Two-time Olympic champion Katie Archibald will return to racing subsequent week on the UCI Observe World Championships, her first competitors since breaking her leg in June.
The 30-year-old fractured her tibia and fibula, dislocated her ankle, and tore two ligaments when she fell on a step in her backyard a month earlier than the Paris Olympics. She was pressured to forego what would have been her third Video games, as an alternative dedicating herself to relaxation and restoration.
Nearly 4 months on from the accident, Archibald has now been chosen within the Nice Britain squad for the Observe World Championships in Ballerup, Denmark, scheduled for 16-20 October. She is going to be a part of her teammates within the girls’s endurance squad who gained bronze within the workforce pursuit in Paris – Josie Knight, Anna Morris and Jess Roberts – in addition to Madison silver medallist Neah Evans, Meg Barker and Sophie Lewis.
“I am thriving on the bike,” Archibald wrote on Instagram final month. “You may simply have to attend and see.”
Additionally a part of the GB squad for this month’s World Championships are the Olympic girls’s workforce dash champions Katy Marchant, Sophie Capewell and Emma Finucane, the one British monitor gold medallists from Paris. The trio will compete for medals throughout the dash disciplines, with Finucane out to defend her title within the particular person dash.
Olympic workforce pursuit silver medallists Ethan Hayter, Ollie Wooden, Charlie Tanfield and Dan Bigham headline the lads’s endurance squad for the occasion. Bigham will compete within the particular person pursuit on the championships, turning the ultimate pedalstrokes in his journey with the nationwide squad, earlier than he turns to give attention to his new function as head of engineering at WorldTour workforce Pink Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe.
Among the many skilled riders, three 20-year-olds are set for his or her elite Worlds debuts in Denmark. Ineos Grenadiers rider Josh Tarling, a double junior European monitor champion, is a part of the lads’s endurance squad alongside Noah Hobbs of Groupama-FDJ; whereas three-time nationwide champion Harry Ledingham-Horn will compete within the dash occasions.
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Double Paris medallist Jack Carlin has opted to forego this yr’s World Championships, as have his Olympic-silver-medal-winning workforce dash companions Hamish Turnbull and Ed Lowe.
“Whereas some riders relaxation after a heavy season, this provides different riders a chance to step up and stake a declare for a podium squad place,” stated the squad’s efficiency director, Stephen Park.
“The world championships after the Olympic Video games is at all times an thrilling combine as our Olympic medalists are using excessive from a profitable Video games and can hopefully finish the season with some extra medals so as to add to their palmares,” Park continued.
The complete 23-rider GB squad for the UCI Observe World Championships is beneath. The competitors begins contained in the Ballerup Tremendous Area subsequent Wednesday 16 October, and runs till Sunday afternoon.
Ladies’s Endurance
Katie Archibald
Meg Barker
Neah Evans
Josie Knight
Sophie Lewis
Anna Morris
Jess Roberts
Males’s endurance
Dan Bigham
Rhys Britton
Josh Charlton
Ethan Hayter
Noah Hobbs
Mark Stewart
Charlie Tanfield
Josh Tarling
Ollie Wooden
Ladies’s dash
Sophie Capewell
Emma Finucane
Katy Marchant
Lowri Thomas
Males’s dash
Harry Ledingham-Horn
Hayden Norris
Joe Truman
Marcus Hiley (travelling reserve)