Womens Circuit Race Championships This Weekend

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This Sunday sees the second circuit race championship in a week when it's the Womens turn to race for a British champions jersey in the British Cycling 2007 Womens Circuit Race Championship. More than 40 riders are on the start sheet including a few internationals.

Favourite will be Otley girl Lizzie Armitstead, last years champion who was in fine form on Wednesday night in a support race for the Mens Circuit Race Championship. She will however, face some stiff competition from many including Local girl Amy Hunt, aged 21, who is a former Horwich Cycling Club member. A member of the Great Britain team, like Lizzie Armitstead, Amy was 4th in the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne.

The field also contains a multi-World Champion and Paralympic hero from Swimming, Sarah Bailey. The Great Britain cyclist won a clutch of medals at last years World Championships and is continuing to go faster and faster and has already shown many times, she can race competitively with the able bodied girls and anyone who under estimates her, will pay a high price!

Of the others on the starting sheet, there are quite a few who are capable of winning the race and they include Charlotte and Katie Colclough; Alexandra Greenfield, Katie Curtis, Nikki Harris, British Under 23 Road Race champion Joanna Rowsell and winner at the Brentwood Circuit Series race, Alice Monger-Godfrey. Covering the race for British Cycling will be Andrew Kennedy.

RIDERS

• 1. Lizzie Armitstead Global Racing Team 1 2006 Champion
  2. Katie Fearnehough Sportcity Velo
  3. Janet Birkmyre PlanetX-SheCycles.com Elite
  4. Annabel Simpson Team Chance J
  5. Lucy Martin " 1 J
  6. Hannah Mayho " J
  7. Charlotte Colclough Fat Birds CC 1
  8. Katie Colclough " J
  9. Lizzy Goodband " 2
  10. Alix Chester " 2
  11. Alexandra Greenfield Pinarello RT J
  12. Jessica Allen " J
  13. Hannah Rich " J
  14. Katie Curtis Global Racing Team
  15. Nikki Harris " U23 Elite
  16. Joanna Rowsell " U23 Elite
  17. Gabriella Day " 1
  18. Elizabeth Clayton CC Giro 2
  19. Helen Clayton CC Giro J2
  20. Helen Gutteridge Team Luciano-Everest Home Improvements Elite
  21. Heather Summers " 1
  22. Gabriella Coates Evans Cycles RT J
  23. Louise Mahe Cycles Dauphin RT J1
  24. Alice Monger-Godfrey Glendene CC/Biketrax J2
  25. Laura Bissell GS Strada 1
  26. Jackie Garner Abergavenny Road Club 3
  27. Amy Hunt Trek/Volkswagon 1
  28. Claire Thomas Edinburgh Road Club 2
  29. Anna Watson Fat Birds CC 3
  30. Emma Brunning Yasumitsu Schlapp 4
  31. Amy Thompson Trek/Volkswagon J
  32. Pippa Handley Edinburgh Road Club 3
  33. Melissa O'Reilly PlanetX-SheCycles.com 2
  34. Jeanette Caldicot Team Luciano-Everest Home Improvements
  35. Jo Tindley BCDS
  36. Becki Rimmington Hewitt Cycles/Waite Contracts Ltd 2
  37. Eileen Roe Dunfermline CC J2
  38. Hannah Bussey Team Luciano-Everest Home Improvements 1
  39. Marie Stuart Team Chance J
  40. Femke Van Schelven Fat Birds CC 1
  41. Annie Last Team Chance J3
  42. Tegan Millington Sportcity Velo J
  43. Kimberley Walsh Unattached 3
  44. Leanne Thompson Lune RCC 3
  45. Tracey Fletcher Fat Birds CC 1
  46. Lisa Parsons Welland Valley CC 3
  47. Sarah Bailey VC St Raphael 2

Programme
10.30am CRAFTPRINT Youths Cycle Races
11.15am THE EMERSON GROUP BMAF 5K

• 12 Noon Carnival Parade
  12.20pm Bolton Hot Wheels Cycling Club Go Ride Obstacle Relay
  12.50pm GEORGIA PACIFIC Horwich Carnival 5K Road Running Race
  1.35pm BLUEMANTLE / SPORTSMATCH Horwich Carnival 1 Lap Fun Run
  2.05pm HORWICH TOWN COUNCIL British Cycling National Women’s Circuit Championships
  3.15pm DAVID LLOYD (BOLTON) National Tricycle Criterium Championship Race
  3.35pm THE GREEN MACHINE Horwich Carnival Street Race – 1 lap cycle race for 5 to 18 year olds
  3.50pm DON BURNETT CAR SALES Senior 2/3/4 / Junior Cycle Race

Event: 24th of June, 2007
Where: Horwich Town Centre
Website: www.horwichcarnivalraces.co.uk