Hutchinson proves top value

SOME of the best time trial riders in the country came to South Yorkshire yesterday for the fourth round of the Rudy Project National Series at North Wheatley, where Doncaster Wheelers played host to the 26-mile event.
By The Newsroom
Published 10th May 2010, 11:02 BST
Updated 10th May 2010, 11:02 BST

Multiple national champion and Commonwealth Games hopeful Michael Hutchinson (In Gear Quickvit RT) won the senior men's event by exactly a minute, the Cambridge-based rider clocking 56:33, while Leicestershire's Matt Bottrill was second.

Of the local riders, Doncaster Wheelers' Rob Watkinson was 11th with 1:02:39, while Rutland CC (Sheffield) duo Marc Mallender and Danny Lowthorpe were 12th and 13th respectively with 1:02:47 and 1:03:56.

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In the veterans category, Lincolnshire's Ian Dalton was fastest by more than a minute- and-a-half from Scunthorpe Poly CC's Anthony Nash, but when their age standard is factored in, Dalton was fourth, while Graham Huck of Doncaster Wheelers was seventh.

Derek Parkinson (Cleveleys Road Club) won the Drighlington BC 25-mile time trial at Dalton, North Yorkshire, on Saturday, pipping York Cycleworks rival Alistair Kay by just five seconds over the course from Dishforth to Knayton and back.

Parkinson clocked 53min 18sec to push Kay out into second, while Boneshaker Bikes rider Steve Smales was third, another 42 seconds off the pace with 54min 5sec.

Elsewhere, Team Swift rider Joel Wainman from Hull won the South Pennine Road Club's Bill Spencer memorial 25-mile event at Etwall in Derbyshire on Saturday.

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Wainman covered the course to Uttoxeter and back in 50min 1sec to win by 35 seconds from Cheshire rival William Charlton of Lyme Road Club.

Also riding well was Sheffield Triathlon Club's Nick Sparks, whose time of 51min 22sec proved to be good enough for fourth overall.

Team Swift also tasted victory in road racing, with Matt Wolstenholme sprinting to victory at the end of the gruelling 90-kilometre Steve Rigby Memorial race at Kippax, near Leeds.

He won in a time of 2:45:00, inching ahead of breakaway rival Chris Thompson (VS Cycles, Brighouse), while the bunch were around a minute-and-a-half off the pace.

Thompson had attacked on the fifth of 13 laps of the Fairburn Ings circuit, but eventual winner Wolstenholme joined him at the front two laps later.

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