Women’s under-23 title an objective for Great Britain at Wollongong Worlds

British Champion Alice Towers (Le Col-Wahoo)
British Champion Alice Towers (Le Col-Wahoo) (Image credit: SWPix)

The new under-23 women's world title will be a major goal for Great Britain in Saturday’s World Championships road race as they line up with a particularly young team, British Cycling coach Chris Newton has confirmed.

Of the six spots Great Britain earnt for the women's road race, four of them have gone to under-23 riders, whilst 25-year-old Lizzie Holden and 23-year-old Anna Henderson round out what is one of the youngest squads on the start list. 

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Matilda Price is a freelance cycling journalist and digital producer based in the UK. She is a graduate of modern languages, and recently completed an MA in sports journalism, during which she wrote her dissertation on the lives of young cyclists. Matilda began covering cycling in 2016 whilst still at university, working mainly in the British domestic scene at first. Since then, she has covered everything from the Tour Series to the Tour de France. These days, Matilda focuses most of her attention on the women’s sport, writing for Cyclingnews and working on women’s cycling show The Bunnyhop. As well as the Women’s WorldTour, Matilda loves following cyclo-cross and is a recent convert to downhill mountain biking.