Williams, Savory, Greaves among top 25 finishers in `Tour of Somerville Series’
Part of the action of the final race in the `Tour of Somerville Cycling Series’
Part of the action of the final race in the `Tour of Somerville Cycling Series’

GUYANA’S Geron Williams, Scott Savory and Alanzo Greaves placed among the top 25 finishers of the just third race in the `Tour of Somerville Cycle Series’ held in New Jersey, USA on Monday.

According to Guyana Cycling News’ facebook page, Williams placed 14th in the 50-mile race while Savory and Greaves occupied the 16th and 23rd respectively.
Williams had won the first race (30-mile criterium) on Saturday and placed sixth in the second race (40 miles).
It is unclear what his overall position is after the three races have concluded.
Dubbed ‘The Kentucky Derby of Cycling,” this year’s Tour de Somerville cycling series drew a crowd of riders that organisers estimated included 100 national champions, 25 to 30 world championship winners, and at least one former Olympian.
Split up into six different races, the more than 400 cyclists came from across the United States, two Canadian provinces and New Zealand.
Some also had ties to Guyana, including the now U.S.-based Aubrey Gordon, who represented the Caribbean nation at the 1980, 1984 and 1988 Olympic Games.
Gordon rode in the day’s fourth race, for cyclists aged 45 and older. The pack of 88 riders also included one who had participated in 61 of the 72 Tour of Somerville events.
As younger riders received their medals for the day’s earlier races, the prizes came with a suggestion that their names, too, will be heard again at future national and worldwide cycling championship events.
The Tour of Somerville’s longtime favourite fell short to newcomer Texan Andrew Dahlheim, who won the men’s race 50-miler in 1 hour, 49 minutes and 28 seconds, topping runner-up Adam Myerson, who is retiring as a professional after this season.
“There was a moment when I got ahead for a second, but he rallied; we both threw our bikes, but then I knew he had it.” Myerson was quoted as saying after the event.
Stalin Quinterio Cuello was third. Darren Matthews of Barbados placed fourth.
Founded in May of 1940 by racer and bike shop owner Fred ‘Pop’ Kugler, the race has been run annually since then except during World War II.
The event’s Memorial Day date became significant during the war, when its first two winners – Kugler’s son, Furman Kugler, who won in both 1940 and 1941, and his friend Carl Anderson, the 1942 champion – were killed while serving overseas.
This year, members of the U.S. Military Cycling Team competed in the race.

 

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