– Niles honoured for riding in every edition of the CBJ Memorial
By Romario Samaroo
The second of three cycle races to be staged in the 20th Cheddi B. Jagan Memorial race rode off on the West Side on Sunday, with Team Coco’s Jamaul John outsprinting Michael Anthony in a close finish to take the top prize in the seniors’ division of the event.
John bettered the 2015 timing in the event to stop the clock at one hour 54 minutes and 30 seconds (01:54:30), shaving 10 seconds off club mate Hamza Eastman’s time in the 2015 edition. This is a pretty impressive feat to be accomplished by the young man, as the 75-mile journey commenced in the early morning sun at Wales, West Bank Demerara and proceeded to Bushy Park, Parika, from where they headed back to finish at the Demerara Harbour Bridge.
In third place was Team Alanis’s Alanzo Ambrose, ahead of Christopher Griffith, who had won the junior category back in 2015.Curtis Dey took the fifth position, and by virtue of that, was named winner of the juniors’ category. Mark Harris was the sixth place finisher in the challenging race.
John was also the recipient of four prime prizes, while Anthony copped two as Eastman and Linden Bauxite Flyers’ Shaquille Agard took one prime prize each.
Speaking with Guyana Times Sport after the event, John indicated that the race was one of the toughest he had participated in to date, but because he was a better sprinter that Anthony, he was able to obtain the victory. John also noted that the wind had contributed significantly to the difficulty of the race.
