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Six-time British time trial champion Alex Dowsett will attempt to break the UCI hour record for a second time in November. Dowsett, 33, broke the record in May 2015 but lost it 36 days later to Sir Bradley Wiggins. The record is currently held by Belgium’s Victor Campenaerts, who rode 55.089km last December in Manchester.

The UCI has said it assisted in the evacuation of 165 people from Afghanistan, including a number of female cyclists. Cycling’s world governing body partnered with Israel Start-Up Nation team owner Sylvan Adams, the Asian Cycling Federation and Fifa. The refugees are being resettled in Switzerland, Canada, France, Israel and the United States. The UCI

Great Britain’s Katie Archibald and Neah Evans won the women’s madison at the European Track Cycling Championships in Grenchen, Switzerland. Evans suffered a crash early in the race but recovered as the pair claimed victory with 63 points as Denmark (50) finished second and France (49) third. Archibald took her tally to three gold medals

Dutch rider Demi Vollering secured overall victory in the Women’s Tour of Britain on Saturday. Vollering, 24, of SD Worx, went in to the sixth and final stage with a commanding lead and finished safely within the peloton in Felixstowe. World champion Elisa Balsamo won the sixth and final stage, taking the bunch sprint ahead

Tadej Pogacar became the first rider in 42 years to claim a Tour de France-Giro di Lombardia double as he won the last Monument race of the season. The 23-year-old Slovenian, riding for UAE-Emirates, became the fourth man to achieve the feat after Fausto Coppi, Eddy Merckx and Bernard Hinault. Pogacar made his move with

Lorena Wiebes won her second successive stage of the Women’s Tour of Britain, dominating the sprint at Clacton-on-Sea on Friday. The Dutch Team DSM rider beat world champion Elisa Balsamo in stage five. Overall leader Demi Vollering of SD Worx finished safely within the peloton to retain the blue jersey and take a step closer

Last updated on 1 hour ago1 hour ago.From the section Cycling Elinor Barker looks to the ceiling with the biggest smile when asked how she felt watching Lizzie Deignan win Paris-Roubaix. “That was incredible,” she says. Incredible, yes, for Deignan, and for women’s cycling and women’s sport in general. For Barker, that victory took on

Lorena Wiebes won stage four of the Women’s Tour of Britain after an uphill sprint finish in Southend. Team DSM’s Wiebes, 22, overhauled Chiara Consonni to claim victory, with the Italian holding on to second, just ahead of Australia’s Chloe Hosking. It is the Dutch rider’s first Women’s Tour stage win. Compatriot Demi Vollering finished

Briton Joss Lowden finished second in the first ever Women’s Tour of Britain time trial as Demi Vollering’s victory gave her the race lead in Atherstone. Vollering completed the 16.6km course in 23 minutes and 18 seconds, with time trial specialist Lowden one minute and four seconds slower. Lowden arrived at the Women’s Tour fresh

Elinor Barker has revealed she is expecting her first child and was pregnant when she won silver at the Tokyo Olympics. The 27-year-old from Cardiff was part of Great Britain’s women’s team pursuit squad that clinched a medal in August. Barker announced her news on Twitter on Tuesday, saying she and her partner were “so

Women’s Tour of Britain debutant Clara Copponi moved into the overall lead as Amy Pieters won a “hectic” stage two. British rider Pfeiffer Georgi, 21, led at the final turn but was overtaken in a sprint finish and came fifth in Walsall. FDJ Nouvelle Aquitaine Futuroscope’s Copponi, 22, was second, having come third in the

The 2022 Tour of Britain will depart from Aberdeen, 12 months on from the city hosting the final stage of this year’s event. Running from 4-11 September, the race will culminate on the Isle of Wight. The full route has not yet been disclosed but another of the eight stages will be in Nottinghamshire. Belgium’s

Britain’s Hannah Barnes finished sixth as Italy’s Marta Bastianelli won a dramatic sprint finish to take the opening stage of the Women’s Tour of Britain in Banbury. A large group of riders approached the finish line in a pack and 2007 road race world champion Bastianelli of Ale BTC Ljubljana edged ahead for victory. Britain’s

Italian rider Sonny Colbrelli edged a three-way sprint finish to win a rain-hit Paris-Roubaix. Dutchman Mathieu van der Poel and Belgian Florian Vermeersch came second and third respectively. Colbrelli, 31, caked in mud after the 258km race, held his bike aloft after crossing the line then collapsed in tears and rolled around on the grass.

Lizzie Deignan will finally get the chance to defend her 2019 AJ Bell Women’s Tour of Britain title as the race returns after two years. After being postponed because of Covid-19 in 2020, the 2021 edition begins in Oxfordshire on Monday. Fellow Briton Joss Lowden will also be in action after breaking the prestigious hour

Last updated on 15 minutes ago15 minutes ago.From the section Cycling Britain’s Lizzie Deignan took a sensational breakaway win in the first edition of the women’s Paris-Roubaix. The Trek-Segafredo rider pulled away from the peloton with more than 80km to go, before rain affected the course. The legendary race on the brutal ‘pave’ cobblestones returned

Across 125 years, the toughest men in one of the toughest sports have been left broken on the narrow cobbles of Paris-Roubaix. The legendary race returns this weekend and, for the first time in its history, women will be competing on the brutal ‘pave’. In the lead-up to the race, Britain’s Lizzie Deignan echoed the

Britain’s Joss Lowden has broken cycling’s hour record for women. The 33-year-old rider posted a distance of 48.405km in one hour, beating the record by 398m in the Grenchen Velodrome, Switzerland. The Drops-Le Col-Tempur rider beat Italian Vittoria Bussi’s distance of 48.007km set in 2018. “I was bit dramatic with nerves to the extreme, and