March 15/02 11:23 am - Redlands Stage 3 Women's Results

Posted by Editor on 03/15/02
 

Redlands Classic - California

Women Stage 3, 131 km

Placing	Rider	Country	Team	Time/Time Behind
1	Judith Arndt	GER	SAW	3:51:18
2	Andrea Hannos	CAN	RON	at 2:53
3	Genevieve Jeanson	CAN	RON	9:58
4	Susy Pryde	NZL	TAL	11:25
5	Lyne Bessette	CAN	SAW	11:44
6	Lara Ruthven	USA	USA	11:53
7	Manon Jutros	CAN	RON	12:34
8	Dotsie Cowden	USA	USA	12:47
9	Caroline Alexander	GBR	TOT	12:48
10	Susan Palmer-Komar	CAN	TAL	13:21
11	Alison Dunlap	USA	LUN	14:08
12	Jenny Eyerman	USA	BIA	14:13
13	Alison Sydor	CAN	CAN	14:24
14	Barbara Blatter	SUI	TOT	14:28
15	Trish Choo	USA	HTV	14:28
16	Cybil Diguistini	CAN	DTR	14:28
17	Chrissy Redden	CAN	CAN	14:38
18	Sue Haywood	USA		14:38
19	Rhonda Quick	USA	HTV	14:53
20	Tina Mayolo-Pic	USA	DTR	14:53
21	Mari Holden	USA	USA	14:53
22	Joanne Kiesanowski	NZL	DTR	15:08
23	Kimberly Davidge	CAN	SAW	15:19
24	Kelli Emmett	USA	LUN	16:02
25	Lesley Tomlinson	CAN	CAN	16:33
26	Kim Anderson	USA	USA	16:46
27	Sue Thomas	GBR	TOT	17:07
28	Belem Guererro		ACM	17:07
29	Erin Carter	CAN	CAN	17:43
30	Trish Sinclair	CAN	CAN	17:54
31	Alison Littlefield	USA	TOT	17:54
32	Amy Jarvis	CAN	RON	17:54
33	Katrina Berger	USA	USA	18:34
34	Kori Kelly	USA	DTR	18:34
35	Nicole DeMars	CAN	BIA	19:10
36	Erin Mirabella	USA	HTV	19:17
37	Joan Wilson	USA	TAL	19:17
38	Giselle Trahan	CAN	VLR	19:22
39	Stacey Peters	USA	BIA	19:33
40	Deborah Durand	USA	HTV	19:33
41	Lynn Brotzman	USA		19:33
42	Gabriela Gonzales De Ferrat	MEX	AMO	19:36
43	Jennifer Stevens	USA	PAJ	19:47
44	Joy Shaffer	USA	LGT	19:54
45	Heather Cole	CAN		20:44
46	Maatje Benassi	USA		20:57
47	April Henderson	USA	VLR	21:35
48	Kiara Bisaro	CAN	CAN	21:40
49	Cynthia Mommsen	USA		21:44
50	Ivana Bisaro	CAN	VLR	22:35
51	Gina Grain	CAN	BIA	23:04
52	Kirstin Fisher	USA	VLR	23:10
53	Emma Davies	GBR	TOT	23:10
54	Cheryl Binney	USA	DTR	23:26
55	Gina Hall	USA	LUN	23:55
56	Patricia Patencia	MEX	ACM	24:04
57	Lisa Hunt	USA		24:07
58	Catherine Powers	USA		24:24
59	Sandra Kolb	USA	LGT	24:32
60	Christine Vardaros	USA	TOT	24:32
61	Melissa Sanborn	USA	VTC	24:43
62	Cynthia Carroll	USA		24:50
63	Jennifer Wilson	USA	BIO	25:06
64	Riley McAlpine	USA	HTV	25:33
65	Suzanne Sonye	USA	SAW	25:33
66	Lisa Milkavich	USA	VLR	26:01
67	Dara Rogers	USA	HTV	26:35
68	Gail Longenecker	USA	RON	26:35
69	Desira Utzig	USA	PAJ	26:35
70	Nicole Freedman	USA	RON	26:35
71	Lorraine Manning	IRL	VTC	27:19
72	Lauren Franges	USA	AMO	27:32
73	Mina Pizzini	USA	DTR	27:32
74	Renee Eastman	USA	VTC	27:32
75	Meredith Miller	USA	TAL	28:09
76	Lenora Felker	USA	AMO	28:54
77	Mandy Poitras	CAN	BIA	29:16
78	Patricia McKay	USA		31:12
79	Monica Huerta	MEX	ACM	32:00
80	Ina Teutenberg	GER	SAW	32:37
81	Petra Rossner	GER	SAW	32:37
82	Karen Dodge	USA	VTC	33:43
83	Daphne Perry	USA	BIO	38:54
84	Linda Biederman	USA		40:12
85	Alexe Yeung	HKG	AMO	41:38
86	Sally Warner	USA	BIO	42:16
87	Marisol Ponciano	MEX	ACM	45:45
88	Martha Meyer	USA		45:45
89	Missy Thompson	USA	USA	48:38
90	Patty Davis	USA	LGT	49:21
91	Maren Partridge-Osguthorpe	USA	BIO	50:51
92	Jennifer Scott	USA	VTC	52:08
93	Jennifer Petosa	USA	VTC	52:38
94	Nicole Brandt	USA	PAJ	52:52
DNF	Marla Streb	USA	LUN
DNF	Cindy McFarland	USA	VLR
DNS	Tina Skelley-Kunstbeck	USA	TAL
DNF	Anne Samplonius	CAN	TAL
DNF	Rosemary Coleman	USA
GC
1	Judith Arndt	GER	SAW	5:41:11
2	Andrea Hannos	CAN	RON	at 6:18
3	Genevieve Jeanson	CAN	RON	7:37:00
4	Lyne Bessette	CAN	SAW	10:12
5	Susy Pryde	NZL	TAL	12:15
6	Lara Ruthven	USA	USA	12:53
7	Manon Jutros	CAN	RON	13:17
8	Caroline Alexander	GBR	TOT	13:31
9	Susan Palmer-Komar	CAN	TAL	13:48
10	Mari Holden	USA	USA	13:54
11	Alison Dunlap	USA	LUN	14:09
12	Dotsie Cowden	USA	USA	14:31
13	Trish Choo	USA	HTV	15:09
14	Cybil Diguistini	CAN	DTR	15:09
15	Alison Sydor	CAN	CAN	15:16
16	Sue Haywood	USA		15:22
17	Chrissy Redden	CAN	CAN	15:27
18	Tina Mayolo-Pic	USA	DTR	15:43
19	Rhonda Quick	USA	HTV	15:59
20	Jenny Eyerman	USA	BIA	15:59
21	Barbara Blatter	SUI	TOT	16:07
22	Kelli Emmett	USA	LUN	17:26
23	Kim Anderson	USA	USA	17:43
24	Sue Thomas	GBR	TOT	18:05
25	Alison Littlefield	USA	TOT	19:06
26	Joanne Kiesanowski	NZL	DTR	19:12
27	Trish Sinclair	CAN	CAN	19:14
28	Erin Carter	CAN	CAN	19:18
29	Amy Jarvis	CAN	RON	19:20
30	Katrina Berger	USA	USA	19:41
31	Kori Kelly	USA	DTR	20:12
32	Stacey Peters	USA	BIA	20:17
33	Nicole DeMars	CAN	BIA	20:29
34	Lesley Tomlinson	CAN	CAN	20:31
35	Erin Mirabella	USA	HTV	20:45
36	Deborah Durand	USA	HTV	20:54
37	Joan Wilson	USA	TAL	21:18
38	Belem Guererro		ACM	21:24
39	Lynn Brotzman	USA		21:32
40	Kimberly Davidge	CAN	SAW	22:06
41	Maatje Benassi	USA		22:47
42	Gabriela Gonzales De Ferrat	MEX	AMO	23:33
43	Giselle Trahan	CAN	VLR	23:34
44	Heather Cole	CAN		23:52
45	Cynthia Mommsen	USA		24:14
46	Joy Shaffer	USA	LGT	24:22
47	Gina Hall	USA	LUN	25:15
48	Jennifer Stevens	USA	PAJ	25:41
49	Cheryl Binney	USA	DTR	25:52
50	Emma Davies	GBR	TOT	26:56
51	Gina Grain	CAN	BIA	27:22
52	Kiara Bisaro	CAN	CAN	27:27
53	Suzanne Sonye	USA	SAW	27:42
54	April Henderson	USA	VLR	27:51
55	Jennifer Wilson	USA	BIO	28:51
56	Kirstin Fisher	USA	VLR	29:06
57	Ivana Bisaro	CAN	VLR	29:17
58	Riley McAlpine	USA	HTV	29:32
59	Catherine Powers	USA		30:25
60	Gail Longenecker	USA	RON	30:43
61	Lisa Hunt	USA		30:47
62	Christine Vardaros	USA	TOT	30:49
63	Sandra Kolb	USA	LGT	30:49
64	Melissa Sanborn	USA	VTC	31:16
65	Dara Rogers	USA	HTV	31:23
66	Cynthia Carroll	USA		31:35
67	Nicole Freedman	USA	RON	32:24
68	Petra Rossner	GER	SAW	33:03
69	Desira Utzig	USA	PAJ	33:25
70	Mina Pizzini	USA	DTR	33:29
71	Renee Eastman	USA	VTC	33:39
72	Lauren Franges	USA	AMO	34:34
73	Meredith Miller	USA	TAL	34:42
74	Ina Teutenberg	GER	SAW	35:21
75	Karen Dodge	USA	VTC	39:33
76	Lenora Felker	USA	AMO	41:44
77	Mandy Poitras	CAN	BIA	42:35
78	Linda Biederman	USA		45:00
79	Monica Huerta	MEX	ACM	45:11
80	Daphne Perry	USA	BIO	45:27
81	Patricia Patencia	MEX	ACM	47:24
82	Alexe Yeung	HKG	AMO	48:08
83	Sally Warner	USA	BIO	48:22
84	Lisa Milkavich	USA	VLR	49:27
85	Lorraine Manning	IRL	VTC	50:54
86	Patricia McKay	USA		54:46
87	Jennifer Scott	USA	VTC	1:03:49
88	Marisol Ponciano	MEX	ACM	1:06:24
89	Jennifer Petosa	USA	VTC	1:13:25
90	Patty Davis	USA	LGT	1:13:36
91	Martha Meyer	USA		1:14:04
92	Missy Thompson	USA	USA	1:15:26
93	Nicole Brandt	USA	PAJ	1:16:40
94	Maren Partridge-Osguthorpe	USA	BIO	1:26:11
	Points Standings
1	Genevieve Jeanson	CAN	29 points
2	Judith Arndt	GER	26
3	Lyne Bessette	CAN	17
4	Andrea Hannos	CAN	15
5	Mari Holden	USA	13
6	Manon Jutros	CAN	6
7	Caroline Alexander	GBR	5
8	Susan Palmer-Komar	CAN	4
	Team GC
1	Rona Cycling Team	17:28:41
2	Saturn	at 1:09
3	Cannondale-USA	15:15
4	TalgoAmerica Cycling	21:22
5	Total Trainer	22:08
7	Canadian National	26:06

Team Rona Report

The cat and mouse game upset the Redlands Classic's general classification, which literally exploded today. A surprising stage ended with Judith Arndt (GER, Saturn Timex) wearing yellow, with Canadian Andrea Hannos from Team RONA jumping from 46th to second place, more than 6 minutes behind. Her leader Geneviève Jeanson is third at 7' 37''. Lyne Bessette (CAN, Saturn Timex), fifth of the stage, is now 4th overall, more than 10 minutes behind Arndt. Manon Jutras (CAN, RONA) advances to 7th place in GC.

Today's stage was 131 km-long. With three major climbs, everybody expected another Bessette-Jeanson duel - the whole race was at stake, and not only the stage win.

The girls started in a cool, cloudy weather. " My directives were simple for the initial part of the race", explained RONA's directeur sportif André Aubut. The girls had to keep a good rhythm at the front to prevent any dangerous breakaway. They had to watch Judith Arndt, Petra Rossner (GER, Saturn Timex) and Mari Holden (USA, Cannondale-USA). Geneviève had to cover Lyne Bessette."

Less than eight kilometers from the start, Judith Arndt attacked. Arndt was 2' 27'' behind at GC, and Behind her leader Bessette. Obviously, it was a case of the wearing down tactic, just like the day before. Just like the day before, the pack didn't budge. RONA's Andrea Hannos jumped in Arndt's wheel. The gap grew. "Then I had a tough choice", said Aubut. "Either I asked Geneviève to chase and work like she did yesterday, or I refused to play this little game again. I chose not to play." It was left to Jeanson's teammate Manon Jutras to organize the chase and leave the pack with seven other girls, including Susy Pryde (NZL, TalgoAmerica) and two Cannondale-USA (Lara Ruthven and Dotsie Cowden). They built up a lead on the pack but couldn't catch Arndt and Hannos. "I feel that Manon was left to do more than her share of the work in the chase group", said Aubut.

And so Arndt and Hannos made it together to the bottom of the final climb. With about 10 km to go, they had a 10-minute lead on the chase group, and more than 15 minutes on the peloton, where the two GC leaders, Jeanson and Bessette, could be found - neither of them taking any initiative.

Only then, at the bottom of the long and winding climb, did Jeanson unleash her power. She literally devoured the hill, making up 5 minutes on Arndt in 10 kilometers. But the gap was much too big. Arndt was alone on the finish line, 2'43'' in front of Andrea Hannos. Seven minutes after Hannos, Jeanson, who had passed the whole chase group, finished the stage in a time 15 minutes slower than her winning time last year.

"Of course I'm disappointed that we lost the yellow jersey", Aubut commented after the race, "but I made the decision and I have no regrets. Bottom line, it's not a bad day. We have three girls in the top ten in GC, two of them in a position to be on the podium Sunday. We lead in the team GC. I think we're proving that RONA is a good team, and not limited to Geneviève. Maybe the peloton will understand that neither Geneviève nor RONA will do all the work while everybody else sits back and waits. There must be other girls who can race to win!"

 

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