Tour de White Rock

Tim Abercrombie, a 31-year-old Vancouver native riding for the locally based Garneau Evolution amateur team won men’s race on the final lap, beating Oregon’s Kennett Peterson and David Vukets, another local rider from the Trek Red Truck team by eight seconds.

Abercrombie, who was part of an early nine-rider breakaway that grew to 10 and then shrunk to six over the final few laps around the hill-filled course, finished in 3 hours, 34 minutes and 52 seconds.

Peterson, riding alone for the Seattle-based Hagen Bermans team and just five weeks removed from a broken collarbone, won a sprint for second place, coming across just over one second before Vukets.

Nic Hamilton, a Victoria native now riding for California-based Jelly Belly pro team, finished eighth to win the Tour de White Rock omnium, or overall title, based on points for all three races this weekend.

The women’s race wasn’t nearly as close.

Jasmine Glaesser, a 19-year-old German now living in the lower mainland and riding for Local Ride Racing, finished the 80-kilometer women’s race in 2 hours, 27 minutes and 11 seconds – almost six full minutes ahead of the pack.

That was led by Local Ride Racing teammate Laura Brown, who beat Victoria’s Megan Rathwell of Glotman Simpson Cycling in a bunch sprint for second place.

Brown, a three-time World Cup medalist for Canada on the track, also claimed the Tour de White Rock overall title with her finish.