Leaders hold on to yellow jerseys

AS EXPECTED, there was no change in the leaders' positions following the last stage of the de Beauvoir-sponsored mountain bike tour of Guernsey. There was some changing in the positions lower down the fields, however.

Shaun Moseley, the leading veteran, was the first to tackle the down/up/down course at Petit Bot, which was expected to take the leading riders about four minutes.

He was going well until he dropped into the wooded section and fell heavily. The time he lost was enough for Andy Wilson to claim victory in the veterans' class by one-and-a-half seconds.

In the under-14s' category, Nathan Baudains continued his dominance and became the only yellow-jersey rider to win all his category rides. James Mapley came in second and Philip Setters gained a creditable third. The biggest credit of the evening must go to young Tom Wood in his first week of competitive cycling who took the heaviest fall of the day but was determined to pick himself up and cross the finish line.

The under-16 yellow-jersey wearer got back to winning ways as he edged out Josh Owen by just over five seconds.

The same could be said for the sports riders, with Jack Sunderland winning again in the second-fastest run of the evening in 4min. 06.6sec.. He was followed in by Mike Serafin and Dan Owen.

Lars Persson and Josh Gosselin, who had both worn the yellow jersey in the seniors category, had to settle for fourth and fifth spots behind Jon Osborn and Andy Colver.

The yellow jersey was not going to be lost by James Roe, who became the only rider to beat the four-minute barrier in 3-53.3.

Craig Massey was adjudged to be the most-improved rider.