Harry Akers Smith Juvenile BAR with Barry Broadbent
The club’s annual dinner and prize presentation took place at Astbury Golf Club on Sunday evening December 16th. Club members, families and friends gathered to enjoy a fine four course dinner and see the club trophies and silverware awarded to the completion winners for 2012.
Club chairman Bob Norton welcomed the guests including representatives from the North Shropshire Wheelers, Seamons C.C, Leek C.C., and Macclesfield Wheelers. The Chief Guests were Barry Broadbent and his escort for the evening Ann Bradford.
Barry entertained the diners with tales from his years as an international commissaire and board member both of the UCI (world governing body) and of British Cycling, before presenting the silverware.
The main winners in 2012 were:-
Club person of the year Peter Hayhurst
Mens and Ladies Touring Trophies Rob and Avril Waghorn
Club Runs Trophy (Sid Hancock Plate) Georgina Norton
Club Room Trophy Bob Norton
Mountain Bike Trophy Jamie Willets
Road Race Trophy (Beartown Trophy) Mike Harrison
Audax Trophy (Graham McCargo Cup) Denise Hurst
Senior Hillclimb (Tony Willis Cup) Nick Decker
Veterans Hillclimb Mike Jones
Junior Hillclimb Tristan Roberts
Ladies Hillclimb Bethany Eardley
Track Racing (Alan Wakefield Memorial) Holly Mulroy
Club Events on points (Bob Job Memorial) Pete Smith
Club Events on average speed(Bill Mees trophy) Pete Smith
Veterans Club Events (Lyndon Trophy) Pete Smith
Juvenile Best all Rounder Harry Akers Smith
Junior Best all Rounder Bethany Eardley
Most improved rider (Jack Rossiter Memorial) Bethany Eardley
Senior Best all Rounder (Frank Biddulph Memorial) Wayne Powell
Veterans Best all Rounder (Graham McCargo Memorial) Wayne Powell
Fastest 10 miles TT (Denby Biddulph Plate) Steve Hulme
Fastest 25 miles t TT (Geoff Burt Memorial Cup) Kelvin Milward
Fastest 50 miles TT (Ven Machin Trophy) Pete Smith
Fastest 100 miles TT (L H Brooks Trophy) Wayne Powell
Best 12 hr TT Graham Barker
During the evening there was a raffle with lots of cycling goodies kindly donated by cyclestore.co.uk , and time out was taken, to vote in the BBC Sports Personality of the Year completion, duly won by Bradley Wiggins.
Stephen Kane should have been present, but was injured in a club run accident when he and Pete Smith took a tumble on black ice near Jodrell Bank earlier in the day. Stephen was in hospital during the awards. At the time of writing he is still recovering in Macclesfield General Hospital.
See Peter Hayhurst’s photographs from the dinner and presentation here.