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Timbercorp Cup Tour of the Murray River - NE

Australia, August 26-September 2, 2007

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Stage 9 - August 31: Ouyen criterium, 36 km

McDonald creeps closer to tour victory

From Rod Morris In Ouyen

Tasmanian Mark Jamieson (SouthAustralia.com/AIS)
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Tasmanian Mark Jamieson went from chocolates to boiled lollies in an exciting day six of the Fishers IGA Tour of the Murray River. Jamieson (23) won the Ouyen Criterium in stunning style from former New Zealander Miles Watson in the morning stage, but in the Ouyen – Patchewollock – Ouyen road stage later in the day, crashed badly 20 km from the finish and effectively ended his tour.

Watson took a firmer grip on the RoadSafe Mildura Sprint Championship when he won all 11 intermediate sprints in the criterium, while the new leader of the Tourism Victoria King of the Mountain Championship is Queensland's Miles Olman, who finished second in the afternoon stage to fellow "Banana Bender" David Kemp.

Kemp and Olman were in front of the bunch as they hit the Ouyen township and thus avoided the 10 rider fall, 1100 metres from the finish line. Meanwhile Sydney based rider Peter McDonald maintained his overall lead in the tour, 26 seconds ahead of Queensland's Grant Irwin, with Victorian Patrick Shaw the next best on 33 seconds. The big loser in yesterday's afternoon stage was Bendigo based David Pell, who had a horror stage losing more than 4 minutes and falling to 11th position and out of any genuine chance for overall honours.

How it unfolded

Miles Watson (Specialized) and Mark Jamieson (SouthAustralia.com/AIS)
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A mid-race pact between former New Zealander Miles Watson and Tasmanian Mark Jamieson saw the pair control the intermediate sprints and then quinella the Ouyen Criterium stage, a 36 km sprint. Watson (21) is in just his second full season of road racing after a strong junior career that included seven national New Zealand mountain bike championships.

Watson also spent three months in Ghent (Belgium) learning the craft of road racing even further. Watson won all 11 intermediate sprints – with Jamieson second each time – to take complete control of the RoadSafe Mildura Sprint Championship. The Kiwi and the Apple Islander broke clear of the peloton very early in the 36 km race and were never headed.

Queensland's Daniel McCulloch made a half-hearted attempt to bridge the gap to Watson and Jamieson and although he stayed with them for a couple of laps, the pressure was too great and he dropped back to the bunch. The escapees established a margin that hovered around 30 seconds for the bulk of the race, although over the closing laps they increased the margin. In the long home straight at Ouyen, Jamieson was able to kick clear of Watson and won with 2-seconds to spare.

Third home was Queensland's Tony Mann, 53 seconds adrift of Jamieson, with Peter Dawson (WA) and David Kemp (Qld) another four seconds back and then Matt King (NT) at a minute behind. Rounding off the top 10 and leading the bunch home at 1.02 minutes were Michael Stallard (SA), Patrick Shaw (Vic), Leigh Howard (Vic) and Nathan Wise (Vic).

 

Photography

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Results

1 Mark Jamieson                                0.49.02 (44.05 km/h)
2 Miles Watson                                    0.02
3 Tony Mann                                       0.53
4 Peter Dawson                                    0.57
5 David Kemp                                          
6 Matt King                                       1.00
7 Michael Stallard                                1.02
8 Patrick Shaw                                        
9 Leigh Howard                                        
10 Nathan Wise                                        
11 Grant Irwin                                        
12 Cameron Hughes                                     
13 Peter Mcdonald                                     
14 Sean Finning                                       
15 Steven Robb                                        
16 David Pell                                         
17 Benjamin King                                      
18 Jack Bobridge                                      
19 Russell Gill                                       
20 Matthew Sherwin                                    
21 Brendan Schultz                                    
22 Nicholas Sanderson                                 
23 Timothy Decker                                     
24 Darcy Rosenlund                                    
25 John Ebeling                                       
26 Chris Steffanoni                                   
27 Brad Edmunds                                       
28 Daniel Braunsteins                                 
29 Samuel Rix                                         
30 Gilbert Gutowski                                   
31 Peter Smith                                        
32 Daniel Furmston                                    
33 Jarrod Harman                                      
34 Evan Corry                                         
35 Matt Sillars                                       
36 Tom Middleton                                      
37 Daniel Mcculloch                                   
38 Gavin Nicholls                                     
39 Chris Jory                                         
40 Jacob Lea                                          
41 Will Dickeson                                      
42 David Tozer                                        
43 Miles Olman                                    1.30
44 Gary Mueller                                   1.44
45 Shaun Higgerson                                1.56
46 Brett Aitken                                   2.01
47 Peter Milostic                                 2.03
48 Craig Robertson                                    
49 Hayden Josefski                                    
50 Travis Frisby                                      
51 Ben Mather                                         
52 Brendon Sharratt                                   
53 Jamie Crass                                        
54 Stephen Price                                  3.42
55 Brendan Jones                                      
56 Robert Cater                                       
57 Vaughan Bowman                                     
58 Will Wettenhall                                    
59 Grant Webster                                      
60 Thomas Baxter                                      
61 Simon Brown                                        
62 Luke Aggett                                        
63 Glen Peterson                                      
64 Nigel Sullivan                                     
65 Douglas Repacholi                                  
66 Re Sa Meneaud-Young                                
67 Jason Hegert                                   5.21
68 Jeremy Hills                                   7.00
DNF Lachlan Stewart                                   
DNS Malcolm Rudolph                                   
 
Sprints
 
1
1 Miles Watson                                       3 pts
2 Mark Jamieson                                      2
3 Daniel Mcculloch                                   1

2
1 Miles Watson                                       3 pts
2 Mark Jamieson                                      2
3 Grant Irwin                                        1

3
1 Miles Watson                                       3 pts
2 Mark Jamieson                                      2
3 Benjamin King                                      1

4
1 Miles Watson                                       3 pts
2 Mark Jamieson                                      2
3 Grant Irwin                                        1

5
1 Miles Watson                                       3 pts
2 Mark Jamieson                                      2
3 Tony Mann                                          1

6
1 Miles Watson                                       3 pts
2 Mark Jamieson                                      2
3 Tony Mann                                          1

7
1 Miles Watson                                       3 pts
2 Mark Jamieson                                      2
3 Shaun Higgerson                                    1

8
1 Miles Watson                                       3 pts
2 Mark Jamieson                                      2
3 Darcy Rosenlund                                    1

9
1 Miles Watson                                       3 pts
2 Mark Jamieson                                      2
3 Sean Finning                                       1

10
1 Miles Watson                                       3 pts
2 Mark Jamieson                                      2
3 Jack Bobridge                                      1

11
1 Miles Watson                                       3 pts
2 Mark Jamieson                                      2
3 Sean Finning                                       1

Most aggressilve rider
 
1 Miles Watson                                       2 pts

 
General Classification - Stage 9
 
1 Peter Mcdonald                              11.52.55
2 Grant Irwin                                     0.27
3 David Pell                                          
4 Patrick Shaw                                    0.32
5 Cameron Hughes                                  0.37
6 Benjamin King                                   0.51
7 Leigh Howard                                    0.59
8 Jack Bobridge                                   1.17
9 Tom Middleton                                   1.18
10 John Ebeling                                   1.19
11 David Kemp                                     1.27
12 Miles Watson                                   5.29
13 Mark Jamieson                                  8.37
14 Brad Edmunds                                   9.58
15 Nicholas Sanderson                            10.34
16 Tony Mann                                     11.59
17 Peter Dawson                                  12.07
18 Darcy Rosenlund                               13.01
19 Timothy Decker                                15.24
20 Gavin Nicholls                                16.00
21 Michael Stallard                              16.42
22 Steven Robb                                   16.48
23 Gilbert Gutowski                              17.03
24 Daniel Mcculloch                              17.26
25 Hayden Josefski                               18.08
26 Robert Cater                                  18.34
27 Miles Olman                                   18.57
28 Jarrod Harman                                 23.47
29 Russell Gill                                  26.29
30 Chris Steffanoni                              26.32
31 Chris Jory                                         
32 Jacob Lea                                     26.44
33 Evan Corry                                         
34 Will Dickeson                                 26.45
35 Matt King                                     26.59
36 Brendan Schultz                               27.00
37 Ben Mather                                    27.37
38 Jamie Crass                                   27.49
39 Peter Milostic                                29.18
40 Daniel Furmston                               29.27
41 David Tozer                                   29.55
42 Re Meneaud-Young                              32.40
43 Shaun Higgerson                               32.49
44 Matt Sillars                                  33.41
45 Douglas Repacholi                             35.32
46 Brett Aitken                                  36.51
47 Craig Robertson                               37.40
48 Samuel Rix                                    38.12
49 Daniel Braunsteins                            40.29
50 Luke Aggett                                   41.53
51 Nathan Wise                                   42.50
52 Matthew Sherwin                               43.26
53 Glen Peterson                                 43.28
54 Gary Mueller                                  44.15
55 Sean Finning                                  44.22
56 Peter Smith                                   45.12
57 Jason Hegert                                  46.07
58 Nigel Sullivan                                47.54
59 Travis Frisby                                 51.51
60 Thomas Baxter                                 52.18
61 Will Wettenhall                               52.46
62 Stephen Price                                 57.13
63 Brendon Sharratt                            1.03.36
64 Brendan Jones                               1.03.56
65 Grant Webster                               1.06.51
66 Vaughan Bowman                              1.08.43
67 Simon Brown                                 1.23.53
68 Jeremy Hills                                2.01.11
 
Sprint classification
 
1 Miles Watson                                     106 pts
2 Peter Mcdonald                                    46
3 Darcy Rosenlund                                   45
4 Patrick Shaw                                      37
5 David Pell                                        34
6 Benjamin King                                     31
7 Mark Jamieson                                     30
8 Sean Finning                                      28
9 Peter Dawson                                      23
10 Cameron Hughes                                   20
11 Robert Cater                                     19
12 Grant Irwin                                      17
13 Brendon Sharratt                                 15
14 Brad Edmunds                                     13
15 Steven Robb                                       9
16 Jack Bobridge                                     9
17 Leigh Howard                                      7
18 Tony Mann                                         7
19 Nathan Wise                                       6
20 Gilbert Gutowski                                  5
21 John Ebeling                                      5
22 Michael Stallard                                  4
23 David Kemp                                        3
24 Timothy Decker                                    2
25 Gavin Nicholls                                    2
26 Lachlan Stewart                                   2
27 Vaughan Bowman                                    2
28 Matthew Sherwin                                   2
29 Brendan Jones                                     1
30 Will Dickeson                                     1
31 Daniel Mcculloch                                  1
32 Matt Sillars                                      1
33 Miles Olman                                       1
34 David Tozer                                       1
35 Shaun Higgerson                                   1
36 Tom Middleton                                     1
 
Criterium classification
 
1 Grant Irwin                                       34 pts
2 Nicholas Sanderson                                21
3 Patrick Shaw                                      20
4 Peter Dawson                                      20
5 Miles Watson                                      20
6 Robert Cater                                      19
7 Leigh Howard                                      18
8 Gary Mueller                                      17
9 Brett Aitken                                      13
10 Douglas Repacholi                                12
11 Darcy Rosenlund                                  12
12 Russell Gill                                     12
13 Peter Mcdonald                                   11
14 Mark Jamieson                                    10
15 Sean Finning                                     10
16 Tony Mann                                         8
17 Cameron Hughes                                    8
18 Jarrod Harman                                     7
19 David Pell                                        7
20 David Kemp                                        6
21 Matt King                                         5
22 John Ebeling                                      4
23 Michael Stallard                                  4
24 Peter Smith                                       4
25 Miles Olman                                       3
26 Jack Bobridge                                     3
27 Brendon Sharratt                                  3
28 Tom Middleton                                     3
29 Will Dickeson                                     1
30 Matthew Sherwin                                   1
31 Nathan Wise                                       1
 
Most aggressive classification
 
1 Mark Jamieson                                      4 pts
2 David Pell                                         2
3 Peter Smith                                        2
4 Miles Watson                                       2
5 Cameron Hughes                                     2
6 Sean Finning                                       2
7 Peter Mcdonald                                     2