America/South America - [Nat] Caribbean Cycling Championships, Antigua, 20-21 October, 2012

ram · « **on:** July 16, 2012, 09:03 »

Quite some time to go, but the Caribbean Championships' course was tested over the past fortnight with the Course test race

The twelfth edition of the Caribbean Cycling Championships will take place in Antigua, far better known for this terrorising trio of Sir Viv Richards, Andy Roberts and Curtly Ambrose

Antigua outbid their main competitors by an astonishing 90%. The course will take the riders from the fairly new Sir Vivian Richards stadium, out onto Factory Road, past Mount Joy Roundabout, Pares Village, making the right into Collins, Bethesda, Red Hill, Cobbs Cross, Falmouth, Liberta, All Saints, Jonas Road, back onto Factory road, North Sound making the right at North Sound Roundabout onto the roads surrounding the Sir Vivian Richards Stadium to the start/finish for 4 laps equaling 84 miles.

The outright home favourite should come from the Elite Women's division which should see Tamiko Butler, the defending TT champion, take on the course.

Last year's TT result

Position	First name	Last Name	Country	Time
1	Willy	Rousseau	MARTINIQUE	39:00
2	Quentin	Winkel	CURACAO	40:28
3	Cedric	Eustache	MARTINIQUE	41:04
4	Efren	Ortega Rivera	PUERTO RICO	41:13
5	Michael	Daley	JAMAICA	41:24

Is Puerto Rico the worst named country from a cycling point of view?

Women

Postion	First Name	Last Name	Country	Time
1	Tamiko	Butler	ANTIGUA	25:36
2	Sue	Brown	USVI	25:39
3	Shalini	Zabahneh	BELIZE	26:23
4	Dahlia	Palmer	JAMAICA	27:12
5	Solimar	Torres	PUERTO RICO	27:29

Antigua and Barbuda's long list for the championships-
First team
Jyme Bridges (National Champion), Robert Marsh (National TT champion), Marvin Spencer, Andre Simon and Omari King

2nd team
Clint Henry, Walton Francis, Ashley Rhoades, Ken Jackson, Dale Richardson, Brian Lyn and Neil Lloyd (including 2 reserves)

Women's
Tamiko Butler (National champion RR and TT and Caribbean TT champion) and Kevinia Francis

Rattlers club coach Barry Gordon will be coaching the team. Guess Tamiko won't be perfectly pleased by it ;D
Elsewhere, the Breakaway Club shall provide one or two riders for the Jamaican team

Not often do you see a second placed rider chuffed to bits, even more so than the winner-

That's Dahlia Palmer from Jamaica celebrating her silver medal.

Anyway, there should be better coverage this time around as the ABACA are better multimedia lot than Jamaica cycling, and not to mention that it'll be a bigger event considering the comparative size of each country.

ram · « **Reply #1 on:** July 16, 2012, 09:06 »

The test race over the championship course.

Seems undulating to me, the race should be all over the place.

ram · « **Reply #2 on:** July 16, 2012, 09:28 »

An update about the Antiguan team, Guyanese born Godfrey Pollydore had expressed his desire to represent Antigua in the championships and had skipped the Guyanese National Championships in an effort to do so, but had his hopes quashed by the ABACA president, Cliff Williams.

Quote from: Godfrey Pollydore

Last week when it was Antigua’s championships, it was also Guyana’s championships and they told me that I had to be in Guyana to ride the championships to qualify for the Caribbean Championships that would be held here in Antigua. But since I was in Antigua and I finished fourth, I would expect that Antigua would give me a bye on their team. I don’t mind riding for Antigua so it’s up to the (selectors) to say ’well, we don’t have no problem with you riding for us.'

He was deemed ineligible to represent Antigua because of his lack of eligible Antiguan passport.

Pollydore later added about the Caribbean championships course, in which the test race took place

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The course is pretty tough. It had my back aching, but I just tried my best and survived it. But the guys should do pretty OK. But if Guadeloupe is going to be there and Martinique, it is going to be totally different because the guys from Martinique and Guadeloupe are on a level a little above us actually and you have to be really fit to compete with these guys and beat them coming to the line because they are really pretty good in the hills.

L'arriviste · « **Reply #3 on:** July 16, 2012, 10:09 »

I will be supporting Belize, which has a strong history in track cycling (as well as one or two bad apples

). I would imagine that the wet season will make preparation for the Caribbean Champs pretty difficult but I'm sure they'll be there with bells on.

As I mentioned in the shoutbox earlier, I passed a TT while I was over there last year. Humidity and road surfaces were rough, but there was a lot of support from the roadside as the route passed the national prison.

In honour of Belizean cycling, I just wanted to post a bit more about an annual Belizean race which is ultra-popular. Mods feel free to move it if you like.

Cross Country Cycling Classic, Belize

The big road race of the year is the 140m / 225km Cross Country Classic, which takes place at the end of the dry season in April and attracts a field from all over the Americas.

Starting in Belize City, the race follows the National Highway west through the administrative capital Belmopan and, in a move reminiscent of Liège-Bastogne-Liège, doubles back at San Ignacio, where I stayed when I was there. Top prize is BZ$16,000/US$8000 (a heck of a lot of money in BZ). The toughness of this race is augmented by the massive tailwind on the outward leg turning into a hot, dry headwind on the return leg.

Following six years of domination by foreign riders, prior to the 2012 edition Channel 7 News asked the important question: could a Belizean break the cycle?

As it turned out, the answer was yes. Giovanni Choto broke away solo and beat the foreign competition, which he described thus:

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Yes they were tough and ting but I think they underestimate that they mi feel that I mi wah can’t reach and that dah weh catch them.

Presenting the prize, Minister for Sport Herman Longsworth said:

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Mr. Choto, you have made the Ministry five thousand dollars poorer, but we love it.

Full report: http://edition.channel5belize.com/archives/69115

ram · « **Reply #4 on:** July 16, 2012, 10:21 »

Cheers for that larri. I be supporting Antigua because of the their achievements despite such a tiny population (no nothing to do with cricket at all). Carn Jyme Bridges. Till the championships, I'll just be populating this with ABACA's domestic racing scene.

ram · « **Reply #5 on:** July 17, 2012, 07:32 »

Billy's Food Mart Friars Hill Challenge took place on Sunday in St Johns. All I know is that Jyme Bridges finished second. Having a bit of trouble with face recognition ???

ram · « **Reply #6 on:** July 17, 2012, 07:58 »

Blew my load a bit quick? Or was there no update when I last saw? Whatever it is, here are the results

Pos	No.	Name	Laps	Total time	Diff	Best time	In lap	Best speed
1	28	Raynauth Jeffrey	12	02:07:08.088		09:28.012	1	25.352
2	1	Jyme Bridges	12	02:08:25.301	01:17.213	09:37.697	1	24.927
3	879	Godfrey Pollydore	12	02:08:25.319	01:17.231	09:41.618	1	24.759
4	2	Robert Marsh	12	02:08:30.804	01:22.716	09:37.914	1	24.917
5	30	Paul De Nobrega	12	02:08:41.341	01:33.253	09:43.004	1	24.7
6	27	Walter Grant-Stuart	12	02:09:02.752	01:54.664	09:51.412	1	24.349
7	21	Andre Simon	12	02:11:48.977	04:40.889	09:36.499	1	24.978
8	3	Marvin Spencer	12	02:11:58.161	04:50.073	09:52.973	1	24.284
9	4	Omari King	12	02:14:55.287	07:47.199	09:45.201	1	24.607
10	29	Clint Henry	12	02:15:43.711	08:35.623	09:38.424	1	24.895

The podium

the new Terminix and Rattlers strips

Had to post this, I've got no clue as to who he is, but that's flipping brilliant

Raynauth Post race

Lindsay Duffy winning the women's race

ALl the photographs from the event
http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10151130630922316.505138.138675757315&type=1

L'arriviste · « **Reply #7 on:** July 17, 2012, 09:37 »

Quote from: ram on July 17, 2012, 07:58

ALl the photographs from the event
http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10151130630922316.505138.138675757315&type=1

Prizes presented by Will Smith. Cool. ;D

But seriously, you can almost feel the heat there. Must be really hard going in those conditions.

ram · « **Reply #8 on:** July 17, 2012, 09:49 »

Not to mention racing in flip flops

ram · « **Reply #9 on:** July 17, 2012, 10:04 »

Godfrey Pollydore in third, just thought that worthy of pointing out.

ram · « **Reply #10 on:** July 17, 2012, 16:57 »

Just to hammer home the dominance of the Guadeloupe riders (and Martinique when they ride) over the elite from Antigua and Barbados too, 19 year old Edwige Belair beat Clarico Mickael in a sprint in the John T memorial (in memory of cyclist John Thomas) on the 8th of July. Both the riders are from Guadeloupe. In third was former Frenchman and now of St. Maarten, Damien Maroni.

Jyme Bridges was 6th, nearly 3 4 minutes behind and defending champion Walter Grant Stuart (also Guyanese Road Race champion in 2011 and usually the best Guyanese rider) was further behind in seventh and eleven minutes behind the winner. Guyanese Champion, Orville Hinds was 5th a minute ahead of Jyme.

The Non finishers? Godfrey Pollydore and Barbadian starlet Russell Elcock (also national TT champion at 18 years of age).

Meanwhile, Guyana hosted the Ballot Box classic
Seniors
1. Alanzo Greaves
2. Robin Persaud
3. Jude Bentley
4. Warren McKay
5. Raul Leal
6. Kester Croal

http://www.kaieteurnewsonline.com/2012/07/16/greaves-pedals-to-top-spot-leal-is-leading-junior-newton-best-veteran/

16 year old? fair play to Leal

Jude Bentley is the Guyanese TT champion, he may well go to Antigua.

All the photographs from the Ballot Box race
http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.441249842565025.93949.266148483408496&type=1

ram · « **Reply #11 on:** July 22, 2012, 04:13 »

From Guyana cycling news

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Raynauth Jeffrey wins Billy’s Food Mart Friars Hill Challenge

ST JOHN’S, Antigua – Antigua & Barbuda’s top cyclist, Jyme Bridges Jr, was beaten by a visiting rider from Guyana when they competed in the Billy’s Food Mart Friars Hill Challenge held on Sunday.

Bridges had to settle for second place in A Class of the event after clocking 2:08.25.301 to finish more than a second behind Guyana’s Raynauth Jeffery who was delayed in Antigua on his way home following his participation in the John T Memorial Race held in Anguilla two weekends ago.

Jeffery furnished a time of 2:07.08 to capture the event and pedal away with the title.

Bridges found himself sandwiched between two of Guyana’s top riders as Godfrey Pollydore, who is no stranger to the roadways here, finished third in 2:08.25.319.

Question times for Guyana now, Raynauth has been one of the in form men, behind the dominant domestic force, Robin Persaud. Form or pedigree?

ram · « **Reply #12 on:** July 27, 2012, 10:35 »

Antigua carnival tomorrow. How is that significant? Well, it's not, but it's a flipping carnival and a big un. It is the break in Antigua's domestic cycling calendar.

ram · « **Reply #13 on:** August 04, 2012, 03:00 »

Calypso concert at the Antigua recreational? And every other event taking place there too

I so want that stadium back.

ram · « **Reply #14 on:** August 06, 2012, 03:12 »

National Cycling Coach, Hassan Mohamed MS organized the 8th Annual Memorial Regan Rodrigues 50 Miles Cycle Road Race today Sunday, August 05. The race commenced at Wales Police Station at 09:00hrs; proceeded to Bushy Park on the East Bank of Essequibo before returning to Demerara Harbour Bridge for the finish.

Brief Results

Seniors
1st Robin Persaud
2nd Raynauth Jeffrey
3rd Paul De Nobrega
4th Jude Bentley
5th Alanzo Greaves
6th Rastaff O'Selmo

Juniors
1st Raynauth Jeffrey
2nd Paul De Nobrega
3rd Raul Leal

Veterans
1st Talim Shaw
2nd Shameer Baksh
3rd Dave Ramnarine

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Guyana-Cycling-News/266148483408496

ram · « **Reply #15 on:** August 10, 2012, 07:00 »

Got to copy paste as this guyanese news reporter's only on stalkbook

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A senior Guyana Cycling Federation (GCF) official is said to have resigned after Kaieteur Sport published last week what an inside source called malpractices within the federation; the General Secretary of the GCF is believed to have called it quits.

Our informed source told us yesterday that the federation’s General Secretary has resigned ahead of Saturday’s scheduled Annual General Meeting (AGM) that was one of the bones of contention within the federation. It is customary for the General Secretary to report on varying matters at the meeting, but that seems doubtful owed to the alleged resignation.

When contacted yesterday, GCF President, Cheryl Thompson declined to comment on the matter of the General Secretary’s resignation. “I don’t want to comment at this time,” Thompson said in a brief telephone conversation with this newspaper.

Thompson added that the federation was expected to meet yesterday afternoon. She also declined to offer any comment on the possible subjects of yesterday’s meeting; asked for an exclusive and timely interview, Thompson highlighted her busy schedule.

“This is a very busy time for me, Monday to Fridays, so I don’t want to commit myself to that at this time, Thursday maybe,” Thompson said. Last week an internal member of the federation had expressed disapproval of several aspects of the GCF administration.

Among them, it was alleged that a high-ranking official has been hiding correspondences if it has nothing to do with her son, who is a cyclist. The source informed that Robin Persaud and Alonzo Greaves were both invited to compete in Trinidad and Tobago recently.

Upon the receipt of this information, the GCF official enquired from Trinidad and Tobago why a request was not made for her son among the two riders. The source said Trinidadian officials told the GCF official that her son could compete on his own funding.

That feedback did not sit well with the official, who allegedly purposely ducked the participation of Greaves and Persaud. The source mentioned this issue among allegations of financial mischief and as noted before, the absence of the AGM, which is now set for Saturday. (Edison Jefford)

Nice, corruption in a sport with no money in the region

Here's the in form Guyanese rider with most wins this year, Robin Persaud

kneedragger · « **Reply #16 on:** August 10, 2012, 22:35 »

Ram, the picture of the one arm rider.......its Walter Grant Stuart, the 2011 Guyana Road Race Champ and the 2011 John T Memorial Champ!

kneedragger · « **Reply #17 on:** August 10, 2012, 22:42 »

Question times for Guyana now, Raynauth has been one of the in form men, behind the dominant domestic force, Robin Persaud. Form or ?
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pedigree......Raynauth is just 17 years old and is currently Guyana's 3rd ranked rider, he started racing in 2011 and is very inexperienced but is very strong and aggressive. He can be a force to reckon with internationally because he is not being guided correctly, he is a bit on the slower side on the finishes.

ram · « **Reply #18 on:** August 11, 2012, 00:59 »

Quote from: kneedragger on August 10, 2012, 22:35

Ram, the picture of the one arm rider.......its Walter Grant Stuart, the 2011 Guyana Road Race Champ and the 2011 John T Memorial Champ!

Cheers, that's brilliant, unbelievable effort. Welcome to the forum, and it'd be great to hear from you.

Quote from: kneedragger on August 10, 2012, 22:42

Question times for Guyana now, Raynauth has been one of the in form men, behind the dominant domestic force, Robin Persaud. Form or ?

pedigree......Raynauth is just 17 years old and is currently Guyana's 3rd ranked rider, he started racing in 2011 and is very inexperienced but is very strong and aggressive. He can be a force to reckon with internationally because he is not being guided correctly, he is a bit on the slower side on the finishes.

Realised that a couple of weeks later when he was listed in the juniors alongside Leal. I was quite astonished really.

kneedragger · « **Reply #19 on:** August 13, 2012, 02:09 »

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=450153038341372&set=a.450152281674781.96313.266148483408496&type=1&theater

ram · « **Reply #20 on:** August 13, 2012, 02:44 »

Cheers, saw that yesterday. Just about, boggy internet connection problems.

knees- are you involved in the Guyana cycling news page? It's quite a nice one for info .

kneedragger · « **Reply #21 on:** August 13, 2012, 21:00 »

yes I do keep the page, I think you guys do a great job here too.

ram · « **Reply #22 on:** August 14, 2012, 00:53 »

Cheers, most of the work is done by the technocrats. The spamming is my task ;D

ram · « **Reply #23 on:** August 14, 2012, 13:23 »

Persaud winning the short Buxtonian 4 Life group road race, and the rest seem to be the who's who of the top cyclists there. Noice, how was the race, knees?

kneedragger · « **Reply #24 on:** August 16, 2012, 11:10 »

The race was short, based on the Garmin, it was 26 miles with most of them into a cross headwind. There were many attacks and accelerations as usual in Guyana and with about 10 miles to go a group of favourites separated themselves. Those in the group that did not make the top 6 were Paul DeNobrega, Rastaff O'Selmo, Alex Mendes, Junior Niles, Raymond Newton, Davanand Bissoon....maybe one or two more. There were many attempts to escape this group' as usual Alanzo and Robin are marking each other and Alanzo looking at Raynauth (Robin team mate and most aggressive rider here), National Champ Orville Hinds put in a strong attack at 1 km and Alanzo being the faster man was forced to shut it down as everyone arrived at the finish together. In the end the winner was comfortable and won be two bike lengths.

kneedragger · « **Reply #25 on:** September 12, 2012, 01:17 »

Caribbean Cycling Championships, Antigua, 20-21 October, 2012
For Guyana a male and female contingent will travel to Antigua for the Senior Elite Championship.
The male touring party includes Greaves, Hinds, Persaud, Williams, Bentley, Sankar and Croal, while the females are Naomi Singh and England-based, Clare Fraser.

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Guyana-Cycling-News/266148483408496

ram · « **Reply #26 on:** September 12, 2012, 08:01 »

Cheers Knees. No Walter Grant Stuart? Also, I was looking forward to seeing him in the Paralympics. Also saw it mentioned in your site, what's with that? And I don't know much about Sankar and Croal, what type of riders are they?

Any idea if Emile Abraham will be available for T&T? He did ride the well disrupted tour of T&T AFAIK.

kneedragger · « **Reply #27 on:** September 12, 2012, 23:57 »

Hey Ram you seem to be well informed about racing in Guyana. Eric Sankar is a 33 year old that won then Guyana's biggest race in 1998, the Independence 3 stage, he usually wins a race or 2 every year, the kind that will sneak out when the heads look at each other. He like all racers here are working riders, he has job commitments but has win once this year and placed third in our national champs. He is a guy that is slow but he usually gets there in the end, especially in long races. I think WG Stuart may have problems with the organizers because of his disability, that's why he wasnt selected. Croal is in his early 20's and placed twice in the top 6 in his entire career. I Don't know how & why he is here on the team. A big name missing from the teams is Warren McKay, who is a big winner in local races, if he is in Guyana.
Can't say much for Emile & T & T.

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=461260453897297&set=a.267520479937963.63689.266148483408496&type=1&theater

ram · « **Reply #28 on:** September 13, 2012, 00:52 »

Good stuff. Cheers Knees. Any of my knowledge of Guyanese cycling, which really isn't much, has come from thy site really.

St. Kitts & Nevis
St. Vincent & Grenadines
Martinique
Barbados
Bermuda
Guyana
British Virgin Islands
St. Lucia, Jamaica
Curacao
Guadeloupe
Anguilla
Trinidad & Tobago
Belize
Suriname
St. Croix
French Guyana
and Puerto Rico

So it's going to some Guadeloupean then

ram · « **Reply #29 on:** September 13, 2012, 04:07 »

Those are the confirmed participants. Still waiting on few confirmations.

ABACA had a Caribbean Champs test course TT race. No surprises in the winner Rob Marsh beating Jyme Bridges by well over a minute. Marsh finished in an even 56 minutes.

ABACA saying that the preparations for the event are well on schedule. Seem to be a few sponsors around for the race. Good stuff.

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