BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Marie Rosada landed the women’s road race title and completed the double while propelling Puerto Rico to overall team championship honours as the 2009 Elite Caribbean Cycling event concluded late Sunday afternoon.
Rosada, who had placed second in Saturday’s time trial, outclassed the women’s field for a fine win and Guadeloupe’s Frederic Theobald emerged men’s champion in the gruelling 3-1/2 hour ride in blazing sun on the Spring Garden Highway just outside the capital Bridgetown.
Puerto Rico emerged team champions with 46 points, followed by Bermuda (34) and Guadeloupe (30).
Rosada clocked 2:25:49.620 seconds for a huge win, more than four minutes in front Bermuda’s Flora Duffy (2:29:58.573).
Puerto Rico also picked up the bronze through Elene Rodriquez (2:29:58.918).
The US Virgin Islands’ Suzan Brown placed sixth in 2:30:00.672, while CARICOM entries Denise Crebbin, Claire Fraser (Guyana) and Barbadian Monica Weekes, placed seventh, eighth and ninth, respectively.
Theobald won the men’s event in three hours, 32 minutes, 37.226 seconds, beating French Guiana’s Denay Candau (3:32:39.322), with Guyana’s Tony Simon third in 3:32:39.805.
Only two other CARICOM riders made the top ten in the men’s division, Barbadian Simon Clarke ninth in 3:36:06.598 and Jamaican Marloe Rodman 10th in 3:36:06.634.
Antiguans Jyme Bridges (3:36:08.301) and Robert Marsh (3:36:08.309) placed 11th and 12th, respectively.
