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Tri-Peaks Challenge - NE
Russellville, Arkansas, May 19-21, 2006
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Stage 3 - May 21: Road race, 135km/84miles
Bajadali and Heal finish on top at Tri-Peaks
by Mark Zalewski, North American editor with additional reporting from Kirsten Robbins
Stevic wins stage but Bajadali takes overall
The gamble that Toyota-United took yesterday in letting a large breakaway gain more than two minutes on then race leader Ivan Stevic backfired today as Andy Bajadali(Jelly Belly) hung with Stevic to the line in the final stage of the Tri-Peaks Challence. "The guy did a phenomenal job," Toyota-United's team director Harm Jansen said of Bajadali's performance. "Both of the guys performed way beyond expectations."
Bajadali was one of the twenty-two riders in yesterday's breakaway which also contained three Toyota-United riders. "Yesterday in the break we had Baldwin, Blackgrove and the leader on the road Dominguez," said Jansen. "It was a tough decision whether to let them go or bring it back. But we didn't expect Bajadali to climb as well as he did. But it was good to see those two guys out climb the Scott Moningers and Nathan O'Neills of the race."
Bajadali needed only to stay within two minutes of Stevic to take the overall victory. This is the first win for the Jelly Belly team during the two weekend Arkansas swing of races which comes close to their sponsor Orbea USA.
Breon solos to stage victory
Cheerwine rider Charm Breon made a solo break for it just seventeen miles into the final stage over Mt. Petite Jean. "Basically I was sitting on the front up Mt. Petite Jean and my legs felt good," said Breon. "I didn't have a break away in mind at all. I just road and realized I had a gap and just took advantage of it because I was so far back [thirteen minutes] on the general classification -- I never thought in a million years that I would have stayed away."
Breon progressively made time on the field through out the remaining sixty-seven miles of the race. Teams behind made many attempts to bridge to Breon but none were successful. Team Victory Brewing sent a team of seven riders to the front to make sure that the gap did not grow to the point of losing their leaders jersey.
The gap between Breon and the field grew to a maximum of eight minutes before reaching the left hand turn to Mt. Nebo. A chase group of three riders: Cheerwine's Holli Steelman, Colavita-Cooking Light's Audrey Lemieux, and Victory Brewing's Katharine Carroll made their way off of the front remaining in limbo at three and a half minutes in front of the peloton and four minutes behind Breon before being caught up the finishing climb.
In the peloton Webcor rider Alisha Lions made her attack at the base of the climb bringing with her the race leader Rachel Heal. Lions crossed the line in second place for the stage and the general classification, thirty seconds ahead of Heal.
Breon commented on her solo win as being unbelievable. "When I finally made the left turn to Mt. Nebo. I thought: is there a possibility I could win? I knew that I had gained four minutes on the group behind me but I thought that was the whole field because no one told me it was a small group of three chasing me. I didn't know I had eight minutes on the rest of the peloton. Once I saw one kilometer to go I thought: great I am going to win. You just never know you are going to win until you have actually won."
"In a nutshell it was pure hell -- what more can you say when you are by yourself for sixty miles."
Results
Men 1 Ivan Stevic (SCG) Toyota-United 2 Andrew Bajadali (USA) Jelly Belly 3 Ian Ayers (USA) Colavita Olive Oil - Sutter Home 4 Chris Baldwin (USA) Toyota-United 5 Scott Moninger (USA) Health Net pb Maxxis 6 Nathan O'Neill (Aus) Health Net pb Maxxis 7 Todd Herriott (USA) Colavita Olive Oil - Sutter Home 8 Heath Blackgrove (NZl) Toyota-United 9 Prokic Predrag (SCG) AEG-Toshiba-JetNetwork 10 Richard England (Aus) Priority Health 11 Tim Johnson (USA) Health Net pb Maxxis 12 Robbie King (USA) Priority Health 13 Matthew Cooke (USA) LSV/Kelly Benefit Strategies 14 Tony Cruz (USA) Toyota-United 15 Ivan Dominguez (Cub) Toyota-United 16 Paul Esposti (USA) Rio Grande/Sports Garage 17 Aaron Tuckerman (NZl) Rubicon/Gleukos 18 Brian Dziewa (USA) Mercy Cycling 19 Frank Dierking (USA) ABD 20 Brian Jensen (USA) Jelly Belly 21 Gord Fraser (Can) Health Net pb Maxxis 22 Christian Valenzuela (Mex) Monex 23 Zach Bell (Can) Rite Aid 24 Andrew Fischer (USA) Broadmark / Hagens-Berman 25 Janne Hamalainen (USA) CTCA / Tulsa Wheelmen 26 Reid Mumford (USA) ABD 27 Duane Dickey (USA) Bianchi/Grand Performance 28 Brian Sheedy (USA) Priority Health 29 Chad Cagle (USA) Mercy Cycling 30 Ryan Trebon (USA) AEG-Toshiba-JetNetwork 31 Noah Singer (USA) Mercy Cycling 32 Chris Wherry (USA) Toyota-United 33 Nick Reistad (USA) Jelly Belly 34 Bruno Langlois (Can) AEG-Toshiba-JetNetwork 35 Ben Raby (USA) Bianchi/Grand Performance 36 Oscar Henao (PRc) Caico 37 Alex Welch (USA) Mercy Cycling 38 Tero Hameenaho (Fin) CTCA / Tulsa Wheelmen 39 Alexander Gonzalez (Col) Caico 40 Edward King (USA) Priority Health 41 Brad Viera (USA) Rite Aid 42 Jason Woods (USA) Dogfish 43 Roman Kilun (USA) Health Net pb Maxxis 44 Joel Dion Poitras (Can) Calyon-LiteSpeed 45 Mike Ebert (USA) ABD 46 Franco Font (PRc) Caico 47 John Delong (USA) Rite Aid Pro Cycling 48 Ryan Keels (USA) Compliance Depot 49 Abe McNutt (USA) Abercrombie & Fitch pb Inferno 50 Jean Sebastien Perron (Can) Calyon-LiteSpeed 51 Joel Charles (USA) Rio Grande/Sports Garage 52 Brice Jones (USA) Jelly Belly 53 Owen Gue (USA) Broadmark / Hagens-Berman 54 Joseph Carpisassi (USA) E.C. Velo Racing 55 Brian Wyrick (USA) HHH/MSU 56 Scott Veggeberg (USA) Compliance Depot 57 Shane Densmore (USA) Compliance Depot 58 Frank Breure (USA) MMW/CARVE 59 Eudaldo Asencio (PRc) Caico 60 Tom Zirbel (USA) Priority Health 61 Mat Ankney (USA) Mercy Cycling 62 Scott Barnes (USA) Boston Mountain Cyclists 63 Emmanuel Suarez (USA) Monex 64 Maxime Vives (Can) Calyon-LiteSpeed 65 Zak Grabowski (USA) Colavita Olive Oil - Sutter Home 66 Erik Lyman (Can) Calyon-LiteSpeed 67 Ryan Heydenrych (USA) Mercy Cycling 68 Ryan Nenninger (USA) Bianchi/Grand Performance 69 Ruben Borrero (PRc) Caico 70 Edwin Ramos (PRc) Caico 71 Stuart Gillespie (USA) TIAA-CREF 72 Bryce Mead (USA) ABD 73 Christopher Jones (USA) Champion System 74 Justin Jackson (USA) MATRIX 75 Juan Haedo (Arg) Toyota-United 76 Tommy Nankervis (Aus) Priority Health 77 Russell Langley (USA) Rite Aid 78 Ryan Fiddler (USA) Mercy Cycling 79 Eric Marcotte (USA) Bianchi/Grand Performance 80 Emile Abraham (Tri) AEG-Toshiba-JetNetwork 81 Mark Hekman (USA) Abercrombie & Fitch pb Inferno 82 Tracy Martin (USA) Raising Canes 83 Christoph Herby (USA) Rite Aid 84 Peter Fairbanks (USA) Bianchi/Grand Performance 85 Brooke Boocock (Can) Calyon-LiteSpeed 86 Martin Adamczyk (USA) Lot/Polish Airlines 87 Hugh Moran (USA) AEG-Toshiba-JetNetwork 88 Kirk Carlsen (USA) Rubicon/Gleukos 89 Andy Applegate (USA) Abercrombie & Fitch pb Inferno 90 Aarow Smathers (USA) Specialized 91 Glenn Fant (USA) Monex 92 Solomon Woras (USA) Broadmark / Hagens-Berman 93 Scott Walnofer (USA) Boston Mountain Cyclists 94 Anuthee Huffstetter (USA) Compliance Depot 95 Pleasure Jackson (USA) Broadmark / Hagens-Berman 96 Chad Nikolz (USA) Broadmark / Hagens-Berman 97 Ryan Gamm (USA) Abercrombie & Fitch pb Inferno 98 Jered Gruber (USA) Abercrombie & Fitch pb Inferno 99 Mat Stephens (USA) Mercy Cycling 100 Steven Grife (USA) Boston Mountain Cyclists 101 Richard Speer (USA) Rubicon/Gleukos 102 Eric Keim (USA) AEG-Toshiba-JetNetwork 103 Nathan Miller (USA) Monex 104 Charly Vives (Can) Calyon-LiteSpeed 105 Frank Travieso (Cub) AEG-Toshiba-JetNetwork 106 Devon Vigus (USA) Monex 107 Jake Rubelt (USA) AEG-Toshiba-JetNetwork 108 Derek Laan (USA) Purdue University 109 Keith Franklin (USA) CTCA / Tulsa Wheelmen 110 Malachi Peacock (USA) Abercrombie & Fitch pb Inferno Women 1 Charm Breon (USA) Cheerwine 2 Alisha Lion (USA) Webcor-Platinum 3 Rachel Heal (GBr) Victory Brewing 4 Brooke Ourada (USA) Colavita/Cooking Light 5 Kate Sherwin (USA) Victory Brewing 6 Leigh Hobson (Can) Victory Brewing 7 Kristin Sanders (USA) Cheerwine 8 Sima Trapp (USA) Colavita/Cooking Light 9 Holli Steelman (USA) Cheerwine 10 Sarah Tillotson (USA) Colavita/Cooking Light 11 Kirsten Robbins (Can) Victory Brewing 12 Amanda Lawrence (USA) North Atlantic Velo 13 Tracie Akerhielm (USA) Compliance Depot 14 Robin Farina (USA) Team Kenda Tire 15 Jennifer Manefield (Aus) Cheerwine 16 Tara Ross (Can) Victory Brewing 17 Pamela Hinton (USA) dent wizard 18 Mandy Lozano (USA) Cheerwine 19 Abby Cooper (USA) Team Kenda Tire 20 Shannon Koch (USA) Compliance Depot 21 Audrey Lemieux (Can) Colavita/Cooking Light 22 Mary Downing (USA) Team Kenda Tire 23 Katy Ligler (USA) Team Kenda Tire 24 Elizabeth Frye (USA) Cheerwine 25 Caroline Soong (USA) Team Kenda Tire 26 Katharine Carroll (USA) Victory Brewing 27 Maegan Daigler (USA) JR Engineering 28 Rebecca Gross (USA) Armed Forces 29 Jenny Trew (USA) Team Kenda Tirew 30 Stacey Bertsch (USA) Mercy Cycling Team 31 Kim Geist (USA) Victory Brewing 32 Laura Yoisten (Can) Victory Brewing 33 Laura Bowles (USA) Victory Brewing Final general classifications Men 1 Andrew Bajadali (USA) Jelly Belly 8.06.53 2 Chris Baldwin (USA) Toyota-United 0.30 3 Ivan Dominguez (Cub) Toyota-United 0.46 4 Todd Herriott (USA) Colavita Olive Oil - Sutter Home 0.49 5 Heath Blackgrove (NZl) Toyota-United 1.03 6 Richard England (Aus) Priority Health 1.18 7 Christian Valenzuela (Mex) Monex 8 Tim Johnson (USA) Health Net pb Maxxis 1.19 9 Matthew Cooke (USA) LSV/Kelly Benefit Strategies 1.29 10 Ivan Stevic (SCG) Toyota-United 1.48 11 Gord Fraser (Can) Health Net pb Maxxis 1.53 12 Bruno Langlois (Can) AEG-Toshiba-JetNetwork 1.58 13 Reid Mumford (USA) ABD 2.15 14 Brian Sheedy (USA) Priority Health 2.27 15 Ryan Trebon (USA) AEG-Toshiba-JetNetwork 2.38 16 Nathan O'Neill (Aus) Health Net pb Maxxis 2.53 17 Ian Ayers (USA) Colavita Olive Oil - Sutter Home 3.19 18 Alexander Gonzalez (Col) Caico 3.28 19 Robbie King (USA) Priority Health 3.29 20 Scott Moninger (USA) Health Net pb Maxxis 3.30 21 Frank Dierking (USA) ABD 3.38 22 Aaron Tuckerman (NZl) Rubicon/Gleukos 3.49 23 Franco Font (PRc) Caico 3.55 24 Prokic Predrag (SCG) AEG-Toshiba-JetNetwork 3.58 25 Zach Bell (Can) Rite Aid 4.10 26 Tony Cruz (USA) Toyota-United 4.28 27 Paul Esposti (USA) Rio Grande/Sports Garage 4.29 28 Brian Dziewa (USA) Mercy Cycling 4.35 29 Brian Jensen (USA) Jelly Belly 4.43 30 Andrew Fischer (USA) Broadmark / Hagens-Berman 4.53 31 Janne Hamalainen (USA) CTCA / Tulsa Wheelmen 4.59 32 Chad Cagle (USA) Mercy Cycling 5.28 33 Chris Wherry (USA) Toyota-United 5.45 34 Ben Raby (USA) Bianchi/Grand Performance 5.48 35 Nick Reistad (USA) Jelly Belly 36 Roman Kilun (USA) Health Net pb Maxxis 5.55 37 Oscar Henao (PRc) Caico 6.12 38 Alex Welch (USA) Mercy Cycling 6.18 39 Tero Hameenaho (Fin) CTCA / Tulsa Wheelmen 40 Edward King (USA) Priority Health 6.22 41 Brad Viera (USA) Rite Aid 6.27 42 Brice Jones (USA) Jelly Belly 6.28 43 Mike Ebert (USA) ABD 6.45 44 Stuart Gillespie (USA) TIAA-CREF 6.53 45 Duane Dickey (USA) Bianchi/Grand Performance 7.03 46 Owen Gue (USA) Broadmark / Hagens-Berman 7.12 47 Frank Breure (USA) MMW/CARVE 7.52 48 Mat Ankney (USA) Mercy Cycling 8.12 49 Bryce Mead (USA) ABD 8.23 50 Joel Dion Poitras (Can) Calyon-LiteSpeed 8.35 51 Zak Grabowski (USA) Colavita Olive Oil - Sutter Home 8.39 52 Erik Lyman (Can) Calyon-LiteSpeed 8.42 53 Abe McNutt (USA) Abercrombie & Fitch pb Inferno 8.51 54 Ryan Nenninger (USA) Bianchi/Grand Performance 8.52 55 Jean Sebastien Perron (Can) Calyon-LiteSpeed 8.55 56 Joel Charles (USA) Rio Grande/Sports Garage 8.56 57 Brian Wyrick (USA) HHH/MSU 9.18 58 Emile Abraham (Tri) AEG-Toshiba-JetNetwork 9.26 59 Tom Zirbel (USA) Priority Health 9.35 60 Scott Veggeberg (USA) Compliance Depot 9.40 61 Shane Densmore (USA) Compliance Depot 62 Tommy Nankervis (Aus) Priority Health 9.55 63 Eudaldo Asencio (PRc) Caico 64 Juan Haedo (Arg) Toyota-United 65 Noah Singer (USA) Mercy Cycling 10.06 66 Scott Barnes (USA) Boston Mountain Cyclists 10.13 67 Mark Hekman (USA) Abercrombie & Fitch pb Inferno 10.17 68 Emmanuel Suarez (USA) Monex 10.22 69 Peter Fairbanks (USA) Bianchi/Grand Performance 10.30 70 Brooke Boocock (Can) Calyon-LiteSpeed 10.35 71 Jason Woods (USA) Dogfish 10.53 72 Hugh Moran (USA) AEG-Toshiba-JetNetwork 11.06 73 John Delong (USA) Rite Aid Pro Cycling 11.16 74 Andy Applegate (USA) Abercrombie & Fitch pb Inferno 11.21 75 Aarow Smathers (USA) Specialized 11.24 76 Glenn Fant (USA) Monex 11.39 77 Joseph Carpisassi (USA) E.C. Velo Racing 11.44 78 Ryan Fiddler (USA) Mercy Cycling 11.51 79 Eric Marcotte (USA) Bianchi/Grand Performance 11.52 80 Chad Nikolz (USA) Broadmark / Hagens-Berman 12.11 81 Jered Gruber (USA) Abercrombie & Fitch pb Inferno 12.45 82 Martin Adamczyk (USA) Lot/Polish Airlines 12.49 83 Kirk Carlsen (USA) Rubicon/Gleukos 13.12 84 Solomon Woras (USA) Broadmark / Hagens-Berman 13.21 85 Ruben Borrero (PRc) Caico 13.24 86 Edwin Ramos (PRc) Caico 13.37 87 Eric Keim (USA) AEG-Toshiba-JetNetwork 13.51 88 Christopher Jones (USA) Champion System 14.08 89 Frank Travieso (Cub) AEG-Toshiba-JetNetwork 14.09 90 Justin Jackson (USA) MATRIX 14.11 91 Ryan Gamm (USA) Abercrombie & Fitch pb Inferno 14.42 92 Tracy Martin (USA) Raising Canes 14.51 93 Nathan Miller (USA) Monex 16.06 94 Devon Vigus (USA) Monex 17.09 95 Richard Speer (USA) Rubicon/Gleukos 17.52 96 Russell Langley (USA) Rite Aid 23.04 97 Pleasure Jackson (USA) Broadmark / Hagens-Berman 23.27 98 Mat Stephens (USA) Mercy Cycling 24.09 99 Christoph Herby (USA) Rite Aid 27.11 100 Ryan Heydenrych (USA) Mercy Cycling 30.02 101 Steven Grife (USA) Boston Mountain Cyclists 32.19 102 Derek Laan (USA) Purdue University 34.29 103 Scott Walnofer (USA) Boston Mountain Cyclists 36.02 104 Ryan Keels (USA) Compliance Depot 39.11 105 Charly Vives (Can) Calyon-LiteSpeed 43.40 106 Jake Rubelt (USA) AEG-Toshiba-JetNetwork 45.10 107 Malachi Peacock (USA) Abercrombie & Fitch pb Inferno 47.47 108 Keith Franklin (USA) CTCA / Tulsa Wheelmen 1.09.03 Women 1 Rachel Heal (GBr) Victory Brewing 2 Alisha Lion (USA) Webcor-Platinum 3 Leigh Hobson (Can) Victory Brewing 4 Kate Sherwin (USA) Victory Brewing 5 Brooke Ourada (USA) Colavita/Cooking Light 6 Kristin Sanders (USA) Cheerwine 7 Sarah Tillotson (USA) Colavita/Cooking Light 8 Sima Trapp (USA) Colavita/Cooking Light 9 Tara Ross (Can) Victory Brewing 10 Kirsten Robbins (Can) Victory Brewing 11 Jennifer Manefield (Aus) Cheerwine 12 Amanda Lawrence (USA) North Atlantic Velo 13 Tracie Akerhielm (USA) Compliance Depot 14 Robin Farina (USA) Team Kenda Tire 15 Charm Breon (USA) Cheerwine 16 Pamela Hinton (USA) dent wizard 17 Mandy Lozano (USA) Cheerwine 18 Abby Cooper (USA) Team Kenda Tire 19 Audrey Lemieux (Can) Colavita/Cooking Light 20 Mary Downing (USA) Team Kenda Tire 21 Katy Ligler (USA) Team Kenda Tire 22 Elizabeth Frye (USA) Cheerwine 23 Caroline Soong (USA) Team Kenda Tire 24 Kim Geist (USA) Victory Brewing 25 Holli Steelman (USA) Cheerwine 26 Shannon Koch (USA) Compliance Depot 27 Katharine Carroll (USA) Victory Brewing 28 Maegan Daigler (USA) JR Engineering 29 Jenny Trew (USA) Team Kenda Tirew 30 Laura Yoisten (Can) Victory Brewing 31 Stacey Bertsch (USA) Mercy Cycling Team 32 Rebecca Gross (USA) Armed Forces 33 Laura Bowles (USA) Victory Brewing
