CHRIS Boddy, riding for Didcot Phoenix, finished joint fourth in the national ten-mile time trial Championships in Scotland, with a time of 19mins 10secs.

A former international oarsman, Boddy, from Wallingford, works as a rowing coach at Sir William Perkins’s School in Surrey.

Already this season, Boddy has also broken the club’s ten and 25-mile records this season, with times of 18.13 and 46.00 respectively.

He was also 11th at the national 25-mile time trial championships last month.