DELTA - A pair of American riders dueled to the finish to cap three days of cycling in the 2011 Tour de Delta last weekend.

In Sunday's featured White Spot Road Race, the men's field pedalled 140 kilometres through the streets of North Delta, Ladner and Tsawwassen before former US criterium champion Brad Huff edged out the current American crit champ Daniel Holloway in two-man sprint to the finish line. Huff's winning time was three hours, 24 minutes 44.1 seconds.

Huff, riding for Jelly Belly Pro Cycling, and Holloway of Kelly Benefit Strategies Omtum-Health, were part of five-rider breakaway in the final stages of the race.

The group built a five-minute lead on the potent pack at one point, but the gap was down to just over two minutes with three laps to go. That's when Huff, who won the US Criterium title in 2006, Holloway and David Vukets, riding for the local Trek Red Truck team, broke away from the other two. But Vukets cramped up, creating a last lap showdown between the two Americans.

"It wasn't really a 200-meter sprint for us," Huff said of the final straightaway leading to the finish line. "It was more like a three-kilometre drag race. We knew we had the gap and we were trying to commit to hold it. And at the end it was who could push."

Andrew Pinfold, a North Vancouver native who now races internationally for the United Healthcare team, restored some local pride by winning a sprint for third place less than a minute behind the leaders. Pinfold was also able to clinch the Tour de Delta Omnium, or overall title.

Sunday's women's race saw Jasmine Glaesse take off from the pack with two laps left around the Tsawwassen loop to win the 88-kilometre event in 2: 25:10.9.

Glaesser, who races on a German card but is working to secure Canadian citizenship for the 2012 Olympics, finished a minute ahead of anyone else. But in a points based format, it still wasn't enough to secure the Tour de Delta Omnium, or overall title, which went to Karlee Gendron after she won a sprint to the finish line to finish second on Sunday.

Sunday's showing was the worst of the weekend for the Trek Red Truck team's Gendron, who captured the women's title in the inaugural MK Delta Lands Criterium in North Delta Friday and then shook off a nasty crash to rally and win Saturday's Brenco Criterium through the streets of Ladner.

The Tour de Delta kicked off Friday night in North Delta where Vancouver's Ryan Anderson averted a crash and stayed upright long enough to win the men's event of the first ever MK Delta Lands Criterium.

Anderson was part of a four-rider breakway that dominated the race right through to the final corner where he clipped a pedal leaning into the turn. After flirting with disaster, Anderson straightened out and won a sprint to the finish line, edging out Columbia's Andres Diaz and Aldergrove native Marsh Cooper.

The riders were back in the saddle Saturday in Ladner for the Brenco Criterium. Gendron completed her sweep of the Tour de Delta crits while in the men's race, Australian Tommy Nankervis made a surprise break from the pack midway through the 60th and final lap of the 0.9 kilometre circuit and then held off a determined charge from his rivals to earn the win.

Pinfold finished second while Denmark's Michael Smith Larsen was third.

The riders will be back this weekend for the three-race gut check that is the Tour de White Rock beginning Friday.