Thaxter is Wheelers winner as Wainman impresses in Burton

Team Swift rider Wainman clocked 3hr 41min 59sec for the circuit from Etwall to Derbyshire, finishing just five minutes slower than the event winner, UTAG Yamaha.com rider Julian Jenkinson.

The event had attracted several of the country's top riders to the region, but Wainman shrugged off the challenge of all but two, with South Pennine RC's Charles Taylor taking second with 3:39:31, just 2:28 faster than Wainman.

Elsewhere, Huddersfield Star Wheelers rider Mark Thaxter won the Holme Valley Wheelers' 10-mile event on the old A1 near Ferrybridge on Saturday, covering the distance in 22min 10sec to hold off the challenge of Yorkshire Velo rival Doug Hart by just three seconds.

Using a stretch of the old A1 dual carriageway from Brotherton to Micklefield and back, the event saw talented juvenile rider Leon Gledhill (Holme Valley Wheelers) clock 25:47 to win that category, while his team-mate Samantha Mannion was fastest of the women with 27:53.

While Wainman was on the podium in Derbyshire, his Team Swift colleague Steve Gore-Brown was also third, in the Stockton Wheelers' 10-mile event at Sedgefield in County Durham.

Gore-Brown, from York, clocked 21:36 and was just 31 seconds behind winner Keith Murray of Westbrook Cycles).

In Lincolnshire, Ian Dalton (Cherry Valley RT) won the Albert Emmerson Memorial event at Great Coates, clocking 54:03 for the 25-mile event to beat Cottingham Coureurs' Julian Gromett by 21 seconds.

Team Sky's Edvald Boasson Hagen won the seventh and final stage of the Criterium du Dauphine Libere as Janez Brajkovic held off the challenge of Alberto Contador to take overall victory.

Boasson Hagen completed the 148km from Allevard-les-Bains to Sallanches in three hours, 39 minutes and 43 seconds by launching a solo attack on the last ascent of the Cote de Domancy.

The Norwegian crossed the line with a 27-second cushion over Spaniard Arkaitz Duran.