Great Britain at the 2026 World Championships: can Pidcock, Onley or Bäckstedt end an 11-year wait for road race gold?

Eleven years have passed since a British rider last pulled on the elite road race rainbow jersey. Lizzie Deignan was 25 when she won in Richmond in 2015, delivering under the pressure of entering the World Championships as one of the favourites. Mark Cavendish’s men’s title in Copenhagen had come four years earlier. Since then, […] The post Great Britain at the 2026 World Championships: can Pidcock, Onley or Bäckstedt end an 11-year wait for road race gold? appeared first on ProCyclingUK.

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