BAILEY SCALES THE HEIGHTS WITH SURPRISE UNIVERSITIES VICTORY

DESPITE facing a record field of 130 riders, unfancied Tom Bailey took the individual title and led the local Sheffield University to team victory in the British Universities Sports Association hill-climb championship on the Curbar Gap course in Derbyshire.

Bailey, whose only previous recorded top-10 performance during the autumn hill-climb campaign had been ninth in the Thurcroft CC event on October 14, took full advantage of a following wind when he stormed up the 1,796-yard Curbar course near Baslow in 5-35.0 to finish with virtually 10 seconds to spare over Oxford?s David McGaw.

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