January 2012
January 2012
Road racing:
A big effort at this year’s 5 Passes Tour from Phil Yeo winning both the Overall winners jersey and the “King of the mountains” jersey after a tough five days racing.
Congratulations to Tom Hubbard getting 3rd overall in the Benchmark Tour series and winning the under 23 jersey.
Great way to start the year! After four races into the series of Twelve, Stewart Connolly (below) leads the Rabobank recreational national point’s series.
Other Results:
Sharlotte Lucas - 2nd in stage three of the “Tour of Vineyards” in a photo finish sprint.
Nigel Pink - 2nd in the sprint classification in the Tour of Vineyard’s masters race.
Mike Smart - 4th in the club criterium at the festival of cycling in Christchurch. The same day Stewart Connolly finished 3rd in the new comers criterium.
Dean Cameron - 4th in the Brian Fowler memorial race, held out in Cust late November.
Jeremy Heathfield - 7th in Around the Gorges handicap race and 5th in the Ashburton to Christchurch race.
Schools racing:
In September last year Marc Prutton with the help of Mr and Mrs Hand took 5 of the Rangi ruru cycling team up to Levin to compete in the New Zealand National school championships, raced over 3 days including a Team time trial on the Saturday where the U16 team place 9th, a road race on the Sunday with Alice Hay winning the U17 girls then a points race around the car racing track on the Monday with Alice again medaling this time with a bronze. All five girls performer fantastically and is only going to come away from the weekend a stronger rider.
Multisport:
Hadleigh Miles and Tom Kissell for the second year running won the team section at this year’s Teva “Big day at the office” multisport event.
Mt Biking:
Matt Bailey, Steve Gunther and their Cycleways team mates won the 12 hour open men’s competition down at the Timaru 12 hour Mt Biking event in November.