Cycling: Duo time-trial-Esparon/Savy duo surprise winners |08 June 2005

Known for their sprinting abilities, Rosalie and van Hollebeke might have come into the race confident of victory, but in the end they failed to get a place on the medals podium.

They finished fifth overall in a time of 52 minutes 33.53 seconds (52:33.53), 2:15.35 slower than the winning duo of Andriy Esparon and Alex Savy.

Surprised winners Esparon and Savy, who are also members of the Baie Lazare-based St Francis team, clocked 50:16.18 for an average speed of 40.822 kilometres per hour (40.822 km/h).

Vélo Club de Mahé’s pair of Nelson Rose and Leeroy Labiche came in second with 51:49.87.
Francis Louis and Roniel Fanny of PLS Riders clocked 52:10.00 for third position.

After last Saturday’s race, Fanny took over from Rosalie at the top of the classification table with 223 points, two more than the former leader who is now second.

St Francis’ Alex Savy is in third position with 203 points, followed in fourth and fifth places by Vélo Club de Mahé’s Leeroy Labiche (first junior, with 189 points) and Hudson Mathieu (who is in France with the Blois Cac-41 team, with 155 points).

While the names of winners have changed in almost every race in the open – junior and senior – category, the cadet division is still being dominated by France Anacoura who has known victory in all seven races this season.

Untouchable by his opponents, Anacoura, 16, clocked 26:50.9 to win the 17.1-km individual time-trial. His average speed was 38.236km/h.

Leslie Siméon finished second in 28:38.4 and Edward Pothin third in 30:23.5.

The race started at Roche Caïman and the riders cycled to Pointe Larue (next to the SMB Agro-industry plant) via the Providence highway and back to the starting line. The junior and senior cyclists pedaled the distance twice and the cadets once.

G. G.