Cheetham victorious in Memorial Trophy
4:07pm Thursday 27th March 2008
THE Christine Goodfellow Memorial Trophy was kept close to home this year when Blackburn's Sue Cheetham of the North Lancashire Road Club was presented with it after her club's 10 mile promotion on Saturday at Garstang.
Cheetham had clocked 27 minutes 55 seconds to win the ladies event for the second time after last winning it 11 years ago in 1997.
The Michael Pryce Trophy for the fastest man will reside in Warrington for the next 12 months after Alf Hilton won the men's event in 22 minutes and 11 seconds on a cold afternoon with a scattering of snow showers.
The Road Club came away with more than their share of successes with Duncan Park (22-59), Rob Dickinson and Fraser Snape (tie at 23-20) winning the three-man team prize whilst veteran categories were won by Peter Briscoe (23-44 Vet 50-54), Dave Hargreaves (23-49 Vet 60-64) and Harry Haseley (26-44 Vet 65-69).
All prizewinners had their awards supplemented by a generous supply of Science-in-Sport products from their headquarters at Brockhall Village.
There will be much East Lancashire interest in the ongoing World Track Championships at Manchester to see whether Colne's Steven Burke will be selected alongside multi-Olympic and World Champion Bradley Wiggins in the British four-man squad in the team pursuit scheduled for today.