Pfeiffer Georgi, Stevie Williams and Lizzie Deignan are among the many names aiming for glory on the British Nationwide Highway Championships this month, as the beginning lists have been launched on Monday.
The highway, circuit and time trial occasions will happen within the Tees Valley and North Yorkshire over 19-23 June, and mark the second yr in a row that the championships are held within the area, with the highway races beginning and ending in Saltburn, as they did in 2023.
Georgi of dsm-firmenich PostNL will likely be in search of to retain the bands she gained for a second time in 2023 within the ladies’s highway race, however will face stiff competitors from the likes of Deignan (Lidl-Trek), and Anna Henderson (Visma-Lease a Bike), with the latter ending second final yr and in addition on the Tour of Britain Girls.
Deignan gained the mountains jersey on the Tour of Britain, proving her climbing prowess within the course of.Â
“I’m delighted to be again racing at one other nationwide championships, particularly at residence on Yorkshire roads,” she stated in a press launch. “The biking followers listed below are the very best on the planet and it will likely be nice to have folks cheering from the roadside. Each the lads’s and ladies’s fields are actually sturdy line ups so it will likely be an awesome week of racing.”
“Profitable my second nationwide title final yr on Saltburn Financial institution was simply wonderful, and sporting the nationwide jersey on the world stage is so particular,” Georgi added. “Girls’s racing on the minute is so thrilling and we had such a superb battle final yr. I can’t wait to race in entrance of residence crowds once more and try to retain my jersey as soon as once more.”
Different favourites for the ladies’s race will embody Elinor Barker (Uno-X Mobility), former champion Alice Towers (Canyon-SRAM) and Claire Steels (Movistar).
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The lads’s highway race was gained in 2023 by Fred Wright, who’s on the beginning listing for 2024, however it’s unknown if he’s set to defend his title.
Rivalling him for the British champion bands would be the pair who completed on the rostrum behind Wright final yr, James Knox (Soudal Fast-Step) and Stevie Williams (Israel-Premier Tech). Williams has had a sensational yr, successful the Tour Down Below in January, earlier than turning into the first British man to win La Flèche Wallonne in April. He’ll doubtless be the favorite.
Additionally difficult within the highway race would be the Groupama-FDJ trio of Sam Watson, Lewis Askey, and Matt Partitions, EF Training-EasyPost’s Owain Doull, James Shaw, and Lukas Nerurkar, and Visma-Lease a Bike’s Ben Tullett and Thomas Gloag.
The Ineos Grenadiers contingent incorporates Luke Rowe in his final Nationwide Championships, together with former champions Ben and Connor Swift, Ethan and Leo Hayter, Ben Turner, and Josh Tarling.
Josh Tarling celebrates with Connor Swift after successful in 2023
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Tarling, defending his title, would be the excellent favorite for the lads’s time trial, with the European champion frequently mixing it with the very best on the world stage. He’ll face competitors from Ethan Hayter and Connor Swift.
“I’m actually excited to race at nationals this yr,” he stated. “The nationwide championships are all the time actually particular and it has been wonderful to put on the nationwide stripes within the time-trials this yr. Will probably be nice to be again racing on British roads and I am wanting ahead to some top-level racing.”
The ladies’s time trial will likely be focused by defending champion Lizzie Holden, however the discipline is stacked with expertise, together with former winner Henderson, Joss Lowden (Uno-X Mobility), and final yr’s podium finishers Anna Morris and Barker.
The total begin lists for the highway races, circuit races, and time trials are out there on British Biking’s website.
