Third Seven Seas CARICOM Day 50-miler set for Sunday on West Dem

Jun 28, 2012 Sports

Nations best to collide

Following what has been described as the most testing National Cycling Championships ever last weekend in the Bauxite Mining Town of Linden and the Linden Soesdyke Highway, the best cyclists in the national are set to renew rivalry on the road way when the 3rd Annual Seven Seas – Geddes Grant Guyana Limited sponsored CARICOM Day 50-Mile Race is

Robin Persaud

held on Sunday on the West Demerara.
The terrain will be much easier for all since it will be flat as compared to the hilly nature of last Sunday’s national championships.
Reigning senior, junior and masters champions, Orville Hinds, Raynauth Jeffrey and Junior Niles respectively will have their first test following their ascendancy to the national throne on Sunday last.
Defending champions in the respective senior (Robin Persaud), junior (Paul DeNobrega), veteran (Shameer Baksh), upright (Jude Bentley), female (Naiomi Singh) and veteran over-60 (Walter Isaacs) have all been displaying good form recently and will all fancy their chances of retaining the top spots, but will be wary of the challenges that their opponents will bring to the line.
Bentley, who won the National Time Trials on Saturday last, might favour his racing bike to the upright as he would want to maintain this new found form.
Singh will start as favourite in the female division having narrowly lost out to London based Claire Fraser-Green in the national championships. Fraser-Green it is understood returned to the UK.
Race time is 09:00hrs on Sunday from the Wales Police Station proceeding to Bushy Park on the East Bank of Essequibo before returning to finish line at the Demerara Harbour Bridge. Veterans, upright and females will turn back at Uitvlugt Community Centre.
The first six (6) finishers overall will be rewarded as will the first three (3) juniors, veterans, upright;