GUYANA’S professional cyclist, United States-based Geron Williams managed to place sixth of 84 riders in the second race of the `Tour of Somerville Series’ which ended yesterday in New Jersey, USA.The second race (Bound Brook Cycling Classic) of the three-race series was won by 19-year-old Derek Cote who covered the 40-mile distance in one hour 23 minutes 26 seconds on Sunday.
According to Guyana Cycling News facebook page, the event saw a bunch of five cyclists break from the pack and establish a sizeable lead to occupy the top five places.
Williams, riding for Team Champion System/Stan’s No Tubes in the company of his Guyanese counterpart Scott Savory, managed to out-sprint the bunch of 25 riders to place sixth.
Savory finished 17th, while two other Guyanese riders currently based in the U.S., Hamzah Eastman and Alanzo Greaves finished 45th and 57th.
The riders were down to tackle the main event yesterday; the 50-mile Kugler-Anderson Memorial Tour of Somerville, known as the ‘Kentucky Derby of Cycling’.
On Saturday, Williams won the Raritan Cycling Classic which was the first of three races in the series and was a 30-mile criterium which is raced on a very technical circuit with six corners. Savory placed ninth in the race.
Williams has been showing good form recently. Only last Thursday he won the United’s Rubaik Race Series at the Floyd Bennett Field, Brooklyn, NY.
Savory placed second in that event.
The Tour of Somerville Series is the oldest major bicycle race in the United States and a legend in the lore of bicycle racing.