Kate Bevilaqua WA Ironman Champion!

Kate Bevilaqua rides selle SMP to victory at Ironman WA

Kate Bevilaqua proved her strength of mind and spirit with her gutsy win in the WA Ironman.

The 32-year-old from Perth stumbled down the finish chute clutching crowd barriers for support, before collapsing unconscious on the finish line after nine hours, 19 minutes on the race course.

Bevilaqua scored her first Ironman win, beating race favourite Rebekah Keat by less than three minutes after a back-and-forth tussle throughout the run.

She had to overcome an eight-minute deficit after the swim, but a strong bike leg put her 100 metres in front of Keat at the second transition.

The pair ran within sight of each other for most of the marathon, but Bevilaqua eventually pulled away and was able to maintain the lead, despite running out of energy in the final kilometres.

“I didn’t think I was going to make it; I had no feeling from the waist down,” she said.

“The thought of the finish line (kept…

Italian Davide Gozzini Australian Supermoto Champion

Davide Gozzini (Centre) with runner up Christian Iddon (Left) and third placed Liam Robertson. Photo: John Innes

Italy's Davide Gozzini and UK rider Christian Iddon stamped their authourity over the field on the weekend at the 2010 Australian Screening Australian Supermoto Championships at the Collie Motorplex in the South-West of Western Australia with Gozzini taking the spoils for the second time in a row.

Patchy rain played havoc with the riders on day one with numerous tyre changes required during the day. Two of the races were red flagged due to rain squalls, but in the end it was the two International riders who finished the three races in the top two spots.

Gozzini won all three races in a faultless display. Third rider overall for the round was Eastern States rider Rowan Tegart, who certainly made his presence felt with a fourth and two third place on the day.

Although Gozzini won all the races, he hard pushed by Iddon who did everything in his power to get past the Italain, who only seven…

Finale seals Series win for Team Sky

CJ takes the win

Chris Sutton sealed the NSW Grand Prix series today with a win on his home turf.

The southside local hid himself away for the majority of the race while his teammates worked hard to keep the race under control.

A succession of breaks were consistently brought back to the peleton and allowed Team Sky the opportunity to control the final lap.

A well organised lead out from teammates Gerrans, Hayman and Henderson saw Sutton well placed for the final sprint to overcome Drapac's Tom Palmer and seal the overall series victory.

Team Sky set CJ for a win

CJ Sutton had all the right words to say for his team mates after taking out the 2nd round of the NSW cycling grand prix at Parramatta Park this evening.

Praising the strength and work ethic of his teammates Simon Gerrans and Greg Henderson as well as UK Olympic Champion Ed Clancy, CJ put today's win their hands.

Round 3 continues in Gosford tomorrow with the final rounds at Coogee on Saturday and Cronulla on Sunday.

SMP shines in the snow of Asiago!

Riders depart in the snow

It was the very surreal scenery, the unique and suggestive one and in the magic context as well.

The 7^th trial of the 31^st Triveneto Trophy was wanted and organized by the consultant of the SMP Saddles Enrico Polo, and supported by the Paduan company of Franco and Maurizio Schiavon brothers.

At Asiago (Vicenza), when the ground is white with snow you will usually find that Alpine or Nordic skiing is practiced there.This time, thanks to the stage of Triveneto Trophy, the bicycles turned out to be the unusual protagonists.

Evan for specialists it wasn’t at all easy to proceed with prudence and to control the bicycles while cycling on the spectacular course of Millepini Park, which was the host to the Giro d’Italia of cyclocross two years ago, with half meter of snow and purely white snowflakes falling down during the entire day.

The winner of the day was Gabriele Mercante from Friuli who…