Tom Pidcock, Oscar Onley and Anna Henderson to lead Great Britain team at World Championships but no elite women in road race

Nice Britain can be led by Tom Pidcock, Oscar Onley and Anna Henderson on the Street World Championships in Rwanda, however won’t enter a workforce within the elite girls’s highway race.

Workforce GB are fielding picks in nearly each class, however won’t be represented in both the elite girls’s highway race or the elite or U23 males’s time trials.

Within the males’s highway race, Pidcock and Onley come contemporary from their respective third on the Vuelta a España and fourth on the Tour de France, and can be among the many contenders on the powerful, climb-filled course in Kigali.

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They’re going to be joined by Mark Donovan, Oliver Knight, James Knox, Bjorn Koerdt, Fred Wright, and former Tour du Rwanda winner Joe Blackmore. None of these riders has opted to additionally journey the TT, with GB’s foremost time trialist, Josh Tarling, nonetheless recovering from a again damage.

Anna Henderson is the one elite girl Nice Britain is sending to Rwanda, the place she can be a medal favorite for Sunday’s time trial, after her silver medal on the Paris Olympics final summer season.

With the likes of Pfeiffer Georgi out injured and a very exhausting course in Kigali, GB will not be on the beginning line of the ladies’s highway race, with a number of different nations additionally sending decreased picks to Rwanda.

Nonetheless, GB are sending full groups in most of the different age classes, with critical medal hopes, significantly within the newly-separated U23 girls’s class, the place junior world champion Cat Ferguson can be a high favorite for the highway race, while Zoe Bäckstedt might take residence the rainbow jersey within the time trial.

Ferguson can be supported by fellow WorldTour riders Imogen Wolff, Flora Perkins, and Millie Couzens, and UAE Workforce ADQ Improvement rider Eilidh Shaw.

Regardless of the UCI ruling this 12 months that WorldTour and ProTeam riders might not race within the males’s U23 classes at Worlds, this does not apply to the ladies’s races – run individually for the primary time in 2025 – so many Ladies’s WorldTour riders can be in motion.

Within the junior highway races and time trials, junior world TT champion Dylan Sage and Liège-Bastogne-Liège Juniors winner Harry Hudson lead the lads’s choice, while the ladies can be led by Erin Boothman and Arabella Blackburn.

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Pink Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe Rookies rider Callum Thornley would be the sole U23 males’s rider within the choice, driving the highway race.

GB may even not compete within the combined relay TTT, an occasion they took bronze in in 2019.

“The occasion offers a tricky course that may ask rather a lot from our riders, however I’m assured that, as ever, they’re as much as the duty and can convey residence some incredible outcomes,” stated efficiency director Stephen Park.

Park pointed to busy racing schedules as a cause some classes had not been crammed, however praised the chance for GB to ship sturdy groups for the youthful age classes, the place they are going to hope to be amongst the medals.

“The occasion in Rwanda gives enormous growth alternatives for our youthful riders to get a style of racing at this degree, whereas pushing our elite riders to their limits, and I’ve little question these championships will ship a real spectacle that may showcase bike racing at its greatest.”

Nice Britain choice for Worlds 2025

Elite males

Joe Blackmore Mark Donovan Oliver Knight James Knox Bjorn Koerdt Oscar Onley Tom Pidcock Fred Wright 

Elite girls

Anna Henderson (TT solely) 

U23 males

Callum Thornley (highway race solely)

U23 girls

Zoe Backstedt (TT solely) Millie Couzens (TT and RR) Cat Ferguson Flora Perkins Eilidh Shaw Imogen Wolff 

Junior males

Max Hinds (TT and RR) Harry Hudson Matthew Peace Dylan Sage (TT and RR) 

Junior girls

Arabella Blackburn  Erin Boothman (TT and RR) Gabriella McHugh  Abi Miller (TT and RR) Mabli Phillips 

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