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SENIORS
A Grade,
36km
1.
Anthony Spurgeon, 0.55.02
2.
Stewart Campbell
3.
Jochem Schrider
B
Grade, 32km
1.
Jayson Brenton, 0.51.00
2.
Kirk Purchase
3.
Clive Hammerson
C
Grade, 28km
1.
Frank Conceicao, 0.46.13
2.
Brad Lane
3.
Shaun Ballesty
D
Grade, 20km
1.
Nick Contigiannis, 0.36.06
2.
Kane Baker
3.
Keegan Aitchinson
E
Grade, 16km
1.
Norman Jew, 0.31.05
2.
David Calleja
3.
Kevin Blanchfield
JUNIORS
Junior
2km Time Trial
1.
Chris Jenkins, 3.05
2.
Robert Cater, 3.06
3.
Luke Cridland, 3.15
Junior U11
& U13 1 lap scratch
1.
Jonathon Cridland
2.
Luke Davison
3.
Pita Vea
Junior U15
Men & U17 Women, 1 lap scratch
1.
Luke Cridland
2.
Keegan Aitchinson
3.
Lauren Lance
Junior U17
Men, 1 lap scratch
1.
Chris Jenkins
2.
Robert Cater
3.
Michael Murdock
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REPORT
There
were seven starters in the 36 kilometre A grade criterium race this week.
Stewart Campbell from the Eastern Suburbs Club attacked constantly
during the race in an attempt to shake off the sprinters.
Such was the pace of A Grade that three of the seven starters were
dropped within the first one and a half laps.
In spite of the high work rate by Campbell, the remaining three
riders stuck to him like glue. The
pace then settled towards the three quarter mark of the race to such an
extent that B grade passed them. It
was quite amusing to hear the two B grade break away riders calling out to
A Grade to “stay left.” However
B grade was soon reeled back in and overtaken again as A Grade upped their
work rate towards the end of the race. The “King of Heffron Park”
Anthony Spurgeon crossed the line first in a time of 55 minutes 2 seconds
and an average speed of 39.6kph.
The
B Grade criterium was extremely well represented with 21 riders competing
in the 32 kilometre race. One of our under 17 riders, Chris Jenkins
attacked with another rider and made a good break on the B Grade bunch at
the 2 laps to go mark. It was
a very gutsy ride by Chris who was unfortunately caught on the bell lap.
Chris still had enough in the tank to hold onto the third wheel
during the sprint however was unable to hold on with his restricted
gearing and finished just out of the placings.
Randwick Botany rider Jayson Brenton crossed the line first in a
time of 51 minutes and an average speed of 38kph.
The
C grade pace was fast and furious with an average speed of 36.7kph.
With four laps to go Luke Cridland, our recent State Title medal
winning U15 junior rider, decided to test the fitness of the bunch and
launched an aggressive attack on them.
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He remained away by himself for
about a lap and a half before the bunch reeled him back in.
It was a real family affair with Luke’s father and uncle both in
the race. At the bottom of
the main straight and with |
400 metres to go Luke’s uncle Sean Ballesty
saw that many of the bunch had gone into their big gears ready for the
sprint into a headwind. He
told his nephew to “Go”. Luke
sprinted bravely and caught them by surprise and was able to use his
restricted gearing to his advantage and accelerate sharply to get a good
break on the bunch. Four
hundred metres is a long way to sprint however and the bunch finally got
up to speed and swallowed young Luke up before the line.
The old fox, Frank Conceicao won the sprint, with Brad Lane second
with Luke’s uncle Shaun Ballesty coming in third.
Randwick
Botany junior rider Keegan Aitchinson and new member Nick Contogiannis did
much of the work during the D Grade 20 kilometre criterium.
With 2 laps to go, Keegan attacked the bunch and got away with
another Randwick Botany rider, Kane Baker.
They were brought back however on the bell lap and Nick showed them
that he had a sprint in his bag of cycling tricks.
Nick went on to win in a time of 36 minutes and 6 seconds.
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It
was good to see Kevin Blanchfield back after a lengthy absence.
Kevin stirred up the E grade field and managed to hang on for third
place. The 12 kilometre race
was won by Norman Jew with David Calleja
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There
was a great turn up in the junior ranks with 17 members competing.
Some excellent performances came from Tyrone Davies and Adriano
Maradini who both recorded an identical one lap time trial of 4 minutes 37
seconds. Adriano’s time has
been dropping consistently and he has shed some 45 seconds off his best
time of 6 months ago. Lauren
Lance, a visitor, who has been attending the state team triathlon training
camp, is down from Tweed Heads and recorded the fastest 1 lap time for
women with a time of 3 minutes 35 seconds.
The fastest recorded time for the one lap time trial was recorded
by Chris Jenkins with a time of 3 minutes and 5 seconds narrowly beating
Robert Cater who was only 1 second slower.
The
next Randwick Botany Cycling Club race will be conducted at Heffron Park
on Saturday 28 July 2001. Juniors
start at 1.30pm and Seniors 2.30pm.
For more information about the club, please contact the club
secretary Helen Vella on 02 9667 3307.
Race report prepared by:
John Buckton
President & Webmaster
Randwick Botany Cycling Club
president@randwickbotanycc.com
Prime
report: There were no primes conducted this week. Maybe
next week.
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