Team RL360 riders Tara Ferguson and Conor Davies represented the North West Region at the recent
Sainsbury’s School Games in Manchester.
Approximately 1,500 young athletes aged between 14 and 18 took part in the 12 Olympic and Paralympic sports that were included in the event.
Conor and Tara were members of the North West’s eight-strong team - four boys and four girls - competing in the track cycling competition, staged over three action-packed days at the velodrome.
The Manx duo were selected for the endurance events and their performances in those disciplines helped the North West to third place in the overall standings.
The team made a good start, winning the opening day’s skills test ahead of South East and Central.
In the individual events Conor partnered Theo Hartley to the silver medal in the boys’ Madison, finishing seven points behind Yorkshire and two points ahead of South.
The Douglas youngster also finished 12th in the 80-lap points race, 13th in the elimination race and 33rd out of a field of 52 riders in the one-lap time trial.
On the final day he accompanied team-mates Hartley, Chris Heaton and Alistair Leivers to a fine fourth position in the 3,000 metre team pursuit, narrowly missing out to The South in the ride-off for the bronze medal.
In the girls’ events, Tara rode strongly with Georgia Ashworth to grab an impressive sixth in the Madison. She produced another good ride in the points race to take 12th overall, while picking up good 13th and 17th placings in the elimination race and time trial.
In the team pursuit finale, Tara joined her NW companions Ashworth, Lauren Bate-Lowe and Leanne Hall, finishing a respectable seventh out of the 13 teams.
Scotland topped the list in the final points tally, a massive 103 ahead of South, with North West one point further back in third.
l Conor and Tara, who are both members of British Cycling’s Olympic Development Apprentice scheme, would like to thank Isle of Man Sport Aid for the support they received.