Last years Canadian Athlete of the year, Marc Walters, won this years USPRO Championship. Check out the average speed! Below is an excerpt from InfoCyclismo.com I would also like to take this chance to thank all the volunteers for making the RLCT such a success again this year. Also thanks to the group I rode with for making it such fun. Tim Aubin, member.
>From InfoCyclismo.com >09/06 09/06 First Union USPRO Championship USA 1.2 MEL >09/06 09/06 First Union Liberty Classic USA 1.9.1 WEL > >Canadian and German National Champions Win First Union Championship Races >Philadelphia, PA -- Canadian National Champion Mark Walters, of the >Navigators Professional Cycling Team, and German National Champion Petra >Rossner of the Saturn Cycling Team were the respective winners today of the >First Union USPRO Championship for men, and the First Union Liberty Classic >for women. Rossner, of Leipzig, Germany, won her fifth consecutive and >sixth >overall victory in the event in her usual manner of out-sprinting her >competition in the last 200 meters of the race. Rossner was part of a >seven-strong breakaway group that formed on the last ascension of the >Manayunk Wall, the 17% climb that is the defining feature of the race >course. Rossner's Saturn teammates Judith Arndt and Anna Millward, two of >the most powerful endurance riders in women's cycling, served as >locomotives >for the German Champion, pulling at high speed at the front of the break >and >delivering her to the winning position with 200 meters to the finish. >Rossner easily out-sprinted Pennsylvania's Laura Van Gilder and Dede Demet >Barry for the victory. Rossner credited her team for the win, saying that, >"it is an absolute team victory. The work that Anna and Judith did for me >was tremendous." > >Walters won his biggest race ever by out-sprinting Chann McRae of the US >Postal Team and Prime Alliance's Danny Pate. The three men escaped from an >11-man group in the last two miles of the race and just held off former >winners Henk Vogels and George Hincapie to win. McRae was crowned United >States Professional Road Cycling Champion by being the first American to >finish. > >The men's First Union USPRO Championship was a hard fought race from the >start. A six-man breakaway formed on the fifth lap, mile 70, including >Dylan >Casey (USPS), Scott Moninger (Mercury), Russel Stevenson, (Prime Alliance), >Soren Peterson (Saturn) and Glenn D'Hollander (Lotto Adecco). Team >Navigators felt the danger of the break and chased at the front of the >bunch >for the next 30 miles. Once caught, the race exploded into action, a >40-man >group was formed on the seventh time up the Wall, which was whittled down >to >the final eleven on the tenth and last time up the Wall. > >FIRST UNION USPRO CHAMPIONSHIP >9 JUNE 2002 - PHILADELPHIA, PA, USA >FINISH - F I N A L - O F F I C I A L >Length: 156.00 Miles Avg Speed: 26.41 MPH > >PL NUM NAME--------------- TM TIME--- BON PEN DIFF--- > 1 70 WALTERS Mark NVR 5:54:24 5:54:24 > 2 25 MCRAE Chann USP " " > 3 122 PATE Danny PRI " " > 4 15 VOGELS Henk MCR " " > 5 21 HINCAPIE George USP " " > 6 57 MCCORMACK Mark SAT " " > 7 162 FRIEDICK Mariano JEL " " > 8 112 PIATEK Zbigniew MRO " " > 9 56 KLUCK Damon SAT " " >10 85 GRNQVIST Thomas AMO " " >11 67 O'BEE Kirk NVR " " >12 23 BARRY Michael USP 5:54:37 @ 13 >13 18 WHERRY Chris MCR 5:54:44 @ 20 >14 141 MATTOZZA Sbastien LAN 5:55:50 @ 1:26 >15 101 MCKENZIE David ITN 5:55:55 @ 1:31 >16 194 GERLACH Chad SIE " " >17 60 WOHLBERG Eric SAT " " >18 135 SAUNDERS Erik OFO " " >19 113 KRZYWY Krzysztof MRO " " >20 20 SAYERS Mike MCR " " > >Women's Top 5: >1. Petra Rossner, Saturn - 2:27:09 >2. Laura Van Gilder, TREK Plus - " >3. Dede Demet Barry, Talgo American - " >4. Kim Anderson, T-Mobile - " >5. Valen Polkhanova, Itera - " _________________________________________________________________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com ------------------------------------------------- For list help, please send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Club Office: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (613) 230-1064 Web/mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cyberus.ca/~obcweb Newsletter: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cyberus.ca/~obcweb/Newsletter ------------------------------------------------- ==^================================================================ This email was sent to: [email protected] EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?aVxiDo.a2i8p1 Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^================================================================
