JUVENILE cyclist Michael Anthony dominated the National Sports Commission’s (NSC)-sponsored `Teach Them Young’ Evaluation cycle programme which was staged at the National Park on Saturday by winning the feature 35-lap race as well as the 10-lap event for juveniles.

The nine-race programme which was organised by national cycle coach Hassan Mohamed saw Anthony win the feature 35-lap race for schoolboys, novices and invitational riders in a time of one hour 19 minutes 17 seconds, eclipsing the one hour 35 minutes .01 seconds that Albert Philander returned in winning the event last year.
Anthony also won two of the eight prime prizes that were up for grabs.
Hamzah Eastman placed second to Anthony and won two prime prizes as well, while Robin Persaud, Paul DeNobrega, Marlon `Fishy’ Williams and Alanzo Greaves finished third, fourth, fifth and sixth respectively.
Persaud, Enzo Matthews, Stephan Husbands and Warren McKay each won a prime prize.
In the juveniles’ race, Alonzo Ambrose finished second to Anthony while Husbands placed third.
The feature event went off at a brisk pace with the lead interchanging. However, after the completion of six laps, the eventual top six finishers along with Mario King broke from the pack and established a sizeable lead which they maintained until the 26th lap when Anthony attacked the leaders and was never challenged. In the end, he crossed the finish line all by himself.
In other results from Saturday’s programme, Adrian Sharma won the five-lap race for mountain bikers ahead of Ozia McAully and Emmanuel Gayraul while Maurice Fagundes was the winner of the five-lap race for veterans 60 years and over.
Junior Niles was the winner of the five-lap race for veterans under 45 years of age. Second was Bochel Samaroo. Linden Blackman won the five-lap race for veterans over 45 years of age.
The BMX boys 9-12 years of age three-lap race was won by Sherwin Sampson. Second was Kristoff Austin and third was Thuran Garbarran.
Rashadi Ceres won the BMX boys 12-14 years of age three-lap race ahead of Sceon Thegg and Shaka Cyrus respectively, while Shamar Dass was the winner of the BMX boys open three-lap event. Second was Sharma and third was Stephan Wilkinson.
Sampson also won the two-lap race for BMX boys 6-9 years old. Second was Jeremiah Harrison and third was Alex Leung.