Wareham goes clear for Ferrybridge win

TIME trial rider Alastair Wareham mastered tough conditions for the Ravensthorpe CC 10, clocking 21 mins 36secs for the course at Ferrybridge to take a comfortable victory.

The 30-year-old from Huddersfield was 51 seconds faster than runner-up Richard Dean (Barnsley RC) from Cudworth, while Sheffield’s Darryl Wall (Out of the Saddle) completed the podium in fourth place with 22.31.

Talented 15-year-old Nathan Allatt was best junior and fifth overall, the Holmfirth CC rider from Castleford clocking 23.20, while fastest female was Selby-based Jo Blackburn (Team Swift), who covered the course in 25.00.

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In road racing, Paul Rymer streaked clear to victory on the final climb in difficult conditions at the Hull Thursday Road Club Keith Carter Memorial Road Race yesterday.

Rymer, 21 and from Beverley, was part of a 15-man breakaway in the early stages.

The Wilsons Wheels Race Team rider escaped the leading group in the closing stages to clinch victory by 26 seconds.

Behind, Daniel Posnett and Graham Morgan both of the Hull Thursday Road Club snatched third and fourth places respectively.

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There was no glorious Team Sky send-off for Sir Bradley Wiggins despite a terrific effort from him in the Paris-Roubaix.

The 2012 Tour de France winner is quitting in order to ride for his own team, ‘Wiggins’, before a return to the track ahead of the Rio Olympics, and wanted to sign off with a win.

But it was not to be as Germany’s John Degenkolb produced the perfect race to cross the line first at the end of a gruelling 151-mile trek which took in 27 tortuous cobbled spells.

Wiggins did his best, breaking away with 32 kilometres left to shake things, but he had to settle for a place down the line in 18th.

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