Cat Ferguson took a sensational silver medal on the second day of the UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships after a improbable battle within the junior ladies’s race in Tabor.
Anna Kay completed a superb seventeenth place within the elite ladies’s race, whereas Corran Carrick-Anderson and Dan Barnes got here home twenty fifth and fortieth, respectively, within the under-23 males’s race.
Junior ladies
Cat Ferguson claimed her second silver medal of the championships after a troublesome battle within the junior ladies’s race for the rostrum positions.
Ferguson was fast off the mark, taking second place from the gun with teammate Imogen Wolff simply behind in fifth.
An difficulty within the opening lap noticed Ferguson drop backwards however the young rider stayed calm and fought again to 3rd.
Ferguson, Celia Gery of France and Viktoria Chladonova of Slovakia spearheaded the sector, with the trio switching positions to go clear because the Czech rider chased behind solo and a bunch of 4, together with Wolff, maintained the hole 30 seconds again.
The second lap noticed Ferguson take management, attacking exhausting up the climbs and crusing over every impediment with ease as she tried to shake the opposite two riders. Gery and Chladonova continued to cling on because the three of them got here again collectively coming into the ultimate lap. Wolff continued to struggle within the chasing group behind, sustaining her position in sixth place simply over a minute behind the leaders.
Chladonova rode from the entrance attempting to power the tempo, however Ferguson stayed tight on her wheel. Within the ultimate 10 minutes, the British nationwide champion stormed down the descents in a bid to get away solo, as Chladonova and Gery modified their bikes over.
Coming into the important thing technical sections, Ferguson continued to steer because it grew to become an enormous battle for the highest spot, with Gery and Chladonova racing ferociously to maintain in competition.
Gery took the entrance line and overtook Ferguson because the riders battled into the headwind, with the Brit chasing exhausting because the three started to string out within the closing levels of the race. Ferguson fumbled on the prime of the bridge part, coming to a halt which noticed her wrestle to get going once more. Coming into the ultimate nook, the French rider sprinted exhausting as Ferguson was simply off the tempo and completed in second simply 5 seconds behind.
Wolff completed within the group two minutes again for eighth place, whereas Alice Colling rode an excellent race to complete twenty second.
Elite ladies
Anna Kay completed in seventeenth place within the elite ladies’s race after a superb effort in Tabor.
A ferocious dash off the road noticed Kay immediately within the combine, sitting simply outdoors the highest 10 inside the first lap. Kay continued to remain in a superb position, comfortably inside the highest 20 as she moved from nineteenth to fifteenth place on lap two. Kay seemed phenomenal over the technical switchback sections, and rode nicely inside herself to remain collected getting into the fourth and closing lap.
The elite nationwide champion continued to journey on her restrict in seventeenth place because the fatigue started to take a seat in, however Kay confirmed her tenacity to run up the slippery uphill sections and descend with nice pace.
Coming into the ultimate bend, Kay loved the environment and rode throughout the end line in seventeenth place after a improbable effort.
Under-23 males
Corran Carrick-Anderson and Dan Barnes rode extremely nicely within the under-23 males’s race, with the British duo dealing with muddy situations to complete within the prime 40.
An enormous crash out of the primary bend noticed Barnes and Carrick-Anderson caught up, with Carrick-Anderson hitting the deck however was in a position to get again on his bike unscathed.
The under-23 nationwide champion recovered nicely and chipped his method by way of the bunch to come back into the second lap in seventeenth position. Barnes suffered a mechanical within the opening lap, which noticed him fall from twenty second to thirty seventh and unable to get himself again in position.
Carrick-Anderson stayed inside a bunch of 5, starting from seventeenth to twenty first position all through the race, whereas Barnes was behind in fortieth battling solo.
The British pair continued to journey constantly, staying inside their remit and battling the bridge, obstacles and muddy situations. Carrick-Anderson crossed the road with one lap remaining in twentieth, whereas Barnes remained in fortieth.
In the ultimate lap, Carrick-Anderson got here home in twenty fifth place and Barnes completed fortieth after commendable racing in powerful situations.
The competitors will conclude tomorrow with the junior males’s race, the place Alfie Amey and Oscar Amey will contest the title. Zoe Backstedt will purpose to beat her 2023 silver medal within the under-23 ladies’s race and Cameron Mason and Thomas Mein will shut the occasion within the elite males’s race.
The junior males’s race might be dwell on Discovery+ whereas the under-23 ladies and elite males might be on BBC iPlayer and on-line.
