This Weekend – Junior Tour of Wales

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Peter Buckley Trophy Junior National Road Series culminates this weekend at the prestigious NFTO Junior Tour of Wales

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This Weekend – Junior Tour of Wales

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The Peter Buckley Trophy Junior National Road Series culminates this weekend at the prestigious NFTO Junior Tour of Wales, where the country’s top junior bike riders are preparing for the toughest test of their season of five stages over three days in the South Wales valleys.

There are over 140 entrants for the 2014 event, with international teams confirmed for the event with riders from USA, Luxembourg, Ireland, Spain and France joining the line-up in Wales to make for a competitive battle over the three day event.

The Haribo-Beacon team have dominated this year’s National Junior Series so far, with leader, and three-time winner James Shaw and Isle of Man Tour victor Joe Evans heading their squad.

Matt Gibson of Velocity-WD40 is in a strong second place in the national standings, but the competition will be fierce with all of the current top ten riders in contention for the overall series title.

2013 winner, Wales’ Scott Davies has progressed to senior competition, and was selected to represent Wales at the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games, where he finished 10th in the Men’s Road Race. Wales will be represented by a team of four junior cyclists, Newport’s Joseph Wiltshire, Carmarthen’s Joe Holt, Aberystwyth’s Stephen Williams and Gwyn Lovibond from Rhyl.

National Junior Road Race Champion Tristan Robbins (BH-Solidor-WAM Youth) and the RST Racing team are looking strong with RST’s Joseph Fry and Nathan Draper winning the last two rounds of the series in Hatherleigh and Bath.

The Tour kicks off with an individual time trial from Brynmawr to Blaenavon at 10.30am on Saturday morning, followed by the first road stage departing Brynmawr town centre in the afternoon to finish above Llangynidr.

Sunday morning sees the riders tackle the closed circuit in Bryn Bach Park from 10.30am before a sprint spectacular around Abergavenny and Raglan, culminating outside The Hardwick.

The fifth and final, 55 mile road stage starts at 10.30am on Monday morning and sees the riders head out along the Heads of the Valleys road to Penderyn before taking in Brecon and skirting Abergavenny before confronting the fearsome three mile climb to the top of the Tumble Mountain, which is also included in Stage Three of the Friends Life Tour of Britain next month.

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