SHAQUILLE Agard returned one hour 55 minutes 15 seconds in winning the feature Team Alanis 20-lap feature cycle road race yesterday which was staged around the outer circuit of the National Park.
After going head to head with Alonzo Greaves after two laps of the 3.2 miles circuit and being caught by the peloton four laps later, Agard stayed focused and never dropped from the main pack after being wheeled in.
One lap later, Agard once again broke away in company with Team Alanis’ Paul Cho-Wee-Nam but the duo was not able to open a big lead as the peloton, headed by Orville Hinds was hot on their (leading duo) back wheels and they were eventually pulled in with four laps remaining.

With three laps to go, Cho-Wee-Nam attempted a break, but the peloton responded and connected during the course of the lap, but powered ahead once again with two laps to go.Agard broke from the peloton and was followed by junior rider Raphael Leung and the two were joined by Cho-Wee-Nam.As they passed for the signal of the final lap, Cho-Wee-Nam accelerated and Leung responded and overtook him (Cho-Wee-Nam) and rolled home a comfortable winner, finishing almost 100 metres ahead of second place finisher, Leung.
Cho-Wee-Nam was a distant third, while Hamza Eastman was fourth, Alonzo Greaves fifth and Orville Hinds sixth.
In other results, Leung, by virtue of placing second overall was named winner of the junior category ahead of Andrew Hicks and Deoraj Garbarran,respectively.
In the veterans’ category over the same distance, Cho-Wee-Nam came out the winner ahead of Warren McKay and Junior Niles respectively.
Sherwin Sampson won the BMX boys’ 12-14 years sprint from T. Garbarran.
Sampson also won the BMX Boys’ 9-12 sprint ahead of Jared Barrington who won the boys 6-9 years sprint event.
The mountain bike race was won by Sean Budhan. Second was Ozia McAulley and placing third was Ray Niles.
Meanwhile, the country’s top pedal pushers will be in action once again today from 07:30hrs when cycle coach Hassan Mohamed stages the 17th annual Diamond Mineral Water 55-mile cycle road race which begins at Ocean View International Hotel and concludes at the place of origin after turning back at Mahaica.