While Bradley Wiggins was winning the Tour de France, two Oxfordshire cyclists also enjoyed notable victories at the weekend.
Emily Wadsworth, from Drayton, near Abingdon and Lewis King, from Appleton won titles in the National Cross Country Mountain Bike Championship at Aldermaston.
Wadsworth won the juvenile girl (under 14) crown, while King took the veteran, aged 40-49, category. Both ride for Beeline Bicycles.
Young Wadsworth’s success was particularly notable as she beat runner-up Emma Borthwick (Edinburgh) by more than four-and-half minutes, recording a time of 47 mins 18secs for the two laps round the Wasing Park Estate in Berkshire.
A pupil at John Mason School, Abingdon, Wadsworth has also won the British Mountain Cross Country series this year, having triumphed in the first four races of the five-race series
King took the national crown in the veterans race, holding off pre-race favourite Paul Hopkins (Merida Factory) and Ian Taylor (Craven Energy) from a large field of over 60 starters.
Emily's father, Dave Wadsworth, finished 12th in the same veterans race to take a bronze in his age class (45-49) to make it a notable family double.