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50th FBD Milk Ras - 2.5
Ireland, May 19-26, 2002
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Stage 7 - May 25: Arklow - Baltinglass, 153 km
Power set to win 2002 FBD Milk Ras
By Shane Stokes, Irishcycling.com
Barring accident, Ciarán Power looks set to win this year's FBD Milk Rás after a storming ride on the penultimate and toughest stage of the event. He may have lost a little time on Wednesday when the race hit the first category Healy Pass, but today there were no such cracks in his defence and he easily answered the challenges of his rivals.
The Team Ireland Stena Line rider finished just behind his closest-placed contender Chris Newton in an 8 man sprint to place second on the mountainous 95 mile stage to Baltinglass. That means Power goes into tomorrow's hour-long criterium in Dublin's Phoenix Park with a lead of 4 minutes and 3 seconds which, barring accident or serious misfortune, will see him take his first international victory since turning professional in 2000.
Prior to the stage, Power was in confident mood about his chances of matching Newton and the other leading riders over the stage's seven tough climbs, which began after 15 miles with the first category Devil's Glen. Keeping the bunch together until then was the priority and so his team-mates Tommy Evans, Tim Barry and Paul Griffin set a high tempo at the front. ,p> The riders duly hit the base of the tough climb en bloc and charged up towards its one-in-four summit where mountains leader Julian Winn and yesterday's stage victor Paul Manning grinded their way clear. Behind, Power was under no obvious pressure and crested the crowd-lined top in fifth place.
Motivated by thoughts of taking more KOM points (Winn) and nabbing a second stage victory (Manning), the leading duo hit the slopes of the first-category Luggala climb one minute ahead. Manning was clearly pedalling with more ease and before the summit of the climb he moved clear to begin a brave solo bid for success.
By the top of the second category Sally Gap the Great Britain rider was over a minute ahead of Winn and nearly two clear of Power's group, which was now greatly reduced. The yellow jersey appeared to be climbing well while Newton looked under pressure to follow wheels; clearly things were going to plan for the race leader.
There remained however 30 miles of undulating roads before the next major climb of Drumgoff. It was important for Power that his main rivals did not get clear before then, and this was ensured when a small regrouping saw his team-mates Tommy Evans, Tim Barry and Paul Griffin regain contact. Setting a high pace at the front, they reeled in Winn and kept the chasing group together, while an impressive Manning increased his advantage to three and a half minutes.
Feeling good, Power seized the initiative on Drumgoff and jumped clear with Newton and Poland Team Legia's Hubert Nowak on the steep, tree-lined lower slopes. Surrey League rider Gethin Butler and France VC La Pomme's Hichem Menad got across the gap soon afterwards, with the latter going to the front and setting a ferocious pace to the top.
After the tricky, high speed descent the five chasers were joined by a group of 16 but the pressure applied by Power and, particularly, Menad on the first category Wicklow Gap caused a permanent rupture. Newton, Nowak and John Tanner (Lancaster Compensation Group) held on over the top, two minutes and 45 seconds behind Manning, while Butler and Tanner's team-mate Mark Lovatt got back on shortly afterwards to make a seven man chasing group.
Swinging around into the wind, Manning was starting to tire and his commendable solo effort came to an end ten miles from the finish. Power was sitting on and was favourite to take the sprint for his first stage win of the 2002 FBD Milk Rás, but the Englishman had enough strength in the final mile to lead out Newton into the long finishing straight. Here the green-jersey holder kicked for home and sprinted impressively to deny the race leader.
"I thought I would get it when he led it out from so far back," said Power. "But he was very strong and got to the line before me. I wanted to get a stage but the overall is the most important thing...and that went very well."
"I felt very good today. The (Irish) lads worked really hard for me early on to keep things together and did a great job to get me to the bottom of Drumgoff. I felt good there so decided to attack - when you have the legs, that is sometimes the best form of defence and so I went for it. A few guys got up to me but that split things up behind."
Power has just tomorrow left and is feeling confident. "Anything can happen in cycling but with such a big lead things should be fine. I said at the start of the week that I wanted to enjoy the race and although I have the pressure of the jersey, that is really starting to happen."
Tomorrow's eighth and final stage: 1 hour criterium, Phoenix Park. Starts 3 pm.
Results
1 Chris Newton (GBr) Great Britain 3.54.36 (39.08 km/h) 2 Ciaran Power (Irl) Team Ireland Stena Line 3 Mark Lovatt (GBr) Lancaster Compensation Group 4 Hubert Nowak (Pol) Poland Team Legia 5 John Tanner (GBr) Lancaster Compensation Group 6 Hichem Menad (Alg) France VC La Pomme 7 Gethin Butler (GBr) Surrey League 0.03 8 Paul Manning (GBr) Great Britain 0.06 9 Julian Winn (GBr) Wales 3.05 10 Grzegorz Zoledziowski (Pol) Poland Team Legia 11 Ross Muir (GBr) Scotland-Visit Scotland 12 Rob Holden (GBr) Isle Of Man 13 Ben Brooks (Aus) NW England Cycle Centre RT 14 Jaroslaw Welniak (Pol) Poland Team Legia 15 Ian McLeod (Rsa) South Africa Team HSBC 16 Kevin Dawson (GBr) Lancaster Compensation Group 17 Jurgen Rodenbeck (Ger) Germany Team Hameln-Pyrmont 18 Tim Buckle (GBr) Great Britain 19 Alastair Kay (GBr) Scotland-Visit Scotland 20 Nicolas White (Rsa) South Africa Team HSBC 21 Marek Blazej (Pol) Poland Team Legia 22 Patrick Moriarty (Irl) Dublin Skip Hire 23 Ari Hojgaard (Den) Denmark Distrikt Jylland-Fyn 3.10 24 Dariusz Rudnicki (Pol) Poland Team Legia 25 Carl Henning Brondberg (Den) Denmark Distrikt Jylland-Fyn 26 David Peelo (Irl) Dublin Usher Insulation 7.50 27 Mark Kelly (GBr) Isle Of Man 7.52 28 Paul Healion (Irl) Dublin Usher Insulation 29 Paul Sheppard (GBr) Wales 30 Stephen Gallagher (Irl) Ciarrai Earl Of Desmond 31 Sean Lacey (Irl) Ciarrai Earl Of Desmond 32 Sean Farrell (Irl) Dublin Iarnrod Eireann 33 Bryan Steel (GBr) Great Britain 34 Dermot Healy (Irl) Dublin Skip Hire 35 Nikolas Knudsen (Den) Denmark Distrikt Jylland-Fyn 36 Denis Lynch (Irl) France VC La Pomme 37 Stephen O'Sullivan (Irl) Tipperary Dan Morrissey 38 Andrew Donnellan (Irl) Dublin Iarnrod Eireann 39 Philip Finegan (Irl) Kildare Team Fig Roll 40 Raymond Clarke (Ire) Meath Lee Strand Cycleways 41 Rory Wyley (Irl) Southend www.Sdeals.Com 42 Gary Dodd (GBr) Surrey League 43 Eugene Moriarty (Ire) Meath Lee Strand Cycleways 44 Daniel Spence (Rsa) South Africa Team HSBC 45 Elliot Baxter (GBr) Isle Of Man 46 Tommy Evans (Irl) Team Ireland Stena Line 8.07 47 Alexander Ross (GBr) Scotland-Visit Scotland 48 Peter Murdoch (GBr) Scotland-Visit Scotland 49 Andrew Randell (Can) Canada Team Sympatico 14.42 50 Paul Watson (GBr) Nth East England 14.53 51 Stephen Mifsud (Fra) France VC La Pomme 52 Stefen Small (GBr) Lancs M.K. Cycles Bianchi 53 Paul Griffin (Irl) Team Ireland Stena Line 24.46 54 Timo Wolk (Ger) Germany Team Stevens-Jeantex 55 Yasutaka Tashiro (Jap) France VC La Pomme 25.06 56 Takeshi Hashimoto (Jpn) Japan Cycleways 29.54 57 Kenichi Suzuki (Jpn) Japan Cycleways 58 Graeme Hatcher (GBr) Isle Of Man 59 Vincent Gleeson (Irl) Mayo Connacht Gold 60 Josh Hall (Can) Canada Team Sympatico 61 Jeff Austin (USA) USA Peoples Cycling Team 32.21 62 Tim Ahern (Irl) Dublin UCD 63 Craig Sweetman (Irl) Meath M. Donnelly Team 64 Ian Furniss (GBr) Lancaster Compensation Group 65 Brian Kenneally (Irl) Tipperary Dan Morrissey 66 Buck Miller (Can) Canada Team Sympatico 67 Frederic Pedersoli (Fra) France VC La Pomme 68 Thomas Hogan (Irl) Cork Stafford Fuels 69 Gareth Jones (GBr) NW England Cycle Centre RT 70 Tim Davies (GBr) Wales 71 Joe Fenlon (Irl) Kildare Team Fig Roll 72 Stefan Rothe (Ger) Germany Team Hameln-Pyrmont 73 Thorsten Wiedenroth (Ger) Germany Team Stevens-Jeantex 74 Steve Gibson (GBr) Nth East England 75 Peter Hey (GBr) NW England Cycle Centre RT 76 Adrian Hedderman (Ire) Meath Lee Strand Cycleways 77 Brian Lynch (Irl) Cork Stafford Fuels 78 William Byrne (Irl) Dublin Iarnrod Eireann 79 James Hodnett (Irl) Mayo Connacht Gold 80 Aidan Crowley (Ire) Meath Lee Strand Cycleways 81 Martin O'Louglin (Irl) Tipperary Dan Morrissey 82 Huw Pritchard (GBr) Wales 83 Arne Hinrichsen (Ger) Germany Team Stevens-Jeantex 84 Kealan O'Connor (Irl) Ciarrai Earl Of Desmond 85 Greg Roche (GBr) NW England Cycle Centre RT 86 Francis Ennis (Irl) Kildare Newbridge Cutlery 87 Kieran McMahon (Irl) Ciarrai Earl Of Desmond 88 Laurence Roche (Irl) Dublin BH-Raleigh 89 Michael Mulcahy (Irl) Tipperary Dan Morrissey 90 Matthew Melville (GBr) Southend www.Sdeals.Com 91 Justin Hoy (GBr) Surrey League 92 Simon Kelly (Irl) Cork Stafford Fuels 93 Tim Barry (Irl) Team Ireland Stena Line 94 Ciaran Kelly (Irl) Dublin Iarnrod Eireann 95 Brian Taaffe (Irl) Dublin UCD 96 Chris McNamara (GBr) Surrey League 97 Roger Morgan (GBr) Surrey League 98 Philip Cassidy (Irl) Meath Lee Strand Cycleways 99 Niall Quinlan (Irl) Kildare Team Fig Roll 100 Phil Southerland (USA) People's Cycling Team 101 Mark McLeavey (Irl) Dublin Skip Hire 102 Frank O'Leary (Irl) Dublin Usher Insulation 103 Derek King (Irl) Dublin Ravens West 104 Pat Kennealy (Irl) Dublin UCD 105 Eugene Murtagh (Irl) Dublin Ravens North 106 Fergal Kelly (Irl) Dublin Stagg Cycles 107 Chris Belsham (GBr) Nth East England 108 Richard Eastham (GBr) Nth East England 109 Andrew Yates (GBr) Lancs M.K. Cycles Bianchi 110 Gary Sheehan (Irl) Ciarrai Earl Of Desmond 111 David Elson (Irl) Dublin BH-Raleigh 112 Colm Bracken (Irl) Dublin Usher Insulation 113 John Charlesworth (GBr) Nth East England 114 Rodney Green (Rsa) South Africa Team HSBC 115 Denis Easton (Irl) Meath Avonmore 116 John Horgan (Irl) Cork Stafford Fuels 117 Mark Power (Irl) Tipperary Dan Morrissey 118 Tom Hughes (Irl) Meath M. Donnelly Team 119 Thomas Graham (Irl) Dublin Ravens West 120 Jonathan Malone (Irl) Kildare Newbridge Cutlery 58.24 121 Taichi Suzuki (Jpn) Japan Cycleways 122 Jim Maguire (Irl) Dublin Stagg Cycles 123 Steve Lepine (USA) Southend www.Sdeals.Com 124 John Dillon (Irl) Dublin Ravens North 125 John Paul Hilliard (Irl) Dublin Skip Hire 126 David Lane (Irl) Dublin UCD 127 Paul Reid (Irl) Dublin Ravens West 128 Paddy Sweeney (Irl) Meath Avonmore 129 Fintan McCormack (Irl) Kildare Newbridge Cutlery 130 Richard Cahill (Irl) Cork Stafford Fuels 131 Julian Sharples (GBr) Lancs M.K. Cycles Bianchi 132 Alan Lane (Irl) Dublin UCD 1.03.24 133 Christopher Harnish (USA) USA Peoples Cycling Team 134 Stephen Howells (GBr) Southend www.Sdeals.Com 135 Jake Hennen (USA) NW England Cycle Centre RT General classification after stage 7 1 Ciaran Power (Irl) Team Ireland Stena Line 27.02.57 2 Chris Newton (GBr) Great Britain 4.03 3 Hubert Nowak (Pol) Poland Team Legia 4.33 4 Hichem Menad (Alg) France VC La Pomme 4.43 5 John Tanner (GBr) Lancaster Compensation Group 4.55 6 Mark Lovatt (GBr) Lancaster Compensation Group 5.12 7 Ari Hojgaard (Den) Denmark Distrikt Jylland-Fyn 7.42 8 Ian McLeod (Rsa) South Africa Team HSBC 8.17 9 Gethin Butler (GBr) Surrey League 12.19 10 Julian Winn (GBr) Wales 14.40 11 Kevin Dawson (GBr) Lancaster Compensation Group 15.13 12 Ben Brooks (Aus) NW England Cycle Centre RT 15.19 13 Patrick Moriarty (Irl) Dublin Skip Hire 15.29 14 Paul Manning (GBr) Great Britain 15.40 15 Dariusz Rudnicki (Pol) Poland Team Legia 21.48 16 Grzegorz Zoledziowski (Pol) Poland Team Legia 17 Carl Henning Brondberg (Den) Denmark Distrikt Jylland-Fyn 22.13 18 Jurgen Rodenbeck (Ger) Germany Team Hameln-Pyrmont 22.23 19 Jaroslaw Welniak (Pol) Poland Team Legia 20 Nicolas White (Rsa) South Africa Team HSBC 26.16 21 Daniel Spence (Rsa) South Africa Team HSBC 27.02 22 Rory Wyley (Irl) Southend www.Sdeals.Com 27.10 23 Tim Buckle (GBr) Great Britain 27.19 24 Gary Dodd (GBr) Surrey League 27.48 25 Marek Blazej (Pol) Poland Team Legia 28.10 26 Bryan Steel (GBr) Great Britain 30.42 27 Ross Muir (GBr) Scotland-Visit Scotland 31.19 28 Raymond Clarke (Ire) Meath Lee Strand Cycleways 31.43 29 Rob Holden (GBr) Isle Of Man 31.47 30 Eugene Moriarty (Ire) Meath Lee Strand Cycleways 32.30 31 Denis Lynch (Irl) France VC La Pomme 32.42 32 Nikolas Knudsen (Den) Denmark Distrikt Jylland-Fyn 34.04 33 Andrew Donnellan (Irl) Dublin Iarnrod Eireann 35.26 34 Stephen O'Sullivan (Irl) Tipperary Dan Morrissey 35.28 35 Paul Sheppard (GBr) Wales 40.02 36 Elliot Baxter (GBr) Isle Of Man 44.24 37 Sean Lacey (Irl) Ciarrai Earl Of Desmond 44.50 38 Stephen Mifsud (Fra) France VC La Pomme 46.01 39 Huw Pritchard (GBr) Wales 46.15 40 Mark Kelly (GBr) Isle Of Man 47.20 41 Philip Finegan (Irl) Kildare Team Fig Roll 47.51 42 Tommy Evans (Irl) Team Ireland Stena Line 48.42 43 Sean Farrell (Irl) Dublin Iarnrod Eireann 49.07 44 Andrew Randell (Can) Canada Team Sympatico 49.58 45 Timo Wolk (Ger) Germany Team Stevens-Jeantex 50.58 46 Alastair Kay (GBr) Scotland-Visit Scotland 52.20 47 Philip Cassidy (Irl) Meath Lee Strand Cycleways 53.11 48 Takeshi Hashimoto (Jpn) Japan Cycleways 56.06 49 Vincent Gleeson (Irl) Mayo Connacht Gold 56.06 50 David Peelo (Irl) Dublin Usher Insulation 57.15 51 Denis Easton (Irl) Meath Avonmore 58.33 52 Justin Hoy (GBr) Surrey League 1.02.13 53 Thomas Hogan (Irl) Cork Stafford Fuels 1.03.50 54 Matthew Melville (GBr) Southend www.Sdeals.Com 1.06.38 55 Alexander Ross (GBr) Scotland-Visit Scotland 1.06.43 56 Peter Murdoch (GBr) Scotland-Visit Scotland 1.07.40 57 Roger Morgan (GBr) Surrey League 1.08.45 58 Michael Mulcahy (Irl) Tipperary Dan Morrissey 1.09.07 59 Tim Davies (GBr) Wales 1.09.12 60 Josh Hall (Can) Canada Team Sympatico 1.10.17 61 Richard Eastham (GBr) Nth East England 1.11.20 62 Chris Belsham (GBr) Nth East England 1.13.01 63 Paul Healion (Irl) Dublin Usher Insulation 1.13.16 64 Andrew Yates (GBr) Lancs M.K. Cycles Bianchi 1.14.18 65 Stephen Gallagher (Irl) Ciarrai Earl Of Desmond 1.14.36 66 Frederic Pedersoli (Fra) France VC La Pomme 1.15.10 67 Joe Fenlon (Irl) Kildare Team Fig Roll 1.15.22 68 Colm Bracken (Irl) Dublin Usher Insulation 1.15.30 69 Adrian Hedderman (Ire) Meath Lee Strand Cycleways 1.15.30 70 Greg Roche (GBr) NW England Cycle Centre RT 1.15.50 71 Graeme Hatcher (GBr) Isle Of Man 1.16.16 72 Frank O'Leary (Irl) Dublin Usher Insulation 1.18.03 73 Tom Hughes (Irl) Meath M. Donnelly Team 1.19.42 74 Stefen Small (GBr) Lancs M.K. Cycles Bianchi 1.19.53 75 Mark McLeavey (Irl) Dublin Skip Hire 1.21.35 76 John Charlesworth (GBr) Nth East England 1.21.52 77 Paul Watson (GBr) Nth East England 1.23.22 78 Thorsten Wiedenroth (Ger) Germany Team Stevens-Jeantex 1.23.42 79 Yasutaka Tashiro (Jap) France VC La Pomme 1.24.21 80 Chris McNamara (GBr) Surrey League 1.27.45 81 Kieran McMahon (Irl) Ciarrai Earl Of Desmond 1.32.58 82 Gareth Jones (GBr) NW England Cycle Centre RT 1.33.22 83 James Hodnett (Irl) Mayo Connacht Gold 1.33.50 84 Aidan Crowley (Ire) Meath Lee Strand Cycleways 1.34.30 85 Kealan O'Connor (Irl) Ciarrai Earl Of Desmond 1.37.11 86 Richard Cahill (Irl) Cork Stafford Fuels 1.40.21 87 Rodney Green (Rsa) South Africa Team HSBC 1.46.42 88 Mark Power (Irl) Tipperary Dan Morrissey 1.52.30 89 Paul Griffin (Irl) Team Ireland Stena Line 1.52.55 90 Taichi Suzuki (Jpn) Japan Cycleways 1.57.07 91 Peter Hey (GBr) NW England Cycle Centre RT 1.57.35 92 Dermot Healy (Irl) Dublin Skip Hire 1.57.59 93 Buck Miller (Can) Canada Team Sympatico 2.01.53 94 Martin O'Louglin (Irl) Tipperary Dan Morrissey 2.02.50 95 Tim Barry (Irl) Team Ireland Stena Line 2.04.28 96 Arne Hinrichsen (Ger) Germany Team Stevens-Jeantex 2.04.48 97 Simon Kelly (Irl) Cork Stafford Fuels 2.06.23 98 Stefan Rothe (Ger) Germany Team Hameln-Pyrmont 2.08.23 99 Ciaran Kelly (Irl) Dublin Iarnrod Eireann 2.08.58 100 Laurence Roche (Irl) Dublin BH-Raleigh 2.09.22 101 Craig Sweetman (Irl) Meath M. Donnelly Team 2.15.50 102 Steve Gibson (GBr) Nth East England 2.17.22 103 Tim Ahern (Irl) Dublin UCD 2.20.45 104 Brian Lynch (Irl) Cork Stafford Fuels 2.20.49 105 Brian Kenneally (Irl) Tipperary Dan Morrissey 2.26.44 106 John Horgan (Irl) Cork Stafford Fuels 2.27.03 107 Brian Taaffe (Irl) Dublin UCD 2.32.24 108 William Byrne (Irl) Dublin Iarnrod Eireann 2.45.32 109 Jeff Austin (USA) USA Peoples Cycling Team 2.49.12 110 Kenichi Suzuki (Jpn) Japan Cycleways 2.50.18 111 John Paul Hilliard (Irl) Dublin Skip Hire 2.51.01 112 Thomas Graham (Irl) Dublin Ravens West 2.58.04 113 Phil Southerland (USA) People's Cycling Team 3.00.53 114 Eugene Murtagh (Irl) Dublin Ravens North 3.04.45 115 Fergal Kelly (Irl) Dublin Stagg Cycles 3.04.51 116 Alan Lane (Irl) Dublin UCD 3.05.51 117 Francis Ennis (Irl) Kildare Newbridge Cutlery 3.09.11 118 Ian Furniss (GBr) Lancaster Compensation Group 3.13.09 119 Pat Kennealy (Irl) Dublin UCD 3.20.45 120 Fintan McCormack (Irl) Kildare Newbridge Cutlery 3.33.28 121 David Elson (Irl) Dublin BH-Raleigh 3.33.49 122 Derek King (Irl) Dublin Ravens West 3.37.58 123 Jonathan Malone (Irl) Kildare Newbridge Cutlery 3.38.54 124 Stephen Howells (GBr) Southend www.Sdeals.Com 3.50.09 125 Julian Sharples (GBr) Lancs M.K. Cycles Bianchi 3.51.17 126 Gary Sheehan (Irl) Ciarrai Earl Of Desmond 4.04.06 127 Niall Quinlan (Irl) Kildare Team Fig Roll 4.09.13 128 John Dillon (Irl) Dublin Ravens North 4.27.45 129 Jake Hennen (USA) NW England Cycle Centre RT 4.28.09 130 Steve Lepine (USA) Southend www.Sdeals.Com 4.36.31 131 Paddy Sweeney (Irl) Meath Avonmore 4.52.30 132 Paul Reid (Irl) Dublin Ravens West 5.00.07 133 Jim Maguire (Irl) Dublin Stagg Cycles 5.07.41 134 David Lane (Irl) Dublin UCD 5.13.32 135 Christopher Harnish (USA) USA Peoples Cycling Team 5.45.10 Points classification 1 Chris Newton (GBr) Great Britain 92 pts 2 Ciaran Power (Irl) Team Ireland Stena Line 74 3 Hubert Nowak (Pol) Poland Team Legia 61 4 John Tanner (GBr) Lancaster Compensation Group 47 5 Dariusz Rudnicki (Pol) Poland Team Legia 42 6 Huw Pritchard (GBr) Wales 40 7 Julian Winn (GBr) Wales 33 8 Ian McLeod (Rsa) South Africa Team HSBC 32 9 Mark Lovatt (GBr) Lancaster Compensation Group 31 10 Philip Cassidy (Irl) Meath Lee Strand Cycleways 29 11 Hichem Menad (Alg) France VC La Pomme 27 12 Ben Brooks (Aus) NW England Cycle Centre RT 26 13 Ari Hojgaard (Den) Denmark Distrikt Jylland-Fyn 24 14 Paul Manning (GBr) Great Britain 23 15 Andrew Randell (Can) Canada Team Sympatico 22 16 Grzegorz Zoledziowski (Pol) Poland Team Legia 21 17 Ross Muir (GBr) Scotland-Visit Scotland 17 18 Eugene Moriarty (Ire) Meath Lee Strand Cycleways 16 19 Denis Lynch (Irl) France VC La Pomme 13 20 Gethin Butler (GBr) Surrey League 12 21 Kevin Dawson (GBr) Lancaster Compensation Group 12 22 Gary Dodd (GBr) Surrey League 12 23 Carl Henning Brondberg (Den) Denmark Distrikt Jylland-Fyn 8 24 Colm Bracken (Irl) Dublin Usher Insulation 7 25 Patrick Moriarty (Irl) Dublin Skip Hire 6 26 Jaroslaw Welniak (Pol) Poland Team Legia 6 27 Paul Griffin (Irl) Team Ireland Stena Line 6 28 Rob Holden (GBr) Isle Of Man 4 29 Nicolas White (Rsa) South Africa Team HSBC 3 30 Marek Blazej (Pol) Poland Team Legia 3 31 Stephen O'Sullivan (Irl) Tipperary Dan Morrissey 3 32 Arne Hinrichsen (Ger) Germany Team Stevens-Jeantex 3 33 Sean Lacey (Irl) Ciarrai Earl Of Desmond 2 34 Mark Kelly (GBr) Isle Of Man 2 35 Denis Easton (Irl) Meath Avonmore 1 Mountains classification 1 Julian Winn (GBr) Wales 115 pts 2 Paul Manning (GBr) Great Britain 87 3 Daniel Spence (Rsa) South Africa Team HSBC 62 4 Hichem Menad (Alg) France VC La Pomme 58 5 Ciaran Power (Irl) Team Ireland Stena Line 49 6 Tim Buckle (GBr) Great Britain 45 7 Chris Newton (GBr) Great Britain 45 8 Hubert Nowak (Pol) Poland Team Legia 33 9 Paul Griffin (Irl) Team Ireland Stena Line 27 10 Ari Hojgaard (Den) Denmark Distrikt Jylland-Fyn 26 11 Huw Pritchard (GBr) Wales 21 12 Nicolas White (Rsa) South Africa Team HSBC 18 13 Philip Cassidy (Irl) Meath Lee Strand Cycleways 14 14 John Tanner (GBr) Lancaster Compensation Group 14 15 Jaroslaw Welniak (Pol) Poland Team Legia 11 16 Denis Lynch (Irl) France VC La Pomme 10 17 Timo Wolk (Ger) Germany Team Stevens-Jeantex 9 18 Paul Healion (Irl) Dublin Usher Insulation 8 19 Mark Lovatt (GBr) Lancaster Compensation Group 7 20 Carl Henning Brondberg (Den) Denmark Distrikt Jylland-Fyn 6 21 Eugene Moriarty (Ire) Meath Lee Strand Cycleways 6 22 Stephen Mifsud (Fra) France VC La Pomme 6 23 Andrew Randell (Can) Canada Team Sympatico 6 24 Yasutaka Tashiro (Jap) France VC La Pomme 5 25 Grzegorz Zoledziowski (Pol) Poland Team Legia 4 26 Alexander Ross (GBr) Scotland-Visit Scotland 4 27 Dariusz Rudnicki (Pol) Poland Team Legia 3 28 Richard Cahill (Irl) Cork Stafford Fuels 3 29 Tim Barry (Irl) Team Ireland Stena Line 3 30 Ben Brooks (Aus) NW England Cycle Centre RT 2 31 Kenichi Suzuki (Jpn) Japan Cycleways 2 32 Gethin Butler (GBr) Surrey League 1 33 Tommy Evans (Irl) Team Ireland Stena Line 1 34 Rodney Green (Rsa) South Africa Team HSBC 1 Ben McKenna U23 trophy 1 Hubert Nowak (Pol) Poland Team Legia 27.07.30 2 Ian McLeod (Rsa) South Africa Team HSBC 3.44 3 Dariusz Rudnicki (Pol) Poland Team Legia 17.15 4 Grzegorz Zoledziowski (Pol) Poland Team Legia 17.15 5 Denis Lynch (Irl) France VC La Pomme 28.09 6 Sean Lacey (Irl) Ciarrai Earl Of Desmond 40.17 7 Mark Kelly (GBr) Isle Of Man 42.47 8 Thomas Hogan (Irl) Cork Stafford Fuels 59.17 9 Alexander Ross (GBr) Scotland-Visit Scotland 1.02.10 10 Stephen Gallagher (Irl) Ciarrai Earl Of Desmond 1.10.03 11 Buck Miller (Can) Canada Team Sympatico 1.57.20 12 Stefan Rothe (Ger) Germany Team Hameln-Pyrmont 2.03.50 13 Tim Ahern (Irl) Dublin UCD 2.16.12 14 Jeff Austin (USA) USA Peoples Cycling Team 2.44.39 15 Kenichi Suzuki (Jpn) Japan Cycleways 2.45.45 16 Phil Southerland (USA) People's Cycling Team 2.56.20 17 Fergal Kelly (Irl) Dublin Stagg Cycles 3.00.18 18 Gary Sheehan (Irl) Ciarrai Earl Of Desmond 3.59.33 19 Steve Lepine (USA) Southend www.Sdeals.Com 4.31.58 International Team classification 1 Great Britain 81.32.51 2 Lancaster Compensation Group 1.24 3 Poland Team Legia 23.36 4 Denmark Distrikt Jylland-Fyn 25.32 5 South Africa Team HSBC 30.33 6 France VC La Pomme 53.11 7 Scotland-Visit Scotland 56.23 8 Wales 1.09.50 9 Surrey League 1.12.19 10 Isle Of Man 1.28.45 11 Team Ireland Stena Line 1.54.28 12 Canada Team Sympatico 2.03.40 13 NW England Cycle Centre RT 2.31.02 14 Nth East England 2.55.21 15 Japan Cycleways 3.45.01 16 Germany Team Stevens-Jeantex 3.55.28 17 Southend www.Sdeals.Com 4.42.03 18 Lancs M.K. Cycles Bianchi 5.24.10 19 USA Peoples Cycling Team 9.51.19 County Team classification 1 Meath Lee Strand Cycleways 83.06.15 2 Dublin Skip Hire 28.45 3 Ciarrai Earl Of Desmond 45.24 4 Dublin Usher Insulation 49.28 5 Tipperary Dan Morrissey 1.20.09 6 Dublin Iarnrod Eireann 1.28.33 7 Cork Stafford Fuels 1.41.37 8 Kildare Team Fig Roll 3.37.02 9 Dublin UCD 5.00.42 10 Kildare Newbridge Cutlery 7.52.13 11 Dublin Ravens West 8.38.23 Courtesy of Seamus Shortall/www.fbdmilkras.com
