Students top of the climbers yet again

Leeds University retained their crown at the British Universities Hill-Climb Championship in Derbyshire, placing three riders in the top six of the men's event.
By The Newsroom
Published 1st Nov 2010, 08:51 BST
Updated 1st Nov 2010, 08:51 BST

But individual victory eluded them, with Henry King's third- placed finish their best solo result. Meanwhile, Leeds Met student Lois Rossendale won the women's title by 16 seconds after flying up the one-mile climb of Curbar Gap.

King clocked 5:49 to take third spot in the solo men's event, while Kings College London rider Matt Pilkington won, 10 seconds quicker than King.

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Fellow Leeds students Tom Bell and Jack Kirk took fifth and sixth respectively, with 5:53 and 6:03, to help take the men's team prize. And in the women's team competition, Yorkshire Road Club's Mark WIlkinson was one half of the Loughborough University team which successfully defended their title.

Elsewhere, success for Yorkshire riders was thin on the ground at the second round of the National Trophy Cyclo-Cross in Ipswich.

Only youth rider Jake Womersley (Sowerby Brothers RT) won his category, while Billy Harding (Paul Milnes-Bradford Olympic) was third.

Eighth spot for Bingley's Rob Jebb (Wheelbase) was the best by a Yorkshire rider in the senior's race.

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