Godfrey grabs RaboPlus club road title

World track champion Hayden Godfrey showed his versatility when he sprinted to his maiden victory in the RaboPlus national club road cycling title near Nelson today. Godfrey, who won the omnium title at the International Cycling Union (UCI) World Track Championships last year, went with the break on the 176km race’s penultimate lap before outsprinting young Wellington rider Jack Bauer to take the championship in Upper Moutere.

This made it a clean sweep of road titles for the Subway Avanti team after Gordon McAuley won the national championships earlier in the year. Godfrey got some key help from team-mate Sam Horgan before he used all his experience to roll over Bauer to claim the win, while Horgan took out the under-23 honours.

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Senior men, 176km
#Rider Name (Country) TeamResult
1Hayden Godfrey (Subway Avanti)4:28:32
2Jack Bauer (Port Nicholson Poneke)0:00:01
3Robin Reid (Star & Garter)0:00:02
4Heath Blackgrove (Timaru)0:00:08
5Alan Williams (Pegasus)0:01:17
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Under-23, 176km
#Rider Name (Country) TeamResult
1Sam Horgan (Subway Avanti)4:28:51
2James Williamson (Subway Avanti)0:01:51
3Daniel Barry (Star & Garter Tasman)0:02:32
4Brad Carter (Hamilton City)Row 3 - Cell 2
5James McCoy (Papanui)Row 4 - Cell 2
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Under-17, 64km
#Rider Name (Country) TeamResult
1Alex McCrory-Bowick (Counties Manukau)1:39:40
2Dion Smith (North Harbour)0:00:01
3Nick Sutton (Stratford)0:00:02

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