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Crocodile Trophy CROCODILE TROPHY 2018 TOUR PROGRAM MIDDLE EAST PEACE TOUR CONTACT OFFICE AUSTRIA World Wide Sports Agency Gerhard Schönbacher Südtiroler Str. 13a A-8600 Bruck/Mur OFFICE AUSTRALIA tel. +43-676-3047584 World Wide Sports Agency [email protected] Gerhard Schönbacher 12 Satellite Street Clifton Beach QLD 4879 tel.+61-438-250154 AGENCY AUSTRIA [email protected] Regina Stanger O. Plattenweg 60, A-8043 Graz tel. +43-676-4194541 tel. +61-456 775 013 [email protected] 2 Important Dates and Meetings CROCODILE TROPHY GET TOGETHER 10.–11.10.18 Meeting point for all participants every evening from 13th to the 14th of September between 18:00 to 20:00 The Woolshed Downstairs – Cairns City WELCOME MEETING RIDERS, SUPPORTERS & STAFF 12.10.18 Cairns ESPLANADE - Fogarty Park Welcome and briefing 15:00 We will provide you with all the details about the race and answer all your questions. REGISTRATION FOR PARTICIPANTS AND SUPPORTERS Cairns ESPLANADE - Fogarty Park You will get your start number, stage description, Croc t-shirt, energy bars and gels. 16:00 – 17:30 13.10.18 START 1ST STAGE IN CAIRNS - LAGOON ESPLANADE Loading Luggage at Cairns Lagoon 08:00 - 09:00 Rider & Team presentation 09:00 – 09:30 Start 1st Stage (Cairns Lagoon Esplanade) 09:30 LAST STAGE FINISH IN PORT DOUGLAS 20.10.18 Start Wetherby Station (time trial - reverse start order) 10:00 Finish Port Douglas est. 11:30 LUNCH & OFFICIAL WINNERS CELEBRATION Port Douglas Surf Life Saving Club 14:00 SHUTTLE BUS FROM PORT DOUGLAS TO CAIRNS Loading Luggage from 15:00 Departure 16:00 Arrival (Paradise Palms, Airport, Cairns Lagoon) est 18:00 3 Clifton Beach Places, Shops, TrinitY Beach START, Hotel 1 Kuranda smithfield Captain Cook HYW START 1st STAGE 1 Grafton St Grove St McLeod St Martyn St Lake St Abbott St Esplanade Upward St Aplin St Redlynch Gatton St Trinity REGISTER 1 Draper St Cycle Bike Shop 40 Aplin St Sheridan St Mulgrave Road Buchan St Aumuller St Scott St Kenny St <<<<< Spence St Meteor car rental 4 TrinitY Beach TrinitY WELCOME Park 1 Yorkys Knob TO CAIRNS smithfield Holloways Beach Machans Beach Cairns Airport freshwater REGISTER Redlynch <<<<< st START 1 Cairns Lagoon Esplanade 09:30 1 Portsmith 5 STAGES Cairns – Port Douglas stage 1 Cairns – Tinaroo stage 5 Irvinebank - Skybury 69 (81) km/1900 (2100) m 125 km/1200 m stage 2 Tinaroo – Tepon stage 6 Skybury - Skybury 108 km/2200 m 103 km/1000 m stage 3 Tepon – Tepon stage 7 Skybury - Wetherby 106 km/3200 m 78 km/1050 m stage 4 Tepon – Irvinebank (TT) stage 8 Wetherby - Port Douglas 64 km/1250 m 62 km/900 m TROPICAL NORTH QUEENSLAND CAIRNS NORTHERN TERRITORY QUEENSLAND WESTERN AUSTRALIA SOUTH AUSTRALIA NEW SOUTH WALES VICTORIA TASMANIA PORT DOUGLAS 08_WETHERBY 05/06_SYKBURY COFFEE 01_CAIRNS 02_LAKE TINAROO 08_IRVINEBANK 03/04_TEPON STAGE 1 SAT 13.10.2018 Cairns-Lake Tinaroo START 08.30 Riders Presentation 09.30 Race Start Esplanade Lagoon CAIRNS Official Start after 12 km of a neutralised start. DESCRIPTION The race starts in front of the Laguna with a neutralized section trough Cairns to the look- out on Lake Morris Road, some 12 kilometers out of town. After the official start, the first 10 km will go up on asphalt to Copperlode dam. Once we passed the dam, the real climbing be- gins. First a concrete and later a dirt road with very steep sections, both up and down, leads the riders through the beautiful rainforest. After feedstation one, the roads open up and you enter a typical Australian surrounding with gravel roads and eucalyptus trees. We go through parts of Davis Creek Mountainbike Park as well. The finish and camping area is at the borders of Lake Tinaroo. FEED ZONES & TFZ STAGE CAMPING & FACILITIES 1 23 kmFeed Zone only officials Camping at Lake Tinaroo Toilets, showers provided by the 1 2 47 km TFZ & Feed Zone organization STAGE 02 - CAIRNS - LAKE TINAROO - 67 (79) KM / 1900 (2100) M TFZ 01 FEED ZONE 1 FEED ZONE 2 750 600 450 300 150 0 15 30 45 60 N W E S Start 09.301 LUGGAGE 1 91 Loading Luggage Start Cairns Lagoo 08:00 - 09:00 Official Start START Cairns 1 Lagoon 1 Copperlode 1 Dam Kennedy HWY 2 Feed Zone km 23 <<<<<<<<<<<<<<< TFZ 01 km 47 Tour DoCtor 52 To Kuranda/Cairns 1 1 Kennedy HWY 2 Tinneroo Creek Rd Mareeba Finish Atherton 1 1 RACE CooMbra Stn To Atherton TFZ 01 1 Henry Hannam Dr Kennedy HWY Kennedy 2 52 69 km/1900 m 0 2,5 5,0 km 9 STAGE 2 SON 14.10.2018 Lake Tinaroo-Tepon DESCRIPTION Today we start early to avoid weekend traffic on the Dan- bulla Road along Lake Tinaroo that brings us to the start of Mount Edith Road after 13 flat kilometers. This scenic 4WD track winds its way through a section of the Lamb Range and offers an amazing transition of vegetation from tall open forest to wet sclerophyll forest and rainfo- rest. You’ll come across some massive gum trees. After some 25 km we exit the forest and arrive on the big open gravel roads we had at the end of yesterday’s stage. After crossing the Mareeba-Atherton highway via and small tunnel, we go in almost a straight line to the South past Atherthon and Herberton to Tepon Equestrian Park. The course contains some long and often steep climbs but no special technical difficulties. We’ll stay at the same camping spot for two night, so no packing and moving tomorrow. CAMPING & FACILITIES Camping at Equestrian Parc. Toilets, showers available. STAGE FEED ZONES & TFZ 1 TFZ & Feed Zone 20.0 km 2 2 TFZ & Feed Zone 50.2 km 3 Feed Zone only 75.8 km STAGE 02 LAKE TINAROO – TEPON 108 KM/2200 M TFZ 01 TFZ 02 TFZ 03 FEED ZONE 1 FEED ZONE 2 FEED ZONE 3 FEED ZONE 4 1200 1100 1000 900 800 700 600 500 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 N To Mareeba 2 1 W E S Start Lake 3 Tinaroo 1 Feed Zone only KM 26.0 52 TFZ & Feed Zone KM 44.9 TFZ & Feed Zone KM 63.6 TFZ & Feed Zone KM 88.9 Tour DoCtor Dangeros HYW Crossing Walk accross the road 4 1 1 Start 08.00 Finish TepOn 25 100 km/2600 m 24 25 0 2.5 5.0 km 11 STAGE 3 MO 15.10.2018 Tepon – Teopn DESCRIPTION This stage might well be the hardest climbing stage ever in the Crocodile Trophy. We start at Tepon Equestrian Park and head north along the powerlines. This used to be a very rough section in the past, but recently impro- ved a lot. It still goes up and down very steep though. Once past Watsonville, we turn East in the direction of Atherton. Halfway the stage we go through the very nice Atherthon Bike Park and ride the man build trails for about 20 km, including the infamous Stairway to Heaven climb. A rough 4WD track takes the riders back to the highway crossing and into the Herberton Range National Park. Again some very steep and often rough trails await. The final 15 kilometers back to Tepon are easier but after more than 100 km not to be underestimated. This stage could definitely be decisive for the overall win, but still a lot can happen in the next five days! 1 Feed Zone only 24.6 km 2 TFZ & Feed Zone 40.0 km STAGE 3 Feed Zone only 66.8 km 3 4 TFZ & Feed Zone 83.1 km STAGE 03 - TEPON - TEPON - 106 KM / 3200 M TFZ 01 TFZ 02 FEED ZONE 1 FEED ZONE 2 FEED ZONE 2 FEED ZONE 4 1200 1100 1000 900 800 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 N W E 2 52 ATHERTONS Start 08.00 52 3 52 Tour DoCtor 1 1 52 Feed Zone & TFZ 1 + 2 + 3 4 Dangeros HYW Crossing Walk accross the road Start & FINISH Tepon 52 106 km/3200 m 1 0 1.0 2.0 km 13 STAGE 4 TUE 16.10.2018 Tepon – Irvinebank - Time Trial DESCRIPTION For those going for a good result, day 3 and 4 are crucial. After the brutally hard stage from yesterday, an indivi- dual time trial of no less than 64 kilometers towards the old mining village Irvinebank awaits. We start at 9 a.m. in reverse order of the general classification with 1 minutes intervals. The course mainly goes on wide gravel roads and con- tains some long climbs. The final 10 kilometers to the finish are downhill. If it were a normal stage, it wouldn’t have been that hard, but a time trial is something totally different of course… Irvinebank is so remote there is no mobile phone co- verage, but the great atmosphere will make you forget about e-mails and social media in no time! STAGE 1 Feed Zone only 21.3 km 4 2 Feed Zone only 42.0km STAGE 04 - TEPON - IRVINEBANK - 64 KM / 1250 M - TIME TRIAL FEED ZONE 1 FEED ZONE 2 1000 900 800 64 km/1250 m 700 14 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50 55 60 N Start 08.00 W E S Time Trial Herberton 52 FINSIH Irvinebank Start Feed Zone Tepon & TFZ 1 + 2 + 3 Tour DoCtor 1 2 The riders will start in reverse order of the overall classifica- tion like in a time trial (start interval 30 seconds).
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