Nigel Si­mon

Switzer­land's Fran­co Mar­vul­li of Team Bea­con capped off a dom­i­nant night for the in­ter­na­tion­al cy­clists when he won the Bea­con T&T Cy­cling Fes­ti­val All Stars Sur­vivor In­vi­ta­tion­al 40-lap ride on the con­crete tracks at Skin­ner Park, San Fer­nan­do on Sat­ur­day night. The 31-year-old Mar­vul­li made up for his dis­ap­point­ing show­ing in Thurs­day's 14-lap Queen's Park Sa­van­nah ride with a com­mand­ing per­for­mance. A sur­pris­ing sec­ond placed fin­ish­er was lo­cal ju­nior com­peti­tor, Varun Ma­haraj of Modan­na Wheel­ers to add to his fifth place in the Sa­van­nah ride.

Third was Ar­gen­tine Dario Pagliar­ic­ci, fol­lowed by lo­cal favourite Emile Abra­ham al­so of Team Bea­con. The win for Mar­vul­li was the sec­ond on the night as he ear­li­er won the Dev­il-Take-The-Hind­most ahead of Ger­many's Leif Lam­pa­ter, Abra­ham and Mar­tin Fer­rari of Ar­genti­na. Lam­pa­ter had much bet­ter for­tune in the ten-lap as he se­cured his maid­en vic­to­ry, rel­e­gat­ing Ar­gen­tine Se­bastien Dona­dio to sec­ond place. Cana­da's Stephane Cos­sette and Abra­ham com­plet­ed the top four fin­ish­ers.

Abra­ham was al­so a sil­ver medal win­ner in the first All Stars event, the eight-lap ride be­hind Amer­i­can Davis Wiswell while Team Foun­da­tion's King Et­ti­enne took bronze. The oth­er win for the in­ter­na­tion­al cy­clists on the night came via USA's Gid­deon Massie in the Ian Arther­ly All Star 500 me­tres Sprint. Sec­ond was Cos­sette while lo­cal boy, Christo­pher Sel­l­i­er of Team Bea­con, was third. The se­ries con­tin­ued at the Ari­ma Velo­drom yes­ter­day and will re­sume on Thurs­day with the To­ba­go 14-lap ride around Mar­ket Square in Scar­bor­ough from 4pm, be­fore Sat­ur­day's fi­nal day at King George V Park, St Clair from 2pm.

Re­sults

In­vi­ta­tion­al Eight laps:

1. Davis Wiswell (USA);

2. Emile Abra­ham (T&T/Team Bea­con);

3. King Et­ti­enne (T&T/Team Foun­da­tion)

Dev­il-Take-The-Hind­most:

1. Fran­co Mar­vul­li (Switzer­land);

2. Leig Lam­pa­ter (Ger­many);

3. Emile Abra­ham (T&T/Team Bea­con)

Ian Arther­ly All Star 500m:

1. Gid­deon Massie (USA);

2. Stephane Cos­sette (Cana­da);

3. Christo­pher Sel­l­i­er (T&T/Team Bea­con)

Ten laps:

1. Leif Lam­pa­ter (Ger­many);

2. Se­bastien Dona­dio (Ar­genti­na);

3. Stephane Cos­sette (Cana­da).

Sur­vivor 40 laps:

1. Fran­co Mar­vul­li (Switzer­land);

2. Varun Ma­haraj (T&T/Modan­na Wheel­ers);

3. Dario Pagliar­ic­ci (Ar­genti­na)