3rd Unitech Awning 11 Race Cycle Meet...Mc Kay thrashes field to win 35-lap contest; Anthony takes junior race

3rd Unitech Awning 11 Race Cycle Meet…Mc Kay thrashes field to win 35-lap contest; Anthony takes junior race

Aug 25, 2013 Sports

By Franklin Wilson
Warren ‘Forty’ Mc Kay was in a dismissive mood yesterday blanking the entire field to emerge winner of the schoolboys and invitational feature 35-lap race when the 3rd Unitech Awning 11 Race Cycle Meet came off at the National Park.
The Roraima Bikers Club rider stopped the clock at One Hour 17 Minutes 54.66 Seconds to finish way ahead of Hamza Eastman who outhustled Berbice’s Wazim Gafoor and Alonzo Ambroze in that order

Individual winners are joined by the other top performers and race officials for this Kodak moment.

in a three way battle for the second place.
Paul De Nobrega got the better of last year’s winner Junior Niles in the battle for the fifth and sixth positions. Mc Kay copped four of the eight prime prizes on offer with two going to Gafoor and one each to Eastman and De Nobrega.
Niles was on course to make it another double having also won the veterans under-50 5-lap race in 13 Minutes 01.75 Seconds but his party was spoiled by Mc Kay and the others.
Ruling the roost in the juvenile 10-lap event was Michael Anthony who was trailed to the line by Hamza Eastman and Andre Abdool. Anthony who also won both prime prizes on offer won the race in 22 Minutes 44.72 Seconds.
Following are the full results:
Following are the full results:
Event                                                     Laps                   Positions
BMX 6-9                                2          Sherwin Sampson, Alexander Leung, Jerimiah Harrison
BMX 9-12                                                    3          Ammo Gomes, Stephan Wilkinson, Imas Wason
BMX 12-14                                                 3          Rawle Small, Deeraj Garbarran, Christian Rajnauth
BMX Open                            3          Christopher Griffith, Rawle Small, Deeraj Garbarran
12-14 yrs Boys & Girls             3          Jamal John (14m 13.94s), Adrian Sharma, Toshwanna Doris
Veterans Under-50                5          Junior Niles (13m 01.75s), Kennard Lovell, Shameer Baksh
Veterans Over-50                                   5          Virgil Jones
Veterans Over-60                     5          Maurice Fagundes
Mountain Bikes                                         5          Ozia Macaulay, Stephano Husbands, Keon Thomas
Juveniles                                   10        Michael Anthony (22m 44.72s), Hamza Eastman, Andre
Abdool
School Boys & Invitational                35        Warren Mc Kay (1h 17m 54.66s), Hamza Eastman, Wazim
Gafoor, Alonzo Ambrose, Paul De Nobrega, Junior Niles

Race Organiser, Hassan Mohamed deputized at the presentation ceremony for Ray Persaud of Unitech Awning, son of the late Noel ‘Pokan’ Persaud, a former Continental Cycle Club cyclist in whose memory the event is held.
Mohamed thanked the athletes for their support on behalf of Persaud, while notifying the riders that he will be closing off his Teach Them Young 8-weeks programme with another 11-race Meet on Saturday next.

Hassan Mohamed hands over the winning trophy and incentive to Warren Mc Kay.

“I must say that this year was the most successful in the 37 year history of this National Sports Commission sponsored event. We had 65 riders who signed up, all did not come at the same time due to some doing other things but this year was a success”, Mohamed noted.
There will be a one week break after next week but the following three weekends it will be back to the saddles for competitive action including a road race, Mohamed informed.