July 5/97 19:56 pm - Canada Cup #4, More Tour, UCI Men's MTB Rankings

Posted by Editor on 07/5/97
 

Canada Cup #4 - Canmore, Alberta  This report was filed from the race site by Greg Flaaten  Roland led through short parade lap then Andreas jumped to get in front on the singletrack for the 3500‚ (vertical) climb. At end of first lap Roland was in front and rode away. Andreas in second until last lap, when Peter went by him. Trish Sinclair took the hole shot for the parade lap, then Melanie Dorion passed at the start of the climb (like Roland). The weather conditions were perfect, and the track was dry. In the men‚s race, there is a report that Canada Cup leader Bill Hurley (Schwinn) was disqualified. At the time Hurley was some 25 minutes down, having had to stop to fix a troublesome flat. Greg will be supplying further results and information later this evening. Right now he is attending the awards ceremony and conducting interviews.  Elite Men - 45 km 5 laps  1. Roland Green Kona 2:19:24 2. Peter Wedge Kona 2:22:26 3. Andreas Hestler Rocky Mountain 2:24:17 4. Jason Crookham Rocky Mountain 2: 28:53 5. Keith Stark Norco 2:29:13  Elite Women - 36 km 4 laps  1. Melanie Dorion Scott 2:24:05 2. Melanie McQuaid Rocky Mountain 2:27:25 3. Trish Sinclair Kona 2:28:10 4. Christine Platt Scott 2:30:19 5. Kerry Holmes Dekerf 2:32:53  More Tour News  Gord Fraser was 91st in today‚s 7.3 kilometre Prologue stage of the Tour de France. His time was 35 seconds behind winner Chris Boardman‚s 8:20.   UCI Cross-Country Rankings - Men (after Mont Ste Anne)  1 Evans, Cadel * AUS DIAMBK 919 points 2 Hoydahl, Rune NOR GIANT 864 3 Martinez, Miguel * FRA SUNN 842 4 Pallhuber, Hubert ITA DBRTST 832 5 Dupouey, Christophe FRA SUNN 806 6 Baker, David GBR GT 697 7 Brentjens, Bart NED SPECZD 690 8 Brenes, Andres CRC RITCHY 665 9 Rasmussen, Michael DEN TREKVW 657 10 Dubau, Ludovic FRA SUNN 649 11 Kristensen, Lennie DEN GIANT 611 12 Chiotti, Jerome FRA GT 607 13 Frischknecht, Thomas SUI RITCHY 577 14 Molday, Kirk CAN MARIN 485 15 Ostergaard, Jan Erik DEN CORTEC 479 16 Cioni, Dario ITA MAPEIK 467 17 Herisset, Christophe FRA FRA19720910 SUNN 24 464 18 Hestler, Andreas CAN ROCKY 451 19 Juarez, David "Tinker" USA VOL-CA 436 20 Bishop, Andy USA GARY-F 433  33 Green, Roland CAN KONA 315 48 Sheppard, Chris CAN HARO 259 67 Grover, Neil * CAN ROCKY 196 85 Sallenbach, Warren CAN 132 90 McGrath, Seamus * CAN KONA 123 104 Tourville, Eric CAN ORYX 103 144 Toulouse, Mathieu * CAN 73 162 Kabush, Geoff * CAN 57 174 Visser, George CAN 51 177 Hurley, Bill CAN 49 184 Wedge, Peter CAN KONA 48 195 Cobham, Paul * CAN 46 224 Paradis, Sebastien * CAN 37 269 Stark, Keith * CAN 27 292 Crookham, Jason CAN 23 299 Spadaccini, Paul * CAN 22 306 Ruedi, Schnyder CAN 20 315 Landry, Jacques CAN 19 347 Walker, Adam CAN 15 347 Blais, Jean-Francois CAN 15 347 Larson, Adam CAN 15 378 Heisler, Dave CAN 13 378 Williams, Kevin CAN 13 393 Palmer, Mike CAN ROCKY 12 411 Hall, Joshua * CAN 11 411 Curran, Lucas * CAN 11 411 Well, Seth CAN 11 428 Irving, David CAN 9 458 Beauchemin, Pascal * CAN 7 458 Jaakkola, Jussi CAN 7 458 Tout, Andy CAN 7 489 Chetwynd, Paul CAN 6 489 Freemantle, Marc CAN 6 513 Spodaccini, Paul * CAN 5 513 Lavallee, Philippe * CAN 5 513 Bakogeorge, Tray CAN 5 513 Jones, Chris CAN 5 542 Horton, Marcus CAN 4 567 Large, Geoff CAN 3 567 Lafontaine, Bruno * CAN 3 637 Dutton, Robin CAN 1 637 Weber, Jeff CAN 1