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Wiggins reigns supreme
Saturday, 17 of October, 2009
It may have poured all week during the 2009 Jayco Herald Sun Tour but after today's final stage on Lygon Street it was Bradley Wiggins' turn to reign, in the company of his talented accomplices from the Garmin Slipstream team. The team's display during the 61.5 kilometre circuit race that brought this year's Tour to a close was nothing short of emphatic. But their strong riding at the front of the field didn’t stop Fly V Australia’s Jonathan Cantwell from claiming the final stage. For the Englishman, Wiggins, the emotion finally showed after playing it low key for the rest of the Tour. "I could have been in London today, the amount of people that were cheering for me," he said post race. "It didn't really kick home to me until today. Very few stage races around the world finish like this with so many people around an area like Lygon Street. Shows how big cycling is here. "And then you look at the roll of honour on the trophy Gerry (Ryan of Jayco) presented to me. The names are so good. It's brilliant to be on there." Wiggins also acknowledged the importance of the team, and gave some idea of the process they went through in dealing with the dilemma of whether to go with him or Chris Sutton for the overall win. "We had a few beers last night trying to decide what to do but CJ really made his mind up deciding to give it to me and that was it really. But even then we were still umming and ahring with two laps to go whether Chris was going to do the final sprint," Wiggins said. "And the boys - they were amazing." For Cantwell, it was clearly a matter of getting as much out of the final day as possible, a task he fulfilled admirably. "I knew I couldn't catch Chris Sutton or Bradley Wiggins on GC so we had other plans. First was to get on the podium for the Tour, second was to win the points jersey and the third was to win the stage," Cantwell...
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2009 marks the 58th edition of the Jayco Herald Sun tour, makingit one of the world's oldest stage races. The 2009 course highlights some of the most stunning terrain and cities in the country. The tour starts in the celebrated goldfields town of Ballarat, a hotbed of cycling and also home to the national championships offer a full day festival of cycling with support races and the chance to ride the stage 1 course in the Go for your life Tour challenge.
Four days of tough road racing take us to Colac, Warrnambool, Apollo Bay, Anglesea and Barwon Heads with much of the time spent on the world class Great Ocean Rd. A technical individual time trial in Geelong, home of the 2010 Road World Championships should decide the race before a fast and furious circuit race finish in Lygon st, the heart of Melbourne's Little Italy.
It's a tough week of racing and it will be a fitting winner that is crowned in Melbourne at Tour's end!
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| 1 | 104 | Jonathan CANTWELL | VAU | 1:26:57 | | 0:14 | |
| 2 | 66 | Michael MATTHEWS | SAI | 1:26:57 | ... | 0:09 | |
| 3 | 143 | David TANNER | RRC | 1:26:57 | ... | 0:05 | |
| 4 | 142 | Aaron KEMPS | RRC | 1:26:57 | ... | 0:02 | |
| 5 | 31 | Jaan KIRSIPUU | L2A | 1:26:57 | ... | | |
| 6 | 55 | Jonny CLARKE | JBC | 1:26:57 | ... | | |
| 7 | 27 | Rhys POLLOCK | DPC | 1:26:57 | ... | | |
| 8 | 105 | Darren ROLFE | VAU | 1:26:57 | ... | | |
| 9 | 111 | Bradley WIGGINS | GRM | 1:26:57 | ... | 0:02 | |
| 10 | 53 | Bernard VAN ULDEN | JBC | 1:26:57 | ... | | |
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| 1 | 111 | Bradley WIGGINS | GRM | 51:27.0 | |
| 2 | 115 | Chris SUTTON | GRM | 51:38.0 | 00:11.0 |
| 3 | 104 | Jonathan CANTWELL | VAU | 51:47.0 | 00:20.0 |
| 4 | 116 | Svein TUFT | GRM | 52:15.0 | 00:48.0 |
| 5 | 53 | Bernard VAN ULDEN | JBC | 53:10.0 | 01:43.0 |
| 6 | 11 | Matthew WILSON | AUS | 53:32.0 | 02:05.0 |
| 7 | 41 | Ben JAQUES-MAYNES | BPC | 53:35.0 | 02:08.0 |
| 8 | 142 | Aaron KEMPS | RRC | 53:39.0 | 02:12.0 |
| 9 | 102 | Philip ZAJICEK | VAU | 53:39.0 | ... |
| 10 | 143 | David TANNER | RRC | 53:50.0 | 02:23.0 |
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