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Joe Blackmore (Staff Encourage) edged Connor Swift (Ineos Grenadiers) on the line to win the boys’s elite title at British Gravel Championships on Saturday afternoon.
Sam Culverwell (Dolan Elesse RT) outkicked British cyclocross champion Cameron Mason (Trinity) to safe the ultimate spot on the rostrum, each 2:13 off the tempo of the lead duo.
Culverwell, Joe Griffiths (Saddleback) and Ben Thomas (Ben Thomas Teaching) attacked on the entrance of the 59-rider pack on the primary of the five-lap race, and so they constructed a bonus of 30 seconds. On the second 15.3km circuit, Swift led a gaggle within the chase to the leaders, bridging to the leaders together with Blackmore, Mason and Tom Couzens (Ribble Collective).
By the ultimate lap, Blackmore and Swift had made separation on the entrance and labored collectively till the ultimate 500 metres when Blackmore accelerated to the victory.
“I really feel nice, it was race, occasion, a tough race,” Blackmore stated after the win, his face coated in mud from the dry afternoon circumstances.
“The primary lap was fairly chilled so I simply hung again a bit and didn’t get entangled an excessive amount of, the second lap we made the cut up about six of us for a couple of laps, seven perhaps after which Connor was simply sturdy and I may match him and we ended up collectively.
“I didn’t actually know what to anticipate, I felt actually good. So, he tried a couple of assaults and I suppose that I used to be the one one that might stick with him, so I didn’t assume he would drop me on the final lap and he didn’t attempt to so it simply got here all the way down to a dash.
“We simply saved rolling via the final lap, taking turns and I used to be on the entrance with 500 metres to go, despatched the corners fairly quick however Connor was nonetheless on my wheel, so I type of backed off a bit into the world and simply saved trying over my shoulder till he kicked after which I didn’t look again.”
This was Blackmore’s first foray into gravel and it was gold. He has represented Staff GB within the under-23 mountain bike programme. Ultimately 12 months’s UCI Cyclocross World Championships in Hoogerheide, the 20-year-old completed tenth within the males’s U23 race.
The boys competed in a devoted race Saturday afternoon, utilizing the identical course because the elite ladies for a complete of 76.5km via the Suffolk countryside of King’s Forest on hard-packed and unfastened gravel, grass, filth and sand. The championships have been a part of King’s Cup Gravel Competition races.
Outcomes
Pos. | Rider Title (Nation) Staff | End result |
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1 | Joe Blackmore (Staff Encourage) | 2:05:16 |
2 | Connor Swift (Ineos Grenadiers) | |
3 | Sam Culverwell (Dolan Elesse RT) | 0:02:13 |
4 | Cameron Mason (Trinity) | |
5 | Tom Couzens (Ribble Collective) | 0:03:13 |
6 | Joe Griffiths (Saddleback) | 0:03:14 |
7 | Joe Holt (Tekkerz) | 0:04:58 |
8 | Ben Thomas (Ben Thomas Teaching) | |
9 | Alistair Brownlee (BMC) | 0:05:00 |
10 | Louis Moore (Wheelbase Cabtech Castelli) | 0:05:02 |
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