2023 National road race rankings | 29 March

Here are the latest British Continental national road race rankings, updated following ANEXO/CAMS Women’s CiCLE Classic on 26 March.

We continue to add features to our new stats site which can be found here or by clicking on the links in the tables below. The site will be updated after every road race on the National A and B calendars.

We’d welcome suggestions for features from our readers, so if you have any ideas, or stats you’d like to see, please get in touch or drop us a comment at the bottom of this post.

Previous update: 22 March.

Featured image: SWpix. ANEXO/CAMS Women’s CiCLE Classic.

Women’s national road race rankings

The first National Road Series race on the women’s calendar saw big changes at the top of The British Continental national road race rankings, with Peaks 2 Day winner Tamsin Miller (Hutchinson-Brother UK), who took 6th place at the 2023 ANEXO/CAMS Women’s CiCLE Classic, leapfrogging Zoe Langham (Pro-Noctis – Heidi Kjeldsen – 200 Degrees Coffee) to take occupancy of the top spot.

With more points being on offer for National A races, DAS – Handsling’s Monica Greenwood climbed from eighth in the rankings to second place in the standings following her second place at the CiCLE Classic. Only five points separate Miller and Greenwood now.

Langham, who did not race at the weekend, drops to third place but remains well within touching distance of the top two.

Flora Perkins (Fenix-Deceuninck Development Team) put in an impressive performance at the CiCLE which leaves her as our top-placed under-23 rider, with Cat Ferguson remaining our leading junior rider despite not featuring in the CiCLE (she was busy finishing second at the junior Gent-Wevelgem behind fellow Brit Isabel Sharp).

The women’s domestic peloton takes on the RCR Fatcreations Road Race in Sussex this Saturday, where we could potentially see some big moves again in the rankings.

#	Rider	Age	Team	Total
1	Tamsin Miller	Senior	Hutchinson-Brother UK	142
2	Monica Greenwood	Senior	DAS – Handsling Bikes	137
3	Zoe Langham	Senior	Pro-Noctis – Heidi Kjeldsen – 200 Degrees Coffee	119
4	Jessica Finney	Senior	AWOL – O’Shea	100
5	Bexy Dew	Senior	Pro-Noctis – Heidi Kjeldsen – 200 Degrees Coffee	97
6	Sammie Stuart	Senior	DAS – Handsling Bikes	94
7	Connie Hayes	Senior	AWOL – O’Shea	76
8	Flora Perkins	U23	Fenix-Deceuninck Development Team	75
9	Lucy Lee	Senior	DAS – Handsling Bikes	67
10	Jo Tindley	Senior	Pro-Noctis – Heidi Kjeldsen – 200 Degrees Coffee	66
11	Cat Ferguson	Junior	Shibden Hope Tech Apex	60
12	Sian Botteley	Senior	Hutchinson-Brother UK	58
13	Frances Owen	Senior	Wahoo – Le Col	49
14	Mary Wilkinson	Senior	Team Boompods	48
=	Francesca Hall	Senior	Loughborough Lightning	48
16	Ellen McDermott	Senior	Team Boompods	45
=	Emma Jeffers	U23	DAS – Handsling Bikes	45
=	Ella Maclean-Howell	U23	Team Inspired	45
19	Robyn Clay	U23	Pro-Noctis – Heidi Kjeldsen – 200 Degrees Coffee	40
20	Eilidh Shaw	U23	Alba Development Road Team	40

Men’s national road race rankings

This weekend saw no road races on the men’s National A or B calendar so there are no updates to the rankings.

We swing back into action this weekend with no less than three National B road races: the RCR Fatcreations Road Race on Saturday, and the Danum Trophy and Betty Pharoah Legstretchers Memorial on Sunday.

#	Rider	Age	Team	Total
1	Ollie Peckover	Senior	trainSharp Elite	133
2	Rowan Baker	Senior	London Dynamo	87
3	Huw Buck Jones	U23	Wales Racing Academy	86
4	Jack Crook	Senior	Richardsons Trek DAS	85
5	Jenson Young	U23	ROKiT-SRCT	84
6	Damien Clayton	Senior	Embark Spirit BSS	76
7	Jack Rootkin-Gray	U23	Saint Piran	73
8	Jacob Smith	U23	Wheelbase CabTech Castelli	67
9	Matthew Warhurst	Senior	ROKiT-SRCT	66
10	Dexter Leeming-Sykes	Senior	Wold Top The Edge Pactimo	61
11	Alexandar Richardson	Senior	Saint Piran	60
12	Jordan Giles	Senior	Primera-TeamJobs	53
13	Harry Birchill	U23	Saint Piran	52
=	Zeb Kyffin	Senior	Saint Piran	52
15	George Wood	U23	Cycling Sheffield	51
16	Timothy Torrie	Senior	trainSharp Elite	45
17	Tom Martin	Senior	Wheelbase CabTech Castelli	42
18	Matthew Houlberg	U23	Embark Spirit BSS	41
19	Leon Mazzone	Senior	Saint Piran	40
=	Joshua Avery	Senior	Ride Revolution Coaching	40

How it works

The rankings take results from National A and National B road races in the UK in 2023. Note the emphasis on road racing; results from circuit races and criteriums don’t count. And neither do points from Regional or UCI road races. The focus is deliberately narrow; we want to understand who has been performing in national-level road races in the UK across the season. And keeping it focused makes it easier for us to manage and update here at British Conti HQ. 

Like any rankings system, this isn’t perfect. We aren’t pretending it will be a completely objective measure of road racing performance or ability. But we do hope it injects a bit of fun and helps create a bit of interest in national-level road racing this season, particularly at National B level.

The scoring system is very similar to the one used by British Cycling, with riders in the top 20 of races qualifying for points, with points also being awarded to stage winners.

Points Band	1	2	3	4
Position	Nat A Road	Nat B Road	Nat A ind. stages	Nat B ind. stages
1	100	60	30	15
2	85	52	25	12
3	75	45	21	10
4	66	40	17	8
5	58	35	14	6
6	51	31	12	5
7	45	27	10	4
8	39	23	8	3
9	34	20	7	2
10	29	17	6	1
11	25	15	5
12	21	13	4
13	18	11	3
14	15	9	2
15	12	7	1
16	10	6
17	8	5
18	6	3
19	4	2
20	2	1