South
Pacific Championships
Maryborough,
Victoria,
Easter 2011
Grampians Vets cyclists Crystal Wemyss
and Stephanie Frawley both won gold at the South Pacific
Veteran Cycling Championships, held over the Easter
break at Maryborough, Victoria.
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Crystal
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Wemyss led the medal charge, taking
out the 30 to 34 years womens age group road race on
Friday, the sprint on Saturday morning, and her time
trial on Saturday afternoon. Mildura based Frawley
placed second in her 50 to 54 years women’s road
race, and won her time trial by a country mile, posting
the fastest female time of the day, averaging 41.1kph
for the out and back 15 kilometre course.
Frawley is a time trial specialist,
and still competes in the Australian open time trials
each year, held at Buninyong, finishing in the middle
of the field amongst the best young time trial riders
Australia has to offer.
Wemyss clocked the third fastest women’s
time of the day, averaging 38.5kph.
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Stephanie
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Other local riders to do well in the
age group road races were Meg Parnaby, who placed fifth,
and Glenn Ford, who rode extremely well to finish sixth
in a large and very competitive field.
Geoff Richards was the surprise of
the day in Saturdays age group time trials, averaging
39kph. Richards competed on his road bike with time
trial bars added, so with a dedicated time trial bike
this average may have translated to over 40kph, an
impressive effort. Richards placed 8th overall.
Danny Monaghan also rode well in the
time trials, placing tenth in his age group, and averaging
38.1kph, while Errol Schmidt, still recovering from
a serious accident last year, also had a good hit out
to record an average of 37kph, and finish fifth in
his age group.
Meg Parnaby put in her usual solid
performance on a standard road bike to place 4th in
her age group with an average of 33.7kph.
Click on the photos below for a larger
image.
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Crystal |
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Danny |
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Errol |
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Geoff |
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Meg |
Stephanie |
Stephanie |
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