British Biking named its 55-rider staff for the upcoming UCI Highway World Championships and Para-cycling World Championships, with Olympic MTB champion Tom Pidcock main the boys’s staff for the highway race, which takes place on September 29 in Zürich, Switzerland.
Pidcock is without doubt one of the prime contenders for the elite males’s highway race and will likely be backed up by a powerful contingent of WorldTour riders together with Adam and Simon Yates, Tour of Britain winner Stevie Williams, British time trial champion Josh Tarling – the nation’s fundamental contender for the boys’s time trial – in addition to Oscar Onley, Mark Donovan, James Knox, and Jake Stewart.
Olympic time trial silver medalist Anna Henderson leads the medal cost with a give attention to the ladies’s elite time trial. Elinor Barker, Lizzie Holden and Claire Steels be a part of Henderson for the ladies’s highway race within the absence of Pfeiffer Georgi, who was injured in a crash throughout the Tour de France Femmes.
Additionally racing for the under-23 title within the mixed race with the elite ladies are Josie Nelson and Alice Towers.
Tour de l’Avenir winner Joe Blackmore leads the boys’s under-23 staff together with Giro Subsequent Gen stage winner Matthew Brennan, Bob Donaldson, Louis Sutto, Callum Thornley and Oliver Stockwell.
Ben Wiggins will compete within the U23 time trial alongside Josh Charlton.
Cat Ferguson is without doubt one of the prime favourites for the junior ladies’s highway race and time trial and will likely be joined in each occasions by nationwide time trial champion Imogen Wolff. Carys Lloyd, Arabella Blackburn and Esther Wong spherical out the junior ladies’s staff.
Seb Grindley, nationwide champion Oliver Dawson and Elliot Rowe will signify Nice Britain within the junior males’s highway race, whereas junior time trial champion Dylan Sage and silver medallist Fin Tarling will compete within the time trial at Worlds.
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Nice Britain for Worlds
Elite males
- Mark Donovan
- James Knox
- Tom Pidcock
- Oscar Onley
- Jake Stewart
- Josh Tarling
- Stevie Williams
- Adam Yates
- Simon Yates
Elite Ladies
- Elinor Barker
- Anna Henderson
- Lizzie Holden
- Claire Steels
Underneath-23 males
- Joe Blackmore
- Matthew Brennan
- Josh Charlton
- Bob Donaldson
- Oliver Stockwell
- Louis Sutton
- Callum Thornley
- Ben Wiggins
Underneath-23 ladies
Junior ladies
- Arabella Blackburn
- Cat Ferguson
- Carys Lloyd
- Imogen Wolff
- Esther Wong
Junior males
- Oliver Dawson
- Seb Grindley
- Elliot Rowe
- Dylan Sage
- Fin Tarling
Para-cycling
Males
Archie Atkinson (C4)
Felix Barrow (T2)
Will Bjergfelt (C5)
Jaco van Gass (C3)
Fin Graham (C3)
Matt Robertson (C2)
Callum Russell (H4)
Ben Watson (C3)
Ladies
Fran Brown (C1)
Amelia Cass (C2)
Morgan Newberry (C5)
Daphne Schrager (C2)
Sarah Storey (C5)
Katie Toft (C1)
Tandems
Lora Fachie (piloted by Corrine Corridor)
Lizzi Jordan (piloted by Danni Khan)
Chris McDonald (piloted by Adam Duggleby)
Sophie Unwin (piloted by Jenny Holl)
