Great Britain at the 2023 UCI World Cycling Championships

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A major event in the Olympic qualification calendar coming up, with spots available in Mountain Bike, BMX Cycling, and Road Cycling, plus ranking points available in Track and BMX Freestyle. Best of all, its on home soil, in Glasgow/Scotland.

 

Day 1 was yesterday, with Para Track preliminary events. In the Women's B Individual Pursuit, Lora Fachie/Corrine Hall qualified for the gold final with Sophie Unwin and Jenny Holl 0.204 seconds behind. In sixth were Elizabeth Jordan and Amy Cole, 10.975 back.

 

After this was the Women's C5 Individual Pursuit, with Morgan Newberry in 4th, qualifying for the bronze final against Italy's Claudia Cretti, 8.467s back. No joy in the C4 event, Kadeena Cox 9th (28.953 back), Hannah Moore 12th (30.684 back). In the C2 event, Daphne Schrager qualified for the gold final against Switzerland's Flurina Rigling in 3:51.721, while Amelia Cass was 7th, 30.581 behind.

 

On the Men's side, in the C1 Individual Pursuit Sam Ruddock qualified for the bronze final against China's Weicong Liang. No joy in the C5 event, with William Bjergfelt ninth, 7.866 back, and Blaine Hunt 12th, 13.079 back. In the C4 event, Archie Atkinson was in 7th, 9.968 back, and Jody Cundy was 16th, 23.523 behind. In the B event, Stephen Bate and Christopher Latham were third by 9.750, and will go for bronze against Chris McDonald and Adam Duggleby, who were 9.816 behind. In the Women's C1, Frances Brown won qualifying with 4:12.316 and will go for gold against China's Wangwei Qian, and Katie Toft was fourth, 33.897 behind and will go for bronze against Jiafan Yang, also of China.

 

In the Men's C2, Ryan Taylor qualified for the bronze final in fourth, 10.318 back, and will face Japan's Shota Kawamoto. Matthew Robertson was fifth, 12.532 back. The C3 will see two Brits go for gold, with Finlay Graham ahead with 3:18.662, and Jaco van Gass second, 3.410 back. Martin Hailstone was 13th, 22.485 behind, and Jacob Smith was 15th, 27.562 back.

 

Today there are the first able-bodied events, and the first medals.

 

0930 Men's Elite Team Pursuit Qualification

1103 Women's Elite Team Sprint Qualification

1147 Men's Elite Team Sprint Qualification

1243 Women's Elite Individual Pursuit Qualification - Jessica Roberts and Neah Evans

1352 Women's B 1km Time Trial - Lora Fachie/Corrine Hall and Sophie Unwin/Jenny Holl

1424 Women's C5 500m Time Trial Qualification - Morgan Newberry

1442 Men's C4 Omnium 200m Time Trial - Jody Cundy and Archie Atkinson

1630 Women's Junior Mountain Bike Qualification

1700 Men's Junior Mountain Bike Qualification

1813 Women's C5 500m Time Trial Final - Morgan Newberry

1828 Men's C1 Individual Pursuit Final - Sam Ruddock

1842 Women's B 1km Time Trial Final - Lora Fachie/Corrine Hall and Sophie Unwin/Jenny Holl

1903 Women's Elite Team Sprint Round 1

1916 Men B Individual Pursuit Final - Stephen Bate/Christopher Latham and Chris McDonald/Adam Duggleby

1930 Men's C5 Scratch Race - Blaine Hunt and William Bjergfelt

1950 Women's Elite Individual Pursuit Finals - Jessica Roberts and Neah Evans

2005 Men's C2 Individual Pursuit Finals - Ryan Taylor

2019 Women's Elite Team Sprint Finals

2027 Men's Elite Scratch Race - William Tidball

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Of course, for this Championships paralympic medals are just as important for the overall medals table as able-bodied ones.   

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Yes, a growing trend... seen with the Commonwealth Games, European Championships, European Games too

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Damn, they’re not doing a combined medal table.    
 

Still, good start in both. 

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Let’s just have a peep at the Official Medals Table, shall we?  

 

Seems the Gran Fondo is an innovation which must continue.  

 

 

https://www.uci.org/event-hub/2023-uci-cycling-world-championships/6WHHqfuGeCiM5MZXd8a6sZ?tab=medals3

Edited August 7, 2023 by Grassmarket

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6 hours ago, Grassmarket said:

Let’s just have a peep at the Official Medals Table, shall we?  

 

Seems the Gran Fondo is an innovation which must continue.  

 

 

https://www.uci.org/event-hub/2023-uci-cycling-world-championships/6WHHqfuGeCiM5MZXd8a6sZ?tab=medals3

A Gran Fondo set up will, of its nature, inflate the hosts medal table - it could be suggested that's not terrible for the host - although in this case GB are having a cracking event anyway

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3 hours ago, mpjmcevoy said:

A Gran Fondo set up will, of its nature, inflate the hosts medal table - it could be suggested that's not terrible for the host - although in this case GB are having a cracking event anyway

Yeah, but quite a few medals, even golds, won by other nations as well so people were travelling to do it.  

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So overall a great event for us. First place in both Elite & Para.
 

Official totals for the Elite Cyclists are

 

23G 12S 21B - 56 Total

 

For Para Cycling

 

24G 11S 9B - 44 Total

 

https://www.uci.org/event-hub/2023-uci-cycling-world-championships/6WHHqfuGeCiM5MZXd8a6sZ?tab=medals3

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5 hours ago, Grassmarket said:

So overall a great event for us. First place in both Elite & Para.
 

Official totals for the Elite Cyclists are

 

23G 12S 21B - 56 Total

 

For Para Cycling

 

24G 11S 9B - 44 Total

 

https://www.uci.org/event-hub/2023-uci-cycling-world-championships/6WHHqfuGeCiM5MZXd8a6sZ?tab=medals3

Ridiculously good; and not even all that inflated by the Gran Fondo. Presumably Zoe Backstadt and Ethan Hayter will be back for next year too...