George Brannigan took 4th overall in Rotorua

Another strong performance from our young rider, junior George Brannigan, in the last race of NZ series, just held in Rotorua. George took 4th overall in both seeding and final, just 2 seconds from the top; Luke Strobel won the race.

Rotorua race was the latest for NZ series cup and George was 4th overall, even in the final stadings, in the Elite category while junior.

George in action (picture from Picasa photogallery)


Here are the Elite results:

ELITE MEN
PL NAME SURNAME # FROM TIME GAP PL SEEDING OVERALL
1 Luke Strobel 43 USA 3:18.75 +0:00.00 3- 3:24.13 1
2 Nathan Rankin 7 Levin 3:18.88 +0:00.13 1- 3:23.17 2
3 Wyn Masters 11 New Plymouth 3:18.94 +0:00.20 2- 3:23.73 3
4 George Brannigan 10 Hastings 3:20.88 +0:02.13 4- 3:26.36 4
5 Cameron Cole 46 Christchurch 3:21.67 +0:02.92 16- 3:39.20 5
6 Glenn Haden 40 Wanganui 3:21.92 +0:03.17 5- 3:26.78 6
7 Des Curry 8 Rotorua 3:23.66 +0:04.91 7- 3:31.21 7
8 Matt Walker 26 Kawerau 3:24.44 +0:05.69 6- 3:29.82 8
9 Hayden Lee 20 Tauranga 3:26.75 +0:08.00 8- 3:31.82 11
10 Hayden McGregor 34 Tauranga 3:28.60 +0:09.85 9- 3:32.65 17
11 Sean McCarroll 12 Australia 3:30.13 +0:11.38 14- 3:37.93 18
12 James Dodds 14 Rotorua 3:30.68 +0:11.94 11- 3:34.93 19
13 Tim Eaton 27 Australia 3:30.86 +0:12.12 15- 3:38.42 21
14 Ken Faubert 36 Canada 3:33.32 +0:14.58 13- 3:36.59 24
15 Rob Venables 35 Canada 3:34.49 +0:15.74 12- 3:35.68 29
16 Joel Gebbie 25 Queenstown 3:35.88 +0:17.13 20- 3:42.29 33
17 Edo Franco 29 Italy 3:36.35 +0:17.60 21- 3:43.43 35
18 Martin Frei 42 Switzerland 3:38.13 +0:19.38 10- 3:32.88 43
19 Thomas Jeandin 41 Switzerland 4:02.06 +0:43.31 18- 3:41.27 90
20 Hillsey Hyland 38 Wanganui 4:57.13 +1:38.39 22- 3:46.05 149