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Montreal World Cup
Montreal - Canada
Genevičve
Jeanson crowned the splendid work of her five RONA/Esker teammates with a
magnificent win atop the Mount Royal for the Montreal World Cup Raceé
Jeanson beat the World Cup leader, Nicole Cooke from Great Britain (Ausra Gruodis – Safi)
and the German champion Judith Arndt (Nürberger Versicherung). Australian
Katie MacTier (Saturn) and the reigning world champion, Swedish Susanne Ljungskog (Power Plate Bik / Catalunya-Aliverti)
took fourth and fifth place.
As
usual on Mount Royal, today’s race started by aan attrition derby as the field
disintegrated from behind. RONA/Esker
set tempo from the start, and their multiple-stage rocket worked perfectly.
Meshy Holt, Erinne Willock, Cathy Marsal, Magali Le Floc’h and Karen
Bockel took turns and ste a tempo that eliminated racers.
Quickly, the 100-strong field came down to 40, then to a mere twenty
racers, among which were all the contenders – along with Jeanson, Cooke, Arndt
and Ljungskog, Saturn’s Lyne Bessette and Manon Jutras were there, along with
T Mobile’s Amber Neben, Kim Bruckner and Kristin Armstrong and Switzerland’s
Barbara Heeb.
With
two laps to go, the lead group had boiled down to only four riders at the end of
the climb (Jeanson, Cooke, Arndt and Ljungskog), but the small
lead group let itself be caught up on the way down. “I tried to get them to break away and leave the chasers behind”,
said Jeanson after the race, “but they wouldn’t go along”
So
Jeanson waited for the last of the twelve climbs up the Camilien Houde boulevard
to launch her decisive attack. And
decisive it was. Atop the mountain,
the local crowd went completely wild when they saw their own Genevičve emerge
from her last climb all alone, her face already lightened by her victory smile,
with no one behind her, and cross the finish line with her arms raised.
Jeanson’s
first words were for her teammates, who “ executed the race plan perfectly”,
she beamed. “This win belongs to
evry one of them. They were
aweseome today, they were so strong, Efrinne (Willock) and Karen (Bockel) pulled
me so fast up a couple of the climd that my legs were hurting!”
Monday, Team RONAEsker will start in the
Tour of Greater Montreal. They
start the day with a 3.5 km time trial in Lachine, then a criterium int
Montreal’s Little Italy. The
race’s web site is at www.worldcupmontreal.org.
|
Pos |
Name (Team) |
Time |
|
1 |
Genevičve
Jeanson (CAN, RONA/Esker) |
2h
51’ 07” (Avg. 34,92 km/h) |
|
2 |
Nicole
Cooke (GBR, Ausra Gruodis – Safi) |
11” |
|
3 |
Judith
Arndt (ALL, Nürberger
Versicherung)) |
11' |
|
4 |
Katie
MacTier (AUS, Saturn) |
13” |
|
5 |
Susanne
Ljungskog (SWE, Power Plate Bik / Catalunya) |
21” |
|
6 |
Sara
Carrigan (SWE, Power Plate Bik / Catalunya) |
31” |
|
7 |
Lyne
Bessette (CAN, Saturn) |
31' |
|
37 |
Magali
Le Floc’h (FRA, RONA/Esker) |
3’
33” |
|
39 |
Karen
Bockel (ALL, RONA/Esker) |
3'33" |
|
52 |
Catherine
Marsal (FRA, RONA/Esker) |
9’
59” |
|
54 |
Erinne
Willock (CAN, RONA/Esker) |
10’
06” |
Team
RONA/Esker is one of only two Canadian women’s cycling teams in the Elite
Category that are recognized by the International Cycling Union. The team is
made up of four Canadian racers (Genevičve Jeanson, Andrea Hannos, Carrie Tuck
and Erinne Willock), French racers Catherine Marsal and Magali Le Floc’h, New
Zealander Melissa Holt, German Karen Bockel and American Kristen LaSasso.
