NAVAL serviceman, Aran Stanton (VC St Raphael Waite Contracts) swapped places with clubmate, Steve Walkling, to give another "one-two" success, competing in Bournemouth Women's CA 25-mile open trial in Dorset.

Malcolm Cox and Wayne Levet achieved the same result in the Redman hilly "73" in Surrey to signal a complete recovery from a training crash which left Cox with a broken shoulder three months ago.

Levet was more fancied to win this longer race following his victory in the equally well established Bath road hilly "50" west of Reading a week earlier, but Cox took 51 seconds out of him in taking 3.3.15 to win this race for the third time in four years.

Stanton's win in Dorset was also unexpected, but after trailing Walkling in recent weeks he gained 12 seconds on him to win the Bournemouth event in 55.12 and with the club's third man, Simon Borogna, clocking 55.18 to separate the G S Stella pair, John Limpus and Mark Jones, third and fifth in 55.13 and 55.24, the St Raphael trio collected another team award.

Andy Walker (Hampshire RC) scored maximum points in a Portsdown League time trial for the third time running, and now looks assured of winning this season long competition with only three more races to come. On a cold morning which reduced the speed of everyone, Walker passed all but one of the 18 time trialists who set out from Funtington at one minute intervals in the Portsdown League event, which he won by over four minutes after completing the 50 mile course in 2.5.33, but Roy Ludford (Team Axiom) was the only local rider to make an impression in the Hantspol C C road race on Portsdown Hill.

He finished the 58 kilometres in sixth place, 29 seconds after Will Stevens (Bournemouth Arrow Fircroft Hotel) one of four to gain half-a-minute approaching 25 kilometres, powered a length clear of Simon Styles (Swindon Wheelers) and Jonathan Sharpe (private member) in the uphill spring for the line.