Kris Sneddon and Catharine Pendrel win 16th Test of Metal 2011: Cycling News
Kona team’s Kris Sneddon showed his brilliant performance in the Test of Metal 2011 on Sunday, June 19.
Kris Sneddon took a total of 2 hours, 32 minutes and 11 seconds to cover the track, while Christopher Sheppard of Rocky Mountain was runner-up with 1 minute and 9 seconds.
Previously, Kris was in the third position in 2009 and grabbed the second spot in 2010 in Test of Metal.
After winning the stage, Kris told the media, “This is the biggest local race in Canada and it’s a very prestigious race to win, overall I’m feeling great, the course was good but I really had to push hard to keep ahead
of Neal [Kindree} and Chris [Sheppard].”
The four riders, which included, Sullivan Reed (Cycle Logic), Nick Berry, Geoff Kabush (Maxxis-Rocky Mountain) and Max Plaxton (Specialised Racing Team) were disqualified from the race.
Neal Kindree of the riderepublic.com / SRAM team was in third spot with a difference of 4 minutes and 49 seconds.
Marty Lazarski (Nativo-Devinci), Colin Kerr (Rocky Mountain Factory) and Kevin Calhoun (Rocky Mountain) were in fourth, fifth and sixth places, respectively.
In the Women Category, Catharine Pendrel again won her third consecutive Test of Metal with the timing of 2 hours, 45 minutes and 45 seconds.
The 30-year-old Canadian said, “Every year you see the same people competing and just all the people cheering on the course makes it a fun event, I seem to always have good races here, it’s good for my form and it’s really awesome to come home and
race.”
Pendrel was the member of the Canadian National team since 2003 and grabbed the fourth spot in Summer Olympics in 2008.
Brandi Heisterman of the Whistler team was in the second spot with 13 minutes and 40 seconds behind Catharine. Jean Ann Berkenpas of Xprezo – Borsao finished third with a difference of 17 minutes and 22 seconds.
Mical Dyck (Pro City Racing), Melanie Bernier (Skookum cycle) and Ann Yew were in fourth, fifth and sixth palces respectively.
Joele Guynup (CondoGroup/Marin/Shimano) was in good form, but she failed to gain her pace and grabbed the seventh spot with a difference of 34 minutes and 55 seconds.
Men 14-19
1. Mo Lawrence (Team Squamish), 2:53:17
2. Nicholas Bruce (Corsa Cycles), 0:08:58
3. Jesse Melamed (Team Whistler), 0:19:01
Women 14-19
1 Mikayla Martin (Team Squamish)
2. Jessica Marquis
3. Lauren Rosser (Team Squamish/Commen)
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