The R320 is a Regional Route in South Africa that connects Hermanus with Caledon. The southern section of this road from Camphill to Shaw's Mountain Pass is gravel (unsealed).

External links[link]

• Routes Travel Info

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James Allen "Jim" Pattison, OC, OBC (born October 1, 1928) is a Vancouver-based Canadian entrepreneur who is the president, managing director, chief executive officer, chairman and sole owner of the Jim Pattison Group, the third largest privately held company in Canada. With an estimated net worth of around $US 5.8 billion (as of March 2011), Pattison was ranked by Forbes as the 3rd wealthiest person in Canada and 173rd in the world.^[1]

Life and career[link]

Pattison's parents resided in the rural town of Luseland^[2], Saskatchewan when he was born at the hospital in nearby Saskatoon.

His company, the third largest privately held company in Canada^[3] owns numerous car dealerships, Overwaitea Foods and Save-On-Foods, Ripley's Believe It or Not!, and radio & TV stations in British Columbia and Alberta. He also owned the Vancouver Blazers of the World Hockey Association.

Pattison led the organization of Expo 86 in Vancouver as the CEO and president of the Expo 86 Corporation. When he was appointed to The Order of BC the award noted, "Although others may have had the initial vision for Expo ’86, it was Jimmy Pattison who was the expediter – the one more than anyone else who made it happen. He demanded much of his team but no more than he himself was prepared to give. This he did, almost full-time over a five-year period, without compensation..."^[4]

He was involved with the committee for the 2010 Vancouver Olympics.

On February 15, 2008, Jim Pattison Group announced the purchase of the GWR organization, the company known for its Guinness World Records franchise. Aptly enough, its annual book, published in more than 100 countries in 37 languages, is the world's best-selling copyrighted book.

Among other honours, Pattison is a recipient of both the Order of Canada and the Order of British Columbia. He was also listed as No. 178 on the 2008 Forbes list of the world's richest people.^[5] He is also listed as the 4th richest Canadian.^[6]

Pattison, who owns approximately 30% of the shares of Canfor, was recently in a dispute over governance with money manager Stephen A. Jarislowsky, whose firm owned 18%. Pattison won and ousted CEO Jim Shepherd over Canfor's poor performance and declining share price, replacing him for the interim with Jim Shepard.^[7]

On April 16, 2009 Jim Pattison announced that Save-On Foods has donated $100,000 to CBC Television in order to rent high definition trucks for away games during the Vancouver Canucks' 2009 1st round NHL playoff series versus the St. Louis Blues. Prior to this donation, CBC stated that it would not broadcast HD away games in St. Louis due to the cost of renting high definition equipment during the current tough economic times and major cuts to funding for the CBC by the federal government.^[8]

He married his childhood sweetheart, Mary, they have 3 children.^[9][10]

Further reading[link]

• Jimmy: An Autobiography by Jim Pattison and Paul Grescoe (1987)
• Pattison: Portrait of a capitalist superstar by Russell Kelly (Nov 1986)

See also[link]

• Lists of billionaires
• Expo 86
• Jim Pattison Group

Multimedia[link]

• Youtube clip - Interview of Jim Pattison by Horatio Alger Association
• CBC Archives - Jim Pattison and Expo 86 (from 1985).
• Video Clip- Interview of Jim Pattison by BCBusiness Magazine

References[link]

External links[link]

• Biography on the Order of British Columbia website.
• Entry on Order of Canada website.
• The Jim Pattison Group main website
• Jimmy got Mad
• NNDB entry

Simon Gerrans

Gerrans at the 2011 Critérium du Dauphiné
Personal information
Full name	Simon Gerrans
Born	(1980-05-16) 16 May 1980 (age 32) Melbourne, Australia
Height	1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)[1]
Weight	64 kg (140 lb)[1]
Team information
Current team	Orica-GreenEDGE
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Rider type	Puncheur
Amateur team(s)
2003 2003–2004 2004–2005	Team Ringerike SK Carvalhelhos-Boavista (trainee) AG2r Prévoyance (trainee)
Professional team(s)
2005–2007 2008 2009 2010–2011 2012–	AG2R Prévoyance Crédit Agricole Cervélo TestTeam Team Sky GreenEDGE
Major wins
Grand Tours Tour de France 1 individual stage Giro d'Italia 1 individual stage Vuelta a España 1 individual stage Stage Races Herald Sun Tour (2005, 2006) Danmark Rundt (2011) Tour Down Under (2006, 2012) Single-Day Races and Classics National Road Race Champion (2012) Milan – San Remo (2012) GP Ouest-France (2009)
Infobox last updated on 2 May 2012

Simon Gerrans (born 16 May 1980) is an Australian professional road bicycle racer, who currently rides for the Australian UCI ProTour team, Orica-GreenEDGE.^[2] Gerrans is the 2012 Australian National Road Race Champion, having won the title on 8 January 2012.^[3]

Biography[link]

Gerrans was born in Melbourne, Victoria and grew up in Mansfield, Victoria.

He took up cycling after injuring his knee and speaking with his neighbour, former Yellow Jersey holder Phil Anderson whom he credits with introducing him to the sport.^[4] Gerrans was an Australian Institute of Sport scholarship holder.^[5]

In 2002, he finished fifth in the senior Australian National Road Race Championships, and took the under 23 title. He went on to ride as a trainee with the Carvalhelhos-Boavista team, based in Portugal from 1 September 2003, and then as a trainee for the AG2R Prévoyance team from 1 September 2004. He turned professional in 2005, staying with AG2R Prévoyance, and participated in his first Tour de France in the same year.

Gerrans underwent surgery at a hospital in Nice following a heavy fall in the GP d'Ouverture la Marseillaise in February, 2006. A pin was inserted into his shattered left collarbone and a screw put into his broken right shoulder, and had stitches in his head.^[6] He resumed training three weeks later and went on to represent Australia at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne.^[7]

In 2008, Gerrans rode for the Crédit Agricole team. He won stage 15 of the Tour de France, the high point of his career so far, after being in the four man breakaway for most of the day. Barely surviving attacks from the other strong climbers in the breakaway, in which the fourth rider was dropped from the group, he eventually sprinted away in the last few dozen metres, without a response from the two remaining contenders.^[8]

Following the closure of the Crédit Agricole team Gerrans signed with the UCI Professional Continental Cervélo TestTeam for the 2009 season.^[9] Despite his success of the previous year, he was not included in the squad for the 2009 Tour de France.^[10]

On stage 14 of the 2009 Giro d'Italia Gerrans attacked his breakaway companions on the short steep climb of San Luca, near Bologna, to win the stage – the first Grand Tour stage victory for Cervélo TestTeam.^[11] After winning 10th stage of the 2009 Vuelta a España Gerrans became the first Australian to win a stage of each of the three Grand Tours.^[12]

He signed with Team Sky for season 2010 ^[13] and made the Team Sky selection for the 2010 Tour de France. Gerrans was involved in a large crash on Stage 8 of the race resulting in a broken arm and his withdrawal from the race.^[14]

In 2011, Gerrans came 3rd in the Amstel Gold Race.^[15] In August, he won the Danmark Rundt.^[16] Shortly after that victory, it was announced that Gerrans would join GreenEDGE for the team's inaugural season in 2012.^[2] In January 2012, Gerrans became national road race champion for the first time, out-sprinting Lampre-ISD's Matthew Lloyd and Team Sky's Richie Porte for victory.^[3] Later in the month he won the Tour Down Under for the second time.^[17] On 17 March 2012, Gerrans won Milan – San Remo in a three-man sprint finish, beating RadioShack-Nissan-Trek's Fabian Cancellara and Liquigas-Cannondale's Vincenzo Nibali to the line in Sanremo.^[18]

Palmarès[link]

Monuments results[link]

This table shows Simon Gerrans' results in the five cycling monuments.

References[link]

External links[link]

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• Simon Gerrans profile at Cycling Archives