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Canberra Off Road Cyclists Winter XC Series, Race 4 Majura Pines.

Sunday 15th September, 2002

Results

Report by Julia Graczyk

A cold crisp early morning warmed to a beautiful Spring day, with a light breeze providing near perfect conditions for race 4 of the CORC Winter cross country series. One hundred and fifteen riders lined up for the start of the race. The newly thinned forest compartments at Majura provided the course setter's with a little less choice than is usual, but the riders seemed to enjoy the course set. The course was a relatively short but varied lap combining flowing single track and undulating fire road sections.

In the Senior Men's race accomplished cross country runner and rogainer Adrian Sheppard showed that he can also ride a mtb with a lot of speed and technique. Sheppard rode a consistent race, to take the lead on the fourth lap (of six laps), and finish almost two minutes ahead of his nearest rival Shane Paton, with Jason Watts only a second behind in third place.

In the Senior Women's race Julia Graczyk and Janine Ridsdale rode together for the first three laps, with a faster final lap giving Graczyk first place. Mountain bike orienteer, and current World Rogaine champion Julie Quinn was third.

Some exciting racing unfolded in many of the other categories. In the Veteran Men's race a fit and fast Rod Higgins made it three wins from three starts, with Paul Atyeo making a strong return to racing to finish second, less than half a minute in arrears. The Sport A Men's race was also closely fought with a strong final two laps giving Steve Peddle first place, and fifty seconds advantage on Michael Johnson, with Daniel Schlage in third place a further twenty five seconds back .

Other category winners included solo 24 hour race entrant Richard Davis in Masters Men, Adair Ferguson in Masters Women, Luke Graydon in Under 15 Men and Trish Garrett in Veteran Women. Thanks to Tony Scott, Tony Winterbottom and David Baldwin for timing the race, and to Rosie and Chris Barnes, Simon Tilley, Julia Graczyk, Jacqui Clynes, Shane Paton and John Graydon for their help with registration and course pack up.

Results

Senior Men

1 Adrian Sheppard       1.33.20
2 Shane Paton              1.53
3 Jason Watts              1.54
4 Ben Geier                4.16
5 Tim Begbie               5.25
6 Luis Severino            6.28
7 Rob Allen                7.29

Senior Women

1 Julia Graczyk         1.13.58
2 Janine Ridsdale          0.54
3 Julie Quinn              3.30
4 Rosemary Barnes          8.21
5 Jacqui Clynes            9.59

Sport A Men

1 Steve Peddle          1.22.04
2 Michael Johnson          0.51
3 Daniel Schlage           1.16
4 Scott Wines              1.26
5 Paul Eccleston           2.20
6 Mathew Spackman          7.26
7 Dan Smith                9.23
  Ira Cooke                 DNF
  Matt Lees                 DNF
  Scotty Preston            DNF

Sport B Men

1 Luke Patching           48.12
2 Peter Wilson             0.14
3 David Medlock            3.04
4 Shane Dawson             3.14
5 Wayne Spratford          3.45
6 Leslie Ridsdale          4.03
7 Adam McGrath             4.07
8 Niel Skipper             4.27
9 Darryl Leonard           4.34
10 Simon Wilson            4.38
11 Dean Scott              4.44
12 Nigel McGinty           4.45
13 Allan Bontjer           7.31
14 Stuart Wilkes           7.34
15 Chris Gallimore         7.42
16 Aston Maddock           8.20
17 Ben White               9.28
18 Travis Hicks           10.52
19 Ian Robertson          13.01
20 Geoffrey Fielding      13.49
21 Michael Moore          13.59
22 David Blackburn        24.10
   Ben Battisson            DNF
   Ian McDonnell            DNF
   Timothy Liston           DNF

Sport B Women

1 Simone Dilkara          42.16
2 Claire Graydon           2.09
3 Gracie Elvin             2.56
4 Kelly Linnaker           5.51
5 Gail Sutton             21.26

Sport C Men

1 Ricky Dew               35.22
2 Ryan Dixon               0.30
3 Scott Peddle             0.47
4 Thor Phillips            1.28
5 John Boxall              1.32
6 Tony Shields             3.52
7 Liam Adamaitys           4.26
8 Andrew Forster           4.31
9 Craig Lindenmayer        5.02
10 Mark Young              5.50
11 Nick Cornish            6.17
12 Neil Liakston           6.48
13 Damian Woollcombe       7.21
14 James Andrews           8.37
15 Brendan Finch           9.22
16 Gregory Lye            10.58
17 Jeff Scheetz           11.34
18 Tim Gibson             13.27
19 Martin Osolnik         13.37
20 Leigh Pilkington       15.41
   David Power              DNF

Sport C Women

1 Annette De La Rue       28.02

Veteran Men

1 Rodney Higgins        1.04.14
2 Paul Atyeo               0.21
3 Richard Bontjer          0.51
4 Simon Tilley             1.12
5 John Paul                1.43
6 Jeffrey Dau              2.29
7 Mark Brittle             2.36
8 Peter Hansen             3.20
9 Mal Bennett              6.59
10 Wayde Margetts          8.13
  Andrew Remely             DNF

Veteran Women

1 Trisha Garrett          56.53
2 Rachel Storey            7.06

Masters Men

1 Richard Davis           52.17
2 Wayne Johnson            1.06
3 David Sutton             1.33
4 Phillip Hopkins          1.56
5 John Graydon             3.09
6 Tony Nairn               3.37
7 John Henderson           3.49
8 Dougal Powell            7.48
9 Dean Kozlik             11.20

Masters Women

1 Adair Ferguson          43.18
2 Mary-anne Simpson        5.57

Super Masters Men

1 David Blair             38.28
2 Paul Cole                0.36
3 Keith Davis              0.43
4 John Tucker              1.08
5 Des Cannon               9.25

Under 17 Men

1 Ben Henderson           51.52
2 Joseph Cram              2.22
3 Adam Franklin            8.15
  Sam White                 DNF
  Tim O'Shea                DNF

Under 15 Men

1 Luke Graydon            39.38
2 Kieran Hoop              0.56
3 Andrew Caldwell          4.23
4 Mark Alexander           9.16
  Matt Archer               DNF

Novice Men

1 John Prutti             11.59

Novice Women

1 Rebecca Henderson       12.11
2 Lisa Charles             0.43