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2020 Herald Sun Tour
The 2020 Jayco Herald Sun Tour was a road cycling stage race that took place between 5 and 9 February 2020 in Victoria, Australia. It was the 67th edition of the Herald Sun Tour and was a part of the 2020 UCI Oceania Tour. Teams Four UCI WorldTeams and nine UCI Continental teams were invited to the race. Along with an Australian national team, there were fourteen teams in the race. Each team entered seven riders with the except of , which entered only four. Of the 95 riders that started the race, 80 riders finished. UCI WorldTeams * * * * UCI Continental Teams * * * * * * * * * National Teams * KordaMentha Real Estate Australia Route Stages Stage 1 ;5 February 2020 — Nagambie to Shepparton, Stage 2 ;6 February 2020 — Beechworth to Falls Creek, Stage 3 ;7 February 2020 — Bright to Wangaratta, Stage 4 ;8 February 2020 — Mansfield to Mount Buller, Stage 5 ;9 February 2020 — Melbourne, Class ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2020 UCI Oceania Tour
The 2020 UCI Oceania Tour was the 16th season of the UCI Oceania Tour. The season began on 15 January 2020 with the New Zealand Cycle Classic The New Zealand Cycle Classic (previously known as the Tour of Wellington) is a road cycling race held in and around the Wairarapa near Wellington, New Zealand. The race is a men's competition over five stages and part of the UCI Oceania Tour ... and finished on 9 February 2020 with the Herald Sun Tour. Throughout the season, points were awarded to the top finishers of stages within stage races and the final general classification standings of each of the stages races and one-day events. The quality and complexity of a race also determined how many points were awarded to the top finishers, the higher the UCI rating of a race, the more points were awarded. The UCI ratings from highest to lowest were are as follows: * Multi-day events: 2.1 and 2.2 * One-day events: 1.1 and 1.2 Teams The seven teams which competed in the 2020 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shepparton
Shepparton () ( Yortayorta: ''Kanny-goopna'') is a city located on the floodplain of the Goulburn River in northern Victoria, Australia, approximately north-northeast of Melbourne. As of the 2021 census, the estimated population of Shepparton, including the adjacent town of Mooroopna, was 68,409. It began as a sheep station and river crossing in the mid-19th century, before undergoing a major transformation as a railway town. Today it is an agricultural and manufacturing centre, and the centre of the Goulburn Valley irrigation system, one of the largest centres of irrigation in Australia. It is also a major regional service city and the seat of local government and civic administration for the City of Greater Shepparton, which includes the surrounding towns of Tatura, Merrigum, Mooroopna, Murchison, Dookie, Toolamba and Grahamvale. Toponymy The name of Shepparton is derived from the surname of one of the area's first European settlers, Sherbourne Sheppard, and not, as is s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mansfield, Victoria
Mansfield is a small town in the foothills of the Victorian Alps in the Australian state of Victoria. It is approximately north-east of Melbourne by road. The population around Mansfield was as at the 2016 census. The town itself has 3410 persons. Mansfield is the seat of the Mansfield local government area. Mansfield was formerly heavily dependent on farming and logging but is now a tourist centre. It is the support town for the large Australia ski resort Mount Buller. It is associated with the high-country tradition of alpine grazing, celebrated in the film made around Mansfield, near the now famous Craigs Hut, called ''The Man from Snowy River'' (based on a poem by Banjo Paterson). History The traditional owners of the Mansfield region are the Yowengillum clan of the Taungurung people. They also inhabited Alexandra and the Upper Goulburn River. British colonisers began to enter the region in 1839 when Andrew Ewing (sometimes referred to as Andrew Ewan), a stockman rep ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stage 4
Stage 4 may refer to: * Key Stage 4 * ''Stage 4'' of ''Everywhere at the End of Time'' * Cambrian Stage 4 * Stage 4 cancer * Stage 4 CKD * Dual-Stage 4-Grid The Dual-Stage 4-Grid (DS4G) is an electrostatic ion thruster design developed by the European Space Agency, in collaboration with the Australian National University. The design was derived by D. Fern from Controlled Thermonuclear Reactor experimen ... * Stage 4 of Braak staging * Decomposition stage 4 * Whale fall stage 4 * 2019–20 Biathlon World Cup – Stage 4 * 2021 Call of Duty League season stage 4 See also * Piaget's 4 stages of cognitive development {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kaden Groves
Kaden Groves (born 23 December 1998) is an Australian cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam . Career Groves was the 2016 winner of the junior race at the Australian National Road Race Championships. In 2017, Groves finished runner-up in the prologue stage of the Tour de Kumano. He won stage 3 of the Tour of Fuzhou. In August 2019, Groves joined UCI WorldTeam as a stagiaire for the second half of the season, before joining the team permanently in 2020. In 2022, he won his first Grand Tour stage, when he won stage 11 of the Vuelta a España in a sprint finish. In 2023 he won stage 5 of the Giro d'Italia. Major results ;2016 : 1st Road race, National Junior Road Championships ;2017 (1 pro win) : 1st Stage 3 Tour of Fuzhou : 1st Team time trial, Queensland State Road Championships ;2018 (2) : 1st Stage 13 Tour of Qinghai Lake : 1st Stage 5 Tour of Fuzhou : 1st Stage 1 Tour of Quanzhou Bay : 3rd Overall Tour of China II ::1st Points classification ;2019 : Le Tripty ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wangaratta
Wangaratta ( ) is a city in the northeast of Victoria, Australia, from Melbourne along the Hume Highway. The city had an estimated urban population of 19,318 at June 2018. Wangaratta has recorded a population growth rate of almost 1% annually from 2016 to 2018 which is the second highest of all cities in North-Eastern Victoria. The city is located at the junction of the Ovens and King rivers, which drain the northwestern slopes of the Victorian Alps. Wangaratta is the administrative centre and the most populous city in the Rural City of Wangaratta local government area. History The original inhabitants of the area were the Pangerang peoples (''Pallanganmiddang'', ''WayWurru'', ''Waveroo''). The first European explorers to pass through the Wangaratta area were Hume and Hovell (1824) who named the Oxley Plains immediately south of Wangaratta. Major Thomas Mitchell during his 1836 expedition made a favourable report of its potential as grazing pasture. The first squatter to arr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bright, Victoria
Bright (pronunciation: ) is a town in northeastern Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Australia, 319 metres above sea level at the southeastern end of the Ovens Valley. At the , Bright had a population of 2,406. It is in the Alpine Shire local government area. Its postcode is 3741. History Hamilton Hume and William Hovell Hume and Hovell expedition, explored the area in 1824, naming the Ovens River. The town was first known as Morse's Creek after F.H. Morse but in 1861 it was renamed in honour of the British orator and politician John Bright. The Post Office opened on 25 January 1860 as Morse's Creek and was renamed Bright in 1866. During the Victorian gold rush there was a rush to the nearby Buckland River. As the gold deposits gradually diminished, Chinese miners arrived in the area to sift the abandoned claims. Tensions over Chinese success from Anglo-Irish miners caused the violent Buckland Riot in 1857, resulting in deaths of Chinese miners and the fleeing of 2,000 Chines ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stage 3
Stage or stages may refer to: Acting * Stage (theatre), a space for the performance of theatrical productions * Theatre, a branch of the performing arts, often referred to as "the stage" * ''The Stage'', a weekly British theatre newspaper * Stages Repertory Theatre, a theatre company in Houston, Texas Music * Stage, an American band featuring Ryan Star * ''Stage'', a 2002 book and DVD documenting Britney Spears' Dream Within a Dream Tour Albums * ''Stage'' (David Bowie album), 1978 * ''Stage'' (Great White album), 1995 * ''Stage'' (Keller Williams album), 2004 * ''Stage'', by Mónica Naranjo, 2009 * ''The Stage'' (album), by Avenged Sevenfold, or the title song (see below), 2016 * ''Stages'' (Cassadee Pope album), 2019 * ''Stages'' (Elaine Paige album), 1983 * ''Stages'' (Eric Clapton album), 1993 * ''Stages'' (Jimi Hendrix album), 1991 * ''Stages'' (Josh Groban album), 2015 * ''Stages'' (Melanie C album), 2012 * ''Stages'' (Triumph album), 1985 * ''Stages'' (Ved ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Falls Creek, Victoria
The Falls Creek Alpine Resort is an alpine ski resort in the Hume region in northeastern Victoria, Australia. It is located in the Alpine National Park in the Victorian Alps, approximately by road from Melbourne, with the nearest town being Mount Beauty, which is approximately away. The resort lies between an elevation of above sea level, with the highest lifted point at . Skiing is possible on the nearby peak of Mount McKay at , accessed by snowcat from the resort. The resort is an unincorporated area, directly administered by the government of Victoria, and surrounded by the Alpine Shire. History After World War II, the Kiewa electrical scheme was started in the Kiewa River valley by the State Electricity Commission of Victoria. On land previously used only for summer cattle grazing in the natural alpine grasslands, the first ski lodge was built in 1948 by workers from the scheme. The first lift, a rope tow, was built in 1951 and the first chairlift in Australia was con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beechworth
Beechworth is a well-preserved historical town located in the north-east of Victoria, Australia, famous for its major growth during the gold rush days of the mid-1850s. At the , Beechworth had a population of 3,859. Beechworth's many historical buildings are well preserved and the town has re-invented itself and evolved into a popular tourist destination and growing wine-producing centre. History Beechworth Parish and Township plans were prepared, named and certified by George D Smythe after he had left the family estate near Liverpool in 1828, then again near Launceston, Tasmania in 1838. Originally used for grazing by the settler David Reid, the area was also sometimes known as Mayday Hills until 1853. The Post Office opened on 1 May 1853 as Spring Creek and was renamed Beechworth on 1 January 1854. One Indigenous name for the area of unknown origin and language is Baarmutha. Gold Between 1852 and 1857, Beechworth was a gold producing region and centre of government; ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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