Adam Ward takes impressive first win of season with big finish | Video

Adam Ward has taken his first win of the season, with a big finish that suggests he's in great form (File photo by Toby Watson)

Adam Ward has taken victory in the main event at the Lakeland GP today when he saw off a strong breakaway with a very impressive finishing effort.

The 20-year-old, a former national junior road race champion, took it up very early in sight of the finish line. And when he gapped the five men he was with the others simply couldn't get back on terms.

On the finish line Ward, riding this year for Antiga Casa Bellsolà Club Ciclista, had pulled out a clear gap on the best of the rest; Mark Dowling (All Human-VeloRevolution) taking 2nd place.

The in-form rider of the season, with three victories so far, Gareth O'Neill (Caldwell Cycles) had to settle for 3rd place today with Lindsay Watson (Powerhouse Sport) 4th.

Mark McGinley, the Four Masters CC rider who won this race two years ago, was 5th and Nathan Keown (Dan Morrissey-McCarthy Insurance-Pactimo) was 6th, rounding out the six-man breakaway.

In the A4 race Colin Howley (Yeats Country Cycling Club) took the victory and two of the best young female riders in the country - Darcey Harkness (VC Glendale) and Caoimhe O Brien (Weston Homes-Torelli-Assure) – were right behind him in 2nd and 3rd places.

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Sat, April 27th: Lakeland GP

Promoted by Lakeland CC

Derrygonnelly, Co Fermanagh

Donnelly Group A1-A2-A3 Race

  1. Adam Ward Antiga Casa Bellsolà Club Ciclista
  2. Mark Dowling All Human-VeloRevolution Racing Team
  3. Gareth O Neill Team Caldwell Cycles
  4. Lindsay Watson Powerhouse Sport
  5. Mark Mc Ginley Four Masters CC
  6. Nathan Keown Dan Morrissey-McCarthy Insurance-Pactimo
  7. Odhran Doogan Team Caldwell Cycles
  8. Nathan Mullen Dromore CC
  9. Ruairi Power Team Caldwell Cycles
  10. Peter McLean Ards CC

Leading Woman

  1. Megan Armitage UCD Cycling Club

Unplaced A2

  1. Lee Harvey VC Glendale

Unplaced A3

  1. Ruairi Power Team Caldwell Cycles

Unplaced Junior

  1. Odhran Doogan Team Caldwell Cycles

Lakeland Bikes A4 Race

  1. Colin Howley Yeats Country Cycling Club
  2. Darcey Harkness VC Glendale
  3. Caoimhe O Brien Weston Homes-Torelli-Assure
  4. John Berry Armagh City Cyclists
  5. Mervyn Kinkade DB Cycling Club
  6. Martin Mc Bride Lakeland
  7. Simon Gray Un-Attached Ulster
  8. John Vallely Armagh City Cyclists
  9. Michael Pickles Lakeland CC
  10. Gary Donnelly Fintona CC West Tyrone Velo

Woman’s Podium

  1. Darcey Harkness VC Glendale
  2. Caoimhe O Brien Weston Homes-Torelli-Assure
  3. Erin Grace Creighton McConvey Cycles
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