane
3 Darren Harry
4 Yuichiro Maesori
5 Jason Niblett
6 Akihiro Isezaki
 
Keirin Rnd 2 A Final
 
1 Ryan Bayley
2 Jobie Dajka
3 Sean Eadie
4 Toshiyuki Ono
5 Takasi Kaneko
6 Ben Kersten
 
Senior Elimination
 
1 Graeme Brown
2 Peter Dawson
3 BJ Miles
4 Ric Steele
5 Paul Dobson
6 Mark Jamieson
 
Women's 10 Lap Motor pace
 
1 Leanne Manderson
2 Kerry Cohen
3 Kristine Bayley
 
Junior 4 Lap Handicap
 
1 Duane Johansen
2 Scott Sunderland
3 Rexy Franzinelli
 
Sprint Derby Rnd 2 Heat 1
 
1 Sean Eadie
2 Ben Kersten
3 Jason Niblett
4 Toshiyuyi Ono
 
Sprint Derby Rnd 2 Heat 2
 
1 Yuichiro Maesori
2 Mark French
3 Jobie Dajka
4 Takasi Kaneko
 
Sprint Derby Rnd 2 Heat 3
 
1 Ryan Bayley
2 Darren Harry
3 Greg McFarlane
4 Akihiro Isezaki
 
Senior 6 Lap Handicap
 
1 M Jamieson
2 L Sunderland
3 C Barendillo
4 D Vogels
5 BJ Miles
6 G Brown
 
Women's 15 Lap Point Score
 
1 Kerry Cohen              17 pts
2 Leanne Manderson         12
3 Tanya Bailey              6
 
Junior 10 Lap Motor Pace
 
1 S Sunderland
2 D Johansen
3 R Franzinelli
 
B Final Sprint Derby
 
1 Jobie Dajka
2 Toshiyuki Ono
3 Greg McFarlane
4 Jason Niblett
5 Takasi Kaneko
6 Akihiro Isezaki
 
A Final Sprint Derby
 
1 Sean Eadie
2 Mark French
3 Darren Harry
4 Ryan Bayley
5 Ben Kersten
6 Yuichiro Maesori
 
Talent Search Handicap
 
1 Rebecca McPherson
2 Jesse Tomkinson
3 Emily Wood
 
Men's 30 Lap Point Score
 
1 GraEME Brown             23 pts
2 Peter Dawson             21
3 BJ Miles                 10
4 Paul Dobson               4
5 Mark Jamieson             3
6 Steve Evans              10
 
8 Lap Keirin Rnd 3 Heat 1
 
1 S Eadie
2 D Harry
3 B Kersten
4 T Kaneko
5 G McFarlane
6 Y Maesori
 
8 Lap Keirin Rnd 3 Heat 2
 
1 J Dajka
2 M French
3 T Ono
4 R Bayley
5 J Niblett
6 A Isezaki
 
Women's 6 Lap Keirin Invitation
 
1 K Bayley
2 K Cohen
3 T Bailey
4 M Collis
 
40 Lap Motor Pace Invitation
 
1 P Dawson
2 G Brown
3 M Jamieson
4 R Steele
 
Keirin B Final
 
1 R Bayley
2 G McFarlane
3 Y Maesori
4 T Kanekol
5 A Isezaki
6 J Niblett
 
Keirin A Final
 
1 J Dajka
2 M French
3 S Eadie
4 B Kersten
5 T Ono
6 D Harry
 
Keirin Individual Overall Winners
 
1 S  Eadie                 90 pts
2 J Dajka                  84
3 R Bayley                 76
4 M French                 71
5 B Kersten                67
6 T Ono                    63
7 D Harry                  59
8 T Kaneko                 41
9 Y Maesori                40
10 G McFarlane             38
11 J Niblett               20
12 A Isezaki               17