TEAM Evolution’s Orville Hinds romped home winner of the Carlton Wheelers/Guyoil 14th Annual Fathers Day 50-mile cycle road race which was held on the West Demerara yesterday.Hinds, who has been in tremendous form since this year’s cycle season commenced, returned one hour 20 minutes 53.11 seconds in winning the open event and also won one of the eight prime prizes that were up for grabs.
Veteran rider Junior Niles of Team Cocos placed second and also won one of the prime prizes, while Hinds’s club mates Michael Anthony and Stephen Fernandes placed fourth and sixth respectively.
The overall third-place finisher was Team Alanis’s Paul DeNobrega and fifth was Team Cocos Raynauth Jeffrey.
The event which was coordinated by Hassan Mohamed of the National Sports Commission started from the Wales Police Station, West Bank Demerara.
The race went along at a fierce pace which saw four of Team Alanis’s top riders – Cho-Wee-Nam, Yearwood, Ambrose and DeNobrega — making a break from the main bunch turning into Schoonord on the West Bank of Demerara, but they were pursued by Fernandes, Niles and Hinds. The trio eventually connected to the leading quartet at Leonora, after which the pace heated up as the leaders played the “Cat and Mouse game.”
As the leaders approached Vreed-en–Hoop, Hinds jumped the pack and no one responded, allowing the top local-based rider to romp home to a comfortable victory.
The other prime prizes were won by Anthony (two), Shaquile Agard (one), Jeffrey (one) and Alonzo Ambrose (one).
Jarnel Yearwood won the juniors’ category ahead of Andrew Hicks and Brighton John respectively, while Niles, by virtue of placing second overall was named winner of the veterans’ category. Second in this category was Fernandes, who placed sixth overall while third was Paul Cho-Wee-Nam.
In the ladies’ category, United Kingdom-based Guyanese Claire Fraser-Green crossed the finish line ahead of Christine Mateheson and Toshwana Doris respectively.
In the men’s BMX race, Guyana Defence Force’s Richard Charles crossed the finish line ahead of Stephan Gobin and Kester Croal respectively.
Fraser-Green, who represented Guyana at the international level, on Saturday won the Guyana Cycling Federation’s (GCF) national individual time trial as well as the 22-mile road race to cement her place to represent Guyana at any international championship. (Michael DaSilva).