Devolder breaks away to his third Belgian championship Mark Cavendish (Omega Pharma-Quick Step) nailed his first British road racing championship in an untraditional fashion, as the Manx Missile was riding without much of a team to back him up. And […]
FDJ rider in day long break, then plays it right in final kilometre Arthur Vichot (FDJ) grabbed a surprising victory in the French national road race championship, surprising Sylvain Chavanel (Omega Pharma-Quick Step) and Tony Gallopin (Radioshack-Leopard) in a three-man […]
Champion System rider content with form in advance of today’s race Aiming for what would be a record fourth consecutive Irish road race title, Matt Brammeier has said that he believes he is in good shape in advance of what […]
McNamara and Costelloe net second and third in big sprint to the line Last year she won through a perfectly timed surge from a small breakaway group; this time round, she shrugged off the burden of being defending champion and […]
Prodigious Luxembourg rider clocks up third victory of the season Talented 20 year old Bob Jungels has continued to gain momentum as a rider, adding the elite Luxembourg time trial title to his previous haul of national championship medals. Jungels’s […]
Second day of women’s titles decided in northern hemisphere Joanna Rowsell (Wiggle Honda), Joëlle Numainville (Optum p/b Kelly Benefit Strategies) and Pauline Ferrand-Prevot (Rabobank-Liz/Giant) were among the winners on the second day of national time trial championships across the northern […]
Schwager also retains Swiss title; Pawlowska wins Polish race Emma Johansson (Orica-AIS), Ellen van Dijk (Specialized-lululemon) and Patricia Schwager (Faren-Let’s Go Finland) all retained their national time trial titles in the Swedish, Netherlands and Swiss championships respectively, while Katarzyna Pawlowska […]
International stars up against the domestic peloton on preview of Commonwealth Games course Mark Cavendish (Omega Pharma-Quick Step) and Lizzie Armitstead (Boels-Dolmans) will be the headliners at the Great Britain national championships in Glasgow, Scotland, on June 23rd, as the […]
Had tried to top Rodriguez with good positioning Brent Bookwalter (BMC Racing) came away from the USPRO championship weekend with two silver medals, earned in the time trial and road race championships. The latter was a near miss for Bookwalter, […]
Lauren Hall plays it cool to make it a one-two for Optum p/b Kelly Benefit Strategies Jade Wilcoxson (Optum p/b Kelly Benefit Strategies) took her first ever United States championship, after attacking her breakaway companion in the final three kilometres […]
First time winners triumph in men’s and women’s events Prevailing in hard-fought battles against their closest rivals, Tom Zirbel and Carmen Small grabbed the stars and stripes national champions’ jerseys yesterday in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Optum/Kelly Benefit Strategies rider Zirbel scorched […]
Page gets first title in eight years, Compton grabs ninth in a row Jonathan Page took his fourth career American national cyclocross title – his first in eight years – on a frozen and muddy course in Wisconsin on Sunday. […]
Predictable results are matched by the upsets Most nations in the northern hemisphere held their cyclocross championships this weekend, with a number of new names pushing the old guard off their perches. Several established names held on to their titles, […]
Omega Pharma-Quick Step rider equals the record of Radomír Šimunek senior Zdeněk Štybar (Omega Pharma-Quick Step) won the Czech cyclocross championship in his home town of Stribro, to take the seventh national title of his career. The 27-year-old former two-time […]
Kannibaal recovered from bronchitis; aiming for a ninth driekleur Sven Nys (Crelan-Euphony) has declared himself fit for Sunday’s Belgian cyclocross championships in Mol, near Antwerp, having recovered from the bronchitis that he had suffered from since just after Christmas. The […]
“I never thought it was the race winning move” The Orica GreenEdge team is hoping to complete a rare hat trick of Australian national titles in the same category, with Sunday’s road race now being the big target for the […]
Race against the clock begins championship programme Shrugging off a crash he suffered the day previously, Luke Durbridge cruised to a second consecutive Australian national time trial title in Lake Wendouree earlier today. Riding strongly over 37 kilometres, the Orica […]
Santos Tour Down Under and national championships gain support Although it has been a tough couple of months for the sport, as evidenced by the withdrawal from sponsorship of companies such as Rabobank and Exergy, there is some welcome news […]
