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Leal wins Assuria Insurance feature race
Sixteen-year-old Raul Leal became the first winner of the feature 35-lap School Boys and Invitational race at the inaugural Assuria Insurance 11-Race Cycle Meet which took place at Guyana’s number-one cycling facility, the Inner Circuit of the National Park.
Representatives of Assuria Insurance and Race officials pose with the various category winners and other top performers.
The Team Coco’s rider outlasted a field of 29 other riders to win comfortably in a time of One Hour 17 Minutes 57 Seconds after sprinting away from his nearest competitors during the final 300m of the race.
Leal also copped one of the eight prime prizes, while second place finisher Robin Persaud collected four prime prizes.
Junior Niles, who finished third, collected two primes while Paul Choo-Wee-Nam, Marlon Williams and Wazim Gafoor rounded off the top six in that order. Jude Bentley accounted for the other primes.
In other results, Jamar Hulija won the BMX 6-9 race from Isiah Sahadeo and Jeremiah Harrison, while Rashidi Ceres got the better of Thuran Garbarran in the BMX 9-12.
Rawle Small took the BMX 12-14, leaving Bryton John and Shamar Grannum to settle for second and third respectively, while Jason Jordan was the top rider in the BMX Open, finishing ahead of Jamal John and Earl Ramkarran in that order.
Romel Crawford, Tyrique Hall and Jason Jordan finished in that order in the 12-14 Boys and Girls race with Niles taking top honours in the Veterans Under-50 ahead of Stephen Fernandes and Kennard Lovell.
In the Veterans Over-50 class Lancelot Rose emerged as the winner ahead of Dwayne Ramsey and Courtney Hackett.
Maurice Fagundes defeated Krishendat Singh to cop the Veterans Over-60 trophy with Jaben Crawford and Keon Thomas winning the Juveniles and Mountain Bikes races respectively.
National cycling Coach Hassan Mohamed thanked the riders for making the event a success while lauding the sponsor Assuria Insurance for being proactive in joining the sport of cycling.
Assistant General Manager of Assuria Insurance, Yogindra Arjune, said his company is pleased to support the development of the sport and plans to venture into other disciplines in the future.
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