May Racing

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Rapha Condor Sharp events in May:

8th Chas Messenger Road Race, Buckinghamshire, UK  - Sunday, May 03, 2010
Raced on Sunday May 3rd 2010, the Chas Messenger Memorial recognizes the man who established the Milk Race Tour of Britain and spent over 50 years as cycling official. (see more info on http://www.deanwindsor.com/page2.html

53rd 2010 Shay Elliott Memorial, Kilpeddar, Irelands. Sunday, May 03, 2010
With current UCI President Pat McQuaid on the winner honour roll, along with the likes of Sean Kelly The Shay Elliott Memorial Race is regarded as Irelands premier one day race.  Contested over 140km in County Wicklow race always attracts a quality field of domestic and foreign riders. After one/twoing the 2009 event Rapha Condor Sharp with Matt Cronshaw and Dan Craven are keen to claim another win in 2010.

55th Lincoln Grand Prix
Set down for Sunday May 9th the GP consists of 11 laps of the 8 mile circuit around Lincoln and surrounding countryside. Last years winner Russell Downing (sky) keen to defend the title against riders such as past winners Kristian House and Dean Downing of Rapha Condor Sharp.

14th Tour of Japan 16-23 May 2010, UCI 2.2
This 7 stage UCI 2.2 Tour always draws an excellent international field. Last year Spanish rider Bellon Sergio Pardilla won while Cameron Meyer leads a list of impressive Australian performances winning the tour in 2008.

[Dean Windsor]

With so many races coming up the rosters has changed so here are the races with our start lists:

53rd 2010 Shay Elliott Memorial, Kilpeddar, Irelands. Sunday, May 03, 2010
Dan Caven
Matt Cronshaw
Dean Windsor
Ben Greenwood

55th Lincoln Grand Prix
Kristian House
Graham Briggs
Zak Dempster
Dean Downing
Darren Lapthorne
Chris Newton
Tom Southam
Jonathan Tiernan Locke

14th Tour of Japan 16-23 May 2010, UCI 2.2
Zak Dempster
Dean Downing
Kristian House
Darren Lapthorne
Tom Southam
Dean Windsor

RAS Ireland UCI 2.2
Dan Craven
Matt Cronshaw
Ben Greenwood
Chris Newton
Jonathan Tiernan Locke

[mwindsor]

Rapha Condor Sharp Win both Lincoln Grand Prix & 53rd Shay Elliott Memorial
Big weekend for Rapha Condor Sharp filling the podium in Ireland with Dan Craven (Sth Africa) winning from Australian Dean Windsor and last year’s winner Matt Cronshaw in third. While Chris Newton has won the 55th Lincoln Grand Prix!!!

[mwindsor]

Just in - Brief Tour of Japan Preview

With a nice mix of local and International UCI teams the 2010 Tour of Japan looks set to be an exciting contest.
After a strong showing in the recent Presidency Turkey Tour the DE ROSA -STAC PLASTIC Team from Italy look well placed to feature in the results. Sprinter Claudio Cucinotta, a former National Amateur Champ, will be suited by the earlier stages after a podium finish behind Andre Greipel in Turkey, however Cristiano Salerno excellent climbing in that tour would suggest he is one to watch for the overall after finishing 5th overall in the International Presidency Turkey Tour 2010 behind strong Italian Giovanni Visconti.

British champion Kristian House’s Rapha Condor Sharp Team, also looks strong with Darren Lapthorne, Zak Dempster, Dean Windsor and Dean Downing all recent podium finishers in Asia. The only blow to the team being Tom Southam injury in the Lincoln GP which has ruled him out of Japan’s tour.

Maybe the favourite to lead the tour early is outstanding Australian youngster Michael Matthews who impressed with 2 stage wins early in the year at Langkawi, but continues to impress coming second in the GP Liberazione, on the 25th April behind Jan Tratnik.

Kazakhstan brings a tough team to Japan with experienced Japanese performer Dmitriy Gruzdev (2nd in stage 2 in 2009),  and Roman Zhiyentayev, a stage winner and holder of the yellow jersey in the Tour of Taiwan last year before slipping to third overall. Dmitriy and Roman just 2 of the strong team that will face the starter on the weekend.

Of Course the Asian UCI teams and their riders are starting to gain a solid following with Aisan’s Japanese National Champion Taiji Nishitani (who won a stage at Langkawi in march) and team mate Takeaki Ayabe expected to perform well. As too Geumsan Ginseng leader Shinichi Fukushima has been featuring on the podium in the tour of Japan since 1999, he too is in form with a stage placing in the tour de Taiwan in March. Plus we can’t leave out Hong Kong’s star and former world champ Kam Po Wong. While Asian Continental teams - Champion Systems, Letua, Bridgestone Anchor, Shimano and Nippo will all enter strong teams

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14th Tour of Japan uci2.2
Dean Windsor has started well in Japan finishing second to Japanese sprinter Shinri Suzuki (Shimano Racing) in the Preface Criterium before the 2010 UCI2.2 Tour of Japan.
See deanwindsor.com blog

[mwindsor]

Rapha Condor Sharp very much focusing on Darren Lapthorne in these early stages of the Tour of Japan, to make sure he is in a good position if he has the legs in the tougher stages to come...
see reports on  www.deanwindsor.com

[Dean Windsor]

Big News!!!

Kristian House Win's stage 6th around a seriously out of this world course!

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Great start to the Halfords Tour Series:
Rapha Condor Sharp have the leaders jersey after winning Round 1 of the Tour Series with 3 riders finishing in the top 6 at London's Canary Wharf circuit.
see info on http://www.deanwindsor.com/page74.html