Location: Tudor Grange Park, Solihull, West Midlands
Event: 20 April 2013
Report: Snowdon Sports
Returning from a three-year lay-off, Barnsley veteran Mark Davies (Team Cystic Fibrosis) opened his comeback campaign on a winning note in Solihull CC’s circuit race for third and fourth categories.
Above: Sophie Faulkner (second wheel), winner of the Women's event.(Image courtesy of Mike Adams)
The 40-year-old held off fellow veteran Mike Farwell (BC Private Member) to win the 25-mile race at Tudor Grange Park from a maximum field of 50 riders.
The women’s race also drew a full field which was headed by the host club’s 16-year-old Sophie Faulkner at the main expense of Charmaine Brown (Pearson CC), a winner at Gravesend Cyclopark last month.
Results:
3/4:
1 Mark Davies (Team Cystic Fibrosis)
2 Mike Farwell (BC Private Member)
3 Adam Tempest (Lichfield City CC)
4 Mark Botteley (Bourne wheelers)
5 James Griffin (VC Montpellier)
6 Mick Ballantyne (NFTO)
7 Jason Burrill (Bourne Wheelers)
8 Simon Cox (Climb On Bikes CC)
9 Mark Willet (Sherwood Pines CC)
10 Elliott Reynolds (Solihull CC)
Women:
1 Sophie Faulkner (Solihull CC)
2 Charmaine Brown (Pearson CC)
3 Vittoria Bussi (Zappi’s Ladies Team)
4 Elizabeth Malins (www.twenty3c.co.uk)
5 Annasly Park (Abergavenny RC)
6 Bonnie van Wilgenbury (Zappi’s Ladies Team)
7 Bryony Board (Glendene CC)
8 Mary-Hannah Bonnett (Abergavenny RC)
9 Laura Humphreys (Rugby Velo)
10 Melissa Brand (MG-Maxifuel Pro Cycling)
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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.
