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Roller Sports Ontario Speed Points Series Website

The Roller Sports Ontario Outdoor Speed Points Series kicked off it's 2004 season with some excellent racing action on May 22nd. The series is continuing to grow and is giving Ontario and Canadian skaters the chance to gain some valuable racing experience on home soil. The races took place on a 200 meter track in Kitchener, the training site that the Tri Cities Speed Club uses to train outdoors. It was very difficult for skaters to pass each other when they were at speed. The newspaper and television media were on hand to cover the event.

The next race in the series is set for June 26th in Aylmer, Quebec, just a short drive from Ottawa, Ontario. We are trying to plan a race for June 20th in Toronto, the day after the Rolling Rampage 10km race that is taking place in downtown Toronto.

1500m Time Trial
1- 2:43.08- Peter Doucet
2- 2:43.86- Camilo Echeverri
3- 2:47.58- Aaron Arndt
4- 2:48.10- Jordan Belchos
5- 2:49.13- Leonardo Echeverri
6- 2:49.26- Dean Arndt
7- 2:49.82- Herb Gayle
8- 2:52.77- Morgan Williams
9- 2:55.56- Tom Hanham
10- 2:56.66- Benoit Joubert
11- 2:59.21- Andrew Hegarty
12- 3:01.00- Paul Shoebridge
13- 3:01.22- Dennis Lo
14- 3:01.40- Peter Light
15- 3:04.37- Tatia Wallace
16- 3:04.49- Rhett Cappleman
17- 3:05.49- Len Porter
18- 3:07.10- Chelsea Parry
19- 3:09.39- Ryan Omelia
20- 3:10.34- Lindsay Chard
21- 3:13.90- Carla Raetsen
22- 3:15.31- Ross Hanham
23- 3:24.98- Carolyn Gullo
24- 3:29.84- Sigrid Ziegler
25- 3:38.27- Jeff Lowe
26- 3:40.15- Jason Fisher
27- 3:51.43- Keri Chard
28- 3:55.97- Gillian Clarke
29- 4:08.66- Alex Newdick
30- 4:13.30- John Fischer
31- 4:21.83- Austin Belchos

500m pacekRaces
Level 1, A Final
1- 50.24- Camilo Echeverri
2- 52.08- Aaron Arndt
3- 52.29- Leonardo Echeverri
5- 52.59- Peter Doucet
8- 53.88- Jordan Belchos

Level 1, B Final
4- 52.48- Dean Arndt
6- 53.12- Herb Gayle
9- 54.20- Morgan Williams
10- 54.96- Tom Hanham
11-55.12 Benoit Joubert

Level 2, A Final
7- 53.41- Andrew Hegarty
13- 55.68- Dennis Lo
19- 59.33- Paul Shoebridge

Level 2, B Final
12- 55.47- Rhett Cappleman
17- 57.75- Len Porter
18- 58.12- Tatia Wallace

Level 3, A Final
14- 56.56- Chelsea Parry
15- 57.04- Lindsay Chard
16- 57.22- Ryan Omelia
21- 1:00.06- Carla Raetsen

Level 3, B Final
22- 1:01.54- Carolyn Gullo
23- 1:01.88- Ross Hanham
25- 1:06.18- Sigrid Ziegler

Level 4, A Final
20- 59.89- Keri Chard
24- 1:03.34- Jeff Lowe
28- 1:11.10- Gillian Clarke

Level 4, B Final
26- 1:06.58- Austin Belchos
27- 1:07.47- John Fischer
29- 1:18.72- AlexNewdick

10k Level 1
1- 19:57.36- Peter Doucet
2- 20:18.38- Jordan Belchos
3- 20:18.78- Herb Gayle
4- 20:19.16- Morgan Williams
5- 20:21.20- Camilo Echeverri
6- 20:21.23- Leonardo Echeverri
9- 21:06.90- Aaron Arndt
15- 21:48.69- Tom Hanham
16- 22:42.36- Benoit Joubert
T29- DNF- Dean Arndt

10k Level 2/3
7- 21:01.03- Tatia Wallace
8- 21:01.87- Chelsea Parry
10- 21:12.18- Dennis Lo
11- 21:18.68- Rhett Cappleman
12- 21:22.13- Paul Shoebridge
13- 21:23.61- Peter Light
14- 21:39.13- Len Porter
17- 22:58.77- Andrew Hegarty
19- 23:23.02- Ryan Omelia
T29- DNF- Lindsay Chard

10k Level 3/4
18- 23:16.06- Keri Chard
20- 23:24.77- Ross Hanham
21- 24:00.00- Carla Raetsen
22- 24:08.89- Carolyn Gullo
23- 25:09.84- Sigrid Ziegler
24- 25: 13.09- Austin Belchos
25- 25:33.09- John Fischer
26- 27:09.80- Jeff Lowe
27- 27:14.67- Gillian Clarke
28- 30:19.36- Alex Newdick

Overall Rankings for Stage #1/ Courent Overall Standings
1- 31 pts- Peter Doucet
2- 30 pts- Camilo Echeverri
3- 29 pts- Jordan Belchos
4- 28 pts- Leonardo Echeverri
5- 27 pts- Aaron Arndt
6- 26 pts- Herb Gayle
7- 25 pts- Morgan Williams
8- 24 pts- Tom Hanham
9- 23 pts- Andrew Hegarty
10- 22 pts- Dennis Lo
11- 21 pts- Benoit Joubert
12- 20 pts- Dean Arndt
13- 19 pts- Rhett Cappleman
14- 18 pts- Tatia Wallace
15- 17 pts- Chelsea Parry
16- 16 pts- Paul Shoebridge
17- 15 pts- Len Porter
18- 14 pts- Ryan Omelia
19- 13 pts- Peter Light
20- 12 pts- Carla Raetsen
21- 11 pts- Lindsay Chard
22- 10 pts- Ross Hanham
23- 9 pts- Keri Chard
24- 8 pts- Carolyn Gullo
25- 7 pts- Sigrid Ziegler
26- 6 pts- Jeff Lowe
27- 5 pts- Austin Belchos
28- 4 pts- John Fischer
29- 3 pts- Gillian Clarke
30- 2 pts- Jason Fischer
31- 1 pts- Alex Newdick

Lindsay Chard, Chelsea Parry, and Keri Chard early on in the morning before the races.

Jordan Belchos, myself, and Tom Hanham after the warm-ups.

Alex Newdick and Jeff Burnside from the Tri Cities Speed Club.

Paul Shoebridge's van.

Peter Light showing off his musical skills.

Some of the officials, including Wayne Burrett, Mike Belchos, and John Parry.

Toronto Inline Skating Club's 3 young stallions: Jordan Belchos, Dean Arndt, and Tom Hanham. There is a possibility that these 3 will be in Italy for the World Championships in September in the Junior races.

Camillo Echeverri during his 1500 meter time trial: He placed 2nd overall in that race.

Of course, Bont had to be present with a table.

The Level 4, 500 meter B-Final is starting. In the race are John Fischer, Alex Newdick, and Austin Belchos. Austin Belchos passed John Fischer with about 70 meters to go to take the win.

The Level 1, 500 meter A-Final race is under way. From right to left are Leonardo Echeverri, Aaron Arndt, Jordan Belchos, Camillo Echeverri, and I. Camillo Echeverri had a blazing start, gapping us on the gun, and never looking back. Leonardo Echeverri tried to hawk Aaron Arndt at the line, but got 3rd and a nice crash as well.

Carolyn Gullo leads the Level 3/4 10km race.

CTV was on hand to film the racing action.

Keri Chard, the eventual race winner of the Level 3/4 10k race leads Carolyn Gullo and Ross Hanham while Austin Bechos, Sigrid Ziegler, and John Fischer stay on the inside.

Tatia Wallace, winner of the Level 2/3 10k race, leads Rhett Cappleman, 2nd place finisher Chelsea Parry, Peter Light, Denni Lo, Ryan Omelia while Lindsay Chard hangs around on the outside. Chard had to drop out of the race due to skate problems.

Dennis Lo leads the Level 2/3 10k in the later stages of the race. He skated a super good race, leading and attacking a good part of it, but in the last 60 meters of the race, Dennis slipped and fell.

The Level 1 pack circles at the top of the corner. Morgan Willians leads Benoit Joubert, Camillo Echeverri, myself, Leonardo Echeverri, and the rest of the field.

In the later stages of the race, Jordan Belchos turned on the offensive, while Camillo Echeverri and Leonardo Echeverri could only try to chase him down. Morgan Williams also gave chase, but came up short. In the end, Herb Gayle (seen in 5th) had a wonderful sprint and managed to overtake Williams but not Belchos for 3rd place. I won the race by going on an early break and lapping the field.

Aaron Arndt, Camillo Echeverri, and Leonardo Echeverri after all the racing was done.

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