Result (updated): Rollapaluza Urban Hill Climb

Corley Cycles rider Michael Smith wins the Rollapaluza Urban Hill Climb in London
Event Website:  http://www.rollapaluza.com/  |  Swains Lane, Highgate, London

Only a couple of hours after the world’s best cyclists tackled the Col du Galibier in the Tour de France, commuters, fixed riders, club cyclists and elites tackled the almighty Swains Lane in London at the second Rollapaluza Urban Hill Climb. As last year interest was high, despite the rain, with hundreds of spectators lining the 800m climb to cheer on the full field of 120 riders (senior events sold out in four minutes after entries were released)

For 2011 Rollapaluza made a couple of changes to the traditional hill climb format, introducing digital timing and knockout semi finals and finals for the fastest riders meaning the top four overall had to climb the hill three times before taking their podium places.

In the overall event 2010’s first and second placed riders Chris Metcalfe and 2010 winner of the BEC Hill climb 16 year old Germain Burton returned with Germain (also riding as a youth) beating the hill record with 1m 29.61 seconds early in the evening, an improvement of over 3 seconds on Chris’s winning time from 2010. However this time was not to stand as Team Corley Cycles had sent two of their top riders to the event Michael Smith and Richard Cartland, with Michael setting the new record with 1m 26.92 seconds.

These four progressed to the knockout rounds, Germain beating Richard and Michael beating Chris. The minor final for 3rd and fourth place was a real cat and mouse affair with some very close racing and switching between Chris and Richard but Chris just edged it on the line. In the Final Germain attacked hard from the gun and it looked like it might pay off but the esperienced Michael had the measure of him and after sitting on his wheel, attacked on the steepest section to forge ahead for the win.

In the female category last year’s winner Claire Beaumont of Condor cycles was only good enough for fourth and the top three were entirely different from 2010 with the top two spots going to the team from popular London cycle cafe and workshop Look Mum No Hands!…with Louise Moriarty the winner.

Germain Burton won the youth category with promising performances from Alex Cozens in second and Daniel Mateus (riding fixed) in 3rd. Aside from Germain, John Storms was the only other rider to retain his title, in the Vets category improving his time by 3 seconds. Beatrice Windsor won the female youth category.

For the second year the Rollapaluza Urban Hill Climb was free to enter and aimed at inclusion of all cyclists, indeed there were riders on  Bromptons and one rider, Leo Tong even competed on a Boris bike and he actually beat seven riders on road bikes!

The whole event was filmed by a professional TV crew and a highlights video will apppear soon on www.urbanhillclimb.com, where you can find full results and photos of all riders.

Results

Final
1. Michael Smith bt Germain Burton

Minor Final
3. Chris Metcalfe bt 4. Richard Cartland

Semi Final 1
Michael Smith bt Richard Cartland (both Corley Cycles!)

Semin Final 2
Germain Burton bt Chris Metcalfe

TIMES
1 Michael Smith Team Corley Cycles  01:27
2 Germain Burton De Ver Cycles  01:30
3 Chris Metcalfe Charge Bikes  01:33
4 Richard Cartland Team Corley Cycles  01:35
5 Thomas Ballhatchet Rollapaluza CC  01:35
6 Keith Henderson Condor Cycles  01:36
7 Matthew Theobalds CS Grupetto  01:37
8 Luke Wallis La Fuga-Sigma Sport  01:38
9 Ben Moores Norwood Paragon  01:38
10 John Storms  01:40
11 Dan Sullivan  01:40
12 Sylvain Garde Addiscombe CC  01:42
13 Paul O’ Sullivan London Phoenix  01:43
14 Matthias Kunz  01:44
15 Andrew Snowball VC Londres  01:44
16 James Solly Velo Club de Londres  01:44
17 Simon Warren Norwood Paragon  01:45
18 Steve Parker  01:46
19 Nick White East london Velo  01:47
20 Neil Manning Condor Cycles  01:48
21 Michael Williams Dulwich Paragon CC  01:49
22 Mark Hopkins  01:49
23 Iain Cook Velo Club de Londres  01:50
24 Tom McEvoy Rollapaluza CC  01:51
25 Alex Cohen Finsbury Park CC  01:51
26 Livio Nannetti EAGLE ROAD CLUB  01:51
27 Matthew Belsham Two Wheels Good  01:51
28 Ben Chatfield  01:52
29 Alex COZENS Woolwich CC  01:52
30 Ian Gray  01:53
31 Winston  01:54
32 Rory Wilkinson Dulwich Paragon  01:54
33 marcus shields Ayr Roads CC  01:55
34 Louise Moriarty Look Mum No Hands!  01:55
35 Anthony Buchan  01:56
36 Steve Dodson  01:56
37 Ben Spurrier Rapha Condor CC / Mule Bar  01:56
38 Rob Nicholas CS Grupetto  01:57
39 Vik Chaudhuri PM  01:57
40 Rob Windsor East london Velo  01:57
41 Thomas Dean Royal Sutton CC  01:57
42 David Tait  01:58
43 Julian ‘Crusher’ Cunnington Condor Cycles  01:58
44 Mark Mayo Rollapaluza CC  01:58
45 Paddy Williams VC Dulwich College  01:59
46 Daniel Mateus 5th floor  01:59
47 Cameron Fraser La Fuga-Sigma Sport  01:59
48 Bruce Hart  02:00
49 Nick Wood  02:00
50 Dominic Joyner CS Grupetto  02:00
51 Freddie Peelmon  02:01
52 Lydia Boylan Look Mum No Hands!  02:01
53 Stephen Murphy  02:01
54 Rhian Gainsborough  02:01
55 Luke Woolfson  02:02
56 Jeff Lawrence Dulwich Paragon  02:02
57 Calvin Cheung Rollapaluza CC  02:04
58 Vlad Mereuta Dulwich Paragon  02:05
59 Sam Woods VC Dulwich College  02:05
60 Paul Gathercole Rollapaluza CC  02:05
61 Tim Ralston  02:06
62 Ollie Williams  02:06
63 Richard Spencer Brompton Bicycle  02:07
64 Ben Pook Under The River  02:08
65 Matthew Levett Brixton CC  02:08
66 Kirsten Halliday London Dynamo  02:09
67 Clive Wellings Hertfordshire Wheelers  02:09
68 Ben Miller  02:11
69 Damian Marlee CS Grupetto  02:12
70 John Jardine Pedal Power RT  02:12
71 Edmar Gwiazda London Skaters Speed Team  02:13
72 Claire Beaumont Rapha Condor / Condor Cycles  02:13
73 Richard Pearce  02:13
74 Mark Jary VC Londres  02:13
75 Astrid Wingler London Phoenix CC  02:14
76 Alexandra Marzec London Dynamo  02:15
77 Robert Cooke Barcap  02:16
78 Tijan N’Jai-Sealy VC Dulwich College  02:16
79 Rudy Melo 5th Floor / Leader Bike USA  02:16
80 Joel Harrison Rollapaluza CC  02:17
81 Rick Hewett London Heathside  02:17
82 Ludwig Brunagel Rollapaluza CC  02:19
83 roger stillman Brereton Wheelers  02:23
84 Ben Shaw  02:23
85 John Butterfield  02:24
86 clare Elms Redmon CC  02:26
87 paul burgoine  02:27
88 Dan Drillsma  02:30
89 Marc Wyburn  02:33
90 Carolyn Hewett Team Wiggle  02:33
91 Bernard Biggs  02:33
92 Bernard Mckernan  02:33
93 Caroline Hodge Rollapaluza CC  02:34
94 Alan McKenzie Fireflies CC / Leuka  02:34
95 Gem Atkinson Rapha Condor Club  02:36
96 Harry Moore Cycling Club Hackney  02:36
97 Katy Baldwin  02:37
98 Lucy Fry  02:37
99 Sue Cooper  02:37
100 Edward Haynes  02:38
101 Sarah-Anne Keenan MBRO35  02:39
102 beatrice windsor East london Velo  02:43
103 Steve Smythe  02:54
104 Alex Elmquist  02:58
105 Leo Tong Flying Pigs CC  03:04
106 Eleanor Harvie  03:09
107 William Irwin Cycling Weekly  03:11
108 Doug TroisV  03:14
109 Ross Hawkins Brompton Bicycle  03:14
110 Kate Searle  03:16
111 Alex  03:22
112 Amy Koerbel  03:25