{"id":659387,"date":"2026-05-09T07:35:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T07:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/659387\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T07:35:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T07:35:09","slug":"seven-year-old-makes-puts-in-strong-display-at-cycling-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/659387\/","title":{"rendered":"Seven-year-old makes puts in strong display at cycling event"},"content":{"rendered":"

An Isle of Wight racer has made a confident start on a challenging course.<\/p>\n

Seven-year-old mountain biker Finley Manser-Grundy, of Wightlink CRT, finished fifth out of 13 competitors in the under-13 category at his first Southern Enduro event, held at Queen Elizabeth Country Park.<\/p>\n

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The rider tackled a demanding five-stage course described as reflecting typical “Brighstone Forest conditions,” complete with rooty, off-camber turns and slippery chalk sections.<\/p>\n

Despite being the youngest competitor, Finley impressed with his technical riding and enthusiasm for the downhill and pedalling sections.<\/p>\n

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His father, Jack, said: “A confident and encouraging start to enduro racing for Finley, and an exciting sign of what’s to come as he continues to enjoy anything on two wheels.”<\/p>\n

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Elsewhere, Charis Jones took on the gruelling Mallorca 312 on April 25, a 312km cycling challenge with nearly 5,000 metres of climbing through Mallorca’s Tramuntana mountains.<\/p>\n

She finished as the 20th female overall, second British female, and 12th in her age group with an official time of 11 hours 32 minutes.<\/p>\n

Ms Jones said: “It was an unforgettable day with big climbs and descents, and an atmosphere that fully lives up to the hype.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Isle of Wight racer has made a confident start on a challenging course. Seven-year-old mountain biker Finley…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":659388,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,318606,784,318603,318605,85,318604],"class_list":["post-659387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-charis-jones","tag-cycling","tag-finley-manser-grundy","tag-queen-elizabeth-country-park","tag-sports","tag-wightlink-crt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=659387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659387\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/659388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}