Emily Wadsworth, riding for Beeline Bicycles Race Team, Oxford, was a winner at the Southern Mountain Bike Cross Country Championship, near Aldermaston.

Wadsworth, from Drayton near Abingdon, took the female juvenile race by 17 seconds. She was has now won the first two of the five-race series.

Lewis King (Beeline) came second in the veterans race, even though he was riding with a fractured metacarpal.

Jake Thomas was fastest in Oxonian’s 16-mile Brill Hilly, recording 43mins 36 secs.

He finished more than a minute ahead of Matt Rowley (43.54), with Neil Johnson (45.21) third.

Lewis Hutton knocked nearly ten minutes off his time from last year.