McConnell & Fisher kick things off at Cape-to-Cape

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Australian national cross-country Champion Dan McConnell and Niki Fisher claimed the respective men’s and women’s honours on a blustery stage one of the 2010 Cape-to-Cape in Western Australia.

Chris Jongewaard and Josh Carlson claimed the men’s podium positions, while Bec Henderson and Claire Albury finished second and third in the women’s race.

The race kicked off from Cape Leeuwin Lighthouse with a field of more than 400 riders lined-up for the 40 kilometre first stage. McConnell and Jongewaard set the early pace as they moved out to a 30 second lead after just four kilometres. The pair worked together to consolidate their lead through Augusta Forest.

They remained together until Deepdene Beach, where McConnell was able to negotiate the boggy sand better than his rival. Despite Jongewaard’s best efforts to catch his former companion after coming off the sand, McConnell was able to hold on for a one-minute victory at Dune Tracks.

The chase group behind included Josh Carlson and Shaun Lewis, who sealed third and fourth place. Local rider Rowan Brown put in a strong performance in the lead group, the 16-year-old finishing inside the top-ten on the stage.

In the women’s race Niki Fisher finished four minutes clear of Bec Henderson. The result is a good sign for Fisher, who is aiming for her third successive victory at the four-stage race. Claire Albury and Katherine O’Shea finished the stage several minutes behind the leaders.

Place	Name	Category	Time
1	Dan McConnell	Open Men	1:34:16
2	Chris Jongewaard	Open Men	1:35:07
3	Josh Carlson	Open Men	1:38:09
4	Shaun Lewis	Open Men	1:38:10
5	Rowan Brown	Open Men	1:38:11
6	Jon Gregg	Open Men	1:38:12
7	Chris Fisher	Open Men	1:41:43
8	Troy Glennan	Open Men	1:42:55
9	Erik Mellegers	Open Men	1:45:14
10	Rohin Adams	Open Men	1:47:26
11	Simon Dec	Open Men	1:48:38
12	Adrian Middleton	Open Men	1:50:33
13	John Carney	Open Men	1:51:14
14	Robbie Rhodes	Open Men	1:52:11
15	David Wilson	Open Men	1:52:44
16	Brad Hetharia	Open Men	1:57:28
17	Damon Wicki	Open Men	1:57:41
18	Ralph Herbort	Open Men	1:58:12
19	Robbie Verity	Open Men	2:00:41
20	Sam Pierce	Open Men	2:03:00
21	Jason Auld	Open Men	2:03:40
22	Mike Daws	Open Men	2:04:15
23	Mick Ross	Open Men	2:04:36
24	Evan Jones	Open Men	2:05:34
25	Johann Burger	Open Men	2:07:26
26	Jason Larsson	Open Men	2:08:12
27	Joseph Bury	Open Men	2:09:36
28	Clint Green	Open Men	2:10:58
29	Brett Vanson	Open Men	2:11:22
30	James Little	Open Men	2:11:55
31	Brenton Rose	Open Men	2:14:59
32	Simon Barron	Open Men	2:16:54
33	Michael Hart	Open Men	2:16:57
34	Mike Hearne	Open Men	2:17:49
35	Jason Holt	Open Men	2:17:50
36	Peter Dennis Mckay	Open Men	2:18:02
37	Andrew Patterson	Open Men	2:18:03
38	Tim Devolder	Open Men	2:18:07
39	Kyle J Chrystie	Open Men	2:19:02
40	James Roberts	Open Men	2:19:03
41	Mathew Donaldson	Open Men	2:19:42
42	Andrew Jamieson	Open Men	2:20:47
43	John Charles	Open Men	2:21:49
44	Ryan Tunnell	Open Men	2:21:50
45	Dan Harris	Open Men	2:22:38
46	Adam Martin	Open Men	2:23:56
47	Ashley Genefaas	Open Men	2:26:23
48	Justin Marendoli-Murray	Open Men	2:26:24
49	Nic Christie	Open Men	2:26:28
50	Brett Amos	Open Men	2:27:28
51	Mirco Della Vecchia	Open Men	2:27:32
52	Samuel Davey	Open Men	2:28:37
53	Luke Miller	Open Men	2:28:38
54	Leslie Mcgill	Open Men	2:28:39
55	Ian Stegmann	Open Men	2:29:15
56	Kurt Harmer	Open Men	2:30:05
57	Paul Lill	Open Men	2:31:57
58	Geoff Hawking	Open Men	2:32:23
59	Dean Mcpherson	Open Men	2:32:24
60	Ben Brodrick	Open Men	2:34:07
61	Stuart Glenn	Open Men	2:35:51
62	Noel Michelson	Open Men	2:36:02
63	David Carder	Open Men	2:36:03
64	Mike Boyd	Open Men	2:39:26
65	Jason Domenech	Open Men	2:40:23
66	Scott Holmes	Open Men	2:40:34
67	Mark Hodgson	Open Men	2:41:08
68	Brett Taylor	Open Men	2:41:10
69	Christopher Hunt	Open Men	2:41:15
70	Carlton Higgs	Open Men	2:41:22
71	Matt Cartwright	Open Men	2:41:27
72	William Hermon	Open Men	2:43:17
73	Craig Sanders	Open Men	2:44:19
74	Steven Perrot	Open Men	2:44:46
75	Tony Newnham	Open Men	2:52:12
76	Eric Frei	Open Men	2:52:28
77	Bart Hollemans	Open Men	2:53:51
78	Jeff Bruce	Open Men	2:54:38
79	Ben Thorman	Open Men	2:56:21
80	David Hodgson	Open Men	2:57:58
81	Tony Mclellan	Open Men	2:59:54
82	Simon Arnoldi	Open Men	3:01:07
83	Chris Mccleay	Open Men	3:01:52
84	Bennet Moss	Open Men	3:03:25
85	Anthony Knapton	Open Men	3:03:28
86	Chris Morris	Open Men	3:04:14
87	Tim Vidler	Open Men	3:04:33
88	Jeroen Brantjens	Open Men	3:05:43
89	Vaughan Hughes	Open Men	3:06:07
90	Gary Mcgrath	Open Men	3:06:26
91	Cary Wintle	Open Men	3:06:28
92	Christopher Matthew Lewis	Open Men	3:07:49
93	Danny Smith	Open Men	3:10:40
94	Phillip Hart	Open Men	3:14:32
95	Troy Steven	Open Men	3:14:33
96	John Outram	Open Men	3:14:34
97	David Stark	Open Men	3:14:35
98	Paul Johnson	Open Men	3:18:08
99	Llewellyn Jackson	Open Men	3:24:11
100	David Mcloughlin	Open Men	3:31:58
101	John Waddell	Open Men	3:35:55
102	Andre Stefanus Schonfeldt	Open Men	3:37:57
103	Peter Davis	Open Men	3:58:27
104	Cyril Laurent	Open Men	4:07:26
105	Josh Jones	Open Men	4:07:27
106	Adam Williams	Open Men	4:12:20
107	Chris Stowell	Open Men	4:12:21
108	Jamie Stowell	Open Men	4:12:22
109	Ben Moon	Open Men	4:12:50
110	Greg O’Dea	Open Men	4:13:14
111	James Hockridge	Open Men	4:14:00
112	Regan Smallridge	Open Men	4:25:33
113	Stewart James	Open Men	4:27:32
114	Pawel Hasiuk	Open Men	4:51:13
1	Niki Fisher	Open Women	1:59:54
2	Rebecca Henderson	Open Women	2:03:48
3	Claire Aubrey	Open Women	2:04:00
4	Katherine Oshea	Open Women	2:12:34
5	Renee Tuke	Open Women	2:15:00
6	Keira Macfarlane	Open Women	2:33:00
7	Theresa Andrews	Open Women	2:45:38
8	Natalie Sullivan	Open Women	2:45:39
9	Karen Donaldson	Open Women	2:56:55
10	Julie Bull	Open Women	3:03:08
11	Andreas Raymond	Open Women	3:04:31
12	Pippa Bell	Open Women	3:17:31
13	Kerry Ferguson	Open Women	3:19:15
14	Nadia D’Hart	Open Women	3:31:57
15	Joy Wilson	Open Women	3:35:54
16	Jane Dean	Open Women	3:35:56
17	Tamzin Verning	Open Women	3:39:24
18	Cathryn O’Sullivan	Open Women	4:12:51
19	Magdalena Czekaj	Open Women	4:51:12
1	Lieb Loots	Masters Male	1:46:38
2	Jon Guy	Masters Male	1:51:53
3	Innes Davie	Masters Male	1:53:40
4	Marius Loots	Masters Male	2:00:02
5	Mark Rubery	Masters Male	2:00:54
6	Ian Trayler	Masters Male	2:04:14
7	Anthony Thornburn	Masters Male	2:08:10
8	Graham De La Mare	Masters Male	2:09:11
9	Bert Floss	Masters Male	2:11:15
10	Michael Brookes	Masters Male	2:11:24
11	Damian Garfield Tice	Masters Male	2:11:25
12	Morten Bjerregaard Hansen	Masters Male	2:11:57
13	Malcolm Lynn	Masters Male	2:12:35
14	Jeremy Lowe	Masters Male	2:12:59
15	Tim Roach	Masters Male	2:14:06
16	Evan Floyd	Masters Male	2:14:33
17	Michael Tubby	Masters Male	2:15:17
18	Paul Heyes	Masters Male	2:16:11
19	Martin Patrick Nugent	Masters Male	2:16:36
20	Mike Thorman	Masters Male	2:16:55
21	Ian Sandover	Masters Male	2:18:42
22	Anton Muller	Masters Male	2:18:47
23	Paul Innes	Masters Male	2:20:05
24	Phillip Lewis	Masters Male	2:21:32
25	Sean Brandis	Masters Male	2:21:48
26	Scott Anderson	Masters Male	2:22:36
27	Terry Ernst	Masters Male	2:22:56
28	Graeme Muston	Masters Male	2:26:19
29	Michael Tyrrell	Masters Male	2:26:20
30	Jeff Francis Coward	Masters Male	2:26:22
31	Tony Best	Masters Male	2:26:25
32	Mark Raymond	Masters Male	2:26:31
33	Simon Peryer	Masters Male	2:26:35
34	Heath Watkins	Masters Male	2:27:03
35	Kim Sparks	Masters Male	2:28:13
36	Timothy John Mcnamara	Masters Male	2:28:36
37	Micheal Rainford-Watson	Masters Male	2:28:40
38	Nick Radice	Masters Male	2:29:14
39	Richard Say	Masters Male	2:29:24
40	Geoff Barrett	Masters Male	2:30:06
41	Dave Marshall	Masters Male	2:30:22
42	Jeff Francis	Masters Male	2:31:13
43	Paul Tognolini	Masters Male	2:31:31
44	Dave Baker	Masters Male	2:31:58
45	Brian Thompson	Masters Male	2:33:12
46	Stephen Lee	Masters Male	2:33:19
47	Kevin Ireland	Masters Male	2:33:21
48	Rick Renton	Masters Male	2:33:28
49	Stewart Muirhead	Masters Male	2:34:34
50	Bill Whalley	Masters Male	2:35:47
51	Bruno Wicki	Masters Male	2:35:48
52	Stephen Williamson	Masters Male	2:35:49
53	Peter Caporn	Masters Male	2:35:50
54	Clive Webb-Martin	Masters Male	2:36:53
55	Shane Paddon	Masters Male	2:37:16
56	Mark Mariotti	Masters Male	2:37:18
57	Bob Anderson	Masters Male	2:39:27
58	Dean De Wit	Masters Male	2:39:28
59	Phil Baker	Masters Male	2:39:29
60	Angus Stuart	Masters Male	2:41:09
61	Neil Blakey	Masters Male	2:41:11
62	Daniel Engdahl	Masters Male	2:41:17
63	Mark Giddy	Masters Male	2:41:20
64	Steven Ryan	Masters Male	2:41:23
65	Rob Bruce	Masters Male	2:41:25
66	Richard Fear	Masters Male	2:41:26
67	Darin Bryce	Masters Male	2:41:29
68	Trevor Brian Atkinson	Masters Male	2:42:30
69	Waren Gaull	Masters Male	2:42:31
70	Rob Brewis	Masters Male	2:43:02
71	Ashley Burton	Masters Male	2:43:18
72	Kim Beardsell	Masters Male	2:43:41
73	Paul Harvey	Masters Male	2:43:44
74	Les Somers	Masters Male	2:43:46
75	Michael Scott	Masters Male	2:44:18
76	Bob Williams	Masters Male	2:46:11
77	Max Thorley	Masters Male	2:48:49
78	Simon Cook	Masters Male	2:50:32
79	Kim Webb-Martin	Masters Male	2:52:11
80	Stewart Parkinson	Masters Male	2:52:27
81	Michael John Warr	Masters Male	2:52:48
82	Garry Garside	Masters Male	2:53:16
83	Stephan Arndt	Masters Male	2:53:27
84	Markham Gee	Masters Male	2:54:17
85	Kevin Norris	Masters Male	2:55:03
86	Brett Maclennan	Masters Male	2:55:57
87	Mark Scrymagour	Masters Male	2:56:46
88	Paul Gravett	Masters Male	2:56:56
89	Hayden Thomas	Masters Male	3:00:14
90	Tony Hendry	Masters Male	3:00:23
91	George Tate	Masters Male	3:01:19
92	Bernard Corbett	Masters Male	3:01:53
93	Ken Strickland	Masters Male	3:04:13
94	Malcolm Sligo	Masters Male	3:04:32
95	Philip Walsh	Masters Male	3:04:34
96	Brett Mccamish	Masters Male	3:04:36
97	Norman Pater	Masters Male	3:05:12
98	Wade Stephenson	Masters Male	3:05:13
99	Scott Mortley	Masters Male	3:05:44
100	Lee Perry	Masters Male	3:06:22
101	Paul Sofilas	Masters Male	3:06:23
102	John Rechichi	Masters Male	3:06:24
103	Geoff Hooke	Masters Male	3:06:25
104	Richard Christie	Masters Male	3:06:27
105	David Hanson	Masters Male	3:07:13
106	John Lascelles	Masters Male	3:07:33
107	Mark Brown	Masters Male	3:07:50
108	Mark Rayfield	Masters Male	3:08:25
109	Andrew Butterworth	Masters Male	3:10:00
110	Robert Campbell-Burns	Masters Male	3:10:01
111	Mark Steel	Masters Male	3:11:39
112	Chris Ridge	Masters Male	3:12:39
113	Farrell Maxwell	Masters Male	3:13:00
114	Andrew Shave	Masters Male	3:13:01
115	Brian Wallace	Masters Male	3:15:21
116	Alan Hall	Masters Male	3:15:22
117	Nick Ellwood	Masters Male	3:16:23
118	David Roux	Masters Male	3:16:31
119	Paul Bean	Masters Male	3:17:03
120	Martin Milton	Masters Male	3:19:16
121	Neil Ferguson	Masters Male	3:21:03
122	Kenneth Koh	Masters Male	3:22:24
123	Peter Benjamin	Masters Male	3:29:19
124	Mark R Phillips	Masters Male	3:30:22
125	Simon Dunn	Masters Male	3:32:50
126	Warren Hillman	Masters Male	3:33:15
127	Garth Baxter	Masters Male	3:37:56
128	Shane Bushbu	Masters Male	3:38:24
129	Brandon Hegh	Masters Male	3:40:39
130	Mark Peel	Masters Male	3:50:05
131	Jeff Brill	Masters Male	3:50:51
132	Neil Andrew Vance	Masters Male	3:50:52
133	Wayne Peel	Masters Male	3:50:53
134	Peter Macgill	Masters Male	3:54:00
135	Alvin Harrison	Masters Male	3:57:14
136	Mark Goodson	Masters Male	3:57:17
137	Bill Davis	Masters Male	3:58:28
138	Job Mayberry	Masters Male	4:01:17
139	Paul Baxendale	Masters Male	4:04:12
140	Howard Gray	Masters Male	4:06:47
141	Charles Noble	Masters Male	4:08:39
142	Gavin Hartley	Masters Male	4:15:50
143	Andrew Tregonning	Masters Male	4:18:56
144	Bryce Lucas	Masters Male	4:33:32
145	Mike Henderson	Masters Male	4:46:30
1	Dianne James	Masters Female	2:41:14
2	Krissi Brewster	Masters Female	2:56:35
3	Gail Thomas	Masters Female	3:00:24
4	Janet Musker	Masters Female	3:00:53
5	Nicole Harvard	Masters Female	3:08:43
6	Megan Patey	Masters Female	3:09:59
7	Laura Liong	Masters Female	3:22:23
8	Karen Lewis	Masters Female	3:35:13
9	Kim Wayne Luciano	Masters Female	3:37:59
10	Sharon Mason	Masters Female	3:45:38
11	Sarah Lodge	Masters Female	3:45:39
12	Ann Storey	Masters Female	3:55:51
13	Carol Masters	Masters Female	4:05:14
14	Katie Brassil	Masters Female	4:06:07
15	Maryanne Phillips	Masters Female	4:06:54
16	Joanne O’Sullivan	Masters Female	4:13:13
17	Kathryn Lee Tregonning	Masters Female	4:18:55
18	Kristin Lucas	Masters Female	4:33:33
19	Jane Henderson	Masters Female	4:46:31
1	Bill Guest & Adrian Von Senger	Team	2:41:06
2	David & Alison Cormack	Team	2:41:07