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Riders conclude stage race

Impressive fourth: Caitlin Conyers

Caitlin Conyers clinched an impressive fourth-place overall as four of the island’s top cyclists concluded their San Dimas Stage Race challenge in California, yesterday.

Dominique Mayho, Kaden Hopkins, Nicholas Narraway and Conyers started the three-stage event with a time-trial up Glendora Mountain Road on Friday, before a road race on Saturday and a criterium to finish yesterday.

After the first stage, Conyers, competing in the pro one and two women’s race, finished fourth out of 11 in a time of 20min exactly, 1min 04sec behind leader Holly Breck.

She followed that up with a sixth-place finish on day two, finishing in 2hr 57min 43sec, just 21 seconds behind Breck.

That left Conyers third in the overall standings, heading into yesterday’s final stage, with three second advantage over Georgeson.

However, with Gerorgeson clinching second in the last stage and Conyers only managing a fifth-place finish, Georgeson claimed the overall third-place with an accumulative time of 4:09:59, a mere seven seconds ahead of the Bermudian rider. Breck took the overall honours, ahead of Emma Grant.

Mayho, racing in the men’s category two, found himself in twentieth overall out of 39 riders having finished the first stage in 18:11, to leave him 2:17 behind overall leader Brandon Nied.

Day two Mayho saw finish 26th in the road race in a time of 2:43:18, 11 minutes behind race winner Ruben Saatjian.

That left Mayho in 28th overall heading into yesterday’s final stage. However, the 25-year-old left his best until last, as he won the criterium stage in a time of 53:39, ahead of Grant and Saatjian.

Mayho remained in twenty-eighth in the final standings, with an accumulative time of 3:53:53, thirteen minutes behind overall winner Jason Pedersen.

In the junior 17 to 18 race, Narraway, sat in 27th out a field of 66, having finished his time trial in 17:41, leaving him 3:08 behind first-placed Matthew Ricittello. He then finished the road race 26th, leaving him 25th overall heading into the final day, 3:08 behind leader Ricittello.

However, Narraway found the going tougher yesterday as he finished in 42nd, slightly more than four minutes behind race winner Gianni Lamperti.

He ended up 33rd in the overall standings with a total time of 2:56:23, seven minutes behind overall winner Ricittello.

Hopkins endured mixed fortunes over the three days in the pro one category as he followed up a sixteenth-place finish on day one with a 40th-place finish on day two, leaving him in 41st position in the general classification heading into the final day, 23:34 behind overall leader Ulises Castillo Soto, with James Piccoli and Cory Lockwood in second and third.

He enjoyed a positive final day as he finished in fourteenth, leaving him in a respectable 39th in the overall standings, with a total time of 5:38:05. Piccoli took the overall honours with an accumulative time of 5:14:28, ahead of Castillo Soto and Sam Boardman.