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SENIORS
A Grade,
36km
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1 |
Chris Jenkins |
RBCC |
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2 |
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ES |
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3 |
John Kenny |
ES |
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4 |
Stewart Campbell |
ES |
B Grade, 28km
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1 |
Karl Bellamy |
RBCC |
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2 |
Robert Lang |
Caravello |
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3 |
Peter O'Connor |
ES |
C Grade, 28km
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1 |
Shannon Meehan |
RBCC |
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2 |
Shane Bedford |
RBCC |
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3 |
John Greally |
ES |
D Grade, 20km
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1 |
Myles, Hannan |
ES |
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2 |
Steven Price |
WV |
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3 |
John Lynch |
RBCC |
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4 |
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ES |
E/F Grade, 16km
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1 |
Alex Lazick |
WV |
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2 |
D'arcy Price |
RBCC |
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3 |
Noel Christensen |
RBCC |
JUNIORS
Juniors results
click here
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THANK YOU:
Thanks to Commissaire John Buckton.
Thanks to the girls on the registration table, Joanne Buckton
and Helen Vella. Thanks to our marshals Mark Murdoch, Janette
Murdoch and Dieter Winkler. Thanks to
Fred Vella for deploying and retrieving all the safety equipment
and for manning the canteen. Thanks to Anna Fortuna for manning the
canteen. Thanks to Leeann Emery for being our First Aid Officer.
CLUB SPONSORS
Randwick Botany Cycling Club is proudly
sponsored by FRF Couriers, parent company
of Excelpro.
Excelpro is the distributor of products
including Argon 18 bicycles, Colnago bicycles,
3T cycling assessories, Parentini
clothing and Speedplay pedals. Other sponsors
include Carroll & O'Dea
Lawyers, Tenpoint,
Vantage
Freight, Sydney
Morning Herald,
Cheeky Monkey Cycle Company Clovelly Road Centennial
Park, DS Labels – Marrackville.
REPORT
Sorry Gang but with being sole Commissaire and timing all the
laps over 3 grades, judging finishes etc, I didn't have a
great deal of time to take pictures as well. So only got
one action shots of the lower grades this week.
Whilst A grade only had 6 riders in it, it was a very good
race. Unfortunately for Chris "Spongee" Jenkins, beside
himself, every other rider in the race were Eastern Suburbs
riders. The Easts boys gave poor old spongee a good
working over sending riders up the road and making poor
Spongee chase down the breaks. If Spongee didn't already have
enough problems to deal with he then got a puncture. He
came in and the only thing available was a 9 speed wheel which
he promptly put in his his 10 speed groupset. With all
the hassles getting to fit, the bunch went past and Spongee
had to chase. Spongee took a little shortcut to get back
on which technically could have seen him disqualified.
The Sponge clanged and clunked past the start/finish line
trying to mesh his 10 speed shifters with his borrowed 9 speed
rear cluster. The Easts boys continued to throw
everything at him but in the end Spongee sprinted home first
across the line. In a fabulous show of sportsmanship,
the Easts boys announced that Spongee was too good and
deserved the win even if technically he might have "bent" one
of rules. So Spongee was awarded first place with Nick
Rathbourne second, John Kenny third and Stewart "Computer"
Campbell fourth.
Karl Bellamy had a great race in B grade and even managed to
hold off fast finishing sprinter Robert Lang to take the win
in B Grade. Peter O'Connor has made a pretty smooth
transistion to B grade and is now taking places in the higher
grade.
New RBCC member Shannon Meehan had a great ride in the C grade
race with a fine win. It was a one/two finish with Shane
Bedford placing second.
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In D grade, Easts rider Myles Hannan who
informed the girls that he had only ever raced twice before,
proceeded to ride away from the D grade bunch on lap 1.
About 7 or 8 chasers got together and were swapping off
turns nicely in an effort to get him back however whilst
they managed to drop the remainder of the D grade bunch who
were scattered around the track in dribs and drabs, all they
did was to lose further time on Hannan. |
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Hannan later told fellow riders
that he had averaged 38kph by himself for 10 laps or
20 kilometres. Well Myles that is B grade pace.
C grade only averaged 36kph this week. You would have
ridden away form them as well. |
Well that's it till next week.
MORE INFORMATION
Randwick Botany Cycling Club conducts
racing at Heffron Park, Maroubra NSW each Saturday throughout the
year. Juniors start at 12.30pm. Seniors D, E & F Grades start at 2.00pm
and A, B & C grade at 3pm. For more
information please contact the club secretary Helen Vella on 02 9667
3307 or email:
secretary@randwickbotanycc.com
Web page layout & editing by: John Buckton
Podium Photos by: John Buckton
Report by John Buckton
Contact:
Tony:
communications@randwickbotanycc.com
John:
webmaster@randwickbotanycc.com
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