Steele von Hoff wins Commonwealth Games road race

Australia finished off the cycling events at their home Commonwealth Games on Saturday by winning the men's road race; the country's 14th gold medal in cycling out of a total of 22 awarded across Track, Mountain Bike and Road. Steele von Hoff took the win in a sprint finish, ahead of Jonathan Mould of Wales and Clint Hendricks of South Africa.

The men rode nine laps of the 18.7 kilometre circuit around Currumbin Beach, south of Gold Coast. The course featured two climbs per lap and a winding route through suburban neighbourhoods.

Luke Rowe of Wales, who came to the Games straight from Paris-Roubaix, was the first to attack on the opening lap, but was quickly brought back. A subsequent attack by Thomas Stewart (England) with James McLaughlin (Guernsey) and Joseph Areruya (Rwanda) did get away, followed by a chase group of six.

The leaders managed to stretch their lead to nearly four minutes by lap 6, with the chasers slowly closing in on them. However, the Australian and New Zealand teams decided this was enough, and began reeling them in, eventually catching the final two riders - Stewart and McLaughlin - on the last lap.

Jack Bauer (New Zealand) tried an attack, but was quickly brought back, setting the stage for a sprint finish. Shane Archbold (New Zealand) started the sprint from a long way out into a head wind, with von Hoff on the wheel of team mate Cameron Meyer, the time trial winner earlier in the Games. Von Hoff came by on the left, taking the lead in the final 100 metres to win by a bike length.

Remarkably, von Hoff broke six vertebrae in a racing crash in Melbourne in February, but refused to give up his dream for the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games.

"Six days after the crash I started training again on a recumbent," he said. "I just wanted to get my legs spinning. And then I thought, 'I have seven weeks until the Games so I'd better start training.'

"I don’t think I've absorbed it yet, but I will later on tonight. It wasn't looking good [in the last lap], it was me and Cam and the entire New Zealand team. I thought we couldn't do it but we just had to hang in tough, and it just so happened to be that we pulled it off."

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Results

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#Rider Name (Country)Result
1Steele von Hoff (Australia)3:57:01
2Jonathan Mould (Wales)Row 1 - Cell 2
3Clint Hendricks (South Africa)Row 2 - Cell 2
4Mark Downey (Northern Ireland)Row 3 - Cell 2
5Hayden Mccormick (New Zealand)Row 4 - Cell 2
6Shane Archbold New Zealand)Row 5 - Cell 2
7Tobyn Horton (Guernsey)Row 6 - Cell 2
8Thomas Stewart (England)Row 7 - Cell 2
9Cameron Meyer (Australia)Row 8 - Cell 2
10Samuel Gaze (New Zealand)0:00:03
11James Oram (New Zealand)0:00:09
12Ian Bibby (England)0:00:11
13Jack Bauer (New Zealand)0:00:21
14Luke Rowe (Wales)0:00:53
15Andreas Miltiadis (Cyprus)0:00:57
16Jason Christie (New Zealand)Row 15 - Cell 2
17Mark Stewart (Scotland)Row 16 - Cell 2
18Brendon Davids (South Africa)Row 17 - Cell 2
19Suleiman Kangangi (Kenya)Row 18 - Cell 2
20Charles Kagimu (Uganda)Row 19 - Cell 2
21Jean Claude Uwizeye (Rwanda)Row 20 - Cell 2
22Cameron Orr (Northern Ireland)Row 21 - Cell 2
23Didier Munyaneza (Rwanda)0:00:59
24Bonaventure Uwizeyimana (Rwanda)0:01:00
25Mathew Hayman (Australia)0:01:06
26Christopher Latham (England)0:02:07
27Bradley Potgieter (South Africa)Row 26 - Cell 2
28Marc Potts (Northern Ireland)Row 27 - Cell 2
29James Mclaughlin (Guernsey)0:02:10
30Christopher Rougier-Lagane MauritiusRow 29 - Cell 2
31Dylan Kerfoot-Robson (Wales)0:02:34
32Jake Kelly (Isle of Man)Row 31 - Cell 2
33Jack English (Guernsey)Row 32 - Cell 2
34Leon Mazzone (Isle of Man)Row 33 - Cell 2
35Grant Ferguson (Scotland)Row 34 - Cell 2
36Tristan De Lange (Namibia)Row 35 - Cell 2
37Joseph Areruya (Rwanda)0:02:38
38Nicholas Dlamini (South Africa)Row 37 - Cell 2
39Salim Kipkemboi (Kenya)Row 38 - Cell 2
40Dan Craven (Namibia)Row 39 - Cell 2
41Peter Kibble (Wales)Row 40 - Cell 2
42Harry Tanfield (England)Row 41 - Cell 2
43Mitchell Docker (Australia)Row 42 - Cell 2
44Dirk Coetzee (Namibia)0:08:44
45Daniel Halksworth (Jersey)0:09:25
46Alexander Edmondson (Australia)0:09:35
47Callum Scotson (Australia)Row 46 - Cell 2
48Michael Foley (Canada)0:10:58
49Alexandre Mayer (Mauritius)Row 48 - Cell 2
50Tom Mazzone (Isle of Man)0:11:15
DNFNathan Draper (Isle of Man)Row 50 - Cell 2
DNFNolan Hoffman (South Africa)Row 51 - Cell 2
DNFAlexander Smyth (Malta)Row 52 - Cell 2
DNFJames Roe (Guernsey)Row 53 - Cell 2
DNFRhys Hidrio (Jersey)Row 54 - Cell 2
DNFDylan Redy (Mauritius)Row 55 - Cell 2
DNFHasani Hennis (Anguilla)Row 56 - Cell 2
DNFKinjah David Njau (Kenya)Row 57 - Cell 2
DNFPeter Gathere Waruiru (Kenya)Row 58 - Cell 2
DNFJean Paul René Ukiniwabo (Rwanda)Row 59 - Cell 2
DNFBoakye Dankwa Anthony Boafo (Ghana)Row 60 - Cell 2
DNFMartin Freyer (Namibia)Row 61 - Cell 2
DNFKyle Gordon (Scotland)Row 62 - Cell 2
DNFMichael Testori (Cayman Islands)Row 63 - Cell 2
DNFOliver Wood (England)Row 64 - Cell 2
DNFOscar Quiroz (Belize)Row 65 - Cell 2
DNFRhys Britton (Wales)Row 66 - Cell 2
DNFJay Lamoureux (Canada)Row 67 - Cell 2
DNFJack Rebours (Jersey)Row 68 - Cell 2
DNFAvishka Dilnuwan Mawathage (Sri Lanka)Row 69 - Cell 2
DNFDerek Barbara (Gibraltar)Row 70 - Cell 2
DNFJyme Bridges (Antigua And Barbuda)Row 71 - Cell 2
DNFAdam Blythe (England)Row 72 - Cell 2
DNFDerek Gee (Canada)Row 73 - Cell 2
DNFValens Ndayisenga (Rwanda)Row 74 - Cell 2
DNFOliver Lowthorpe (Jersey)Row 75 - Cell 2
DNFSebastian Tremlett (Guernsey)Row 76 - Cell 2
DNFMarcus Christie (Northern Ireland)Row 77 - Cell 2
DNFAdam Jamieson (Canada)Row 78 - Cell 2
DNFMatthew Bostock (Isle of Man)Row 79 - Cell 2
DNFJeffery Kelsick (Antigua And Barbuda)Row 80 - Cell 2
DNFDavid Treacy (Malta)Row 81 - Cell 2
DNFMiguel Duarte (Mozambique)Row 82 - Cell 2
DNFMalefetsane Lesofe (Lesotho)Row 83 - Cell 2
DNFTrevor Zefal Bailey (Saint Vincent And The Grenadines)Row 84 - Cell 2
DNFAbdul Razak Abdul Mumin (Ghana)Row 85 - Cell 2
DNFMuzi Shabangu (Swaziland)Row 86 - Cell 2
DNFOshane Williams Jamaica)Row 87 - Cell 2
DNFGregory Rougier-Lagane (Mauritius)Row 88 - Cell 2
DNFAbdulrazak Unmar (Ghana)Row 89 - Cell 2
DNFGiovanni Lovell (Belize)Row 90 - Cell 2
DNFBram Sanderson (Dominica)Row 91 - Cell 2
DNFGerry Albert (Seychelles)Row 92 - Cell 2
DNFSsekanga Viena (Uganda)Row 93 - Cell 2
DNFSam Brand (Isle of Man)Row 94 - Cell 2
DNFSaleem Romney (Anguilla)Row 95 - Cell 2
DNFMduduzi Zwane (Swaziland)Row 96 - Cell 2
DNFGcina Banda (Swaziland)Row 97 - Cell 2
DNFBenjaman Lewis (Saint Vincent And The Grenadines)Row 98 - Cell 2
DNFMichael Serafin (Guernsey)Row 99 - Cell 2
DNFAidan Caves (Canada)Row 100 - Cell 2
DNFXeno Young (Northern Ireland)Row 101 - Cell 2
DNFJoseph Sheriff (Gibraltar)Row 102 - Cell 2
DNFNissan Arana (Belize)Row 103 - Cell 2
DNFRichard Jeff Esparon (Seychelles)Row 104 - Cell 2
DNFZambezi Richardson (Anguilla)Row 105 - Cell 2
DNFSherwin Osborne (Anguilla)Row 106 - Cell 2
DNFJay Major (Bahamas)Row 107 - Cell 2
DNFAnthony Colebrook (Bahamas)Row 108 - Cell 2
DNFAlie Kamara (Sierra Leone)Row 109 - Cell 2
DNFMahmoud Keita (Sierra Leone)Row 110 - Cell 2
DNFHuekhwami Hughes (Anguilla)Row 111 - Cell 2
DNFChamika Weerappulige (Sri Lanka)Row 112 - Cell 2
DNFJulian Bellido (Gibraltar)Row 113 - Cell 2
DNFStephen Alberto Belle (Seychelles)Row 114 - Cell 2

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