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SENIORS
A/B
Grade, 36kms
1
Steve Williams, 55.31
2
Stewart Campbell
3
Anthony Spurgeon
B
Grade, 32kms
1
Kirk Purchase 51.59
2
Clive Hammerson
3
Todd Sinclair
C
Grade, 28kms
1
Steven Bligh, 50.18
2
Frank Conceicao
3
Alex Watson
D
Grade, 20kms
1
Nick Contogiannis
2
Ron Sproule
3
Paul Baker
E
Grade, 14kms
1
Luke Davison
2
Mark Woodhouse
3
Julia Guinan
JUNIORS
A
Grade 16km Individual Time Trial
1
Robert Cater 27.11
2
Chris Jenkins 28.27
3
Luke Cridland 30.51
4
Keegan Aitchison 31.03
B
Grade 8km Individual Time Trial
1
Pita Vea 16.07
2
Mark woodhouse 17.12
3
Thom Richards 17.15
4
Luke Davison 20.22
2
Belinda Angwin
A
Grade Women’s 12km Individual Time Trial
1
Samantha Guille 24.13
2
Belinda Angwin 24.58
C
Grade 4km Individual Time Trial
1
Adriano Maradini 9.37
2
Tyrone Davies 10.03
3
Antoine Rosse 13.10
4
Raphael Rosse d.n.f
B
Grade 10km Scratch
1
Samantha Guille
2
Pita Vea
3
Mark woodhouse
4
Belinda Angwin
5
Thom Richards
6
Luke Davison
7
Max Gueniev
C
Grade 6km Scratch
1
Tyrone Davies
2
Adriano Maradini
3
Raphael Rosse
4
Antoine Rosse
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REPORT
With many people
heading out of Sydney for the long weekend, fifty-six senior riders and 15
Juniors still managed to turn up and compete at the demanding Heffron Park
Maroubra criterium circuit on Saturday 29 September 2001.
Exciting racing took place under a magnificent blue sky and howling
northerly wind.
A couple of big names made the A Grade event interesting.
Steve Williams, national senior road champion and Paul Rowney,
Sydney 2000 Olympian shared much of the workload.
Eastern Suburbs rider Stewart Campbell (alias `Computer’) tried
to psych out the opposition by starting the race with brightly dyed purple
hair. The pace was on from
the start. By lap 2 Steve
Williams turned up the pace and attacked followed by Paul Rowney.
The two riders got a gap of about 30 metres from the bunch but were
quickly brought back. The
fast pace took it’s toll however on some of the weaker riders and by lap
3 two of the A grade riders had been dropped.
The race then settled down and the peleton worked together until about 9 laps to go when
Computer attacked again with Anthony Spurgeon on his wheel. Steve Williams and Paul Rowney then came across the gap and
it looked for a while as though the group of four would work together and
stay away from the bunch. This
was not to be however, and the bunch once again came together. Throughout this time Randwick Botany U19
rider, Shaun Higgerson (16 years old) was not only staying with the elite
A grade bunch but also doing his share of the work.
With 4 laps to go Shaun attacked and pulled a gap of about 40
metres on the bunch, followed out by Steve Williams.
These two shared turns and for a while looked as though they were
going to stay away but again the peleton fought back and caught the
attacking riders. Shaun
looked very determined as he crossed the start/finish line and received
the bell with one lap to go and led the A grade field into the final lap.
Steve Williams was too strong though and led the sprint out right
to the finish with Stewart Campbell on his wheel in second.
Anthony Spurgeon looked all set to make that now famous final
Spurgeon sprint finish but the pace must have taken its toll on him and he
looked content to settle for third. The
average speed of the A Grade race was just under 40kph.
The B Grade pace was similarly fast and the windy conditions
quickly took its toll on the riders.
Such was the pace that there were only 4 riders left with 10 laps
to go.
There were plenty of attacks in the C grade race as well with
different groups trying to get away from the main bunch at different times
during the first half of the race. With
7 laps
to go however, the peleton came together
and the commissiare judged this to be the perfect time to blow the whistle
for the sprint prime. The
next lap saw Tony Carauana take out the prime (pronounced preem).
The sprint must have taken it’s toll on Tony because he had
nothing to throw at them in the final sprint.
Randwick Botany rider Steven Bligh took out first place from
Eastern Suburbs rider, Frank Conceicao second.
Steve has been spotted out training regularly lately and it is
obvious that it has paid off.
Randwick Botany rider Nick Contogiannis was too strong for the D
grade bunch in the windy conditions.
The bunch was very well behaved and stayed together for most
of the race. With 4 laps to
go, Nick attacked and started to test the competition.
In a well-planned race Nick finished first just in front of fellow
Randwick Botany riders, Ron Sproule and Paul Baker.
Luke Davison was too strong for the 14km E Grade race and easily
finished first, followed by Mark Woodhouse, and Julia Guinan.
Junior Development Officer Peter Zala stirred up the juniors
this week by conducting much longer than usual individual time trials.
The A grade junior men had to complete over 8 laps or 16kms.
B Grade did 8 kms. The A Grade Junior women did 6 laps or 12 kms
and the C grade boys did 2 laps or 4 kms.
At the completion of the individual time trials two 2 lap scratch
races were also conducted for B grade and C grade juniors.
Randwick Botany Cycling Club conducts club racing every Saturday
at Heffron Park, Maroubra NSW. Juniors
start at 1.30pm and Seniors 2.30pm.
For more information please contact the club secretary Helen Vella
on 02 9667 3307.
Race report prepared by:
John Buckton
Club President/Webmaster
Randwick Botany Cycling Club
president@randwickbotanycc.com
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