Team Royal London 360 (previously known as Team Scottish Provident) has won the GHS British national juvenile 10 mile time trial championship team prize for an unprecedented fifth time.
Competing against 128 of Britain's top young cyclists at the recent national final in Walton-on-the-Wolds in Leicestershire, Jake Kelly, Joshua Knights and Jamie Dudley won the coveted team award in a combined time of 1hr.07mins.47secs, which was just five seconds short of the championship record set in 1991.
Individually, Kelly clocked a personal best time of 21mins.54secs to finish an excellent fourth overall, a slender 11 seconds behind bronze medalist Oliver Wood (Aire Valley RT). Knights posted a PB equaling 22.29 for a fine 12th and Dudley got round in 23.24 (30th overall).
The multi talented Germain Burton (Team De Ver) was the gold medalist in a rapid 21.15, a clear 24 seconds ahead of runner-up Jake Alderman (One & All Cycling),
There were also some outstanding performances from the seven other RL360 team members who competed in the final.
Leon Mazzone covered the distance in 25.01 for 53rd place overall (9th 14 year old) and Joseph Haddock stopped the watch at 26.14 for 74th position (5th 13 year old), while Conor Davies went faster than ever before to take 113th spot (5th 12 year old) in 27.38.
In the girls' competition Anna Christian was eighth quickest (84th overall) in 26.55 and Sophie Black 11th (88th overall) in a personal best time of 27.14, with up-and-coming riders 13 year old Phoebe Ferguson and 12 year old Eleanor Davies taking minutes off their previous PBs to finish 19th and 24th (106th & 113th overall) in 28.53 and 29.31 respectively.
Alice Barnes (Motorpoint Pro Cycling), the sister of Commonwealth Youth Games winner Hannah, retained her 2010 title in a girls' championship record of 23.37.
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Monday 19th, September 2011 11:02pm.