TEAM Evolution’s Orville Hinds on Sunday registered a comprehensive victory to capture top honours in the 15th Annual Guyoil/Castrol-sponsored 50-mile Pre-Father’s Day cycle road race in the West Demerara area.Hinds returned a winning time of one hour 55 minutes, 17 seconds faster than last year’s winner Raynauth Jeffrey who had clocked one hour 55 minutes 17 seconds.
Hinds’ team mates Michael Anthony and Jamal John placed second and fourth respectively, while Raul Leal, Junior Niles and Raphael Leung placed third, fifth and sixth in that order.
Leal and Akeem Arthur won two prime prizes each while Hinds, Anthony, John and Leung captured one each.
John, by virtue of placing fourth overall, won the junior category ahead of Leung and Andrew Hicks respectively.
Niles who placed fifth overall won the veterans’ category ahead of Shameer Baksh (2nd) and Talim Shaw (3rd).
The mountain bike category was won by Deoraj Garbarran. Second was Seon Budhan while Michael Holder finished third.
The 35 starters, who were sent on their way from outside the Wales Police Station, West Bank Demerara, proceeded to Bushy Park, East Bank Essequibo before returning to Schoon Ord, West Bank Demerara for the finish.
However, after being sent on their way, eight cyclists broke from the pack and opened a sizeable lead but were joined by Leal at La Grange while on the upward journey and the bunch interchanged the lead.
It was at Leonora on the downward journey that Anthony and Hinds connected and almost immediately, Anthony attacked and was soon after joined by Hinds and the Team Evolution duo opened a lead that saw them cross the finish line almost one minute before the third- and fourth-place finishers.
This is Hinds’ fourth victory for the 2015 season and the 14th time that he has placed among the top six this year.