Standings after Night Four 1. Robert Slippens / Danny Stam 237 p. 2. Scott McGrory / Franco Marvulli 221 p. 3. Bruno Risi / Kurt Betschart 201 p. Down One Lap 4. Matthew Gilmore / Frank Vandenbroucke 183 p. Down Two Laps 5. Marco Villa / Giovanni Lombardi 149 p. 6. Aart Vierhouten / Andreas Beikirch 113 p. Down Four Laps 7. Matthé Pronk / Jos Pronk 133 p. Down Eight Laps 8. Max van Heeswijk / Jimmi Madsen 109 p. Down Ten Laps 9. Iljo Keisse / Wouter van Mechelen 147 p. Down Eleven Laps 10. Peter Schep / Steven Deneef 70 p. Down Twelve Laps 11. Gerd Dörich / Christian Grassmann 19 p. Down Thirteen Laps 12. Francis de Jager / Jens Mouris 151 p. 13. Stefan van Dijk / Franz Stocher 57 p. Night Four Derny Competition 1. Frank Vandenbroucke 5 p. 2. Danny Stam 4 p. 3. Jos Pronk 3 p. 4. Jimmi Madsen 2 p. 5. Giovanni Lombardi 1 p. 6. Peter Schep 0 p. SixDay Amsterdam Page For fuller results listings. (Source: Amsterdam Official Site)Amsterdam Official Site (Dutch)
Classique des Alpes: 2005 to be last edition
Posted Thu Oct 21 16:02:59 2004 (EDT in North America)
The respected daily newspaper, the Dauphiné Libéré, quoting Jean-Marie Leblanc of Amory Sports Organization, the organizer of the event, reported yesterday that the 2005 edition of the Classique des Alpes event would be the last. There are apparently unresolved concerns with the French governing body, FFC, about the categories that the race is to be open to and with it's chronological position on the race calendar. (Source: L'Equipe)L'Equipe (French)
Malaysia Airlines Herald Sun Tour
>Posted Thu Oct 21 14:42:40 2004 (EDT in North America)
By: Michael Stevens 22oct04 (Australian Time) YOUNG Victorian rider Richard England was taken by ambulance to the Austin Hospital last night after a horrific crash in yesterday's 9th stage of the Malaysia Airlines Herald Sun Tour. England, 23, suffered severe facial injuries when he fell on a plank bridge about 90kms into the 151.8km stage. Tour doctor Simon Hillman said England was in shock and did not know what had happened after the crash. "He will require plastic surgery on his nose and upper lip because his injuries are quite severe," Dr Hillman said. England fell when his wheel became entangled in one of the bridge planks, although the bridge had been covered with carpet as a protective measure.Herald Sun Site (English)
By: Michael Stevens 22oct04 (Australian Time) SIMON Gerrans lived his dream in winning yesterday's ninth stage of the Malaysia Airlines Herald Sun Tour in his home town of Mansfield -- and then dedicated the victory to his late uncle Noel who passed away earlier this year. And in a day of sensations, Victorian David McKenzie has taken over the leader's yellow jersey after his Bicycle Superstore teammate Karl Menzies was injured in a fall. An emotional Gerrans rode over the line with his hand on his chest and pointed to the sky in memory of his father's brother. "I'd like to dedicate this stage to uncle Noel," Gerrans said. "This one's for him because I wasn't able to go to his funeral as I was in Europe." Riding for Jayco, Gerrans, 24, made his winning move with Queenslander Ben Johnson (Malaysia Airlines) at the 129km mark of the 151.8km stage from Nagambie and the duo held the peloton at bay, although the margin was down to 12sec at one point. After arriving home only 10 hours before the start of the event, the highly fancied Gerrans dropped out of overall contention when he had a bad day on Tuesday. Yesterday, with schoolchildren and family cheering him on over the final 20km, he attacked Johnson in the last 200m to win clearly. "I've been thinking about today for the whole Tour and to able to actually win is a dream come true," he said. Johnson, 22, from Noosa on the Sunshine Coast, who came into the tour on the recommendation of German Marcel Wust, said he and Gerrans had taken their opportunity when it came. McKenzie, 30 and riding in his 10th Tour, has held the yellow jersey before but never at this late stage of the event, which has only three days remaining. "Today I had a really bad day and it was exceptionally bad because I didn't even feel well on the flat leading up to the first climb," he said. "So I'm hoping I'll have a chance to recover because tomorrow's not going to be super tough, and get ready for the big one (Mt Baw Baw on Saturday)." McKenzie took over the yellow jersey from Menzies when he won the bunch sprint for third placing, while his teammate turned in a superb performance after falling at Watchbox Creek, nearly 50km from the finish. "I was hoping he'd hold it, to be honest, 4sec is nothing," McKenzie said. "All it is for me at the moment is the jersey and it doesn't mean I'm going to win the Tour or anything. "He deserved it today, to crash like that. Scott (Guyton) and I couldn't go back because we were on the climb by then and if they went full gas I would have been in trouble, so I wouldn't have been any use and then our whole team would have been in trouble. "So we just had to sit and wait. And I just want to say to the rest of the peloton that it was pretty awesome that they didn't race hard. "Everyone yelled out, 'Yellow jersey's crashed, let's hold up for a minute'." McKenzie said he had to dig deep to win yesterday's bunch sprint, 9sec behind Gerrans. "I know now every second's counting," he said. "I couldn't get any bonus seconds on the road, Luke (Roberts) got them on the KOMs (king of the mountains), that's 10 seconds, so I had to get this sprint. "I had to take this bigger margin out of them, not just Luke but Ben Brooks and (Jonas) Ljungblad . . . guys who are potentially going to ride away from me up Baw Baw." In an ominous sign for McKenzie, Roberts (Latrobe City) and Ljungblad (Europcar/Pelaco) featured in the placings in each of yesterday two category 2 and one category 3 climbs through the Strathbogie Ranges. While McKenzie now leads the general classification by 11sec from Menzies, Ljungblad has moved into third place, 33sec behind, while Roberts is fourth, 47sec off the pace. Stage 9 - Nagambie-Mansfield - 151.8 km Place Rider UCI ID Sponsor Time 1 Simon Gerrans AUS19800516 JAYCO 3:32:56 2 Ben Johnson AUS19830107 MALAYSIA AIRLINES 3:33:00 3 David McKenzie AUS19740806 BICYCLE SUPERSTORE 3:33:05 4 Jonas Ljungblad SWE19790115 EUROPCAR - PELACO 3:33:05 5 Robert McLachlan AUS19710417 ARGON 18 BIKES - CARAVELLO 3:33:05 6 Ruber Marin COL19680607 SUBARU 3:33:05 7 Ben Brooks AUS19790321 McGEE - NSW INSTITUTE OF SPORT 3:33:05 9 Glen Mitchell NZL19721019 ACTIVE FOR LIFE 3:33:05 10 Karl Menzies AUS19770617 BICYCLE SUPERSTORE 3:33:05 11 Bart Heirewegh BEL19670828 HALF MILE CREEK 3:33:05 12 Kieran Page GBR19830502 BENDIGO 3:33:05 13 Luke Roberts AUS19770125 LATROBE CITY 3:33:05 14 James Meadley AUS19840204 MITCHELL BUILDING SUPPLIES 3:33:05 15 Rhys Pollock AUS19800314 UNO CLOTHING 3:33:05 16 David Tanner AUS19840930 McGEE - NSW INSTITUTE OF SPORT 3:33:05 17 Craig McCartney AUS19800930 PROVINCIAL VICTORIA 3:33:05 18 William Walker AUS19851031 JAYCO 3:33:05 19 Timo Scholz GER19720630 MALAYSIA AIRLINES 3:33:05 20 Matthew Lloyd AUS19830524 MITCHELL BUILDING SUPPLIES 3:33:05 21 Domenic Gatto AUS19740328 VICTORIAN STATE HOME LOANS 3:33:05 22 Dominique Perras CAN19740211 ACTIVE FOR LIFE 3:33:05 23 Chrisophe Le Mevel FRA19800911 PROVINCIAL VICTORIA 3:33:05 24 Kristian House GBR19791006 BENDIGO 3:33:05 25 Jamie Burrow GBR19770125 EUROPCAR - PELACO 3:33:05 Overall after Stage 9 Place Rider Sponsor Time Deficit 1 David McKenzie BICYCLE SUPERSTORE 21:03:37 0:00:00 2 Karl Menzies BICYCLE SUPERSTORE 21:03:48 0:00:11 3 Jonas Ljungblad EUROPCAR - PELACO 21:04:10 0:00:33 4 Luke Roberts LATROBE CITY 21:04:24 0:00:47 5 Ben Brooks McGEE - NSW INSTITUTE OF SPORT 21:05:19 0:01:42 6 Dominique Perras ACTIVE FOR LIFE 21:05:44 0:02:07 7 Glen Mitchell ACTIVE FOR LIFE 21:05:58 0:02:21 8 Kieran Page BENDIGO 21:06:21 0:02:44 9 Scott Guyton BICYCLE SUPERSTORE 21:06:21 0:02:44 10 Kristian House BENDIGO 21:06:34 0:02:57 11 Timo Scholz MALAYSIA AIRLINES 21:06:39 0:03:02 12 David Tanner McGEE - NSW INSTITUTE OF SPORT 21:06:46 0:03:09 13 Rob Sharman SUNGOLD MILK - WARRNAMBOOL 21:06:48 0:03:11 14 Matthew Goold ACTIVE FOR LIFE 21:06:51 0:03:14 15 Benoit Poilvet PROVINCIAL VICTORIA 21:06:59 0:03:22 16 Domenic Gatto VICTORIAN STATE HOME LOANS 21:07:00 0:03:23 17 Simon Gerrans JAYCO 21:08:06 0:04:29 18 Rhys Pollock UNO CLOTHING 21:08:24 0:04:47 19 Eric Wohlberg ACTIVE FOR LIFE 21:09:39 0:06:02 20 Corey Sweet LATROBE CITY 21:09:52 0:06:15 21 Mateusz Mroz EUROPCAR - PELACO 21:10:11 0:06:34 22 Tomas Buchacek LATROBE CITY 21:10:12 0:06:35 23 Jamie Burrow EUROPCAR - PELACO 21:10:17 0:06:40 24 Phillip Thuaux JAYCO 21:10:20 0:06:43 25 Matthew Lloyd MITCHELL BUILDING SUPPLIES 21:10:21 0:06:44 The Stages: Thu 14 Oct - Stage 1 - Melbourne Criterium- 33.0 km (30 laps x 1.1 km) Fri 15 Oct - Stage 2 - Werribee Criterium - 36.0 km (30 laps x 1.2 km) Fri 15 Oct - Stage 3 - Werribee-You Yangs - 77.7 km Sat 16 Oct - Stage 4 - Portarlington Circuit - 117.0 km (10 x 11.7 km) Sun 17 Oct - Stage 5 - Geelong Kermesse - 77.0 km (35 x 2.2 km) Mon 18 Oct - Stage 6 - Colac Tour of the Otways - 178.7 km Tue 19 Oct - Stage 7 - Creswick-Daylesford- 154.8 km Wed 20 Oct - Stage 8 - Bendigo Kermesse - 69.0 km (30 x 2.3 km) Thu 21 Oct - Stage 9 - Nagambie-Mansfield - 151.8 km Fri 22 Oct - Stage 10 - Mansfield Criterium- 33.0 km (30 x 1.1 km) Fri 22 Oct - Stage 11 - Mansfield-Jamieson - 38.0 km Sat 23 Oct - Stage 12 - Warragul-Mt Baw Baw- 87.7 km Sun 24 Oct - Stage 13 - Traralgon Kermesse - 57.0 km (20 x 2.85 km) (Source: Herald Sun)
Happy Birthday - Men
Posted Thu Oct 21 02:32:52 2004 (EDT in North America)
Marin Valentin (1900) Holland - Died on November 3, 1991
3rd. 1933 World Championship Road Race (1st. Georges Speicher; 2nd. Antonin Magne. Both French)
Fred De Bruyne (1930) Belgium - Died on February 5, 1994
5th in the World Championship Road Race 1956
5th in the World Championship Road Race 1957 (Back of Rik Van Steenbergen both times)
1st. 1957 Paris-Roubaix (2nd. Rik Van Steenbergen; 3rd. Leon Van Daele. Both Belgian)
2nd. 1956 Paris-Roubaix (1st. Louis (Louison) Bobet, France)
1st. 1956 Milan-San Remo
1st. 1957 Tour of Flanders
1st. 1957 Paris-Tours
1st (1956, 1958, 1959) Luik-Bastonaken-Luik (la Doyenne)
Vito Favero (1932) Italy
2nd. 1958 Tour de France (1st. Charly Gaul, Luxembourg)
4th. 1958 World Championship Road Race (1st. Ercole Baldini, Italy;
2nd. Louison Bobet, France
3rd. André Darrigade, France)
Norbert Kerckhove (1932) Belgium
1st. 1957 Het Volk race.
Ronald Dewitte (1946) Belgium
1st. Paris-Tours in 1976
(Source: Six Day staff)
Ladies Only
Posted Thu Oct 21 02:11:50 2004 (EDT in North America)
Here's Maryline Salvetat a Medical Doctor and Current French Cyclo Cross Champion (Source: Six Day staff; Photo Courtesy: Cyclinfo Site (French))
Men Only
Posted Thu Oct 21 02:08:49 2004 (EDT in North America)
Here's Yuriy Krivtsov He has a fan club abd you can even meet him next Saturday in Saint Sébastien sur Loire. (Source: Six Day staff; Photo Courtesy: Cyclinfo Site (French))
Happy Birthday - Women
Posted Thu Oct 21 02:03:51 2004 (EDT in North America)
None Today. Sorry (Source: Six Day staff)
Today's Menu
Posted Thu Oct 21 01:57:41 2004 (EDT in North America)
Thursday, October 21 Main Events:
MEN:
Stage Races:
Stage 9 - Malaysia Airlines Herald Sun Tour - Australia - Cat. 2.3
Single Day races: None
Six Day Races:
Night 4 - Amsterdam
WOMEN:
Stage Races:None
Single Day races: None
(Source: UCI)
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