Well what a year of racing it has been seeing Slipstreamers travel up and down the country winning races, and even conquering Europe! Currently as a club we are ranked 25th in the country for National Club Road & Track racing, with a whopping 1270 points – that is, ahem, 2 places ahead of Team Sky!!! To put that into context, considering we are youth club for U16s, ranked amongst the adult racers, that is an extraordinary achievement! Unfortunately, there are no club rankings for Cyclo-cross or Mountain Biking, but we know how well you have all done and celebrate each and every one of you. You should ALL be so proud of yourselves!
So without further ado, we are very proud to announce the national series rankings and overall results of all our individual Slipstreamers who took part in various disciplines, including the Circuit, Track, Cyclo-cross (CX) and Mountain Biking (XC) throughout 2014, and who have all done exceptionally well this year. The tables below reflect the overall rankings of the individuals on the BC website, and don’t include individual races, which have all been published in previous newsletters throughout the year; but rather an overview of series results and overall national rankings for 2014. Some of the rankings rules are very complicated [click here if you’d like to read a bit on this], and some races don’t incur points, but where possible, we have included the names of riders we know have raced and done well. It is possible we have left out a name or two – particularly if you have Slipstreamers as your 2nd claim club so we may not have found your name by our search – so if you feel your name should be listed, let us know and we will fix that with pleasure.
National Individual Rankings 2014 – Road & Track
In the overall National 2014 series standings for Road & Track, we fared exceptionally well, as follows:
| U16/ A | U14/ B | U12/ C | U10/ D | U8/ E |
| Girls:44 Harriet Mellor120 Ella Buckroyd
Boys: 11 Charles Page 78 Carl Jolly 82 Louis Rose-Davies 181 Benjamin Moriarty 224 Samuel Henning 244 Will Scott |
Girls:11 Lorna Bowler18 Kate Shelton
57 Savannah Hewson Boys: 68 Peter Hewson 77 Tom Portsmouth 121 Harry Tadman 134 Nicholas Rayner |
Girls:2 Isabella Escalera20 Abigail Old
33 Jemma Bowler 84 Ella Coleman Boys: 6 Gabriel Banner 53 Oisin Murphy 72 Nathan George |
Girls:35 Caitlin Loveless61 Esme Devlin
82 Emily Moreve Boys: 2 Jed Smithson 13 Joseph O’Brien 34 Alexander Uphill 44 Cameron Still 51 Benjamin Bisson 66 Oliver Emment 195 Taylor Evans |
Girls:5 Millie Coleman7 Bobbie O’Brien
52 Kim Bowler 96 Madison Emment Boys: 15 Stanley Kent 35 Ben Coppola 35 Finlay Hawker 45 Finn O’Brien 49 Pascal Giret 90 Oliver Kent 96 Sam Gilbert |
Click here for a view of our rankings on the BC Website
National Youth Circuit Series Rankings 2014
As a reminder, one of the highlights for us was on the 21st June at the circuit, where we hosted the 2014 Youth Circuit Series [click here to be reminded of this fantastic event!]. At the end of the series, points are accrued for each race taken part in, and the final tally contributes towards the overall series placement as per the overall table above.
Hillingdon Slipstreamers had a number of riders racing in the series and are most notable finishers in the overall standings were:
| U16/ A | U14/ B | U12/ C | U10/ D | U8/ E |
| Girls:21 Harriet MellorBoys:
36 Louis Rose-Davies 50 Carl Jolly 64 Charles Page |
Girls:2 Lorna Bowler39 Kate Shelton
Boys: n/a |
Girls:38 Jemma Bowler66 Isabella Escalera
Boys: 26 Gabriel Banner 74 Nathan George |
Girls:n/aBoys:
5 Jed Smithson 20 Joe O’Brien 43 Cameron Still 48 Alex Uphill 58 Ben Bisson |
Girls:8 Millie Coleman18 Bobbie O’Brien
43 Lucy Allsop Boys: 22 Stanley Kent 29 Pascal Giret 38 Finlay Hawker 40 Sam Gilbert 46 Finn O’Brien |
Youth National Track Series Rankings 2014
Hillingdon Slipstreamers had a number of riders racing in the 2014 National Track Series, with the most notable finishers in the overall standings as follows:
| U16/ A | U14/ B | U12/ C | U10/ D | U8/ E |
| Girls:[Southern Region]7 Harriet Mellor
Boys: [Southern Region] 6 Charles Page 7 Carl Jolly [South East Region] 9 Louis Rose-Davies |
Girls:[Southern Region]2 Lorna Bowler
Boys: n/a |
Girls:[Southern Region]2 Isabella Escalera
4 Jemma Bowler Boys: n/a |
Girls:n/aBoys:
[Southern Region] 3 Jed Smithson |
Girls:n/aBoys:
[South East Region] 1 Stanley Kent 7 Oliver Kent |
Click here to view full set of results.
Qualifiers for the Youth National Omnium Championships were:
| U14/ B | U12/ C |
| Girls:13 Lorna Bowler | Girls:10 Isabella Escalera11 Jemma Bowler |
National Individual Rankings 2014 – MTB Cross Country and Cyclo-Cross
And let’s not forget our Cyclo-Cross (CX) and Mountain Bike Cross Country (XC) racers, who have and still are doing exceptionally well. Both disciplines require not only speed and endurance, but also excellent bike handling and technical skills to navigate roots, leaves and berms, and for those of you who have raced in these events, a major aversion to mud! The MTB XC races have come to an end for the year, but CX is is still going on for a few more weeks yet.
The tables below list the rankings for our MTB XC for 2014 and CX riders to date, but it’s worth noting that while these are listed in the BC rankings as noted, many MTB XC and indeed CX races do not accrue points as they are organised outside of BC, and are thus not added onto the overall rankings. To fully understand this (if you don’t already) click here to read the MTB rankings system, and click here to read the CX rankings system as defined by BC.
We also have a number of junior riders who are also not listed, as these do not accrue points either, but we have noted who these are. Again, it is possible we have left out a name or two – particularly if you have Slipstreamers as your 2nd claim club so we may not have found your name by our search – so if you feel your name should be listed, let us know and we will fix that with pleasure.
MTB XC National 2014 Individual Rankings
| Juvenile (U14) |
| Boys:75 Seth Kanaris |
MTB Special Mentions
Unfortunately, age categories under 13 and below do not get ranked by BC, and some races do not accrue points, but these riders have all raced for Slipstreamers in various XC races, and are noted as follows:
| U14 | U13 | U10 | U8 | U6 |
| Girls:Yasmin Basit | Boys:Nathan George | Boys:George Fowkes | Girls:Lucy AllsopBoys:
Ben Coppola Archie Fowkes |
Girls:Katie Allsop |
Cyclo-Cross National 2014/2015 Individual Rankings (to date):
The cyclo-cross series is still in progress, but the current overall standings to date are as follows:
| Junior | Youth U16 | Youth U14 |
| Boys:129 Benjamin Moriarty170 Joshua Murphy | Girls:17 Lorna Bowler45 Elsa Kristiansson
Boys: 37 Charles Page 91 Ieuan Woods 166 Niall Dawkins 166 Carl Jolly |
Girls:34 Jemma BowlerBoys:
73 Gabriel Banner |
Current Central CX League Standings:
The following standings contribute to overall rankings as per the table above, but as you’ll note U12 and U10 riders are ranked within the league and not on BC:
| Junior | Youth U16 | Youth U14 | Youth U12 | Youth U10 |
| Boys:4 Benjamin Moriarty8 Joshua Murphy
12 Alex Jones |
Girls:13 Elsa Kristiansson26 Lorna Bowler
Boys: 2 Charles Page 11 Niall Dawkins 29 Carl Jolly |
Girls:20 Jemma BowlerBoys:
17 Gabriel Banner 32 Oisin Murphy 35 Harvey Dash |
Girls:11 Isabella EscaleraBoys:
27 Cameron Still 36 Oliver Dawson |
Girls:6 Astrid Spragg13 Caitlin Loveless
24 Lucy Allsop 38 Millie Coleman Boys: 22 Jed Smithson 26 George Fowkes 29 Ben Bisson 35 Archie Fowkes |
Well done on an incredible 2014 Slipstreamers – and a huge thank you of course to the support teams of parents, grandparents and friends who drive miles and miles, clean bikes, fix mechanicals and give out hugs when things don’t go quite according to plan. You are all superstars!