Berbice club names strong team for three-stage event

THE FLYING Ace Cycle Club (FACC) of Berbice has selected a strong eight-member team, among whom is the veteran Gary Benjamin, to participate in this year’s 32nd Annual National Sports Commission (NSC) Independence three-stage cycle road race.

The two-day event is billed for May 17-18 and will be held in collaboration with the NSC, Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport and the Guyana Cycling Federation (GCF).
Apart from Benjamin, the other cyclists named in the squad are Keith Griffith, Ray Millington, Audrel Ross, Syborne Fernandes, Elijah Bijadder, Calet Bacchus and lone female rider, Maricia Dick.
When action pedals off on May 17, the riders will compete from the Corriverton Police Station to Alexander Street, New Amsterdam, covering a distance of 46.6 miles or 75 km and that leg is scheduled to start at 07:30hrs.
Later in the day from 14:00hrs, the cyclists will start at Rosignol and finish at Carifesta Avenue, Georgetown, a total distance of 60.4 miles or 97.1 km with the third and final stage seeing the remaining cyclists pedal from Kara Kara on the Linden Highway at 08:00hrs and proceed to Homestretch Avenue the following morning, for a distance of 64.5 miles or 103 km.
Altogether, the racers will cover 171.5 miles or 275.1 km of Guyana’s roadways in the event, which has as its defending champion, Barbadian Jamal Eastman who represented Carlton Wheelers Cycle Club (CWCC) and won the overall title 06h:58m:13secs.
Eastman was in tremendous form last year, winning stages one and two while his CWCC teammate Guyanese Robin Persaud claimed the final stage.

 

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