53RD NATIONAL SCHOOLS TRACK AND FIELD, SWIMMING AND CYCLING C’SHIPS
District 11 Hamza Eastman raises his hand in triumph after outsprinting Paul De Nobrega to take the 40km.
District 11 Hamza Eastman raises his hand in triumph after outsprinting Paul De Nobrega to take the 40km.

Eastman takes 40km road race from DeNobrega

FOLLOWING his top podium finish in the Junior Category of the just concluded seventh annual ‘Ride for Life’ five-stage cycle road race, Hamza Eastman stamped his authority on a field of cyclists yesterday morning to take the top spot in the Digicel sponsored 53rd Ministry of Education/Guyana Teachers’ Union National Schools, Cycling, Swimming and Track and Field championships 4o km road race.He out-sprinted 2012 Junior Caribbean Cycling Champion Paul DeNobrega to finish in a time of 1h. 03mins: 27secs, to hand District 11 maximum points, while DeNobrega who represented District 13, gained the second place accolades for his District.
District 11’s Alonzo Ambrose, represented well to finish a creditable third behind Eastman and DeNobrega, with his winning time being 1m: 39 seconds slower than the top two finishers.
On the distaff side, Toshawna Doris took the top podium spot from record holder Marica Dick, with a winning time of 55m: 01secs for their 25km event, while Crystal Lambert was third, crossing the line 3m: 27seconds after both Doris and Dick.
From the onset, Eastman displayed his willingness to dominate and take the event which saw the male cyclists riding from Ocean View to Belfield and back, when he took the pole position for the peloton of 32 male cyclists, followed by Ambrose and Shaquille Agard, with DeNobrega, Michael Anthony, Silvio Inniss and Kurt Larose, all being a part of the peloton.
As they approached Plaisance on the upward journey, Eastman, Ambrose, Jermaine Jordan and Andrew Holder, broke away from the peloton and held a lead of 75 meters, which they increased by the second, even as the peloton struggled to come to grips with the strong head wind from the nearby Atlantic Ocean.
DeNobrega though he had enough of the cat and mouse game that was going on with the peloton and joined the front runners as they passed through Strasthpey, following which, Holder suffered a puncture just after the Non Pariel turn.
Together, the four cyclists at the front worked their way to the turn-back point at Belfield, East Coast Demerara, where they stayed at the front with a lead of over two minutes, before Ambrose and Jordan found the pace too hot and were dropped.
As they approached Montrose on the downward journey, DeNobrega attacked Eastman, but it was done too early and left him winded, as Eastman got into overdrive and powered his way past DeNobrega to take the event.
The females journeyed from Ocean View to Strasthpey and back, wherein Dick began to suffer from cramps as she approached the University of Guyana road on her way to the finish line and was forced to watch as Doris took the win with ease.

(By Calvin Roberts )

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