Latest update April 1st, 2025 5:37 PM
34th MoE/NSC/GCF Independence 3-Stage Cycle Road Race …Hinds ahead of field for final stage today; Leung and Niles are leading junior and veteran
Defending champion Orville Hinds of Team Evolution is well positioned to retain the title having won the first stage and recorded the same time as stage 2 winner Joseph Hercules of Anguilla going into the third and
Anguilla’s Joseph Hercules leading overall race leader Orville Hinds to the finish line in yesterday’s second stage which concluded on Carifesta Avenue. (Franklin Wilson photo)
final stage of the Golden Jubilee Ministry of Education (MoE)/National Sports Commission (NSC)/Guyana Cycling Federation (GCF) Three Stage Cycle Road Race.
Hinds (4:15:36) is the overall leader with Hercules (4:17:57) holding down the 6th place behind Michael Anthony (4:16:05) of Team Evolution who is 2nd overall, followed by Junior Niles (4:17:25) of Team Coco’s who is also the leading Veteran, Marlon ‘Fishy’ Williams (4:17:26) and Shaquille Agard (4:17:29) of the Linden Bauxite Flyers Cycle Club the 2nd to 5th place leaders.
Hercules who crossed the line in the second stage from Rosignol Berbice to Carifesta Avenue in Two Hours 34 Minutes 39 Seconds received the 10 bonus seconds with Hinds who was credited with the same time crossing closely behind Hercules receiving the 7-second bonus.
Anthony, Williams and Agard received the bunch time of 2:34:58 for the second stage with Hinds clocking 2:36:58.
The leading junior overall is Raphael Leung (4:22:38) having finished the first stage in 2nd place (1:43:28) eight (8) seconds behind Jornel Yearwood (4:25:25) who is third overall to second placed Andrew Hicks (4:23:54) who won the second stage (2:34:39) after placing 3rd in the first with a time of 1:49:18.
Second to Niles in the veteran category going into today’s final stage is Stephen Fernandes (4:19:36) after placing second in the first (1:43:20) and second (2:36:16) stages, the same second stage time as Niles. Raymond Newton is 3rd overall (4:20:53) and held similar positions after the first (1:43:28) and second (2:37:25) stages respectively.
After being sent on their way by Director of Sport, Christopher Jones for stage one at Corriverton, Berbice yesterday morning, Hinds covered that stage from the Corriverton Police Station to Main and Alexander Streets in New Amsterdam in One Hour 41 Minutes 04 Seconds, three seconds ahead of teammate Michael Anthony and Junior Niles, two seconds back.
Taking the fourth place was ‘Fishy’ Williams (1:42:28), followed by Agard (1:42:31) and Trojan Cycle Club’s Jeaban Crawford (1:43:04) closing out the top six places. The top four riders from this stage received bonus points of 10, 7, 5 and 3 seconds respectively.
Today’s final stage will pedal off in the Bauxite Mining Town of Linden from 08:00hrs and will conclude just outside the National Sports Commission, Homestretch Avenue.
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