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Jason Bally Memorial
Jason Bally Memorial
St. Martin’s Moyon wins Jason Bally race!
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| St. Martin's Orelien Moyon crosses the line as the 2009 Jason Bally Memorial Champion!! Photo by M. Penn |
On Sunday the BVI Cycling Federation hosted the 9th annual Jason Bally Memorial Race.
Team St. Martin would take the two top spots. Orelien Moyon was the winner with a time of 3:12.22’ — almost ten minutes faster than the second place finisher.
The event started on the road in front of the H. Lavity Stoutt Community College and headed east to the airport. Cyclists then turned back and headed to Brandy Wine Bay and back to the start/finish line for one lap. The Elite Men Division did seven laps for a total of 73 miles and the Elite Women completed five laps, while the Fun/Novice Division completed two laps.
More than 30 cyclists competed in the event.
The Jason Bally Memorial is held each year to honour Mr. Bally, a cyclist from Trinidad, who was fatally shot in Sea Cows Bay in 1999, after robbers fled the area. Mr. Bally's killers still remain at large. A plaque hangs at the site where Mr. Bally was killed.
The night before the race, a candle light service was held in Mr. Bally’s memory. In the past, a moment of silence was held before the race. But this year things were different with the race being held at HLSCC on the following day.......
Oct 6, 2009, 10:23
Jason Bally Memorial
St. Croix’s Robert Bumann wins Jason Bally Memorial/National Championship race.
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| St. Croix's Robert Bumann smiling after winning the 7th annual Jason Bally Memorial race. |
TORTOLA—St. Croix’s Robert Bumann launched his attack with 10 miles to go, then went on to a convincing four minute victory over Antigua’s Robert Marsh and the British Virgin Islands’ Chris Ghiorse, to easily win Sunday’s seventh annual Jason Bally Memorial 100K on Tortola.
Bumann won the 60-mile race from Road Town to West End out to Beef Island and returning to West End before a Road Town finish, in 2 hours, 23 minutes and 35 seconds. “It was a fight between Robert and Chris until the second time at the West End turnaround and I could see the guys were suffering, especially Chris was suffering badly,” Bumann noted. “But, I didn’t want to take Chris to the finish line for a sprint, because I know he’s a fast guy, so I attacked right after the turnaround. It was tough because we had a strong headwind, but, my strength is time trialing so I went on my own. Chris was in no condition to chase me, so Robert was on his own. I got a good gap on him and kept the pace.”
Oct 2, 2007, 10:47
Jason Bally Memorial
USVI cyclists seeking top spots in Jason Bally Memorial on Tortola
TORTOLA—At least 12 St. Croix cyclists are expected for the weekend's Jason Bally Memorial 100K on Tortola, to battle teams from French, Dutch St. Martin and Antigua along with the hosts.
The Cruzan contingent has no plans of walking away empty handed. “Our national champion Robert Brauman will be coming and we will try our best to ride for him,” Juancito Gario of STX 340 team said following Sunday’s time trial where St. Croix riders occupied second to fourth places. “We want to make sure he wins. St. Croix has to take something. We are bringing all the guys that rode in the time trial back and one way or the other, we are going with something.”
Gario sees the race in memory of the Trinidadian cyclist who was gunned down in October 1999, as a team race and he’s happy the race has been reverted to the original course on Tortola’s south coast, between West End and Beef Island.
Sep 26, 2007, 11:55
Jason Bally Memorial
Jason Bally Memorial/National Championships takes place this weekend.
TORTOLA - The BVI Cycling Federation hosts the 7th annual Jason Bally Memorial/National Championship race this Sunday, September 30th. After missing a year because of the very successful Caribbean Cycling Championships, the race is back and has gone back to the original route.
Cyclists are expected from Antigua, French and Dutch St. Martin, The USVI, and the BVI. The race starts at 8am on the JWF Highway, next to the James Frett Building. Information follows below......
Sep 26, 2007, 06:56
Jason Bally Memorial
Frenchman Louis Teplier buries field to win Jason Bally Memorial
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| Teplier in the rain all alone. Photo by Troy Christopher. |
TORTOLA—Neither persistent rain early in the race, winds, damp conditions throughout, or even a flat on the third lap, could slow Guadalope’s Louis Teplier who blew away the field to win Sunday’s Jason Bally Memorial race on Tortola.
Teplier grabbed a lead on the second of the 20 lap race after the course was shortened when the section through Lower Estate was eliminated because of the weather and never looked back. He won in 2 hours, 57 minutes and 19 seconds. Trinidadian teammates Stephen Mangroo and Roger Smart followed.
“We feared the race in the beginning, because no rider likes riding in this type of weather,” president of Telpier’s VCG Club, Saint-Elmo Arnell said. “It was all planned that we would make the early break and be by ourselves because of the conditions, that way, we’ll get the better part of the road.
Oct 3, 2005, 17:40
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