The WMCCL is a community of people with a passion for cyclocross. That community includes some families that have been with us for many years. One of those is the Payton family. They have three generations currently riding the League – including our 2025/26 Masters 65-69 Open Champion: Kevin Payton of Stourbridge Cycling Club. It […]
Helen Kirk of Matlock Cycling Club won our Masters 50-54 Female category, with Eleanor Betts (Dynamic Rides) in second place and Laraine Oxley (Mid Shropshire Wheelers) in third. Let’s hear the details from Helen herself. “I have thoroughly enjoyed another season racing in the West Midlands Cyclocross League each weekend and having worked hard in […]
We’ve already told you about his sister: Zosia. The other half of this supremely talented sibling pair is Gregory Latuszynski of Solihull Cycling Club, who is our Under-14 Open Champion for 2025/26. In his first year of this category, Gregory won all but one of his appearances in the League and became West Midlands Regional […]
Leon Field of Dynamic Rides is another of our category winners who is passing on a love of cyclocross to his family. He tells us about that below. Leon won our Masters 60-64 Open category. He also dominated the wider M60+ race – winning seven of the rounds. Leon’s teammate, Stephen Broatch, was second and […]
The next in our series of WMCCL 2025/26 category winners is Andy Wearing of Mike Vaughan Cycles. He won the Masters 45-49 Open category from Matthew Higgins of Lichfield City Cycling Club in second place and Rob Neely of Solihull Cycling Club third. Andy won the Masters 40-49 Open race in Round 1 at Berryfields […]
All of our under-12 winners are exciting young talents. None more so than Zofia Latuszynska from Solihull Cycling Club, who won all of the 10 races she rode in the Under-12 Girls category. Elsie Thornton of Cycle Stars and Charlotte Furniss of Newport Shropshire Cycling Club won the other two. Elsie finished second and Charlotte […]
We welcome Welsh riders in the WMCCL. One of them, who makes the long journey to most events, won our Junior Open category. Iestyn Rowlands of Hafren CC won six rounds and finished on the podium in the others that he rode. He finished comfortably ahead on points of Ruben Stringfellow of Team Mi Racing […]
Joanne Acha of Stourbridge Cycling Club rode all 12 WMCCL events in 2025/26 to take the Masters 55-59 Female title. She represents what our league is all about – a great rider able to stay the course – consistently finishing in the top-20 of our Women’s race. That was enough to beat her teammate and […]
Please contact us if your club is interested in promoting a WMCCL event next season. We are always looking for new organisers and venues. In particular, we’d like to hold an event in the North East of our region, which hasn’t had one in recent years. But we’d love to hear proposals for events anywhere […]
The fight for our Under-12 Boys title was extremely close. It came down to the final round. Danny Davies of The Bulls had six wins and Nathan Edmunds of Stratford Cycling Club had five. But they were equal on points. So, it was ‘winner takes all’ in Round 12, and it was Danny who won […]