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Under 19 National Championships

This event has been again held in the Gold Coast region from the 9th to the 13th June 2011.
Gold Coast local and Goldstars member, Jesse Kerrison rode as first year Under 19.

Full report to follow.

PIMPAMA FLOOD APPEAL RACE 16 January 2011

The regular Pimpama Road Race was run as a benefit for the Premier’s Flood Appeal today. Riders were to pay $15 minimum entry fee, and no prize money was paid. All takings were pledged to the Appeal.
120 riders turned up, many from Brisbane including many of the Team Mainline riders.
With the donated entry fees, an anonymous donation to cover the traffic control, a top-up from the Goldstars and Cycling Queensland donating back the race sanction fee, $2,150 was raised for donation to the Appeal.
Racing was good with Geoff Straub taking out the main A Grade event with local juniors, Jesse Kerrison and Brendan Hill taking out the minor placings. The Club wished to thank all those who made the day a success.

CONGRATULATIONS TO JULIE BARNETT

AWARDED THE NATIONAL FEMALE MASTERS CYCLIST OF THE YEAR FOR 2010

At a gala dinner at the Sofitel Melbourne last night our very own Goldstars member Julie Barnett was recognised for all the hard work and commitment that she has put into her training and racing including her most recent achievements winning two gold medals at the World Masters Track Championships to add to the three golds she collected at the Nationals where she also set Championship records for the 500m and flying 200m distances. Well deserved!!

Metropolitan 2010 Day 1 Results
Metropolitan Championships – Day 2

Important Notice for All Members – Closing Date for Open Events

From CQ http://www.qld.cycling.org.au/?Page=36131

Cycling Queensland wishes to advise members that ALL nominations for Open Events now close a minimum of fourteen (14) days prior to each event. This means that riders will need to be more diligent than in the past to ensure that their nominations are received before the cut-off date. The CQ Technical Committee have deemed it necessary to make this change to ensure all promoters and volunteers are given sufficient time to prepare for events. Many hours have been lost in previous years making last minute adjustments to start lists and this change will seek to address the increasing problem.

The ability to submit a late nomination will still be at the promoters discretion and will be clearly indicated on the event flyer and the online registration page if this applies. All late entries are still subject to the normal late fee of $20 Seniors & $10 Juniors.

2010 QLD Junior Road Championships

As reported earlier in the week riders from Goldstars Cycling Club performed strongly at the Championships last weekend.

Racing was held on Saturday at Nundah and Sunday at Kalbar and everyone who participated in the various races rode with great enthusiasm and determination and in the spirit of true sportsmanship.

Special mention must go to those riders who were successful in winning State Championship medals.

Of the 80 medals presented over the weekend, Goldstars riders won 22, including 9 Gold, 6 Silver and 7 Bronze medals.

This was the best result of all the clubs that participated with the next best performing club (Sunshine Coast) winning 11 medals.

Congratulations to the following medal winners

Gold

Zakk Patterson – ITT, Road Race and Criterium
Ryan Duncan – ITT, Road Race
Courtney Patterson – Criterium
Daniel Rae – Criterium
Jesse Kerrison – Road Race, Criterium

Silver

Mitchell Rae – ITT
Courtney Patterson – ITT, Road Race
Bailey Deacon – Road Race
Ryan Duncan – Criterium
Danica Kloppers – Criterium

Bronze

Bailey Deacon – ITT, Criterium
Jesse Kerrison – ITT
Mitchell Rae – Road Race
Danica Kloppers – ITT, Road Race
Daniel Rae – Road Race

Special congratulations to both Jesse and Danica who have been selected in the Queensland Team for the upcoming National Championships.

Special thanks also to the coaches, parents and supporters who cheered on the riders throughout the weekend.

2010 QLD Elite Masters Criterium Championships

Great news coming out of the Queensland Elite Masters Criterium Championships held at Nundah in Brisbane over the weekend.

All of the Goldstars riders performed strongly with several riders achieving top three results

MMAS 8 & 9: Ron Grant – 3rd
MMAS 6: Peter Flynn – 1st
MMAS 5: Greg Sands – 1st
MMAS 4: Andre Clayden – 1st (by inches !)
WMAS 2-5: Julie Barnett – 1st
Elite Women: Loren Rowney – 3rd

Congratulations to everyone who participated and go Goldstars !

2010 Rydges-BellCity Australian Masters Track Cycling Championships

MMAS5 15km Points Race Final
1 – Kim THOMAS Fatboys C.C.
2 – David FAIRBURN Bendigo & District CC
3 – Arch DAVIS Gold Coast Goldstars CC

Photo is not that great, but you get the picture. And, in Goldstars strip.
Also, our resident female trackie champion has done it again. Julie Barnett has won the sprint, the 500 Time Trial and the Scratch Race.
Watch her in the Sprints.

WMAS4 500m Time Trial Final
1 – Julie BARNETT Gold Coast Goldstars C C – 45.53 39.532
2 – Helen GRIFFITHS Gold Coast CATS Cycling Club – 44.48 40.470

WMAS4 5km Scratch Race Final
1 – Julie BARNETT Gold Coast Goldstars C C – 7′ 54

WMAS 4-7 Sprint Final Gold Medal
1 – Julie BARNETT Gold Coast Goldstars C C – 13.479, 13.396, 12.99

And, Ron Grant took Bronze in the Masteres 9 Scratch race

MMAS9 Sprint Final Bronze Medal
3 – Ron GRANT Gold Coast Goldstars C C – 14.801

Junior National Track Championships Melbourne

Jesse Kerrison has added more medals to his tally winning Gold in the 500m Time Trial and Bronze in the Team Sprint with fellow Queenslanders Brendan Hill and Jordan Toyne. He also came 5th in the 7.5km Scratch Race.
He had already won a Gold Medal in the JM17 500m Time Trial – he rode an impressive 33.788 and the National Record stands at 33.76.

Danica Kloppers is also enjoying her first experience racing at National level and 11 seems to be her lucky number. She came 11th in the JW15 Sprint, 11th in the Time Trial with a time of 42.059 and also 11th in the Individual Pursuit with a time of 40.78.

Well done Jesse and Danica !!

Jesse Kerrison Joins the “Racing Kangaroos”

On Friday night the 5th Feb 2010, Carolyn, Jesse and I jumped in the car at about seven in the evening and headed off to Inverell for the launch of “The Racing Kangaroos”. We arrived in Inverell at 1.30am on Saturday morning.

At about 10.00am we walked to the local pool, and met up with the other parents and boys who have been lucky enough to be selected in the team. The team were all given 2XU clothing, consisting of knicks and a jersey and a polo shirt. The gear will become the teams training kit once 2XU has finished the complete racing kit, which will include jackets and vests as well. We were told the design is quite special and was a bit of a secret, we can’t wait.

Then Kurt Pollock the team director, rolled in a brand new 2010 Cervelo R3SL, with Sram red and Zipp 404s. These will be the team bikes with every rider getting the same bike. U15 and U17 riders will have wheels that through Zipp are being specially made out of alloy so as to meet the junior wheel rules.

Then all the riders registered for the annual Heinrich Haussler crit. which this year doubled as the launch race for the team. All team members raced very well, with Jesse winning B grade. He was entered in A grade but the NSW commissaires would not let him race A grade due to his gear restrictions, so be it.

Next, we all went to the Inverell RSL club for the team launch to what Carolyn and I thought might be a small affair. Well, there were Cervelos hanging on the walls and banners up every where for the sponsors, Heinrich Haussler’s stage winning jersey from the Tour De France, and I immediatley thought the evening might be a bit more special than I first thought. There were 300 plus people there, with ABC and SBS media, Rupert Guiness (cycling journo), Stephen Hodge as MC for the night, a member of NSW Senate, representatives from all sponsors and many more. The night proved to be interesting.

What made Carolyn and my head spin, was that the whole evening was for 12 kids that we had watched develop into a cycling team, and of course that our son was part of it.

A couple of highlights, were Heinrich Haussler Snr chatting to the room as if he were speaking individually to each and every person in the room, telling us that in each rider in the team he can see the promise he saw in his son many years earlier. The audio link to Heinrich Jnr was brilliant, as was the audio link to the Head of Cervelo in Canada. At the end of the evening the riders were all introduced to the room, with both their individual clubs and individual coaches being recognised.

Today, Sunday the 7th, the team has been on the road filming a documentary, complete with a light aircraft circling them getting footage. Tomorrow a helicopter is to be used to gain more vision. It was confirmed last night that the team will be racing the Canberra Tour, New Zealand Tour, New Caledonia Tour with Germany still a possibility in the future.

Things are happening faster than Carolyn and I thought possible, with a long road ahead still, but we are all having way too much fun.

Regards

Darren & Carolyn Kerrison

Club Ride January 3

About 50 Goldstars met at Maccas Helensvale at 6am for the first part of a 20km loop to Hope island. The group was under the control of Mal Rae as I picked it up at Labrador. Without too much fuss we continued around via Hope Island back to Maccas to start the second part of the ride.

As we left it must have been 30 degrees and very humid. All was going well until we left the Strawberry farm when the group split going up the first hill. I was pacing a few riders back onto the group when I heard Sharon Watson’s rear tyre go bang. I stopped to help change it but there was a hole in it I could put my finger through … she wasn’t too happy as she really wanted to complete the ride.

From there we proceeded via the Jacobs Well cane fields and returned as one group.

What a great day, fun had by all and a definite regular activity for our club.

Tim Francis- Club Captain

New years Day Criterium 2010

Report Click here

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