SPORTS YEARBOOK 2011 (Including the 2009-2010 Review

Cycling Club
www.srcf.ucam.org/cycling/
Varsity
7th March, 2010 Mountain Biking
at Crowthorne Wood, Surrey
Result: Cambridge Win
1st May, 2010 Road Race held on
the H25/17R near Oxford
Result: Oxford Win
BUCS Review
Having once again successfully
defended its BUCS title,
Cambridge University Cycling Club
has continued to punch well
above its weight.The club enters
BUCS races of all disciplines, on
and off road as well as competing
at both regional and national
races. Although mainly geared
towards racing, the club strives to
cater for all abilities and levels of
experience.
Cambridge University Cycling Club
(CUCC) clinched the British
Universities and Colleges Sports
Championships (BUCS) for the
third year running with their
recent domination of the Track
Cycling Championships.
Llewellyn Kinch of Jesus cleaned
up at the most recent BUCS
competition winning the 4km
individual pursuit gold medal, as
well as gold in the points race and
a further gold in the individual
one kilometre time trial. He was
backed up by James Hawkins, who
was second fastest in the
individual pursuit, and Toby
Parnell, who took third spot in that
same event as well as bronze in
the sprint, going on to win overall
team gold with Kinch.
George Bate of Cambridge came
in second behind Kinch in the
points race to further bump up
Cambridge’s BUCS points tally.
Toby Weatherall was second in the
sprint and fourth in the individual
pursuit, giving Cambridge a one,
two, three, four ahead of
Birmingham’s fastest rider (who
had a BUCS champion lycra
skinsuit made up in anticipation of
his victory).
Weatherall and Hawkins took
team silver to complete a very
successful day of racing and
secure Cambridge’s firm position
at the top of the BUCS cycling table.
Earlier in the year Andrew Nichols,
Toby Weatherall and Wojciech
Szlachta ensured CUCC’s BUCS
campaign set off on the right
pedal stroke by winning team
silver in the Hill Climb, Nichols
coming second overall.
Nichols, Parnell and Mark Holt
then earned Cambridge another
team silver at the Cyclocross
Championship in Lent term.
Weatherall, Parnell and Dan
Ahearn snuck to BUCS Gold in the
Team Time Trial, raced over 50km
in a time of just under one hour
and eight minutes, beating
Durham by three seconds.
Tom Morris, Ahearn and Weatherall
took team gold, destroying the
competition in the 10 mile Time
Trial in May term, with Morris
coming second overall.
Morris then won the Varsity match
and BUCS Gold in the 25 mile Time
Trial (averaging nearly 29 mph),
with Ahearn and Hawkins helping
Cambridge to a team silver. Good
performances from, Hawkins,Tom
Durno and Szlachta made the
Light Blues’ presence felt in the
BUCS Road Race earning a further
BUCS team silver.
Similarly, Parnell and Phil
Buckham-Bonnet both came in
the top 20 in the BUCS Mountain
Biking to earn their Half-blues, held
in Dumfries in a chilly Lent term,
but also did not score any points.
The Track Championships
provided the ultimate triumph for
Cambridge, sending the Light
Blues above the rest of the
country’s universities and
retaining the championship
in style.
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