Sat 26 Aug 2006
Junior Men
1. COLE Cameron (NZL) 3:28.29
2. BLENKINSOP Samuel (NZL) 3:29.45 +1.16
3. BADOUARD Antoine (FRA) 3:29.84 +1.55
4. JONES Ralph (GBR) 3:30.14 +1.85
5. MALTMAN James (AUS) 3:36.12 +7.83
7. DELFS Mitchell AUS 3:37.26 +8.97
9. BEL Ben AUS 3:39.93 + 11.64
11. SWANN Alex AUS 3:40.17 + 11.88
26. BRODIE James AUS 3:50.92 + 22.63
27. BAIN Joel AUS 3:51.51 + 23.22
32. GOWEN Luke AUS 3:55.23 + 26.94
Junior Women
1. HANNAH Tracey (AUS) 4:07.07
2. PUGIN Floriane (FRA) 4:11.74 +4.67
3. GATTO Micayla (CAN) 4:40.91 + 33.84
The junior finals have just been completed & the elite men & women are about to start. I wish I had good news but unfortunatley it wasn’t our day, two kiwis took out 1st & 2nd. Ben & Joel both crashed hard & I must say I feel pretty upset for them, Joel clipped a pedal coming into a big gap jump where u have to clear a root, he hit the root & his balls slammed the stem, over the bars & landed on his head. He is DEVESTATED & in quite a bit of pain, it’s fair to say it was tears all round, even I had a bit of a sooky sooky la la……. It’s hard to watch such awesome youngs kids have their guts ripped out.
Ben didn’t go much better & when I saw him rolling into the finish line I knew something was up. He crashed on a big step down, I’m pretty sure I saw 7th on the board when he came thro. He said he knew he was done for when he went over, needles to say he was also inconsolable but it was good to see the senior aussies like Amiel & Rando speaking to the boys straight after the runs. The team is pretty tight. I havent really spoken to them properly, just a quick question or two then I left them alone……..
Mitch had an okay run with a few small mistakes & James Maltman said he was happy with his run, not sure exactly where they ended up as results aren’t up yet.
The good news is Tracy Hannah won the junior womens by 4 seconds & was totally spent at the line. 1 gold for the aussies anyway…….
Elite men are about to start so I’m off……….