Future Stars
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One of the main reasons the Revolution Series was created at the Manchester Velodrome was to nurture young British cycling talent with the Future Stars competition. The Future Stars provides a competitive framework for our up and coming riders and provides them with the experience of riding in front a capacity crowd in one of the world's premier Velodrome venues.
For season 3 the Future Stars has been sponsored by Raleigh, one of the UK's best known cycling names. Raleigh's involvement has meant that Future Stars competitions have been set up for both girls and boys. With Raleigh team road bikes up for grabs as first prize the competition this season has been intense with the winners being decided at Revolution12 on Saturday night.
In the girl's competition the Welsh have dominated with Cardiff based rider Lucy Richards leading from the start. Richards took victory in the 5km Scratch Race on Saturday to secure overall victory ahead of Welsh team mates Katie Curtis and Alex Greenfield who finished second and third respectively.
“I'm very happy to have won the first Girls Future Stars” commented Richards. “It has been a fanatastic experience”. With a lot of racing ahead for Richards the future looks bright, “I'm first year junior this year so I will probably be doing the women's national road series and I will do the women's national track series again because I really enjoyed doing the track series last year. I will probably do the women's national track champs again as well as the juniors track champs. I will just have to see how my training goes.”
The Future Stars will be back in the autumn with Revolution season 4 www.cyclingrevolution.com
