Oxonian's Lydia Dant just missed out on the top ladies’ prize at the Banbury Star Hard Riders 23-mile time trial.

Dant completed the challenging course on the A422 Banbury to Stratford road in a time of 1hr 8mins 50secs.

But Marina Bloom (Rugby CC) pipped with a 1.08.33 clocking.

Oxonians’s other competitors Gavin Tillson (1.01.11) and Malcolm Rose (1.03.04) finished 21st and 29th respectively.

Oxford Brookes University student Dan Bigham (AW Cycles) took victory in 52.34 ahead of fellow city resident Tejvan Pettinger (Sri Chinmoy), who clocked 53.27.