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Can you please email me your significant State, National or other results and I will post them here..

June 2009

Battle of The Border Tour held at Tweed Heads:

 

B. Leach  1st Elite C Grade including 1st in stages 1 and 2, and 2nd in stages 3 and 4

 

D. Witherdin  3rd Masters B Grade inc. 3rd crit, 2nd KOM and 4th TT

B. McDonald  4th Masters B Grade inc. 3rd TT

 

October 2006

Dennis Blunden World Champion - Points Race & Individual Pursuit (World Record Time) Manachester England
Port Macquarie State Masters Road & Crterium Championships
Steve Darracott - State Champion Mast 5 Road Race & Criterium
Ian Lovell - Bronze medal State Mast 5 Crit
Pete Staley - Silver medal State Mast 7 Road Race, Bronze Mast 7 Crit
Brian Radcliffe State Champion Mast 6 Crit
Bill Cox Silver Medal State Mast 6 Crit
Sandra Parkes Silver Medal State Womens Road & Crit
Kerrie Wakeling Bronze State Womens Crit

August 2006

Also, results for HDCC club members in the Tamworth 2 Day Tour:
J. Ebeling 2nd Div 1
D. Kidd 4th Div 1
I. Lovell 4th Div 2
L. Amidy 8th Div 3
R. McMurray 3rd Div 4
C. Timms 3rd Div 3
G. White 9th Div 3
P. Grant 11th Div 3

June 2006

Also, congratulations to the following Hunter District riders for their outstanding results at the NSW Individual Time Trial Titles:
 

Peter Staley  3rd Masters 6

Sandra Parkes 1st Womens Masters 4
Jordan Fawkes 3rd Junior U/17

 

June 2006

Hi Craig
 
A good result to post
 
The HDCC U17 team took out GOLD in the NSW Teams Time Trial in Tamworth last weekend.
The team of Peter Lewis, Olsen Garland, Jordan Fawkes and Riley Sulivan won the event
raced over 2 laps of a 10 km undulating and twisting course in cold and wet conditions.
The boys rode a powerful second lap to win comfortably, clocking just over 30 min for the 20 km.
 
 
Cheers
Brett Fawkes

May 2006

Australian Titles Hunter District rider results

Rob Hadley 1st Mas5 Criterium,
Kenny Johnson, 6th Mas6 Criterium, punctured while in bunch in road race.

Ian Lovell 2nd Mas5  road race,

Anthony Chapman 2nd Mas3 road race
Bill Cox 2nd Mas6 5km Track scratch and 3rd 2000m individual pursuit
Brian Radcliffe 5th Mas5 Criterium and 6th road race
Steve Darracott 4th Mas4 Points race
Craig Chapman 5th Mas3 Points race.
Peter Staley 6th Mas6 road race
Again this shows the depth of quality of the Masters in our club.  A lot of this is credited to regularly racing against younger riders on tough courses.  Well done to Greg White, Craig Bartel, Nigel Perry, Brett Hadley, Ross Hayter, Kerrie Wakeling and John Theaker who also represented the club with distinction.  Apologies if I missed anyone.
Cheers, Bill Cox

May 2006

Also, results from Cootamundra Haycarters Handicap Weekend: Congratulations to:

John Ebeling 4th 70km (213 starters)
Brett Hadley 11th 80km (174 starters)
Craig Bartel 16th 80km (174 starters)

May 2006

Muswellbrook Junior 2 day tour

U17 age division

Date:                 8th -9th April

 

4 stage tour  consisting of  11km time trial, 40km road race, 25km road race and a 50km road race

Venue              Muswellbrook

Tour Results:     Olsen Garland  2nd,  Jordan Fawkes  4th

Report:             Both Olsen and Jordan were severely disadvantaged when the time trial was abandoned due to a mob of cows wandering onto the course (in contravention to the traffic management plan) .

Olsen had ridden the fastest time trial and Jordan the second fastest . Had the results of the time trial not been excluded both HDCC boys would most likely have improved their overall results.

Despite this set back both boys raced aggressively in the 3 road stages but were unable to shake the eventual winner who was far too strong in the sprint finishes.

It was also good to see a contingent of Kooragang juniors at this event with Ben Johnson 6th overall in the 17's and Stephen Lewis 1st U13.  

Kooragang Junior Open Road Race; 64km

U17 age division

Date:                23rd April, 2006

Venue: Kooragang (Newcastle)

Race Results:    Olsen Garland 4th,  Riley Sullivan 5th

Report:              A memorable feature of this race was the break made by Jordan Fawkes in the second of eight laps, the gap stretched out to almost a minute at one stage but he was eventually reeled in. 

With Jordan exhausted and now lead out man it was left up to Riley and Olsen to wave the Hunter District Flag in the bunch gallop at the finish.

 

Fearnes Coaches Gwen French Memorial Junior 2 day Tour

U17 age division

4 stage tour  consisting of  50klm road race, criterium, 62klm road race and a 10klm time trial

Date:                6th – 7th May, 2006

Venue:              Wagga Wagga

Tour Results:  GC -   U17A  Olsen Garland 3rd   Jordan Fawkes 4th

Reprort:          A total of 30 riders entered the Wagga tour in the U/17 age division.

The 20 man "A grade" field boasted a quality line up with all the big hitters from NSW, ACT and Victoria in attendance.

After bunch finishes in the first three stages but no time bonuses the Hunter District boys were equal 6th on GC with 4 or 5 other riders and would have to pull out a solid time trial if they were to end up in the money (top 5).

Saving their best to  last with Olsen wearing his super fast hot pink booties, the boys hammered out in the wet and windy conditions on a dead and undulating 10km course.

Olsen returned the second fastest time of the day with Jordan close behind at 5th fastest.(both boys averaging 38km/h +) their times good enough to place them 3rd & 4th overall.

As the winner of the time trial was from the ACT, Olsen was the fastest NSW rider and Jordan the 3rd fastest New South Welshmen. 

Upcoming Junior Events:

20th May - NSW Crit Championships

21st May - Country Road Championships

10th & 11th June - Tamworth 2 day Tour (NSW Team TT championships)

24th & 25th June - Goulburn 2 day tour (includes NSW Individual TT  championships)

8th & 9th July - Canberra 2 day tour

5th August - NSW Road Championships

26th & 27th August - Central Coast 2 day tour

1st to 4th September - National Road Champs (Road, crit, ITT & 2man TTT)

 

March 2006

Results from State Hill Climb Title held at Mt Panorama, Bathurst.
> 
> Olsen Garland 2nd U/17
> Anthony Chapman 1st Masters 3
> Ian Lovell 2nd Masters 5
> Peter Staley 2nd Masters 6
> Kerrie Wakeling 3rd Masters 4+
> 
> Results from Criterium held at Bathurst
> 
> Olsen Garland  2nd U/17
> Jordan Fawkes  4th U/17
> Lewis Garland 2nd C Grade
> Brett Hadley 3rd C Grade
> 
> Results from Blayney-Bathurst 122km
> 
> Ian Lovell 2nd Masters 45+

 

Posted 22nd September 2005 by Brian Gaffney

Grafton-Inverell 17th Sept. 228km Started B Grade and finished second.
Approx 150 starters left, in b,c & d grades combined, Grafton at about
7:30am. Headed west out of the town into the worst wind locals have seen
years, mainly head or cross wind. With the Gibraltar climb looming hiding in
the pack was the way to go. After negotiating the crazy 1st feed zone we
started climbing. About 50min later the lead group was down to about 15. On
the way to Glenn Inness this climbed to about 20 and everyone in the group
wanted to avoid the front. After Glenn Inness the end was getting nearer.
With approx. 25km to go I was still feeling OK so I started to attack at
every chance I got. With about 13km to go I finally got away and one rider
came across the gap and so we worked very hard to stay away. The last 5km is
down hill and with 1km to go my breakaway partner stopped working. But with
3 people chasing not for behind I didn't sit up untill about 400m out. I
tried in vane to get him off my tail but he launched his sprint with 150m to
go and I couldn't get his wheel or get back over him and so I got 2nd in a
2up sprint (as usual). Still very happy. Big thanks  to Paul, John (and his
Nanna), and Brendan who feed us along the way. After the race it was beer
o'clock.

Posted 22nd September 2005 by secretary.

Alex Pung has just won the Under 17s State mountain bike championship. Congrats form all HDCC members.

Posted 19th September 2005 by Ian Lovell

Well another Grafton over and what a race this time, from the start all the way to the finish a full on head wind.  The winning time for b,c & d was 8 hours 20 something (they cocked up the results so have not released the official finishing times).  I finished in 8 hours 24, within sight of the front group.
 
Race started at 7.30am, very cold and wind blowing at up to 60kph (with gusts over 80kph).  Stayed together (150 riders)until the Gibralter Range, a group of 40 of us led the way up the climb.  after about 6 km I hit a bad patch and lost contact, after another km I started to find a rythm and slowly but surely started to pull back the bunch, a group of 15 riders split just as I got back on at around the 14km mark on the climb.  I then led the group of 25 riders all the way to the top.
 
The leading riders had a minute on us but my bunch just would not work, everybody wanted to be a hero but no-one wanted to roll through, after 10kms the gap had grown to over 5mins with a large group chasing at 2 mins behind.  At the 130 km, with approx 98km to go I made a break with another rider up one of the small climbs, another rider came across and very soon we had a break of around 1:30, we continued on through Glenn Innes (68km to go) when one of my fellow escapees hit the wall, luckily for us a team-mate of the other rider with me had made the break and had been chasing us for around 10km so we lost one but gained one (only this one had a bit more petrol in the tank).  Time checks to the leading group were coming down with every pedal stroke, 4 mins, 3mins 30, 2 mins then 1min 30, could we do it we could see them up ahead but we were pretty shot and then another 3 riders caught us.  So up ahead, 1 D grader, 3 C graders and 9 B graders, my group, 5 C graders and 1 B grader.  The three riders who caught us attacked the crap out of us but we hung on, one rider broke away, cought the leaders and finished 2nd!!  We ran out of ks and sprinted in around a minute behind, I just did not have any legs left and sprinted in to take 8 in C grade (if they had ran a Masters 45yrs and over, like the last 4 years I would have creamed it in!!)
 
Anyway I finished, my fingers were so numb that I could not change gear, the wind chill had been as low as minus 10, my knee was sore (pain started the week before but figured I had trained a long time for this one so why not see how it went, paying the price now though!) but I had ridden and completed my 19 Grafton with my best result against the young guys for a few years (my previous two rides had been in the Masters category 3rd & 4th), might do another one but will have to train just a bit harder if I want to win it!

 

Posted 9th August 2005 from Brian Gaffney

(A classic example of Hunter District Team Spirit). secretary

Well I`ll try not to brag to much.
Stage 1 60k Saturday morn. A few attacks but bunch stayed together,
till about 12k to go I attacked up a long rise and Owen Beltan from Manning
valley came alone. Swapped turns for 10k till Owen dropped off and I soloed
it to the end to get a 7sec time gap and 15sec win bonus. Paul blocked like
a champion so I stayed away
Stage 2 80k Saturday arvo. 4 man break up the road from about 30k
mark, bunch wasn't chasing well, so I attacked up a difficult climb and 2
others came with me, Graham Pont from Central Coast and Chris Tory from Port
Macq. We bridged the gap of about 35sec with 30k still to go. So 7 up break,
got lead up to 1min 10sec with 15k to go, but break down to 5 workers 1
dropped and 1 hanger. Gap came down and down despite Big Pauls best efforts
to delay the bunch - much to many Sydney riders disgust, they hate us now.
1k to go gap down to 25sec legs were so spent couldn't stand to sprint but
held on to 3rd (surprised?) Graham Pont 1st on stage and we all gained 20sec
on main bunch.
Stage 3 120k Sunday morn. I'm 1st on GC 13sec to Chris Tory 16sec to
Graham Pont, these were the men to watch. Geoff Troup (Koor) attacks after
10k takes KOM and finally gets caught after 70k. Then all the attacks start.
But my super domestique Paul kept it under control. With 15k to go bunch
stretched out Graham Pont and I put the pressure on and the bunch splits in
two. To keep attacks from going away we roll turns or try to block the road
and have a rest. 700m out someone attacks someone responds, 600m same again,
450m same again. Legs are burning heart feels like its going to explode.
Then Chris Tory attacks and I had to cover him, when he sits up Owen Beltan
from Manning valley attacks and I could hold his wheel but hang on to claim,
you guessed it, 3rd!
Final results I held on to get a 26sec win over Chris then Graham in
3rd. Couldn't have done it without Paul.

Brian also Had the following excellent result..............

A win in C-Grade at the Rosemount Estate Open.
55km race got in a 4 man break after about 15k held off pack till 5k
to go when 6 riders got across. A few sharp attacks happened and were
covered. At about 1k to go there was 2 Sydney Cycling Club riders on the
front and me 3rd wheel. At 600m to go with a huge tail wind the front rider
took off and the 2nd rider let the wheel go. There was no response from
anyone else so I jumped around the lazy rider and made the gap with about
250m to go, where I sat up for a brief rest then sprinted around to claim
another victory for HD. Made for a good weekend and the sponsors wine prize
was very good!
Brian 

Posted 8th August 2005 from John Theaker

NSW Masters Road ITT Championships – Wagga

MMAS8

Dennis Blunden 1st

 

NSW Masters Road Race Championships – Wagga

MMAS4

Steve Darracott – 1st

Steve was a marked man.  Tried to escape a few times, but blitzed them in the sprint.

MMAS5

John Theaker – 2nd

Ian Lovell – 3rd

John in two man break for 50km beaten in sprint.  Ian blocked and won the bunch sprint for third.

MMAS6

Peter Staley – 1st (not in our club but well known to many)

Pete kept the pressure on the whole race until there were only three left.  He then won the sprint.

Posted 31st July 2005 from Ian Lovell

Once again HDCC do the club proud!!!   (yours truly) Ian Lovell, John Theaker & Steve Darracott made the 7 hour (only 6 for big Steve) trip to Wagga on the weekend for the masters State Titles.  The time trial saw John & myself end up with 4th & 5th respectively, great result from John and not too far off the pace.

Sundays road racing started off with big Steve defending his title in the Masters 4, 75km on a fairly flat course with three loops around a 17km circuit with a short climb about 750m long.  The climb was not long or steep enough to break up the bunch too much and each time the riders were able to form back up into a large bunch on the downhill.  A large group came up for the sprint with Steve taking the honours in a very hard fought contest.

Masters 5 saw John & yours truly fronting up in a small group of 14.  The pace started off very gingerly (hey snails move faster!) so I cranked it up and made at least some effort to make it look as though we were racing. Just one rider made a point of closing any break I made down and kept dragging the whole bunch along instead of coming across on his own.  After 15/20km of this Mark Walters from Southern Highlands rolled off the front, I waved goodbye and everyone just sat there looking around.  John Theaker took the initiative and sprinted across. 

Well 50km to go and the race for Gold was more or less over.  The bunch just wouldn't work together and they just worried more about watching me rather than chasing after the bunch (as if I'm a real threat!).   On the short climb I cranked it up each time and made the chase group smaller each lap but I made no effort to chase down the break.  Finally on the last lap the remaining 5 riders started to swap off turns, the gap started to come down very quickly, in the last 10 km only 2 riders worked which enabled the break to stay away, the other 3 only wanted to sprint for the bronze or try to take me out, as it happened the break which had a lead of 2mins 30 at one stage finished 50 metres in front of yours truly who won the sprint from 500m out and sprinted at 54kph uphill (hey I downloaded the heart rate monitor and thats what it said!).  So John took the silver and I took the bronze.

Could have been a better result but there was no way I was going to chase John down, he deserved his medal, so at the end of the day HDCC picked up a full set (Gold, Silver & Bronze) with Pete Staley from HVVCC taking gold in the Masters 6 division.

Regards Ian

Posted 25th July 2005 from Ian Lovell

Masters Men 5+
1. Hunter Districts CC 34:10.75
2. Peloton Sports CC 34:39.62
3. Sutherland Shire CC 34:46.86

The team time trial - Gunning 24th July 2005

9 hours driving for the round trip, and only 3 riders (after Kenny
Johnston decided to try and head butt a grass bank at Minmi on Saturday)
and we still pulled it off!  Yep once again the Masters  50+ brought
home the gold!  Brian and John did their bit and hung on for dear life
while I did a large slice of the work.  To their credit they didn't drop
off and dug deep on the climbs.  And boy were there climbs!!  The course
started with a fast 2 km downhill with a tail wind, then it was hill
after hill after hill.  Coming back was tough, into the headwind and
back up those never ending hills.

The "young" vets led by big Steve struggled to find a rythym, Greg
White was dropped and Chappie, well Chappie and hills just don't mix,
and at the end of the day they only just beat us oldies by 3 secs.  The
Penrith Boys led by Eddie Salas creamed the Masters 34 - 49 division
with an excellent time of 30min +.

Conditions for the race were less than ideal but probably played into
our hands as it was not a course for the Sydney-Siders who
ride day-in, day-out on flat circuits!  The proof of the pudding is in
the eating and our Minmi racing certainly is some of the hardest club
racing out there.

regards Ian

Posted 19th July 2005 from Peter Treloar

Alex Pung and Luke Treloar (U-17's) , Jordan Fawkes and Chris Treloar (U-15's) in the Junior Central Coast Tour. This was held at the Ourimbah Campus. They competed over 2 days and 5 races. There were 2 girls there from our club but I do not know there names. Alex came 7th, Luke equal 5th and Jordan 5th in their age groups. Chris was out muscled!!

Posted 22nd June 2005. from Brett Fawkes.

Just a quick run down of the Jnr racing in Tamworth over the long weekend

 
13 starters from Hunter area in ages u/13 - u/19 (4 from HDCC)
 
Unfortunately only 8 finishers (1 HDCC) due to a combination of illness and a couple of bad get offs for 2 of the Kooragang boys
 
 Results
 
U/15 men (20 starters)
Jordan Fawkes (HDCC) 4th overall (3 x 4th place stage finishes)
 
U/17 men "B Grade"
Michael Waterman (Kgang) 1st overall
Aaron Royal (Kgang) 5th overall
 
U/17 Women
Jacinta Aitken (Kgang) 3rd overall

Posted 1st June 2005

Good news from the weekend Paul Amidy won the Wagga 70km handicap on the Sunday.

see the race report here

Posted 31st May 2005. from Brett Fawkes.

Just got back from a weekend of Jnr racing at Waratah Park, Sutherland

A reasonable roll up of  7 Hunter region riders in U/15s & U/17s, (3 Hunter District & 4 Kooragang)

 
Results:
Sat 28/5/05
NSW Country Champs / Roadrace        
        U/15 Jordan Fawkes - 4th
        U/17 James McCrae - 7th
 
Sun 29/5/05
Southern Cross Jnr Open / Roadrace (Metro & Country boys)
       U/15 A Grade Jordan Fawkes - 1st.
 The Waratah Vets Open at Eastern Creek. 

The first round was a few weeks ago. Steve Darracott won that one with Bill Cox 4th.

 
On Sundays format, they had a scratch race then a handicap whereby the marks were determined by the results of the previous two scratch races.
 
In the scratch, Bill Cox was in a 2 man break with David Wells and ran 2nd, Steve led Brian Radcliffe out and he rolled him on the line to run 3rd with Steve 4th. Steve then made the final. Apparently, all the contestants in the 1 lap final got a pair of Shimano WH 600 wheels.
 
Steve won the series.

Posted 10th May 2005

Sydney Titles 7th May 2005

Elite Division

John Ebeling 6th

Masters 4/5 Combined

1st Steve Darracott

3rd Ian Lovell

Both guys backed straight up for a race at Lansdowne after the titles and repeated their same respective results, a fair effort for two of our most consistant riders.

Posted 2nd May 2005

Wagga Wagga 2 day Junior tour.
 
Jordan Fawkes placed 2nd overall in the U15 boys after finishing 3rd, 4th, 5th in the scratch race stages then
1st in the time trial. ( 24 riders in category)
 

Posted 25th April 2005

Waratah Vets Open

Over 45s Division

1st Steve Darracott.

4th Bill Cox.

Posted 25th April 2005

NSW State Open at Kooragang Sat 23rd April 2005

39 Hunter District Members entered the event.

A Grade    2nd Douglas Hunt, 4th John Ebeling.

B Grade    1st Steve Darracott.

C Grade    2nd Scott Brown, 4th Rob Hadley.

D Grade    1st John Theaker, 3rd Brett Hadley, 4th Adrian Rigon, 5th Greg White.

E Grade    Kelly Furey 4th, Karl Patterson 5th.

Posted 20th April 2005

Finishing this years Canberra Tour:

 
State A Grade-John Ebeling finished 28th only 4.53sec behind Robert McLaughlin and a large, class field.
 
State B Grade-Former HDCC member Dane Crawford finished 2nd, only 27sec down.
 
State C Grade-Paul Amidy finished 21st, 6.10sec down, Scott Brown finished 29th, 12.24sec down.
 
State D Grade-Greg White and Ben Ashton equal 5th, only 50sec behind the winner, Francois Clain 14th, 2.41sec down.
 
Over 45s-Ian Lovell 8th, 1.35sec down. Steve Darracott 3rd in the first Stage and won the second stage. Dnf third stage. John Theaker also finished 13th overall in this division.

Posted April 2005

James McRae came 6th overall in the Junior Competition at Muswellbrook last weekend. A Great result from one of our promising juniors.

Posted April 2005

State Hill Climb Title (Bathurst 2nd April)

John Ebeling 3rd Elite Mens Division

Ian Lovell 2nd Masters 5 Division

Kenny Johnstone 3rd Masters 6 Division

Bathurst to Blayney Road Race 100km

John Ebeling 3rd B Grade.

Ian Lovell 8th C Grade.

Kermese

John Ebeling 4th or 5th in B Grade

Ian Lovell 6th in C Grade

Posted April 2005

Alexander Pung won the Mountain Bike National Series un the under 17s division in March 2005.

Alexander also placed 2nd (by 5 seconds) at the National Championships at Lake Eildon also in March 2005.

Congratulations Alex, an outstanding result for yourself and Hunter District. You are certainly one of our stars of the future.

Posted March 2005

Douglas Hunt and John Ebeling recently competed at the NSW State Criterium in Sydney with good results.

Out of 12 Starters 8 were from Clarence St Cyclery, Douglas finished 4th and John finished 7th.

Congratulations guys from all you fellow Hunter District members.

Our own Kelly Furey placed 2nd in the elite womens race, an outstanding result for Kelly. Congratulations Kelly. She is modest, I only found out about this on the Cycling NSW web site.

Media Release              March 23rd

Hunter District Cyclists Score Hat Trick

  Over 300 of the best Australian Masters cyclists descended on the Victorian town of Lancefield to contest the 2005 'Lancefield Hotel' Australian Masters Road Championships, held from Sunday 20 – Tuesday 22 March 2005.

  Conditions were described as tough and windy with only a small proportion of starters actually finishing due to the harsh racing conditions.

  Newcastle was well represented with a hat trick from Hunter District cyclists.

  The “hardman” of local cycling  Steve Darracott took out first place in both the men’s masters 4 road race and criterium. Darracott was also awarded the prestigious “Cyclists of the Meet” award.

Popular local Rob Hadley cemented his well respected role in national cycling securing 2nd place in the men’s masters 5 road race as well as solid finish in the masters 5 criterium.

The tenacious Ian Lovell secured 3rd place in the men’s masters 5 criterium.

  Other local riders to successfully compete included Billy Cox, Brian Radcliffe, Ross Hayter and Matt Ryan.

  In related news Hunter District Cyclist Bruce Masson scored a silver medal at  the recent Masters Track titles division 4 (45 to 50 age group) 500M time trial. His time of 36.94 was a personal best. Brian Radcliffe received a bronze medal.

                                                                                                ENDS

For further enquiries please contact Hunter District Cycling Publicist

Craig Rosevear.

Ph: 0425 342 182

Email: everythingsrosie@gmail.com

Web:     http://www.hunterdistrict.com

Bruce Masson (posted 19th March 2005)

Silver medal recent Masters Track titles division 4 (45 to 50 age group) 500M time trial. His time of 36.94 was a personal best (getting faster, as he is getting older with less training).

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