—Ninth victory for 2017 season

TEAM Coco’s Jamal John chalked up his ninth win for the 2017 cycle season by winning the Demerara Distillers Limited-sponsored 60-mile road race under its Diamond Mineral Water Brand yesterday.

After getting the starters’ green flag from outside the Ocean View International Hotel, East Coast Demerara, John was always in contention heading to the turn back point at half Way Tree, Mahaica, and stayed with the leading bunch heading to the finish line at the place of origin for the finish.

However, as the cyclists passed through Mon Repos on the East Coast of Demerara on the upward journey, the overall sixth place finisher, Paul Cho-Wee-Nam of Team Alanis, along with Alonzo Ambrose, Paul DeNobrega and Kamuel Moses attacked the pack and established a small lead. However, this was short-lived as the peloton wheeled them in before the turn back point and after turning back, John, DeNobrega, Cho-Wee-Nam, Christopher Griffith, Ambrose, Dey and Moses upped and steered clear of the chasing pack.
With approximately 200 metres remaining to the finish line, John jumped the others and stopped the clock at two hours, 02 minutes, 02 seconds. He also won one of the eight prime prizes that were up for grabs.

The other top four places (2nd to 5th) were occupied by Ambrose, DeNobrega, Christopher Griffith and Curtis Dey respectively.
Cho-Wee-Nam won two prime prizes, while Deoraj Garbarran, Ambrose, Moses, Griffith and Marcus Keiler each won one prime.

Dey, by virtue of placing fifth overall, was declared the winner of the junior category. Second was Briton John and finishing third in this category was Keiler.
Cho-Wee-Nam’s overall sixth place finish earned him the top finisher in the veterans’ category. Junior Niles was second.

In the Mountain Bike category, Ozia McAullay was first, Seon Budhan second and Julio Melville third.
The day’s activity was organized by cycling coach Hassan Mohamed.