Mex­i­co's Ed­er Frayre edged Jonathan Brown of the Unit­ed States to win what proved a pun­ish­ing fi­nal event, the 120 km Tour of To­ba­go, and with the vic­to­ry se­cured the over­all ti­tle of the To­ba­go In­ter­na­tion­al Cy­cling Clas­sic which con­clud­ed Sun­day in Scar­bor­ough, To­ba­go.

In swel­ter­ing and tax­ing con­di­tions that saw just 19 of the 36 starters who start­ed the race cross the fin­ish line, the Le­gion of Los An­ge­les rid­er showed his lik­ing for the hot and hu­mid con­di­tions by com­plet­ing the gru­elling course in a time of four hours, sev­en min­utes, and 36.59 sec­onds (4:7.36.59) be­ing close­ly fol­lowed home by Brown of Mi­a­mi Blaz­ers (4:7.37.33), with Colom­bian Ma­teo Cas­tane­da of Raiders a dis­tant third with a time of 4:14.48.30.

The Mex­i­can had ear­li­er won Fri­day’s 90-kilo­me­tre sec­ond stage of the event, put some ic­ing on what would have been a won­der­ful week­end by best­ing a field of oth­er lead­ing in­ter­na­tion­al, re­gion­al and lo­cal rid­ers in the Di­vi­sion One Elite cat­e­go­ry, through his con­sis­ten­cy which saw him among the top six fin­ish­ers as he ac­cu­mu­lat­ed 90 points over the four stages of the four-day Clas­sic, 12 more that his near­est chal­lenger.

USA's Sam Smith of Bike World p/b Fred Beans was fourth (4:14:49.03) and Bar­ba­di­an Joshua Kel­ly of Mi­a­mi Blaz­ers com­plet­ed the top five in 4:19:20.57, with the re­main­der of the top fin­ish­ers be­ing led by the USA's Gavin Hla­dy of Heat­wave who was sixth in 4:21:37.25, club­mate En­rique De Co­mar­mond - the first T&T rid­er to fin­ish - sev­enth in a time of 4:21:37.58, just ahead of USA's Musum Bri­an of Team Phar­ma­co JLD (4:21:39.56).

To­ba­go-born for­mer na­tion­al road race cham­pi­on, Emile Abra­ham, con­tin­ued to de­fy fa­ther time and fin­ished in a cred­itable ninth record­ing 4:32:07.25, be­ing fol­lowed to the line by USA's An­drew Scara­no of Team Phar­ma­co in 4:32.07.59, with top lo­cal en­durance rid­er, Ak­il Camp­bell, se­cur­ing the 11th po­si­tion in 4:38:26.94.

With the fourth stage win and his sec­ond of four stages, Frayre tal­lied 90 points for the over­all ti­tle, 12 points ahead of Brown (78) while Cas­tane­da was third with 62 fol­lowed by Bri­an (54), Kel­ly (51), and Camp­bell, sixth with 45 points.

Abra­ham was the clear win­ner of the Mas­ters 40 and over cat­e­go­ry, with Heat­wave's Kirt­son George sec­ond across the fin­ish line in 4:58:15.18 hours while the vet­er­an T&T cy­clist al­so topped the over­all stand­ings with 64 points, well clear of George's 11 points.

In the Un­der-23 Di­vi­sion, Smith of the USA took the top spot ahead of Hla­dy and De Co­mar­mond fol­lowed by Colom­bian Juan Nico­las Cano Vasquez of Team Sen­try in 4:42:38.26, USA"s Caleb Land­grebe on Team Phar­ma­co JLD in 5:08:08.84 and T&T's Liam Trepte of Raiders, sixth in 5:12:53.54.

Smith end­ed as the over­all win­ner of the U-23s with 63 points, the same as Hla­dy, while Trepte fin­ished third with 39 points, fol­lowed by coun­try­men De Co­mar­mond with 33 points and Woods with 13 points.