July 20/09 12:59 pm - Tour de White Rock: Stage 3 results and Final GC
Posted by Editoress on 07/20/09
Costa Rica’s Carrasco, New Zealand’s Jazz Apple dominate Tour de White Rock Road Race
The Jazz Apple Cycling team continued to dominate the women’s field at the 30th anniversary of the Tour de White Rock, but there was a new face atop the podium in the men’s Peace Arch News Road Race on Sunday (July 19th).
Nieves Carrasco, a three-time National Time Trial champion in his native Costa Rica, took off from a nine-rider breakaway halfway through the 134-km race, and never looked back. Carrasco, riding for Specialized Dizzy Cycling, easily finished alone, though not without controversy.
“I was in a breakaway with (teammate Pablo Araya) and saw everyone was agitated and there was a gap between me and the chase group and I thought it was a good time to try and see because they were breathing hard,” Carrasco said with translation from Andreas Carmona, the team’s manager and a salesman at Vancouver-based Dizzy Cycles store that sponsors the team. “I was going to give it a shot to see if they’d let me go and in fact they did so he just kept going. I was never sure I could get away. I just knew that was my move and I was going to stick with it. I also knew that I had a partner in the break, in the chase group, and every time I went through the feed zone I knew I was gaining a few seconds. I never had total, for-sure security I could win but I just stayed at the front.”
Unfortunately Carrasco opened up such a big gap that it led to a mistake by race officials, which gave him an even bigger lead on everyone else.
The men were supposed to do 11 laps of the larger 10.1-kilometer circuit before finishing up with six more laps of a smaller 3.8-kilometer route. But with Cam Evans (Ouch Pro Cycling) and Canadian Olympian Zach Bell (Kelly Benefit Strategies) trying to bridge from a nine-rider breakaway Carrasco, officials sent the Costa Rican rider into the shorter circuit one lap too soon, while Bell, Evans and everyone else rode another big lap.
Neither could be sure they would have caught Carrasco, but both wanted a chance to try. Instead they settled for rounding out the podium.
“I don’t know if we would have been able to catch him but it sucks to have the race neutralized with 20-30 kms left,” said Bell, who was third. “He rode away early and we were like `OK we’ll just let him roast himself out there and then we’ll go with a couple of laps to go and hopefully have time to catch him.’ We did and then they burned the time down on us.”
Evans, who settled for second place, liked his chances of closing a gap that was around 90 seconds before the official’s made their mistake.
“It’s hard to say,” said Evans, a three-time Canadian Champion. “Zach and I are two guys, were going to work together. He’s one guy and he’s been out there for 40 kilometers by himself already. Typically stuff can come together because you get more draft on the smaller circuit so it’s easier for two people to work together than a guy by himself, which is tough.”
That said, no one was denying the form Carrasco was showing in a hilly, demanding road race, and the 30-year-old is, according to Carmona, known as the “Jens Voigt of Costa Rica, the King of the Breakaways.”
“He’s super strong so it’s anyone’s guess,” added Evans. “He probably could have won anyways, but who knows. It’s a little bit frustrating.”
For his part, Carrasco knew what had happened but not soon enough.
“It was too late. I couldn’t turn around,” he said of a mistake compounded by the language gap. “Then they sent me for one more lap anyway at the end. I thought the last lap was because of that. I didn’t know for sure.”
Araya won a bunch sprint out of the peleton almost 10 minutes behind to claim fourth place just ahead of Jamie Sparling (Trek Red Truck), adding to a great weekend for the Specialized Dizzy Cycling team, which also put Costa Rican rider Steven Villalobos atop the podium at Friday’s HIllclimb.
Carmona, a cyclist who spends winters in Costa Rica, has been bringing the riders north for BC Superweek for five years in an attempt to start his own team. With sponsorship help from Specialized and the Dizzy Cycles shop where he also works, things came completely together this summer.
“The idea is grow grassroots team out of Kitsilano (the area of Vancouver where Dizzy Cycles operates). I proposed this project in October last year with Canadian and international riders,” said Carmona. “It’s been really hard, but here we are and we’re really thankful for our sponsors.”
Evan’s Ouch Pro Cycling teammate, Andrew Pinfold, who won Saturday’s Criterium and was fifth in the Hillclimb Friday, finished in 12th, good enough to hold onto the Tour de White Rock Omnium, or overall, title.
Things finished smoother in the women’s race, which consisted of eight laps around the larger – but no less grueling – 10.1 kilometer circuit.
After staying together most of the race, Jazz Apple’s Dotsie Bausch, a two-time US National champion who won the Hillclimb Friday, broke away in the third-to-last lap, and quickly opened up a 30-second gap.
Bausch finished in two hours, 33 minutes and 13.30 seconds, almost two minutes ahead of teammate Marina Duvnjka, who won a sprint for second just ahead of Amy Herlinveaux of the local Trek Red Truck Racing team.
Knowing Duvnjak was behind her – not to mention several others from a dominant Jazz Apple squad – made it easier for Bausch to attack early, especially with Duvnjak marking Canadian Olympian Erinne Willock.
“I have 100 per cent trust in those girls and Marina’s whole job was to sit right on Erinne, which is a compliment to Erinne because no doubt that she was the one we needed to watch her to win the bike race,” said Bausch, who marked Willock as Duvnjak won Saturday’s criterium.
“If I was by myself at this race I wouldn’t feel confident in going 100 per cent at that point because if you get caught you have no more bullets.”
As a team, the New Zealand based Jazz Apple had plenty left in the gun.
Duvnjak, who was also second to Bausch in the Hillclimb Friday, won the Tour de White Rock Omnium, or overall, title. Bausch was second.
“We just felt really good today and wanted to try and get first and second in the overall so we just went for it, and we were just feeding off each other so well,” said Bausch, who at 36 showed she can be more than just a mentor to the young development squad. “I was confident in them, so if I blew up I knew Marina was right on Erinne and then she would go.”
For Willock, who didn’t have any teammates from her Webcor Builders Pro team on hand, it was frustrating being a target. But the Olympian also knows it’s good for cycling in BC and Canada to have Jazz Apple here.
“They’re marking me and it’s a compliment, that’s bike racing,” Willock said. “It’s awesome to have a big team here. They race pro and other riders learn the race tactics and learn the race etiquette and they say ‘OK, I have to go home and do a lot of training because that was hard.”
Or in the case of Herlinveaux, a 26 year old in her second year of cycling, they get to share a podium with a two-time US national champion.
“Definitely my best result ever,” said a beaming Herlinveaux. “It’s a huge privilege and I’m just a little overwhelmed right now because I can’t quite believe it. … I was just trying to get in any break I could and try to be on top of everything and my teammate Leah (Guloien, from Trek Red Truck,) helped me do that. I didn’t want to be out of a field sprint. I like sprinting out of smaller groups. My legs were cramping and I didn’t know if I could pull it off and was worried someone was going to come around me but I just kind of hung on and I was really shocked but also super excited.”
Duvnjak capped a great 10 days at the $40,000 BC Superweek, which also included winning the road race at the Tour de Delta one week earlier. She plans to watch her partner race at the Cascade Classic next week before going home to New Zealand, but has no intention of racing in Oregon.
“I want to finish on a high and this is it,” said Duvnjak. “Jazz Apple has always had a good history at (BC Superweek) so to build on that and maybe try and build even more somehow next year, and the fact we’re jelling so well on and off the bike it means a lot. You can’t top it really.”
For more BC Superweek information visit www.bcsuperweek.ca, or contact Kevin Woodley, Media Relations Coordinator, at 604-828-5842.
Please note that because of the confusion in the mens race, there are no times are in the attached results. This was a decision by the commissaires to leave the times blank, considering the confusion that they dealt with over the course of the day. The standings and results are signed off by the commissaires and are official.
Report by Kevin Woodley, Media Relations Coordinator
Stage 3: White Rock Road Race
| Women | |
| 1 Dotsie Bausch (NZl) Jazz Apple Cycling Team | 2:33:13.30 |
| 2 Marina Duvnjak (NZl) Jazz Apple Cycling Team | 2:35:13.00 |
| 3 Amy Herlinveaux (Can) TREK - Red Truck Ale | |
| 4 Jessica Hannah (Can) Total Restoration Cycling Team | |
| 5 Erinne Willock (Can) Webcor Builders Cycling Team | |
| 6 Kristine Brynjolfson (Can) Westwood Cycle/Cannondale pb Vision Sport | |
| 7 Naomi Cooper (Can) Escape Velocity / DEVO | all s.t. |
| 8 Susy Pryde (USA) Jazz Apple Cycling Team | 2:35:18.20 |
| 9 Leah Guloien (Can) TREK - Red Truck Ale | 2:35:25.90 |
| 10 Heather Kay (Can) ERTC/Revolution | 2:35:27.40 |
| 11 Chelsea Bilsbarrow (Can) Local Ride Racing | |
| 12 Erika Graves (USA) Kahala-Lagrange | |
| 13 Stephanie Ossenbrink (Can) Glotman Simpson Cycling Team | |
| 14 Shailie Sanbrooks (Can) Independent | |
| 15 Gillian Moody (Can) Total Restoration Cycling Team | 2:35:29.50 |
| 16 Andrea Bunnin (Can) Glotman Simpson Cycling Team | 2:35:33.10 |
| 17 Rachel Mcbride (Can) Glotman Simpson Cycling Team | 2:35:35.10 |
| 18 Marie-Claude Gagnon (Can) Glotman Simpson Cycling Team | 2:36:49.20 |
| 19 Steph Roorda (Can) Jazz Apple Cycling Team | |
| 20 Karen Watson (Can) Glotman Simpson Cycling Team | |
| 21 Annie Ewart (Can) Aviawest | |
| 22 Megan Rathwell (Can) Touchstone Climbing | all s.t. |
| 23 Martina Wan (Can) Independent | 2:36:51.50 |
| 24 Lawren Ellis (NZl) Jazz Apple Cycling Team | s.t. |
| 25 Margaret Pugh (Can) Chicks Cycling Club | 2:42:18.50 |
| 26 Shoshauna Laxson (USA) Local Ride Racing | 2:44:16.80 |
| 27 Gillian Carleton (Can) Total Restoration Cycling Team | 2:44:18.00 |
| 28 Rachel Canning (Can) Escape Velocity / DEVO | 2:52:18.00 |
| DNF Leslie Vice (Can) Glotman Simpson Cycling Team | |
| DNF Dana Lis (Can) Westwood Cycle/Cannondale pb Vision Sport | |
| DNS Susan Smith (Fra) VC Riomois | |
| DNS Kimberley Turner (USA) Seattle Pacific University | |
| DNS Sarah Stewart (Can) Total Restoration Cycling Team | |
| DNS Moriah Macgregor (Can) Glotman Simpson Cycling Team | |
| DNS Anna Ast (Can) Independent | |
| Pro 1/2 Men | |
| 1 Nieves Carrasco (CRc) Specialized Dizzy Cycles | |
| 2 Cameron Evans (Can) Ouch Pro Cycling | |
| 3 Zach Bell (Can) Kelly Benefit Strategies | |
| 4 Pablo Araya (CRc) Specialized Dizzy Cycles | |
| 5 Jamie Sparling (Can) TREK - Red Truck Ale | |
| 6 Marcel Aarden (Can) Team H&R Block - Kona | |
| 7 Garrett Mcleod (Can) Team H&R Block - Kona | |
| 8 Jason Thompson (Can) Garneau Evolution | |
| 9 Cyrus Kangarloo (Can) Team H&R Block - Kona | |
| 10 Andrew Kyle (Can) Garneau Evolution | |
| 11 Larry Warbasse (USA) Team Waste Management | |
| 12 Andrew Pinfold (Can) Ouch Pro Cycling | |
| 13 Ryan Anderson (Can) Kelly Benefit Strategies | |
| 14 Tim Abercrombie (Can) Garneau Evolution | |
| 15 Nic Hamilton (Can) TREK - Red Truck Ale | |
| 16 Scott Stewart (USA) Team Waste Management | |
| 17 Tim Sherstobitoff (Can) Total Restoration Cycling Team | |
| 18 Steven Villalobos (CRc) Specialized Dizzy Cycles | |
| 19 Marvin Guzman (Can) Glotman Simpson Cycling Team | |
| 20 Hugh Trenchard (Can) Schwalbe Cycling Club | |
| 21 Dan Macdonald (Can) Total Restoration Cycling Team | |
| 22 Christiaan De Vries (Can) Total Restoration Cycling Team | |
| 23 Chris Mcneil (Can) Team H&R Block - Kona | |
| 24 Kenyon Campbell (USA) Westwood Cycle/Cannondale pb Vision Sport | |
| 25 Curtis Dearden (Can) Westwood Cycle/Cannondale pb Vision Sport | |
| 26 Trevor Haaheim (Can) Total Restoration Cycling Team | |
| 27 Tyler Trace (Can) TREK - Red Truck Ale | |
| 28 Quinn Keogh (USA) HPChiro.com | |
| 29 Carter Jones (USA) Team Waste Management | |
| 30 Chris Worsfold (Can) Team Coastal | |
| 31 Allan Prazsky (Can) Glotman Simpson Cycling Team | |
| 32 Anthony Steenbergen (Can) Team Calgary Cycle p/b TOPGEAR | |
| 33 Sebastian Salas (Can) Specialized Dizzy Cycles | |
| 34 Justin Kerr (NZl) Liquid Fitness | |
| 35 Rob Britton (Can) TREK - Red Truck Ale | |
| DNF Guy Biggar (Can) Garneau Evolution | |
| DNF Sean Mazich (USA) Team Waste Management | |
| DNF Kevin Soller (USA) Team Waste Management | |
| DNF David Talbott (USA) Team Waste Management | |
| DNF Benjamin Bradshaw (USA) Team Waste Management | |
| DNF Dustin Andrews (Can) Team H&R Block - Kona | |
| DNF Dave Vukets (Can) TREK - Red Truck Ale | |
| DNF Kevin Noiles (Can) TREK - Red Truck Ale | |
| DNF Nathan Macdonald (Can) TREK - Red Truck Ale | |
| DNF Dan Skinner (Can) Garneau Evolution | |
| DNF Maurice Worsfold (Can) Team Coastal | |
| DNF Matthew O'hagan (Can) Westwood Cycle/Cannondale pb Vision Sport | |
| DNF John Perkins (Can) Glotman Simpson Cycling Team | |
| DNF Ryan Olson (Can) Independent | |
| DNF Joseph King (USA) Team Oregon | |
| DNF Rory Mcadams (USA) Glotman Simpson Cycling Team | |
| DNF Jack Okuniewicz (Can) Glotman Simpson Cycling Team | |
| DNF Chris Christie (Can) TREK - Red Truck Ale | |
| DNF David Gillam (Can) Independent | |
| DNF Stevie Cullinan (USA) Team Waste Management | |
| DNF Adam Thuss (Can) TREK - Red Truck Ale | |
| DNF Matthew Martyniuk (Can) Sprinters Club de Nice | |
| DNF Charlie Bryer (Can) Team H&R Block - Kona | |
| DNF Jeff Sherstobitoff (Can) Total Restoration Cycling Team | |
| DNF Dave Brooks (Can) TREK - Red Truck Ale | |
| DNF Paul Beard (Can) Garneau Evolution | |
| DNF Jesse Reams (Can) Garneau Evolution | |
| DNF Wendell Challenger (Can) Glotman Simpson Cycling Team | |
| DNF Spencer Smitheman (Can) NOW-MS Society | |
| DNF Mike Elliston (Can) Glotman Simpson Cycling Team | |
| DNF Cody Campbell (Can) Trek-Livestrong U23 | |
| DNS Aaron Schooler (Can) Team H&R Block - Kona | |
| DNS Shawn Goulet (Can) Team H&R Block - Kona | |
| DNS Owen Harrison (Can) Total Restoration Cycling Team | |
| DNS Jackson Buehler (Can) Total Restoration Cycling Team | |
| DNS Adrian Hegyvary (USA) Hagens Berman Cycling | |
| DNS Christopher Daifuku (USA) Hagens Berman Cycling | |
| DNS Shane Savage (Can) Mighty Riders | |
| DNS Will Routley (Can) Jelly Belly Pro Cycling Team | |
| DNS Garth Thomson (Can) Bicycle Works | |
| DNS Troy Henry (Can) Independent | |
| DNS Chris Gruber (Can) | |
| DNS Shane Martin (Can) Steed Cycles | |
| Final Overall Standings (Omnium) | |
| Women | |
| 1 Marina Duvnjak NZl) Jazz Apple Cycling Team | |
| 2 Dotsie Bausch (NZl) Jazz Apple Cycling Team | |
| 3 Jessica Hannah (Can) Total Restoration Cycling Team | |
| 4 Heather Kay (Can) ERTC/Revolution | |
| 5 Amy Herlinveaux (Can) TREK - Red Truck Ale | |
| 6 Lawren Ellis (NZl) Jazz Apple Cycling Team | |
| 7 Rachel Mcbride (Can) Glotman Simpson Cycling Team | |
| 11 Erika Graves (USA) Kahala-Lagrange | |
| 9 Gillian Carleton (Can) Total Restoration Cycling Team | |
| 8 Kristine Brynjolfson (Can) Westwood Cycle/Cannondale pb Vision Sport | |
| 10 Naomi Cooper (Can) Escape Velocity / DEVO | |
| 31 Susy Pryde (USA) Jazz Apple Cycling Team | |
| 12 Stephanie Ossenbrink (Can) Glotman Simpson Cycling Team | |
| 25 Leah Guloien (Can) TREK - Red Truck Ale | |
| 18 Chelsea Bilsbarrow (Can) Local Ride Racing | |
| 13 Margaret Pugh (Can) Chicks Cycling Club | |
| 14 Sarah Stewart (Can) Total Restoration Cycling Team | |
| 15 Andrea Bunnin (Can) Glotman Simpson Cycling Team | |
| 16 Gillian Moody (Can) Total Restoration Cycling Team | |
| 17 Shailie Sanbrooks (Can) Independent | |
| 19 Megan Rathwell (Can) Touchstone Climbing | |
| 20 Shoshauna Laxson (USA) Local Ride Racing | |
| 21 Steph Roorda (Can) Jazz Apple Cycling Team | |
| 22 Martina Wan (Can) Independent | |
| 23 Karen Watson (Can) Glotman Simpson Cycling Team | |
| 26 Marie-Claude Gagnon (Can) Glotman Simpson Cycling Team | |
| 27 Leslie Vice (Can) Glotman Simpson Cycling Team | |
| 28 Dana Lis (Can) Westwood Cycle/Cannondale pb Vision Sport | |
| 29 Annie Ewart (Can) Aviawest | |
| 30 Rachel Canning (Can) Escape Velocity / DEVO | |
| Pro 1/2 Men | |
| 1 Andrew Pinfold (Can) Ouch Pro Cycling | |
| 2 Nieves Carrasco (CRc) Specialized Dizzy Cycles | |
| 3 Ryan Anderson (Can) Kelly Benefit Strategies | |
| 4 Cyrus Kangarloo (Can) Team H&R Block - Kona | |
| 5 Tim Sherstobitoff (Can) Total Restoration Cycling Team | |
| 6 Pablo Araya (CRc) Specialized Dizzy Cycles | |
| 7 Steven Villalobos (CRc) Specialized Dizzy Cycles | |
| 8 Tyler Trace (Can) TREK - Red Truck Ale | |
| 9 Nic Hamilton (Can) TREK - Red Truck Ale | |
| 10 Scott Stewart (USA) Team Waste Management | |
| 11 Garrett Mcleod (Can) Team H&R Block - Kona | |
| 12 Christiaan De Vries (Can) Total Restoration Cycling Team | |
| 13 Jason Thompson (Can) Garneau Evolution | |
| 14 Dan Macdonald (Can) Total Restoration Cycling Team | |
| 15 Justin Kerr (NZl) Liquid Fitness | |
| 16 Larry Warbasse (USA) Team Waste Management | |
| 17 Kenyon Campbell (USA) Westwood Cycle/Cannondale pb Vision Sport | |
| 18 Sebastian Salas (Can) Specialized Dizzy Cycles | |
| 19 Quinn Keogh (USA) HPChiro.com | |
| 20 Marvin Guzman (Can) Glotman Simpson Cycling Team | |
| 21 Rob Britton (Can) TREK - Red Truck Ale | |
| 22 Anthony Steenbergen (Can) Team Calgary Cycle p/b TOPGEAR | |
| 23 Curtis Dearden (Can) Westwood Cycle/Cannondale pb Vision Sport | |
| 24 Carter Jones (USA) Team Waste Management | |
| 25 Trevor Haaheim (Can) Total Restoration Cycling Team |
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