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BC Superweek: Tour de White Rock, Stage 1

NOW women sweep hill climb podium

The Tour de White Rock's Homelife Realty Hill Climb left a few riders, such as Yannick Meyer of Team Baier Landshut, shelled. Meyer finished third on the stage. Photo credit: Scott Robarts
The Tour de White Rock's Homelife Realty Hill Climb left a few riders, such as Yannick Meyer of Team Baier Landshut, shelled. Meyer finished third on the stage. Photo credit: Scott Robarts

A young Canadian from St. Catherines, Ont., was the quickest up the 700-m, 16 per cent-grade Homelife Realty Hill Climb in the men’s race, while NOW and Novartis for MS swept the podium on the women’s side in Friday’s first stage of the 34th Tour de White Rock.

Brandon Etzl of Jet Fuel Coffee-Norco ascended Buena Vista Avenue faster than runner-up Florenz Knauer, the German from Team Baier Landshut who has now been on four straight BC Superweek podiums. Coming in third was another Baier German, Yannick Meyer, runner-up in the Tour de Delta’s White Spot Road Race.

Riders from NOW, a team with plenty of riders in BC Superweek, took the top three spots in the women’s race. Canadian Lex Albrecht assailed the grade the quickest, with her teammates Lauren Rauck-Komanski (USA) and Olivia Dillon (Ireland) second and third respectively. Albrecht won the Tour of Delta’s MK Delta Criterium, and Dillon came runner-up in the Brenco Crit on the same tour, but Friday night was Rauck-Komanski’s first podium of BC Superweek.

The Tour de White Rock continues Saturday with the Choices Market Criterium, which orbits White Rock Elementary School.

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A NOW and Novartis for MS-centric podium at the Tour de White Rock's Homelife Realty Hill Climb includes Lauren Rauck Komanski (second), Lex Albrecht (first) and Olivia Dillon (third). Photo credit: Scott Robarts
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