Leeds students' medal haul

The BUCS championships were combined with the Antelope Racing Team event near Ely, and involved teams of three riders completing a 31-mile course around challenging rural lanes.

The time of the third rider counts for the team, and if only two finish they do not qualify.

The Leeds University trio of Henry King, Mike Dales and Jack Kirk clocked 1hr 8mins 54secs to take third in the BUCS championship, and eighth overall in the open event which included a field of more than 50 teams.

Leeds Met Carnegie fielded several teams, the most successful of which was the women's team of Emily Dove, Lois Rosindale and Rhiannon Silson, who clocked 1hr 23mins 32secs and were crowned BUCS Women's Champions.

In the men's event, Leeds Met Carnegie's trio of Springall, Davey and Brook clocked 1:12.37 for 19th spot overall, while team-mates Dunn, Davies and Lowrie covered the distance in 1:17.46 for 34th.

The event had attracted a top-class field, and the winners were Adam Duggleby, Matt Bottrill and James Cambridge of the I-Ride Racing Team, who clocked an impressive 1:04.07.

Closer to home, the promoting club's Trevor Mayne won the Birdwell Wheelers' 25-mile time trial at Hatfield Woodhouse near Doncaster, clocking 58:00 to win by almost a minute and a half.

In the Ravensthorpe CC event at Ferrybridge, Barnsley-born Olympic medallist Ed Clancy proved a convincing winner of the 10-mile time trial, clocking 20:44 to win by 1:21 from Yorkshire Road Club rival Matt Howitt.

Scarborough rider James Gullen (Team Wallis CHH) was third, another second off the pace.

In bunched racing, Star Bikes Racing Team rider Jack Cutsforth won the Hull Thursday Road Race at North Newbald in East Yorkshire, beating Ellis Briggs Racing Team rival Stephen Henson to the line.

A storming final sprint from Belgian Philippe Gilbert saw the Omega Pharma-Lotto rider triumph in the Amstel Gold race, handing his team their first win of the season.