Location: Victoria Park, Southport
Event: 31 March 2012
Report: Snowdon Sports

The Southport Dolan Races drew to a close this week and Charlie Tanfield of Velo 29 CT finished top of the under 16 group two table despite never winning a race.

Tanfield amassed four podium placings in the five races that made up the series and has shown how consistency can win titles in this sort of event.

This week, he finished third in both the races with Levi Moody (Pedalsport CC) winning the first and Salt Ayre Cog Set’s John Didsbury taking second.

Moody finished fourth in the second race and this gave him six points which was not enough to catch Tanfield in the overall standings.

Joel Partington (Sport City Velo) finished top of the table in group one of the under 16s after riding to second place in the first race before stepping up to win the second.

Bolton Hot Wheels’ Aaron Adamson, who kept Partington from first position in the first race, came second in the second race and also finished runner up in the league standings.

In the Youth B races, Matthew Draper of Team Royal London 360 Isle of Man clocked up his third and fourth wins of the series to ensure he topped the standings.

Reece Wood of Aire Valley RT missed last week’s races and that allowed Matthew Walls of Velocity RT to pip him to second in the table.

Alistair Leivers of Blackpool Youth Cycle Association took the Youth C title, with a win and a second placing to take his tally up to 54 points. Alistair was the deserved winner of the series, having never finished out of the top two.

Nathan Hawthorn proved to be his main competition throughout the series, having only finished out of the top two in the second race of this week. He takes second place overall.

Matti Hegglestone of Beacon Wheelers has won five of the six races in Youth D event his march to the title. It was two wins out of two this weekend for him.

In the Youth E, James Higham (H Middleton CC) won the series with 52 points after back to back wins on the day.

Results:

Youth A Group Two (under 16) race one:
1 Levi Moody (Pedalsport Cycling Club)
2 Matthew Gibson (Warrington RC)
3 Charlie Tanfield (Velo 29 CT)
4 Fabio Close (Velocity Race Team)
5 Chris Braybrooke (Velocity Race Team)
6 Fabian Brennan (Salt Ayre Cog Set)

Youth A Group Two (under 16) race two:
1 John Didsbury (Salt Ayre Cog Set)
2 Matthew Gibson (Warrington RC)
3 Charlie Tanfield (Velo 29 CT)
4 Levi Moody (Pedalsport Cycling Club)
5 Fabian Brennan (Salt Ayre Cog Set)
6 Fabio Close (Velocity Race Team)

Youth A Group One (under 16) race one:
1 Aaron Adamson (Bolton Hot Wheels CC)
2 Joel Partington (Sport City Velo)
3 James Thompson (Liverpool Mercury CC)
4 Oliver Payton (Cycle Sport Pendle)
5 Keir Smith (Aire Valley RT)
6 Connor French (Cycle Sport Pendle)

Youth A Group One (under 16) race two:
1 Joel Partington (Sport City Velo)
2 Aaron Adamson (Bolton Hot Wheels CC)
3 Oliver Payton (Cycle Sport Pendle)
4 Jacob Peatfield (Bolton Hot Wheels CC)
5 James Thompson (Liverpool Mercury CC)
6 Keir Smith (Aire Valley RT)

Youth B (under 14) race one:
1 Matthew Draper (Team Royal London 360 Isle of Man)
2 Reece Wood (Aire Valley RT)
3 Matthew Walls (Velocity RT)
4 Eleanor Dickinson (Beacon Wheelers)
5 Adam Hartley (Velocity RT)
6 Luke Beach (Aire Valley RT)

Youth B (under 14) race two:
1 Matthew Draper (Team Royal London 360 Isle of Man)
2 Matthew Walls (Velocity RT)
3 Reece Wood (Aire Valley RT)
4 Eleanor Dickinson (Beacon Wheelers)
5 Joseph Peatfield (Bolton Hot Wheels CC)
6 Adam Hartley (Velocity RT)

Youth C (under 12) race one:
1 Alistair Leivers (Blackpool Youth Cycle Association)
2 Nathan Hawthorn (Cycle Sport Pendle)
3 Lewis Hartley (Eastlands Velo)
4 Daniel Gibson (Liverpool Century RC)
5 Isaac Peatfield (Bolton Hot Wheels CC)
6 Jack Barlow (Cycle Sports Pendle)

Youth C (under 12) race two:
1 Alfie Payne (Cycle Sport Pendle)
2 Alistair Leivers (Blackpool Youth Cycle Association)
3 Nathan Hawthorn (Cycle Sport Pendle)
4 Cory Edmondson (Cycle Sport Pendle)
5 Toby Tanfield (Cleveland Wheelers CC)
6 Lewis Hartley (Eastlands Velo)

Youth D (under 10) race one:
1 Matti Egglestone (Beacon Wheelers)
2 Tyler Koch (Bolton Hot Wheels CC)
3 Robert Donaldson (Mossley CRT)
4 Addam Hathaway (Bolton Hot Wheels CC)
5 Thomas Bates (Mossley CRT)
6 Benjamin Peatfield (Bolton Hot Wheels CC)

Youth D (under 10) race two:
1 Matti Egglestone (Beacon Wheelers)
2 Tyler Koch (Bolton Hot Wheels CC)
3 Robert Donaldson (Mossley CRT)
4 Addam Hathaway (Bolton Hot Wheels CC)
5 Cameron Bates (Mossley RT)
6 Megan Harper (Mossley CRT)

Youth E (under 8) race one:
1 James Higham (H Middleton CC)
2 Tyler Lloyd (H Middleton CC)
3 Samuel Kendall (Liverpool Century RC)
4 Michael Henderson (Southport CC)
5 Tom Elliott (Liverpool Century RT)
6 Tilly Barlow (Cycle Sport Pendle)

Youth E (under 8) race two:
1 James Higham (H Middleton CC)
2 Tyler Lloyd (H Middleton CC)
3 Samuel Kendall (Liverpool Century RC)
4 Michael Henderson (Southport CC)
5 Tilly Barlow (Cycle Sport Pendle)
6 Tom Elliott (Liverpool Century RT)

British Cycling would like to thank the organising team, officials and everyone else who helped promote this event. Our sport could not exist without the hundreds of people, many of them unpaid volunteers, who put in many hours of hard work running events, activities and clubs.