Rolling Shattaz-BZ-Boyz’s Delton Rojas wins 22nd BEL Junior Cross Country Cycling Classic

Photo Credit: William George Ysaguirre

By Rubén Morales Iglesias: Rolling Shattaz- BZ-Boyz’s Delton Rojas won the 70-mile 22^nd Annual BEL Junior Cross Country Cycling Classic by a hairline over G-Flow’s Jaylen Briceño at the Marion Jones Sporting Complex in Belize City.

Briceño may have attacked too early past Mirab coming into the City as Rojas countered and opened a gap which Briceño managed to close on Princess Margaret Drive but it may have cost him the race. At the finish, Rojas appeared to win by a foot-length.

Delton Rojas (Photo Credit: William George Ysaguirre)

Jaylen Briceño (Photo Credit: William George Ysaguirre)

Rolling Shattaz Evrit Matute edged G-Flow’s Benito Gutierrez for third place.

Evrit Matute edges G-Flow’s Benito Gutierrez for 3rd place. (Photo Credit: William George Ysaguirre)

Travis Grinage took the Youth Category over Guatemalan Kevin Rojas. Chavarria’s Cycling Club’s Malachi Martinez finished third.

Thirty riders competed in the BEL Junior Cross Country Classic from San Ignacio to Belize City organized by the Cycling Federation of Belize under the regulations of the International Cycling Union, on Sunday, March 26. The race started at the Columbus Park in San Ignacio at 8:30 a.m., crossed the Hawkesworth Bridge and headed, via the George Price Highway, to Belize City. The cyclists entered the old Capital via Lake Independence Boulevard, over the Chetumal Street Bridge to the Phillip Goldson Highway unto Princess Margaret Drive to finish in front of the Marion Jones Sports Complex.