South
Island Club Time Trial Championship - Saturday 4th September
2010 - By Steve Havard
1 Southland 28 points, 2 Otago 16 points, 3 Wakatipu 3 points
Cold wintry conditions on Saturday resulted in the senior time trial
events being shortened from 40kms back to 25kms. Highlight of the day was an
excellent time in spite of the conditions by the Otago senior quartet of
Shane Melrose, Alex McGregor, Scott Lyttle and Joe Chapman to convincingly
win the senior division event in a time of 33 mins 56 secs over 25kms.
Equally impressive was the ride by the Otago Master's combination led by
Mark Spessot, Chris Henderson, Brendon Hastie and Paul Gough who won their
respective grade in 35 mins 32 secs, 1 minute 18 secs clear of the Southland
team with only a further 2 secs back to the Otago Gold team.
Southland strength in the junior divisions was evident with the Under 19
combination featuring Dillon Bennett, Marcel Baird, Brehan Cairns and Kirk
Hamilton recording a smart 36 min 28 sec time in the cold conditions. The
number of Southland junior teams was the difference in Southland winning the
Caldwell Trophy from Otago.
Wakatipu had only one team in action on Saturday but impressed when winning
the junior under 17 Boy's category with the team of Tom Vessey, Liam
Aitcheson, George Blackie and Ryan Mackay.
Stott wins his second race of season - Saturday 27th August 2010 -
Steve Harvard
Justin Stott took out the sprint finish from Paul Gough on the 'World
Famous' Wingatui Circuit. Cat 1 had a well contested race, with all riders
getting involved in the action, back in the peleton it was good to see Chris
Harvey after several months off the bike due to injury. A number of attacks
occurred but no-one managed to get far ahead during the main part of the
race with a swirling wind making it tough out the front. Glen Todd burst
away with 1 lap remaining of the 7 lap race and gained a 10 second advantage
before a slow puncture in his rear wheel slowed him down somewhat allowing
the rest the ability to catch him, however coming into the sprint Todd had
just enough air remaining in his tyre to wind up the sprint into final
straight. Justin Stott jumped from fifth position into the lead with 200
metres remaining with Paul Gough tucked on his wheel. With a slight uphill
and cross wind making for a tough finish Gough just couldn't come over Stott
allowing Stott to take his second win of the season. It was a win for Tony
Chapman in the Cat 2 race who broke away early in the race with another
rider, having then taken a lap on the front he found himself on his own.
Over the course of the race he built himself a lead of a few minutes over
the chasers and took out the win with the 'ride of the day'. Chapman's
secret erg sessions are starting to take effect, with the old master of the
road starting to get some serious form! He took out the win from Kat Jones
and Stevie Grant.
In the Cat 3 race Therese Duncan took the honours from Bill Murphy and Mary
Grey in third place over the line.
Dave McLeod continued his dominance of the Cat 4/5 catergory taking first
spot from George Evans.
Some other Otago riders headed south, and performed well in the big
southland race of the season, the Invercargill Memorial 100. Shane Melrose
and Mark Spessot dominated the scratch bunch, with Spessot making an early
break by himself, before being caught by Melrose and two remaining scratch
riders from Invercargill. Melrose powered home or fastest time but with 56
minutes handicap they never got near the front. Emma Sutherland did though -
and rode a brilliant race to finish a very creditable fourth across the
line.
Results
Cat 1 - 1st Justin Stott, 2nd Paul Gough, 3rd John Mezger, 4th Chris Harvey
Cat2 - 1st Tony Chapman, 2nd Kat Jones, 3rd Steve Grant, 4th Nic Shanks
Cat 3 - 1st Therese Duncan, 2nd Bill Murphy, 3rd Mary Grey, 4th Tom Campbell
Cat 4/5 - 1st Dave McLeod, 2nd George Evans, 3rd Julie Mahon, 4th Paula
Anstey
Junior - 1st Mark Butcher, 2nd Sam Pilley
Cycle Surgery Power to Victory over Ricoh - Sat
21st August 2010
1 minute 34 seconds separated the Cycle Surgery Time Trial Team in the Otago
Champs this weekend over the newly formed Ricoh racing team on the gruelling
Outram 40 km course. Usual rivals became team mates this weekend ahead of
the South Island Time trial championships that are to be held in
Invercargill early September. The 2 laps of the 40 km course had a howling
headwind after the turn at 10km and 30km sapping the energy out of the
exhausted athletes some of which found the pace set by the rest of the team
too much. Three riders have to finish the race and within 10km Gary Gardner
found his team mates blistering pace too much. On the other hand the Ricoh
team of Glen Todd, Justin Stott, Stu Crooks and Kyle Cameron worked well
together and had the ‘ride of the day’ according to Life Member Barry Ellis
keeping in a tight quartet until the finish. However the three remaining
riders of the Cycle Surgery Team of Paul Gough, Mark Spessot and Brendon
Hastie managed to keep ahead of their closest rivals by just over half a
minute. Kevin Thomson, Emma Masterton, Chris Harvey finished agonisingly
over the magical 1 hour time by a mere 3 seconds. The Chapman Consultancy
Team who actually began with 5 riders was reduced to 3 with Tony Chapman
keeping the tempo high they finished 51 seconds further behind. The team of
Glenda Bruce, Lorraine Stewart, Robyn Cameron and Tom Campbell had a great
ride to finish in 5th place.
The Juniors of Jonathon Atfield, Lockie McGregor and Daniel Cresswell
displayed great teamwork working together all with different abilities to
complete their 20km race.
RESULTS (40km Team Time Trial)
1st Cycle Surgery 53-50, 2nd Ricoh Racing Team 55-24, 3rd Allpress Coffee
1-00-03, 4th Chapman Consultancy 1-00-54, 5th The Ladies and Tom 1-13-14,
Juniors (20km) 42-46
Stott
rockets to victory - Saturday 14 August 2010 - By Glen Todd
After three laps of the 19km Sams block, Justin Stott turned on the
after burners with 200 meters remaining and blasted clear to win by ten
metres from Laurence Holding and Patrick Jones in category 1 of the Cycling
Otago 57km massed start on Saturday.
Contested in cold, blustery conditions attempted breakaways by riders on
laps 1 and 2 were quickly thwarted by the combined category 1 and 2 bunch.
Most seemed content to work together and wait until the final lap, when the
pace turned on, and their legs had finally warmed up.
Kyle Cameron, Andy Connelly and Patrick Jones all forced the pace in the
tail to cross wind with 10km remaining but could not break the bunch. With
4km left Cameron had another go and gained a two hundred metre gap on the
bunch.
Patrick Jones and Aaron Bleakley both tried to jump across, and Cameron was
finally reeled in with less than 1km to go. Laurence Holding then
accelerated to the front and was first around the final corner to make an
early dash for the line with Patrick Jones and Stott on his wheel. The fast
finishing Stott jumped ahead with 200m remaining whilst Holding, back from a
few months off, held off Jones for a creditable second place.
In Category 2, wily veteran Kevin Thomson stayed in close proximity to the
category 1 finishers, and sprinted well to keep the consistent Neil
Derbyshire at bay, with Brent McCormack in close quarters, for third place.
Cat 3 saw Leo O’Brien take a well deserved victory ahead of Nick Johansson
in a hotly contested race. The hardy Dave McLeod, took yet another win in
Cat 4, ahead of David Stott and Barry Munro. In the junior race Daniel
Creswell rode hard for the entire 19km journey and gained a superb victory
ahead of Lachie McGregor and Denton Hayward.
Local masters rider Mark Spessott finished a creditable third place in the
elite category of the national Benckmark Homes Series in Christchurch on
Sunday, hurting a few younger legs along the way. Spessott retains his lead
in the Masters competition.
Full results
Category 1- 1. Justin Stott, 2. Laurence Holding, 3. Patrick Jones, ,4.
Andy Connelly
Category 2 - 1. Kevin Thomson, 2. Neil Derbyshire, 3. Brent McCormack, ,4.
Mark Deacon
Category 3 - 1. Leo O’Brien, 2. Nick Johansson, 3. Bill Murphy, 4. Mike
Harris
Category 4 - 1. Dave McLeod, 2. David Stott, 3. Barry Munro, 4. Carol Evans
Juniors - 1. Daniel Cresswell, 2. Lachie McGregor, 3. Denton Hayward,
Chapman
makes it two in a row - Saturday 24th July 2010 - By Steve Harvard
Joe Chapman made it two in a row this weekend in the Otago Knitwear
points race. This new exciting course tested the riders with a sprint at the
end of every lap and then a hill finish heading out to Middlemarch. Patrick
Jones tried his luck against the Cat 1 field half way around the first
Woodside circuit, this ‘set of a flurry of attacks’ said Chapman. Chapman,
Mark Spessot and Alex McGregor found themselves ahead of the field but they
were joined by Jones, Justin Stott and Logan Edgar. As the laps and sprints
went by the placings on the road were close, it was down to the hill climb
finish to determine the winner. Spessot pushed the pace up the hill but as
the 200m mark greeted the riders Chapman made his move taking the win from
Spessot and Edgar.
There was no hanging around in the Cat 2 race this weekend Tony Chapman kept
on attacking all race. Dave Hedley took out the first 2 sprints from
reliable finisher Kevin Thomson, on the third lap Hedley had done some
chasing down of the numerous attacks from Thomson, Chapman and Andy
Connelly. As the sprint came Connelly took the win from Thomson taking his
third second place. Hedley failed to score any points. As lap four went by
there was attack after attack, Thomson’s’ persistence paid off taking the
win from Connelly. It was off towards the hill or to some a mountain, Steve
Havard knowing of his inabilities to climb attacked the field and had a lead
of 50 meters at the foot of the climb that was soon gone with Connelly in
his prime on the hills. At the top of the climb Connelly got the decisive
points to take the overall win, hard working Murray Grey went over the line
in second place. Cooper led the ladies up the hill and took out third place
up the hill and Queen of the Mountains. Thomson had done enough on the flat
to take second place from Hedley in third.
The hill climb was so important to 3 riders in the Cat 3 race as they were
all in joint second place behind Chris Ross who had a commanding lead over
the field. Bill Murphy was second over the climb behind in form Ross who had
won all three sprints and the hill climb. Mike Harris took out third place
from Leo O Brien as he was third up the hill. Amelia Kinnard took out the
Queen of the Mountain title.
Dave McLeod won the Cat 4 and 5 handicap race from Glenda Bruce in second.
George Evans stayed ahead of wife Carol this week to take third.
In the junior race it was a battle to the last sprint Bailey Coppert-Duggan
taking the win from Denton Hayward by 2 points.
It was then off to the prize giving for stories of how they won or why they
did not win!
Results
Cat 1 - 1. Joe Chapman 30, 2. Mark Spessot 21, 3.Logan Edgar 13, 4.
Alex McGregor 3
Cat 2 - 1. Andy Connelly 24, 2. Kevin Thomson 14, 3. Dave Hedley 10,
4. Murray Gray 5
Cat 3 - 1. Chris Ross 20, 2. Bill Murphy 6, 3. Mike Harris 6, 4. Leo
O Brien 6
Cat 4 & 5 Handicapp - 1. Dave McLeod, 2. Glenda Bruce, 3. George
Evans, 4. Carol Evans
Juniors - 1.Bailey Coppert-Duggan 13, 2. Denton Hayward 11, 3. Mary 3
Chapman
takes out Winter Season Opener- Saturday 17th July 2010.
With a break from racing for a few weeks and riders avidly watching the Tour
de France the racing in Cat 1 was straight into full race pace from the gun.
It was attack after attack around the short yet taxing 6km Wingatui Circuit.
Riders have to anticipate the acceleration out of the corners to hold onto
their respective groups. Alex McGregors paid the price from his constant
attacking style finding the pace too much at the end dropping off the pace.
On the penultimate lap the field split into smaller groups and as the finish
line approached Chapman made a move on Shane Melrose who was leading out the
sprint. Chapman took the honours from Melrose with Mark Spessot taking
third. Rider of the day was Justin Stott who came out with a very
commendable 4th place.
The Cat 2 riders were more wondering how the legs were going to last around
the severn laps they faced. As the laps passed by the speed increased both
Mark Deacon and Andy Connelly had attacks to try and break the field. With 2
╜ laps to go and heading back towards Mosgiel Deacon and Connelly got away
they were joined by some other strong riders. This caused the decicive break
in the race, galaiant efforts from Emma Masterton and the other chases were
not enough to catch the front group. As the race approached the 500m to go
mark Deacon made his move, Neil Derbyshire got onto his wheel and managed to
out sprint him for the line, always there at the finish was Kevin Thomson
taking out third place from back on the bike Pascal Sutherland.
The Cat 3 race and the junior race was combined but no one was allowed to
get away from the pack, it came down to a sprint finish, Joel DavisÆ legs
seized up coming into the finishing straight allowing Mike Harris to take
out the first win of the season and Bill Murphy kept ahead of third place
Jan Mclellend.
Logan Jenkins was first over the line in the junior race.
Cat 4 and 5 had a handicap race with Carol Evans again beating husband
George who got third with Dave Mcleod securing second place.
The weekends racing was finished off with a pot luck dinner back at the
velodrome and the cycling fever continues next week with the Otago Kntwear
points race.
Results
Juniors: - 1st Logan Jenkins, 2nd Bailey Koppert-Duggan, 3rd Denton
Hayward
Cat-4 - 1st Carole Evans, 2nd Dave Mcleod, 3rd George Evans, 4th
Yvonne Coughlan, 5th Lyn Chapman
Cat-3 - 1st Mike Harris, 2nd Bill Murphy, 3rd Jan Mclelland, 4th Dave
Headly,
Cat-2 - 1st Neil Derbyshire, 2nd Mark Deacon, 3rd Kevin Thomson, 4th
Pascal Sutherland
Cat-1 - 1st Joe Chapman, 2nd Shane Melrose, 3rd Mark Spessott, 4th
Justin Stott
Overall 50 ish Riders..... Good close racing in all grades full results will
be posted on the web during the week.
Cheers - Joseph Chapman
Cycle Surgery TDF Prologue Results 4th July
2010
Senior Men
Shane Melrose 12.47
Bradley Tuhi 13.52
Steven Flett 15.04
Rob Garden 16.15
Andrew Housten 18.50 |
Vet Men
Patrick Suggate 13:14
Paul Gough 13:43
Aaron Bleakly 13:58
Gary Gardiner 14:34
David Milne 14:46
Lindsay Dey 15:19
Tom Campbell 16:08
Geoff Masterton 16:30
Joel Davis 16.33
Russell McGarry 17.11 |
Woman
Maaike Duncan 14:58
Glenda Bruce 16:10
Lorraine Stewart 17:29
Paula Anstey 17:52
Julie McMahon 18:13 |
Juniors
Mary Gray 16:12
Amy Peace 17:08 |
Riddel
keeps sprinters at bay - by Steve Havard - 15 May 2010
A class field of from around the country including Olympians , NZ
representatives and 'weekend warriors' lined up for the 9th James
Faulding Memorial Handicapp race. Scratch had 35 minutes of the 65km
course to catch the front of the race. With riders in the middle of the race
been set off only a few minutes apart it came apparent to second break they
had to go out hard and try to catch up the other groups asap just to try and
stay away from the chasers behind. By the top of Woodside the middle mark
had caught second limit and after a huge effort by Andrew Riddel heading
back towards Outram the three groups came together and by Outram the limit
riders had been caught, it was race on. Working quite well together the pace
was high, which it had to be if they had any chance of staying away. When a
wheel was dropped or the pace slowed it was Riddel, Falcous, Smit, Peacock
and myself forcing the legs to go that little bit faster. At the bottom of
Woodside a glance behind by the group could not see any riders behind not
that they were still not chasing. The ups and downs from Outram sapped the
strength from all the riders. With the final turn up false flat of Tirohanga
Road maybe the group could stay away, but the cat and mouse started too
early again Riddel and co went to the front pushing out every last effort.
As the line approached Riddel's strength eased him off the front of the
group, with no one having the power to chase Riddel he took out a deserved
victory from sprinter Stu Thomas in second who is the only rider to complete
in all the races. Kevin Thomson showed he still had a 'kick' at the end
coming in third. Two and a half minutes back came Break who had held off the
onslaught from the Scratch group. Though Scratch was still racing for
fastest time and a further three minutes back Olympian Mark Ryan took out
the sprint from Brad Evans and Scott Lyttle respectively.
Results PDF
Podium
finishes for Otago at Road Cycling Nationals - By Glenda Bruce - 4
May 2010
A smaller than usual contingent of riders from Otago travelled to
Hastings for this years Road Nationals. Overall entries for this year’s
event was a record number with 380 riders competing in the Time Trial.
It was a testing course with an uphill return, warm temperatures and a stiff
head wind. Alysha Keith maintained her consistent record in gaining a silver
medal, as did Jan Brosnahan in the Womens master’s grade. Patrick Jones also
produced an outstanding performance being placed 12th . This was Jone’s
first year in the under 19 category and his time was the 4th fastest time in
the group of boys that competed in this category for the first year.
Corinne Smit was placed 17th in the time trial, and went on to gain a
credible 4th place in Sundays Senior Womens road Race. This was Smit’s first
time riding at National level.
The Road race circuit was another challenging course, technical, hilly and
windy which lead to a high number of DNF’s throughout the day.
A exciting sizzling sprint finish in the Masters Women’s road race resulted
in Jan Brosnhan taking gold for Otago. Brosnahan got away in a small break
away group, winning the sprint from Lesley Mouat of Masterton and Lynda
Goldsack Counties Manukau.
In the Senior Mens race the field was decimated again by the conditions and
Scott Lyttle rode a gutsey race finishing in 7th place out of a big field of
39 riders. Gordon McCauley of Counties Manakau took the honours. Cycling
Otago’s Logan Edgar and Andrew MacKay showed their class in being part of
the break away bunch in another big field of riders that saw them finish 8th
and 12th respectively in the under 23 grade race.
Melrose takes out headwind sprint - By Steve Havard - 25 April 2010
It took 72 km of the 80km Greenhall memorial handicapp race for the
Scratch group to catch the front riders, with Shane Melrose powering into the
headwind finish to take the win. Riders had started off with a fantastic
tailwind down Huntley road heading towards the gruelling Berwick Block circuit
which they then navigated around 3 times before returning back to the Outram
finish. Riders who maybe hadn't warmed up enough found the fast start too much
and some riders fell off there respective groups. It seemed the wind was against
the riders from some direction all the way around the Berwick block, it wasn't
until the second accent of the Berwick climb that the middle group could plainly
see the Break group hot on there heels. Replenishing fluilds and food they
waited for them to catch, unbeknown to them Scrtach were just behind and on the
way to Centre Road the three groups joined up. The turn into the Centre road
head wind for the 2rd time started to see riders tiring. The left back towards
Mungatua Road the pace went on again and those who were unable to match the pace
found themselves in a group of there own. The Scratch bunch continued at pace
still having to catch the front of the race. At the right turn back towards
Outram and into a stiff headwind Scratch seized there chance knowing the front
of the race would be tiring, the pace went up again and with 8kms to go they
reached the front of the race where Melrose took out the win in the bunch
sprint.
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Greenall Memorial
Handicap Race |
24-Apr-10 |
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Cat 5/6 |
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Finish Time |
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1 |
Dave McLeod |
1.27.02 |
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2 |
G Evans |
1.27.05 |
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3 |
Paula Ansley |
1.27.07 |
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4 |
C Evans |
1.32.27 |
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5 |
Lyn Chapman |
1.37.46 |
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Open |
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Finish Time |
Actual Time |
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1 |
Melrose, Shane |
1.52.20 |
1.52.20 |
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2 |
Evans, Brad |
1.52.21 |
1.52.21 |
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3 |
Chapman, Joe |
1.52.22 |
1.52.22 |
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4 |
Keogh,G |
1.52.23 |
1.52.23 |
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5 |
Spessot, Mark |
1.52.24 |
1.52.24 |
Benchmark series race number two held in Hokitika -
By Glenda Bruce - 24 April 2010
The prestigious road cycling event is acknowledged as New Zealand’s
premier road cycling competition and is likened to the European-style of
race series made up of teams . It promotes in its objectives to identify
the competition’s most consistent rider and team from the accumulation of
points, and it provides grounding for aspiring professionals who one day
hope to compete in the Tour de France.
Round two named the Beachfront Hotel Classic was held in Hokitika. The
undulating 136km course comprised of several sharp hills. One hundred and
seventeen starters began with a brisk pace, driven by the one hundred dollar
sprint prime. Kumho Tyres riders Brad Evans and Logan Edgar both spent some
time up the front with this in mind but with the fast pace, neither remained
there long. Chad Adair of the Bikeright team was the prime winner after
Bikeright got their lead out train working well at the front. The first
accent of the main hill was also a fast one with the King of the Mountain
prize of one hundred dollars up for the first rider over the hill. Josh
Atkins from the Benchmark Team was the one to take the cash.
Throughout the race a number of teams were active in trying to establish a
breakaway. Just before the half way mark a dangerous break escaped off the
front. A number of teams had missed the move resulting in a prolonged
chase. Ultimo Team riders comprising of Otago’s Joe & Anthony Chapman &
Andy MacKay worked hard the front and the break group was caught, bringing
the bunch back together for the second last accent of the main hill.
Otago rider Scott Lyttle from the Cycle Surgery Team and four others
launched another aggressive attack which quickly established a 40 second
gap. Brad Evans bridged across to the break away on his own and managed to
hold on until the final hill only to be dropped by the five remaining
riders. The five riders worked well together to hold off the chasing
bunch. Lyttle was disadvantaged being left with the two Benchmark riders
and was forced to cover their attacks in the final kilometres of the race
before the sprint.
Break kept away, finishing less than a minute ahead of the bunch with Josh
Atkins taking honours and Lyttle making do with fifth place. Evans set up
the lead out, making an opportunity for Otago’s Shane Melrose to take sixth
place. Joe Chapman finished ninth, Paul Gough 18thand Brad Evans 19th.
Otago’s Mark Spessot of the Cycle Surgery Team finished in the main bunch.
Spessot still holds the Masters leaders jersey for the series. Scott Lyttle
now sits third overall in the Category 1 division following the second
round.
The next race, round 3 is on 9th May beginning at Hamner to Kaikoura.
Placings
Johs Atkins, Paul Odlin, Eric Drower, James McCoy, ,Scott Lyttle , Shane
Melrose, Shane Archbold, Pieter Bulling
Joseph Chapman, Samuel Steele, Chris Nicholson, ,Matthew Gorter , Ian
Smallman, William Bowman,
Shem Rodger, Taylor Gunman, Marc Prutton, Paul Gough, Brad Evans, Kevin
O'Donnell
Cycling
Otago Club Champs Road Race -
By Glenda Bruce - 5th April 2010
1st U 15 Girls Katie O'Brien 1:17:22
1st U15 Boys Bailey Koppert-Duggan 1:21:47
2nd U15 Boys Logan Jenkins 1:25:30
1st U17 Boys Michael Thomson 1:37:37
1st Open Women Corinne Schmitt 2:14:15
2nd Open Women Kat Jones 2:15:33
3rd Open Women Maaike Duncan 2:16:01
1st U19 Women Emma Sutherland 2:15:36
1st Vet 5 Men Tony Chapman 2:15:36
1st Vet 6 Men Kevin Thomson 2:15:36
2nd Vet 6 Men Thom Campbell 2:37:51
1st Vet 4 Women Jan Brosnahan 2:33:07
1st Senior Men Scott Lyttle 2:54:37
2nd Senior Men Joe Chapman 2:56:23
3rd Senior Men Shane Melrose 2:57:19
4th Senior Men Patrick Suggate 3:07:49
1st Vet 1 Men Stu Crooks 3:15:49
1st Vet 2 Men Paul Gough 3:08:26
2nd Vet 2 Men Gary Gardner 3:15:49
1st Vet 3 Men Mark Spessott 3:01:37
2nd Vet 3 Men Geof Keogh 3:08:26
3rd Vet 3 Men Pete Oakden 3:08:26
Cycling Otago Club Time Trial Champs
Senior Men – 40km, 1st Richard
Redmond 1:10:51,
Und 23 Men, 1st Scott Thomas 1:00:59
Vet2 Men – 20km, 1st Paul Gough 28:53
Vet 3 Men – 20km, 1st Mark Spessott 27:42, 2nd Pete Oakden 28.38, 3rd
Brendon Hastie 29.04, 4th David Lont 30.15, 5th David Cross 34.37
Men Vet 4 – 20km, 1st Mike Lormans 31.11, 2ND Dave Milne 31.16,
Men Vet6 – 20km, 1st Lindsay Dey 33.24, 2nd Tom Campbell 34.14,
Men Vet Vet 5 – 20km, 1st Tony Chapman 30.26
Senior Women 20km, 1st Emma Masterton 30.28, 2nd Catherine Jones 31.06, 3rd
Maaike Duncan 33.04
4th Anna Stott 35.04
Women Vet 3 - 20km, 1st Glenda Bruce 35.38
Women Vet 4 – 20km, 1st Jan Brosnahan 32.49, 2nd Paula Anstey 37.24,
Women Vet 5 – 20km, 1st Yvonne Coughlin 43.39,
Girls Under 15 - 15km, 1st Katie O’Brien 40.58
Boys Under 15 – 15km, 1st Bailey Koppert-Duggan 24.10, 2nd Logan Jenkins
27.56
Boys Und 17 – 15km, 1st Mick Thompson 30.24
Duncan
digs deep to secure win in Shiel Hill Handicap - By Glenda Bruce -
Saturday 27th March 2010
It was the Shiel Hill Handicap 60km race on Saturday. It was an ‘up hill and
down dale’ course, beginning at Vauxhall Yacht Club, down to the turnaround
at the Albatross Colony and turning up the high road at Portobello to finish
at the top of Sheil Hill. This was Maaike Duncan’s first win in one of the
bigger races on the Cycling Otago calendar and since taking up cycling a
year ago, she has gone from strength to strength. Duncan was part of the
group setting off at second limit made up of Jan Brosnahan, Richard Redmond,
Colton Lambert and Tina Bayer. Second Limit were off five minutes after
Limit and they lapped it out well together on the outward leg to the Colony
turnaround. Once on the high road and grinding it out up the menacing
steepness and twists and turns, the group of Duncan, Lambert and Brosnahan
found they had dropped 3 riders. The three caught four of the five Limit
riders a third of the way up the hill and further on to Penzance where the
hill flattens out they caught the last tiring Limit rider Rangi Wharepapa.
Nearing the rise at Centre road Duncan made a break and created a gap that
Lambert and Brosnahan didn’t respond to immediately. Seeing the gap
widening, the two riders gave chase after Duncan down the hill. With a
little over a kilometre to left in the race the two riders finally caught
Duncan up as she neared the finishing pads. Duncan won in a gritty finish
over Lambert for second. Duncan’s time was 1:43:44. Brosnahan was third.
Scratch riders Loz Holding and Peter Oakden found the going hard on their
mission to pursue Break and they never really made ground on them with Break
being a bigger bunch and they also remained together, as did Second Break
until they hit the high road where the hill sorted the riders out in taking
a toll on the legs. Within these two bigger bunches the riders split up and
Break eventually caught some Second break riders nearer the top of the hill.
Although that did not include Stu Crooks, Andrew Maffey, last weeks winner
of the Chris Tudor Memorial, and nor did it include Mark Hogg. The three
escaped the chasing riders with Hogg finishing in eighth place and also with
fastest time of 1:.28:12 beating Stu Crooks to the fastest time by fifteen
seconds.
Rangi Wharepapa was 4th 1.44.31 Richard Redmond 5th Tina Bayer 6th, Tom
Campbell 7th and Graeme Glidden 9th
Category 4/5 was a handicap race from the Vauxhall Yacht club finishing at
the Albatross Colony. Carole Evans and Yvonne Coughlin rode off Limit and
the Scratch group set off 8 minutes later. Carol Evan won with Dave McLeod
second and fastest time and Glenda Bruce third.
1st Carole Evans, 2nd Dave McLeod (fastest time), 3 Glenda Bruce
Results
Maaike Duncan (5) 1.43.44, Colton Lambert (5) 1.43.45, Jan Brosnahan (5)
1.44.00, Rangi Wharepapa (limit) 1.44.31, Richard Redmond (5) 1.45.46, ,Tina
Bayer (5) 1.45.48, Tom Campbell (5) 1.46.06, Mark Hogg (18) 1.46.12, Graeme
Gliddon (limit) 1.47.01, Andrew Maffey (18) 1.47.09,
Fastest Time: Mark Hogg 1.28.12
Maffey
wins Tudor Memorial race - By Glenda Bruce - 20 March 2010
Andrew Maffey won the 68km Chris Tudor Memorial race on Saturday in
a time of 2 hours four minutes and fifty five seconds. Maffey was one of
the six break riders that set off five minutes behind Limit. Break
riders, Maffey, Maaike Duncan, Jan Brosnahan, Graeme Glidden, Rangi
Wharepapa and Tom Campbell worked well as a group and caught Limit
halfway round the first lap of the Sams circuit and this group remained
together. Duncan broke away for a short time but was quickly reeled in
again before reaching McLeod road. By the time the group went through
Outram, Maffey then started testing the bunch a bit until the turnoff to
Tirohanga Road in pushing off the front a few times. Once onto Tirohanga
road and realising by then that some of the other riders were tiring, he
decided he needed to get away from the bunch then, as the steep Mount
Allen Hill was looming a couple of kilometres down the road. Encouraging
Wharepapa to go with him Wharepapa did but was unable to stay with him.
The remaining group were unable to catch Maffey and with assistance from
the slight westerly tail wind down Tirohanga road to the turnoff to
Mount Allen Road, he knew then he had the race in the box, finishing
strongly on the steep incline. Maffey has in the past competed in
several multisport events, however in road cycling this was his first
handicap race. His other placing was his win in the Octagon Criterium C
grade race in 2008.
Mark Spessot from the Scratch Group that started thirty minutes behind
Limit was hot on the heels of this group and came in tenth in 2:08.32
Limit rider Richard Redmond was second in a time of 2:05.46, Jan
Brosnahan third in 2:06, Maaike Duncan fourth in 2:06.16 Graeme Gliddon
fifth in 2:06.33 Rangi Wharepapa sixth in 2:06.57 Dave McLeod seventh
2:07.33. McLeod who found himself short on drink during the race did
well on the hill top finish with the temperature climbing to 24 degrees
as most riders were finishing the race.
Results
1 - 0122 Andrew Maffey Otago Male Break4 1:59:55 2:04:55
2 - 0103 Richard Redmond Otago Male Break4 2:00:46 2:05:46
3 - 0084 Jan Brosnahan Otago Female Break4 2:01:00 2:06:00
4 - 0010 Maaike Duncan Otago Female Break4 2:01:16 2:06:16
5 - 0013 Graeme Gliddon Otago Male Break4 2:01:33 2:06:33
6 - 0107 Rangi Wharepapa Otago Male Break4 2:01:57 2:06:57
7 - 0099 Dave Mcleod Otago Male Limit 2:07:33 2:07:33
8 - 0082 George Evans Otago Male Limit 2:07:57 2:07:57
9 - 0065 Tom Campbell Otago Male Break4 2:03:27 2:08:27
10 - 0045 Mark Spessot Otago Male Scratch 1:38:32 2:08:32
Otago ranks high in medal score for Raboplus Track
Nationals - By Glenda Bruce - 7 March 2010
All the Otago riders competing in the Track National Age Group Championships
2010 extend a huge thank you to Steve Hurring, Chris Keith, Stu Thomas,
Barry Ellis, Mike Lormans, Bob Jones and Gary Gardiner for the time they
spent setting the systems in place, organising and supporting the riders in
this event. It was a big week for these guys.
Cycling Otago made it’s presence known in the Raboplus National Age group
Track Championships at the Invercargill Velodrome held over four days with
eleven Centres competing for National titles. Up until the final day of
racing on Saturday, Otago was third place in overall points until the later
part of the day when Canterbury in their last bid for a place nudged
themselves into third place leaving Otago to make do in fourth place on the
Table. Southland was first and won the shield with a fifty point margin over
Auckland for second place.
Alysha Keith made a big contribution to the Otago Team when she added
another 4 medals to her private collection. Keith, a talented rider and
newly recruited member to the Academy of Sport’s Development programme broke
the national record in the qualifying ride of the under 17 Girls 2000m
Individual Pursuit and went on to win gold in the final. Keith also won the
5km Scratch race final, second in the Under 17 Girls Time Trial and third in
the Points race.
Some stunning performances were displayed by Brad Evans when he won gold in
the under 19 3000m Individual Pursuit, silver in the points race and silver
in the 1000m time trial final. This may see him eligible for the New Zealand
junior team for the world championships later in the year. Evans was also
part of the team to claim gold in the 4000m Team Pursuit final and gold in
the team sprint final where he combined forces with Matt Noble ( West Coast
North Island) and Eli Edmonds mid-south Canterbury.
Charlotte Kelly had a golden night in the third day of her schedule in an
exciting race when she won the gold in the Keririn final. Kelly also paired
up with Amy Ferguson (mid sth Canterbury to claim silver in the Under 19
team sprint final. The other under 19 junior rider Patrick Jones was a
member of the 4000 Pursuit Team that won silver in the 4000m composite
Pursuit Team Team.
Geoff Keogh wasn’t coming home empty handed either as he firmly secured gold
in the Mens Masters Points race final, Silver in the scratch race and silver
in the 4000m Team Pursuit final. Keogh’s other team mates in the Team
Pursuit final were Stu Thomas Justin Stott and Chris Henderson. Henderson
claimed another medal in the final of the Mens Masters 1 Scratch race with
Stu Thomas fourth.
Glenda Bruce,was happy enough with the two pb’s and the bronze medal in the
Womens Masters 2 Individual Pursuit final. This was the first time this
event for Masters Women has been held at National level and it’s inclusion
was received with delight and support. It has previously only been a
demonstration event for Masters Women.
Chris Ross also rode two pb’s and claimed silver in his 4000m Individual
Pursuit final. Ross then went on to win bronze in the final of the time
trial. Ross another newcomer to pursuiting has his sights set on the world
championships.
Results - National Age group championship
results
Mens M1 Scratch final - 1st M Robson (WPB) 2nd M White (sthl)
3rd C Henderson (Otago)
Mens 19 1000 m final - 1st A Frame (Cant) 1.06.488 2nd B Evans (Otago)
1.06.547 3rd G scott (Akl) 1.07
Girls W17 500 tt final - 1st P. Paterson (Ackl) 37.581 2nd A. Keith (Otag)
37.633 3rd V. Steel (Cant) 38.220
Paracycling 1000 tt final - 1st P Gray (PBP) 1.12 2nd C. Ross (Ota)
1.15 3rd S. Bayley (Cant) 1.16
Girls 8 km Points final - 1st S Williamson (sth) 19 pts 2nd R Sheath
(Akl) 17 pts 3rd A Keith (Ota) 10 pts
Women M2 2000 Individual Pursuit final - 1st J Dearlove (Sthl) 2.41
2nd M Muhl (Sthl)2.54 3rd G. Bruce (Ota) 3.02
Men U19 3000 Individual Purs final - 1st B Evans (Otag) 3.27.056 2nd
A Frame (Cant) 3.27.391
Para cycling 4000 Individual Purs final - 1st J. Kidd (Tas) 5.18 2nd
C Ross (Ota) 5.23
Mens Mast 2 Scratch final - 1st K Harford (ECN) 2nd G Keogh (Otag)
3rd G Cooper (Sthl)
Girls scratch final - 1st A Keith (Otag) 2nd R Sheath (Akl) 3rd S
Williamson (sthl)
Mens Team Pursuit - 1st Southland 4.41 2nd Otago 4.42
Mens Und 19 20km Points final - 1st P Bulling (Sthl) 19 pits 2nd B
Evans (Ota) 12 pts 3rd W Bowman 10 pts
Mens M2 & 3 12.5 points race final - 1st G Keogh (ota) 20 pts 2nd M
Spessott (9pts ) 3rd A McKay (akl) 6
Race
report - 27 February 2010 - Steve Havard
Brutal heat and a seemingly continuous wind in there faces was
what faced the riders around the gruelling 18 km Berwick circuit this
weekend, with the timing system all go it was a race all the way to the
finish even if they had been dropped from the pace. In Cat 1 a group of 8
got away from the others who got scattered around the course with the 4th
and last accent of the Berwick climb 3 riders got away from the remaining
riders, with the line in sight Shane Melrose unleashed his power in the
sprint to take the win from Joe Chapman and Scott Lyttle in third. Cat 2's
field split after the first lap with riders chasing in vain to try and catch
the front group, with every climb of the Berwick hill riders hauled
themselves back into there respective groups. As the last corner approached
Andrew Riddel made a break for it with Mark Deacon on his wheel, Stu Thomas
tried in vain to catch them in the sprint and held onto third with Deacon
unable to get in front of eventual winner Riddel. Karl Larsen of Cat 3
didn't want to wait for the sprint finish and broke away from the rest on
the last lap to take the win from Jan Brosnahan by 10 seconds. George Evans
in Cat 4 won by 3 seconds from Kevin Harris and Dave McLeod respectively
over there 36km 2 lap race.
Bailey Koppert- Duggan back from an bad crash late last year won the Junior
Handicap event from improving by the week rider Denton Hayward.
Even the small kids completed a whole 18km lap in the windy conditions.
Results
Cat 1 - 1 Shane Melrose 1:54:52, 2 Joseph Chapman 1:54:53, 3 Scott Lyttle
1:54:54
Cat 2 - 1 Andrew Riddel 1:33:34, 2 Mark Deacon 1:33:35, 3 Stu Thomas 1:33:38
Cat 3 - 1 Karl Larsen 1:43:25, 2 Jan Brosnahan 1:43:35, 3 Leo O'Brien
1:45:09
Cat 4/5 - 1 George Evans 1:20:44, 2 Kevin Harris 1:20:47, 3 Dave Mcleod
1:20:48
Juniors - 1 Bailey Koppert-Duggan, 2 Denton Hayward , 3 Mark Butcher
Results
from Thursday and Todays track racing Otago Open Titles. - Sunday 24
January 2010
Pursuit Men's 4000m
1st Brad Evans 4:57, 2nd Ben Powell 5:09, 3rd Stu Thomas 5:35
Pursuit Womens 3000m
1st Nicola Shanks 4:15, 2nd Amy Pearce 4:29, 3rd Katie Falcous 5:26
Sprint Mens
1st Brad Evans 11:90, 2nd Willie ? 12:11, 3rd Stu Thomas 12:55
Kerin Mens
1st Mark Spessott, 2nd Joe Chapman, 3rd Brad Evans, 4th Willie ?, 5th
Geof Keogh
Kerin Womens
1st Katie Scholfield, 2nd Charlotte Kelly, 3rd Kat Jones
Points Race Mens
1st Brad Evans 21pts, 2nd Mark Spessott 15pts, 3rd Joe Chapman -6pts,
4th Geof Keogh -35pts
Points Race Womens
1st Katri Laike 25pts, 2nd Kat Jones 15pts, 3rd Nic Shanks -70pts
Omnium Race mens
1st Brad Evans 5pts
Womens Sprint
1st Katie Schofield, 2nd Charlotte Kelly, 3rd Katie Falcous
Other Races Sprint Race series
Joe vs Willy, 2 to 1 to Joe
Roadsters 1 lap
1st Lilly Falcous, 2nd Grace Hurring, 3rd Rosie Falcous
The
results of the Otago Track Champs held Tuesday 19th January 2010.
Open Women 500m TT
1st Katie Schofield 39.57, 2nd Charlotte Kelly 40.39, 3rd Amy Pearce 40.80,
4th Callum stanley 43.06, 5th Logan Jenkins 44.31, 6th Katie Falcous 45.61,
7th Denton Hayward 46.36
Open Men 1000m TT
1st Brad Evans 1.09.59, 2nd Mark Spessott 1.14.63, 3rd Patrick Jones
1.14.95, 4th Stu Thomas 1.16.77, 5th Chris Henderson 1.18.73, 6th Justin
Stott 1.18.77, 7th Ben Powell 1.20.25, 8th Lawrence Holding 1.21.58, 9th
Chris Ross (AWD) 1.28.59
Open Womens
Scratch Title 1st Katri Laike, 2nd Kath Jones, ,3rd Alesha Keith
Open Mens Scratch Title
1st Brad Evans, 2nd Mark Spessott, 3rd Patrick Jones, , 4th Chris Henderson,
5th Chris Harvey
Mystery Distance
Cat 1 1st Mark Spessott, 2nd Patrick Jones, 3rd Chris Henderson,
Cat 2 1st Katri Laike, 2nd Alesha Keith, 3rd Kath Jones
Devil Take the Hindmost
1st Chris Henderson, 2nd Ben Powell, 3rd Chris Harvey
Roadster
Race one 1st Mark McCormack, 2nd Laura Henderson, 3rd Rosie Falcous
Race two 1st Ashley McDonald, 2nd Mark McCormack, 3rd Laura Henderson,
Race three 1st Mark McCormack, 2nd Rosie Falcous, 3rd Ashley McDonald
Cat 4&5 - 1st K Harris, 2nd D McLeod, 3rd G Evans
Chapman
sprints in Spessot - Saturday 16th Jan 2010
It came down to a sprint battle between the 'new dads' for this weekends
race around the Fortex block. After 5 laps of a wind harrowing course Joe
Chapman took out the sprint from Mark Spessot. Chapman had managed to creep
away off the front on the tailwind section down School road on the third
lap, Geoff Keogh bridged the gap with Chris Henderson on his wheel marking
the move. These three joined together and began lapping it out to build a
lead on the chasing field. Spessot had missed the move yet wanted to be a
part of such a group so road across to the leading three. Realising the
threats in the front group Spessot wound the speed up every time he hit the
front of the bunch who at the end of lap 3 had a 25 second advantage. When
the wind was the strongest the front group were still managing 42kmph!! Four
riders became three after another Spessot turn on the front was just too
much for Henderson who tried to catch back up down school road but to no
avail. Into the final lap the three at the front had a substantial lead of
the the bunch behind and Chapman took the honors, Keogh taking third place.
A newly built Shane Melrose sprinted in the rest of the field to take forth
place.
In the Cat 3 race Geoff Robinson had a go coming over the line with one lap
to go but the field chased him down, new rider Rangi Wharepapa powered away
from the field with 150 metres to go to take the win from Graham Gliddon and
Teanen in third. Cat 4&5 had a handicapp race with Kevin Harris riding most
of the 3 lap race on his own finishing just under the 5 minutes that he was
set off before the chasers. Dave McLeod came in second with George Evans
third, Carole Evans also had a strong ride all good preparation for the up
and coming Masters Games.
Results
Cat 1 and 2 - 1st Joe Chapman, 2nd Mark Spessot, 3rd Geoff Keogh ,
Cat 3 - 1st R Wharepapa, 2nd G Gliddon, 3rd C Teanan
Cat 4&5 - 1st K Harris, 2nd D McLeod, 3rd G Evans
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