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Nelson Wins Lagos City Criterium

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Determined Bassey Nelson proved pundit right as he dominated from start to finish to claim N200,000 star prize at the Lagos City Criterium 2017. Nelson who races for the Sharks Racing Club from Port Harcourt was ahead of Sadiq Ajibade and Precious Godwin of United Pro Team and Cyclotron team respective­ly.

“I’ve been working hard for this and as Nigerian champion I came into this knowing there’s a chance I was going to win this,” said a confident Nelson to pressmen after the race last Saturday.

Nelson continued: “I’ve still got two competitio­ns to compete in before the end of the year and I’m going to keep working hard to finish the season very strong.”

In the women’s profession­al race, Ese Ukpeseraye of the Cyclotron team finished first with Tombrakpa Grikpa and Joan Okoro finished in second and third respective­ly.

The juniors who raced earlier in the year were also rewarded by the organisers, Sustainabl­e Cycling Foundation (SCF) for their efforts with Odebiyi Azeez and Awuri Oveh taking top honours for the boys and girl’s categories respective­ly.

SCF chairman Faiz Imam was impressed with the level of the competitio­n and said: “Our plans are to make sure these kids are exposed to more events. We are proud of their efforts here and will keep encouragin­g them to attain their dreams.”

Over N1.5m was awarded in prize money monies and plans are already underway to move the Criterium to other parts of Nigeria soon.

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