The last three weeks have seen the Andover Wheelers championship events dominated by Simon Healey.

The Andover Advertiser Trophy is held over 25 miles and Healey demonstrated his excellent form by coming home first in a time of 55mins 47secs. Second place went to another rider in good form, Ian Knight, who finished in 59.39secs with third place going to Dave Dinsdale who, after a slow start to the season, recorded 60.02secs.

The 25 Championship also incorporates a Handicap 25 championship event which was won by Simon Hall whose allowance of 6.58secs gave him a winning time of 55.23secs. Scratch ride Healey was second with Knight third.

The following weekend saw the club's 30 mile championship and, although Simon Healey took top spot again in 1hr.8:36secs, there were some notable rides by the other competitors. Hefin Richards was racing at the distance for the first time and produced a good time of 1:21.25secs for sixth place. Stuart Thompson and Pete Dennett were having a ding-dong battle for fourth place with Thompson just edging Dennett by seven seconds in 1hr 15.36secs. Third place went to Nick Adnitt who has been consistently improving throughout the season, finishing in 1:13.35secs leaving Dave Dinsdale to collect second spot with a 25mph average ride of 1:11.54secs. The championship 10' was run off in near perfect conditions and the times reflected this. Hefin Richards rode a pb of 24mins 39secs and was unfortunate to miss out on third place in the Handicap event by just a second from ex-professional rider Harry Lodge.

Second place in the Handicap event with an amended time of 21:9secs was taken by another rider coming into form, Stuart Thompson. The main event saw Dave Dinsdale and Ian Knight taking second and third places but Healey took first in the main event and, as the Scratch rider, took the Handicap prize also.

For full results and details of another Come and Try It' event, see www.andoverwheelers.com

10:28am Saturday 5th July 2008

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