Tour of Gippsland 2010: Stage 1 Results

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The peloton make its way along the home straight in Wonthaggi during the 33km opening stage criterium. (Image credit: Shane Goss/licoricegallery.com)

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The 159 rider strong peloton snake their way through the streets of Wonthaggi on day one of the tour. (Image credit: Shane Goss/licoricegallery.com)

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Lachlan Norris (Drapac Porsche) leads Gordon McCauley (AAL Hyster-Rush Racing) through a corner in Wonthaggi. (Image credit: Shane Goss/licoricegallery.com)

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The peloton corner on day one nearing the half-way mark of the stage. (Image credit: Shane Goss/licoricegallery.com)

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The peloton make their way around the street circuit in Wonthaggi at an average speed of 43.58km/h. (Image credit: Shane Goss/licoricegallery.com)

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On my Pat Malone: Alex Malone (Bike Bug North Sydney) attempts a break during the stage, Malone was awarded the most aggressive rider of the race. (Image credit: Shane Goss/licoricegallery.com)

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New Zealander Gordon McCauley (AAL Hyster-Rush Racing) drives the peloton on the concluding laps. (Image credit: Shane Goss/licoricegallery.com)

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The team from Genesys Wealth Advisers on the front and keeping the speed high with three laps remaining. (Image credit: Shane Goss/licoricegallery.com)

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Aaron Donnelly leads Jayco/Skins teammates Nick Aitken and Alex Carver with a lap to go. (Image credit: Shane Goss/licoricegallery.com)

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Alex Carver (Team Jayco Skins) edges out Patrick Shaw (Virgin Blue/RBS Morgan) to win stage one of the tour in Wonthaggi. (Image credit: Shane Goss/licoricegallery.com)

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They're off: The start to the 2010 Lakes Oil Tour of Gippsland in Wonthaggi. (Image credit: Shane Goss/licoricegallery.com)

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Congratulations boys (L-R): Patrick Shaw (Virgin Blue/RBS Morgan), Alex Carver (Jayco/Skins), and Joel Pearson (Genesys Wealth Advisers) on the podium after stage one. (Image credit: Shane Goss/licoricegallery.com)

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Fits nicely: Tasmanian Ben Grenda (Genesys Wealth Advisers) zips up his yellow jersey as the tour leader after stage one. (Image credit: Shane Goss/licoricegallery.com)

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Victorian Joel Pearson is happy with his new team Genesys Wealth Advisers and their choice in wheels with Malvern Star. (Image credit: Shane Goss/licoricegallery.com)

Jayco Skins has taken the Tour of Gippsland lead after Alex Carver claimed victory in the race’s opening 33 kilometre criterium. Carver held off Patrick Shaw (Virgin Blue-RBS Morgans) and Joel Pearson (Genesys Wealth Advisers) during the final sprint in Wonthaggi.

The first of two stages wasn’t incident free however with both Rhys Gillett (Virgin Blue-RBS Morgans) and Peter Braunsteins (Apollo Bicycles) taken to hospital following crashes. It’s not yet clear whether the pair will be able to continue the tour with this afternoon’s 68.2 kilometre stage in Wonthaggi.

Full report, results and photos to follow.

Results

#	Rider Name (Country) Team	Result
1	Alex Carver (Team Jayco Skins)	0:45:26
2	Patrick Shaw (Virgin Blue RBS Morgan)
3	Joel Pearson (Genesys Wealth Advisers)
4	Thomas Robinson (Genesys Wealth Advisers)
5	Ben Grenda (Genesys Wealth Advisers)
6	Blair Windsor (Team Budget Forklifts)
7	Amir Rusli (Malaysian National Team)
8	Adiq Othman (Drapac Professional Cyclin)
9	Scott Law (Virgin Blue RBS Morgan)
10	Russell Gill (Team Super Elliott)
11	Richard Lang (Team Jayco Skins)
12	Joseph Lewis (Drapac Professional Cyclin)
13	Dale Scarfe (McDonagh Blake-Witness)
14	Cameron Peterson (Virgin Blue RBS Morgan)
15	Michael Phelan (Drapac Professional Cyclin)
16	Kane Walker (Apollo Bicycles)
17	Zamri Saleh (Malaysian National Team)
18	Samuel Witmitz (Team Race-Fenton Green)
19	Daniel Furmston (Plan B Racing)
20	James Mowatt (Bass Coast Shire)
21	Mitchell Pearson (Bass Coast Shire)
22	Adam Phelan (McDonagh Blake-Witness)
23	Alexander Smyth (Search2Retain-Myteam2)
24	Brodie Talbot (Search2Retain-Myteam2)
25	Anthony Diacoppo (Plan B Racing)
26	Brett Tivers (Plan B Racing)
27	Steele Von Hoff (Genesys Wealth Advisers)
28	James Mcdulling (Team Race-Fenton Green)
29	Malcolm Rudolph (Team Jayco Skins)
30	Patrick Lane (Team Jayco Skins)
31	James Ibrahim (Team Race-Fenton Green)
32	Jaskson Wardrop (GE Plumbing 2010)
33	Fakhrulllah Alias (Malaysian National Team)
34	Cameron Jennings (Team Budget Forklifts)
35	Michael Freiberg (Virgin Blue RBS Morgan)
36	Mitchell Mulhern (Merida Australia)
37	Alastair Loutit (McDonagh Blake-Witness)
38	Nick Bensley (SP AusNet)
39	Nick Aitken (Team Jayco Skins)
40	David De Marco (Lakes Oil N.L.)
41	Sam Davis (Plan B Racing)
42	Damien Turner (Bass Coast Shire)
43	Lachlan Norris (Drapac Professional Cyclin)
44	Sam Moorhouse (McDonagh Blake-Witness)
45	Ben Dyball (Virgin Blue RBS Morgan)
46	Alexander Ray (Lakes Oil N.L.)
47	Ryan Obst (CreditCollect)
48	Eric Sheppard (Jayco VIS)
49	Kyle Marwood (Genesys Wealth Advisers)
50	Kyle Bateson (GE Plumbing 2010)
51	Joshua Taylor (AWCC Development)
52	Scott Liston (Search2Retain-Myteam2)
53	Stuart Shaw (Drapac Professional Cyclin)
54	Nicholas Dougall (Lakes Oil N.L.)
55	Gordon Mccauley (AAL Hyster-Rush Racing)
56	Michael Smith (Lawson Homes)
57	James Hepburn (Virgin Blue RBS Morgan)
58	Joel Stearnes (Lawson Homes)
59	John Cornish (Recab Cycling)
60	Alexander Malone (Bike Bug North Sydney/Car)
61	David Melville (Merida Australia)
62	Luke Ockerby (Recab Cycling)
63	Brendan Brooks (Shortis.com.au)
64	Scott Cronly-Dillon (McDonagh Blake-Witness)
65	Christopher Williams (Merida Australia)
66	Clayton Fettell (GE Plumbing 2010)
67	Andrew Smith (Lawson Homes)
68	Thomas Donald (Search2Retain-Myteam2)
69	Aaron Donnelly (Team Jayco Skins)
70	Benjamin Hill (Suzuki/ACTAS)
71	Jacob Sutherland (AAL Hyster-Rush Racing)
72	Nathan Haas (Recab Cycling)
73	Charles Howlett (Search2Retain-Myteam2)
74	Michael Gallagher (Jayco VIS)
75	Joshua Prete (Team Budget Forklifts)
76	Stuart Smith (Jayco VIS)
77	Nathan Earle (Genesys Wealth Advisers)
78	Samuel Beveridge (Apollo Bicycles)
79	Harry Rassie (Team Race-Fenton Green)
80	Dylan Newell (Genesys Wealth Advisers)
81	Matthew Marshall (Shortis.com.au)
82	Danny Pulbrook (Recab Cycling)
83	Philip Grenfell (Bike Bug North Sydney/Car)
84	Neil Manning (Plan B Racing)
85	Stephen Rossendell (Recab Cycling)
86	Stephen Bomball (Suzuki/ACTAS)
87	Brent Miller (Suzuki/ACTAS)
88	Geoff Straub (McDonagh Blake-Witness)
89	Rowan Dever (AAL Hyster-Rush Racing)
90	Michael Stallard (Team Super Elliott)
91	Craig Hutton (Bike Bug North Sydney/Car)
92	Kornelis Sietsma (SP AusNet)
93	Angus Morton (Drapac Professional Cyclin)
94	Peter Herzig (Team Budget Forklifts)
95	Glen Chadwick (Team Budget Forklifts)
96	Timothy Walker (Recab Cycling)
97	Andrew Christie (Lawson Homes)
98	David Abraham (Lawson Homes)
99	Andrew Mcnab (Search2Retain-Myteam2)
100	Jay Bourke (Search2Retain-Myteam2)
101	Nathan Elliott (CreditCollect)
102	John Groves (Apollo Bicycles)
103	Jason Spencer (Apollo Bicycles)
104	Jamie Lacey (Merida Australia)
105	Trent Williams (CreditCollect)
106	Elliot Crowther (CreditCollect)
107	Ben Cutajar (Shortis.com.au)
108	Fallanie Ali (Malaysian National Team)
109	Sean Evangelista (GE Plumbing 2010)
110	James Boal (AWCC Development)
111	Michael Hosking (GE Plumbing 2010)
112	Jarrod Peachey (SP AusNet)
113	Steven Martin (TFM Avanti)
114	Peter Aquilina (Bass Coast Shire)
115	Andrew Crawley (McDonagh Blake-Witness)
116	Andrew Arundel (Lawson Homes)
117	Daniel O’Keefe (SP AusNet)
118	Elliott Wells (Plan B Racing)
119	Timothy White (AAL Hyster-Rush Racing)
120	Matthew Chew (Lakes Oil N.L.)
121	David Deery (Suzuki/ACTAS)
122	Luke Cridland (Shortis.com.au)
123	Aaron Jones (Recab Cycling)
124	James Herd (Apollo Bicycles)
125	Matthew Werrell (Shortis.com.au)
126	Dean Sanfiloppo (CreditCollect)
127	Angus Gale (Bike Bug North Sydney/Car)
128	Daniel Mcconnell (Bass Coast Shire)
129	Luke Fetch (Bass Coast Shire)
130	Andrew Pike (TFM Avanti)
131	Rico Rogers (Team Budget Forklifts)
132	Harrif Saleh (Malaysian National Team)
133	Ben Hilleard (Bass Coast Shire)	0:00:39
134	Mark Chadwick (Team Race-Fenton Green)	0:00:57
135	Oliver Kent-Spark (Team Race-Fenton Green)	0:01:19
136	James Henry (CreditCollect)	0:01:31
137	Andrew Dorman (TFM Avanti)
138	Eamon Ryan (SP AusNet)
139	Michael Cupitt (Merida Australia)
140	Alex Wong (Bike Bug North Sydney/Car)
141	Tristan Jones (Team Super Elliott)
142	Nathan Hunter (Team Super Elliott)
143	Yusrizal Usoff (Malaysian National Team)
144	Shahrul Amin (Malaysian National Team)
145	Michael Crosbie (AAL Hyster-Rush Racing)
146	Brendan Washington (AWCC Development)	0:03:02
147	Michael Sargeant (GE Plumbing 2010)
148	Trevor Griffiths (Apollo Bicycles)	0:04:33
149	David Hampton (SP AusNet)
150	Fergus Maclachlan (Lakes Oil N.L.)
151	Jake Laine (SP AusNet)	0:06:04
152	Shane Way (AWCC Development)	0:07:35
153	Rhys Gillett (Virgin Blue RBS Morgan)
154	Johann Esterhuyzen (TFM Avanti)
DNS	Lachlan Doak (Team Race-Fenton Green)
DNF	Peter Braunsteins (Apollo Bicycles)
DNS	Joel Stewart (Suzuki/ACTAS)
DNS	Marc Williams (Suzuki/ACTAS)

General Classification after Stage 1
#	Rider Name (Country) Team	Result
1	Ben Grenda (Genesys Wealth Advisers)	0:45:08
2	Alex Carver (Team Jayco Skins)	0:00:08
3	Patrick Shaw (Virgin Blue RBS Morgan)	0:00:09
4	Thomas Robinson (Genesys Wealth Advisers)	0:00:11
5	Joel Pearson (Genesys Wealth Advisers)	0:00:12
6	Steele Von Hoff (Genesys Wealth Advisers)	0:00:13
7	Neil Manning (Plan B Racing)
8	Adiq Othman (Drapac Professional Cycling)	0:00:14
9	Kyle Marwood (Genesys Wealth Advisers)
10	Blair Windsor (Team Budget Forklifts)	0:00:15
11	Alexander Smyth (Search2Retain-Myteam2)
12	Cameron Jennings (Team Budget Forklifts)
13	Stuart Shaw (Drapac Professional Cycling)
14	Dylan Newell (Genesys Wealth Advisers)
15	Amir Rusli (Malaysian National Team)	0:00:16
16	Malcolm Rudolph (Team Jayco Skins)
17	James Ibrahim (Team Race-Fenton Green)
18	Timothy Walker (Recab Cycling)
19	Joseph Lewis (Drapac Professional Cycling)	0:00:17
20	Eric Sheppard (Jayco VIS)
21	John Cornish (Recab Cycling)
22	Alexander Malone (Bike Bug North Sydney/Carol)
23	Rico Rogers (Team Budget Forklifts)
24	Scott Law (Virgin Blue RBS Morgan)	0:00:18
25	Russell Gill (Team Super Elliott)
26	Richard Lang (Team Jayco Skins)
27	Dale Scarfe (McDonagh Blake-Witness)
28	Cameron Peterson (Virgin Blue RBS Morgan)
29	Michael Phelan (Drapac Professional Cycling)
30	Kane Walker (Apollo Bicycles)
31	Zamri Saleh (Malaysian National Team)
32	Samuel Witmitz (Team Race-Fenton Green)
33	Daniel Furmston (Plan B Racing)
34	James Mowatt (Bass Coast Shire)
35	Mitchell Pearson (Bass Coast Shire)
36	Adam Phelan (McDonagh Blake-Witness)
37	Brodie Talbot (Search2Retain-Myteam2)
38	Anthony Diacoppo (Plan B Racing)
39	Brett Tivers (Plan B Racing)
40	James Mcdulling (Team Race-Fenton Green)
41	Patrick Lane (Team Jayco Skins)
42	Jaskson Wardrop (GE Plumbing 2010)
43	Fakhrulllah Alias (Malaysian National Team)
44	Michael Freiberg (Virgin Blue RBS Morgan)
45	Mitchell Mulhern (Merida Australia)
46	Alastair Loutit (McDonagh Blake-Witness)
47	Nick Bensley (SP AusNet)
48	Nick Aitken (Team Jayco Skins)
49	David De Marco (Lakes Oil N.L.)
50	Sam Davis (Plan B Racing)
51	Damien Turner (Bass Coast Shire)
52	Lachlan Norris (Drapac Professional Cycling)
53	Sam Moorhouse (McDonagh Blake-Witness)
54	Ben Dyball (Virgin Blue RBS Morgan)
55	Alexander Ray (Lakes Oil N.L.)
56	Ryan Obst (CreditCollect)
57	Kyle Bateson (GE Plumbing 2010)
58	Joshua Taylor (AWCC Development)
59	Scott Liston (Search2Retain-Myteam2)
60	Nicholas Dougall (Lakes Oil N.L.)
61	Gordon Mccauley (AAL Hyster-Rush Racing)
62	Michael Smith (Lawson Homes)
63	James Hepburn (Virgin Blue RBS Morgan)
64	Joel Stearnes (Lawson Homes)
65	David Melville (Merida Australia)
66	Luke Ockerby (Recab Cycling)
67	Brendan Brooks (Shortis.com.au)
68	Scott Cronly-Dillon (McDonagh Blake-Witness)
69	Christopher Williams (Merida Australia)
70	Clayton Fettell (GE Plumbing 2010)
71	Andrew Smith (Lawson Homes)
72	Thomas Donald (Search2Retain-Myteam2)
73	Aaron Donnelly (Team Jayco Skins)
74	Benjamin Hill (Suzuki/ACTAS)
75	Jacob Sutherland (AAL Hyster-Rush Racing)
76	Nathan Haas (Recab Cycling)
77	Charles Howlett (Search2Retain-Myteam2)
78	Michael Gallagher (Jayco VIS)
79	Joshua Prete (Team Budget Forklifts)
80	Stuart Smith (Jayco VIS)
81	Nathan Earle (Genesys Wealth Advisers)
82	Samuel Beveridge (Apollo Bicycles)
83	Harry Rassie (Team Race-Fenton Green)
84	Matthew Marshall (Shortis.com.au)
85	Danny Pulbrook (Recab Cycling)
86	Philip Grenfell (Bike Bug North Sydney/Carol)
87	Stephen Rossendell (Recab Cycling)
88	Stephen Bomball (Suzuki/ACTAS)
89	Brent Miller (Suzuki/ACTAS)
90	Geoff Straub (McDonagh Blake-Witness)
91	Rowan Dever (AAL Hyster-Rush Racing)
92	Michael Stallard (Team Super Elliott)
93	Craig Hutton (Bike Bug North Sydney/Carol)
94	Kornelis Sietsma (SP AusNet)
95	Angus Morton (Drapac Professional Cycling)
96	Peter Herzig (Team Budget Forklifts)
97	Glen Chadwick (Team Budget Forklifts)
98	Andrew Christie (Lawson Homes)
99	David Abraham (Lawson Homes)
100	Andrew Mcnab (Search2Retain-Myteam2)
101	Jay Bourke (Search2Retain-Myteam2)
102	Nathan Elliott (CreditCollect)
103	John Groves (Apollo Bicycles)
104	Jason Spencer (Apollo Bicycles)
105	Jamie Lacey (Merida Australia)
106	Trent Williams (CreditCollect)
107	Elliot Crowther (CreditCollect)
108	Ben Cutajar (Shortis.com.au)
109	Fallanie Ali (Malaysian National Team)
110	Sean Evangelista (GE Plumbing 2010)
111	James Boal (AWCC Development)
112	Michael Hosking (GE Plumbing 2010)
113	Jarrod Peachey (SP AusNet)
114	Steven Martin (TFM Avanti)
115	Peter Aquilina (Bass Coast Shire)
116	Andrew Crawley (McDonagh Blake-Witness)
117	Andrew Arundel (Lawson Homes)
118	Daniel O’Keefe (SP AusNet)
119	Elliott Wells (Plan B Racing)
120	Timothy White (AAL Hyster-Rush Racing)
121	Matthew Chew (Lakes Oil N.L.)
122	David Deery (Suzuki/ACTAS)
123	Luke Cridland (Shortis.com.au)
124	Aaron Jones (Recab Cycling)
125	James Herd (Apollo Bicycles)
126	Matthew Werrell (Shortis.com.au)
127	Dean Sanfiloppo (CreditCollect)
128	Angus Gale (Bike Bug North Sydney/Carol)
129	Daniel Mcconnell (Bass Coast Shire)
130	Luke Fetch (Bass Coast Shire)
131	Andrew Pike (TFM Avanti)
132	Harrif Saleh (Malaysian National Team)
133	Ben Hilleard (Bass Coast Shire)	0:00:57
134	Mark Chadwick (Team Race-Fenton Green)	0:01:15
135	Oliver Kent-Spark (Team Race-Fenton Green)	0:01:37
136	James Henry (CreditCollect)	0:01:49
137	Andrew Dorman (TFM Avanti)
138	Eamon Ryan (SP AusNet)
139	Michael Cupitt (Merida Australia)
140	Alex Wong (Bike Bug North Sydney/Carol)
141	Tristan Jones (Team Super Elliott)
142	Nathan Hunter (Team Super Elliott)
143	Yusrizal Usoff (Malaysian National Team)
144	Shahrul Amin (Malaysian National Team)
145	Michael Crosbie (AAL Hyster-Rush Racing)
146	Brendan Washington (AWCC Development)	0:03:20
147	Michael Sargeant (GE Plumbing 2010)
148	Trevor Griffiths (Apollo Bicycles)	0:04:51
149	David Hampton (SP AusNet)
150	Fergus Maclachlan (Lakes Oil N.L.)
151	Jake Laine (SP AusNet)	0:06:22
152	Rhys Gillett (Virgin Blue RBS Morgan)	0:07:52
153	Shane Way (AWCC Development)	0:07:53
154	Johann Esterhuyzen (TFM Avanti)

Sprint classification
#	Rider Name (Country) Team	Result
1	Ben Grenda (Genesys Wealth Advisers)	16	pts
2	Steele Von Hoff (Genesys Wealth Advisers)	5
3	Neil Manning (Plan B Racing)	5
4	Adiq Othman (Drapac Professional Cycling)	4
5	Kyle Marwood (Genesys Wealth Advisers)	4
6	Cameron Jennings (Team Budget Forklifts)	3
7	Stuart Shaw (Drapac Professional Cycling)	3
8	Thomas Robinson (Genesys Wealth Advisers)	3
9	Alexander Smyth (Search2Retain-Myteam2)	3
10	Dylan Newell (Genesys Wealth Advisers)	3
11	Amir Rusli (Malaysian National Team)	2
12	Timothy Walker (Recab Cycling)	2
13	Malcolm Rudolph (Team Jayco Skins)	2
14	James Ibrahim (Team Race-Fenton Green)	2
15	Blair Windsor (Team Budget Forklifts)	2
16	John Cornish (Recab Cycling)	1
17	Alexander Malone (Bike Bug North Sydney/Carol)	1
18	Rhys Gillett (Virgin Blue RBS Morgan)	1
19	Patrick Shaw (Virgin Blue RBS Morgan)	1
20	Joseph Lewis (Drapac Professional Cycling)	1
21	Rico Rogers (Team Budget Forklifts)	1
22	Eric Sheppard (Jayco VIS)	1

Teams classification
#	Rider Name (Country) Team	Result
1	Genesys Wealth Advisers	2:16:18
2	Virgin Blue RBS Morgan
3	Drapac Professional Cycling
4	Team Jayco Skins
5	Malaysian National Team
6	Plan B Racing
7	McDonagh Blake-Witness
8	Team Race-Fenton Green
9	Bass Coast Shire
10	Search2Retain-Myteam2
11	Team Budget Forklifts
12	Lakes Oil N.L.
13	GE Plumbing 2010
14	Merida Australia
15	Lawson Homes
16	Recab Cycling
17	Apollo Bicycles
18	Jayco VIS
19	AAL Hyster-Rush Racing
20	Bike Bug North Sydney/Carol
21	SP AusNet
22	Suzuki/ACTAS
23	Shortis.com.au
24	CreditCollect
25	Team Super Elliott	0:01:31
26	TFM Avanti
27	AWCC Development	0:03:02