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cyclo-cross mud (CC licensed image by hans905:Flickr)British team named for cyclo-cross world’s
British Cycling has today named the riders who will represent Great Britain at the UCI Cyclo-Cross World Championships in Hoogerheide, Netherlands February 1-2.
Current elite national champions Ian Field and Helen Wyman will lead the team of 14 British riders which also includes recently crowned junior national champion Thomas Craig.
Team manager Phil Dixon said: “We’re heading out to Hoogerheide with a squad of riders the majority of whom have raced cyclo-cross internationally this season. In the younger categories, this is something we have introduced this year for the Great Britain Cyclo-Cross Development Programme, and it will be interesting to see how this sets them up at the Worlds.
“We have some real experience in the riders selected for the elite races, and the elite women remain at the top of the world ranking for the second year running. In particular Helen Wyman is coming into form after her early season win in the European season.
“Overall, I believe we have some exciting prospects for this year’s World Championships and the team are looking forward to racing at the event.”
Team roster
Elite Men
Ian Field
Dave Fletcher
Elite women
Gabriella Durrin
Nikki Harris
Hannah Payton
Helen Wyman
U23 Men
Jack Clarkson
Steven James
Adam Martin
Ben Sumner
Junior Men
Thomas Craig
Sean Dunlea
Dylan Keerfoot-Robson
Jack Ravenscroft
John has been writing about bikes and cycling for over 30 years since discovering that people were mug enough to pay him for it rather than expecting him to do an honest day's work.
He was heavily involved in the mountain bike boom of the late 1980s as a racer, team manager and race promoter, and that led to writing for Mountain Biking UK magazine shortly after its inception. He got the gig by phoning up the editor and telling him the magazine was rubbish and he could do better. Rather than telling him to get lost, MBUK editor Tym Manley called John’s bluff and the rest is history.
Since then he has worked on MTB Pro magazine and was editor of Maximum Mountain Bike and Australian Mountain Bike magazines, before switching to the web in 2000 to work for CyclingNews.com. Along with road.cc founder Tony Farrelly, John was on the launch team for BikeRadar.com and subsequently became editor in chief of Future Publishing’s group of cycling magazines and websites, including Cycling Plus, MBUK, What Mountain Bike and Procycling.
John has also written for Cyclist magazine, edited the BikeMagic website and was founding editor of TotalWomensCycling.com before handing over to someone far more representative of the site's main audience.
He joined road.cc in 2013. He lives in Cambridge where the lack of hills is more than made up for by the headwinds.
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Is BC finally taking cyclo-cross a little more seriously? About time!
Good luck to all of them. I think our best chance of a medal is among the women. Helen and Nikki are absolutely top drawer riders and have been right up there this season.