Tom Pidcock will lead Nice Britain within the elite males’s street race on the World Championships in Zürich, Switzerland subsequent week, it was introduced on Tuesday afternoon.
The squads for each the Highway Worlds and the Para-cycling Highway Worlds have been launched, with 16 Olympic and Paralympic medallists within the 51 names.
Pidcock will line up on the street Worlds for the primary time since 2021 in Leuven, the place he completed sixth. Whereas not fairly in the identical kind as Tadej Pogačar (Slovenia) or Remco Evenepoel (Belgium), the 25-year-old will hope to animate a punchy race, having received the Amstel Gold Race this 12 months, if he has recovered from the concussion he suffered on the Tour of Britain.
He might be joined by Stevie Williams, the winner of La Flèche Wallonne and the Tour of Britain, and twins Adam and Simon Yates, driving the Worlds for the primary time since 2020, in addition to Oscar Onley, James Knox, Mark Donovan, and Jake Stewart on a hilly course.
Anna Henderson, silver medallist within the time trial on the Olympics, will lead the squad within the ladies’s elite street race, the place she might be joined by Elinor Barker, Claire Steels and Lizzie Holden, together with Josie Nelson and Alice Towers, who’re additionally eligible for the under-23 title.
GB may even have medal favourites within the under-23 males’s race, by Joe Blackmore, and within the junior ladies’s race, by Cat Ferguson, who completed second final 12 months. Josh Tarling, who received a bronze medal in Glasgow, may even hope to return to the rostrum within the males’s elite time trial.
Off the again of her report nineteenth Paralympic medal, Dame Sarah Storey will head to Zürich to compete within the C5 street race and time trial. She might be joined within the para-cycling squad by reigning C3 street race champion Fin Graham, amongst others. Paralympic street race champions Sophie Unwin and Jenny Holl will hope for extra success on their tandem in Switzerland.
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“It’s unbelievable to see riders in such good kind after a busy season, and motivated to defend titles or contest rainbow jerseys for the primary time,” Stephen Park, GB’s efficiency director, mentioned.
“For our youthful riders, it is a unbelievable alternative to compete at world stage alongside teammates they will look as much as and be taught from and I’m assured we’ll see some nice successes from our future stars.
“We noticed final 12 months on the 2023 UCI Biking World Championships in Glasgow, the advantages for riders, spectators and the game as a complete that got here from combining the Olympic and Paralympic monitor programmes, so to deliver the street programmes collectively is one thing I’m an enormous advocate of.
“Day in, time out our programmes throughout all ranges and all disciplines work collaboratively collectively, so to have the ability to proceed this into competitors and showcase all of our athletes on the identical stage, is a really unbelievable alternative.”
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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
Beneath-23 males
Joe Blackmore
Matthew Brennan
Josh Charlton
Bob Donaldson
Oliver Stockwell
Louis Sutton
Callum Thornley
Ben Wiggins
Beneath-23 ladies
Josie Nelson
Alice Towers
Junior males
Oliver Dawson
Seb Grindley
Elliot Rowe
Dylan Sage
Fin Tarling
Junior ladies
Arabella Blackburn
Cat Ferguson
Carys Lloyd
Imogen Wolff
Esther Wong
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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)
Girls
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)
