The Aussie Cup at the Jayco Bay Crit series.
Serious now, lets go back in time. The third of April 2011, at the beautiful market square in Oudenaarde. Pretty cold, but sunny. I walked up to the first girl that wondered around in the green and gold colours, about an hour before the start of the Ronde van Vlaanderen. Shara Gillow was her name. Well, today, fourth of January 2012 she received the $AUS 1000 cheque for winning the women’s Aussie Cup. It was Ms Caroline Clarke, director of SCM Services, Tullamarine, who present the price.
The presentation of the Omnisport International Women’s Aussie Cup took place at the final stage of the 2012 Jayco Bay Series in Williamstown, Victoria, organized by John Trevorrow.
That miss Gillow is serious about these awards, she proofed immediately in the 3th stage by taken the first win of the year for the new GreenEdge team.
The Bay crits didn’t start very well tho for the green and whities, Chloe Hosking and Loren Rowney both riding for the Total Rush-Hyster team took the win at stage 1 and 2.
In both races the GreenEdge women took second place. Chloe won solo, with Hoskins and Gilmore a little behind her. In the second stage it was Loren who hold off Amanda Spratt.
In both races the GreenEdge women took second place. Chloe won solo, with Hoskins and Gilmore a little behind her. In the second stage it was Loren who hold off Amanda Spratt.
Chloe Hosking kept the leaders jersey.
In stage 3 the GreenEdge girls did what everybody expected right from the start of the series. Taking a stage win! But how? With 5 team members in the top 7! They only allowed the Jayco’s, Grace Sulzberger and Sinead Noonan, to take spot 2 and 6.
The ranking changed as well with now Melissa Hoskins leading over Chloe Hosking.
The final stage would decide final GC, because the smallest gap of one point separated the girls.
And this time it was Amanda Spratt and Melissa Hoskin who took 1 and 2 and left Chloe on third place. GreenEdge – Total Rush/Hyster 2-2 in the winners ranking, altough the pro girls in the white and green jerseys finally took the 3 classements.
Melissa Hoskins won GC, Shara Gillow won the Sprint Ace Competition and the 5 girls won the Teams Classification.
More important for the OmniSport International Women’s Aussie Cup was that Ms Caroline Clarke was present in person and could witness that women’s racing is as exciting as men’s racing. But she is not the person we have to convince about this!
New for the 2012 Cup is that besides the UCI and Belgian National calendar also the Australian National events will count for the ranking. With the help of Barry Langley and Nathan Fraser, i hope i get all the Australian race results we need for a new thrilling season of ladies cycling.
HOSKINS Melissa
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GreenEdge - AIS
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41
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HOSKING Chloe
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TOTAL RUSH - HYSTER
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38
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SPRATT Amanda
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GreenEdge - AIS
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36
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GILMORE Rochelle
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BikeExchange
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28
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CROMWELL Tiffany
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GreenEdge - AIS
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26
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ROWNEY Loren
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TOTAL RUSH - HYSTER
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26
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EDMONDSON Annette
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PITCHER PARTNERS
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26
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MACLEAN Jessie
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GreenEdge - AIS
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26
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GILLOW Shara
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GreenEdge - AIS
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24
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SULZBERGER Grace
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JAYCO - AIS
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23
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ELVIN Gracie
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JAYCO - AIS
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19
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FINEGAN Kate
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SPENCERS RACE
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16
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NOONAN Sinead
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JAYCO - AIS
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14
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HENDERSON Rebecca
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SUZUKI - TREK
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13
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FORSYTH Sue
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PITCHER PARTNERS
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12
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BROUN Kirsty
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BikeExchange
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11
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FRY Rowena
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JAYCO - AIS
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9
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KING Isabella
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PITCHER PARTNERS
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8
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MULLENS Peta
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BikeExchange
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8
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COLDWELL Lucy
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Carnegie Caulfield CC
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8
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WIASAK Rebecca
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SUZUKI - TREK
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6
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WHITBURN Nicole
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DEGANI BAKERY CAFE
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3
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BERNECKER Melina
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Le Grange
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3
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MC CONVILLE Chloe
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Carnegie Caulfield CC
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3
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WERNER Rebecca
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3
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GALLOWAY Myfanwy
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BikeExchange
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1
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CARLE Alex
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JAYCO - AIS
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1
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Ms Caroline Clarke present the1st price of the AussieCup 2011 to Shara Gillow
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