Conor Swift wins the British gravel title(Picture credit score: Purple On Sports activities & Joe Cotterill)
Annabel Fisher tops the ladies’s podium on the 2024 British gravel championships(Picture credit score: Purple On Sports activities & Joe Cotterill)
Conor Swift celebrates his win(Picture credit score: Purple On Sports activities & Joe Cotterill)
Annabel Fisher takes the British win(Picture credit score: Purple On Sports activities & Joe Cotterill)
(Picture credit score: Purple On Sports activities & Joe Cotterill)
Alison Jackson leads the assault(Picture credit score: Purple On Sports activities & Joe Cotterill)
Alison Jackson received the race however not the title(Picture credit score: Purple On Sports activities & Joe Cotterill)
Conor Swift (Ineos Grenadiers) and Annabel Fisher (Labeled Ridley Manufacturing unit) received the 2024 British Gravel Nationwide Championships, claiming the titles in south-west Scotland.
The third version of the title race performed out on the second stage of the Raiders Gravel occasion on an 87.6km course with 1,390m of elevation acquire and over 93% of the route on gravel. The race units off from Garries Park and head into the hills of the Galloway and Southern Ayrshire UNESCO Biosphere earlier than reaching the end line simply north of the Huge Water of Fleet viaduct within the Cairnsmore of Fleet Nationwide Nature Reserve.
The nationwide title race was initially attributable to happen on the King’s Cup Gravel Pageant in September although the occasion was cancelled – with organisers pointing to Forestry England’s “unacceptably excessive venue charges” as the explanation – and Championships shifted to the second stage of the three stage Raiders Gravel occasion in Scotland.
Swift went right into a 10-rider breakaway together with Nathan Haas (Colango Castelli), Matthew Holmes (One Good Factor Orientation Advertising), Jonathan Brownlee, and Ben Swift (Ineos Grenadiers), attacking with Cameron Mason (Cyclocross Reds) and opening up an unassailable hole for 20 kilometres.
On the ultimate climb to Loch Grannoch, Mason couldn’t longer maintain Swift’s wheel and the British title went to the Ineos Grenadiers rider.
Toby Perry (Labeled Ridley Manufacturing unit) and Ben Swift caught Mason, sprinting in for second and third, respectively.
Fisher was a part of an five-rider assault together with defending champion Xan Crees and Katie Scott (Spectra Racing), Alison Jackson (EF-Oatly-Cannondale), Amelia Mitchell, and Morven Yeoman (Das-Hutchison-Brother).
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Fisher and Jackson acquired away on the climb to Loch Grannon, with the Canadian taking out the dash however, not eligible for the British title, the purple, white and blue stripes went to Fisher.
Mitchell pipped Scott to 3rd general and second within the British Gravel Championship in a photograph end.
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