MIKE SERAFIN made it two out of two in the Delancey Park criterium races as he defeated Rob Smart in a thrilling sprint finish.

THE Guernsey Velo Club once again kicked off local sporting events marking Liberation Day with a 46.5-mile Road Race around the L’Eree Circuit.

MIKE SERAFIN came out on top of a heavily-reduced race to win the opening Delancey Park criterium of the season.

ON A misty, wet and windy morning, the Guernsey Velo Club had a surprisingly fast race, with a close and exciting sprint to decide the winner of the Liberation Day Trophy.

THERE were hugely encouraging results including two podium places for Guernsey riders at the second round of the Southern Cross-Country Series.

ANN BOWDITCH claimed first place in yesterday’s concluding Black Horse 25-mile Handicap Time Trial, but it was her protege, James McLaughlin, who won the overall classification in the Guernsey Velo Club’s Four-Day Easter Cycle Race.

JAMES MCLAUGHLIN shrugged off a troublesome back to destroy the rest of the field to win the Easter Sunday road race at Pleinmont.

DANNY ARBLASTER and Michael Serafin could not be split in a record-breaking start to the Easter Four-Day Race.

TOBYN HORTON has started his 2012 season well after an impressive eighth-place finish at the Ster van Zwolle in the Netherlands.

A PIVOTAL season in James McLaughlin’s career is about to start in earnest following the launch of the Sojasun Espoir team.

DESPITE near freezing temperatures on Sunday morning over 210 riders lined up for the start of the Guernsey Velo Clubs fourth winter sportive.

AN EAGER Tobyn Horton is looking forward to what he calls his ‘second Christmas’ in the space of a few weeks.