REIGNING Independence three-stage champion Warren ‘40’ McKay warmed up for the defence of his title in this weekend’s race, when he rode away with the Roraima Bikers Club (RBC)-organised Ansa McAl Trading/Tropical Rhythm-sponsored road race last Sunday. McKay’s teammate Alonso Greaves along with Eric Sankar, Walter Grant-Stuart, Darren Allen and Ian ‘Dumb Boy’ Jackson completed the top six positions, with Grant-Stuart picking up four sprint prizes, McKay two and Greaves, Allen and Sankar one each.
Sankar made a move to front at Good Hope on the upward journey and was joined by Grant-Stuart, Greaves, Kennard Lovell and Allen, before Robin Persaud and McKay joined the pack at Belfield at which point Persaud picked up a puncture.
What must have been interesting for the Guyana Cycling Federation (GCF), who selected an eight-man team of which McKay, Greaves, Grant-Stuart, Allen and Jackson are a part, was the collective way in which the top six worked together before the sprint for home in which McKay came out victorious after Sankar made the move.
In the junior category, Paul De Nobrega took the top podium spot from Kurt La Rose and Davenand Bissoon, while Lovell who took home a sprint prize while being within the breakaway peloton, took the Veterans’ category from Talim Shaw and Linden Blackman respectively.
Special prizes were presented to Naomi Singh for being the lone female to compete in the event and Monty Parris who was rewarded for being the oldest competitor to complete the race.