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Melissa Bury is really beginning to prove herself as one of Great Britain’s most talented young cyclists. She performs in all disciplines of cycling, including track, road, mountain, hill climbing, Cyclo-cross and grass track and her successes within competitions only set in stone this name she has already begun to set for herself.
She is currently holding the record as National British Best All Round schools champion and also is the National British schools Mountain Bike champion. In addition she has ambitions to become an Olympic Gold medallist in the future. Currently cycling for the Eastland’s Velo cycling club based at Manchester Velodrome, Melissa is the ‘girls club champion’.
Melissa aged only fourteen has shown real promise in the last few years, ranking high in competitions against girl’s years older than her. She has consecutively come a respectable second in the North West Cyclo-cross series, and was the second U14 girl in the North West circuit championships. She has also been the British Schools National grass track champion for the past two years.
Melissa is currently supported by Jayne Barrett, top British coach and has also been attending regular training sessions with the British Cycling Talent Team. The talent team and home club sessions total four and one race is scheduled for most weekends. This intense programme is all in the name of the build up and preparation for next year’s road and track season.
Melissa Bury Racing Calendar 2008
Cyclo cross
National Championships Birmingham January 5th
Track Racing
10 May Scunthorpe Youth Track Meeting Scunthorpe
18 May Newcastle Youth Track Meeting Newcastle U Lyme, Staffs
31 May Discovery Youth Track Meeting Dundee
07 June SCU Youth Track Meeting Meadowbank, Edinburgh
09 August CDNW National Youth Final Track Meeting NCC, Manchester
17/22 August BC National Youth & Junior Track Championships Newport, S. Wales
Town Centre Circuit Racing
10 June Brighouse Criteriums Brighouse, Yorks
26 June Otley Criteriums Otley, W. Yorks
National Circuit Racing Series (6 from 9)
22 March White Rose League Circuit Races Richard Dunn Circuit, Bradford
06 April Hetton Classic Hetton, Sunderland
25 May VC Deal Youth Circuit Races Fowlmeade, Kent
13/15 June North West Youth Tour North West
28 June CC Giro Circuit Races Curborough, Staffs
06 July Hillingdon Slipstreamers Youth Circuit Races Hillingdon, W. London
19 July Tour of Blackpool Youth Grand Prix Circuit Races Blackpool
26/27 July North East Youth Tour Hetton, Sunderland
02 August Bristol-Cycling.com Youth Circuit Races Hengrove Park, Bristol
31 August Omega Youth Circuit Races Thruxton, Wiltshire
12 July BC National Youth Circuit Race Championships Preston Arena, Lancs
Terry Dolan Youth Race Series 29/3, 5/4, 12/4.
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Melissa was invited to race through the DHL Sprint School youth sprinting development centre in a night cycling event at Salford, racing against boys and girls of a similar age. (Roller racing is usually a 500 metre sprint on a static bike attached to rollers and a big clock showing how far the bike has gone).
Both Chris Hoy, Olympic Gold medallist and Craig Maclean ex-world champion went on the bikes. Then, in front of the 300+ crowd and with the big screens showing the racing, Melissa put the ride in of her life and recorded at time of 21.30 seconds - only 2 seconds behind Chris Hoy. This time was confirmed by the organisers as the fastest time by any female recorded on those rollers (nearly 8000 people have ridden this equipment). Melissa was made the DHL Sprint School rider of the month as a result.
Melissa raced in the National track final at Newport Velodrome in August. With the cream of British Cycling in attendance, Melissa provided some good individual races and managed middle of ninth place overall. Melissa also achieved third place in the national youth track racing final at Manchester, riding well despite a fault on the rear wheel on her track bike. |
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