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Location: Prissick Base, Middlesbrough
Event: 18 September 2011
Report: Snowdon Sports
Team Raleigh's Matt Kipling took a narrow victory in the second round of the Cyclo-Cross North East League, staged at Prissick Base in Middlesbrough on Sunday.
The 28-year-old from Bishop Auckland crossed the line just two seconds ahead of 26-year-old rival Ken Haswell (Infinity Cycles) from Sunderland after the two had hit the front together late in the race.
Ten riders had gone clear at the end of the first lap, but Kipling and junior Matt Flynn (Velocity RT) were active at the front and helped to whittle down the lead group to seven as the laps went by.
With a couple of laps left Flynn sat on and made Kipling do most of the work, while behind Scottish visitors Colin May (VC Edinburgh) and Martin Graham (Renner CX) were looking strong.
At the bell, Kipling edged ahead while Flynn dropped behind Haswell, and by the line Kipling was just two seconds ahead of Haswell, while top junior Flynn, just 16 and from Kendal in Cumbria, held on for third spot.
The North East League continues on Sunday, October 2, with round three at Preston Park in Stockton-on-Tees.
Results:
Seniors:
1 Matt Kipling (Team Raleigh) 55:29
2 Ken Haswell (Infinity Cycles) at 2sec
3 Matt Flynn (Velocity RT) at 23sec
4 Alan Nixon (Black Hawk Bikes) at 49sec
5 Martin Graham (Renner CX)@ 1:05
6 Colin May (VC Edinburgh)
7 Jonny Fletcher (Derwentside CC) @ 1:11
8 William Brown (Fietsen Tempo) @ 1:43
9 Mike Thompson (TEF Richardsons RT) @ 2:16
10 Craig Gail (York Cycleworks) @ 2:37
Juniors: Matt Flynn (Velocity RT). Under-23s: William Brown (Fietsen Tempo). Veterans: Jason Hynd (unattached). Women: Bev Blakeman (Infinity Cycles). Youth: Stephen Lee (Hetton Hawks). Under-14s: Thomas Mein (MTS Cyclesport). Under-12s: Toby Transfield (Cleveland Wheelers). Under-10s: Paul Errington (Hetton Hawks). Under-8s: Lititia Hay (Hetton Hawks).
British Cycling would like to thank the organising team, officials and everyone else who helped promote this event. Our sport could not exist without the hundreds of people, many of them unpaid volunteers, who put in many hours of hard work running events, activities and clubs.
