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Jersey dominated the inaugural cyclocross inter-insular.
Guernsey sent nine riders to compete across various categories at the Jersey Cycling Cyclocross Championships which incorporated the battle at Les Quennevais.
Jersey riders won each of the categories, securing the inaugural inter-insular victory.
The return event will take place in Guernsey next season.
In the senior categories, 47 riders lined up over two races with the women off the line first. Jersey’s Indi Malzard, Amber Mauger and Lisa Mansell took an early lead and formed a small gap at the front.
That lead grew as first Mansell was distanced and Mauger was eventually gapped by a determined Malzard, who went on to take the win.
Mauger, third over the line behind Mansell, took the youth category.
Guernsey’s Esther Reid was third in the senior category.
In the veterans over-40s, Katie Tanguy established an early lead which she took to the flag.
The O50s saw an epic duel between Louise Banks and Julie Le Rougetel, with the lead swapping a couple of times before Banks was able to secure a lead that she would hold.
Carol Derrien claimed the O60s category.
In the youth boys and men’s O50 and O60s races, Jersey’s Robin Ovenden and Ian Jones and Mark Smith from Guernsey established an early break.
The group remained together for a few laps before Ovenden decided it was time to make a push.
The gap opened up and Ovenden was able to take his lead to the flag to claim the O50s category.
Smith was third.
In the O60s Chris Bridson tok the category win. In the youth race Aston Gilbert took an early lead from Evan Osmand and Johnny Jones and drew out his lead to take the category victory.
The final race of the day saw the junior boys, senior and O40s men entertain with an another super battle.
Jay Cracknell, Liam Cadoret, Dylon Carney and Tom Nisbet had an electric start and led into the first technical section.
Cadoret and Cracknell were able to gap the following riders and played out a cat-and-mouse race over the next few laps to try and get a gap.
It wasn’t until the last but one lap before Cracknell was able to get the break. Cadoret dug deep, however, to fight back and, as they received the bell for the last lap, they were line astern once again.
As they disappeared from view there was an anxious wait before they reappeared again for the final section. It was Cracknell who had managed to re-establish a small lead that he was able to hold to the line to take the senior’s category.
James Marshall was Guernsey’s top-placed rider in eighth, a lap back, and Jack Castleman finished 12th.
Luke Holmes was able to overhaul Nisbet and went on to win the junior category with Guernsey’s Ollie Duguid third.
In the O40s, Adam Wojtkiewicz took a comfortable category win.
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