Congratulations to all our 2016 Award Winners!

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Girl

Taylor Evans

Lia Leonard

Eddie O’Brien

Rayan Osman

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Elizabeth Marvelly

Oisin Murphy

Lucy Allsop

Finnlay Weeks

Alice Whitney

1st Year Enthusiasm Award

Achievement

Cycled from Winchester to Rome – 1140 miles in 14 days, climbing over 40,000 feet, and raising over £3000 for Cancer Research.

These 3 showed consistency throughout the Assen European Youth Tour, coming home with at least one special jersey each. This is the third time that Jed has won the event.

Outstanding sportsmanship – pushed his team mate Tom 25 miles with a puncture so that they could both finish the day’s stage race in the European Youth Tour. Completed his last race with a broken wrist that he acquired on the first lap!

A relative new comer, Zoe achieved an invite to ODA as a guest within 2 years of taking up cycling.

Lorna sacrificed many appearances at club level to compete in very high profile events – Tour of Scotland, Revolution and many more, staying with Slipstreamers whilst completing her commitment to ODA.

Always a smile on his face, always eager, and possibly the bubbliest and most enthusiast character on a mountain bike. In Wales in particular, Archie was always encouraging and great fun, and there was ever a dull moment in the Prancing Ponies group going up and coming down Y-Wall!

Mr Video. Morgan’s contribution to capturing club events on “film” have become the envy of other cycling clubs nationally. Often with only a skeleton brief, he contains the essence of the club for all to see.

A true example of sheer determination and resilience. Angel had never mountain biked before 2016, but decided she was going to join the Mudslingers in Wales. She attended almost every MTB coaching session so she could do it, and proved her mettle climbing up – and going down! – the Afan mountains and recently at Olympic venue Hadleigh Park.

Alex has progressed from member to adult volunteer as a rider helper, who still makes time from his own training schedule to share a wealth of knowledge and passion with all our young riders. Whilst aged 17, Alex became the Para National Road Champion and recently attended a Team GB testing camp in Derby.

5 of our outstanding young coaches and young volunteers who independently organised, managed and delivered our Summer of Cycling programme to the community for a whopping 5 weeks. This was an extremely professionally run series of sessions that raised the profile of the club and encouraged 162 participants to give cycling a go.