June 19/97 21:28 pm - Beauce, New Brunswick News, Mont Ste Anne, Euro News

Posted by Editor on 06/19/97
 

TOUR DE BEAUCE1st STAGE - June 18 (thanks to J.L.)  Road race 158 km  1. Czeslaw Lukascewicz (Espoirs Laval) 3:55:01  2. Grischa Niermann (Continental Olym) s.t.  3. Scott McGrory (Cont. Olym) 3:55:28 4. Matthew White (Giant) s.t. 5. Nick Gates (Giant) s.t. 6. Damian McDonald (Giant) s.t. 7. Bjorn Glasner (Cont. Oly) s.t. 8. Trent Klasna (Colorado cyclist) s.t. 9. Mat Anand (Espoirs Laval) s.t. 10. Mark Freudenberg (Cont. Oly) s.t.  G.C.:  1. Czeslaw Lukascewicz (Espoirs Laval) 5:07:23  2. Grischa Niermann (Cont. Oly) 5:07:25 3. Scott McGrory (Cont. Oly) 5:07:53 4. Trent Klasna (Colorado) 5:07:55 5. Mat Anand (Espoirs Laval) s.t. 6. Bart Bowen (Saturn) s.t. 7. Matthew White (Giant) s.t. 8. Johathan Vaughters (Colorado) s.t. 9. Roger Beauchat (GS Tesag-Laliberte) s.t.  10. Bjorn Glasner (Cont. Oly) s.t.   TEAM G.C.:  1. Espoirs Laval 15:23:18 2. Continental Olympia s.t. 3. Giant Ais Trade 15:23:45 4. Everfresh/Radio-Energie 15:26:24 5. Colorado Cyclist s.t. 6. Saturn USA s.t.   New Brunswick News (thanks to Dave Macfarlane)  Overall winners of last Sunday's Mactaquac Duathalon were Kim Buck and Jamie Cleveland (women's and men's categories respectively). There were 60 participants in the event which featured a 5 km run, 20 km ride then a final 5 km run.  The 3 rd cross country race of the Velo NB MTB series will be held at Woolastook Park near Fredericton on Sunday June 22. A large turnout is expected. It is a great course. Norco, Shimano and Mountain Dew will be on hand with demos.   Mont Ste Anne Update  With spoke with Mont Ste Anne World Cup race organizer Chantal Lachance earlier today. She says that registrations for the World Cup races (cross-country and downhill) are extremely high, with over 250 in the cross-country races (Sunday, June 29th), and 225 in the downhill (Saturday, June 28th). Check out the link to our World Cup page by clicking on the logo on our homepage, or go there directly: www.mtbworlds.com As we get closer to race day we will start to fill you in on all the race site details.   Tour of Switzerland  Stage 3, Basle to La Chaux de Fonds - 202 km  1. Christophe Agnolutto (France) 4:30:23 2. Max Van Heeswijk (Netherlands) at 2:34 3. Valentino Fois (Italy) s.t. 4. Marco Vergnani (Italy) 6:52 5. Rof Aldag (Germany) 11:32 6. Gilles Bouvard (France) 7. Mauro Bettin (Italy) 8. Lauri Aus (Estonia) 9. Fabio Baldato (Italy) 10. Aart Vierhouten (Netherlands) all s.t.  GC  1. Agnolutto 9:33:07 2. Van Heeswijk at 2:34 3. Fois 2:55 4. Vergnani 9:04 5. Oskar Camenzind (Switzerland) 11:23 6. Leon Van Bon (Netherlands) s.t. 7. Roberto Petito (Italy) 11:28 8. Danny Nelissen (Belgium) 11:30 9. Boelts 11:37 10. Juergen Werner Germany) 11:42   Tour of Catalonia, Spain  Stage 1a, Vila Seca to La Pineda - 72 km  1. Jan Svorada (Slovakia) 1:57:23 2. Federico Colonna (Italy) 3. Federic Moncassin (France) 4. Enrico Cassani (Italy) 5. Jeremy Hunt (Britain) 6. Massimo Strazzer (Italy) 7. Sergei Outschakov (Ukraine) 8. Angel Edo (Spain) 9. Marco Bellini (Italy) 10.Igor Flores (Spain) all s.t.  Stage 2b, 8 km ITT  1. Chris Boardman (Britain) 8:42 2. Angel Luis Casero (Spain) at 0:12 3. Aitor Garmendia (Spain) s.t. 4. Fernando Escartin (Spain) 0:23 5. Stuart O'Grady (Australia) 0:32 6. Armand de las Cuevas (France) 0:33 7. Alberto Leanizbarrutia (Spain) 8. Alvaro Gonzalez (Spain) 9. Alonso Marino (Spain) all s.t. 10.Bart Voskamp (Netherlands) 0:36  GC  1. Boardman 2:06:05 2. Casero at 0:12 3. Garmendia s.t. 4. Escartin 0:23 5. O'Grady 0:32 6. De las Cuevas 0:33 7. Leanizbarrutia 8. Gonzalez 9. Marino all s.t. 10.Voskamp 0:36