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New Zealand National Championships - NE
Nelson, New Zealand, February 26-March 1, 2009
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Race 4 - February 28: Cross country
Six of the best for Houltham
Lower Hutt's Stuart Houltham handled the atrocious conditions best to claim his sixth national titles at the New Zealand Mountainbike Championships in Nelson while Olympian Rosara Joseph returned from overseas to dominate the elite women's race in impressive fashion.
Houltham was ecstatic to take the elite men's cross country honours after pushing clear on the last of five gruelling laps in heavy mud and continual rain. His sixth win in 2:06:31 takes him to within one of Jon Hume's record of seven national cross country titles.
The men's race was a tight affair with a pack of four swapping the lead. New Zealand Cup winner Mike Northcott, runner-up last year, was forced out after two laps after problems with his contact lenses in the cold, wet and muddy conditions.
Clinton Avery laid down the gauntlet when he grabbed the lead on the penultimate lap, but the experience Houltham cleared out on the final lap. He won by two and a half minutes from Brendon Sharratt with Avery a further nine seconds back in third place.
Joseph, back from her base in England, will head to Wellington to compete in the UCI women's road race in the Capital on Sunday.
She dominated from the start to clear out in the women's race over four laps, winning in 2:01:07, more than 10 minutes ahead of Nic Leary with Sara MacDonald in third.
The under 23 titles went to Ash Haugh and Katherine O'Neill.
It was a family affair in the under 19 categories with Dirk Peters winning the junior men's race in 1:40:45 while his sister Alexa won the junior women's honours.
14-year-old Anton Cooper turned heads when he set the fastest average lap time of the day, followed by Dirk Peters and Houltham.
The championships conclude Sunday with the downhill titles which will prove treacherous and spectacular in the current muddy conditions.
Results
Elite men - 5 laps
Elite men
1 Stuart Houltham 2.06.31
2 Brendon Sharratt 2.37
3 Clinton Avery 2.46
4 Scott Thorne 7.56
5 Gavin McCarthy 16.23
6 Chris Kendall 18.26
7 Jon Richardson 19.24
8 Dayle McLauchlan 19.47
9 Tim Madgwick 22.35
10 Edwin Crossling 24.29
11 Oliver Whalley 27.07
12 Connor Power 29.17
13 Jeremy Inglis 33.20
Lapped
14 Justin Price
DNF Mike Northcott
DNF Andrew Bott
DNF Dean Fulton
DNF Brad Tilby
DNS Joshua Barley
DNS Tony Hogg
DNS Craig Tolson
DNS James Walker
Elite women
1 Rosara Joseph 2.01.07
2 Nic Leary 10.14
3 Sara Macdonald 12.24
4 Susie Wood 12.34
5 Jeanette Gerrie 13.18
6 Cathy Hamer 15.23
7 Sara Taylor 19.38
8 Monique Avery 19.51
9 Erin Greene 22.15
10 Eloise Fry 33.31
Lapped
11 Nicole Swain
DNF Karen Collins
DNS Lisa Morgan
Under 23 men
1 Ash Hough 2.12.10
2 Carl Jones 10.30
3 Jonathan Kalma 12.27
Lapped
4 Scott Green
5 Cameron Wood
DNF George Bennett
DNF Andrew Wong
DNS David Clark
Under 23 women
1 Katherine O Neill 2.14.24
2 Samara Sheppard 3.38
3 Raewyn Morrison 12.03
4 Adrienne Hooper 19.17
Lapped
5 Michelle Bellamy
DNS Katherine Camp
Under 19 men
1 Dirk Peters 1.40.45
2 Richard Anderson 3.21
3 Patrick Avery 4.21
4 Bradley Hudson 5.36
5 Locky McArthur 7.51
6 Ethan Glover 8.31
7 Kieran Hambrook 9.24
8 Jamie Hawke 10.46
9 Sam Shaw 10.52
10 Logan Horn 13.16
11 Cameron Hollamby 14.17
12 Conor Corbett 16.17
13 Jeffrey McDowell 18.26
14 Josh Fitzgerald 19.59
15 Jack Chapman 21.10
16 Josh Russell-Gibbs 22.01
17 Dominic Furkert 25.43
18 Jeremy Stephens 26.42
19 Reuben Horn 28.33
20 James Gilmour 28.52
21 Jonny Brown 32.32
22 William Bowman 36.05
23 Nicholas Hanover 36.07
24 Eddie Jackson 36.35
DNF Simon Binney
DNF Adrian Retief
DNF Sean Gardner
Under 19 women
1 Alexa Peters 1.51.02
2 Sasha Smith 1.06
3 Rachel Richards 13.36
4 Sarah McDonald 14.50
5 Jesse Loe 33.58
Under 15 men
1 Craig Oliver 0.54.16
2 Charlie Murray 2.10
3 Sam Gaze 2.13
4 Kurt Standen 9.51
DNF Joel MacManus
DNS Jonathan Clark
Under 17 men
1 Anton Cooper 1.10.02
2 Mathew Waghorn 3.56
3 Joel MacMillan 7.01
4 Sean Hambrook 11.03
5 Kristoff Ford 11.48
6 Tayla Harrison 12.43
7 Aidan Terpstra 15.23
8 Jake Glover 16.48
9 Campbell Tannock 18.22
10 Jeremy Hamer 18.48
11 Jonty Sanders 22.40
12 Nigel McDowell 23.04
13 Nathan Waghorn 27.15
14 Tom Bradshaw 32.32
15 Elliot Pearce 32.50
16 Matthew Williams 36.19
17 Jed Findlay 45.49
18 Andrew Jeffries 58.42
DNS Nick Bygate
Under 17 women
1 Sammy Lane 1.10.21
2 Keryn Knight 6.45
3 Hannah Lane 20.32
Senior men
1 Alistair Crossling 1.47.42
2 Alex Revell 3.18
3 Sam Thompson 7.32
4 Hamish Collie 8.23
5 David Driscole 10.54
Senior women
1 Franziska Brun 1.44.23
2 Ashley Burgess 7.32
3 Emma Newall 9.39
Masters 30+ men
1 Jason Goldie 1.43.53
2 Mark Leishman 1.40
3 Ricky Pincott 5.25
4 Nick Emery 6.12
5 Jake Stow 6.45
6 Paul McNabb 7.19
7 James Hufflett 7.26
8 Wade Jennings 10.03
9 Mark Fry 13.14
10 Tony Keith 16.47
11 Matt Amos 18.41
12 Richard Ainsworth 19.34
13 Dean Hamilton 23.44
14 Rod Harrhy 36.56
Lapped
15 Tony Owsley
DNF Richard Trask
DNS Ken Feist
Masters 30+ women
1 Dallis Waters 1.11.56
2 Abby Owsley 17.39
DNS Nienke Oostra
Masters 40+ men
1 Ian Paintin 1.19.55
2 Rob Kilvington 0.02
3 Chris Gaze 1.21
4 Trevor Woodward 2.36
5 Seamus Ryan 3.35
6 Wayne Pool 5.10
7 Geoffrey Notman 5.33
8 Andy MacDonald 6.52
9 Tim Bygate 7.14
10 Cliff Bowman 9.39
11 Derek Milne 9.49
12 Bruce Jenkins 13.00
13 Paul Hufflett 22.15
DNS Ian McDonald
DNS Karl Ratahi
Masters 40+ women
1 Sarah Beadel 1.04.35
2 Andrea Murray 1.36
3 Bridget McMillan 11.08
Masters 50+ men
1 Chris Faithfull 1.25.00
2 Andrew Scott 0.25
3 Patrick Meffan 1.37
4 Ant Bradshaw 2.21
5 Peter Lockwood 3.11
6 Martyn Pearce 6.25
7 Paul McDowell 8.07
8 Neville George 8.33
9 Peter Pigou 9.48
10 Dave Wallace 10.20
11 David King 23.49
DNF Marco Renall
