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Tour de White Rock Hill Climb
White Rock, BC, July 15, 2006
BC Superweek got off to a flying start on Friday night with the Superboy of BC cycling soaring past everyone to win the Tour de White Rock hill climb, the opening event of the richest week of bike racing in Canada.
22-year-old Cam Evans of Tswwassen made a successful defense of the race he won in 2004. Last year he was recovering from a broken kneecap and was unable to defend his title. Friday night in front of a large crowd lining the 700 meter course, Evans proved his winning form is back and he's still the king of the hills in White Rock. The rising start of the Langley-based Symmetrics team won the qualifying heat and then left everyone behind on the steep climb up Buena Vista Avenue to win the showdown between the top five finalists.
He made it look a lot easier than it felt. "This is one of the most painful races you can do," he said. "It's so short and steep that you have to go as hard as you can all the time. In most races when you go up steep hills you may give it 85% but here it has to be 100% or else. I'm going to feel it in the morning but so will everyone else so it shouldn't hurt me too much in the road race."
Ryan Hopping of Fort McMurray, riding for ERTC Redbike finished 2nd. Masi-Adobe's Jordan Guenette of Vancouver finished 3rd.
It was a night of firsts in the women's race. A former speed skater from Regina, Alexandra Wrubleski won the first hill climb she'd ever raced in her first start in a BC Superweek event. She credits her victory to a year of high altitude training in the mountains and hills around her new hometown of Calgary. She won the women's race with ease, cruising across the finish line a comfortable distance ahead of 2nd place finisher Leah Goldstein of Vancouver.
It was a night of firsts for Goldstein as well. She had never before raced the tough hill climb in White Rock and now knows why. "It's agonizing because it's steep and just keeps getting steeper. It hurts right now but I'll be ok for tomorrow (Sunday) morning," said Goldstein, the favourite to win the road race which begins at 8am on Marine Drive in White Rock. Abbotsford's Alison Testroete took 3rd just ahead of Laval, Quebec's Joelle Numainville who set a new women's course record of 1.56.07 in the qualifying heat.
Results
Men
1 Cameron Evans (Can) Symmetrics Cycling
2 Ryan Hopping (Can) ERTC Redbike
3 Jordan Guenette (Can) Masi Adobe
4 Andrew Pinfold (Can) Symmetrics Cycling
5 Dan MacDonald (Can) Unattached
6 Will Routley (Can) Symmetrics Cycling
7 Derek McMaster (Can) Ital Pasta/ Transport Belmire C.C.
8 Bradley Kerr (Can) Gigabike/La-Z-Boy
9 Ryan Anderson (Can) Avia West
10 Dave Richter (USA) Ital Pasta/ Transport Belmire C.C.
11 Ryan Smith (Can) Total Restoration
12 Chad Nikolz (USA) Broadmark Capitol/Hagens Berman LLP
13 Matt Guse (Can) Team R.A.C.E.
14 Ryan Roth (Can) Team R.A.C.E.
15 Tim Sherstobitoff (Can) Total Restoration
16 Carl Jacobson (Can) Masi Adobe
17 Roy Pickavance (USA) CenturyTel
18 Dan Skinner (Can) Total Restoration
19 Chuck Hill (USA) Hi-Tech Bikes/ 5 Star Fish
20 Cory Forrest (Can) Total Restoration
21 Bradley Fairall (Can) Symmetrics Cycling
22 Garth White (Can) TREK - Red Truck Ale
23 Marcel Aarden (Can) Gigabike/La-Z-Boy
24 Carlos Capela (Can) Unattached
25 Nick Friesen (Can) Pedalhead Roadworks
26 Philippe Abbott (Can) Ital Pasta/ Transport Belmire C.C.
27 Jesse James Collins (Can) BiciSport Gruppo Sportivo
28 Micheal Norton (USA) Nerac/Outdoorlights.com Pro Cycling
29 Brad Bingham (USA) CenturyTel / VRAD
30 Ryan Clarke (Can) Team Coastal
31 Tim Abercrombie (Can) Escape Velocity / DEVO
32 Giuseppe Cirella (Can) Unattached
33 Justin Lillie (USA) Boston Scientific Cycling
34 Allen Krughoff (USA) Team Century Tel
35 Eric Wohlberg (Can) Symmetrics Cycling
36 Anthony Steenbergen (Can) H&R Block
37 Robin White (Can) Avia West
38 Shaun Adamson (Can) Juventus
39 Cameron Hughes (Aus) Ital Pasta/ Transport Belmire C.C.
40 Gary Wade (Can) Total Restoration
41 Conor Hurley (USA) Boston Scientific Cycling
42 Brad Slater (Can) Masi Adobe
43 Ron Klopfer (Can) Team Coastal
44 Peter Sanowar (Can) ItalPasta/ Transport Belmire C.C.
45 Andrew Thompson (NZl) Trek New Zealand
46 Per Strom (Can) BiciSport Gruppo Sportivo
47 Sean Williams (Can) Total Restoration
48 Scott Malone (Can) Steed Cycles/ SRAM/RCBDS
49 Jamie Sparling (Can) BiciSport Gruppo Sportivo
50 Eric Harvey (Can) Bayside Cycling Club
51 Daniel Carruthers (NZl) Hanston Hearing Systems
52 Trevor Haahiem (Can) Total Restoration
53 Christian Meier (Can) Symmetrics Cycling
54 Brian Vaughan (USA) Boston Scientific Cycling
55 Ryan McNamara (Can) Gigabike/La-Z-Boy
56 Kevin Noiles (Can) Masi Adobe
57 Craig De gier (Can) GS Campione
58 Simon Craig (Can) Spoke N Motion
59 Taylor Knueven (USA) Broadmark Capitol/Hagens Berman LLP
60 John Perkins (Can) GS Campione
61 Jay Hawranik (Can) GS Campione
62 Glenn Hendricks (Can) Bayside Cycling Club
63 Dave Brooks (Can) Gigabike/La-Z-Boy
64 Jeff Schiller (Can) Team R.A.C.E.
65 Fraser Hayes (Can) Avia West
66 Ryan Olson (Can) GS Campione
67 Harley Borlee (Can) H & R Block
68 Shawn Taylor (Can) H&R Block
69 Jeff Ain (Can) Escape Velocity / DEVO
70 Shane Savage (Can) Unattached
71 Dave Vukets (Can) Team R.A.C.E.
72 Andrew Greydanus (Can)
73 Marsh Cooper (Can) Symmetrics Cycling
74 Ciaran Power (Irl) Navigators Insurance Cycling Team
75 Brandon Crichton (Can) Symmetrics Cycling
76 Svein Tuft (Can) Symmetrics Cycling
77 Andrew Randell (Can) Symmetrics Cycling
78 Daniel Maggiacomo (Can) ItalPasta/ Transport Belmire C.C.
79 Jacob Erker (Can) Symmetrics Cycling
80 Vassili Davidenko (Rus) Navigators Insurance Cycling Team
81 Siro Camponogara (Ita) Navigators Insurance Cycling Team
82 Kirk O'Bee (USA) Health Net Presented by Maxxis
83 Oleg Grishkin (Rus) Navigators Insurance Cycling Team
84 Hilton Clarke (Aus) Navigators Insurance Cycling Team
Women
1 Alexandra Wrubleski (Can) H & R Block
2 Leah Goldstein (Isr) Symmetrics Cycling Team
3 Alison Testroete (Can) CMC / Bow Cycle
4 Joelle Numainville (Can) Team Biovail
5 Stacy Spencer (Can) TREK - Red Truck Ale
6 Dawn Berg (Can) Oak Bay Bikes
7 Natasha Kuzmak (Can) Synergy Racing
8 Lisa Tasa (Can) Chapman Land Surveying Racing
9 Corinne Issel (Can) unattached
10 Clare Hall-Patch (Can) Oak Bay Bikes
11 Laura Brown (Can) CMC / Bow Cycle
12 Lisa Sweeney (Can) Colorado Premier Training-Colnago
13 Sarah Stewart (Can) Wedgewood Cycling Team
14 Tanya Bagnell (Can) ERTC
15 Maria Lee (Can) Symmetrics Cycling Team
16 Lee Darling (Can) Team Coastal
17 Barb Zimich (Can) Team Coastal
18 Marisa Russell (USA) Landis/Trek VW
19 Susan Smith (Can) A.C. Lyon Vaise
20 Marni Hambleton (Can) Symmetrics Cycling Team
21 Anna Tratnyek (Can) Terry Precision
22 Tricia Orzeck (Can) Synergy Racing
23 Sarah Kerlin (USA) Velo Bella-Kona Road Team
24 Mandy Poitras (Can) Symmetrics Cycling Team
Primes Damian Kurzawinski (ZM Cycling Club) Chris Atkins (La Bicicletta) Jason Valenti (CoachChris.ca) 89 Starters
