Tariq Woods of Evo­lu­tion Cy­cling Acad­e­my rode to his sec­ond straight vic­to­ry in the Elite Men’s 65km ride when the T&T Cy­cling Fed­er­a­tion Road Chal­lenge Se­ries No 3 on Sun­day from Cou­va to Debe and back to Cou­va.

The race start­ed with a rolling start from the Ato Boldon Sta­di­um in Cou­va Main gate be­fore it moved east to­wards the Cou­va Fly­over, turn left on­to the Uri­ah But­ler/Solomon Ho­choy High­way to Chase Vil­lage on­to the fly­over to head south to Ghan­di Vil­lage Round­about, Debe, turn on the round­about then head north to­wards Cou­va, ex­it­ing on the left be­fore the Cou­va Fly­over.

The race then turned right on the round­about on­to Rivulet Rd, be­fore tak­ing the sec­ond ex­it (by the gas sta­tion) to fin­ish on the straight close to the bus shed, and when the dust was cleared the 22-year-old Woods who won the 118km ride last month was the over­all win­ner ahead of Tajhae Browne of An­tigua & Bar­bu­da and Ja­di­an Neaves of Raiders Cy­cle & Mul­ti­sport who fin­ished sec­ond and third re­spec­tive­ly with Heat­wave’s En­rique De Co­mar­mond and Syn­del Sama­roo com­plet­ing the top five fin­ish­ers from the field of 66 rid­ers who start­ed with 52 be­ing able to com­plete the dis­tance, and Zion Puli­do, be­ing un­for­tu­nate­ly dis­qual­i­fied.

Among the par­tic­i­pants in Sun­day’s event were cy­clists from the Pan Amer­i­can re­gion as well who ex­e­cut­ed their learn­ing from the Track and Road Train­ing Camp which was held at Cou­va from Ju­ly 1 to 5.

Sun­day’s Road Chal­lenge Se­ries #3 Re­sults

Over­all

1. Tariq Woods (Evo­lu­tion Cy­cling Acad­e­my)

2. Tajhae Browne (An­tigua & Bar­bu­da)

3. Ja­di­an Neaves (Raiders Cy­cle & Mul­ti­sport)

4. En­rique De Co­mar­mond (Heat­wave)

5. Syn­del Sama­roo (Un­at­tached)

Elite Women

1. Phoebe Sandy (Madon­na Wheel­ers)

Ju­ve­nile Women

1. Guadulupe De Mar­tos (Ar­genti­na)

Elite Men Time - 1.27.26

1. Syn­del Sama­roo (Un­at­tached)

2. Aaron new­ton (Guyana)

3. Liam Trepte (Raiders Cy­cle & Mul­ti­sport)

4. Ju­lian Nunez (UCI Coach)

5. Goran Gabour­nel (Be­lize)

6. Ryan D’Abreau (Ari­ma Wheel­ers)

Ju­nior Men

1. Tajhae Browne (An­tigua & Bar­bu­da)

2. Ja­di­an Neaves (Raiders Cy­cle & Mul­ti­sport)

3. Jaylen Briceno (Be­lize)

4. Liv­ingston Dun­combe (Ba­hamas)

5. Ti­tus Bharat (PSL)

Ju­nior Women

1. Mya Ben­nett (Be­lize)

Ju­ve­niles Men

1. Alexan­der Le­ung (Guyana)

2. Tr­ish­ton Jaichan (PSL)

3. Aiden Tonge (An­tigua & Bar­bu­da)

Mas­ters 40-49

1. Ale­jan­dro Pal­ma (Ar­genti­na)

Mas­ters 50-59

1. Scott Lal­ib­erte (UCI Coach)

2. Ed Moy (Raiders Cy­cle & Mul­ti­Sport)

3. Alain Smartt (Heat­wave)

4. Dirk Tidd Raiders (Cy­cle & Mul­ti­Sport)

Mas­ters 60-69

1. Michael Brown (Ari­ma Wheel­ers)

2. Gre­go­ry Not­ting­ham (Madon­na Wheel­ers)