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Feb 02, 2014 Sports
By Franklin Wilson
Team Coco’s rider, Junior Niles, who has become the winning face of the Under-50 category in the National Park and on the road, has taken his winning ways a notch further.
The consistent Niles not only won the Under-50 (5-lap) race yet again but stormed to a memorable win in the feature 35-lap School Boys and Invitational contest of the National Sports Commission 11-Race National Park Meet yesterday.
The race attracted 32 starters and Niles completed the distance in One Hour 17 Minutes 36.45 Seconds.
It was a surprise to all present that Niles turned out to be the winner since he did not show any signs of being in the reckoning up until around three laps to go when he made a big move to break away from the main pack leaving the others in his wake.
On a windy Saturday and in overcast conditions, Raynauth Jeffrey was the leading contender after he broke away from the main pack on lap five along with Stephen Fernandes. The duo led for quite some time but was unable to keep the chasing, ten man second pack at bay until the end.
Fernandes himself was unable with the flying pace of Jeffrey and was dropped on lap 22, having kept up for quite some time. Jeffrey was left to battle on his own for a few more laps before all the big boys connected with him with ten laps remaining.
The lead changed from time to time but no one was allowed to establish a commanding advantage like Jeffrey of Team Coco’s did, earlier. However, the dark horse, Niles who was tucked in with the main bunch made a big move with three laps to go and was never caught.
Orville Hinds took the second place and was followed by Alanzo Greaves, Raynauth Jeffrey, Michael Anthony and Paul De Nobrega in that order.
Jeffrey took four of the eight prime prizes; Paul Choo-Wee-Nam won two, while Niles and Hinds took one each. NSC Official Arnold Sookraj assisted with the presentation of prizes to the winners and other top performers.
Race organiser Hassan Mohamed in complimenting the riders for another good day of incident free racing, informed them once again that this year will be hectic. A total of five races are set for the month of March (three road; two national park).
Attention will now turn to the road ways for the first time this year in these parts with the 40-Mile Mashramani event also sponsored by the National Sports Commission on the West Demerara.
Commencing at 08:00hrs; competitors will all move off from the Demerara Harbour Bridge and unlike previous races which saw the veterans, mountain bike and female riders turning back at the Uitvlugt Community Centre; riders will go all the way to Bushy Park on the East Bank of Essequibo before returning to the place of origin for the finish.
Following are the full results of yesterday’s 11-Race Meet
Race Laps Placing
BMX Boys 6-9yrs 2 Sherwin Sampson, Esau Jaisingh, Alex Leung
BMX Boys 9-12yrs 3 Sherwin Sampson, Taran Garbarran
BMX Boys 12-14yrs 3 Rawle Small, Carlton John, Tariq Khan
BMX Boys Open 3 Rawle Small, Jaleel Jackson
12-14 Boys & Girls 3 Romelo Crawford (12m59s), Jamal John, Tariq Williams
Veteran U-50 5 Junior Niles (12m31s), Turan Harris, Shurlan Sue Hang
Veteran O-50 5 Linden Blackman, Wilfred Thom
Veteran O-60 5 Maurice Fagundes, Anthony Fariah
Juveniles 10 Michael Anthony (22m45s), Alanzo Ambrose, Akeem Arthur
Mountain Bikes 5 Clyde Jacobs, Nigel Jacobs, Ray Nurse
Invitational 35 Junior Niles (1h17m35,45s), Orville Hinds, Alanzo Greaves,
School Boys & Raynauth Jeffrey, Michael Anthony, Paul DeNobrega
Mountain Bikes
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