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Topbike Tours Boomerang
Mt Beauty, Victoria, April 1-2 2006
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The autumn sun shone on Mt Beauty yet again for the fourth annual Boomerang cycle race.
Competitors lined up for the five stage race in either Mountain bike, Road Race or 7 stages for the die hards racing the ‘Iron Boomerang’.
Saturday commenced with the road race followed by the mountain bike point to point, the road time trial and the mountain bike time trial. Before dusk the combined road and MTB ‘50 metre sprint knock out’ finished the days racing. This was followed by a pasta party Saturday night with heaps of random giveaways for all competitors. This included a Giant XTC2 MTB.
Sunday's racing consisted of a road and MTB hill climb, a road criterium and a mountain bike cross country.
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The competition was keen at the pointy end of the field with Tim McColl taking the Iron Boomerang for the second year running and Janine Ridsdale taking the female Iron Boomerang from Tim’s wife, Shelley. Cal Britten won the MTB Open, Paul Clancy from Griffiths and Louise Dwyer from Murchison the 30+ category. Phil Anderson and Megan Hill took the 40+ MTB and Mt Beauty local legend Bernie McArdle won the 50+ MTB mens and Adair Ferguson the 50+ womens. On the Road the winners were Stuart Morgan and Katie O’Keefe (open), Aaron Christiansen won the 30+ making it 2 in a row and Michael Pratt and Lyn Cheshire the 40+. Michele Donegan and Stephen Thomas cleaned up the road 50+.
Conversley, there were a number of entrants who had never raced a cycle event before. Congratulations to Adele Wedding, Louise Dwyer, Megan Hill and Lyn Cheshire for completing the grueling weekend of racing.
Some statistics
Michelle Donegan and Katie O’Keefe have both raced the Boomerang before, but this year Katie had something to prove, after her mother rolled her on the Melbourne TV cycling show ‘Sooty Park’ in the ‘roller room’ competition. The head start given was not calculated too carefully, and it was never recovered! In her favour at Mt Beauty, the course was a lot longer than the virtual 600m on the tele.
There were two father/son combinations, Bernie and Matt McArdle and Tony and James Crapper (sister Helen also raced, see below).
The Boomerang’s 50 metre sprint claims to be the only known event in the world where MTB and road bikes race together. Helen Crapper won the Open women for the 2nd year, on a road bike, while another Van Der Ploeg brother won the mens on an MTB, this year it was Paul ending brother Neil’s 2 year run.
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The Boomerang is the only event Australian cycling legend Phil Anderson races now. Phil comes to the event untrained (and truly ‘untrained’ not the usual story that people give you) and still holds pace in the off road category with all the riders, some who probably have never even heard of him as they were in nappies when he was a pro! He placed 3rd in the weekend’s toughest MTB stage, Saturday morning’s Point to Point.
Photography
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Images by Emma Colson/www.topbike.com.au
- Many MTBers raced the road
- Aaaron Christianson won the ITT 30 +
- Paul VanderPloug took the 50m Sprint
- Cycling legend phil Anderson looks relaxed before the MTB Cross Country
- Former downhiller Shelley Kamevar races the MTB XC
- Local legend Bernie McArdle at the top of the XC course he built
- Don't bite now - Janine Ridsdale won the Iron Boomerang
- Mother daughter combination still friends at the end of the weekend
- The knees of a first timer
- Ian Fraser wearing his new Boomerang shirt
- Rohin Adams took the weekend off riding to microphone manage and do the timing
Results
Mtb 30 plus Female 1 Louise Dwyer 4.38.04 DNF Shelley Kamevaar Mtb 30 plus Male 1 Paul Clancy 2.50.08 2 Leigh Barratt 4.02 3 Aaron Knight 5.24 4 James Deane 5.56 5 Tony French 8.17 6 Michael Spencer 19.39 7 Ben Weiher 21.04 8 Matt Betts 21.36 9 Adrian O'Shaughnessy 22.50 10 Matthew McArdle 23.19 11 Nazario Giuliani 25.33 12 Nick Colwell 26.17 13 Cameron Birch 28.06 14 Marthiss Heuperman 30.59 15 Andrew Dridan 40.33 DNF Brett Jackson DNF Darren Stock Mtb 40 plus Female 1 Megan Hill 5.11.01 Mtb 40 plus Male 2 Phillip Anderson 2.36.22 3 Rod Hall 2.49.50 4 David O'Brien 2.51.29 5 Nick Kelly 3.13.14 6 Steve McKay 3.19.27 7 David Graham 4.05.22 DNF Barter Dean DNF Gerard Whitton Mtb 50 plus Female 1 Adair Ferguson 3.41.10 Mtb 50 plus Male 1 Bernie McArdle 2.55.32 2 Hans Werner 31.53 3 Tony Crapper 32.00 Mtb Fun Female DNF Adele Wedding Mtb Open Male 1 Cal Britten 2.23.59 2 Paul Van Der Ploeg 2.39 3 Peter Braunsteins 15.13 4 Lewis Rattray 23.45 5 Steven Martin 30.53 6 Angus Harding 35.04 7 Scott Chancellor 36.13 8 Dan Kirby 41.37 9 Andrew Sleeman 55.38 10 Alistair Miller 1.24.47 11 Daniel Miller 1.25.42 12 Jonathan Miller 2.30.10 DNF Adrian Clancy DNF Neil Van Der Ploeg DNF Kris Robinson Rd 30 plus Male 1 Aaron Christiansen 1.46.59 2 Mark Richards 1.07 3 Jamie Ruddy 3.03 4 Tony Cicuto 3.29 5 Nicholas Deane 4.04 6 Craig Van Der Valk 4.10 7 Shaun Broadbent 8.15 8 Gary Whalley 11.20 9 Greg Johnstone 16.11 10 James Crapper 17.48 11 David White 20.22 Rd 40 plus Female 1 Lynne Cheshire 2.31.28 Rd 40 plus Male 1 Michael Pratt 1.51.34 2 Jeremy Smith 5.36 3 Dave Gordon 8.05 4 Bill Murphy 9.06 5 Howard Duncan 9.23 6 David McGowan 11.47 7 Brian Greg 13.18 DNF Peter Varley Rd 50 plus Female 1 Michele Donegan 2.18.49 Rd 50 plus Male 1 Stephen Thomas 1.56.41 2 Greg Bloomfield 11.10 3 Jeremy Tatchell 13.54 4 Jim Oosterweghel 17.54 5 Richard O'Brien 19.46 DNF Jim Crebbin Rd Fun Female DNF Natalie Sambell Rd Fun Male 1 Paul Brauer 2.00.21 2 Mark Quinn 8.49 DNF Simon Herd DNF Damian Walsh Rd Open Female 1 Katie O'Keefe 1.50.52 2 Vanessa Hentscher 0.55 3 Bev Thomas 5.25 4 Natalie Smith 8.23 5 Kelly Linden 8.36 6 Gracie Elvin 13.58 7 Lina Karlsson 15.40 8 Helen Crapper 17.48 9 Vinca Low 18.15 DNF Lara Grollo Rd Open Male 1 Stuart Morgan 1.44.06 2 Ash Thomas 0.42 3 Ben Ryan 4.49 4 Stephen Van Dyke 6.19 5 Michael Skerritt 10.02 6 Zsolt Csatlos 11.41 DNF Stewart Sheffield Iron Boomerang Women 1 Janine Ridsdale 4.36.03 2 Shelley Millwood 39.09 Men 1 Tim McColl 3.57.03 2 Joel Read 0.30 DNF Simon Knowles
