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Masters State Road Championships at
Wagga Wagga on 28 September 2002.
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Ron Sproule took the Silver medal
in the Masters 8 division over 25 kilometres and Tony Caruana took Bronze in
the Masters 6 division over 50 kilometres. Congratulations guys.
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REPORT
Ron Sproule, Vet 8, and Tony Caruana, Vet 6, took part on a very chilly and
windy Saturday morning. Vet 8 were combined with Vet 7 as initially there were
only two Vet 8s. However, unbeknown to Ron at least 3 more Vet 8s joined on the
line, thus constituting a separate race within the race. Ron kept up with
the Vet 7s all the way till just before the crest of the first hill. The
rest of the Vet 8s were with him, as too were some of the Vet 7s. Over the
crest, Ron surged to bridge the gap with the Vet 7s. He caught some of the
stragglers, but in doing so dragged across some of the Vet 8s. The bunch
he was with, finished without a sprint, and Ron casually rode in with
second place awarded to him after the race. There was no doubt that had he
known the Vet 8s were a separate race, his recent form at Hefron would
have shown he could have easily claimed first place in a finishing sprint.
Tony Caruana, in Vet 6, rode with the bunch till the hill. Here he managed
to keep to the front, tailing Jimmy Ryan (Panther)and Rodger Doughtie
(Vic). Jimmy surged over the top, and when Tony changed from the small
chain wheel to the big one his chain came off. With a delicate maneuver of
gear leavers the chain was properly relocated and then he sprinted over the
twenty metre gap created by Jimmy Ryan, and surged past to drag Jimmy and
Rodger with him, causing a big break in the field. The three riders maintained
that break to the finish, and even though Tony tried to drop the other two
at the final 300 metre mark, they hung on tenaciously until Jimmy and
Rodger rolled him on the line. But Tony was happy with third, seeing it was one
of the first Open races in the past 5 years.
Thanks to Tony Caruana for the report.
Final results for the Masters State Road Championships as follows:
Men Mas. Div. 1, 100 km
1 Bill Robertson (Wagga CC)
2 Brett Hadley (Hunter Dist. CC)
3 Sean Wilson (Cootamundra CC)
Men Mas. Div. 2, 100 km
1 Michael Payne (Penrith CC)
2 David Perry (Hunter Dist CC)
3 David Barrow (Sutherland Shire CC)
Men Mas. Div. 3, 75 km
1 Steve Darracott (Hunter Dist. CC)
2 Greg Featonby (Lavington CC)
3 Robert Hadley (Hunter Dist. CC)
Men Mas. Div. 4, 75 km
1 Robert Hampshire (St. George CC)
2 L. Lyster (Wangarratta CC)
3 Wayne Collingwood (Tolland CC)
Men Mas. Div. 5, 50 km
1 Mario Machado (Hinchinbrook CC)
2 Jeff Strang (Canberra CC)
3 Jim Thompson (Canberra CC)
Men Mas. Div. 6, 50 km
1 James Ryan (Penrith CC)
2 Roger Dougherty (Randwick Botany CC)
3 Tony Caruana (Randwick Botany CC)
Men Mas. Div. 7, 25 km
1 Mark Nicholls (Sutherland Shire CC)
2 George Cady (Waratah Vets CC)
Men Mas. Div. 8, 25 km
1 L. Sobey (Albury CC)
2 Ron Sproule (Randwick Botany CC)
3 Dudley Foley (Albury CC)
Women Mas Div. 1, 50 km
1 Sally Thompson (Sydney CC)
2 Lisa Carson (F.I.T. ACT.)
3 Anna Murray (Sydney CC)
Women Mas Div. 2, 50 km
1 Debrah Pearce (Sydney CC)
2 Julie Avakian (Sydney CC)
3 Raye Taylor (Sutherland Shire CC)
Women Div. 3, 50 km
1 Sandra Beaumont (Southern Highlands CC)
2 Julie Howard (Sydney CC)
Women Mas. Div. 5, 25 km
1 Rosemary Hastings (Bathurst CC)
2 Lynne Evans (F.I.T. ACT.)
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