SA Omnium Track Championships – Final Results

The SA Omnium Track Championship held over the past two days in Cape Town did not disappoint. The best track riders from all over South Africa converged to show their best to ultimately crown our national champions.

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The Omnium, from Latin meaning “of all” or “belonging to all” is a multiple race event in track cycling featuring a Scratch race, Individual pursuit, Elimination race, Time trial, the Flying lap and the ever exciting, and sometimes confusing to follow, Points race.

This year saw contestants in categories elite men, open ladies, junior boys and girls, vets and masters men and u/16 boys and girls.

Having led the completion from the start Nolan Hoffman (Team Abantu) was again crowned the national champion.  In a well-deserved second place was team mate Morné van Niekerk, who was the only rider to lap the field twice during their points race, securing an additional 40 points and the silver medal.  Kellan Gouveris from the Eastern Cape just made the cut for the bronze medal.

Elfriede Wolfaardt remained in the lead today for the open woman’s category to ultimately walk away with the national champion jersey.  She broke away from the main bunch and stayed out in front for very long before collecting the hard earned bonus points.  This secured her win over Elisa Gianchino and Ilze Bole who had to settle for silver and bronze respectively.

Jessica Gerber from Oudtshoorn competed with the open ladies to be awarded the junior girls champion jersey.  She is a star in the making.

The men from Bellville Cycling Club, Mark-Lister Petersen and Faizel Tomas, followed by Chrispin Fourie from TrackCyclingSA in Cape Town, took all three medals, gold, silver and bronze respectively, for the mens 35+ category.

Martin van Wyk and Bruce Viljoen, both from Gauteng, and local legend John Moss, secured the top three positions in the mens 45+ category.

Bradley Gouveris consistently performed well over all the events, an early indication of a good Omnium champion contender, to secure the junior boys champion jersey over Damean Oosthuizen and Daniyal Matthews, receiving silver and bronze respectively.

Ashley Parsons secured the u/16 girls champion jersey over Jessica Brown by one point, who were neck-and-neck for most of the competition.

The SA Track Omnium 2015, which nearly did not happen this year, was saved by a handful of small sponsors and a dedicated team of organisers and officials to ensure that our SA heroes can be crowned and securing them valuable UCI points for the elites and juniors.

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The overall results are as follows;

Elite Men

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Name Sc IP El TT FL Po Tot
Nolan Hoffman 40 38 40 34 40 46 238
Morné van Niekerk 18 40 34 24 14 75 205
Kellan Gouveris 20 28 24 32 30 37 171
Steven Van Heerden 24 34 30 28 10 44 170
Jean Spies 32 30 22 40 38 3 165
Ryan Gibbons 34 36 12 38 34 8 162
Shameeg Salie 36 22 28 30 36 5 157
Stefan Ihlenfeldt 30 20 38 16 16 6 126
Calvin Beneke 26 26 32 12 1 23 120
Rohan Du Plooy 8 32 14 22 18 19 113
Carl Bonthuys 14 10 16 4 8 31 83
Jared Poulton 12 8 1 14 20 3 58
Daniël Stroebel 16 18 4 8 4 -20 30
Rudie kellerman 22 16 26 18 26 DNF DNF
Douglas Abbot 28 2 6 26 12 DNF DNF
Brandon Robin Christians 6 6 8 20 28 DNF DNF
Marco Abrahams 10 4 20 10 22 DNF DNF
Heinrich Stroebel 1 14 2 6 24 DNF DNF
Dirkie Nel 1 12 10 2 1 DNF DNF
Corne Bence 1 1 18 1 2 DNF DNF
Evan Carstens 38 24 36 36 32 DNF DNF
Kyle Bradford 1 1 1 1 6 DNF DNF

Elite Ladies

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Name Sc IP El TT FL Po Tot
Elfriede Wolfaardt 40 40 40 36 38 53 247
Elisa Gianchino 38 38 38 40 40 19 213
Ilze Bole 36 36 34 38 36 20 200
Bronwyn Abrahams 34 32 36 34 34 16 186
Liezel Du Preez 32 34 30 32 30 -60 98

Junior Boys

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Name Sc IP El TT FL Po Tot
Bradley Gouveris 36 40 40 40 40 26 222
Damean Oosthuizen 40 32 38 36 36 30 212
Daniyal Matthews 38 36 34 34 28 38 208
George Perrins 32 30 32 32 32 44 202
Kyle De Wet 34 38 36 38 38 6 190
Louis Visser 1 34 28 26 24 45 158
Rocco King 1 24 30 28 34 -20 97
Wynand Dippenaar 1 22 22 16 22 2 85
Renaldo Booysen 1 16 26 22 16 0 81
Azhar Abrahams 1 28 24 30 30 -40 73
Rainhardt Marais 1 26 16 24 26 -39 54
Johann Bredenkamp 1 20 18 20 20 -40 39
Johnathen Brown 1 18 20 18 18 -40 35

Junior Girls

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Name Sc IP El TT FL Po Tot
Jessica Gerber 1 30 32 30 32 -20 105

u/16 Boys

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Name Sc IP El TT FL Po Tot
Abdul Muttalib Sauls 40 38 40 40 40 36 234
Jarrad Clark 38 40 38 38 38 26 218
Divan Barnard 36 34 30 34 34 13 181
Titus Juries 34 36 36 36 36 10 188

u/16 Girls

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Name Sc IP El TT FL Po Tot
Ashleigh Parsons 1 32 32 32 32 0 129
Jessica Brown 1 30 34 30 30 3 128

Vets 35+

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Name Sc IP El TT FL Po Tot
Mark-Lister Petersen 34 34 36 34 40 17 195
Faizel Thomas 40 36 22 28 32 32 190
Chrispin Fourie 32 32 38 32 36 9 179
Peter-John Wheeler 36 28 24 24 24 25 161
Justin Seale 28 30 28 40 38 -20 144
Abdul Quayum Davids 24 24 34 26 28 0 136
Moses Venceslau 26 26 26 36 30 -20 124
Faizel Hendricks 1 -40 32 22 22 -20 17

Masters 45+

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Name Sc IP El TT FL Po Tot
Martin van Wyk 38 40 40 38 34 18 208
Bruce Viljoen 30 38 30 30 26 25 179
John Moss 22 22 20 20 20 -100 4

 

Thanks to our photographers Salie Toefy (Cycling with DoubleST) and Owen Lloyd (sponsor, Arrow Lite and Intellibus).  Photos curtsey of Owen Lloyd.