| Great Britain’s Matt Illingworth has won the first stage of the "Cinturon Ciclista a Mallorca" in Spain. Riding for the World Class Performance Plan track endurance team, Matt won the sprint after a break of five riders managed to get almost a minute clear of the main field. Following strong performances in the previous day’s Prologue Time Trial, Matt and team-mate Bradley Wiggins now lie second and fourth overall on the general classification. The remainder of the six-man GB team are also well placed and the team is currently lying in second place overall. The team are riding the 2.6 UCI classification stage race as part of their preparation for the Olympic games, later this year. All six riders on the team are exclusively targeting Track events at the Olympics. Between them they make up the core of the squad vying for places on the four man Team Pursuit team. Rob Hayles is also targeting the Individual Pursuit, Points Race and Madison, which he may well ride with Bradley Wiggins. Others in contention for places in the endurance Track team include former Pursuit World Champion Colin Sturgess and Chris Newton. The GB Team is managed by WCPP Track Endurance Coach Simon Jones. The British Cycling Federation’s Cycling World Class Performance Programme (WCPP) is funded by the National Lottery. 34th Cinturon Ciclista a Mallorca – Cat. 2.6 Spain, April 5-9, 2000 Stage 1 – April 6: Cala Millor – Cala Millor, 148 km Results 1 Matthew Illingworth (GBr) British National Team 3.29.57 (41.952 km/h) 2 Gael Moreau (Fra) U.S. Montauban 3 Guillen Munoz (Spa) Cropusa 4 Mattias Carlsson (Swe) Malarenergi 5 Vladimir Karpets (Rus) Lokophinx 6 Steffen Lockan (Ger) RSC Cottbus @ 40 seconds 7 Robert Kaiser (Ger) Kostritzer 8 Denis Smyslov (Rus) Lokophinx 9 Sergei Klimov (Rus) Lokophinx 10 Jimmy Madsen (Den) Danish National Team Selected others 14 Bradley Wiggins (GBr) British National Team 19 John Clay (GBr) British National Team 25 Robert Hayles (GBr) British National Team 37 Bryan Steel (GBr) British National Team 43 Paul Manning (GBr) British National Team (133 finishers) General classification after stage 1: 1 Vladimir Karpets (Rus) Lokophinx 3.39.00 2 Matthew Illingworth (GBr) British National Team @ 0.13 3 Mattias Carlsson (Swe) Malarenergi @ 0.42 4 Bradley Wiggins (GBr) British National Team @ 0.50 5 Jose Fco. Jarque (Spa) Spanish National Team @ 0.54 selected others 24 Paul Manning (GBr) British National Team @ 2.38 25 Bryan Steel (GBr) British National Team @ 2.40 27 John Clay (GBr) British National Team @ 2.42 28 Gabriel Saiz (Spa) Goriet-Graman @ 2.44 40 Robert Hayles (GBr) British National Team @ 3.13 Points classification: 1 Matthew Illingworth (GBr) British National Team 32 pts 2 Vladimir Karpets (Rus) Lokophinx 32 3 Alexei Markov (Rus) Lokophinx 25 Mountains classification: 1 Thorsten Rund (Ger) RSC Cottbus 6 pts 2 Enrique Riera (Spa) C.C. Arenal 6 3 Guillen Munoz (Spa) Cropusa 5 4 Mattias Carlsson (Swe) Malarenergi 4 5 Matthew Illingworth (GBr) British National Team 3 Teams classification: 1 Lokophinx 10.58.18 2 British National Team @ 2.23 3 Sel. Dinamarca @ 3.45 4 Spanish National Team @ 4.13 5 Malarenergi @ 4.26 British Cycling Federation Tel: 0161 230 2301 Fax: 0161 231 0591 e-mail: [email protected] www.bcf.uk.com |
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