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The Licorice Gallery photography by freelance photographer Shane Goss. The Licorice Gallery specialises in photography of cycling events in Australia, this includes road and track events. Photography from a host of other sports are also included on this site. Images are available for purchase via our online order system. The Licorice Gallery also includes a number of interviews and stories on cycling and other sport in Australia.

Record field to contest the 2010 Elgas Tour of the Murray River

A record field of 131 cyclists from all Australian states, New Zealand and Malaysia will contest the 15th Elgas Tour of the Murray River from August 29 to September 5.South Australian Rohan Dennis, winner of the recent GMHBA Tour of Geelong , and Ballarat’s Patrick Shaw, who triumphed in the Lakes Oil Tour of Gippsland earlier this month, head the entries.

Tour of Geelong winner Rohan Dennis will again be a rider to watch on the 2010 Elgas Tour of the Murray River.

There are nine Malaysian riders in the field and 16 from New Zealand, including Melbourne Commonwealth Games time trial bronze medallist Gordon McCauley. (Hyster-Total Rush).Tour director John Craven said today he was overwhelmed by the size and quality of the field.

“This response is a tremendous boost for the Murray tour’s eight-day concept, criss-crossing the Victorian-New South Wales border,” he said.“The race has attracted a terrific array of young talent, combined with some experienced older riders. An enthralling contest is in the pipeline.”

The team from Jayco Skins will be looking to add to their building portfolio on the 2010 Elgas Tour of the Murray River.

Dennis (Jayco Skins) and Shaw (Virgin Blue RBS Morgans) have been the stand-out performancers in the 2010 Scody Cup, the prestigious series that takes in the Gippsland, Geelong and Murray events, finishing with the Caterpillar Underground Mining Tour of Tasmania from September 16 – 21. (field attached).

Total prizemoney for the series is $130,000, with Shaw holding a handy lead after the first two rounds.There are 22 teams in the Murray Tour, which will cover 902kms and embrace six municipalities – Campaspe, Murray, Swan Hill, Balranald, Yarriambiack and Mildura.

The Tourism Victoria-backed tour will start with a 155km road race from Echuca to Rochester, via 10 Campaspe Shire towns, on Sunday, August 29, and end with a 66km criterium on Mildura’s riverfront on Sunday, September 5. Swan Hill Rural City Council will host five of the 14 stages this year – criteriums in Swan Hill , Lake Boga and Robinvale and road races which take in Nyah West, Nyah and Manangatang.

Pearson takes final stage - Tour to Dennis

South Australian Rohan Dennis defied atrocious weather over the five days of the GMHBA Tour of Geelong to score a clear-cut and well-deserved victory today.Dennis, 20, rode a patient race in the 400km tour’s final stage – a 45km rain-peppered criterium on Geelong’s waterfront – to win the tour by 93 seconds from Ballarat’s Patrick Shaw, with consistent Queenslander Cameron Jennings 42 seconds further back in third place.

Joel Pearson (Genesys Wealth Advisers) takes out the final stage of the tour in Geelong.

The criterium, over 25 laps of a 1.8km slippery circuit, doubled as the Victorian open championship and was won by the speedy Joel Pearson (Genesys) from Dale Scarfe (McDonagh Blake – Witness), with Malaysia’s Harrif Saleh third. Dennis finished 40th.Dennis, (Jayco Skins) who this week was named in the national Under 23 squad for the world road championships next month and billed as a rising star of Australian cycling, said he was “tremendously excited” with his victory.

“It’s the first tour win of my career and hopefully there’s many more to come,” he said.“This Geelong tour was good and tough. The course was excellent but really challenging.”Dennis, who won the national Under 23 time trial championship at Buninyong in January, claimed two of the tour’s six stages – the opening 48km criterium at North Shore on Wednesday and the 20km time trial at Portarlington on Friday.

The final GC podium (l-r): Patrick Shaw (2nd,Virgin Blue/RBS Morgans), Rohan Dennis (1st,Team Jayco Skins), and Cameron Jennings (3rd,Budget Forklifts).

He fought a tense battle with Albury’s Rhys Pollock (Drapac) over the first four days but swamped his more senior rival over the tough, twisting climbs in the 143km road race at Anakie on Saturday.The 111-man field was confronted by extreme weather throughout the event, with rain, wind and slippery roads creating hazardous conditions for the competitors.

Prolific winner Jenny McPherson notched her second straight Victorian criterium championship in the 36km women’s event.The Victorian defeated Tasmanian Emma Lawson, with Kendelle Hodges (Vic) filling the minor placing.The race finish was marred when 10 riders crashed after one of them cannoned into a photographer.

The Scody Cup National Road Series continues with the Tour of the Murray River beginning on the 29th of August.

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