ARCH rivals Alonso Greaves of Roraima Bikers Club and his Carlton Wheelers Cycle Club competitor Robin Persaud are two prominent names who have found their place on every team named by the Guyana Cycling Federation (GCF) to compete in three prestigious events scheduled for next month.

The teams will represent Guyana in the Tour Tobago to be held on that island from October 2 to 7, the sixth annual Five-Stage road race right here in Guyana from October 11 to 14 and the Senior Elite Championships in Antigua on October 20 and 21.
Greaves and Persaud will be partnered by national road race sprint king Jude Bentley and Geron Williams for the Tour Tobago, but most importantly and after years of pleading from the local cycling fraternity, Guyana will ride as a team in the gruelling five-stage event, with a senior and junior team being named to compete this year.
In the senior category, Team Guyana will comprise Greaves, Persaud, Bentley, Williams, Orville Hinds, Kester Croal, Eric Sankar and Enzo Matthews, while the junior team is made up of a solid bunch of rising stars.
This team comprises national junior road race champion Raynauth Jeffrey who has been turning heads on the local scene among his senior competitors of late, Paul De Nobrega, Michael Anthony, Akeem Arthur, Mario King, Raul Leal and Alonzo Ambrose.
After the Five-Stage event is completed, Team Guyana will journey to Antigua where they will be battling for supremacy in the Senior Elite Championships, of which a female Guyana team which includes Naomi Singh and England-based Guyanese Claire Fraser will also be competing.
However and quite surprisingly, Berbice’s Marica Dick or Linden’s Hazina Barrett did not make the cut for the female team, despite creditable performances so far this year and some wonder whether it is an oversight by the GCF selectors or a lack of funds that contributed to their non-selection.