British Womens Team Cup
2022 Race Reports
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Race 1 - Dave Peck Memorial
Organised by Twickenham CC - Sunday 27th March
PRO-NOCTIS PERFECT
Report by Jon Miles
Isabel Darvill, Pro Noctis -Rotor-Redhill Cycles-Heidi Kjeldsen sprinted to a win to continue her race teams start to retaining the title in the British Women’s Team Cup.
This first race in the series, with its traditional opener the Dave Peck Memorial organised by Lisa West and her Twickenham CC Team was held in progressively cold windy weather after the glorious sunshine of the previous day.
After a lap or so the Commissaire Team were required to stop the race to warn the riders of their own safety by not crossing the centre line to ride in the oncoming traffic lane.
This seemed to calm the riders and the next laps were mainly speculative but no attacking although the pace increased dramatically in the final few laps. However the final time up the Staple Hill, the 10th time up this difficult climb it was going to be a bunch sprint. With a few metres to the white line Isabel shot from the middle of the race to claim the first big race of the season.
Later Isabel explained “It was not a race really where anyone wanted to just go, Charlotte Berry had a go which got riders to up the pace a bit. We weren’t going really fast, with 3 laps to go the pace just kept creeping. I had a couple of problems with my gears but it got sorted. On the last lap we got to the bottom of the climb, the sprint started right at the bottom of that final hill. I did this race in 2019 so knew what to expect when we came round that left bend people just put their foot down and it was a long sprint”.
“It is one of those climbs that there is not enough time from the top of the hill to the finish line to start a sprint so you have got to just go”.
Sad to report however that Philippa Jenkins of 1904 RT, prior to the race start was just warming up when she crashed hurting her face so was not able to start. Most of her team pulled out of the race.
TEAM RESULT
1 Pro-Noctis - Rotor - Redchilli Bikes presented by Heidi Kjeldsen - 205 points
2 Saint Piran WRT - 194 points
3 Grinta Coaching - 192 points
4 Team LDN - Brother UK - 162 points
5 LAKA Pedal Mafia RT - 154 points
6 Brother UK-Orientation marketing - 143 points
7 BIANCHI HUNT MORVELO - 115 points
8 Paceline RT - 103 points
9 Jadan - Vive le Velo - 100 points
10 AWOL Worx Galliard - 87 points
11 Abingdon Race Team - 64 points
12 Spectra Wiggle p/b vitus - 55 points
13 Storey Racing - 52 points
14 Onyx Racing Team - 48 points
15 Datalynx-Parenesis Cycling - 47 points
16 Team Watto-LDN - 32 points
17 Avid Sport - 18 points
18 StolenGoat Race Team - 15 points
19 Cowley Road Condors - 6 points
20 1904 RT - 1 point
INDIVIDUAL RESULT
1 - Isabel Darvill
2 - Emily Proud
3 - Alice McWilliam
4 - Sian Botteley
5 - Helen Ralston
6 - Madeleine Gammons
7 - Suzetta Guerrini
8 - Lucy Harris
9 - Gabriella Homer
10 - Charlotte Berry
11 - Olivia French
12 - Ellen Bennett
13 - Sophie Holmes
14 - Charlotte Dexter
15 - Emily Chilton
16 - Ruth Fisher
17 - Abigail Cooper
18 - Bethany Barnett
19 - Penny Colloff
20 - Dannielle Watkinson
21 - Poppy Thompson
22 - Sannah Zaman
23 - Gabriella Nordin
24 - Molly Renfer
25 - Laura Senior
26 - Charlotte Matthews
27 - Fran Bratt
28 - Libby Smithson
29 - Hope Inglis
30 - Bexy Dew
31 - Harriet Dodd
32 - Katarzyna Madej
33 - Marie-Louise Kertzman
34 - Amber Junker-Brameld
35 - Rebecca Stubbs
36 - Polly Milsom
37 - Lydia Watts
38 - Charlotte Hodgkins-Byrne
39 - Eloise Singham
40 - Kate Voller Browning
41 - Laura Cunningham
42 - Sophie Earl
43 - Laura Starmer
44 - Hannah Graveney
45 - Savannah Morgan
46 - Francesca Cutts
47 - Anastasia Bowler
48 - Faith Hammond
49 - Jessica Holloway
50 - Laura Pittard
51 - Freya Eccleston
52 - Lucia Bruton
53 - Georgia Fife-Wright
54 - Ella Roper
55 - Amy Harvey
56 - Gemma Hayes
57 - Grace Davies
58 - Jonna de Vries
59 - Jamie-Lee Wright
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Race 2 - Coalville
Sunday 17th April
Photo's courtesy of Mick Bown
SAMMIE SMASHES COALVILLE
Report by Jon Miles
Sammie Stuart, Team London-Brother Uk - won a fast British Team Cup using her famous
“diesel” legs to out drag the rest of the field on a sunny day in Coalville.
With a near full field this traditional early season event organised by Nick Horner Maddox
and Coalville Wheelers for over 10 years now was enlivened halfway through the 7 lap race
when Gemma Sargent, Saint Piran WRT clipped off the front and stayed active for a full lap
before the bunch brought her back.
No one else could get away so the race sped towards a sprint with Sammie explaining
“This is my first British Team Cup win. I am surprised, we went well as a team today. With a long
distance sprint, which is my style of racing actually, we came to the final climb...which is
my strength, my Diesel engine took over. There were 3 in front slightly and I bridged across
to them and that was that”
Injured in a crash halfway through Lauren Watson, possible broken elbow and damage to her face - we all wish her a swift recovery.
TEAM RESULT
1 Liv Cycling Club - Halo Films - 240 points
1 Team LDN - Brother UK - 240 points
3 LAKA Pedal Mafia RT - 219 points
4 Brother UK-Orientation marketing - 205 points
5 Jadan - Vive le Velo - 139 points
6 Saint Piran WRT - 124 points
7 Pro-Noctis - Rotor - Redchilli Bikes presented by Heidi Kjeldsen - 105 points
8 Loughborough Lightning - TRG - 100 points
9 Storey Racing - 97 points
10 Abingdon Race Team - 81 points
11 Spectra Wiggle p/b Vitus - 73 points
12 Grinta Coaching - 44 points
13 Bianchi Hunt Morvelo - 38 points
14 StolenGoat Race Team - 21 points
15 Team Empella Cyclo-Cross.Com - 11 points
16 AWOL Worx Galliard - 8 points
INDIVIDUAL RESULT
1 Sammie Stuart - Team LDN - Brother UK
2 Beth Harley-Jepson - Jadan - Vive le Velo
3 Lucy Harris - LAKA Pedal Mafia RT
4 Grace Lister - Brother UK-Orientation marketing
5 Ella Jamieson - Liv Cycling Club - Halo Films
6 Awen Roberts - Liv Cycling Club - Halo Films
7 Gabriella Homer - Saint Piran WRT
8 Ellen Bennett - Brother UK-Orientation marketing
9 Niamh Murphy - Liv Cycling Club - Halo Films
10 Lucy Ellmore - Pro-Noctis - Rotor - Redchilli Bikes presented by Heidi Kjeldsen
11 Rebecca Richards - Storey Racing
12 Penny Colloff - LAKA Pedal Mafia RT
13 Xan Crees - Spectra Wiggle p/b Vitus
14 Kinga Ingram - Storey Racing
15 Lucy Lee - Team LDN - Brother UK
16 Sophie Enever - Abingdon Race Team
17 Eline Smit - LAKA Pedal Mafia RT
18 Zoe Backstedt - ELLMORE
19 Gemma Sargent - Saint Piran WRT
20 Poppy Thompson - Pro-Noctis - Rotor - Redchilli Bikes presented by Heidi Kjeldsen
21 Heather Mayer - Team LDN - Brother UK
22 Sophie Coldwell - Loughborough Lightning - TRG
23 Emily Proud - Grinta Coaching
24 Emma Matthews - ELLMORE
25 Georgina Paul - Abingdon Race Team
26 Abigail Cooper - Brother UK-Orientation marketing
27 Gabriella Shaw - Spectra Wiggle p/b Vitus
28 Katie-Anne Calton - ELLMORE
29 Francesca Hall - Loughborough Lightning - TRG
30 Emily Tillett - Loughborough Lightning - TRG
31 Roisin Lally - Loughborough Lightning - TRG
32 Joanne Clarke - StolenGoat Race Team
33 Leah Dixon - Bianchi Hunt Morvelo
34 Gwenno Hughes - Saint Piran WRT
35 Alderney Baker - Bianchi Hunt Morvelo
36 Amy Gornall - Pro-Noctis - Rotor - Redchilli Bikes presented by Heidi Kjeldsen
37 Laura Senior - LAKA Pedal Mafia RT
38 Kerry Middleton - Team LDN - Brother UK
39 Emma Watson - Grinta Coaching
40 Laura Pittard - Brother UK-Orientation marketing
41 Ailsa McLagan - Abingdon Race Team
42 Alison Fovargue - Team Empella Cyclo-Cross.Com
43 Matilda McKibben - Liv Cycling Club - Halo Films
44 Rebekah Nash - Jadan - Vive le Velo
45 Amelia Southall - AWOL Worx Galliard
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Race 3 - Halesowen
Sunday 15th May
Photo's courtesy of Garry Hibbert and Dave Perry
KELLY HAS THE LEGS
Report by Jon Miles
Kelly Murphy, riding for Ellmore Digital Composite Team, won the latest British Women’s Cup race held on the Ashley circuit neat Stourport on Severn with great organisation by Peter Hall.
On a tough course that just kept on going up and down no one was allowed to get away with the race expecting a sprint finish but Kelly had other ideas.
Using her time trial strength she just rode away on the final lap to win by a minute.
Kelly said “This is the first National race that I have won. I am in a time trialling club so don’t do a lot of races. I have a few time trials down this way so was familiar with the roads, I knew the roads were hard”
“This was my first National race, the standard was high.
I have been in Belgium racing on the track so I have only done a few circuit races.
I had done a few races in Ireland over the Covid lock down time”.
TEAM RESULT
1 Abingdon Race Team - 265 points
2 LAKA Pedal Mafia RT - 200 points
3 Saint Piran WRT - 196 points
4 Pro-Noctis – Rotor – Redchilli Bikes presented by Heidi Kjeldsen - 182 points
5 Grinta Coaching - 175 points
6 Liv Cycling Club – Halo Films - 139 points
7 Army Cycling Union - 63 points
8 Brother UK-Orientation marketing - 52 points
9 The Ark Cycles - 43 points
10 Jadan – Vive le Velo - 32 points
11 AWOL Worx Galliard - 24 points
INDIVIDUAL RESULT
1 Ellemore Digital Composite Team - Kelly Murphy
2 Pro-Noctis – Rotor – Redchilli Bikes presented by Heidi Kjeldsen - Isabell Darvill
3 Abingdon Race Team - Savannah Morgan
4 LAKA Pedal Mafia RT - Penny Colloff
5 Liv Cycling Club – Halo Films - Niamh Murphy
6 Abingdon Race Team - Georgina Paul
7 LAKA Pedal Mafia RT - Eline Smit
8 Saint Piran WRT - Gabriella Homer
9 Grinta Coaching - Emily Proud
10 Saint Piran WRT - Gemma Sargent
11 Pro-Noctis – Rotor – Redchilli Bikes presented by Heidi Kjeldsen - Bexy Dew
12 Liv Cycling Club – Halo Films - Matilda McKibben
13 Saint Piran WRT - Elizabeth Sanders
14 Grinta Coaching - Cecilia Ricks
15 The Ark Cycles - Ellie Mackman
16 Ellemore Digital Composite Team - Lowri Richards
17 Abingdon Race Team - Ailsa McLagan
18 Grinta Coaching - Charlotte Dexter
19 Army Cycling Union - Claire Nott
20 Grinta Coaching - Emma Watson
21 Jadan – Vive le Velo - Polly Burge
22 Abingdon Race Team - Ruth Fisher
23 LAKA Pedal Mafia RT - Anouska Greenaway
24 Saint Piran WRT - Emily Chilton
25 Army Cycling Union - Jessica Wood
26 Brother UK-Orientation marketing - Hope Inglis
27 Abingdon Race Team - Eloise Singham
28 Brother UK-Orientation marketing - Freya Eccleston
29 AWOL Worx Galliard - Charlotte Gibson
DNF LAKA Pedal Mafia RT - Lucy Harris
DNF Jadan – Vive le Velo - Gabriella Nordin
DNF Grinta Coaching - Katie-Anne Calton
DNF Ellemore Digital Composite Team - Georgia Oakley
DNF BIANCHI HUNT MORVELO - Natasha Reddy
DNF Army Cycling Union - Sarah Hunter Johnson
DNS Brother UK-Orientation marketing - Abigail Cooper
DNS Loughborough Lightning – TRG - Francesca Hall
DNS Team Watto-LDN - Jessica Holloway
DNS LAKA Pedal Mafia RT - Marie-Louise Kertzman
DNS Ellemore Digital Composite Team - Dannielle Khan
DNS The Ark Cycles - Clare Parkin
DNS Brother UK-Orientation marketing - Laura Pittard
DNS Abingdon Race Team - Ella Roper
DNS LAKA Pedal Mafia RT - Laura Senior