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Geelong Tour

21st - 23rd February

Stage 1

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Stage 1 : Tuesday 21st February

Portarlington Time Trial, 10:30am 8km

Christiane Soeder took the new look purple leader's jersey in the 2006 Geelong Tour on Tuesday morning. Her time trial performance was 5 seconds faster than both Russian, Svetlana Bubnenkova and Melissa Holt from New Zealand. Soeder rides for Univega, which is the team of World TT Champion, Karin Thürig (not in Melbourne this week), perhaps some of the technique has 'rubbed off'?.... The morning was almost perfect for time trialling. Riders reported a headwind on the way out to the turn of the out-and-back course, but it was nothing significant. The temperature was in the early 20s 'C and the skies were overcast, adding to the good conditions.

Soeder has been in Melbourne for the past 6 weeks. She has been training and racing in club events with local team-mate, Emma Rickards, as well as Priska Doppman and Sara Duester. Jo Kiesanowski and Nicole Cooke have joined the Univega "training camp" in Australia in just the past couple of weeks.

Amanda Spratt rode strongly to take the lead in the Under 21 competition. She was pleased to be wearing the jersey, but told WCN that it would not necessarily be an Australian National Team strategy to protect it. She knows very well that the Portarlington criterium circuit is a tough one and pointed out that there would be more competitors on it than ever, with over 130 starters in the 2006 Geelong Tour.

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Results Top 10 Click here for full result

Position	Name		Nat	Team	Time / Gap
1	Christiane	Soeder	Aut	Univega Pro Cycling Team	11.07.51
2	Svetlana	Bubnenkova	Rus	Russian National Team	0.04.53
3	Mellisa	Holt	NZl	Bike New Zealand	0.05.31
4	Oenone	Wood	Aus	Equipe Nürnberger Versicherung	0.11.41
5	Natalie	Bates	Aus	New South Wales Institute of Sport	0.13.93
6	Sarah	Ulmer	NZl	Bike New Zealand	0.17.60
7	Katherine	Bates	Aus	Equipe Nürnberger Versicherung	0.20.88
8	Kristen	Armstrong	USA	USA Cycling Team	0.24.79
9	Priska	Doppmann	Swi	Univega Pro Cycling Team	0.27.01
10	Judith	Arndt	Ger	T-Mobile	0.33.54

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Overall Classification Top 10 Click here for Full GC

Position	Name		Nat	Team	Time / Gap
1	Christiane	Soeder	Aut	Univega Pro Cycling Team	11.07
2	Svetlana	Bubnenkova	Rus	Russian National Team	0.05
3	Mellisa	Holt	NZl	Bike New Zealand
4	Oenone	Wood	Aus	Equipe Nürnberger Versicherung	0.11
5	Natalie	Bates	Aus	New South Wales Institute of Sport	0.14
6	Sarah	Ulmer	NZl	Bike New Zealand	0.18
7	Katherine	Bates	Aus	Equipe Nürnberger Versicherung	0.21
8	Kristen	Armstrong	USA	USA Cycling Team	0.25
9	Priska	Doppmann	Swi	Univega Pro Cycling Team	0.27
10	Judith	Arndt	Ger	T-Mobile	0.34

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Best Young Rider

1 Amanda Spratt	Aus	Australian National Team	12.01
2 Amy Hunt	GBr	SAFI - Pasta Zara Manhattan	0.21
3 Hannah Banks	Aus	Australian National Team	0.22
4 Louise Kerr	Aus	Queensland Academy of Sport
5 Irina Zemlyanskaya	Rus	Russian National Team	0.35
6 Tiffany Cromwell	Aus	SAFI - Pasta Zara Manhattan	0.4
7 Marlen Johrend	Ger	German National Team	0.47
8 Annalisa Cucinotta	Ita	Italian National Team	1.27

Sprint classification

1 Christiane Soeder	Aut	Univega Pro Cycling Team	8 pts
2 Svetlana Bubnenkova	Rus	Russian National Team	6
3 Mellisa Holt	NZl	Bike New Zealand	4

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