Herne Hill Velodrome

13-07-11 Track League 13

Last week of track racing, featuring madisons and team sprints!

22-06-11 Track League 10

• Overall League Table (Senior)
• Overall League Table (Youth)

05-06-11 National Youth Omnium (Southern Area Rounds)

Herne Hill’s Photos here

More than 80 riders from 5 different age groups gathered at the track for a packed afternoon’s racing.  Despite intermittent showers  most of the racing program was completed.  Throughout the afternoon there was a good mix of fast and furious racing and more tentative and tense races with riders seemingly content to wait for a bunch sprint.  Full results are given at the bottom of this page

U16 Girls
Despite winning both of the opening round of the series Kimberly English didn’t have things her own way thanks to a dominant performance by Emily Barnes.  Barnes had a 4 point lead after winning the Scratch and Elimination races, and consolidated on this with a 2nd place in the points race.  With the rain getting too strong and the remainder of the events having to be abandoned this was enough for her to take a comfortable overall win on the day. English managed to salvage 2nd place overall with a win in the points race and a consistent performance put Imogen Farlie 5 points clear of her nearest challengers for the final spot on the podium

U16 Boys
Alan Trolove won the opening scratch the hard way: attacking on his own with nearly half of the race still to go and holiding off the chasing bunch led home by Jack Hoyle closely followed by Tao Geoghegan-Hart.  Tao then made light work of the elimination and points races, winning both, to take the overall lead on the day.  Trolove held on well to take 2nd overall, with Hoyle in third

U14 Girls
The first two events were both won by Abigail Dentus and a 2nd place in the points race gave her the best points total at the end of the days racing.   After two events 3 riders, Abi Van-Twisk, Amy Smith and Lucy Harper, were tied on 7 points in the overall standings.   A win in the points race gave Harper 2nd place overall with Van-Twisk just outscoring Smith to secure 3rd.

U14 Boys
Joseph Fry won every event in the Youth B boys category and came close to winning every sprint in the points race, scoring 28 points from a possible 30.  Jakes Howes led the battle for 2nd place, managing to finish in the top 3 riders in every single race.  3rd place overall was closely contested Fry’s Welwyn Wheelers team mates Archie Wishart and Jack Plumely, with Wishart getting the better of Plumely in the points race to take spoils.

U12
The racing in the Youth C category was considerably more hotly contested than the results would suggest.  Freddie Wright managed a perfect day of racing, winning the time trial by 5 seconds from his nearest rival before taking every single sprint in the points race and leading home the scratch.  Yet he was pushed all the way by Charlotte Cole-Hossain who got 2nd place in every event of the day, securing 2nd place and 1st girl overall .  Rachel Jary completed a VC Londres clean sweep of all the podium places, finishing 5 points clear of the next closest rider.

U10
With the rain stopping racing early only 2 events were completed in the youngest age category of the day.  Alexi Edwards won the opening scratch race, with Joseph Latham taking 2nd.  But Latham managed to reverse the results winning the points race with 12 points to Edwards’ 11, leaving the two riders tied on points in the overall standings.  The two had to be split by their positions in the last completed event, giving Latham the win.  3rd place was settled in the same way, with Finlay Wellings just beating Freddie Taylor.  Special mention has to be given to Gemma Hopkins, who had won the Youth E (U8’s) age group before even starting by being the only one to enter, but put in an impressive performance racing against the older Youth Ds and was justly rewarded by applause from the crowd

Thanks to all for coming and to all the helpers and official who helped make the event possible and to the Herne Hill Velodrome for donating a large sum of money to cover the prizes.  We hope to see you all again next year!

Results:

• Youth A Boys
• Youth A Girls
• Youth B Boys
• Youth B Girls
• Youth C
• Youth D & E