For the first time ever in MG history, this year riders from Oceania will have a chance to take part in their own version of a continental supermeeting. 27 riders in total line-up for the first ever edition of Oceanic Time Trial Championships in somehow a special way, when trade teams with bigger amount of riders from Oceania were allowed to enter with their riders under their team colours.
The biggest favourites are clearly riders from Australia and New Zealand. Durbridge, Ford, Sergent Howson are among the biggest medal candidates.
The first bigger name to come to finish is Westley Gough, with initial time of 50'10".
But just a moment later Josh Atkins improves the time by 17 seconds to 49'52".
Miles Olman immediately improves Atkins' time by quite a lot. Time 49'16" and clear lead!
But here comes Damien Howson. He absolutely smashes it! 48'20"! Just 8th rider to go through finish line, but who knows, maybe we already know the winner?
Here is Shane Archbold. Goes fast, but has no chance against the leading time. Still, he manages to beat Olman by 3 secs and is at least provisionally second. Meanwhile Bevin is 5th at the moment with time 50'10", goes just between his Kiwi friends Atkins and Gough.
Hepburn clearly not in the best form today. Only marginally better than Gough, +1.49 behind Howson. A dissapointing day for him.
Rohan Dennis 58 secs behind Howson and provisionally 4th. Nothing special really.
Jacob Salcone takes an unofficial prize for the best rider outside of Australia and New Zealand. He almost catches on the road his biggest competitor Darren Young and moves to provisional 5th position with only 1.26 gap on Howson while he beats likes of Atkins or Hepburn in the process. Graet day for Fijian.
Timothy Roe moves to provisional 2nd by a tiny margin! Almost a minute behind Howson, but way more importantly narrowly beating all Archbold, Olman and Dennis. His manager is surely going to be thrilled!
Just last 5 riders remaining now. Bauer, Dempster, Sergent, Durbridge and Ford.
Jack Bauer arriving to the finish apparently disappointed. Almost two and half minutes gap on Howson and not even a provisional top 10 place. A day to forget for him.
Zakkari Dempster not really strong this day either as he finishes with an even worse time than Patrick Bevin. Surprisingly the slowest guy of Grieg team today.
And Jesse Sergent can't beat Patrick Bevin either! He is third guy to finish with a time loss of 1.43 to Howson. He is narrowly slower than Bevin, but at least faster than Dempster. But in any case, surely his manager had hopes for a way better result. This also means Howson has secured at least a medal today.
You should probably see how happy Timothy Roe looks right now, as he surely gets a medal from this race... On the other way Luke Durbridge surely hoped for more as time 49'36" ranks him only to provisonal 6th place.
Michael Ford is clearly faster than Durbridge, but will that be enough to beat Hawson?
Ford, 
Howson are among the biggest medal candidates.
Westley Gough, with initial time of 50'10".
