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Jasper Highlands Classic included national champions

Heather Nelson from the Nunchuck Bunnies cycling club in Mississippi competes in the Jasper Highlands Classic last month. She was the women's 1-3 time trial winner and finished second in the circuit race and criterium.
Heather Nelson from the Nunchuck Bunnies cycling club in Mississippi competes in the Jasper Highlands Classic last month. She was the women's 1-3 time trial winner and finished second in the circuit race and criterium. Heather Nelson from the Nunchuck Bunnies cycling club in Mississippi competes in the Jasper Highlands Classic last month. She was the women's 1-3 time trial winner and finished second in the circuit race and criterium.

By Ron Bush 3 min read

Emile Abraham has been succeeding in cycling for a long time, most notably as a rider but also as a team director, a coach, a liaison between teams and sponsors and now an event manager.

A Pan American Games silver medalist in 2007, Abraham is a reigning USA Cycling masters road race national champion. He won the men’s 40-44 age group in June in Augusta, Ga.

The 43-year-old Atlanta resident and native of Trinidad and Tobago recently came to Marion County and generated dual success. He was the race director for the inaugural Jasper Highlands Classic, by invitation of developer John “Thunder” Thornton, and it went well with nearly 200 participants in a variety of bicycle and running races Aug. 18-20.

Abraham also won the 35-plus masters criterium that included 17 riders.

photo Competitors stretch out in the Jasper Highlands Classic men’s cat 3 circuit race last month.

“Yes, I was able to win one of the events even though I was working and doing all that stuff (involved in race directing) as well,” he said this week.