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January 15, Four cross:
World Champion Buchanan dominates women's four cross
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- January 15, 2010, 20:58,
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- January 16, 2010, 17:58
Madill takes third men's championship
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In the rainbow jersey of world champion, Caroline Buchanan claimed her fifth Australian four cross title at the Australian Mountain Bike Championships at Eagle MTB Park in Adelaide on Friday. Luke Madill took the men's event.
It was the first outing in the rainbow jersey of world champion for the 19-year-old Buchanan. Starting as the outright favourite, she coped well with the pressure putting in an almost flawless ride.
The women's race was only ever a race of two as Sarsha Huntington challenged Buchanan through the first two berms as they rubbed shoulders fighting for the lead, but the multiple-Australian champion eventually got the better of the battle. Emily Hockey claimed the bronze medal in front of her home crowd.
"I wasn't too sure what was going to happen in that first corner. It got pretty close in the first turn and I was ready for some carnage," Buchanan said. "I knew that Sarsha would be close and it's great that she pushes me all the time.
"Being my first mountain bike race since worlds I was feeling a little bit rough in areas but I wear the rainbow jersey with pride and I had an absolute ball with it out there today. I was just as nervous for this race as I was for the world titles.
"This [Australian] title feels just as good as the first one."
In addition to being the first outing for Buchanan's rainbow jersey, it was the debut for the new four cross course at Eagle MTB Park that the current four cross world champion rated as world class.
"With four cross it's important to get the lines equal so there's not one fast line from top to bottom and they've done that here," Buchanan said.
"It's on a really good slope. They've made it really technical and it will make for really even racing."
In the men's race Luke Madill took his third Australian title after going through the quarter final and semi-final comfortably, but got pushed to the line in the race for gold by Randal Huntington who made it a husband and wife combination in the silver medal position. The bronze medal went to Graeme Mudd.
"Having that strong first straight helped me a lot and got me out of trouble in the final," Madill said. "But it's still hard and you never know who's behind you because with this track there's lots of different lines so anything can happen.
"Once you get to the final experience really counts. But having the younger ones push us is good."
On Saturday, elite cross country racers will go for green and gold jersey.
Full results
Elite men's 1/16 finals, heat 1
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Luke Madill |
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| 2 |
Craig Yates |
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| 3 |
Ben Matthews |
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Elite men's 1/16 finals, heat 2
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Thomas Hubert |
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| 2 |
Ryan Hunt |
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| 3 |
James Shepherd |
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| 4 |
Ngari Jenkins |
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Elite men's 1/16 finals, heat 3
| 1 |
Michael Fenwick |
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| 2 |
Michael Young |
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| 3 |
Andrew Brett |
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Elite men's 1/16 finals, heat 4
| 1 |
Randal Huntington |
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| 2 |
Darren Kirby |
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| 3 |
Ryan Chesney |
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Elite men's 1/16 finals, heat 5
| 1 |
Leigh Darrell |
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| 2 |
Richard Levinson |
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| 3 |
Luke McCkenzie |
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Elite men's 1/16 finals, heat 6
| 1 |
Michael Jobson |
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| 2 |
Hayden Lester |
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| 3 |
Philip Wood |
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| 4 |
Diego Alvaro |
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Elite men's 1/16 finals, heat 7
| 1 |
Graeme Mudd |
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| 2 |
Ashley Gray |
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| 3 |
Sean Fitzpatrick |
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Elite men's 1/16 finals, heat 8
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David Habicht |
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| 3 |
Blake Nielsen |
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| 2 |
Jacob Reeves |
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| 4 |
Kirby Watts |
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Elite men's quarter finals, heat 1
| 1 |
Luke Madill |
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| 3 |
Ryan Hunt |
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| 2 |
Thomas Hubert |
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| 4 |
Craig Yates |
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Elite men's quarter finals, heat 2
| 1 |
Michael Fenwick |
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| 2 |
Randal Huntington |
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| 3 |
Darren Kirby |
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| 4 |
Michael Young |
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Elite men's quarter finals, heat 3
| 1 |
Leigh Darrell |
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| 2 |
Hayden Lester |
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| 3 |
Michael Jobson |
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| 4 |
Richard Levinson |
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Elite men's quarter finals, heat 4
| 1 |
David Habicht |
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| 2 |
Graeme Mudd |
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| 3 |
Jacob Reeves |
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| 4 |
Ashley Gray |
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Elite men's semi-final, heat 1
| 1 |
Luke Madill |
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| 2 |
Randal Huntington |
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| 3 |
Thomas Hubert |
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| 4 |
Michael Fenwick |
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Elite men's semi-final, heat 2
| 1 |
David Habicht |
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| 2 |
Graeme Mudd |
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| 3 |
Leigh Darrell |
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| 4 |
Hayden Lester |
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Elite men's final
| 1 |
Luke Madill |
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| 2 |
Randal Huntington |
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| 3 |
Graeme Mudd |
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| 4 |
David Habicht |
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| 5 |
Leigh Darrell |
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| 6 |
Thomas Hubert |
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| 7 |
Michael Fenwick |
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| 8 |
Hayden Lester |
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Elite women semi-finals, heat 1
| 1 |
Sarsha Huntington |
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| 2 |
Charise Atkinson |
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| 3 |
Kate Hoskin |
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Elite women semi-finals heat 2
| 1 |
Caroline Buchanan |
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| 2 |
Emily Hockey |
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| 3 |
Bec Kirss |
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Elite women finals
| 1 |
Caroline Buchanan |
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| 2 |
Sarsha Huntington |
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| 3 |
Emily Hockey |
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| DNF |
Charise Atkinson |
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Under 17 women finals
| 1 |
Maya Sidhu |
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| 2 |
Loren Vanetie |
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| 3 |
Ellie Wale |
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| 4 |
Danielle Beecroft |
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Veteran men finals
| 1 |
Daniel Sprague |
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| 2 |
Jade McPherson |
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| 3 |
Tom Gilfedder |
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| 4 |
Raymond Ross |
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Under 15 men finals
| 1 |
Timothy Kmetyk |
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| 2 |
Jackson Davis |
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| 3 |
Simon Harrington |
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| 4 |
George Hickman |
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Under 17 men semi-finals, heat 1
| 1 |
Max Hughes |
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| 2 |
Luke Ellison |
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| 3 |
Tom Rodgers |
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| 4 |
Henry Blake |
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Under 17 men semi-finals, heat 2
| 1 |
Connor Fearon |
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| 2 |
Cameron Ryan |
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| 3 |
Conor Bullard |
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| DNF |
Aidan Vahtrik |
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Under 17 men finals
| 1 |
Connor Fearon |
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| 2 |
Cameron Ryan |
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| 3 |
Luke Ellison |
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| 4 |
Max Hughes |
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Sport men semi-finals, heat 1
| 1 |
Arjan Sidhu |
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| 2 |
Drew Stipanicev |
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| 3 |
Stephen Knott |
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Sport men semi-finals, heat 2
| 1 |
Will Hickman |
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| 2 |
Andrew Nilbett |
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| 3 |
Cale Anderson |
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| 4 |
Kieran Thompson |
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