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De Bortoli Tour - NE
Victoria, Australia, July 17-18, 2004
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Stage 3 - July 18: Panton's Gap, 112km
Pell & Fraser grab overall honours
MacDonald & Macpherson power to stage wins
By Mal Sawford
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New South Wales rider Peter McDonald (Randwick Botany) capitalised on a day long breakaway to claim the final stage of the 2004 De Bortoli Tour, outsprinting breakaway companion David Pell (UNO Clothing) in a two-up sprint. The overall win went to Pell, with a constantly thinning chase group lead by yellow jersey wearer Klayten Smith (Clarence Street Cyclery) and early tour leader Domenic Gatto (Brunswick) unable to reduce the gap enough to prevent Pell claiming the overall title.
Second place in the final stage was enough for overnight leader Caitlin Fraser (Moroni's Bikes) to clinch the Women's title. Despite being well positioned at the start of the stage, Kathy Watt succumbed to the impressive power of Jenny Macpherson, who rode the field off her wheel to claim the win and take over second position in the final General Classification.
How it unfolded
A Grade Men 112km
Only 10 kilometres into the stage, Pell launched his bid for the win, breaking away with McDonald, Anthony Smith (Grand Prix Bicycles), Sean Finning (VIS) and Chris D'Amelio (BikePRO.com.au). At the KOM at the top off Pantons Gap, the group was three minutes clear of the yellow jersey group, which included Gatto, Trent Perry (Team MG-ZT), Nick Kiraly, Matt Lloyd (Kathy Watt's Personal Training) and Hector Morales. With Pell trailing by 1:50 overnight, he was the virtual tour leader and looked very strong.
D'Amelio was first to crack under the pace set by Pell, but the four leaders extended their lead on the second of four 11km ascents, as the yellow jersey wearer appeared unwilling to contribute to the pace making of the chase. The final 3km of the climb was unpaved, and after recent rain a very uneven surface, riddled with pot holes, corrugations and loose gravel.
The third lap saw Anthony Smith and Finning dropped from the lead group, leaving Pell and McDonald to push on. Behind, tired legs were starting to show in the chase group, with only Klayten Smith, Morales, Lloyd and Gatto surviving 3:40 behind the leaders at the KOM, with a little over 40km to race.
On the final lap, Smith and Gatto broke clear of Morales, and closed the gap to the leaders markedly, but hesitation on the downhill run to the finish allowed Morales to chase back on; but more importantly allowed the gap to Pell to open again.
McDonald got the better of Pell in the downhill, tailwind sprint, holding on by a few centimetres. Just over three minutes later, Morales took the sprint for third, from Gatto and Smith - who had let a small gap open which judges felt warranted a two second difference. The 3:04 margin was enough to give Pell the overall title at the De Bortoli Tour, with McDonald jumping to second. The third place battle came down to time bonuses awarded in the KOM sprints.
Gatto had studied the race bible in detail, and outsprinted Smith for the bonus for third over the line in the sprints on the third and fourth laps. Fourth at the finish was worth another six seconds; Smith picked up three for fifth. The end result was a net six bonus seconds for Gatto, enough to give him third in the final GC by a two seconds!
Women 84km
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Race leader Fraser put the pressure on at the base of the Pantons Gap climb, and opened a 20 second advantage approaching the summit, with Watt and Macpherson in pursuit. Kerryn Charman (Hendry Cycles) was stuck in no mans land ahead of the select chase group comprising Audrey Quick, Judith May, Christine Foster (Richmond Cyclery) and Claire Baxter (Mascot Cycles).
Macpherson powered away from Watt, and bridged to the tour leader. The two former rowers combined well, and rocketed away from time trial specialist Watt, who had dominated on the same circuit in the 2003 event, and the rest of the field. By the second QOM, Watt was3:46 down, Charman out to 4:40, the chase group at 5:44 and the bunch - hoping to finish by dusk - over 13 minutes behind.
Fraser finally began to weaken on the final ascent, after riding at the head of the race since the start of the first stage. Macpherson attacked over the summit, and put her excellent descending skills to good use, soloing to the finish 37 seconds clear of the Tour winner, and over six minutes in front of Watt.
Support Races
Murray Spink (Jones Cycles) wrapped up the B Grade win with third in the final stage. A well deserved win went to Darren Lapthorne, who had broken away on the first climb, and ridden solo until the final climb, when he was finally reeled in by Spink and Chris Jenkins. Lapthorne still had the speed to out sprint Jenkins, while Spink cruised across the line a convincing winner overall.
Young Johnny Walker (CBD Cycles) looked completely at home on the rough dirt roads of the Pantons Gap climb, but waited until the final climb to make his move. Jordan Sutherland had attacked on the opening lap, and rode strongly on the climb, before being brought back.
Walker flew up the final climb, and yellow jersey wearer Josh Akarsu was unable to respond, with Walker taking over a minute out of the bunch in the run to the line - good enough for the overall win.
Stuart Hastings (Kennedy Cycle Fit) went into the final stage leading D Grade by 30 seconds. Rather than following the wheels of his main rivals, he went on the offensive, and only Cam Winton was able to follow. Winton took the win in the two-up sprint, but had to settle for second overall, while Doug Reynolds lead the bunch home to cement his third place overall.
Photography
Images by Mal Sawford
- Sean Finning powers the A Grade break
- McDonald takes the Stage 3 win by inches
- Chris Tymms was best of the rest in the downhill sprint
- Matt Lloyd leads the chase group
- Trent Perry rode consistently throughout the tour
- Fraser and Macpherson rode away on the tough climb
- Kerryn Charman rode strongly on the final day
- Murray Spink took the overall win in B Grade
- Josh Akarsu lost his yellow jersey to C grade winner Johnny Walker
- Stuart Hastings looked confident on the start line
- David Pell celebrates on the podium
- Race Director Damien Petrie congratulates the champion
- Former World Sprint Champion John Nicholson and Leanne De Bortoli enjoy the presentation
Results
A Grade, 12 km 1 Peter McDonald (Randwick Botany CC) 3.47.53 2 David Pell (Bendigo & District CC) 3 Hector Morales 3.04 4 Domenic Gatto (Brunswick Cycling Club Inc) 5 Klayten Smith (Clarence St CCC) 3.05 6 Trent Perry (Albury-Wodonga CC) 6.39 7 Christoph Tymms (Carnegie Caulfield CC) 7.23 8 Casey Munro (Brunswick Cycling Club Inc) 9 Daniel McConnell (Bairnsdale & Riviera C C) 10 Damien Turner (Ballarat/Sebastopol C C) 11 John Mackenzie (Warragul Cycling Club Inc) 12 Ashley Hayat (St Kilda Cycling Club Inc) 13 Peter Mueller (Adelaide CC) 14 Mark O'Brien (Horsham Cycling Club Inc) 15 Marc Williams (Canberra Cycling Club) 16 Sam Bach (Coburg Cycling Club Inc) 17 Samuel Rix (St Kilda Cycling Club Inc) 9.16 18 Peter Trigar (Brunswick Cycling Club Inc) 10.08 19 Matthew Lloyd (St Kilda Cycling Club Inc) 12.02 20 Sean Finning (Castlemaine Cycling Club Inc) 15.02 21 Christoph D'Amelio (Bairnsdale & Riviera C C) 15.11 22 Robert Lyte 26.44 23 Jason Hegert (Ballarat/Sebastopol C C) 29.02 24 Grant Webster (Echuca/Moama Cycling Club) 29.38 DNF Carl Cubitt (Coburg Cycling Club Inc) DNF Garry Clively (Coburg Cycling Club Inc) DNF Jarrod Clark (Brunswick Cycling Club Inc) DNF Nick Kiraly (Carnegie Caulfield CC) DNF Scott Peoples (Shepparton Cycling Club Inc) DNF Nathan Wise (Carnegie Caulfield CC) DNF George Bunt (Caravello Joinery CC) DNF Anthony Smith (Carnegie Caulfield CC) DNF Ben Edwards (St Kilda Cycling Club Inc) DNF Stephen Rossendell (Hobart Wheelers) DNF Brent Skippen (Parramatta CC) DNF Graham Rutter (Hinchinbrook Cycling Club) DNF David Stewart (Eastern Suburbs CC) DNF Owen Macphillamy (Bathurst CC) DNS Michael Teggelove (Echuca/Moama Cycling Club) DNS Matthew Jones (Echuca/Moama Cycling Club) DNS Craig Johnson (St Kilda Cycling Club Inc) DNS Alexander James (Brunswick Cycling Club Inc) DNS Christoph Bradford (Carnegie Caulfield CC) DNS Stephen Cunningham (Norwood C.C.) DNS Michael Tolhurst (Carnegie Caulfield CC) DNS Bradley Norton (Shepparton Cycling Club Inc) DNS Garry Parsons (Camperdown Cycling Club Inc) DNS Colin Thornton (Broadford Seymour Cycling Club) DNS Ryan Moody (Geelong West Cycling Club Inc) DNS Luke Weir (Carnegie Caulfield CC) DNS Adam Murchie (Footscray Cycling Club Inc) DNS Nigel Dunstone (Caravello Joinery CC) DNS Matthew Goold (Carnegie Caulfield CC) KOM Sprint 1 1 David Pell (Bendigo & District CC) 2 Christoph D'Amelio (Bairnsdale & Riviera C C) 3 Anthony Smith (Carnegie Caulfield CC) KOM Sprint 2 1 David Pell (Bendigo & District CC) 2 Peter McDonald (Randwick Botany CC) 3 Sean Finning (Castlemaine Cycling Club Inc) KOM Sprint 3 1 David Pell (Bendigo & District CC) 2 Peter McDonald (Randwick Botany CC) 3 Domenic Gatto (Brunswick Cycling Club Inc) KOM Sprint 4 1 David Pell (Bendigo & District CC) 2 Peter McDonald (Randwick Botany CC) 3 Domenic Gatto (Brunswick Cycling Club Inc) B Grade, 84 km 1 Darren Lapthorne (Coburg Cycling Club Inc) 2.53.31 2 Christoph Jenkins (Randwick Botany CC) 3 Murray Spink (Dirt Riders) 0.05 4 Peter Ladd (Bendigo & District CC) 2.15 5 Joshua Marden (Randwick Botany CC) 6.10 6 Brendan Washington (Lavington Panthers Sports) 7 Daniel Bellis (Footscray Cycling Club Inc) 7.13 8 Daniel Furmston (Hobart Wheelers) 8.48 9 Julian Paynter (St Kilda Cycling Club Inc) 10.23 10 Stephen Blair (Canberra Cycling Club) 11 Ross Edwards (Carnegie Caulfield CC) 12.05 12 Ben Darlington (Canberra Cycling Club) 13 Wayne Nichols (Lavington Panthers Sports) 12.42 14 Gerard Murphy (Leongatha Cycling Club Inc) 12.43 15 James Maebus (Dirt Riders) 15 Alistair Farley (Castlemaine Cycling Club Inc) 17 Lee Robinson (Carnegie Caulfield CC) 12.48 18 Josef Stoltz (Bendigo & District CC) 13.15 19 Mark Howard (Carnegie Caulfield CC) 13.45 20 Peter O'Callaghan (Brunswick Cycling Club Inc) 13.53 21 Cameron Wise (Carnegie Caulfield CC) 14.48 22 Guy Green (Blackburn Cycling Club Inc) 18.18 23 Paul Clancy (Griffith CC) 22.24 24 Jamie Goddard (Blackburn Cycling Club Inc) 23.49 25 Jeffrey Shaw (Blackburn Cycling Club Inc) 24.59 26 Andrew Smith (Blackburn Cycling Club Inc) 25.44 27 Adam Pyke (Mornington Cycling Club) 28.24 28 William Murray (Chelsea & Peninsula C C) 29.00 29 Danny Cohen (St Kilda Cycling Club Inc) 33.13 30 Cameron Hunter (Blackburn Cycling Club Inc) 45.09 DNF Garron Buckland (Dirt Riders) DNF Jan Willhoeft (Carnegie Caulfield CC) DNF Stuart Hill (St Kilda Cycling Club Inc) DNF Anthony Comino (St Kilda Cycling Club Inc) DNF Christoph Lee (St Kilda Cycling Club Inc) DNF Warren Nelson (Carnegie Caulfield CC) DNF Christoph Wilson (Kangaroo Point C C) DNS Greg Nicolson (Carnegie Caulfield CC) DNS James Bradshaw (Brunswick Cycling Club Inc) DNS Chris Winn (Dirt Riders) DNS Dylan Newell (Brunswick Cycling Club Inc) DNS Daniel Burtt (Geelong West Cycling Club Inc) DNS Steven Cunneen (Bendigo & District CC) DNS Justin Hogan (Carnegie Caulfield CC) DNS Ken Ford (Carnegie Caulfield CC) DNS Heath Keenan (Shepparton Cycling Club Inc) DNS Aaron Wilson (Brunswick Cycling Club Inc) DNS Raymond Jarratt (Cobram Barooga C C) DNS Brenton Dunne (Albury-Wodonga CC) DNS Alex Randall (St Kilda Cycling Club Inc) KOM Sprint 1 1 Brendan Washington (Lavington Panthers Sports) 2 Alistair Farley (Castlemaine Cycling Club Inc) 3 Daniel Furmston (Hobart Wheelers) KOM Sprint 2 1 Darren Lapthorne (Coburg Cycling Club Inc) 2 Murray Spink (Dirt Riders) 3 Christoph Jenkins (Randwick Botany CC) KOM Sprint 3 1 Darren Lapthorne (Coburg Cycling Club Inc) 2 Christoph Jenkins (Randwick Botany CC) 3 Murray Spink (Dirt Riders) C Grade, 84 km 1 Johnny Walker (Brunswick Cycling Club Inc) 3.03.50 2 Kyle Marwood (Bendigo & District CC) 2.26 3 Josh Akarsu 4 Pete Knight (St Kilda Cycling Club Inc) 3.30 5 Jordan Sutherland (Brunswick Cycling Club Inc) 5.59 6 Adrian Hanson (Coburg Cycling Club Inc) 7.36 7 James Stewart (Geelong West Cycling Club Inc) 8 Daryl Burns (Geelong West Cycling Club Inc) 9 Danny Kah (Carnegie Caulfield CC) 10 Michael Forbes (St Kilda Cycling Club Inc) 7.39 11 Thor Navntoft (Carnegie Caulfield CC) 7.45 12 Nathaniel Brown (St Kilda Cycling Club Inc) 12.56 13 David Moreland (Bendigo & District CC) 14.46 14 Brett Buckland (Dirt Riders) 15.24 15 Kurt Jensen (Carnegie Caulfield CC) 15.49 16 Andrew McKellar (Footscray Cycling Club Inc) 17 Jeffrey Williams (Fat Tyre Flyers) 18.17 18 Harry Fricke (Hawthorn Citizens Youth Club) 19.12 19 Ian Van Driel (Carnegie Caulfield CC) 19.14 20 John Marcan (Sunbury & Hume Districts C C) 19.59 21 Kain Nunn (Blackburn Cycling Club Inc) 22.20 22 Jeffrey Gray (Illawarra CC) 22.26 23 Chris Degenaar (St Kilda Cycling Club Inc) 24.19 24 Chris Rohrmeier (Carnegie Caulfield CC) 29.20 25 Bradley Clark (Albury-Wodonga CC) 26 Tony Mason (Carnegie Caulfield CC) 29.48 27 Jason Johnson (Hobart Wheelers) 33.21 28 James Giannakakis (Carnegie Caulfield CC) 37.36 29 Bruce Will (Carnegie Caulfield CC) 37.37 30 Matt Rice (Colac Cycling Club Inc) 39.41 31 Ross Jones (Carnegie Caulfield CC) 45.59 32 Scott Setford (Blackburn Cycling Club Inc) 47.55 DNF Jordan James (St Kilda Cycling Club Inc) DNF Scott Jensen (Carnegie Caulfield CC) DNF Kok-Boon Chia (Carnegie Caulfield CC) DNF Brett Curren (Blackburn Cycling Club Inc) DNF John Claxton (Fat Tyre Flyers) DNF Brendan Murphy (Leongatha Cycling Club Inc) DNF Jason Jackson (Fat Tyre Flyers) DNF Konstanti Kakris (St Kilda Cycling Club Inc) DNF Trevor Cameron (Blackburn Cycling Club Inc) DNF Paul Brewer (Blackburn Cycling Club Inc) DNS Andrew Cochrane (Ballarat/Sebastopol C C) DNS Peter Sullivan DNS Chris Hunt (Warragul Cycling Club Inc) DNS John Cipriano (Carnegie Caulfield CC) DNS Jared Dwyer (Dirt Riders) DNS Peter McWeeney (Carnegie Caulfield CC) DNS Daniel Strangio (Carnegie Caulfield CC) DNS Timothy Clarke (Blackburn Cycling Club Inc) DNS Vaughan Mudge (Wangaratta Cycling Club Inc) DNS Kel Macculloch (St Kilda Cycling Club Inc) DNS Richard Knight (Blackburn Cycling Club Inc) DNS Joel Watson (Geelong West Cycling Club Inc) KOM Sprint 1 1 Jordan Sutherland (Brunswick Cycling Club Inc) 2 Josh Akarsu 3 Johnny Walker (Brunswick Cycling Club Inc) KOM Sprint 2 1 Kurt Jensen (Carnegie Caulfield CC) 2 Johnny Walker (Brunswick Cycling Club Inc) 3 Pete Knight (St Kilda Cycling Club Inc) KOM Sprint 3 1 Johnny Walker (Brunswick Cycling Club Inc) 2 Pete Knight (St Kilda Cycling Club Inc) 3 Josh Akarsu D Grade, 84 km 1 Cameron Winton (Carnegie Caulfield CC) 2.08.19 2 Stuart Hastings (St Kilda Cycling Club Inc) 3 Douglas Reynolds (Blackburn Cycling Club Inc) 1.45 4 Andrew Verduci (St Kilda Cycling Club Inc) 5 Richard Reynolds (Blackburn Cycling Club Inc) 6 Robert Curtis (Carnegie Caulfield CC) 7 Chris Truskett (St Kilda Cycling Club Inc) 3.26 8 David Ogilvie (Ballarat/Sebastopol C C) 3.48 9 Eric Gord Shaw (Sunbury & Hume Districts C C) 10 Gregory Poynter (Hawthorn Citizens Youth Club) 3.50 11 Andrew Hutcheson (Sunbury & Hume Districts C C) 12 Hamish Rodgers-Wilson (Brunswick Cycling Club Inc) 4.13 13 Michael Sneyd (St Kilda Cycling Club Inc) 5.54 14 Paul Simpson (Coburg Cycling Club Inc) 6.14 15 Sam Patterson (Coburg Cycling Club Inc) 6.43 16 Mark Higginbotham (Brunswick Cycling Club Inc) 6.52 17 Daniel Hynes (St Kilda Cycling Club Inc) 18 Bradley Pletsch (Albury-Wodonga CC) 10.03 19 Tony Retra (Wangaratta Cycling Club Inc) 20 Michael Skerritt (Coburg Cycling Club Inc) 10.17 21 Christoph Ott (St Kilda Cycling Club Inc) 12.23 22 Timothy Campbell (Bendigo & District CC) 23 Craig Van Der Valk (Hawthorn Citizens Youth Club) 14.14 24 Allan O'Neil (Hawthorn Citizens Youth Club) 25 James O'Keefe (Coburg Cycling Club Inc) 14.41 26 Malcolm Wyatt (Footscray Cycling Club Inc) 18.00 27 Stuart Sanders (Ballarat/Sebastopol C C) 21.35 28 George Greenall (Mornington Cycling Club) 22.58 29 Matthew Sherwin (Carnegie Caulfield CC) 27.55 30 David Axford (Warragul Cycling Club Inc) 36.57 31 Russell Hunt (Carnegie Caulfield CC) 50.02 32 Shane Fernando (Carnegie Caulfield CC) 33 Dainel Oldfield (Blackburn Cycling Club Inc) 1.15.12 DNF Malcolm Hart (Carnegie Caulfield CC) DNF James Garriock (St Kilda Cycling Club Inc) DNF Simon Florentine (St Kilda Cycling Club Inc) DNF Kevin Delaney (Footscray Cycling Club Inc) DNF Peter Benda (Coburg Cycling Club Inc) DNS Anthony Peacock (Blackburn Cycling Club Inc) DNS Barry Woods (Blackburn Cycling Club Inc) DNS Ian Harper (Blackburn Cycling Club Inc) DNS Rob Monk (Warragul Cycling Club Inc) DNS Christian McDonald (Cobram Barooga C C) DNS Andrew Hall (Blackburn Cycling Club Inc) DNS Mark Steidle (Footscray Cycling Club Inc) DNS Scott Arnold (St Kilda Cycling Club Inc) DNS Mark Cleary (Carnegie Caulfield CC) DNS Neale Adams (Carnegie Caulfield CC) DNS Glenn Tournier (Blackburn Cycling Club Inc) DNS Grant McDonough (Blackburn Cycling Club Inc) DNS Max Fish (Blackburn Cycling Club Inc) DNS Nicholas Florentine (St Kilda Cycling Club Inc) KOM Sprint 1 1 Cameron Winton (Carnegie Caulfield CC) 2 Douglas Reynolds (Blackburn Cycling Club Inc) 3 Stuart Hastings (St Kilda Cycling Club Inc) KOM Sprint 2 1 Cameron Winton (Carnegie Caulfield CC) 2 Stuart Hastings (St Kilda Cycling Club Inc) 3 Andrew Verduci (St Kilda Cycling Club Inc) Women 3 Laps Panton's Gap 84 km 1 Jenny Macpherson (Carnegie Caulfield CC) 3.15.56 2 Caitlin Fraser (Bendigo & District CC) 0.37 3 Kathryn Watt (Blackburn Cycling Club Inc) 6.20 4 Claire Baxter (Hawthorn Citizens Youth Club) 14.01 5 Kerryn Charman (Geelong West Cycling Club Inc) 6 Cristine Foster (St Kilda Cycling Club Inc) 7 Judith May (Canberra Cycling Club) 17.19 8 Audrey Quick (Blackburn Cycling Club Inc) 19.59 9 Briana James (St Kilda Cycling Club Inc) 26.39 10 Emma Mackie (Albury-Wodonga CC) 11 Carmen Gould (Carnegie Caulfield CC) 12 Peta Maher (Warrnambool Cycling Club Inc) 13 Virginia Hamilton (Hawthorn Citizens Youth Club) 41.53 14 Birthe Hansen (Blackburn Cycling Club Inc) 15 Kym Petersen (Carnegie Caulfield CC) 16 Michelle Murrell (Mornington Cycling Club) 43.58 17 Emily Phillips (Blackburn Cycling Club Inc) 47.34 DNF Linda Cappello (Canberra Cycling Club) DNF Adrienne Lang (Blackburn Cycling Club Inc) DNF Elizabeth Randall (St Kilda Cycling Club Inc) DNS Zoe Southwell (Parramatta CC) DNS Apryl Eppinger (Carnegie Caulfield CC) DNS Gemma Goyne (Carnegie Caulfield CC) QOM Sprint 1 1 Caitlin Fraser (Bendigo & District CC) 2 Kathryn Watt (Blackburn Cycling Club Inc) 3 Jenny Macpherson (Carnegie Caulfield CC) QOM Sprint 2 1 Jenny Macpherson (Carnegie Caulfield CC) 2 Caitlin Fraser (Bendigo & District CC) 3 Kathryn Watt (Blackburn Cycling Club Inc) QOM Sprint 3 1 Caitlin Fraser (Bendigo & District CC) 2 Jenny Macpherson (Carnegie Caulfield CC) 3 Kathryn Watt (Blackburn Cycling Club Inc) Final classifications A Grade Men general classification 1 David Pell (Bendigo & District CC) 7.01.38 2 Peter McDonald (Randwick Botany CC) 1.01 3 Domenic Gatto (Brunswick Cycling Club Inc) 1.47 4 Klayten Smith (Clarence St CCC) 1.50 5 Hector Morales 2.31 6 Trent Perry (Albury-Wodonga CC) 6.01 7 Christopher Tymms (Carnegie Caulfield CC) 8.14 8 Damien Turner (Ballarat/Sebastopol C C) 9.37 9 John Mackenzie (Warragul Cycling Club Inc) 9.44 10 Marc Williams (Canberra Cycling Club) 9.49 11 Peter Mueller (Adelaide CC) 12 Sam Bach (Coburg Cycling Club Inc) 10.19 13 Daniel McConnell (Bairnsdale & Riviera C C) 11.46 14 Peter Trigar (Brunswick Cycling Club Inc) 12.40 15 Matthew Lloyd (St Kilda Cycling Club Inc) 13.39 16 Ashley Hayat (St Kilda Cycling Club Inc) 13.50 17 Sean Finning (Castlemaine Cycling Club Inc) 16.42 18 Casey Munro (Brunswick Cycling Club Inc) 23.34 19 Samuel Rix (St Kilda Cycling Club Inc) 27.08 20 Mark O'Brien (Horsham Cycling Club Inc) 30.13 21 Jason Hegert (Ballarat/Sebastopol C C) 32.30 22 Christopher D'Amelio (Bairnsdale & Riviera C C) 35.56 23 Robert Lyte 58.11 24 Grant Webster (Echuca/Moama Cycling Club) 1.08.21 A grade men mountain classification 1 David Pell (12 Bendigo & District CC) 2 Peter McDonald (Randwick Botany CC) 6 pts 3 Matthew Lloyd (St Kilda Cycling Club Inc) 3 3 Domenic Gatto (Brunswick Cycling Club Inc) 3 5 Christopher D'Amelio (Bairnsdale & Riviera C C) 2 5 Klayten Smith (Clarence St CCC) 2 5 Robert Lyte 2 8 Sean Finning (Castlemaine Cycling Club Inc) 1 B Grade Men general classification 1 Murray Spink (Dirt Riders) 6.15.06 2 Christopher Jenkins (Randwick Botany CC) 0.53 3 Darren Lapthorne (Coburg Cycling Club Inc) 1.45 4 Peter Ladd (Bendigo & District CC) 3.08 5 Daniel Bellis (Footscray Cycling Club Inc) 9.34 6 Joshua Marden (Randwick Botany CC) 13.05 7 Brendan Washington (Lavington Panthers Sports) 13.17 8 Mark Howard (Carnegie Caulfield CC) 16.33 9 Gerard Murphy (Leongatha Cycling Club Inc) 21.16 10 Wayne Nichols (Lavington Panthers Sports) 21.26 11 Cameron Wise (Carnegie Caulfield CC) 22.26 12 Julian Paynter (St Kilda Cycling Club Inc) 23.23 13 Ross Edwards (Carnegie Caulfield CC) 25.39 14 Lee Robinson (Carnegie Caulfield CC) 26.38 15 Daniel Furmston (Hobart Wheelers) 26.40 16 Guy Green (Blackburn Cycling Club Inc) 26.44 17 Stephen Blair (Canberra Cycling Club) 28.21 18 Alistair Farley (Castlemaine Cycling Club Inc) 30.50 19 James Maebus (Dirt Riders) 31.40 20 Josef Stoltz (Bendigo & District CC) 31.41 21 Ben Darlington (Canberra Cycling Club) 32.36 22 Peter O'Callaghan (Brunswick Cycling Club Inc) 34.18 23 Paul Clancy (Griffith CC) 37.51 24 Jamie Goddard (Blackburn Cycling Club Inc) 40.49 25 William Murray (Chelsea & Peninsula C C) 43.18 26 Andrew Smith (Blackburn Cycling Club Inc) 45.23 27 Jeffrey Shaw (Blackburn Cycling Club Inc) 45.47 28 Adam Pyke (Mornington Cycling Club) 56.32 29 Danny Cohen (St Kilda Cycling Club Inc) 1.04.48 30 Cameron Hunter (Blackburn Cycling Club Inc) 1.05.10 B Grade men mountain classification 1 Murray Spink (Dirt Riders) 8 pts 2 Christopher Jenkins (Randwick Botany CC) 7 2 Darren Lapthorne (Coburg Cycling Club Inc) 7 4 Brendan Washington (Lavington Panthers Sports) 3 5 Alistair Farley (Castlemaine Cycling Club Inc) 2 6 Daniel Furmston (Hobart Wheelers) 1 C Grade Men general classification 1 Johnny Walker (Brunswick Cycling Club Inc) 5.35.29 2 Josh Akarsu 1.44 3 Kyle Marwood (Bendigo & District CC) 2.24 4 Danny Kah (Carnegie Caulfield CC) 9.37 5 Jordan Sutherland (Brunswick Cycling Club Inc) 10.17 6 Pete Knight (St Kilda Cycling Club Inc) 11.47 7 Adrian Hanson (Coburg Cycling Club Inc) 12.20 8 Daryl Burns (Geelong West Cycling Club Inc) 12.36 9 James Stewart (Geelong West Cycling Club Inc) 12.52 10 Thor Navntoft (Carnegie Caulfield CC) 13.30 11 Michael Forbes (St Kilda Cycling Club Inc) 14.41 12 David Moreland (Bendigo & District CC) 16.01 13 Brett Buckland (Dirt Riders) 20.50 14 Nathaniel Brown (St Kilda Cycling Club Inc) 22.57 15 Andrew McKellar (Footscray Cycling Club Inc) 26.11 16 Harry Fricke (Hawthorn Citizens Youth Club) 26.38 17 Kurt Jensen (Carnegie Caulfield CC) 27.59 18 Kain Nunn (Blackburn Cycling Club Inc) 29.59 19 Jeffrey Gray (Illawarra CC) 30.44 20 Ian Van Driel (Carnegie Caulfield CC) 31.53 21 John Marcan (Sunbury & Hume Districts C C) 32.23 22 Bradley Clark (Albury-Wodonga CC) 32.26 23 Chris Rohrmeier (Carnegie Caulfield CC) 43.13 24 Jason Johnson (Hobart Wheelers) 48.24 25 Bruce Will (Carnegie Caulfield CC) 49.44 26 Tony Mason (Carnegie Caulfield CC) 51.27 27 Chris Degenaar (St Kilda Cycling Club Inc) 57.16 28 Jeffrey Williams (Fat Tyre Flyers) 57.37 29 James Giannakakis (Carnegie Caulfield CC) 58.36 30 Matt Rice (Colac Cycling Club Inc) 1.05.08 31 Ross Jones (Carnegie Caulfield CC) 1.09.04 32 Scott Setford (Blackburn Cycling Club Inc) 1.29.29 C grade men mountain classification 1 Johnny Walker (Brunswick Cycling Club Inc) 12 pts 2 Josh Akarsu 7 3 Jordan Sutherland (Brunswick Cycling Club Inc) 3 3 Pete Knight (St Kilda Cycling Club Inc) 3 3 Kurt Jensen (Carnegie Caulfield CC) 3 6 Bradley Clark (Albury-Wodonga CC) 2 D Grade Men general classification 1 Stuart Hastings (St Kilda Cycling Club Inc) 4.47.44 2 Cameron Winton (Carnegie Caulfield CC) 0.20 3 Douglas Reynolds (Blackburn Cycling Club Inc) 2.25 4 Andrew Verduci (St Kilda Cycling Club Inc) 3.15 5 Richard Reynolds (Blackburn Cycling Club Inc) 4.04 6 Robert Curtis (Carnegie Caulfield CC) 5.21 7 Chris Truskett (St Kilda Cycling Club Inc) 5.27 8 David Ogilvie (Ballarat/Sebastopol C C) 7.56 9 Daniel Hynes (St Kilda Cycling Club Inc) 8.33 10 Eric Gordon Shaw (Sunbury & Hume Districts C C) 9.09 11 Hamish Rodgers-Wilson (Brunswick Cycling Club Inc) 9.26 12 Gregory Poynter (Hawthorn Citizens Youth Club) 13.37 13 Michael Skerritt (Coburg Cycling Club Inc) 15.38 14 Mark Higginbotham (Brunswick Cycling Club Inc) 15.42 15 Tony Retra (Wangaratta Cycling Club Inc) 17.04 16 Andrew Hutcheson (Sunbury & Hume Districts C C) 17.34 17 Michael Sneyd (St Kilda Cycling Club Inc) 18.44 18 Sam Patterson (Coburg Cycling Club Inc) 19.15 19 Paul Simpson (Coburg Cycling Club Inc) 19.57 20 Timothy Campbell (Bendigo & District CC) 29.21 21 Christopher Ott (St Kilda Cycling Club Inc) 32.11 22 Stuart Sanders (Ballarat/Sebastopol C C) 33.16 23 Allan O'Neil (Hawthorn Citizens Youth Club) 36.28 24 Matthew Sherwin (Carnegie Caulfield CC) 39.32 25 Craig Van Der Valk (Hawthorn Citizens Youth Club) 39.59 26 Bradley Pletsch (Albury-Wodonga CC) 42.37 27 James O'Keefe (Coburg Cycling Club Inc) 43.34 28 Malcolm Wyatt (Footscray Cycling Club Inc) 44.44 29 George Greenall (Mornington Cycling Club) 53.15 30 Russell Hunt (Carnegie Caulfield CC) 1.05.40 31 Shane Fernando (Carnegie Caulfield CC) 1.20.01 32 David Axford (Warragul Cycling Club Inc) 1.33.07 33 Dainel Oldfield (Blackburn Cycling Club Inc) 1.44.06 D grade men mountain classification 1 Cameron Winton (Carnegie Caulfield CC) 6 pts 2 Stuart Hastings (St Kilda Cycling Club Inc) 5 2 Douglas Reynolds (Blackburn Cycling Club Inc) 5 4 Robert Curtis (Carnegie Caulfield CC) 4 5 Andrew Verduci (St Kilda Cycling Club Inc) 2 5 Chris Truskett (St Kilda Cycling Club Inc) 2 Women general classification 1 Caitlin Fraser (Bendigo & District CC) 5.57.32 2 Jenny Macpherson (Carnegie Caulfield CC) 3.03 3 Kathryn Watt (Blackburn Cycling Club Inc) 6.52 4 Claire Baxter (Hawthorn Citizens Youth Club) 21.16 5 Kerryn Charman (Geelong West Cycling Club Inc) 21.36 6 Cristine Foster (St Kilda Cycling Club Inc) 22.33 7 Judith May (Canberra Cycling Club) 30.22 8 Audrey Quick (Blackburn Cycling Club Inc) 34.01 9 Briana James (St Kilda Cycling Club Inc) 36.15 10 Peta Maher (Warrnambool Cycling Club Inc) 40.18 11 Emma Mackie (Albury-Wodonga CC) 45.24 12 Carmen Gould (Carnegie Caulfield CC) 1.04.24 13 Birthe Hansen (Blackburn Cycling Club Inc) 1.11.14 14 Kym Petersen (Carnegie Caulfield CC) 1.14.41 15 Michelle Murrell (Mornington Cycling Club) 1.15.23 16 Virginia Hamilton (Hawthorn Citizens Youth Club) 1.16.16 17 Emily Phillips (Blackburn Cycling Club Inc) 1.20.51 Women mountain classification 1 Caitlin Fraser (Bendigo & District CC) 14 pts 2 Jenny Macpherson (Carnegie Caulfield CC) 9 3 Kathryn Watt (Blackburn Cycling Club Inc) 6
