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St George Junior
Open, Oatley Park on Sunday 30th June 2002
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As Chris Jenkins was out with the flu,
our Under 19 State Hill Climb Champion, Shaun Higgerson was left to fly the flag
in the U/19 Mens scratch race. The race was super fast with a breakaway in the middle stages
of the race by Chris Sutton and 2 Victorians. Shaun was the strongest rider out
of the bunch and was chasing hard. He lead them around pulling everyone up the
hill for the rest of the race and finally on the last lap he bridged the gap and
closed in on the leaders. |
| Unfortunately Chris Suttons team mates dropped
back to the main bunch now only 5 metres back and would not work which
effectively stopped Shaun from bridging across to Sutton and allowing Sutton to get away and finish on his own. Shaun finished
with the bunch but had nothing left for the sprint. |
| Michael Murdoch had a good race in the U/17 mens finishing 5th overall. |
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NSW U/17 Women's State Hill Climb
Champion, Britney Orr. |
Our Under 17 Women's State
Hill Climb Champion
Brittany Orr & team mate Robyn Stanning rode strongly in the Womens
U17 race. In a totally new equation, in that Oatley Park has
a hill, yesterday's winner was dropped on the first lap never to be seen
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Newington Inn Randwick Botany Elite
Team member, Robyn Stanning. |
| Robyn started
in group 2 and Brit in group 3. After chasing for half the race Brit and Amanda
Sprat caught the leading bunch. At the end of the race Amanda just out sprinted
Brit to win with Robyn managing to hang onto the leading girls and
finish 4th overall |
| In the U/13 boys Tamas got away from the group and rode hard to win the race and
beat yesterdays place getters by heaps. Pita Vea had a crash at the flower pot managed to get back and finish the race.
Two new U/15 women riders for RBCC had their first race today showing much
promise for future opens.
Todays racing was based around a handicap after a 1 lap TT. Except for the U/19
Mens that was a scratch race. Most of the stronger RBCC riders all started off
scratch and raced well.
Results: St George open
U/17women
2nd Brit Orr scratch group
4th Robyn Stanning 2nd group
U/17men
5th Michael Murdoch started first group
U/13 boys
1st Tamas Bykerk scratch group
Photos right: Top Thomas Murdoch. Bottom Belinda
Angwin. All photos courtesy of :
Ernie Smith Photography
43 Patterson Street
Concord NSW 2137
Phone: 02 9743 6236
Email:
erniesmithphoto@bigpond.com.au
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Thanks to our Junior Development Officer, Peter Zala, for the story.
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